Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry Duplicate Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina; John Bardo, Western Carolina University; Duane Dunlap, Western Carolina University; Eugene DeLoatch, Morgan State University; Albert McHenry, Arizona State University; Joseph Tidwell, Arizona State University; Niaz Latif, Purdue University; Dennis Depew, Purdue University; Mark Schuver, Purdue University; David Quick; Roger Olson, Rolls-Royce; Samuel Truesdale, Rolls-Royce; Jay Snellenberger, Rolls-Royce; Stephen Tricamo, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Harvey Palmer, Rochester Institute of Technology; Mohammad Noori, California State Polytechnic University; Kathleen Gonzalez Landis, University of Arizona; Ronald Bennett, University of St. Thomas

linear or sequential processfollowing basic research as portrayed in 1945. Rather, creative engineering projects in industryfrequently drive the need for directed strategic research efforts at universities when necessary oranticipated in order to gain a better understanding of the natural phenomena involved.New technology is brought about by a very purposeful and systematic practice of engineeringinvolving the deliberate recognition of meaningful human needs and the deliberate engineeringcreation of new ideas and concepts to effectively meet these needs though responsible leadership.Engineering practice and its resulting outcome technology have been redefined for the 21stcentury.1 Engineering must no longer be misconstrued as “applied science

Conference Session

Curricula of the Past, Present, and Future

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy Banzaert, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; John Duffy, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; David Wallace, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

JOHN J. DUFFY is a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department, the Coordinator for the Solar Engineering Graduate Program, and the Director of the Center for Sustainable Energy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He has written over 70 papers on solar engineering, environmental analysis, and education. He has integrated service-learning into nine engineering courses at the undergraduate and graduate level with local and international projects and is the principal investigator on an NSF grant to integrate service-learning into the entire curriculum of the college of engineering at UML. He also coordinates the Village Empowerment project which has designed and installed over

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education in ET

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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JoDell Steuver, Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

servicelearning. The management of teams class syllabus had planned a semester’s study of teamtheory, observation of team influence and roles and analysis of team performance in films. Theclass made a decision to radically restructure the learning experience to respond to their needs toactively work for a positive outcome from a tragic event.This article talks about how the changed class format helped students to integrate skills from abroad college experience—marketing, accounting, writing, management, leadership, graphics,public relations, facilities planning, project management and research. The learning cyclechanged from observation and reflection, abstract concepts, testing in new situations andexperiencing (Kolb & Fry)1 to one of creating

Conference Session

Hurricane Katrina

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Ryan, SE/ES, LLC; Glenn Schexnayder, Boh Bros. Construction; Ed Scheuermann, Boh Bros. Construction

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Ocean and Marine

feetabove normal. The impact on the twin spans was devastating, causing damage to nearly40% of the pre-cast decks on both east-bound and west-bound spans, rendering the bridgeimpassable. Re-establishing this link to the city was critical to commerce in the city ofNew Orleans. Boh Brothers Construction Co., locally founded contractor with its mainoffice in the Central Business District of New Orleans, won the job for repairing thebridge. Boh’s bid included a fast-tracked 45-day schedule for completion of Phase-I ofthe project, which included repairing the east-bound span and opening it to two-waytraffic. A combination of innovation, intimate knowledge of local conditions, andefficiency resulted in the completion of the project ahead of schedule

Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Applications

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sohail Anwar, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona College; Janice McClure, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona College

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Engineering Design Graphics

student design competencies in the topical area of communication.Topics covered include Internet navigation, website design, word processing, presentationsoftware, and computer aided design and drafting using AutoCAD.The second component of the course deals with manual graphic and drafting skills. Students areintroduced to the fundamentals of orthographic projection. The topics covered include multiviewprojection, dimensioning, lettering, oblique and isometric projection, sectional views, tolerances,scales, and selected topics in descriptive geometry.The third component of ED&G 100 focuses on team-based engineering design projects. Workingtogether in teams, students work on design projects selected from various disciplines ofengineering. This

Conference Session

Integrating Research Into Undergraduate ECE Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Daniel, Ohio State University; Ronald Reano, Ohio State University

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Electrical and Computer

engineering faculty/student partnership involved exposing theundergraduate to a small scale research project designed to reflect typical activities experiencedby graduate students. The student went through the entire cycle of design, simulation,fabrication, and test of a working device prototype. Through this approach, the studentexperienced a microcosm of graduate school while interacting with graduate students,experiencing the difference between laboratory and simulation work, and developing technicalwriting skills through the development of the electronic portfolio.IntroductionA program referred to as "Research on Research" has been developed to expose undergraduatestudents to academic research. The program is instituted through the Technology

Conference Session

ECE Curriculum Innovations

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles Bunting, Oklahoma State University; Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State University; James West, Oklahoma State University

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Electrical and Computer

teamwork and communication, and is not effectively taughtby lecture, cookbook labs, or emphasizing analytical solution techniques. To communicateconcepts and skills requires students to both develop an understanding of concepts and to testthat understanding by applying the concepts and skills. Application serves as formative Page 11.1424.2 1 This work is funded by the National Science Foundation under grants: 0230695 & 0311257.evaluation. VECTOR is a project-based approach to EM in which student teams develop andevaluate their grasp of concepts through application in a complete project design-build-test cycle.The introductory EM

Conference Session

Design in the BME Curriculum and ABET Assessment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Glen Livesay, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Renee Rogge, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Biomedical

. Page 11.1427.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Vertical Mentoring: Closing the Loop in DesignAbstractTo help students ‘close the loop in design’ – that is, appreciate the importance and depth of theirdesign knowledge through a specific demonstration of this ability beyond their capstone designproject – we have implemented a vertical mentoring scheme in biomedical engineering design.Biomedical engineering seniors in the fourth quarter of the design sequence serve as designmentors to teams of juniors beginning their first quarter of design.In the junior-level course, student teams work on a smaller, common design project to ‘practice’a complete iteration of the design process before they tackle larger, more

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering and Business

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Howard Clayton, Auburn University; Chetan Sankar, Auburn University; Evelyn Thrasher, Auburn University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

instructionalmaterials for use in engineering classrooms to adapt the instructional materials for use inbusiness classrooms. The purpose of this paper is to report on the instructional materials thatintegrated methods to teach fundamental statistics skills with the introduction to businessapplications. We also tested these instructional materials in classrooms during summer 2005 andthe results of the test are reported. The ultimate goal of this project is to develop innovative andwell-tested instructional materials that help teach statistics to students in the colleges of businessand engineering.Literature Review Contemporary business practice has undergone a drastic change in this informationage where the business processes, accounting systems, and

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Research

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter Schuster, California Polytechnic State University; Charles Birdsong, California Polytechnic State University

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New Engineering Educators

multidisciplinary projects. Page 11.1086.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Research in the Undergraduate EnvironmentAbstractThe benefits of research experiences for undergraduates are significant. For many faculty, thesewere the experiences that convinced us to pursue further education and a career in academia.However, performing research at an undergraduate institution carries with it certain challenges.In traditional research institutions, doctoral students perform most of the research activities, ledby the faculty. These students have completed at least their undergraduate courses and can beexpected to remain

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Phillips, Oklahoma State University

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Architectural

Society for Engineering Education, 2006 “Assessing the Comprehensive Design Studio Course through Alternate Methods”AbstractCourse assessment typically consists of the review of a course by the teaching faculty memberbased on student grades from the course. This process, without additional methods, can lead to afalse sense of success in a course, and it becomes necessary to find alternate methods for furtherassessment.For the comprehensive design studio course, alternate methods of assessment have beenemployed. This course is a semester long architectural and engineering design studio where allphases of an architectural design project are covered, from schematic design through designdocumentation. In

Conference Session

Integrating Research Into Undergraduate ECE Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathleen Hayden, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Yi Cheng, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Tim Lin, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

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Electrical and Computer

cutting-edgeNASA-related research into the undergraduate curriculum. Cal Poly Pomona chose toincorporate the Jet Propulsion Laboratories (JPL) robotic technology research into theundergraduate curricula of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, theEngineering Technology Department, Mechanical Engineering Department, and the ComputerScience Department. We proposed to conduct an interdisciplinary project, "Deep SpaceExploration using Smart Robotic Rovers", and develop an autonomous robotic rover.During the last three years, students and faculty participating in this program have developed arobotic rover that has successfully accomplished the initial goals of the project: (1) semi-autonomous navigation systems for remote robots, (2

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Frank Liou, University of Missouri-Rolla

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

other partneringinstitutions to enhance the program are discussed. Also included in this paper are themajor curriculum development and outreach activities, including an interdisciplinarycapstone design project to provide opportunities for students to design, manufacture, andactually market a product, which can stimulate students’ interest in real-world productrealization, the summer manufacturing workshop for high-school teachers and students,and research programs to develop laboratory facilities and support graduate programs.IntroductionTo live well, a nation must produce well. U.S. manufacturing is a critical area that cannotafford to be lost, but it is facing a great challenge. When the industry’s manufacturingjobs are out-sourced

Conference Session

Sustainable Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado-Boulder; Diana Shannon, University of Colorado-Denver; Jay Shah, University of Colorado-Boulder; R. Scott Summers, University of Colorado-Boulder; Jim Ruttenber, University of Colorado

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Environmental Engineering

through an emphasis on their application in developingcommunities worldwide. The course emphasizes sustainable approaches for improving publichealth and the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration between practitioners of publichealth, the environmental sciences, and engineering. The course was piloted for the first time inSpring 2005 to eight graduate students. Semester-long team projects were associated withexisting Engineers Without Borders (EWB) - CU projects in Peru, Mali, and Rwanda. Thestudents identified the major health problems in the community, indicated engineering solutionsthat would improve these, and prioritized the health problems and solutions with regards to costsand benefits. Feedback from the students and instructors was

Conference Session

Curriculum for Green Materials

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Suzanne Keilson, Loyola College in Maryland; robert pond, Loyola College; william karasz, Loyola College; kyle bates, Loyola College; ryan christopher, Loyola College

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Materials

Automotive Lighting SystemsThis paper is a summary and demonstration of an innovative senior design project. Theprimary impetus for this project was to reduce the Cu content in recycled steel fromautomobiles. Although recycling steel from automobiles is a large business and growingglobally, there is little incentive to separate out the copper wiring before recycling theautomotive chassis. The slow but inevitable increase in copper content with eachgeneration of recycled steel can lead to too much variability in the mechanical andwelding properties of the steel.The project team decided to focus on redesigning the electrical power distribution systemto allow for easy retrieval of the copper. Three senior students at Loyola College inMaryland worked as

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Timothy Hinds, Michigan State University; Craig Somerton, Michigan State University; Robert Chalou, Michigan State University; Clark Radcliffe, Michigan State University; Gaile Griffore, Michigan State University

2006-1626: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGFRESHMAN PROGRAMTimothy Hinds, Michigan State University Timothy Hinds is an Academic Specialist in the Michigan State University Department of Mechanical Engineering. He teaches undergraduate courses in machine design, manufacturing processes, mechanics and computational tools. He also teaches a senior-level undergraduate international design project course and has taught graduate-level courses in engineering innovation and technology management. He received his BSME and MSME degrees from Michigan Technological University.Craig Somerton, Michigan State University Craig Somerton is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the

Conference Session

Curricula of the Past, Present, and Future

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University; Robert Pangborn, Pennsylvania State University; David Wormley, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

-based teaching and learning. Clearly, implementing new processes ofassessment of outcomes for ABET is having a significant effect on our programs. We have beenfortunate to have other influences, as well, including good counsel from external advisory boardsand the resources from an endowed center for engineering education, both of which have beeneffective in fostering change.Over the last 15 years, these diverse drivers for change have nurtured nearly 50 major projectsfor which substantial funding was available. These 50 initiatives, however, do not begin torepresent the totality of the effort because many individual faculty and small groups of facultycarried out projects to improve what they are doing in their own classes without the benefit

Conference Session

Best Zone Paper Competition

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ross McCurdy, Ponaganset High School

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Council of Sections

hydrogen fuel cells as a step towards creating a clean and sustainable future. The schoolhas now compiled an impressive collection of fuel cell technology for hands-on student use andhas established a course devoted to fuel cells. With the creation of Protium, the Initiative’s fuelcell-powered band, hydrogen fuel cell education is also an extracurricular activity successfullyspreading the word far beyond the school community, with fuel cell demonstration performanceshaving taken place in Miami, San Antonio, Palm Springs, and Hollywood. Fuel cell education is approached with a hands-on, minds-on philosophy with much ofthe learning project-based. Last year’s capstone project was the creation of Rhode Island’s firstfuel cell vehicle, a two

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Northrup, Western New England College

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

2006-1279: INNOVATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF A MULTIDISCIPLINARYENGINEERING DESIGN COURSE: INCREASING INTERDISCIPLINARYINTERACTIONSteven Northrup, Western New England College Page 11.766.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Innovation and Improvement of a Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Course: Increasing Interdisciplinary InteractionAbstractInnovations to a multidisciplinary team design experience have been made with the objective ofincreasing the level of interdisciplinary design required for successful project completion. Theproject required teams of four to five students to design, machine

Conference Session

Innovative Lower Division Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Srikanth Pidugu, University of Arkansas-Little Rock; Swaminadham Midturi, University of Arkansas-Little Rock

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Two Year College Division

energy measurements and equipment efficiency. The Annual Energy Outlook 2004 (AEO2004) with projections to 2025 [2,3] presents acritical review of energy use of USA in the residential, commercial, industrial, transportationsectors for the period 1970 - 2025. The graphs from AEO2004 forecast an increase in energyconsumption in most sectors, and that primary energy use will exceed 136 quadrillion Btu peryear by 2025, 40 percent higher than the 2002 level. However, the forecast indicates that theincrease can stabilize as more efficient energy generation and consumption technologies offsetthe demand for more energy. Arkansas’s per capita energy use is similar to other states, with itsenergy use and savings dependent on the population and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Esteban Rodriguez-Marek, Eastern Washington University; Min-Sung Koh, Eastern Washington University; Claudio Talarico, Eastern Washington University; William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University; Thomas Griffith, North Seattle Community College; Michael Brzoska, Eastern Washington University

paper describes theplanning process and it addresses the following elements. First, the curriculum will be modifiedto include effective, research-based pedagogies for teaching electrical engineering, particularlyextensive experiential learning. EWU’s curricular revisions will include adding a laboratorycomponent to each class in the EE major, developing a class for each year of study that includesa service learning component, developing a class for each year of study that requires work on areal industry project, and requiring an internship and a project-based senior project for eachstudent. Second, the program will be offered in a dual-site mode in both the EWU’s Cheneycampus and at North Seattle Community College (NSCC), a community college

Conference Session

Software Engineering Curriculum Components

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Deepti Suri, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Mark Sebern, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Software Development Laboratory: A Retrospective Abstract At Milwaukee School of Engineering(MSOE), undergraduate students work on a one academic year (three quarters) Software Development Laboratory (SDL) course sequence in their junior/senior year. SDL was created with a vision of providing a “real-life” team experience to students where they could unite theory and practice while working on large scale ongoing projects in the context of a standardized development process. This paper presents a retrospective on the pedagogical philosophy of the SDL and the specific challenges that we are currently facing in executing this

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado-Boulder

a framework for evaluatingethical behavior, and showing the breadth and excitement of the civil engineering profession.Case study examples of civil engineers and civil engineering projects now include humanitarianaid in refugee camps and the Three Gorges Dam in China. Students are required to attend ameeting of an engineering professional society, and the student chapter of Engineers WithoutBorders (EWB) has proven to be a popular option. The recent changes in this course fit with along-term plan to create an “Engineering for Developing Communities” certificate program forundergraduate students in the College of Engineering.BackgroundAn awareness of international issues is increasingly important for engineers, who are nowcompeting and

Conference Session

Engineering Without Borders Programs Involving Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Evan Thomas, University of Colorado-Boulder; Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado-Boulder; Andrew Azman, University of Colorado-Boulder; Bernard Amadei, University of Colorado-Boulder

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International

2006-606: ENGINEERING EDUCATION THROUGH SERVICE LEARNING: TWOCASE STUDIESEvan Thomas, University of Colorado-Boulder Evan Thomas is a doctoral student at the University of Colorado at Boulder in Aerospace Engineering Bioastronautics. He is a civil servant employee at NASA's Johnson Space Center, working in the Life Support and Habitability Systems Branch in the Crew and Thermal Systems Division. Evan's research at CU-Boulder and at NASA is in Microgravity Fire Detection, analyzing the feasibility of a Modulated Laser Analyzer for Combustion Products (MLA-CP) for the crewed spacecraft environment. Evan has been leading EWB-USA projects in Rwanda and Nepal. He founded the EWB-JSC chapter at

Conference Session

Approaches to K -12 Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eugene Brown, Virginia Tech; Robert Kavetsky, Office of Naval Research; Robert L. Stiegler, NSWCDD; Peter N. Squire, NSWCDD; Juanita Jo Matkins, College of William and Mary; Gail Hardinge, College of William and Mary; John A. McLaughlin, McLauglin Associates

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

issues in teacher education, including assessment, gender and multicultural issues in science education.Gail Hardinge, College of William and Mary GAIL B. HARDINGE -- Dr. Hardinge is an educational psychologist who currently works with the Va. Department of Education's Training and Technical Assistance Centers, at the College of William and Mary, providing professional development programs for teachers. She has worked in public education for twenty-two years and is an adjunct Assistant Professor at William and Mary, teaching courses in collaborative consultation and assessment, as well serving as the college's VDP Project Coordinator.John A. McLaughlin, McLauglin Associates

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Phillips, University of Guelph; Michele Oliver, University of Guelph; Bill Van Heyst, University of Guelph; Douglas Joy, University of Guelph; Warren Stiver, University of Guelph

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Computers in Education

design projects andultimately as alumni. Is the introduction in second year working? Are our senior students andalumni using CAD/CAE intelligently or are they using it as a black box? We opted to use recentcapstone design projects to provide some initial feedback. These projects have been conducted Page 11.340.3by students who have experienced our second year courses.Capstone design projects at Guelph are identified and developed by the students and completedin a single semester. Teams are typically made up of 3-4 students. Actual product development,prototyping and industrial collaborations are encouraged. Each design team has a faculty

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Yoder, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Bruce Black, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

developments of comparing the use of LabVIEW (agraphical programming language) to MATLAB (a text-based language) in teaching discrete-timesignal processing (DSP).This paper presents the results of using both methods in a junior-level introduction to DSP class.The students who enter this class have had a course in continuous-time signals and systems butno DSP theory background. The class uses the text “Signal Processing First”, by McClellan,Schafer, Yoder, published by Prentice Hall, to introduce discrete-time signal processing. In thepast, a series of MATLAB based mini-projects were used in addition to homework to reinforce theDSP concepts. The new version of the class uses the same mini-projects except that they arebased on LabVIEW.Several quarters

Conference Session

Novel BME Courses and Course Adaptations

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Conrad Zapanta, Pennsylvania State University; Keefe Manning, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

knowledge to the design of artificial organs including circulatorysupport devices, drug delivery systems, artificial lungs and oxygenators, artificial kidney,pacemakers, neural prostheses, prosthetic heart valves, orthopedic implants, bioartificial organs(tissue engineering), and cardiopulmonary bypass. These lectures demonstrate how thetechniques and knowledge presented in the first part of the class are applied to the design ofartificial organs. The students then complete a final design project for an artificial organ of theirown choosing.1. IntroductionArtificial organs have a significant impact on the types and quality of medical care availabletoday. Artificial organs treat over 4.8 million patients a year in the United States and

Conference Session

FPD3 -- Professional Issues for First-Year Courses

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Simmons, University of Queensland; Elise Barrella, Bucknell University; Keith Buffinton, Bucknell University

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First-Year Programs

2006-178: PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION BEST PRACTICESTUDY FOR FIRST-YEAR, MULTI-DISCIPLINARY COURSESElise Barrella, Bucknell University ELISE M. BARRELLA is a senior Civil and Environmental Engineering major at Bucknell University. Upon acceptance to Bucknell, she was selected to be a Presidential Fellow, which provided a stipend to support her research on this project. The best study practice was conducted at The University of Queensland, Australia while Elise was studying abroad for the Spring 2005 semester. In addition to her fellowship research, Elise is vice president of programming for Bucknell's student chapter of ASCE, a member of Delta Gamma sorority, and a teaching

Conference Session

Learning from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nancy Clement, Purdue University; Edward Coyle, Purdue University; Joy Krueger, Purdue University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

. Coyle is a Fellow of the IEEE and in 1998 was named an Outstanding Engineering Alumnus of the University of Delaware. Dr. Coyle was a co-founder, with Professors Leah Jamieson and Hank Dietz, of the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) Program at Purdue. He was also a co-founder and co-director, with Professors Leah Jamieson and Bill Oakes, of the National EPICS Program, which supports and coordinates EPICS sites at Purdue and 14 other universities. Further information about EPICS is available at http://epics.ecn.purdue.edu/. For their work with the EPICS Program, Professors Coyle and Jamieson have jointly received the School of Electrical and Computer