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Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Russomanno; Anna Lambert

will be returning to the University of Memphis next semester to pursue my Master’sDegree in Mechanical Engineering. (from a 2004 CSEMS graduate currently employedin a mechanical engineering position at Federal Express)Thank you very much for all that you have contributed to my success in my effort tosecure a solid job. From your software engineering class and testimony of your personalexperiences in industry to the CSEMS scholarship program and all of the impromptuadvice, I greatly appreciate your help. (from a 2004 CSEMS graduate currentlyemployed in his major field)The CSEMS scholarship helped me a lot by having the peace of mind and lessworry…..that eliminates the need to work part-time. (from a current CSEMS programparticipant who is

Conference Session

International Developments & Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

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Fazil Najafi

Complementary Courses: the Public Works Management for Civil Engineers and the Entrepreneurship for Engineers, at the University of Florida Kitti Manokhoon, Dr. Fazil T. Najafi Graduate Student / ProfessorAbstractCivil engineers need to understand in several skills to work with both public and privateorganizations. Civil engineering works in private practice include planning, designing,constructing as well as operating physical facilities, and in public practice involve city orregional planning and layout construction of highways. At the University of Florida, twograduate courses are examined: Public Works Management for Civil Engineers introduces civilengineering graduate

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steve Warren

Optimizing Student Learning and Retention of Time- and Frequency- Domain Concepts Through Numerical Computation Projects Steve Warren, Ph.D. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Kansas State UniversityAbstractThe ability to analyze signals and systems in both the time and frequency domains is an essentialoutcome in most engineering curricula. However, concepts such as time-domain convolutionand frequency-domain spectra can be elusive to students. While most students can learn themathematical procedures whereby they obtain correct answers on homework and exams, manylack the higher-level understanding that aids long-term retention. This paper addresses thecreation of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Tester; Jerry Hatfield

upon its great potential to stimulate externalinterest in the NAU Engineering program from regional community colleges and high schools. Thecourse used computer-controlled, Legos©-based systems as the realization for the student designs.Use of these systems, plus terming the projects as “robotics” or “automated vehicles,” stimulatedyoung minds to the potential of engineering as a viable option for their future undergraduateeducation.[9] The concept envisioned by the faculty was to create smaller modules of the course thatcould be taught to daily or summer weekly outreach sessions, containing high school students orearly community college students. Yet, the old format of the EGR 286 class was not suitable for“exporting” to community colleges or

Conference Session

Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Teresa Mayes; John Bennett

interviews followed the original order of the questions, the natural flow of the conversation sometimes dictated moving ahead 4 questions and then back to where the conversation left off. While this probably did not affect the veracity of the answers, it may have led to a slightly different perceptual framework in the mind of the interviewee. Page 10.114.5 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education 3) As the interviewing process progressed, it became obvious that some additional questions

Conference Session

Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

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Timothy Keener; Anant Kukreti; Eugene Rutz

engineering degree programs or even creating a separate Department ofEnvironmental Engineering2, but many educators believe that environmental engineeringeducation should still be coupled with more traditional programs such as civil or chemicalengineering. With this in mind, in 2002-2003 the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineeringat the University of Cincinnati initiated a combined five-year BS and MS degree program inEnvironmental Engineering with cooperative and research experiences integrated with theeducation. This program, called the CEE ACCEND (for Accelerated Engineering Degree)Program, will allow our engineering students to obtain a BS degree in Civil and a MS degree inEnvironmental Engineering in a five-year time period

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Waddah Akili

Active Learning: A Range of Options Intended for Engineering Faculty in the Arab Gulf States Waddah Akili Professor of Civil Engineering (Retired) Principal, Geotechnical Engineering Ames, Iowa, 50014, USAAbstract:This paper reviews the literature in search of common forms and strategies of active learning,engineering faculty in the Arab Gulf States (the Region) could add to their repertoire as viablealternatives to traditional teaching. The article is a follow up to previous work, by the author, onviable strategies to improve the classroom environment of engineering colleges

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Luke Niiler; David Beams

engineering because they were "mechanically-minded"but chose electrical engineering as a major.Figure 5 summarizes the 24 responses by the juniors to the question of their expectations of theskills they expected to develop during their undergraduate studies. Skills related to mathematics,basic science, and engineering design were understandably prominent in their responses.Writing as a separate item did not appear in their responses, although "communication" was citedtwice. It is somewhat discouraging that communication—particularly written communication—is not more-highly rated. The meaning of the response "determination" is not entirely clear.Figure 6 below summarizes the EE juniors' responses to the question of what role they expectedwriting to

Conference Session

College Engineering K-12 Outreach III

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2005 Annual Conference

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Neha Goel; Johnathan King; Ellen Chen; Danny Le; Alene Harris; Ragu Vijaykumar; Cordelia Brown, Purdue University; Monica Cox, Purdue University

workedclosely with students in the Chicago and Evanston Public Schools. In Austin, the University ofTexas’s SLC partnered with the Austin Children’s Museum to inform the local K-12 communityabout biomedical engineering through hands-on experiences. In Boston, Harvard/ MIT’s SLCstudents worked closely with several schools and a Boys & Girls Club.5 In developing science and engineering-based workshops for students and teachers and indisseminating outreach through local agencies, the VaNTH SLC developed and implementedcurriculum informed by the National Research Council’s monograph, How People Learn: Mind,Brain, Experience, and School. Materials and learning activities were designed to be knowledge-centered, learner-centered, assessment

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Catherine Mavriplis

body require that we adapt oureducation delivery to include a broader range of personal learning styles and a broaderethnic and socioeconomic range of students.With these mandates and suggestions in mind, the present course was designed to beinnovative, engaging for a breadth of students (and the professor), to involve group andactive learning in the classroom and outside of class, to include a sense of personalengagement in the subject matter and the intended academic paths of the students. Theinnovative approach taken here was to 1) center the course on one concept and show howit relates to many, if not all, aspects of mechanical and aerospace engineering and 2) useinstruction methods that are non-traditional for SMET courses but more

Conference Session

Philosophical Foundations, Frameworks, and Testing in K-12 Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Wicklein; David Gattie

Curricular Value and Instructional Needs for Infusing Engineering Design into K-12 Technology Education 1 David K. Gattie, 2Robert C. Wicklein 1,2 University of Georgia, Faculty of Engineering/1Driftmier Engineering Center, Athens, GA. 30602-4435 USA/2College of Education, Dept. of Workforce Education, 223 River’s Crossing Bldg., Athens, GA 30606Abstract: An overarching objective of Technology Education in the U.S. is to improvetechnological literacy among K-12 students.1,2,3,4,5. Traditionally, this has been addressed byfocusing on end product technology and the use and importance of various

Conference Session

NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russ Pimmel

non-STEM related careers.Furthermore, the National Research Council’s (NRC) report, Evaluating andImproving Undergraduate Teaching in Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics, 10 raises challenges that include improving the assessment of learningoutcomes, teaching a broad range and large number of students, providing engaginglaboratory and field experiences, and enhancing the faculty’s knowledge of researchon effective teaching.In meeting such challenges, the CCLI program builds on a number of recent publicationsanalyzing the current state and future needs in STEM education. The NRC volume, HowPeople Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, 11 advocates that teachers draw outand work with students' preexisting knowledge, teach

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering III

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2005 Annual Conference

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Elisabeth Armstrong; Donna Riley

through direct interactions with students. The engineers wereparticularly challenged in keeping the big picture in mind throughout the project, and they oftenhad trouble connecting the detailed life cycle assessment work with the larger questions posed bythe artists. Students in both classes viewed the field trip and class visits favorably, but did notseem to fully appreciate the significance of the opportunity presented in fabricating art for aMassMoCA installation. In the Youth Culture and Gender class, students were most challenged by the hands-onaspects of the project because of the ways in which the real-world experience intersected withthe theory they had learned throughout their courses of study. Student ideas about class, culture

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Martinazzi

product ofthe director, i.e. Peter Weir’s Master and Commander, but it is inherently recognized thatthe finished film represents the product of many contributors, each of whom hasprocessed the message of the film through his/her own consciousness. In short, theseartists have “mediated” the message of the film to the viewers. Even if the film has ahistorical context, that context has been “mediated” through the minds of the contributingartists.Thus in watching the film, the viewers make a judgment as to the relative success orfailure of the various presentational choices made and decide whether or not this is a“good” or “bad” film.Since the class and the students are specifically interested in “leadership” issues, studentsare asked to analyze how

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Jackson; Mani Mina

success.ConclusionWe have constructed a first-year electrical engineering course which covers material similar tothat of most traditional courses, but is augmented by an emphasis on understanding one’s ownlearning methods. Students are encouraged to approach problem solving with an open mind,rather than trying to apply a rigid process. The class experience is enhanced by the presence ofundergraduate mentors who provide guidance and intellectual diversity that would otherwise belacking. The overall result is that students develop independent learning skills which will allowthem to continue to adapt to changing technology throughout their careers.That students report high rates of satisfaction and a desire to become involved in the course asmentors is a strong

Conference Session

Developments in Chem Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Christi Patton; Daniel Crunkleton

2004 competition [1].The application of fuel cells in a design competition led to our proposal to participate inthe Challenge X: Crossover to Sustainable Mobility competition. The purpose of thiscompetition is to “[r]e-engineer a GM crossover sport utility vehicle to minimize energyconsumption, emissions, and greenhouse gases while maintaining or exceeding thevehicle's utility and performance.” The authors’ experience in fuel cell research provideda unique chance to apply this expertise to a system with which the general public is quitefamiliar.Auto design competitions typically have several schools applying for participation, withvery few actually receiving invitations. With this in mind, a multidisciplinary group offaculty was then

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tom Thomas; Mohammad Alam

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” emphasizes that accreditation is a process of improvement. If there is not a process in place, or if weaknesses in the process exist, don’t try to cover it up.9. Be really nice to your reviewers The reviewers are there to help. Cooperate in every way with requests for information. Don’t use faculty interviews to air personal grievances about department policies or politics. A professional detachment should be maintained at all times. Always keep in mind that it is the job of the department as a whole to insure that the reviewers have access to all of the information that they need to make a good decision on accreditation of a program. Making life harder for the reviewers

Conference Session

Developments in Chem Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Holles

students. To help address this problem, a graduate course titled “Theory and Methods of Research”has been developed and is now required for all chemical engineering graduate students. The goalof this course is to systematically present to the students many of the common situations thatmake up the graduate school experience. This includes communication skills such as outlines,abstracts, proposals, journal articles, and oral presentations. Research oriented topics includediscussion of the scientific method, research methods and instruments, and critical reviews ofjournal articles. Professional ethics as a student and researcher are also discussed. Otherinformative lectures cover subjects such as copyright, patents, and research notebooks

Conference Session

Engineers in Toyland - Come and Play

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Bertini; Steven Hansen

means of assessing performance of transportation Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationsystems. While these metrics are familiar to planners, engineers, policy makers and evencitizens, many of them were developed more than 50 years ago, do not necessarily reflect localconditions and are not extensively validated. The use of these simple qualitative (A-F) measuresbegan in response to the lack of data available to create “actual” quantitative metrics.It has been said that “if you cannot tell how your system performed yesterday, you cannot hopeto manage your system today.”1 With this in mind

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mysore Narayanan

assessment techniques that can probably be utilized in any modernacademic environment. (Narayanan, 2004). These twelve techniques, combinedwith the twenty principles of Total Quality Management guide the instructors withseveral paths that can be chosen according to their discipline. Page 10.231.1“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”IntroductionOne can draw from the principles of Total Quality Management to successfullyincorporate technology in developing assessment techniques. President Reaganawarded the National Medal of Technology to Dr

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Karim Muci; Jonathan Weaver

Sometimes the task of defining the scope of a senior design project is completely left upto the faculty member(s) that will be supervising a given project. Also, when a company issponsoring a project, sometimes it is allowed to basically define on its own the scope of theproject that will be assigned to the students. Although there needs to be some room for flexibilitywhen defining the scope of a particular project, in general both approaches stated above are farfrom adequate. It is important to keep in mind that a capstone senior design project must be morethan a project that requires some technical expertise in a particular engineering discipline; it mustbe a meaningful and carefully defined learning experience for the students. As with any

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

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Erastus Njage; Alicia Davis; Solomon Alao; Craig Scott; Yacob Astatke; Bert Davy; Pamela Leigh-Mack; Masud Salimian

practical classroom applicationto improve teaching and learning in any content area 2,5. The five dimensions of learning include1) Positive Attitudes and Perceptions about Learning; 2) Thinking Involved in Acquiring andIntegrating Knowledge; 3) Thinking Involved in Extending and Refining Knowledge; 4) Page 10.567.2Thinking Involved in Using Knowledge Meaningfully; and 5) Productive Habits of the Mind. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” From an engineering perspective, DOL3 and DOL4

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Innovative ET Leadership

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

AC 2005-1359: THE FUTURE TREND OF THE ELECTRONICS ENGINEERINGTECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS OVER THE NEXT DECADELakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University Page 10.1287.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2005 Session 2547The Future Trend of the Electronics Engineering Technology Programs Over The Next Decade Lakshmi V. Munukutla and Albert L. McHenry College of Technology and Applied Sciences Arizona State University Mesa

Conference Session

Assessment Issues in 1st-Yr Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Edward Evans; Sandra Spickard Prettyman; Helen Qammar

Motivational Freshman Course in Using the Principle of Attached Learning”, Jour. Eng. Ed., 88, 99. 7. Qammar, H.K., H.M. Cheung, E.A. Evans, F.S. Broadway and R.D. Ramsier, "Focusing on Teamwork Versus Technical Skills in the Evaluation of an Integrated Design Project", Proc. Of ASEE, paper # 1433, (2003). 8. Tonso, K. L., “Student learning and gender,” Journal of Engineering Education, 85, pp. 143-150 (1996). 9. National Research Council (2000). How people learn : Brain, mind, experience, and school. Washington, D. C.: National Academy Press, p. 10. 10. Blake, R. W., & Blake, R. W. Science as a way of knowing: Using reader response as a means to construct a personal understanding

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Integrating H&SS in Engineering III

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2005 Annual Conference

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Rosalyn Berne

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationnanoscience could, for example, rescue us from some of the pollution created by an industrialrevolution which was too little animated by use of stewardship, for example, long-termresponsibility, sure, and I think also pure curiosity has a place in that world. I don’t think that theidea of stewardship is necessarily bound up entirely with utilitarianism.ROSALYN: Yes.RUSSELL: You know, if Johannes Kepler could look at his planetary ellipses and believethat through this new geometry that he developed that he was getting a glimpse into the mind ofGod, then why not through nanoscience?Loosely following the

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jared Odom; Saeed Foroudastan

needs to be started immediately in all regions of the world.This is not a field specific area, for many areas of academia need informing. A multidisciplinaryapproach should be taken involving the disciplines of engineering, chemistry, biology,environmental science, economics, and many, many others. At Middle Tennessee StateUniversity, a Pollution Control Technology class is offered to introduce important newtechnologies such as desalination. Its importance makes it a popular topic, now to beincorporated into future semesters’ discussion and projects for extracurricular application towardworld-wide alternative solutions. By teaching the problems and offering ideas for improvementto impressionable minds, there will be continual hope for future

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Maixner

dependentupon “computational equations,” they are certain to contain errors. These errors are small,however, and in no way detract from the educational benefit afforded by the Toolbox. Other,more robust products are available to provide the desired degree of accuracy…..at a cost, ofcourse.Future UsesThe Thermal Fluids Toolbox is an extremely useful tool in the analysis of many processengineering systems. It is envisioned that it will be applied to various other systems in futurecourse offerings—internal combustion engine simulation, compressed air energy storage plants,and others come to mind as possible candidates.Additionally, the Toolbox has also been used for instructor templates in conjunction withdesigning and testing thermal-fluids labs at the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ilan Grave

Confidence-Building in a Circuits Course Ilan Gravé Department of Physics and Engineering, Elizabethtown CollegeAbstractIn this paper we look at how students develop professional confidence while learning circuitanalysis.Usually a sophomore or a junior, the typical student takes a circuit analysis course aftercompleting a series of basic science courses where rigor and details are strongly emphasized. Sothese students feel “comfortable” when they understand every line of a proof or a solution.Skipping even one comma, or using a shortcut, may hinder full understanding. The student’sensuing sense of “discomfort” is a desirable and necessary stage, one that

Conference Session

Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

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2005 Annual Conference

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D'Arcy Randall; Hillary Hart

Engineering Programs.” 2004-2005. http://www.abet.org/criteria.html (AccessedJanuary 4, 2005).3. Selingo, Jeffrey. “The Cheating Culture.” Prism.8 September, 2004: 24-30.4. McCabe, Donald L. and Gary Pavela. “Ten [Updated] Principles of Academic Integrity.” Change. May/June,2004: 10-15.5. Bransford, John. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. Washington, D.C. National AcademyPress, 2000.6. Bridis, Ted. “Music Group Filed 261 Lawsuits Against Internet Users.” The Associated Press State & Local Wire.September 9, 2004.7. Shangha, Soni and Furman, Phyllis. “Sued for a Song.” Daily News (New York). September 9, 2003, p. 3.8. Joyce, Christopher. “Genes from Engineered Grass Spread Far.” Morning Edition. National Public Radio.September

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lisa Wipplinger

Providing Safe Housing through Independent Study Dr. Lisa A. Wipplinger United States Military AcademyAbstractThe Civil and Mechanical Engineering department at the United States Military Academy hasteamed up with The Center for Earthquake Resistant Housing to work toward affordable, easilyconstructed earthquake resistant housing in developing countries. A series of independent studyprojects involving design, analysis and research are being developed as courses for small teamsof cadets. Each course will focus on a specific piece of the large project, helping to move italong more quickly. These projects will provide opportunities for life-long learning