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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Omnia El-Hakim, Colorado State University

research, and increase the enrollment of women and minorities in STEM degree programs. 5. Service to scientific and engineering community - Member of Rotarian Club, community and global outreach activities. Lectures at area schools and organizations regarding the importance of diversity in higher education, minority education issues, and women in engineering. Dr. El-Hakim has built a bridge program in Colorado that is expanding the educational and career opportunities for diverse populations. It was her vision to create a partnership among Colorado’s institutions of higher education to address the needs of women and underrepresented students. The Louis Stokes CO-AMP program

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ECE Curriculum Innovations

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cynthia Furse, University of Utah; Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny, University of Utah; Stephanie Richardson, University of Utah; Rohit Verma, University of Utah; April Kedrowicz, University of Utah; Bryan Stenquist, University of Utah

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Electrical and Computer

, particularly women and minorities in engineering and routinely volunteers in Utah's K-12 schools as an engineering mentor, science educator, and engineering career guidance counselor and is active with the Society of Women Engineers, Junior Engineering State, Expanding your Horizons, School-to-Careers, MESA, Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts. Dr. Furse was the Professor of the Year in the College of Engineering at Utah State University for the year 2000. She is the Director of the Center of Excellence for Smart Sensors, an active, funded research program including electromagnetics for biology and remote sensing. The Center focuses on imbedded antennas and sensors in complex environments, including

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Capstone Design and Entrepreneurship

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Ochs, Lehigh University; Gerard Lennon, Lehigh University; Todd Watkins, Lehigh University; Graham Mitchell, Lehigh University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

US Department of Labor10. This funding hasresulted in the development of the various curricula and has provided start-up funding forthe IPD program and Entrepreneurship minor.K-12 entrepreneurship outreach: The Integrated Product Development program hasteamed with Lehigh’s Iacocca Institute for Global Entrepreneurship (www.iacocca-lehigh.org/cap/) to sponsor Career Awareness Programs (CAP) for highly qualified,underrepresented high school students. The focus of these one-week summer programsincluded business, engineering and design arts, all with a technical entrepreneurshipfocus11. In 2001 in conjunction with Lehigh’s Global Village, the Lehigh team from theIacocca Institute and the College of Education was awarded a grant for a

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Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeanne Homer, Oklahoma State University

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Architectural

. Many architecture studentstend to defer the required analysis of their design, and many AE students avoid extensiveexploration. However, as its name suggests, the Comprehensive Studio must integrate bothreason and intuition, or technology and design.Architecture and Architectural Engineering ProgramsOur Architecture and Architectural Engineering (AE) programs are five-year professionalprograms. Professors of each program work closely together in designing and teaching bothcurriculums. The curriculums are virtually identical during the first two years allowing studentsto experience the core issues of both programs before making a career choice. AE students takefive design studios along with architecture students (See Figure 1).ARCHITECTURAL

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leo McAfee, University of Michigan; Khalil Najafi, University of Michigan; Yogesh Gianchandani, University of Michigan; Kensall D. Wise, University of Michigan; Michel M. Maharbiz, University of Michigan; Dean Aslam, Michigan State University; Paul Bergstrom, Michigan Technological University; Craig Friedrich, Michigan Technological University

packaging of micromachined sensors and actuators and their interface circuits. Prof. Gianchandani is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Career Award, and he has published about 150 papers in the field of MEMS, and has about 25 patents issued or pending. Prof. Gianchandani serves on the editorial boards of IOP Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering and Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science, and served as a section editor for Sensors and Actuators for 5 years. He also served on the steering and technical program committees for the IEEE/ASME International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) for many years, and served as a General Co-Chair for this meeting

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Design for Community and Environment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Kimes, University of Missouri-Kansas City; Deborah O'Bannon, University of Missouri-Kansas City

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Design in Engineering Education

allow the students enough latitude to developthe project through their own judgment. Guidance to the students was often provided as asuggestion of next steps to take, rather than as a task to be accomplished. On occasion, morespecific direction would be provided to the students. The goal, from a City perspective, however,was to produce professionals at the beginning of their careers with enough understanding, andeventually, self-confidence, to identify project needs and develop strategies for completing theproject.The City of Kansas City, as the design client for the senior design group, is able to tolerate theextended design time needed by students. Coordination of civil engineering student designs withprivate firms need to keep the lead time

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Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Arthur Snider, University of South Florida

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Liberal Education

subject of fine artfrom a perspective where technology-oriented students would have an advantage, rather than ahandicap; to exploit the experience so as to reinforce some aspect of engineering science byreviewing it in a new context; and to place the engineering students in an environment composedmostly of others in the same discipline.BackgroundAlthough many engineering students would argue otherwise, an exposure to the arts is anessential part of every undergraduate's curriculum. This is underscored by its de facto inclusion,in some form, in the required "distributional elective" hours imposed by virtually every degreeprogram in the United States. Educators recognize that many young people who selecttechnology as a career objective at an early

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Visualization

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nathan Hartman, Purdue University; Patrick Connolly, Purdue University; Jeffrey Gilger, Purdue University; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University

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Engineering Design Graphics

paradigms suggested by Gardner12 and West13.There is a call for better measures of spatial skills and methods for improving spatial ability.While there are a limited number of studies that examine the effect of training on spatial ability,some have proposed that spatial ability has a biological basis; however, individual differences inthe ability are also reflective of environmental input. For instance, Miller and Bertoline14 suggestthat spatial ability develops over periods of time and is related to stages of a person’sdevelopment and various learning environments and types of life experiences. It has beenhypothesized that it is, in part, through these experiences that individuals tend to migrate towardscertain career paths, ultimately influenced

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Progress on Raising the Bar

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ernest Smerdon, University of Arizona; Stephen Ressler, U.S. Military Academy; James K. Nelson, University of Texas-Tyler; Jim O'Brien, American Society of Civil Engineers

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Civil Engineering

engineering degree, depending on the course content and reflecting the career aspirations of the student. 2. ABET should allow accreditation of engineering programs of the same name at the baccalaureate and graduate levels in the same department to recognize that education through a “professional” master’s degree produces an AME, an accredited “master” engineer.Recommendation 2 refers to a provision in the ABET Accreditation Policy and ProcedureManual, which states, “Engineering programs may be accredited at either the basic or advancedlevel … A program may be accredited at only one level in a particular curriculum at a giveninstitution.”5 This restriction is imposed only by the Engineering Accreditation

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Technology in Classrooms - Construction Engineering Perspective

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bob McCullouch, Purdue University; Joohyoung Lee, Purdue University-Calument

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Construction

Purdue University Calumet. His research career includes IT-based construction engineering and management system and computer-based instructional model design. He has developed information technology applications in civil engineering, numerous Web-based instructional programs, and database systems sponsored by Federal Highway Administration and Indiana Department of Transportation. Page 11.1197.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Teaching a Paperless, All Digital Course that Utilizes the Experiential Learning Theory (ELT) Bob G

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Keith Williamson, East Carolina University; Gene Dixon, East Carolina University; Paul Kauffmann, East Carolina University; Tarek Abdel-Salam, East Carolina University

address leader and follower roles and responsibilities when combining spirituality and logistics in a worship environment.Paul Kauffmann, East Carolina University Paul Kauffmann is Professor an Chair of the Department of Technology Systems at East Carolina University. Prior to his academic career , he worked in industry where he held positions as Plant Manager and Engineering Director. Dr. Kauffmann received a B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering and MENG in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech. He received his Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from Pennsylvania State University and is a registered Professional Engineer.Tarek Abdel-Salam, East Carolina University Dr. Tarek

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Faculty Reward System Reform Duplicate Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dennis Depew, Purdue University; Niaz Latif, Purdue University; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina; Stephen Tricamo, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Duane Dunlap, Western Carolina University; Albert McHenry, Arizona State University; Harvey Palmer, Rochester Institute of Technology; Eugene DeLoatch, Morgan State University; Ronald Bennett, University of St. Thomas; Mohammad Noori, California State Polytechnic University; Jay Snellenberger, Rolls-Royce; Samuel Truesdale, Rolls-Royce

measure is what you get. For the most part our faculty are superb “engineering scientists” – but not necessarily folks that know a lot about the practice of the profession of engineering. At most schools, for example, it’s hard to bring someone onto the faculty who has spent the career in industry, even though such people would be extremely valuable to the students; their resumes simply don’t fit those the reward system values. Sometimes it’s even hard to get recognition for a sabbatical in industry. Please understand that I am not criticizing the current faculty; I am one of them, and I respect my colleagues greatly. Rather I am criticizing a system that prevents enriching the faculty with a complementary set of experiences and

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rachel Adams, Loyola Marymount University; John Dorsey, Loyola Marymount University; James Landry, Loyola Marymount University; Michael Manoogian, Loyola Marymount University; William Trott, Loyola Marymount University

broaden engineering student understanding of science, stimulate interest in technical careers, and attract under- represented populations into technical fields. It is expected that the course will ultimately become part of the science sequence for all first-year engineering students.Introduction The interrelationship between the sciences and engineering is especially significant as therole of biological systems and chemistry in engineering are growing areas of opportunity forengineers and as the sciences are often treated as distinct entities in engineering curricula. Inmost cases, engineering students at the university level never take a biology class. Furthermore,most engineering students who take a chemistry class learn chemistry

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Mechanical ET Curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dale Palmgren, Arizona State University; Bradley Rogers, Arizona State University; Nathan Everett, Arizona State University

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Engineering Technology

automotive fuel cell transportation system must account for these effects.At ASU, while all technologies will be a part of the curricula, the decision has been made tofocus resources on the technologies that the students are most likely to be exposed to early intheir careers. As a consequence, there is a need to develop case studies, ultimately to be used inthe classroom, which compare both the economic and technical realities of the competingtechnologies from a systems viewpoint. In this paper, well-to-wheels comparison of dieselelectric hybrid systems with fuel cell systems are discussed. Conclusions from this study arebeing used to guide the course and curriculum development.Engineering Systems OverviewThe potential long term market penetration

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Computer ET Projects and Applications

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yong-Kyu Jung, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Technology

oneof the preferable forms of the silicon chip design.IntroductionBecause technology has evolved drastically, introducing design practices that are similar to real-world projects into the classroom is one of the crucial issues facing engineering educationsocieties. Before discussing detailed activities, an examination of the “pros and cons” of currentdigital design practices in the classroom [1] is worthwhile. In industry, delivering the mostmarketable and typically large-scale, high-quality products in the shortest amount of time iscritical. Engineering education, on the other hand, usually deals with more general subjects thatmay not often, if ever, be used during the post-academic engineering career, as well as withpractices involving small

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Innovative Laboratories in BME

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joe Tranquillo

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Biomedical

senior capstone experience, and in the long-term fortheir career as professional engineers.AcknowledgementsI would like to thank Daniel Cavanagh for the many insightful conversations andcomments.References[1] J Enderle, S Blanchard, J Bronzino. “Introduction to Biomedical Engineering” Academic Press, New York. 2000.[2] N Ozkaya, M Nordin. “Fundamentals of Biomechanics: Equilibrium, Motion and Deformation.” Springer. New York. 1999.[3] A Van Heuvelen. “Overview, Case-Study Physics,” Am. J. Phys 59, 898-907. 1991. Page 11.1056.7

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Curriculum Development & Assessment in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erich Schneider, University of Texas-Austin; Sheldon Landsberger, University of Texas-Austin; Steven Biegalski, University of Texas-Austin; Kendra Foltz Biegalski, University of Texas

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Nuclear and Radiological

as part of their mission to prevent and track such events. In the 1990’sthe Department of Energy set up the Radiochemistry Research Award Program (REAP)to help universities develop more active educational and research opportunities in a widevariety of areas. In August 2005, the Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Program at theUniversity of Texas received its second three-year REAP grant largely due to the successof both traditional radiochemistry and more advanced nuclear chemistry teaching andresearch. Increased interactions with national laboratories, placement of students inradiochemistry careers, and significant pedagogical improvements all contributed to thesecond REAP award.Educational ActivitiesThe cornerstone of the educational

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Engineering Education & Capacity Building in Developing Countries

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Russel Jones, World Expertise LLC

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International

2006-1268: BRAIN DRAIN CONCERNS IN TECHNICAL CAPACITY BUILDINGEFFORTSRussel Jones, World Expertise LLC Russel C. Jones is a private consultant, working through World Expertise LLC to offer services in engineering education in the international arena. He previously served as Executive Director of the National Society of Professional Engineers. Prior to that, he had a long career in education: faculty member at MIT, department chair in civil engineering at Ohio State University, dean of engineering at University of Massachusetts, academic vice president at Boston University, and President at University of Delaware. Dr. Jones is President of the Committee on Capacity Building of the

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Customizing Courses for Industry Training Needs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Tidwell, Boeing Co.; John Robertson, Arizona State University

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Continuing Professional Development

features of the degree program and show thescope and diversity of careers in technology, current high-level examples fromindustry are essential. The outcomes from the education process are there for allto see in the interaction between technical skills, cost and global markets.However, access to the information and experience does not come readily. Itrequires commitment, persistence and a coherent vision shared by all academicand industry participants. The results described in this paper are capable of Page 11.357.8further enhancement as the adaptation of similar content to meet the needs of eachlearning group brings many synergies that continue to enrich both

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Research in Minority Issues

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tommy Stevenson, Mississippi State University; Donna Reese, Mississippi State University

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Minorities in Engineering

groups that focuses on careers with advanced degrees Strategy 3 – Provide funding for students from underrepresented groups to present papers at conferences Strategy 4 – Create a web site to be used as a clearinghouse for information for potential students at all levels. Strategy 5 – Encourage departmental collaboration in graduate student recruiting events. Strategy 6 – Establish a graduate seminar program focusing on internal graduate student recruitment Strategy 7 – Establish a traveling seminar series where Bagley College of Engineering faculty visit engineering departments at

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Novel Measurement Experiments

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Terrance Lovell, Pennsylvania State University-Berks; Dale Litwhiler, Pennsylvania State University-Berks

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Instrumentation

University and his Ph.D. from Lehigh University all in electrical engineering. Prior to beginning his academic career in 2002, he worked with IBM Federal Systems and Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems as a hardware and software design engineer. Page 11.1196.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Teaching a Computer to Read: Image Analysis of Electrical MetersAbstractThere exists a vast infrastructure of heritage analog and digital meters installed in commercialand industrial applications. These devices typically have no built-in means of automatedreading. Modifying

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EM Program Trend and Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yesim Sireli, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; S. Gary Teng, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Ertunga Ozelkan, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

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Engineering Management

Master’s Program wasfounded in Fall 2000 following the industry demand in the fast growing Charlotte area, as Tengand Shelnutt stated in their paper1. The program’s objective was to serve the industry’s needsaround the campus and its first student body included mostly full-time career individuals. Overthe past few years, the program grew, served full-time as well as part-time students, and addednew members to its faculty as well as a new variety of courses to its curriculum. Recently,UNCC decided to transform this program into a Systems Engineering and EngineeringManagement Department, starting with a Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering. Theprogram faculty are in the process of identifying the objectives that are important for establishinga

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Emerging Trends in Industrial Technology

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna Summers, University of Dayton

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Engineering Technology

are included in class discussions besides what is being discussedalready, students will develop a larger knowledge on what is going on in otherindustries besides cars or manufacturing industries.Absolutely! I have applied for internships and even had a co-op at a distributioncenter. I plan to choose a career in logistics or possibly a service industry. …since our major is so broad, we need to broaden the examples used in our classesto help prepare or students for the various problems in the "real world". Page 11.1299.4 Sorry for the enthusiasm, but I really do wish that there were a course or courses that covered these topics within industrial

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Approaches to Teaching Entrepreneurship

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Sherrill, University of Houston; Thomas Duening, Arizona State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

optimummaterials, design, feature sets, and engineering processes. This approach to engineering anddesign may be counter-intuitive to the well-trained engineer who has not previously consideredthe power of markets in establishing the prevailing definition of “value”.The notions of “difficult to copy” and “difficult to substitute” are also market or, at least,industry specific terms, but they are not difficult for engineers or scientists to appreciate. Theirstandard training involves the competitive quest to be original and to strive for recognition basedon this originality. This training focuses on career development through originality, not businessdevelopment. Still, the concepts transfer well. Scientists and engineers are taught to regardoriginality as

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Integrating Math, Science, & Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bruno Osorno, California State University-Northridge

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Mathematics

the writing center, counseling center, student health center, library, and career center. Page 11.1158.614. I feel good about myself and about my situation, and I am confident about my ability to succeed academically. 15. Taking quizzes every week has forced me to reconsider my academic approach to my classes by adjusting and/or including some of the questions 1 through 14 into my every day schedule of activities 16. If you ranked question 15 please, indicated below what questions 1 through 14 have you added or adjusted this semester to help you do better in this course.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

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ECE Laboratory Design

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mukul Shirvaikar, University of Texas-Tyler; Mark Humphries, University of Texas-Tyler; Leonardo Estevez, Texas Instruments Inc.

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Electrical and Computer

, testing an audio codec and implementing an embeddedweb server. TI expects to disseminate the instructional resources developed and tested in thiscourse to other universities and industry partners.IntroductionDual-core processors have recently entered mainstream computing in PC systems, and it iscritical for students of computer engineering to be exposed to them early in their career. Thispaper extends past work 1, which presented the development of some introductory labs using TI's P POMAP 5912 Starter Kit (OSK). The Real Time Systems senior elective course at theUniversity of Texas at Tyler combines lectures along with an integrated lab. The students arerequired to have at least one course in structured

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Innovative Teaching Methods in IE Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Kundrat, Grand Valley State University; Shabbir Choudhuri, Grand Valley State University

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Industrial Engineering

.ConclusionsThis project, a part of a graduate course, applied classic manufacturing work improvement toolsin a non-manufacturing environment. The STEPS program is a noble approach to motivateyoung girls toward a science and technology career. Because the technical experience of thecamp is centered on the plane building activities, it is immensely important that this experiencebe enjoyable and educational to its participants. This project has deployed classic techniques toanalyze the camp’s existing activities and processes and has thereby developed a morestreamlined, efficient way of accomplishing the same intended goals. Moreover, this project hascreated an incidental and advantageous learning opportunity for the girls. The participants areexposed to

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CPD - Engineering Education K - Life

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zhili (Jerry) Gao; Virendra Varma, Missouri Western State University; Christiana Houck, University of Nevada-Las Vegas

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Continuing Professional Development

InstructionalMedia Center at Missouri Western, a group of nine faculty members from various departmentsbegan intensely to plan and develop full on-line courses to meet the educational and career needsof students as per goals cited in Western’s Strategic Plan.5In May 2005, the Western Institute, the distance education arm of Missouri Western, sponsored atwo week Internet Pedagogy Workshop for nine members of the Western faculty. The facultymembers were introduced to resources for on-line course development including gatheringstatistical data from on-line assessments, narrated mini-lectures with PowerPoint, and othermultimedia tools. These faculty members then began developing their courses that weredelivered predominantly during Fall 2005 and Spring 2006

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DB & Information Integration

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald Glotzbach, Purdue University; Nathan Bingham, Purdue University; Meiqi Ren, Purdue University; Dorina Mordkovich, Purdue University

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Information Systems

Comparison.Season LevelOnce a team is created in e-Stadium it is associated with the next level, the season. The season isindependent of the team, but when coupled with a team allows data such as rosters and schedulesfor a particular team to be tracked over a season. Schedules and player/coach rosters are createdby tying games back to a team/season combination. A new instance of a player or coach iscreated for each season, so individual season statistics can be tied back to a particular player. Theplayer’s statistics over a career can be tracked by this association back to a team.Game LevelAs stated earlier, games are grouped by a team/season combination. For statistical purposes, thegames are divided up into drives, plays, scoring drives, overall-game

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Conrad, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

, and the companies can assist by talking about their own implementations and presentcase studies. Local PMI chapters should collaborate with local universities to establish ties anddevelop modules. There are several ways a company can help:1. Corporate management, lead by a company’s Project Office, will need to convince university administration of the need for teaching project management skills in universities. Executives can talk with university presidents/provosts, college deans, department chairpersons, and even career center counselors.2. Corporate Project Offices should, perhaps through their local PMI chapter, assist in curriculum development or assessment.3. Companies can provide financial assistance to faculty in the form of