Conference Session

Capstone and Senior Projects

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Lessard; Jacques Beneat

controller reliability. In designing Distributed Control Systems that makeany connection to the outside world, the system must withstand attack from disgruntledemployees, hackers or cyber terrorists. The system must function well even when the attackerbreaks through the security barrier. In the EE411 course, the concepts of redundancy,robustness, and resilience are developed and reinforced in the laboratories.I. Introduction The President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection conducted a year- longstudy concluding that cyber threats are a clear danger (risk) to all infrastructures1 . Byers andLowe2 concluded that “The increasing interconnection of critical systems has createdinterdependencies we haven’t been aware of in the past

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Frolik

) which addresses this needthrough the integration of both wireless communication system test methods and devicecharacterization techniques into its curriculum. In its first year, this program, enabled by a NSFCCLI A&I award, developed infrastructure and adapted experiments from the University ofSouth Florida into a senior-level laboratory course1. Now in its second year, new experimentshave been developed and have been integrated into a junior-level introductory communicationsystems course and two senior/graduate-level courses in digital and wireless communicationsystems. Herein, we discuss the new experiments, enabling infrastructure, and longitudinalassessment data.Laboratory Enhancements Our motivation for integrating laboratory

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kimberly Whelan; Sharon Jones

attitudes (RECOGNITION) proportions as one’s career advances possess dynamism, agility, resilience, flexibility for uncertain/changing world a The ASCE skills are expected from a combination of undergraduate and post-graduate education. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Maughmer

the Moon.Expertise in large system architecture potentially enables U.S. companies to provide a uniquecapability. This is to be the architects of the Space-based economic enterprise. Even more thanthe airliner industry, projects to build large-scale Space infrastructure may be expected to requireinternational collaboration; however the bulk of the expertise will remain in the U.S. as long aswe maintain leadership in Space endeavors. Examples of large projects are a lunar base, solar-electric power plants, oxygen plants, electromagnetic launchers, orbiting fueling stations andorbit transfer vehicles. Collins12 makes two bold predictions regarding the importance of spaceendeavors to the civil engineering profession: “Prediction 1: "Popular

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson; Robert Hinks; Mark Henderson; Chen-Yaun Kuo; Chell Roberts; Darryl Morrell; Robert Grondin

have a high level of realistic self-confidence, can deal with uncertainty, and demonstrate dynamism, agility, resilience, and flexibility.14. Graduates can design and build.15. Graduates are proud of their degree.16. Graduates are familiar with the following concepts and can apply them appropriately in their engineering activities: • The role of computers, communications, and other information technology as components of engineering solutions. • Fundamental environmental systems and processes (e.g. energy utilization, water cycle, carbon cycle) • Quality, statistics, and improvement processes • The multiple roles of engineering in organizations (e.g. business, government, academic