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Orla LoPiccolo; Amit Bandyopadhyay

Recycling a Site Planning & Design Course into a Sustainable Site Planning and Design Course Orla LoPiccolo, RA, Dr. Amit Bandyopadhyay, PE, F.ASCE State University of New York – Farmingdale State CollegeAbstract:One of the topics from our Fall 2008 paper titled Sustainable Construction - An Education andResearch Perspective, was the integration of sustainable development methods into an existingsite planning and development course. The goal of this paper is to further develop this idea of“recycling” an existing site planning and design course by establishing the following sitedevelopment criteria; features that are

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Frank Lanzer

, in order of preference, were architecture,programming, web design, digital photography and cryptography. Over the years therehave been activities that were not as successful as we had hoped and anticipated. Thisrelatively short (thankfully) list includes working with concrete and survivor-typecompetitions.A Bold Opportunity in 2008The initial plans for 2008 were to continue the Tech Camp for Girls but to also offer anImaginary Worlds Camp (IWC) based upon the work of Joel Adams at Calvin College9. Ina discussion with Adams, he emphasized the need to keep the boys and girls separate. This Proceedings of the 2009 Mid-Atlantic Section Conference of 5 the American Society for Engineering

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Raluca I. Rosca

Preparing a Diversity Statement- An Introduction to Diversity Issues for Future Faculty Raluca I. Rosca Engineering Sciences and Mechanics Department, Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractWhile the diversity in engineering classrooms strives to mirror the diversity of the society atlarge, our future engineering faculty are not explicitly prepared to deal with it. Using a mixeddata approach, this paper describes how a writing exercise (preparing a diversity statement) andthe associated peer-review discussion expanded the definition of diversity and the plans toaddress it in academia for two groups of participants in the Engineering Teaching PortfolioProgram at

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Thomas R. Wedlick; Carol E. Reiley; Cynthia Ramey

statistic isnot unique to the JHU RoboCompetition; the IEEE Robot Competition, another low-costeasily implemented robot competition, attracts over 30% female participants [11].The JHU RoboCompetition draws participants from Baltimore City and the surroundingcounties. Great socioeconomic diversity exists within that region. The MarylandDepartment of Planning estimates that in 2007 the median income in the region was $63kwith Anne Arundel Country having the highest median income ($83k) and BaltimoreCity having the lowest ($38k) [12]. The JHU RoboCompetition has drawn participantsfrom public schools whose mean household income is distributed throughout that range.The event has attracted schools with a mean household income of $75k and also

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Ricardo A. Camilo; S. Keith Hargrove

, process that is very prone to mistakes.Sweden and Czech Republic’s suppliers provide most of the Kraft paper rolls, with a three tofour months period of delivery lead time. Kraft paper sacks and bags represent the mostprofitable business for the company. Figure 2: Transportation of Paper Rolls to WarehouseMost bond paper vendors are located in Argentina and United States and Brazil and Venezuela’smanufacturers fulfill all the demand of tissue paper rolls. The extended delivery times have asignificant impact on the production planning activities because most final products, speciallypaper sacks and bags can only be manufactured with specific paper codes, meaning that stock-outs can result in the impossibility of fulfill

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Neville Jacobs

might not recognize this. Teachers do, and are thrilled with the improved essay writing andverbal presentation skills, as well as the electrical and mechanical concepts and the practical applicationsof the center of gravity - as in when the robot topples over! Technology is used throughout, Engineering isin the planning needed, and Math is kept practical - mostly used in the adding and subtraction offractional measurements, making decisions on the leg lengths, calculating current flow, identifying thelocations of counterweights, and during programming (for the more sophisticated robots). Not surprisingly, students are not too thrilled with preparing the long Written Report and the OralPresentations, but they recognize the need for them

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Olugbenga O. Akinbiola

identified and eliminated, andonce statistical control has been established, Shewhart charts can be used to monitor the processfor the occurrence of future special causes and to measure and reduce the effects of commoncauses, Montgomery Douglas6. These techniques include control charts, histogram distribution,Pareto analysis and correlation methods. The concept of Statistical Process Control has itsorigins in the 1920s4. Shewhart’s work was used extensively during the World War II period inthe American defense industry, . In the 1940’s Deming continued the work of Shewhart andintroduced a 14- point plan for quality management. In 1997, Bjorn Andersen and Loland H2 inhis paper concluded that everyone working with quality improvement and process

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Kauser Jahan; Jess W. Everett; Gina Tang; Stephanie Farrell; Hong Zhang; Angela Wenger; Majid Noori

selected as partners for enhancing the broader impacts of the project.Both CCC and NJAAS are located within 30 minutes of the Rowan University campus and boththese locations are within the two New Jersey Federal Empowerment Zones (EZ). The EZprograms are designed to empower people and communities across the United States by inspiringcommunities to work together to develop a strategic plan designed to create jobs andopportunities in the nation's most impoverished urban and rural areas.The CCC partnership allows us to prepare the community college students for the Rowanengineering program by having direct input on their freshman Introduction to Engineeringcourse. CCC is a comprehensive community college that is accessible, learning-centered

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D. Weber; G. Reluzco; D. Kaminski; B. W. Bequette

Integrated Manufacturing; and a capstone course: Engineering Design andDevelopment.Program ComparisonsThe nature and scope of the PLTW and GK-12 programs are very different with someoverlapping ambitions. Both programs have a similar genesis as educators and professionalsrespond to the projected glut of American engineers within this generation. The PTLW solutionis to replace the school’s engineering programs, if any existed, with a franchised curriculum.Participating teachers and guidance counselors have mandatory training requirements, but arealso to provide feedback to the planning committee. The central organization is responsible forproducing advertising materials, setting teacher and student performance standards, and trackingthe college and

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Warren A. Rosen; M. Eric Carr

students. To mitigate this, we decided touse readily-available datasheets and articles for reading material, supplemented with handoutsdescribing the various labs. This approach eliminates the need for a traditional textbook for thecourse. (The total parts cost for one computer is roughly $150—comparable to the cost of amodern engineering textbook.) We envision this cost being reduced by ten or twenty percent bythe adoption of a parts-kit-based approach.Future Work Based on our experience with the course so far, we plan on assembling a parts kit (atcost) for the students. Previously, we have provided students with a parts list for the computer;however, it has been our experience that delays of several weeks will be avoided by making

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Michael Casey

anApplication Programming Interface (API) to the scripting language Ruby. Students learn to notonly “draw” 3D models, but how to script behavior for those models. One example is anexercise in which the class creates a model of a building project then writes Ruby code to accessthe physical properties (dimensions) of the building components thereby performing a script-based quantity take-off to support construction estimating tasks. The combination of scriptingwith 3D modeling reinforces the topics presented in the class. 5Subsequent Civil Engineering Computing Course DevelopmentWe are planning to incorporate additional computational modules in subsequent courses in ourdepartment. This will help students to

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Josh Coffman; Jiancheng Liu; Ashland O. Brown; Sachin S. Terdalkar; Joseph J. Rencis