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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

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Aaron S. Bradshaw; Gary N. McCloskey; Franklin Miguel

various levels, the ability to understand and continually evaluate the problem athand, the ability to consider the impacts that a solution may have on the community and the environment,and the ability to deal with uncertainties that are prevalent in the natural world. For most students, theirfirst exposure to these aspects of engineering may not be until after graduation when they enter theprofession. However, it is also possible to give students “real world” exposure in the classroom if thecourse can bring in some of these elements.This paper presents a design for a civil engineering design course where the students apply learnedtechnical skills while fostering their “soft” engineering skills that are critical for success in practice. Thecourse

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

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John Adams; Charles Kochakian

examining RFID adoption for the college’s library. The intention is for EE,CS and business to gain from working together and the department will carefully assess this“multidisciplinary” aspect of the course going forward.The course addresses specific business related topics including: • Business opportunities, planning and best practices • Supply Chain Management • DOD and Wal-Mart Mandates • Creating a Pilot Project Plan • Moving from Pilot to Production • Pharmaceutical Applications • Cargo Security 6The topic of RFID lends itself very well to discussions on the global impact of engineeringsolutions. For example

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seniorcapstone projects as a result of all the lecture topics.In the Fall of 2003, a new course called “Construction Project Management” (CPM)became a prerequisite to CED. CPM lectures included all of the topics that had beenidentified as necessary for a Civil Engineer to succeed after graduation: • Construction Industry Overview • Design Package Components • Scheduling • Engineering Economics • Cost Estimating • Contracting/Project Management • Engineering Ethics • Sustainable Design • Capital Asset Management • Planning • Facilities ManagementCPM also fostered educational outcome achievement in areas relating to engineeringethics, professional practice issues, and engineering economics and deepened studentknowledge of

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

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Arthur Heinricher; Brian Savilonis; David Spanagel; Robert Traver; Kristin Wobbe

explored the chemical,ethical, physiological and economic dimensions of a (simple) question: Why do we eat what weeat? The students completed projects on subjects ranging from hunger in Worcester tocontrolling fertilizer runoff. Power the World focused on the physics, history, and theenvironmental and economic impact of energy technologies. The students completed projectsranging from an energy cost analysis of green roofs and photovoltaic systems for WPI to airpollution in China.This paper will describe the final student projects as well as the smaller projects and activitiesdesigned to help students develop the intellectual skills needed for research and professionalwork, including clear, succinct writing, oral presentation, pair and small group