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John W. Duggan; Michael Davidson; Leonard Anderson

semester meetings and in some cases other faculty, not formerly affiliated with the course. As a result design teams were able in most cases to perform comprehensive civil engineering designs. Intra-Disciplinary Nature of Design Projects The following summarizes some aspects of the intra-disciplinary nature of one of the recent design projects. For this project, a team of 5 students designed a graduate housing facility on an empty lot adjacent to the Wentworth campus. The design included a “green” building (suitable for LEED certification), structural design of the building and multiple site- layout plans that incorporated stormwater management, roadway, parkland and utility plans. Figure 1 is the cover sheet to the plan packet submitted in the

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Jani Pallis; Neal Lewis; Ravi Mishra; Navarun Gupta; Arthur McAdams; Richard Yelle

Strategy for Student Inclusion within a University- Based Business Incubator Jani Pallis, Ph.D.1, Neal Lewis, Ph.D.2, Ravi Mishra, M.S.3, Navarun Gupta, Ph.D.4, Arthur McAdams, Ph.D.5, Richard Yelle6Abstract - The University of Bridgeport is the home of the CTech IncUBator, a joint initiative of the universityand Connecticut Innovations, Inc. Inaugurated in 2010, the CTech IncUBator@University of Bridgeport assists newtechnology-based startups by providing a variety of benefits such as pro-bono and discounted professional servicesand shared support services and facilities. Through a grant from the National Collegiate Innovators and InventorsAlliance (NCIIA), a strategy and plan has been

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no access to this type of health care and risk losing their livelihood.We are currently in Phase 2 of our initiative and our first trip to Haiti with students is planned for the first week ofJune 2012. The goal of our June trip is to gather the necessary technical information so that our teams can achievethe specific aims of each project. We are currently preparing four students for this trip. Two civil engineering andtwo athletic training students were selected through an application and interview process. We meet with thesestudents once a month in a large group to coordinate fundraising and to prepare them for the challenges of workingin a developing country and for facing poverty. In addition, we meet once or twice a month in discipline

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Joseph J. Helble; Carolyn E. Fraser; Eric R. Fossum

and an internship, preferably in a startup, which could be thestudent’s own venture. Innovation program coursework includes corporate finance, a course in law, technology, andentrepreneurship, an elective such as accounting, and Thayer School’s unique Introduction to Innovation course. TheIntroduction to Innovation course was specially designed for the program and provides instruction and practice incommercialization of new technologies over a nine-month period. Thayer is able to deliver a rich experience in thisregard due to a long history of integrating the practical aspects of market analysis and business planning intointerdisciplinary engineering design project coursework at the undergraduate level. Students serve as teachingassistants

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Keith M. Gardiner

Virtual and Collaborative Project-Based Learning Keith M. Gardiner1Abstract – Project-Based Learning (PBL) methods have been used together with a digitized course managementsystem to enable small numbers of first year engineering students to collaborate, communicate, organize and work ingroups to plan, research and develop information for two-page status reports on a wide range of local, national, andglobal societal and technological issues. A large class comprising 331 first year engineering students wasadministered, managed and successfully guided through a whole semester of practical ‘hands-on’ laboratoryactivities culminating in student presentations to explain their practical lab

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Vicki V. May

engineer or contractor to build one. The studentswere able to design and build a structure that was approximately 8feet x10feet with stairs to the upper level. The loft was ~4feet above the floor.The structure was built of wood – pine and cedar – available from thelocal lumber yard. Figure 1 shows the completed loft. Figure 1. Completed LoftWorm Composting Walkway (2010)In 2010, I had planned to go back to a project thatinvolved creating models but not the building of a full-scale structure. The students, however, were veryinterested in building a full-scale structure so I contactedthe coordinator of the Dartmouth Organic Farm. The classdesigned, analyzed and built a worm-composting walkwayout of cedar, learning a

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] offerstudents the opportunity to work with global communities on multidisciplinary engineering design projects. Throughthese design projects, students develop their engineering and leadership skills while providing services and 1 Gordon College, 255 Grapevine Road, Wenham, MA 01984 jessica.ventura@gordon.edu2012 ASEE Northeast Section Conference University of Massachusetts LowellReviewed Paper April 27-28, 2012sustainable design solutions to communities in developing countries. Every Workplace, Every Nation is the currentstrategic plan of LeTourneau University, the name of the plan itself embodying the university’s goal

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and lab instruction [6, 7]. Moreover, most studies show that students enjoy the formatand find it more enjoyable and helpful than traditional instruction [8, 7]. While it is agreed that studio-styleinstruction combines lecturing with hands-on experimenting and cooperative learning, its precise meaning [9] andimplementation [3, 10-12] vary. 1 SUNY Oswego, Oswego NY, 13126, ieta@oswego.edu2012 ASEE Northeast Section Conference University of Massachusetts LowellReviewed Paper April 27-28, 2012 Fig. 1 The Science and Engineering Complex : current construction status and planned final appearance.For

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ispotential to capture that energy using an in-line turbine generator [11]. This project consists of taking an existingwater delivery system, in Keene, New Hampshire, and designing an optimal turbine-generator set-up specificallytailored to their parameters. By focusing on towns with large water demands and high water towers we can optimizethe electrical output of our generators, and create a larger power output. With water coming in from ageographically higher location, the potential energy, and flow rates increase, thus increasing the amount ofelectricity made. We plan to capture some of this untapped energy by converting the potential energy of the waterinto electrical energy that would take the strain off of power plants and other power sources

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Cullen A. Jones

action. Fig. 8: A simple wall constructed of wood blocks provides a model of a masonry lintel and arch action SummaryHopefully, readers engaged in teaching design and construction of reinforced concrete and masonry structures findthese ideas for training aids and demonstrations helpful. As they guide future engineers to create solutions in themost ubiquitous construction material of the last two centuries, it’s important that instructors get the points across tothe broadest audience possible. Those interested in plans and specifications of any model presented here can sendrequests to cullen.jones@usma.edu. References[1] ACI Committee

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atthe end of the course agreed that the hands-on coding, tweaking and benchmarking approach had significantlyadvanced their problem solving abilities.Looking forward, we hope to extend this teaching technique into some new areas including graphics programming,network protocols, and parallel processing. We also plan to conduct an empirical study statistically evaluating theeffectiveness of this method for teaching algorithms. REFERENCES[1] Barsky S. and Thomo U., “A new method for indexing genomes using on-disk suffix trees,” CIKM, 2008, 649-658.[2] Bshouty N., “A Lower Bound for Matrix Multiplication,” SIAM J. Comput, Vol. 18, 1988.[3] Leiserson C. and Stein R., Introduction to

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Ethan Danahy; Morgan Hynes; Leslie Schneider; Danielle Dowling

software will offer students and teachers more flexible and efficient tools that address some of theseimplementation challenges. For example, a significant obstacle to using an inquiry approach in the classroom is thelack of experience teachers possess in engaging their students in argumentation and convergent sense-making.InterLACE will address this issue by developing tools that grant students a forum for their ideas and give teachers away to aggregate and analyze this data. We realize that a software tool alone is not the ultimate cure, therefore weare equally focused on providing professional development that would instruct teachers on how to facilitate acollaborative inquiry process during design-based projects. Going forward, we plan to test

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David Kazmer; Katie Bardaro

) suggests that this coefficient could be deleted or the model topologyotherwise modified to provide improved understanding. Accordingly, further analysis is planned in which: 1) theIPEDS data will be updated and expanded, 2) additional models for salary functions will be analyzed, 3) sensitivityof salary NPV and model coefficients will be analyzed with multiple regression. 100 100 Institution Institution 90 2 90

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Jacob Cox; Jason Cody; Jesse Fleming; Matthew Miller

States Military Academy at West Point,New York. He holds an M.S. from Vanderbilt University in Computer Science and a B.S. from West Point. He hasserved as a platoon leader, executive officer, assistant operations and network planning officer, and companycommander in several different Army Signal (Communications) Companies. He has installed communicationssystems in support of combatant commanders in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan.Major Jesse FlemingMAJ Fleming is an Aviation Officer and second year Computer Science Instructor for the Electrical Engineeringand Computer Science Department, West Point. He holds a M.S. from the University of Vermont in ComputerScience, an M.S. from the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Engineering