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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Robert M. Brooks; Soumitra Basu; Shriram Pillapakkam; Kurosh Darvish; Keerthi V. Takkalapelli

. Students were directed to undertake engineering designs inspecialized areas of transportation engineering and technology. Design topics applicable to theseareas reported ranged from Flexible Pavements, Rigid Pavements, Asphalt Paving Technology,Pavement Rehabilitation, to Signalized Traffic Intersections. These topics covered not onlyconventional transportation systems but also intelligent transportation systems. The students’presentations were peer-graded.The significance of empowerment in design, discovery, and learning was extensively documentedby applying appropriate statistical tests. Assessment, grading formula and results are tabulated.The best papers maintained the standards for publication at appropriate local, regional and ornational

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Christopher W. Swan; Julia Carroll

engineering companies, the need for marketing and business development, project procurement, and project financing b. Legal aspects of engineering: contracts and agreements, terms and conditions of engineering services, legal adjudication including Alternate Dispute Resolution c. Professional risk management techniques: insurance requirements for design professionals, peer review processes, and product quality management d. Personnel/career management including professional licensure and society participation Additionally, the course presented an overview of future trends and challenges to theengineering profession, focusing mainly on

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Bahram Nassersharif

classroom). Each projector screen will cover two of the flat screen LCD monitors when inuse. Therefore, the visual system in the room can be operated in one of three modes: 1. Four projectors 2. Two projectors and four LCD monitors 3. Eight LCD monitorsThe instructor station is an Intel Quadcore PC with a quad-port video board, 1 terabyte of disk storage,and 4 gigabytes of memory. The instructor station is also equipped with two WACOM pen screensallowing the instructor to write on the computer screen. We chose the Synchroneyes software to controlthe student workstations. With this software the instructor can broadcast their screen(s) to all studentscreens or project any student’s screen to their own screen.The technology environment for

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

6. AutoCAD exposureThe laboratory portion of the course continued to provide time each week for students towork on their specific capstone design, but this designated lab time became slightly morestructured. The first month of the semester, the course instructor guided the students tofocus on the planning aspects associated with their project. This phase of the courseconcluded with Planning Presentations and a chance for the students to share theirresearch and project goals with their peers and instructors. The rest of the semester, thestudents spent in the design/build (depending on the project) phase of their capstoneexperience. The semester still concluded with a final presentation where the studentsreported their results and summarized