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Women in Engineering: A Potpourri

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Peg Boyle Single; Naomi Chesler; Borjana Mikic

. Wilson, R. (1999, Sept. 24). Computer scientists flee academe for industry's greener pastures. Chronicle of Higher Education, 46(5), A16-17.5. MIT Report (1999) by the Committee on the Status of Women Faculty in the School of Science. A Study on the Status of Women in Science at MIT. Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.6. American Association of Engineering Societies. (1998). Engineering and Technology Degrees. Washington, DC: Author.7. Gallaher, J. and F. Pearson (2000). “Women's perceptions of the climate in engineering technology programs.” Journal of Engineering Education 89(3): 309-314.8. Ragins, B. and J. Cotton (1999). “Mentor functions and outcomes: A comparison of men and women in formal and

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Teaching Innovations in Arch. Engineering

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Gouranga Banik

Session 1606 Introductory Computer Applications for AEC Freshmen Gouranga C. Banik, Ph.D., P.E. School of Architecture, Civil Engineering Technology and Construction Southern Polytechnic State University Marietta, GA 30060AbstractComputer applications have already become very important for the success of the Architecture-Engineering-Construction (AEC) industry. It is clear that few professions can be successfulwithout excellent knowledge of computer applications in today's life. An Introduction toComputer Applications (CNST 3000

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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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Donna Whiting; Marion Usselman

inquiry sciencepedagogical methods. Curriculum units varied each year to accommodate repeating students, butwere generally developed or adapted to reflect real-world engineering and science problems andto provide students with the type of hands-on technological experiences girls have often notpreviously encountered (e.g. using tools such as soldering irons and electric drills, or wiringcircuit boards). Examples of curriculum units include: Page 7.586.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering Education

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Teaching Innovations in Arch. Engineering

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Murali Paranandi

Modular.6 James Watt made some important improvements on the engine in 1769, in the course of trying to repair one of Newcomen’s engines.7 The invention that started it was Thomas Newcomen’s “atmospheric” steam engine, which appeared in about 1711. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationfor critical teaching practices that aim for developing sensibilities about technology andabout the conceptualization of its role in methods of design.A Hybrid ApproachLayering computers over the traditional tools of architects as an effective strategy tomake the best of both worlds has been suggested

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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Washington Braga

Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationresources used or available for the students, my teaching is based on the belief that my role asan instructor is still much more relevant than being a mere presence in the classroom,especially for undergraduate students, as some advocate. Technology is used only forimproving the educational process. In the past, technology changes were less drastic and there was more time allowed forindividuals to learn and master the newest technology. The Internet literature is full ofsimilar examples, from the invention of press to television. These days the new requirementsand the economic restrictions have a more dynamic nature. Savater 1, a Spanish philosopher,has mentioned that almost

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Educational Trends in Engineering

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Steven Mickelson

Agricultural Systems Technology curriculum in the ABE department. His technical expertise includes:near-infrared analysis technology; grain processing; grain and seed quality; and the evaluation of grains and oilseedsfor food and feed use. He received Bachelor's degree from ISU, and his Master's degree from Purdue University,both in Agricultural Engineering. He received his Ph.D. from ISU in 1990 in Agricultural Engineering with a minorin Chemical Engineering. Page 7.1292.8“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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Shad Reed; Donna Dorminey

expenditure of resources. The ability to develop an appropriate experimentalprocedure is so vital that the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)requires that, “Engineering programs must demonstrate that their graduates have an ability todesign and conduct experiments”1. Given the number of experiments conducted throughout their undergraduate studies, moststudents that have graduated are well prepared to conduct an experiment that has an establishedset of experimental procedures. Unfortunately, students are not nearly as well prepared to designexperimental procedures. Occasionally, laboratory exercises require students to developexperimental procedures. But even this requirement fails to satisfy the criterion set forth

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

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Marilyn Amey; James S. Fairweather; P. David Fisher

have responsibilities that transcend the sum ofindividual faculty achievements. We call these collective responsibilities. Further, our researchindicates that leadership is as important as the adequacy of resources in ensuring that academicunits meet all of their collective course and curricular obligations. This paper offers analternative view of Criterion 5 and Criterion 7, one consistent with meeting collectiveobligations and with continuous improvement.EC2000: ABET's IntentThe Accrediting Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) identifies four overarchingobjectives for the accreditation of engineering educational programs 1.· It helps assure that graduates of an accredited program are adequately prepared to enter and continue the

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Potpourri of Engineering Mathematics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Maximo Ortega

Mechanics for Engineers: Dynamics. New York, NY: McGraw Hill, Fourth Edition, 1988.15. Blackwood, O. H.; Kelly, W. C.; and Bell, R. M. Física General. México, D. F.: Compañía Editorial Continental, Fourth Edition, 1981.16. Goncalves de Alvarenga, B. and Maximo Ribeiro Da Luz, A. Física General. México, D. F.: Editorial Harla, 1982.17. Van Der Merwe, C. W. Física General. México, D. F.: McGraw Hill, 1985.18. Tavernier, J. “The thinking of a physicist about Mathematics”. Educational Studies in Mathematics 1 (1/2) (1968): 55-60.19. Piaget, J. Psicología y Epistemología. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Editorial Emece, 1972.Author BiographyMAXIMO J. ORTEGA is an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial Technology at

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Issues in Physics and Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Joao Vinhas; Joao Paiva

of the course to obtain the diploma, with assessment from both company andschool determining the final grade award. Furthermore, areas such as Materials Resistance, Thermo-dynamics, Fluid Mechanics and Electricity as structurally underpinning the course, are consideredessential in training the kind of engineers we are seeking to produce. Such areas facilitate the transi-tion from technical to technological areas of knowledge. 100 Math drop-out rate (%) 80 Phys

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Women in Engineering: A Potpourri

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Mariesa Crow; Karen Butler-Purry; Noel Schulz

one-page entry oneach woman faculty member with information about her background (schools and workexperience); research interests and equipment; teaching interests and keywords for her work.This will be distributed for networking opportunities.Overall these lunches have provided a time for networking especially among the newer womenfaculty. It has also highlighted areas of concern within the women faculty ranks. Futureactivities include an annual meeting with the Dean of Engineering.Michigan Technological UniversityOne of the authors recently moved from Michigan Tech and was very involved with the creationof the MTU Women in Science & Engineering (WISE) faculty group. In the Fall of 1997,several women faculty organized an informal network

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Women in Engineering: A Potpourri

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Monica Bruning

Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE).These two participants allowed me to identify what and who influenced them at that juncture intheir career exploration journey. I expected young women who had chosen to attend a 6-week-long program for science and engineering exploration had formal and informal educationalexperiences in science, math, engineering, and technology (SMET), which would allow me toidentify what and who had influenced their career development thinking.What I learned from the pilot study was that these young women had limited knowledge aboutengineering, and they expressed difficulty when searching for information and answers aboutcareers in engineering. They said the information, specifically learning about what engineeringis

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Women in Engineering: New Research

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gul Okudan Kremer

be presented in a forthcoming publication.However, more experimentation will be needed to establish the statistical significance of thefindings.References[1]. Okudan, G.E., Horner, D. and Russell, M. (2001). Achieving high performing team skills: An intervention study. Proceedings of the 7 th International Conference on Engineering Education (ICEE2001), Oslo-Norway, August 4-8.[2]. Steiner, I.D. (1972). Group process and productivity. New York: Academic Press.[3]. Kichuk, Susan L. and Wiesner Willi H. (1997). The Big Five personality factors and team performance: implications for selecting successful product design teams. Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, 14, 195-221.[4]. Ely, R.J. (1994). The effects of

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michael Lane; Jim Harden

Technology, Inc. (2000). Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, Baltimore, MD.2. Apache information, (2002). http://www.apache.org3. Chung, G., Harmon, T., Baker, E., (2001). ,” Potential Uses of On-Line Performance Assessments in Engineering Education: Measuring Complex Learning outcomes and Processes, Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education, Albuquerque, NM.4. CPAN: Comprehensive Perl Archive Network for distribution and documentation of Perl, (2002). http://www.cpan.org.5. Diefes-Dux, H., Haghighi, K., (2001). ,” Web-Based Technology for Long-Term Program Assessment, Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education, Albuquerque, NM.6. Estell, J., (2000). “On-Line Assessment for Web-Based

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jed Lyons

Session 1566 Formative Assessment of the University of South Carolina’s Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education Program Jed Lyons, Maryanne Banich, John Brader and Christine Ebert University of South CarolinaAbstractWith support from the NSF GK-12 Program, students and faculty in the College of Engineeringand Information Technology and the College of Education are working together to (a) improvethe teaching and communication skills of engineering graduate students and (b) improve scienceeducation in South Carolina schools. This paper describes the project and presents

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Capstone Mechanical Engineering Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Darrell Gibson; Patricia Brackin

individual studentperformance on industrial design projects.IntroductionIndustrial/Academic partnerships are essential for technological development, regardless of thediscipline. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the assessment of these partnerships in order toimprove both the students’ and the companies’ experiences. Traditionally, design reports alonehave been the method by which the students’ performance is judged. Although a wealth ofinformation is contained within these reports, this information does not address the process that Page 7.855.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

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Innovations in Freshman Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mary Lamont; John Merrill; Richard Freuler

Requests in the Freshman Programs Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education 15 The following tables illustrate the growth of WebCT student users and course requests as shown by the University server. These figures are approximations; they vary in time of quarter they were measured, and they only reflect the number of courses on the Office of Information Technology (OIT)/TELR WebCT server. At one point, there were about twenty-four other WebCT servers on Ohio State’s campus. There are still six others at the present time; including

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Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Manuel Rossetti; Kellie Scheider; Richard Cassady

of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education”k) An ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.l) An ability to improve, and manage integrated systems of people, technologies, material, information, and equipment.m) An ability to utilize the methodologies, computational skills, and analysis techniques of Industrial Engineering practice including such core Industrial Engineering topics as probability, statistics, engineering economics, human factors, engineering management, computing, and operations research applied to manufacturing, logistics, or

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jason Bartolomei

quicklydetermine homework performance without the cumbersome task of grading homeworkassignments.CONCLUSION:Mech Madness provides a fun alternative to traditional homework collection. Futureresearch and assessment will be preformed to quantify the overall benefits.CAPT JASON BARTOLOMEICapt Bartolomei is currently an instructor in the Department of Engineering Mechanics at the USAFAcademy . He has a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Marquette University and a M.S. degreein systems engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology. Prior to his current position, he was aproject engineer for the F-22 System Program Office, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sheldon Jeter

Session 1566 APPLICATIONS OF ERROR PROPAGATION ANALYSIS TO THE UNCERTAINTIES OF REGRESSION MODELS IN EXPERIMENTAL THERMAL AND FLUIDS ENGINEERING Sheldon M. Jeter Georgia Institute of TechnologyIntroduction Regression models are common in experimental thermal and fluids engineering. Typicalapplications are calibration of instruments, correlation of thermodynamic properties, anddevelopment of transport models. For the models to be used confidently and competently,students and practitioners must understand both the

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Capstone Mechanical Engineering Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Wendy Reffeor; Jon Marvel

should providethe overall benefits that are desired. Efforts will continue to improve the integration of thisproject between courses in the future.JON H. MARVELJon H. Marvel, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Grand Valley State University. He holds a BEfrom Stevens Institute of Technology, an MS from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. the University ofCincinnati. His is primary responsible for the development of the undergraduate and graduate production operationssequences courses as well as other fundamental courses in the manufacturing engineering curriculum.WENDY REFFEORWendy Reffeor, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Grand Valley State University. She holds a BS inMechanical Engineering from GMI

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Design in the Engineering Core

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mark Palmer

.: Statement Establishing the Rensselaer School; Archives of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1824), taken from http://www.rpi.edu/web/175/history/vrenss.html.2. Shaping the Future: New Expectations for Undergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology; National Science Foundation Document NSF 96-139, © 1996.3. Bloom B. S. and Krathwohl D. R.: Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: the Classification of Educational Goals, by a Committee of College and University Examiners. Handbook I: Cognitive Domain; Longmans, Green New York, © 1956.4. Wankat P. C., Oreovicz F. S.: Teaching Engineering; McGraw Hill, New York, ©1993, pg. 181.5. Jumper E. J.: Recollections and Observations on

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Subrata Roy; Karim Nasr; K. Joel Berry

Engineering Education”undergraduate instructional methodology with applied research, and supplement classroomteaching with real- world design problems. The integration of design and real- life applicationsinto the course material brings a whole new dimension to the students’ understanding of the wayfluid-thermal systems behave. In addition, this pedagogical framework introduces essence offluid mechanics and heat transfer into thermodynamics via assigned (suggested) projects.The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) directs every engineeringprogram to a set of outcomes that all graduates must have [10]. These set of outcomes (a-k) are asfollows:(a) an ability to apply knowledge of ma thematics, science, and engineering;(b) an

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nashwan Younis

inestablishing the curriculum. The scope of this paper is the alumni survey and its impact on themechanical engineering curriculum. Employer Alumni Survey Survey Industrial Students Advisory Chair of the Department Committee and Internal Assessment Coordinator School of Engineering, Assessment Technology, Report

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Hong Zhang

build a computer-controlled unmanned blimp.The project provides an opportunity for the students to apply the knowledge learned inclassroom to real life project under the doctrine of "design, build and test". 1. Introduction Engineering, as its name reveals, is the engine of the development of our society. Asour understanding, it is not merely the craftsmanship of cranking machines to make themwork. Engineering is an art to apply the science and technology, to increase the quality ofour life, and to propel the society moving forward. Unlike a mathematician, who can enjoythe universe of his/her own, an engineer must consider a much wider world. An engineermust know the underlying theory of the machinery and the know -how of themanufacturing

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Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sean Brophy; Robert Roselli

Session 2609 Exploring an Electronic Polling System for the Assessment of Student Progress in two Biomedical Engineering Courses Robert J. Roselli, Sean P. Brophy Department of Biomedical Engineering / The Learning Technology Center Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 37235AbstractMonitoring students' understanding as part of course lectures has the potential to increase studentengagement, facilitate modification of instruction so it targets learners’ needs, and increasestudents’ overall learning of the course materials. Classroom Communications Systems (CCS)provide

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Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stephanie A. Jernigan; Garlie Forehand; Alexander B. Quinn; Judith Norback

work. The results will be made available for use in otherinstitutions’ undergraduate engineering curricula.I. Introduction Communication skills are more important to engineering graduates than ever before,partly because of the recent Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)criteria that include written and oral communication. 1 Communication courses have beenincluded in engineering curricula for years. However, according to recent research, “graduatingengineers are inadequately equipped to meet” the written and oral communication needs oftoday’s technical workplace.2 In a 1993 survey of employers, 70 to 80 percent indicated thatcommunication skills are valuable in new engineers. “Engineers struggle with writing

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Capstone Mechanical Engineering Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Yves Mercadier; Pierre Vittecoq; Patrik Doucet; Jean-Sébastien Plante; Francois Charron; Yves Van Hoenacker

design project. From the very start of the term, projects suggested bycompanies are presented to the students.As the result of repeated discussions between students over eight weeks and a studentpresentation given at around mid-term, each team submits a proposal including a projectdescription, team composition, a technological pre-feasibility study, and a preliminary budgetwith the potential sources of funding [5]. Professors review the proposals and provide finalcomments to the students before the end of the fifth term. 2.3.4 Design project exhibitionIt was apparent to us from the outset that manufacturing a complete functional prototype wouldbe a key element of this new vision of teaching engineering design. However, the design

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Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Paul King; Joan Walker

M.S. (1965) in EngineeringScience from the Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, Ohio and a Ph.D. (1968) in MechanicalEngineering from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Page 7.322.16Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education

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Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Jendrucko

completion of the course.JACK WASSERMANJack Wasserman is a professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and BiomedicalEngineering where he has taught in the biomedical engineering program for over twenty-fiveyears. Professor Wasserman is the recipient of seven teaching awards and he holds the positionof Fellow in the Center for Undergraduate Excellence and the Interactive Technology Center atthe University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Jack Wasserman can be contacted at The University of Tennessee, Collegeof Engineering, MABE Department, 322 Perkins Hall, Knoxville, TN 37996-2030, TEL (865) 974-7678, FAX974-5274; jack-wasserman@utk.edu.RICHARD JENDRUCKORichard Jendrucko is currently Professor and Associate Department Head in the