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Capstone Design & Project Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Green, LeTourneau University; Paul Leiffer, LeTourneau University; Thomas Hellmuth, LeTourneau University; Roger Gonzalez, LeTourneau University; Stephen Ayers, LeTourneau University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

@letu.edu.Paul Leiffer, LeTourneau University Dr. Paul R. Leiffer is a professor in the School of Engineering and Engineering Technology at LeTourneau University and chair of the Engineering Department, where he has taught since 1979. He is 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 processing, and engineering ethics. Email: paulleiffer@letu.eduThomas

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Aspirational Visions of Civil Engineering in 2025 & Policy 465

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald Welch, The University of Texas-Tyler; Michael Robinson, Rose-Hulman Institute; Charles Glagola, University of Florida; James Nelson, University of Texas-Tyler

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Civil Engineering

recognized excellence in the academic community. ‚ The history of these institutions generally indicates that they earned their reputations for educating engineers at the undergraduate level; research emphasis ordinarily came later as the programs developed, and as scientific and technological advances dictated the need for more research within the academic community. ‚ Comprehensive doctoral programs usually have considerably larger and more comprehensive laboratory facilities. ‚ Many of comprehensive doctoral programs actively engage undergraduates involvement in research ‚ Undergraduate class sections at comprehensive doctoral institutions tend to be larger. The

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Introducing Active and Inductive Learning and Improving the Learning Curve in ME

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Olga Pierrakos, Virginia Tech; John Charonko, Virginia Tech; Alicia Williams, Virginia Tech; Satyaprakash Karri, Virginia Tech; Kelley Stewart, Virginia Tech; Pavlos Vlachos, Virginia Tech

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Mechanical Engineering

engineering and encouraging the students to engage in hands-on research. The progression of research transfer through the different levels of engineering education is illustrated in Figure 1. At the end of this development ladder, we find the future - interdisciplinary engineers who are leaders in industry, technology, and academia. In this effort, via research transfer and examples, another goal is the recruitment of middle school and high school students and the retention of freshman engineers. Recruiting and retention can be increased by creating awareness and improving the image and perceptions of engineering during the early educational stages. This goal will be accomplished by navigating the students through the maze of engineering fields using

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Engineering Ethics and Global Issues

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Hoernecke, Iowa State University; Thad Gillispie, Iowa State University; Benjamin Anderson, Iowa State University; Thomas Daniels, Iowa State University

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Engineering Ethics

AC 2007-2158: THE ROLE OF INFORMATION WARFARE IN INFORMATIONASSURANCE EDUCATION: A LEGAL AND ETHICAL PERSPECTIVEAndrew Hoernecke, Iowa State UniversityThad Gillispie, Iowa State UniversityBenjamin Anderson, Iowa State UniversityThomas Daniels, Iowa State University Page 12.1462.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 The Role of Information Warfare in Information Assurance Education: A Legal and Ethical PerspectiveAbstractTypically, information assurance (IA) professionals utilize information warfare (IW) techniqueslearned in professional development courses when performing vulnerability and securityassessments. With cyber crime on the rise

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IE Program Design I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Batson, University of Alabama

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Industrial Engineering

program, and certainly feasible for any engineering program.IntroductionThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) has adopted as its motto“Quality Assurance in Engineering, Computing, and Technology Education.” ABET’s Page 12.102.2Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC 2000)1 was used voluntarily in accreditation visits starting withthe Fall 1998 visit cycle, with full implementation in Fall 2001. The Department of IndustrialEngineering (IE) at The University of Alabama (UA) was one of the programs visited in Fall2001, though curriculum and assessment changes here literally began immediately after theprevious ABET visit in October 1995

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Meeting ABET Requirements

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bobby Crawford, USMA

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Mechanical Engineering

achieving USMA’s Engineering and Technology outcomes. The author developed amethod to identify the graded events that supported each of the course’s objectives, determinehow well they supported those objectives, and then link objective achievement to the USMAlevel outcomes through a subjective pair-wise comparison of the course objectives. Positivefeedback from faculty in the ME program led to expansion of this process to capture the studentperformance data and faculty input from all ME program courses and feed this into a programlevel assessment. The resulting evaluation combines the strengths of objective evaluation (basedon graded events) and subjective evaluation (based on faculty experience).This paper describes the motivation for developing

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Environmental Engineering Curricula II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado at Boulder

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Environmental Engineering

AC 2007-812: SOLID AND HAZARDOUS WASTE COURSES TARGETED TO THEDEVELOPING WORLDAngela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado at Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado - Boulder (CU) in the Department of Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering. She is the Director of the multi-disciplinary Environmental Engineering Program, which offers an ABET-accredited B.S. degree. Bielefeldt is also active in the Engineering for Developing Communities (EDC) Program at CU. Page 12.1288.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Solid

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Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mahmoud Quweider, University of Texas-Brownsville; Juan Iglesias, University of Texas-Brownsville; Amajd Zaim, University of Texas-Brownsville

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

and continues in the senior imaging and graphics courses.In the new age of IPods, PlayStations, and Xboxes, it is hard to ignore the affinity young studentshave for 3-D action-based and visually intense games; so rather than villainizing games andostracizing their use, we aim instead at using that inherent fondness of the games to the students’advantage by relating key computer, engineering, and mathematical concepts to the fundamentalway games operate. By adhering to the guidelines and recommendations set forth by the ACMEand the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) Technology Criteria 2000for the Computer Science and Engineering programs, the CS/CIS department at our universityhas continually modified and enhanced

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Meeting ABET Requirements

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Ward, California State University-Chico

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Mechanical Engineering

in the 21st century. Regional accreditation agencies as well as theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) are highlighting the importance ofassessing student learning outcomes. Problems encountered with early EC2000 assessmentprograms were noted in a study initiated by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers(ASME) titled Initial Assessment of the Impact of ABET/EC2000 Implementation UsingMechanical Engineering Programs as the Pilot Study Group 1. That study lauded the extensiveinitial involvement of faculty in defining educational objectives, and the participation of programAdvisory Boards to name a few. It also noted the shortcomings of certain assessmenttechniques, the failure of initial employer survey methods, and

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Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeff Frolik, University of Vermont; Frederic Sansoz, University of Vermont; Donna Rizzo, University of Vermont; Adel Sadek, University of Vermont

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

engineering disciplines (civil, electrical, environmental and mechanical) and computerscience.Curricular Enhancements Our efforts to utilize wireless sensors for hands-on activities began in 2004 with our first-year, engineering design course. More recently, upper level courses have been developed andrevised to incorporate this technology. In addition, new courses are in development that willutilize wireless sensor hardware. Table 1 summarizes these courses which are detailed in theremainder of this paper. Table 1. UVM courses impacted by wireless sensor use Year Course Status Students Sensor Implementation Discipline per year First-year

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Preparing Civil Engineering Students for a Flat World

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott Hamilton, U.S. Military Academy; Fred Meyer, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

possible, with their two-year programs.11. U.S. engineering schools must develop programs to encourage/reward domestic engineering students to aspire to the M.S. and/or Ph.D. degree.12. Engineering schools should lend their energies to a national effort to improve math, Page 12.903.4 science, and engineering education at the K-12 level. 13. The engineering education establishment should participate in a coordinated national effort to promote public understanding of engineering and technology literacy of the public. 14. NSF should collect and/or fund collection, perhaps through ASEE or the Engineering Workforce

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Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jason Yao, East Carolina University; Loren Limberis, East Carolina University; Paul Kauffmann, East Carolina University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2007-336: AN ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS COURSE IN A GENERALENGINEERING PROGRAMJason Yao, East Carolina University Jianchu (Jason) Yao received a B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Shaanxi university of Science and Technology, China, in 1992 and 1995, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Kansas State University in 2005. Dr. Yao joined East Carolina University as an Assistant Professor in August, 2005. Prior to this appointment, he served as a Research Engineer in China from 1995 to 2001. His research interests include wearable medical devices, telehealthcare, bioinstrumentation, control systems, and biosignal processing. His educational research

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Improving ME Education: Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Duffy, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Cheryl West, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; John McKelliget, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Eugene Niemi, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Sammy Shina, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Hongwei Sun, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Chris Niezrecki, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Robert Parkin, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Majid Charmchi, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Peter Avitabile, University of Massachusetts Lowell

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Mechanical Engineering

-LCoordinator, for help making community contacts; and graduate students Manuel Herediaand Eric Morgan for assistance with data collection and analysis.References1. Jacoby, B., and Assoc. (1996). Service learning in higher education. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.2. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology [ABET] (2005). Criteria for accreditingengineering programs – Effective for evaluations during the 2005-2006 accreditation cycle. RetrievedJanuary 17, 2006, from: http://www.abet.org3. Brandenberger, J.W. (1998). Developmental psychology and service-learning: A theoretical framework(p. 68). In R. Bringle and D. Duffy (Eds.), With service in mind: Concepts and models for service-learningin psychology. Washington, DC: American Association of

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What's New in Dynamics?

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jiang Zhou; Paul Corder, Lamar University; Kendrick Aung, Lamar University

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2007-2577: TEACHING OF DYNAMIC SYSTEMS WITH INTEGRATEDANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL TECHNIQUESJenny Zhou, Lamar University JIANG ZHOU is currently an assistant professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas. She received her Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland at Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, Maryland, in May 2003. Her research interests include mechanical applications in microelectronics, biomechanics, system dynamics, and system optimizations, etc.Paul Corder, Lamar University Professor Paul Corder received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University. Before joining academia

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Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edward Perry, University of Memphis

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2007-989: THE IMPACT OF ONLINE LECTURE NOTES ON LEARNINGOUTCOMESEdward Perry, University of Memphis Edward H. Perry is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Memphis, where he has served on the faculty since 1970. He received his university's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1977 and again in 2000. He also received the Herff College of Engineering's Outstanding Teaching Award in 1999. He is currently Co-Editor of the MERLOT Engineering Editorial Board and Co-Editor of the MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching. He received his B.S. (1966), M.S. (1967) and Ph.D. (1970) in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology

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Capstone Design & Project Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Smith, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Tracy N Schierenbeck, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Linda McCloskey, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

leadership in the last decade include the evolution of theglobal workforce, the influence of information technology on the interaction among virtual teams,and the recognition that understanding of ethical implications of engineering is paramount tolong-term professional development.The idea to formalize activities related to student leadership at Rensselaer actually was initiatedby the Rensselaer Union, which is the self-supporting and self-governing student organizationthat controls, finances, and organizes student activities on the campus. In 1988, the ExecutiveBoard of the Union proposed to the Vice President for Student Affairs that Rensselaer form aCenter for Student Leadership Development on the campus. Early activities focused onleadership

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IE Curriculum Design

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Emanuel, Bradley University; H. Dan Kerns, Bradley University

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Industrial Engineering

AC 2007-2246: INDUSTRY-BASED CAPSTONE DESIGN PROJECTS: YOU CAN'TSELL THE SOLUTION IF YOU CAN'T COMMUNICATEJoseph Emanuel, Bradley University Joseph T. Emanuel hold a BS in Math from the University if New Mexico and MS and PhD degrees in Engineering Psychology from The Ohio State University. He is Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Associate Dean of the College of Engineering and Technology. He has coordinated the IMET Department capstone design course since 1975. Among his awards are both the Engineering College and the University awards for teaching and the University award for public service. He also has received the student senate award for academic advising.H. Dan

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What's New in Dynamics?

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Benjamin Liaw, City College of the City University of New York; Ioana Voiculescu, City College of the City University of New York

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Mechanical Engineering

, toassess results, and to communicate with others effectively. As an evidence, the reform result isvery encouraging. The score of the internal ABET course survey of the course has shown drasticimprovement.1. IntroductionThe study of System Dynamics and Control requires a genuine multi-disciplinary approach tointegrate principles in various engineering disciplines (mechanical, electrical, computer,information technology, etc.) to develop optimal strategy for solving a contemporary engineeringproblem. Many educators have developed various forms of pedagogy for the improvement ofteaching-and-learning of this important subject1-10. This paper presents part of results of therecent NSF-funded departmental-level undergraduate curriculum reform at the

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Outstanding Contributions to ME

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hakan Gurocak, Washington State University-Vancouver

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2007-150: MECHATRONICS COURSE WITH A TWO-TIERED PROJECTAPPROACHHakan Gurocak, Washington State University-Vancouver Hakan Gurocak is Director of School of Engineering and Computer Science and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Washington State University Vancouver. His research interests are robotics, automation, fuzzy logic, technology assisted distance delivery of laboratory courses and haptic interfaces for virtual reality. Page 12.1052.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Mechatronics Course with a Two-tiered Project ApproachAbstract - In this paper, we present a

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Effective Tools for Teaching Engineering Economy

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Ryan, Iowa State University; John Jackman, Iowa State University; Rahul Marathe, Iowa State University; Pavlo Antonenko, Iowa State University; Piyamart Kumsaikaew, Iowa State University; Dale Niederhauser, Iowa State University; Craig Ogilvie, Iowa State University

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Engineering Economy

engineering problem solving process, computer simulation, web-based immersive learning environments, and data acquisition and control.Rahul Marathe, Iowa State University Rahul Marathe is a post-doc with the department of Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering at Iowa State University with research interests in the theory and applications of stochastic processes. He is an instructor for the engineering economic analysis course involved in implementing the project.Pavlo Antonenko, Iowa State University Pavlo Antonenko is a doctoral candidate in Curriculum and Instructional Technology, and in Human-Computer Interaction at Iowa State University. In this project he is responsible for

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Improving ME Education: Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laila Guessous, Oakland University; Qian Zou, Oakland University; Brian Sangeorzan, Oakland University; Xia Wang, Oakland University; Chris Kobus, Oakland University; Gary Barber, Oakland University; Alex Alkidas, Oakland University; Michael Latcha, Oakland University

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Mechanical Engineering

on automotive research. The Automotive Research and IndustrialMentorship (ARIM) REU program at Oakland University 1 aims to engage participants inrewarding automotive research experiences that excite and motivate them to pursue careers inscientific and engineering research, and seeks to address the nationwide problem of the under-representation of women and minorities in the sciences, technology, engineering andmath (STEM).The automotive focus of this program was a natural choice given OU’s close ties to and locationnear the world headquarters and engineering centers of the Big-Three automakers, as well asover one hundred automotive suppliers in southeast Michigan. So, in the summer of 2006, tenundergraduate engineering students from across

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Preparing Civil Engineering Students for a Flat World

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Ledlie Klosky; Stephen Ressler, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

AC 2007-2123: THE REMOTE CLASSROOM – ASYNCHRONOUS DELIVERY OFENGINEERING COURSES TO A WIDELY DISPERSED STUDENT BODYJames Klosky, U.S. Military Academy Led Klosky is an Associate Professor and Director of the Mechanics Group in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Maryland. Dr. Klosky received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1987 and 1988, respectively. He earned a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1997. il7354@usma.eduStephen Ressler, U.S. Military Academy Colonel Stephen J. Ressler

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Training Faculty to Teach CE

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald Welch, The University of Texas-Tyler; Allen Estes, California Polytechnic State University; Carol Considine, Old Dominion University

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Civil Engineering

at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Virginia. Until 2 Jan 2007, Al Estes was the Civil Engineering Program Chair at the United States Military Academy (USMA). Al received a B.S. degree from USMA in 1978, M.S. degrees in Structural Engineering and in Construction Management from Stanford University in 1987 and a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1997.Carol Considine, Old Dominion University Carol L. Considine is an Associate Professor of Engineering Technology at Old Dominion University. She has fifteen years of industrial experience in construction estimating and

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Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University

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Mechanical Engineering

Lifelong learning.The basic premise is that an individual learner must actively "build" knowledge and skills 3. Weknow that technology changes with time and an engineer must be motivated to continue to learnand stay current with technology. Constructivism is a method of teaching and learning based onthe principle that cognition (learning) is the result of mental construction, and this construction inquite individual. Knowledge is formed by reflecting on our experiences, by putting informationtogether with what we already thereby we construct knowledge in our head. Thus, we create ourown understanding of the world we live in. Learning is the process of adjusting our mentalmodels to fit with new experiences. Constructivist theorists maintain that

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Outstanding Contributions to ME

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Rhoads, Michigan State University; Craig Somerton, Michigan State University; Brian Olson, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; Terry Ballinger, Lansing Catholic High School

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Mechanical Engineering

Portion of MST at MSUAbstractMathematics, Science, and Technology at Michigan State University (MST at MSU) is a twoweek long introduction to advanced science and technology for academically-gifted middle schoolstudents. Though the program consists of a number of academic courses, a cornerstone of thisprogram, and the focus of the present work, is a short course in mechanical engineering, whichis presently in its ninth year of existence. This course is intended to expose the students to thefundamentals of mechanical engineering, as well as a variety of practical engineering problemsrelated to the field. Though portions of this program were previously presented to the ASEE in2000, the program has undergone a significant evolution since the initial

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Aspirational Visions of Civil Engineering in 2025 & Policy 465

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Ressler, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

requirements and ethical expectationsSkills: • Apply basic engineering tools such as statistical analysis, computer models, design codes and standards, and project monitoring methods • Learn about, assess, and, as appropriate, master new technology to enhance individual and organizational effectiveness and efficiency • Communicate with technical and non-technical audiences, convincingly and with passion, via listening, speaking, writing, mathematics, and visuals • Collaborate on intra-disciplinary, cross-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary traditional and virtual teams • Manage tasks, projects, and programs so as to provide expected deliverables while satisfying budget, schedule, and other

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EMD Program Design

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ertunga Ozelkan, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; S. Gary Teng, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Thomas Johnson, Besam Entrance Solutions; Tom Benson, Pass and Seymour-Legrand; Dean Nestvogel, Pass and Seymour-Legrand

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Engineering Management

AC 2007-709: A COLLABORATIVE CASE STUDY FOR TEACHING“ACHIEVING LEAN SYSTEM BENEFITS IN MANUFACTURING AND SUPPLYCHAINS” TO ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT STUDENTSErtunga Ozelkan, University of North Carolina-Charlotte Ertunga C. Ozelkan, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Management and the Associate Director of the Center for Lean Logistics and Engineered Systems at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Before joining academia, Dr. Ozelkan worked for i2 Technologies, a leading supply chain software vendor in the capacity of a Customer Service and Global Curriculum Manager and a Consultant. He also worked as a project manager and a consultant for Tefen Consulting in the area of

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Aspirational Visions of Civil Engineering in 2025 & Policy 465

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Evans, Bucknell University; Daniel Lynch, Dartmouth College; David Lange, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

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Civil Engineering

and historical awareness, and traditions that serve to make engineers competent to address the world’s complex and changing challenges. • We aspire to engineers who will remain well grounded in the basics of mathematics and science, and who will expand their vision of design through solid grounding in the humanities, social sciences, and economics. Emphasis on the creative process will allow more effective leadership in the development and application of next-generation technologies to problems of the future.The need for humanities and social sciences education for engineers is evident in each ofthese statements. The humanities include subjects such as art, history and literature whilesocial science

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Intersdisciplinary Courses and Environmental Undergraduate Research

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Braun, California Polytechnic State University; Emmit B. Evans, California Polytechnic State University; Randall Knight, California Polytechnic State University; Thomas Ruehr, California Polytechnic State University

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Environmental Engineering

data measuring how wellstudents achieve course objectives. Finally, experience gleaned from this course for non-majorshas produced ideas for lessons engineering instructors can apply to their own courses.IntroductionThe context for this work is a course titled The Global Environment. The course teaches studentsto analyze global environmental issues, resources, and human activities with a systems approachbased on scientific, economic, political, social and ethical perspectives. The course forms thecapstone experience for the Minor in Environmental Studies.Perhaps what will most fascinate engineering faculty is how the course integrates non-technicalcontent with science and technology. The lecture portion of the course mixes technical and non

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Improving ME Education: Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amir Jokar, Washington State University-Vancouver; Hakan Gurocak, Washington State University-Vancouver; Dave Kim, Washington State University-Vancouver; Xiaolin Chen, Washington State University-Vancouver; Hamid Rad, Washington State University-Vancouver

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Mechanical Engineering

microfluidic/thermal devices.Hakan Gurocak, Washington State University-Vancouver Hakan Gurocak is Director of School of Engineering and Computer Science and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Washington State University Vancouver. His research interests are robotics, automation, fuzzy logic, technology assisted distance delivery of laboratory courses and haptic interfaces for virtual reality.Dave Kim, Washington State University-Vancouver Dr. Dave (Dae-Wook) Kim is an Assistant Professor of School of Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University Vancouver. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle, and his M.S. and B.S. at Sungkyunkwan University