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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Jenn Rossmann; Karina Skvirsky

investigation and artistic exploration. The resulting images have inspired, and in somecases themselves become appreciated as, art. A sophomore-level seminar in The Art and Scienceof Flow Visualization exposes students to these techniques and the science of fluid mechanics,and to the photographic methods needed to create effective images that are successful bothscientifically and artistically. Unlike other courses in flow visualization, this course assumes noa priori familiarity with fluid flow or with photography. The fundamentals of both are taughtand practiced in a studio setting. Students are engaged in an interdisciplinary discourse aboutfluids and physics, photography, scientific ethics, and historical societal responses to science andart. The

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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James D. McGuffin-Cawley

., students will: o Be able to gain accurate and timely information regarding the current and future availability of mineral-derived materials and use this information in the context of materials-constrained design, o Appreciate when opportunities for materials substitution and possible and appropriate, as well as when it is not (i.e., intrinsic materials properties are unique), o Understand the ethical implications of materials choices in designs and devices, particularly in the context of a globalized economy, o Synthesize information obtained from historical sources, technical literature, business writings, and current news.It was recognized from the beginning that the course would not have a “home,” in that itwas

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Carl A. Erikson

communicators of their creative ideas to solve societal needs, to invent new processingtechniques, to reduce wasteful use of resources, to express their ethical concerns about products,and to inform the public on issues of mutual concern.From the National Academy of Engineering’s “The Engineer of 2020”, the attributes of the 21stcentury engineer include the following: As always, good engineering will require good communication…. We envision a world where communication is enabled by an ability to listen effectively as well as to communicate through oral, visual, and written mechanisms. Modern advances in technology will necessitate the effective use of virtual communication tools. The increasingly imperative for

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Sunghoon Jang; Kenneth Markowitz; Aparicio Carranza

. standards.• Demonstrate writing and oral communicating techniques effectively Students will develop a written design report among team members, with technical and oral presentation for faculty and peers. advisors and peers. Students will demonstrate the importance of• Understand the importance of professional and ethical behavior in their professional and ethical behavior. written and oral presentations.Course DeliverablesEach team is required to prepare several documents, presentations, and the prototype of thedesigned system. The main deliverables are

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Alfred A. Scalza

” but that’s an issue for another paper.As in any study, the observer is reluctantly part of the study. The results are those of only oneprofessor (myself) and, as with all observers, I see students through my own cultural filter whichI’m sure would vary from observer to observer. Because of my affinity for the students, I hopethis distortion has been minimized.In one of our Construction Management classes where “ethics” is an important topic, the morediverse the group the better understanding of “ethics”. In fact, the more diverse the group themore passion and fervor to the “ethics” discussion. Clearly, diversification in the classroommakes for an enhanced discussion. In fact, the students bring up issues for discussion that theprofessor

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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William Hornfeck; Ismail Jouny; John Nestor

, ComputerSoftware, Computer Hardware, Applied Physics, and Circuits & Electronics. There are threemajor design projects integrated with courses on Software Engineering, Solid State Electronics,and Controls. There are also two major design projects in the senior year (discussed in a latersection); one involving a wireless networking protocol implemented on a Field ProgrammableArray, and the other is less constrained and currently involves converting solar energy intoquality 60 Hz electrical energy. Students are expected to design using realistic constraints asdescribed in ABET Criterion 3(c), and therefore are expected to take into consideration variouspolitical, health, safety, sustainability, manufacturability, economic, and ethical issues

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Peter J. Shull; Jessica M. Crandall

typicalof any academic environment.ContextThe sample in this study was made up of first-year engineering students in seven sections of afirst-year seminar at a branch campus of a major university in the east coast of the United States.The school functions as a small liberal arts college with an engineering school. The engineeringprogram is the largest program within the college. The course is a first year engineering designseminar that meets six hours per week in two hour blocks. The primary course goals include:engineering and communication computer tools, engineering design and design process, writtenand oral communication, engineering in a global economy, and ethics. The primary educationalvehicle to achieve these goals is design projects. In

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Joshua H. Smith; David Brandes

EWB–USA’s policies on professionalmentoring, and may led to design work having to be reviewed and redone under the supervisionof the professional mentors who will lead those implementation trips, solely to satisfy EWB–USA’s requirement that the mentors be involved in both design and implementation.Lafayette also offers a sophomore-level course VAST 203: Sustainability of Built Systems thatserves as a non-technical introduction to sustainable development. Its course catalog descriptionis:25 This interdisciplinary seminar introduces students to a process for evaluating the sustainability of built systems in both the industrialized and developing worlds. The course addresses the historical, moral, and ethical foundations for the current

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Barbara E. Mizdail

happened! All the faculty researchers expressed satisfaction withthe output from the five student projects. The students rose to the occasion in most casespresenting substantial contributions to the research efforts. Opportunity to include discussionson ethics presented itself, especially in tracking the project budgets. Each team was provided a$100 budget. Several teams built prototypes. The mechanical and electrical lab supervisors alsospent time with these novice team members - novice in that they had not yet had courses thatfamiliarize them with the mechanical and electrical equipment and lab capabilities at the college.Provided in Table 2 below is a list of the five research projects topics, as well as the students’initial descriptions

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

William Jemison; Christopher Nadovich

various“illities” constraints on such topics as: hazmats, reliability, maintainability,sustainability, manufacturability, and ethics. We attempt to cast theserequirements in a form that constrains the student design in realistic, useful waysthat students can address within the scope of their project. For example, here isthe manufacturability requirement. GPR008: Manufacturability A production design is a project design that could reasonably be manufactured in large quantity (e.g. greater than 1000 units/yr). All production designs must be built from components and subassemblies that have a sustainable source of supply over the system lifetime. To demonstrate that this requirement is met, it must be shown that each

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Beth Richards; Karen Walsh

ofstructure in the assignment—though less than for earlier papers—and asked to document theirsources in IEEE citation style. For the second part of this assignment, students wrote an articleabout RFID chips—what they are, current and potential uses, advantages and disadvantages—fora general, non-expert audience—with the purpose of educating less-technologically-expertreaders and advising them whether it was defensible (economically, technologically, ethically) topursue this type of technology.Students were required—in addition to addressing the usual rhetorical issues of thesis,organization/development, and citation—to design the article to be reader-friendly (includingappropriate illustrations) and to provide, at the end of the article, five

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solution of differential equations. ethics, and historical societal responses to scienceWe first look at the physical model, then make and art. The development, implementation, andthe appropriate numerical scheme, error analysis assessment of this team-taught course at Lafayetteis done, code is written, solutions are studied College will be discussed.and then finally we look at differences betweenlinear and non linear equations and the onset I.A.3. Integrating Writing into the Engineering of chaos. Curriculum, or How to Build a Dog House Students are expected to