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FPD3 -- Professional Issues for First-Year Courses

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sven Bilen, Pennsylvania State University; Beverly Jaeger, Northeastern University

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First-Year Programs

Design and Electrical Engineering at Penn State. His educational research interests include developing techniques for enhancing engineering design education, teaching technological entrepreneurship, and global product design. He is course chair for ED&G 100: Introduction to Engineering Design. He is member of IEEE, AIAA, AGU, ASEE, URSI, and Sigma Xi. Page 11.1315.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 The One-Minute Engineer: Getting Design Class out of the Starting Blocks Beverly K. Jaeger* and Sven G. Bilén

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Teaching Design

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carolyn Conner Seepersad; Matthew Green, LeTourneau University; Kathy Schmidt, University of Texas-Austin

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Design in Engineering Education

2006-1122: LEARNING JOURNALS AS A CORNERSTONE FOR EFFECTIVEEXPERIENTIAL LEARNING IN UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING DESIGNCOURSESCarolyn Seepersad, University of Texas-Austin CAROLYN CONNER SEEPERSAD is an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her PhD in mechanical engineering in 2004 from the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology as a Hertz Fellow and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. She received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from West Virginia University in 1996, a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 1998

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Convergence of Quality Assurance Systems Around the Globe

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marcia Friesen, University of Manitoba; Myron (Ron) Britton, University of Manitoba

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International

Ecole Polytechnique, Programmes de Perfectionnement en Ingénierie des Diplômés en Génie de L’Etranger, available at www.polymtl.ca/etudes/cfc/cheminement/integration.php11 Calgary Catholic Immigration Society, Engineering and Technology Upgrading Program, available at www.ccis-calgary.ab.ca/engineering_program.html12 Career Bridge Internships for Internationally Qualified Professionals, available at www.careeredge.ca13 Options, available at www.options-engineering.ca14 R.A. Malatest & Associates Ltd., Aboriginal Peoples and Post-Secondary Education: What Educators have Learned, Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation, 2004.15 Unruh, D.J., University of Manitoba Access Programs, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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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

; • across locations; • across cultures; • through varied perspectives; Page 11.1316.9 • as impacted by various conditions including social, economic, technological, political; and • by examining links between concepts and development of the discipline. 20, p. 25By requiring students to become aware of engineers’ impacts on society, to be skilled in workingin teams, to communicate orally and in writing, and to behave ethically, ABET is pushing thetraditional engineering curriculum to include the curriculum of Connections. Criterion 3 listsmany examples of how ABET requires the curriculum of Connection to be more

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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

for senior students who wish toconduct experimental tests for their Engineering Design Project (Engr 696/697). Enhancementsto senior projects as a result of this proposal have six objectives: (1) to develop an understandingof and facilitate intuition about the fundamentals of structural behavior; (2) to reinforcetheoretical concepts through hands-on exercise, experiment and demonstration; (3) to introducestudents to emerging technology in the structural engineering field; (4) to increase theirunderstanding of structural engineering design concepts for different structural materials; (5) toprepare them for the design challenges of the future by addressing contemporary civilengineering problems and solutions; and (6) to improve their technical

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Digital System Design

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sin Ming Loo, Boise State University

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Electrical and Computer

2006-275: ON THE USE OF A SOFT PROCESSOR CORE IN COMPUTERENGINEERING EDUCATIONSin Ming Loo, Boise State University Page 11.972.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 On the Use of a Soft Processor Core in Computer Engineering Education AbstractThe microprocessor course at most universities has traditionally been taught using a discretemicroprocessor such as the Motorola 6800 series, Intel x86 series, or IBM PowerPC series. With thecontinued increase of usable field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) gates and improvement of off-the-shelf soft processor core computer-aided design (CAD) tools, this practice is beginning to

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments and Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles Neuman, Queensborough Community College; David Lieberman, Queensborough Community College; Don Engelberg, Queensborough Community College; Alex Flamholz, Queensborough Community College; Paul Marchese, Queensborough Community College; George Tremberger, Queensborough Community College; Tak Cheung, Queensborough Community College

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition3. M. Reiner, J. D. Slotta, M. Chi and L. B. Resnick “ Naïve physics reasoning: a commitment to substance-basedconceptions,” Cognition and Instruction, Vol. 18, pp1-43, 20004. S. M. Jeter, “A hand tool for convenient error propagation analysis: a user form for error influence coefficient”,Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 11.1328.95. F. A. Di Bella and A. Chamarro, III, “Optimizing thermal energy storage for cogeneration applications: a facultyand engineering technology student collaboration

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ECE Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lihong (Heidi) Jiao, Grand Valley State University

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Electrical and Computer

2006-928: A SOLID-STATE MATERIALS AND DEVICES COURSE FORSOPHOMORE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING STUDENTSLihong (Heidi) Jiao, Grand Valley State University Lihong (Heidi) Jiao, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Padnos College of Engineering and Computing at Grand Valley State University. She received her B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. from Nankai University, China and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University. Her interests include semiconductor device fabrication, nanotechnologies and fiber optics. Page 11.120.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 An

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FPD2 -- Highlighting First-Year Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristin Wilhelm, University of Virginia; Benjamin Kidd, University of Virginia; P. Paxton Marshall, University of Virginia

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First-Year Programs

: AnAgenda for American Science and Technology, 2006,http://darwin.nap.edu/books/0309100399/html2. National Academy of Engineering, “The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in theNew Century”, National Academies Press, 2004, http://www.nap.edu/books/0309091624/html/3. National Academy of Engineering “Educating the Engineer of 2020: Adapting EngineeringEducation to the New Century”, Committee on the Engineer of 2020, Phase II, Committee onEngineering Education, National Academies Press, (2005)http://www.nap.edu/books/0309096499/html/, Page 11.1330.9

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Advancing Manufacturing Education Through Outreach and Collaboration

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dave Kim, Washington State University-Vancouver; Jan Jewett, Washington State University-Vancouver

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Manufacturing

learned, moretime and money should be allocated for this type of project. The engineering studentsneeded to practice communicating more frequently and effectively with CDP staff, andassessment tools should be carefully designed to probe for evidence of intended studentlearning outcomes.5. References[1] Chan Wirashinghe, “Engineering Education for Leadership in the 21st Centry,” In theProceedings of the Technological Education and National Development Conference,“Crossroads of the New Millennium” April 8-10, 2000, Abu Dhabi, United ArabEmirates.[2] Donna C.S. Summers, Charlie P. Edmonson, “Are We Asking Our Students to DoToo Many Projects?,” Proc. 2004 ASEE Annual Conf., Session 2249, CD-ROM, 9 pages,June 2004, Salt Lake City, UT.[3] Vladimir

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FPD2 -- Highlighting First-Year Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marc Christensen, Southern Methodist University; David Willis, Southern Methodist University; Scott Douglas, Southern Methodist University

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First-Year Programs

the digitization ofpopular audio and visual media—such a decline is both surprising and detrimental to thelong-term sustenance of our modern technology-driven society.Addressing this decline in engineering enrollments is likely to require a multi-facetedapproach to recruitment, retention, and graduation of engineering students. Recruitingstrategies in the precollege arena include 1) robotics competitions such as FIRST andBEST, and 2) educational programs such as Project Lead-the-Way, The Infinity Project,and Cisco Academies, which introduce and bring awareness of engineering principles andopportunities to young people in the classroom. These efforts set the stage for curricularchanges at the college level, as students who are intrigued by

Conference Session

FPD6 -- Early Intervention & Retention Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cindy Foor, University of Oklahoma; Susan Walden, University of Oklahoma; Tyler Combrink, University of Oklahoma; Lindsey McClure, University of Oklahoma; Deborah Trytten, University of Oklahoma

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First-Year Programs

have identified peer adviceas more valued by students than advice from formal sources.7 Students are, in some sense, morequalified than formal sources to give advice to undergraduate science, technology, engineering,and mathematics (STEM) students. Many counselors and advisors were not STEM studentsduring their undergraduate program. Faculty, while more often STEM students asundergraduates, are likely to have been elite students, who underestimate the challenges facingthe average student.The advice expressed by our 185 interviewees, most of whom are upper division, derives fromtheir actual lived experiences, reflecting on the challenges they have faced in the context ofsuccessfully negotiating an engineering curriculum. Most perceptions of

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nadia Kellam, University of South Carolina; Veronica Addison, University of South Carolina; Michelle Maher, University of South Carolina; Mann Llewellyn, University of Queensland; David Radcliffe, University of Queensland; Walter Peters, University of South Carolina

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Educational Research and Methods

Laboratory for Sustainable Solutions. Her research interests include sustainable design, the built environment, complex systems and engineering education.Michelle Maher, University of South Carolina MICHELLE MAHER is Assistant Professor of Higher Education Administration. Her research interests include undergraduate student development, the use of technology in educational settings, and educational research methodology.Mann Llewellyn, University of Queensland LLEWELLYN MANN is a PhD student in the School of Engineering at the University of Queensland and a member of the Catalyst Research Centre for Society and Technology. He has a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical & Space) and a Bachelor of

Conference Session

Innovative Laboratories in BME

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Markus Billeter, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Institute for Biomedical; Grace M. Nijm, Northwestern University; Bugrahan Yalvac, Northwestern University; Alan Sahakian, Northwestern University

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Biomedical

2006-1950: A LABORATORY DEMONSTRATION OF SPATIAL ENCODING INMRIMarkus Billeter, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Institute for BiomedicalEngineering MARKUS BILLETER is a MS student in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He is currently working on his Master Thesis at Northwestern University which is the last step to receive his MS degree.Grace M. Nijm, Northwestern University GRACE M. NIJM earned her B.S. in Computer Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 2004 and her B.S. in Computer Science from Benedictine University in the same year. In 2005, she was awarded the NSF Graduate Research

Conference Session

Capstone Courses I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul Leiffer, LeTourneau University; Roger Gonzalez, LeTourneau University; Thomas Hellmuth, LeTourneau University

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Systems Engineering Constituent Committee

2006-401: INTERDISCIPLINARY DESIGN TEAMS - LESSONS LEARNED FROMEXPERIENCEPaul Leiffer, LeTourneau University PAUL R. LEIFFER, PhD,PE Paul R. Leiffer is a professor in the School of Engineering and Engineering Technology at LeTourneau University, where he has taught since 1979. He is currently co-developer of the program in BioMedical Engineering. He received his B.S.E.E. from the State University of New York at Buffalo and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Drexel University. Prior to joining the faculty at LeTourneau, he was involved in cardiac cell research at the University of Kansas Medical Center. His professional interests include bioinstrumentation, digital signal

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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

Capstone Design I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark W. Steiner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Richard Smith, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Design in Engineering Education

conclude with thoughts on some of the majorlessons learned and what the future may hold for clinical real world design experiences inengineering education.The Current SituationEngineering is an increasingly difficult profession to define. We broadly considerourselves problem solvers. We are responsible for many of the technological marvelsthat people use everyday, yet many people do not understand or appreciate theengineering profession. In fact, even prospective engineering students are often at a losswhen asked about what engineers do. Earlier, during their secondary education, they mayhave been enthused by what technology has to offer, but upon entering a university tostudy and ultimately learn how to practice engineering they are often unsure

Conference Session

Design Projects

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Schultz, University of North Dakota; William Semke, University of North Dakota; Douglas Olsen, University of North Dakota; Arnold Johnson, University of North Dakota; Ofer Beeri, University of North Dakota; George Seielstad, University of North Dakota

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Design in Engineering Education

2006-527: SATELLITES, UAVS, AND GROUND-BASED WIRELESS SENSORNETWORKS: LESSONS LEARNED FROM AN REU SITE IN ENVIRONMENTALSENSOR DEVELOPMENTRichard Schultz, University of North Dakota Dr. Richard R. Schultz is associate professor and interim chair of electrical engineering at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. He received the B.S.E.E. degree from UND in 1990, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Notre Dame in 1992 and 1995, respectively. Dr. Schultz joined the UND faculty in 1995, and his teaching and research interests are in signal and image processing, embedded systems, technology entrepreneurship, and systems engineering.William Semke, University of North

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Topical Public Policy Issues

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Frank Barnes, University of Colorado-Boulder

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Engineering and Public Policy

Award, Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Electron Device Society, the 2002 ECE Distinguished Educator Award from ASEE, The Colorado Institute of Technology Catalyst Award 2004, and the Bernard M. Gordon Prize from National Academy of Engineering for Innovations in Engineering Education 2004 He was born in Pasadena, California in 1932 and attended numerous elementary schools throughout the country. He and his wife, Gay, have two children and two grandchildren Page 11.173.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 EDUCATING OUR ENGINEERS FOR GLOBAL COMPETITIONAbstract.With the

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Capstone Courses II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Donohue, University of Virginia; Garrick Louis, University of Virginia; William Scherer, University of Virginia; Michael C. Smith, University of Virginia; K. Preston White, Jr., Jr., University of Virginia; Peter Beling, University of Virginia

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Systems Engineering Constituent Committee

operations management techniques. He is currently the Executive Director of the Accelerated Master's Program for the Department of Systems and Information Engineering. He is a member of IIE and INFORMS.K. Preston White, Jr., University of Virginia K. Preston White, Jr. received the B.S.E., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Duke University, Durham, NC. He is Professor of Systems and Information Engineering, Co-Director of the University of Virginia Institute for Microelectronics, and Director of the Semiconductor Manufacturing Information Technology Center. His research interests include the modeling, simulation, and control of discrete-event systems. He is the editor or associate editor of

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Design for Manufacture and Industry

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Betsy Aller, Western Michigan University; Alamgir Choudhury, Western Michigan University; James Kamman, Western Michigan University; Jorge Rodriguez, Western Michigan University; Mohammed Elsamawal, Western Michigan University; Michael Desjardins, Western Michigan University

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Design in Engineering Education

2006-2382: INDUSTRY-SPONSORED DESIGN COMPETITION: OPPORTUNITIESAND CHALLENGES FOR A CAPSTONE SENIOR DESIGN PROJECTBetsy Aller, Western Michigan University Dr. Betsy M. Aller has a Ph.D. and M.S in Rhetoric and Technical Communication from Michigan Technological University. She coordinates senior capstone design and teaches technical communication and industrial management courses in the Department of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering at Western Michigan University. Dr. Aller’s research interests include professional development of students in the engineering workplace, assessment and evaluation of ABET criterion and STEM-related experiences for women and minorities.Alamgir

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carla Zoltowski, Purdue University; William Oakes, Purdue University; Barrett Myers, Purdue University

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Design in Engineering Education

Engineering Education Excellence Award He is a past-chair of the ASEE IL/IN Section, and board member of Freshman Programs and Educational Research Methods Divisions.Barrett Myers, Purdue University Barrett Myeters is a masters student in Computer Programming Technology. He received his B.S in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky in 2004. He is currently a graduate assistant with the EPICS Program at Purdue University. Page 11.941.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Multi-Campus Collaborations among Undergraduate Design Teams: Opportunities and

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Capstone Design II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Juri Filatovs, North Carolina A&T State University; Devdas Pai, North Carolina A&T State University

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Design in Engineering Education

final measure of their success lies in the future in the way they developtheir careers and is unforeseeable, and therefore they require skills which will sustain them for along time. These include the establishment of habits and methods for picking up needed newskills, and remaining current in their profession. They need to understand that there is continualerosion of their worth, driven by the new technology which engineers advance. They must haveinformation gathering skills, how to obtain information on current technology throughout theircareers.3) Management Skills: Professionals must be able to set goals, plan, and deploy, and manageresources. They must understand risk analysis, costing, legal/regulatory issues, and ethics.4) Technical

Conference Session

Design Projects

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hansen Lukman, Bucknell University; Steven Shooter, Bucknell University; Fabrice Alizon, Bucknell University; Asli Sahin, Virginia Tech; Robert Stone, University of Missouri-Rolla; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Tech; Timothy Simpson, Pennsylvania State University; Soundar Kumara, Pennsylvania State University

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Design in Engineering Education

Professional Engineer, he also actively engages in industrial projects that involve product development or the development of product realization infrastructure. He received his BSME (1988), MSME (1990), Ph.D. (1995) from Virginia Tech. He has been a Process Engineer for Sony Music Corporation, a Faculty Fellow at NIST, and a Visiting Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.Fabrice Alizon, Bucknell University Fabrice Alizon is a post-doc at Bucknell University. His research interests include product platform design, manufacturing design and mass customization. Alizon has a MS and a PhD in industrial engineering from Ecole Centrale Paris (France). He spent five years

Conference Session

Tools and Support for Software Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ben Garbers, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse; Kasi Periyasamy, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

2006-227: A LIGHT-WEIGHT TOOL FOR TEACHING THE DEVELOPMENTAND EVALUATION OF REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENTSBen Garbers, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Ben Garbers has been working with IBM, Rochester, MN for 6 years where he had experience with software requirements gathering, design, development and testing. His technological expertise includes Java applications, dynamic web applications and artificial intelligent applications. Ben is a graduate student in the Master of Software Engineering program at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse. Currently he is a first line manager of an internal build tools department at IBM.Kasi Periyasamy, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Kasi Periyasamy is a

Conference Session

Tools and Support for Software Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jiacun Wang, Monmouth University; Daniel Ghiringhelli, Monmouth University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

2006-1854: REAL-TIME SYSTEMS SCHEDULING TOOL DEVELOPMENTDaniel Ghiringhelli, Monmouth University Daniel Ghiringhelli is completing his Masters in Software Engineering from Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ. He received his BS in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken NJ in August, 2002. His research interests include ubiquitous computing, home theater system automation, software and network security.Jiacun Wang, Monmouth University Jiacun Wang received the PhD in computer engineering from Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST), China, in 1991. He is currently an associate professor of the software engineering department at Monmouth

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gregory Davis, Kettering University; Craig Hoff, Kettering University

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Design in Engineering Education

engineers are expected to know in industry.2 Engineers inindustry spend much time working on complex system integration, yet few engineeringgraduates understand this process.3 Reference 2 adds “the state of education in this country,especially in science, engineering and technology, has become a matter of increasing concern tomany of us in American industry.”The new ABET requirements support a renewed emphasis on teaching the practice ofengineering. In part, this reform was undertaken in order to help academia to become moreresponsive to the needs of industry. By working to emphasize engineering practice, engineeringprograms are actually working to meet ABET requirements. However, meeting ABETrequirements is now not the goal in and of itself, but

Conference Session

Design Projects

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Todd Taylor, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Kurt Colella, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; William Simpson, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Design in Engineering Education

2006-371: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO A ONE-SEMESTER SHIP DESIGNEXPERIENCE AT USCGATodd Taylor, U.S. Coast Guard AcademyKurt Colella, U.S. Coast Guard Academy CAPT Colella joined the USCGA faculty in 1988. He earned his B.S. in Ocean Engineering from USCGA in 1981. He received MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985. In 1997 he earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Connecticut. He has been a registered Professional Engineer in the State of New Hampshire since 1991. At the Coast Guard Academy, he has taught a variety of courses in ship design, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven Beyerlein, University of Idaho; Denny Davis, Washington State University; Phillip Thompson, Seattle University; Michael Trevisan, Washington State University; Olakunle Harrison, Tuskegee University

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Design in Engineering Education

. Page 11.249.5No matter what stage of development an individual is in, expert profiles raise the bar on one’sperformance. They inspire novices to accept the challenge of purposefully elevating personalskills. They help teachers prioritize, communicate, and facilitate learning outcomes that arealigned with long-term behaviors within the profession/discipline. They remind even the mosttalented professionals that there are multiple dimensions of professional practice and thatongoing personal development in all dimensions is needed to stay abreast of new knowledge,technology, and ever increasing societal challenges. The engineering profile can be a unifyingforce in the engineering community, encouraging all members (learners, teachers

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Design for Community and Environment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Green, LeTourneau University; Julie Linsey, University of Texas-Austin; Carolyn Conner Seepersad; Kathy Schmidt; Kristin Wood, University of Texas-Austin

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Design in Engineering Education

global design occurs when engineers in affluent societies create life-improving designsfor use in high human-need environments, such as the human-powered Freeplay Radio initiallytargeted at rural African customers. (A case study of the Freeplay Radio design is given byCagan and Vogel10). Another example is the “robust, fully articulating dental chair and battery-operated hand piece, all in a package you can comfortably carry on your back” developed by theUS-based Indigenous People’s Technology & Education Center (I-TEC) to enable dental care inremote regions11. One of the top business books of 2004, “The Fortune at the Bottom of thePyramid” makes the case that “the world's poor [are] potential customers …” and that everyonewill benefit when