Conference Session

Preventing Marginalization of Underrepresented Students on Teams

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paige Smith, University of Maryland-College Park; Linda Schmidt, University of Maryland-College Park; Patricia F. Mead; Stephanie Adams

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Women in Engineering

2006-2451: HOW TO PREVENT MARGINALIZATION OFUNDERREPRESENTED STUDENT POPULATION MEMBERS ONENGINEERING STUDENT TEAMSPaige Smith, University of Maryland-College Park PAIGE E. SMITH, Ph.D., Director of the Women in Engineering Program, A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland. Dr. Smith has received several grants in the area of team behavior and improving team environments for members of underrepresented student populations in engineering. She provides leadership in recruiting and retaining female engineering students for the college. Her current research focuses on engineering design teams and project management.Linda Schmidt, University of Maryland-College ParkPatricia

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Curricula of the Past, Present, and Future

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yvonne Ng, College of St. Catherine; Lori Maxfield, College of St. Catherine

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Educational Research and Methods

demand. The most salient feature of PCM rests in the multiple curricular configurations that result from the use of four interrelated and parallel designs for organizing curriculum: Core, Practice, Connections, and Identity. The four parallels offer opportunities to optimize student learning through the creation of a curriculum that is more meaningful, powerful, and engaging in the education of confident and competent engineering professionals. Projects presented at past ASEE conferences are innovative because they address specific parallels, thus fleshing out a student’s overall education. The PCM not only offers a way to see education as a whole, so as to identify the gaps, but also a way to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wenshen Pong; Tim Le, San Francisco State University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

. Page 11.476.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Development of Hands-on Experimentation Experience For Civil Engineering Design Courses At San Francisco State UniversityAbstractThis project will describe the revision of structural design courses, such as Reinforced ConcreteStructures and Steel Structures, at San Francisco State University’s School of Engineering, amajor undergraduate degree granting institution. Development of hands-on experience fordesign courses originated with and was supported by funding from the National ScienceFoundation to set up an integrated undergraduate structural engineering laboratory. It aims tohelp students maximizing learning through hands

Conference Session

Professional Development Programs for Teachers

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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M. David Burghardt, Hofstra University; Maryann Llewellyn, Uniondale School District

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. Page 11.558.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Engineering Effective Middle School Teacher Professional DevelopmentAbstractThe Math Science Technology Education Partnership (MSTP, 2003) is one of the NSF MSPtargeted projects that has as its primary mission the improvement of middle school mathematicsinstruction and student learning in mathematics, science, and technology education classes. It isthe only MSP project that uses engineering design as one of its key elements. The thesis of theproject was simple: with more instructional time devoted to mathematics, and with mathematicstaught with current pedagogical practice, student learning should improve. The MSTProfessional

Conference Session

The Senior Experience: Capstone and Beyond

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Large Seagrave

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Civil Engineering

curriculum capstone courses in Civil and other engineering disciplines attempt tofulfill a host of objectives. Most notably, they incorporate design projects and teamwork tofulfill specific criteria of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET).They provide their students with an opportunity for synthesis, employing the technical skills theyhave learned in the program, and introducing elements of professional practice that will easetheir integration into industry after graduation.In order to meet the needs industry has for young engineers, many universities have incorporatedmock corporate environments and real-world clients into the capstone course. Besides familiaritywith a team work environment and real clients, preparation for

Conference Session

Faculty Involvement in International Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jongwon Kim, Seoul National University; Dong Mok Kim, Seoul National University; Stefano Consiglio, Technical University of Berlin; Semih Severengiz, Technical University of Berlin; Guenther Seliger, Technical University of Berlin; Lalit Patil, University of Michigan; Debasish Dutta, University of Michigan

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International

necessary to determine almost every detail of the course,including the semester project, the associated lectures, project-relevant assignments, designreviews and overall grading strategies. The participating universities not only have differentsemester schedules, but also different guidelines and practices that pose significant challengesfor the participating faculty. However, the course has been successfully offered each year sinceits inception in Fall 2000 and on each campus there is a strong student demand for this course.The development of the initial content and format of this course took more than a year1,2,3. Thisis not uncommon for special courses. However, several issues have to be addressed in order tosustain such a course in the long

Conference Session

Achieving the Civil Engineering Body of Knowlegde

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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C. Conley, U.S. Military Academy; Decker Hains, U.S. Military Academy; Scott Hamilton, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

experience from reviewing student chapterand club annual reports from many schools over several years, from attending and observingnumerous Regional Student Conferences, from running Workshops for Student Chapter Leaders,from participating in Practitioner and Faculty Advisor Training Workshops, and finally fromserving as advisor for the USMA student chapter, the authors assess the contribution of studentgroups to attainment of Policy 465 outcomes.Through community service projects, field trips, guest speakers, organizing and running local,regional and in some cases national events, and through the leadership opportunities offered inthe ASCE student groups, civil engineering undergraduates can, and do, demonstrate that theyare developing the skills

Conference Session

Design in the BME Curriculum and ABET Assessment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John D. Gassert, Milwaukee School of Engineering; John Denis Enderle, University of Connecticut; Amy Lerner, University of Rochester; Samantha Jacques; Peter Katona, The Whitaker Foundation

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Biomedical

Page 11.412.3AbstractThe ABET Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs specifically requires design incriterion three and criterion four. These requirements stem from a fundamental need forengineers to understand and carry out the design process and the requirements areunlikely to change in the foreseeable future. ABET criteria do not allow substitution ofresearch for design in an engineering program. What is the difference between researchprojects and design projects and why doesn’t ABET allow the substitution? Theobjective of this paper is to review the rationale for the design requirement in the ABETcriteria; review the differences between design and research; and to propose questionsthat can be used to differentiate between a research

Conference Session

Ocean, Marine, and Coastal Engineering Topics

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Wood, Florida Tech; Brian Howell, Western Carolina University

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Ocean and Marine

EDUCATION AND TRAININGAbstractCombining teaching, research, and engagement has always been a goal of EngineeringTechnology faculty. Finding “real world” applications which can be implemented at theundergraduate level has always proved challenging as well. One method of achieving thisis to define an application area which can be managed by responsible faculty and whichcan be broken into small enough tasks to be suitable for completion by succeeding yearsof undergraduate students in their capstone design activity.At Western Carolina University and Florida Institute of Technology, a project has beenundertaken which is achieving many of these goals. The Kamikaze AutonomousUnderwater Vehicle (AUV) is currently under continuous

Conference Session

Modern Software Measurement Techniques

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tracey Windley, University of Idaho; Jasper Nance, University of Idaho; Kevin Buck, University of Idaho; Herbert Hess, University of Idaho

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Instrumentation

acquisition, data processing, and presentation, especially in a universitysetting. Memory fades and what may have made sense two months ago may have no meaningnow. Also the person processing the data or presenting it may not be the same person whorecorded it. Even worse, the person who recorded it may no longer be part of the project. Thesetime lapses and researcher discontinuities often result in situations where data could become lost,non-credible, or incomprehensible to other researchers. In university research this is a realproblem due the high turnover rate of researchers and inexperience in data acquisition. In summary, the three main problems encountered during data acquisition with

Conference Session

New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Phillip Sanger, Western Carolina University; Aaron Ball, Western Carolina University; Michael Clare, Western Carolina University; Chip Ferguson, Western Carolina University; John D. Graham, Western Carolina University

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Graduate Studies

Engineering and Technology at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina. He holds a B.S. and an M.S. from Appalachian State University, and earned his doctorate from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His areas of interests include fluid power, advanced machining, prototyping systems, and applied research.Michael Clare, Western Carolina University Michael Clare is a graduate student of Engineering Technology at Western Carolina University pursing a Masters of Science in Technology. He earned his B.S at Western Carolina University in 2004 and, at the time of this project, Mr. Clare was a senior in the Engineering Technology program.Chip Ferguson, Western Carolina

Conference Session

New trends in ECE education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Agnieszka Miguel, Seattle University

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Electrical and Computer

course to juniors provided our students with more choices in electiveofferings during the junior year, introduced them to an important topic that is not coveredin any of our other courses, and hopefully stimulated their interest in a new field and builttheir confidence in their knowledge. Since DIP is a topic of interest to students in boththe ECE and the CSSE departments, the course was also open to students from bothdepartments.Course StructureThere were no exams in this course. Students were given written homework assignments(20% of the course grade), computer projects (25%), and a final project (40%). Inaddition, students were graded on class participation based on the MATLAB diary oftheir in-class computer exercises (15%). Students were

Conference Session

Women & New Faculty Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology; Cory Hoffman, Rochester Institute of Technology; Melissa Zaczek, Rochester Institute of Technology

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New Engineering Educators

years both grading for the Materials Science course and teaching laboratories.Melissa Zaczek, Rochester Institute of Technology MELISSA A. ZACZEK is a student at Rochester Institute of Technology completing her BS and ME in Mechanical Engineering. Her Masters focus is project management with a concentration in business. Her undergraduate focus is bioengineering with an American Politics minor. Page 11.1160.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Student-Faculty PartnershipsAbstractOne of the biggest challenges facing new engineering faculty members is finding good

Conference Session

Capstone Courses II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Fernandez, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

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Systems Engineering Constituent Committee

Industry-Based Software ToolsIntroductionService learning or civic engagement is a goal being pursued by many institutions of higher education.This goal is addressed by computer science (CS) and information technology (IT) programs whichencourage or require some form of real world experience. However, students in computer science and inother science fields are not typically attracted by community or real world projects. Faculty and staff inthese disciplines have a responsibility to connect students with the community and the world that theywill support upon graduation. This paper describes a paradigm for community-based capstone coursesthat uses industry-sanctioned software engineering support tools. A discussion of the supportingpedagogical

Conference Session

Student Learning and Teamwork

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ahmed Khan, DeVry University-Addison; Gene Gloeckner, Colorado State University; George Morgan, Colorado State University

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Engineering Technology

) andstudent learning/success in terms of self reported technical competency (effect size ismedium-to-large). Student GPA failed to reveal any significant relationships with facultyteaching techniques. The recommendations based on the study suggest ways to improvefaculty development and training activities to promote student learning in the domains ofengineering technology.I. Purpose of the StudyThe purpose of this research project was to explore the relationship between students’perceptions of the importance of faculty teaching techniques and their self-reportedlearning and success. The research project addresses the following question: Are there associations between students’ perception of the importance of the faculty teaching

Conference Session

Design of Laboratory Experiments

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nebojsa Jaksic, Colorado State University-Pueblo

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

many books and articles on STM construction6 - 8, but they usually describeSTMs that are expensive and do not use off-the-shelf parts. While the academic literaturecontains some promising information, the Web is often a good choice for exploration ofcurrent projects. An extensive Web search revealed three promising projects (eitherunfinished, not achieving atomic resolution, or using obsolete parts) that were used as astarting point in our preliminary designs. While a successful STM project by Alexander9used very inexpensive components it required two laboratory signal generators and anoscilloscope for operation. It did not have a motorized final approach of the tip towardsthe sample and the data could not be recorded in a computer file

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

contribute to students' intellectual development and progress ? 4. How does the instructor respond to students' learning difficulties ? Does the teacher revise the teaching strategies to address such problems ? 5. What impact does this type of teaching have on students' life-long learning attitudes ? Are they able to “learn, how to learn.” Page 11.811.3 2A Ten-step ProcessOver the past several years, the Senior Design Project Course has evolved into avery powerful and productive component in the

Conference Session

FPD1 -- Implementing a First-Year Engineering Course

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Hagenberger, Valparaiso University; Barbara Engerer, Valparaiso University; Doug Tougaw, Valparaiso University

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First-Year Programs

of the different engineering disciplines necessary to select a major and, eventually, acareer. Courses at universities such as Vanderbilt2 and Purdue3 provide such backgroundknowledge, helping their students to make an informed decision about their choice of major.Frequently, such courses are designed in a modular structure, such that students can completedifferent modules and different hands-on projects based on their particular interests. Enablingstudents to make an informed choice of major was one of the most important learning objectivesof the first-semester engineering course at Valparaiso University until 2004, and it is still asecondary purpose of the course

Conference Session

FPD1 -- Implementing a First-Year Engineering Course

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susanne Wolf, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt; Manfred Hampe, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt

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First-Year Programs

, Germany, in 2001. From 2002 until now she works at the Didactic Center of Technische Universität Darmstadt. She is currently working on her doctorate which is part of a broad-based research project of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Her interests involve the development, introduction and evaluation of innovative teaching and learning methods as well as quality assurance. She is particularly interested in project-based courses that support the acquirement of soft skills. Page 11.701.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 How to provide first-year students with a really good

Conference Session

Software Engineering Teaching Methods and Practice

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric Durant, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

Requirements and Interdisciplinary WorkAbstractThe author discusses an interdisciplinary approach to helping students learn to write a systemrequirements specification (SRS). This approach has been refined during use over the last threeyears and involves students in the first quarter of their junior year. Software engineeringstudents enrolled in a required requirements course act as the requirements team over an eight-week period while biomedical engineering students who are ready to begin the requirementsphase of their capstone design project act as clients. Each of the requirements and client teamsconsists of four to six members. The experience was documented in ASEE conference papers inOctober of 20041 and June of 20052.Benefits of the process and

Conference Session

ChE: Curriculum Reform & Assessment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Froyd; Jean Layne, Texas A&M University; Lale Yurttas, Texas A&M University; David Ford, Texas A&M University

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Chemical Engineering

2006-1119: DESIGNING A PROCESS FOR DEPARTMENT CURRICULARREFORMJefferey Froyd, Texas A&M University Jeff Froyd is a Research Professor in the Center for Teaching Excellence and Director of Academic Development at Texas A&M University. He was Project Director for the Foundation Coalition, one of the NSF Engineering Education Coalitions and now serves as Project Director for “Changing Faculty through Learning Communities,” a project sponsored by the NSF Research on Gender in Science and Engineering Program.Jean Layne, Texas A&M University Jean Layne works as a Program Coordinator and Instructional Consultant in the Center for Teaching Excellence and the Division of

Conference Session

Energy Learning through Simulation and Analysis

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ilya Grinberg, Buffalo State College; Herbert L. Hess P.E., University of Idaho in Moscow; Frank Pietryga, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Page 11.900.4poorly employing subscripted variables. In every successful case, run times were less than 3seconds. The whole exercise was somewhat shorter in duration for efficient code writers, about2-4 hours, than for the 65% who wrote inefficient code, 6-25 hours.Electrical engineering technology (EET) students at Buffalo State were also assigned similar taskbut this was the first time such an assignment was given to them. Ten students were involved inthis project. Their mathematics background varied with three students just being transferred fromcommunity college and taking technical calculus concurrently with Power Systems 1 course.Several students did not take programming course yet. Five students were taking MATLAB®and MathCAD

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion and Conservation

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Radian Belu, Wayne State University; Alexandru Belu, Wayne State University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

. Distributed generation is considered to be thenew and more suitable approach to providing solutions for socio-economic energy problemsthat have taken on considerable importance as we move into the new millennium. Theenhanced efficiency, environmental friendliness, flexibility and scalability of the emergingtechnologies involved in distributed generation have put these systems at the forefront toprovide power generation for the future8-10. Overall, the potential efficiency of anyconfigurations of hybrid power systems has been estimated to be about 80% by a generalizedmodel13.1.2 Course DescriptionThe courses consist of lectures, fundamental design exercises, a mid-term exam in the eighthweek, and a design project due during the final exam week (the

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles Schreier, University of Dayton; Carl Eger, University of Dayton; Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton

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International

ETHOSprogram seeks to provide opportunities where students gain understanding of technology’sglobal linkage with values, culture, society, politics and economy.The ETHOS program facilitates curriculum integrated service- learning programming, includinginternational technical immersions, classroom projects, student organization activities, andindependent/collaborative research. Such opportunities expose students to alternative, non-traditional technologies that are based on fundamental science and engineering principles; thus,allowing higher comprehension of curriculum material in a hands-on, practical and humanitarianmanner. Further, these experiences support the facilitation of appropriate and sustainabletechnologies for the developing world, locally

Conference Session

Energy Laboratory Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Henry Foust, Nicholls State University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

article. Steps in this process include backgroundon understanding our energy needs, projected future needs, oil reserve estimates,and alternative energies; understanding the economics of energy; identifying vi-able alternatives; developing an argument for that viability; testing this argumentthrough lab work; presenting the argument, method, and results; and preparation Page 11.436.2of a research paper. The format of this research experience is a paid 12-week, 40-hour per a weekinternship. The breakdown of this internship is the following: 4 weeks of lectures, 1 2 weeks of developing a method to argue this thesis

Conference Session

EM Program Trend and Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Merino, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Engineering Management

Accounting; Financial Accounting; CostAccounting; Eng. Accounting; Financial Management; Managerial FinanceB. EconomicsTypical Course Names: Eng. Economics; Macro or Micro or Managerial Economics4. Project Related CoursesA. Project ManagementTypical Course Name: Project ManagementB. CapstoneTypical Course Names: Capstone; Special Projects Page 11.102.3Major Functional Definitions; Sub Fields; Typical Course Names – cont.5. Functional CoursesA. Functional Technical ManagementTypical Course Names: Operations Management; Quality Management;Engineering Management; R&D Management; Marketing ManagementB. Functional Business ManagementTypical Course Names: Marketing

Conference Session

K-12 Programs for Recruiting Women

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emma Seiler, Mississippi State University

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Women in Engineering

aprogram targeting past participants of Women in Action to continue their interest in science andengineering during high school. In 2001, the WISE Women program was introduced. It wasmodeled after the UFPME program, but shortened to one-week instead of two. Participants areintroduced to the ten engineering disciplines offered at Mississippi State University. They alsoparticipate in hands-on activities, with two major project competitions that are completedthroughout the week. Six to eight SWE student members act as counselors throughout the weekand faculty conduct and assist with activities and tours.Post-camp follow-up has shown that of the girls who are eligible to attend college, almost halfare currently in college. Of those, most are in an

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mel Cossette, Edmonds Community College; Thomas Stoebe, University of Washington; John Rusin, Edmonds Community College; Robert Mott, University of Dayton; Robert Simoneau, Keene State University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

2006-339: NATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER FOR MATERIALS TECHNOLOGYEDUCATIONMel Cossette, Edmonds Community CollegeThomas Stoebe, University of WashingtonJohn Rusin, Edmonds Community CollegeRobert Mott, University of DaytonRobert Simoneau, Keene State University Page 11.952.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006session number 1526The National Science Foundation has recently funded a project at Edmonds Community Collegethat will create a National Resource Center for Materials Technology Education. The objectiveof this project is to develop a clearinghouse of teaching materials for the broad field of materialstechnology. All materials considered for this Resource Center will

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhongming Liang, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

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Engineering Technology

course, we surprisingly foundout that much of the basic design knowledge had not been taught to the students when they cameto the course. In other words, when without this tool design course as in the past, students wentto the senior design course not fully prepared.The mechanical design sequence of the MET curriculum had a 3-credit CADD course onAutoCAD, another 3-credit CADD course on Solid Edge by UGS Corporation, a 3-creditmachine element design course, a 3-credit dynamics and mechanism course, and a 3-credit seniordesign course. The problem with the curriculum was, as found in teaching the tool design course,there was no design projects prior to the senior design. It has turned out that the tool designcourse, having a number of design

Conference Session

Improving ME instructional laboratories

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; James Mayhew, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Mechanical Engineering

2006-133: MECHANICAL MEASUREMENTS: REWRITING THE SCRIPTRichard Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Richard A. Layton earned his doctorate from the University of Washington in 1995 and is currently an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Layton worked for twelve years in consulting engineering, culminating as a group head and a project manager. His professional interests include physical systems theory for modeling and simulation of dynamic systems and curriculum development and lab development in mechanical engineering.James Mayhew, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology James E. Mayhew received his