Collection

2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Daniel Schmalzel

helpmanage the day-to-day project management functions in coordination with the faculty projectmanager. Graduate Student involvement in upper level Clinics is not a requirement, but allowsfor a more smoothly functioning team and gives the Graduate Student opportunities to developproject management skills and experience directing a team to achieve well-defined goals withinconstraints. The organization and execution of a Clinic project is flexible, but most follow abasic sequence. Upon forming the 2-5 student team, projects start out with an information searchand review, followed by development of a clear and concise problem statement. From that pointstudents research and design solutions to the problem and develop methods for down

Collection

2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Carlos D. Barreiro; John L. Schmalzel

Middle Atlantic Regional Conference April 29-30, 2011, Farmingdale State College, SUNYone example of these technologies. The use of Smart Grid can be very valuable to mitigate andlessen the impacts of an energy emergency.Finally, the Engineering Clinic program has been found to significantly impact studentpreparation for professional practice and for matriculation into graduate programs. For example,that a high percentage of Rowan’s engineering students pursue graduate degrees is evidence ofhow Clinic projects awaken interest in research and help lower the perceived barrier betweenundergraduate and graduate work1.AcknowledgementsThe support of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities is gratefully acknowledged as well as