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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Nicole Hoekstra

Session Number 2793 Northeast Meets Northwest Women in Technology Project Nicole Hoekstra Engineering Technology Department Western Washington UniversityAbstractThe “Northeast Meets Northwest Women in Technology Project” encourages young women toconsider careers in technology and engineering by direct exposure to a complex problem inindustry. The project partnered women in high school from Washington and Massachusetts, highschool teachers, an engineer from Texas Instruments, and an engineering advisor from WesternWashington University. The

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Amir Karimi

Session 1566 Industrially Supported Projects in a Capstone Design Sequence Amir Karimi, Jahan Eftekhar, Randall Manteufel, and Yesh Singh Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Texas at San AntonioAbstractThe design experience in the mechanical engineering BS degree program at The University ofTexas at San Antonio (UTSA) contains a senior-level capstone design course sequence, providingstudents an opportunity to apply and integrate the knowledge gained throughout the curriculumto the development of an instructor-approved project. The two-semester course

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Capstone Design and Engineering Practice

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Ebel; Roobik Gharabagi

The Senior Design Project: From Concept to Reality Roobik Gharabagi, William J. Ebel Department of Electrical Engineering Saint Louis University 3450 Lindell Blvd St. Louis, MO 63103 gharabr@slu.edu, ebelwj@slu.eduAbstractThe senior design experience at the Department of Electrical Engineering of St. LouisUniversity is a two semester course sequence with sixteen weeks per semester. The totalof thirty two weeks for the senior design courses is divided into three major sections oftwelve-twelve-eight weeks. The end result of each major

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Teamwork & Assessment in the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

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James Newell; Kevin Dahm

Session 3613 Rubric Development for Assessment of Undergraduate Research: Evaluating Multidisciplinary Team Projects Kevin D. Dahm, James A. Newell and Heidi L. Newell Department of Chemical Engineering Rowan University Glassboro, NJ 08028AbstractAt Rowan University, all engineering students participate in clinic courses involvingmultidisciplinary student teams working on semester-long or year-long research projects led by anengineering professor. The difficulty arises in trying to assess student learning and

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New Programs and Success Stories

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2003 Annual Conference

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Edward Hensel; Paul Stiebitz

Session 2242 A Design Project Management Course at RIT E. C. Hensel, P. H. Stiebitz Mechanical Engineering / Industrial and Systems Engineering Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY 14623-5604Abstract Rochester Institute of Technology is currently implementing a college-wide initiative toincorporate multi-disciplinary design as a central theme for all students in the capstone designsequence. For several years, the Kate Gleason College of Engineering has supported a number ofmulti-disciplinary design teams

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Curricular Change Issues

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K Muraleetharan; Gerald Miller; Dee Fink; Robert Knox; Randall Kolar; David Sabatini; Baxter Vieux; Michael Mooney; Carolyn Ahern; Kurt Gramoll

Session 2630 The Sooner City Project: A 5-Year Update C. C. Ahern, L. D. Fink, K. K. Muraleetharan, R. L. Kolar University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019AbstractThe Sooner City project at the University of Oklahoma (OU) seeks to reform the traditional civilengineering curriculum by including design projects at every level of the curriculum, not simply asa senior capstone project. The project can be implemented without changing the traditional coursesequencing, which enhances faculty buy-in. It is part of a larger movement to reform engineeringeducation by teaching students to

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Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Patsy Brackin; Clark Merkel

Session 2566 Gravity Powered Block Transport: A Freshman Design Project. Clark T. Merkel, Patricia Brackin, Department of Mechanical Engineering Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyIntroduction:This paper describes a project used for a mechanical engineering, freshmen designcourse. Its focus is on how this project was used to introduce design methodologythrough practice with a project-based implementation. Four sections of a freshmandesign course with approximately 32 students each were divided into 4 person teams andwere all given the same design task: design a device which would

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Real-Time and Embedded Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sub Ramakrishnan; Mohammad Dadfar

Session 1620 Systems Projects for a Computer Science Course Mohammad B. Dadfar, Sub Ramakrishnan Department of Computer Science Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, Ohio 43403 Phone: (419)372-2337 Fax: (419)372-8061 email: datacomm@cs.bgsu.eduAbstractIn this paper we discuss some practical and useful projects for our operating systems / datacommunications course. Most of our projects are assigned in a UNIX platform. The projects dealwith a

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Improving Communication Skills in ME

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2003 Annual Conference

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Norman Asper; Bijan Sepahpour

Session 2166 UTILIZING TEAM BUILDING SKILLS IN ENGINEERIG PROJECTS Norman L. Asper and Bijan Sepahpour The College of New Jersey Department of Engineering Ewing, New Jersey 08628-0718ABSTRACTFundamental elements of Group Dynamics can be the basis for successful engineering projects.A tested process for selection of team members is presented. In case of national or regionalcompetitions, the potential for success of a small

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Computer Literacy Among Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

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Joseph Urban; James Collofello; Doris Roman; Faye Navabi; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Session 2270 COOL (Computer Outreach Opportunities for Learning) Project James S. Collofello, Joseph E. Urban, Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Faye Navabi, Doris Roman Arizona State UniversityAbstract Although most secondary schools provide some education in computer programming andapplications such as spreadsheets and word processors, they are usually deficient in preparingstudents for careers in software development. The lack of focus on software development topicsand project level experiences fails to dispel the "hacker" mentality and "geek-image" myths mostsecondary school

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Projects in Ocean and Marine Engineering

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Paul Miller

Session 1478 Project-Based Coursework in a Naval Architecture Curriculum Paul H. Miller United States Naval Academy Annapolis MD 21402Abstract Studies have shown the benefits of incorporating design projects into engineeringcourses. These projects allow the students to directly apply the course topics in “hands-on”applications, while also providing the students opportunities to develop group project skills. Inthe small field of naval architecture little has been

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Innovative Curricula and Outreach

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Bruce Berdanier

Session 2651 Watershed Analysis and Teacher Education Resource (WATER) Project Dr. Bruce W. Berdanier T.J. Smull College of Engineering, Ohio Northern UniversityIntroductionIt has been suggested that engineers could focus on professionalism by pursuing activities thatdirectly enhance the engineering profession such as working with organizations and universitiesto promote K-12 education in science, engineering, math and technology 2. Science andmathematics classes in the K-12 arena are considered gateways to the engineering profession 1and can provide the context that students need to make the

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Student Learning and Research

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2003 Annual Conference

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Chih-Ping Yeh

Section 2150 Undergraduate Research Projects for Engineering Technology Students Chih-Ping Yeh, Jeannie Drew, Chris Rockwell, Hai-Chun Chien Division of Engineering Technology Wayne State UniversityAbstract This paper describes three undergraduate research projects conducted in the Division ofEngineering Technology at Wayne State University. All of the three projects were supported bythe WSU Undergraduate Research Grants. The research problems, approaches taken, andrespective roles of the students and faculty

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Innovative Curricula and Outreach

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Sara Hise; Jim Clark; Bryant Kiedrowski; Aaron Jennings

Session ____ Environmental Education Projects Built Around Feral Battery Research Aaron A. Jennings, Jim Clark, Sara Hise, Bryant Kiedrowski Department of Civil Engineering Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH 44106-7201Abstract Feral batteries are consumer batteries that have “run wild” to litter urban pavements. Thisproblem was first identified during a summer 2001 NSF-REU project to measure heavy metals inbrownfield soils. The project required field sampling and shopping to

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ruth Davis

Session 2793 Motivating Women Engineering Students through Community-Based Projects Ruth E. Davis Santa Clara UniversityAbstractThis paper describes a collaborative project involving students, faculty, community members,and The Institute for Women and Technology. The Virtual Development Center (VDC) site atSanta Clara University is one of nine such sites at universities around the country, eachcommitted to including the community in the definition of projects that truly benefit a segmentof the population usually ignored in the

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Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

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Hanna Lee; Sven Bilen; Robert Pangborn

Session 2625 Linking Student-Initiated Projects to Engineering Design Education Sven G. Bilén, Robert N. Pangborn, and Hanna Lee College of Engineering The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 168021. Introduction The engineering design process is paramount to the practice of engineering; hence,engineering programs have made increasing commitments to teaching design as part of designcourses, particularly capstone design classes. In the engineering colleges of most

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Teaching Design Through Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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James Bales; Thomas Consi

theoretical and disconnected from practical engineering. • Students who want to learn what a particular field is like must wait another year before experiencing the joys (and challenges) of a particular discipline. • Students get no sense of what is involved in working on a multidisciplinary problem. • Students do not get the hands-on experience that comes from building a project. Page 8.1019.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education

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Teaching Design Through Projects

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James Bowen

Session 1353 Using a Hands-On, Project-Based Approach to Introduce Civil Engineering to Freshmen James D. Bowen University of North Carolina at CharlotteAbstract At the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the second semester freshman course“Introduction to Engineering” is discipline specific. This course gives students an introductionto the particular discipline (Civil, Electrical and Computer, Mechanical) through a project-basedexperience. In Civil Engineering, this course has involved the conceptual design of a Civilstructure

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Energy Project and Laboratory Ideas

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2003 Annual Conference

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Lee Greguske; Justin Reese; Frederik Betz; Chad Weis; Michael Swedish; Glenn Wrate

Session 3233 Design, Construction, and Commissioning of a 60-kW Microturbine Demonstration Facility Glenn Wrate, Michael Swedish, Frederik Betz, Justin Reese, Chad Weis, and Lee Greguske Milwaukee School of Engineering / Focus on EnergyAbstractA joint project between the Wisconsin’s Focus on Energy program, the Milwaukee School ofEngineering (MSOE), City of Milwaukee, and We Energies to develop a 60-kW microturbinedemonstration facility is described. All the salient mechanical and electrical data (speed, torque,voltage, current, etc.) from

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Teaching Design Through Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stacy Wilson; Mark Cambron

focused on the needs of current and future industrial partners.WKU has a foundation of over 30 years of engineering technology education. The existingtechnology programs are being phased out and new programs in electrical, mechanical and civilengineering have been developed. These programs are joint programs with the University ofLouisville and the University of Kentucky. The first graduates are anticipated spring 2004. TheMission of the WKU’s Department of Engineering revolves around our vision of Project BasedLearning. The central focus of this vision is that the faculty engage students in activities tosupport development of a clear understanding of engineering practice. The roles of students - aslearners, as observers, as assistants, and as

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Energy Project and Laboratory Ideas

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2003 Annual Conference

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Margaret Wismer

Design and close loop control in the electromechanical energy conversion course Margaret G. Wismer, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837 Abstract Electromechanical energy conversion is currently a required senior year course at Bucknell University. The course has been revamped over the past several years in order to reinterest students and give them a greater appreciation of power systems, power electronics, machine drives and feedback systems. The course is design and experiment oriented and include several multiweek projects in which students have the opportunity and responsibility to execute a design

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Teaching Design Through Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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George Wise; Philip Kosky; Robert Balmer

three-part format – small group lecturesessions, team design projects, and presentations of leading edge technologies by working Page 8.4.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationengineers - around a unified theme: “Smart Cars.” In this paper we will describe: 1) the problem definition for the course in the context ofUnion College and its educational goals; 2) the course’s design requirements; 3) some alternativeconcepts for meeting those requirements, and the concept selected; 4) the

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Design Projects in Manufacturing

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2003 Annual Conference

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Scott Danielson; Scott Almen; Russel Biekert; Norbert Richter; Al Post

EnterpriseCompany (MECO) and illustrates a sample project. MECO is a curriculum construct joiningsubject matter in multiple courses over a four-semester sequence by introducing a large problemto be solved by collaboration. Through this integration, the overall function of a manufacturingengineer is better understood by the students. The MECO construct puts course content withcontext, and infuses it with a problem-solving atmosphere requiring exercise of communicationsskills.IntroductionIt is often taken as conventional wisdom that today’s students have difficulty cooperating,thinking critically, dealing with innovations, and skillfully solving problems. Unfortunately,faculty often fail to take the broad view of the educational process, too often falling

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Design Projects in Manufacturing

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2003 Annual Conference

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Venkat Allada; Tony Okafor; Rajiv Mishra; Ming Leu; Ashok Agrawal; Frank Liou

Session Number: 2563 AN INTEGRATED AND DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENT FOR A MANUFACTURING CAPSTONE COURSE Frank Liou, Venkat Allada, Ming Leu, Rajiv Mishra, Anthony OKAFOR University of Missouri-Rolla and Ashok Agrawal St. Louis Community College - Florissant ValleyAbstractPresented in the paper is an interdisciplinary capstone design project course with thesupport of distributed and integrated manufacturing processes. This project courseprovides students with the experience of integrating the technical knowledge they havelearned from

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Energy Project and Laboratory Ideas

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2003 Annual Conference

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Yanfeng Gong; Mike Collum; Noel Schulz

power engineering elective courses.However, at many universities the field of power engineering is seen as a mature field with noexciting problems to solve or work on in the 21st century.This paper and presentation will outline a joint effort between Mississippi State University andSchweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) to develop several demonstrations for introductoryEE courses and laboratories for the first power engineering course using a microprocessorcontrolled relay set-up. The goal of the project is to provide other universities with a set ofdemonstrations and laboratories to help integrate other electrical engineering concepts into thepower curriculum to show students that power really involves many areas of core

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Teaching Design Through Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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Theodore Pavlic; Prabal Dutta; Michael Hoffmann; Jeffrey Radigan; James Beams; Erik Justen; John Demel; Richard Freuler

courses for first-year engineering fundamentals to a framework that involves two coursesequences with tightly coupled courses. Engineering orientation, engineering graphics, andengineering problem solving with computer programming are now offered in each of two coursesequences,1 one called the Fundamentals of Engineering and the other the Fundamentals ofEngineering for Honors. These course sequences retain part of the traditional material but nowinclude hands-on laboratory experiences that lead to design/build projects.2 Teamwork, projectmanagement, report writing, and oral presentations have assumed important roles in bothsequences. This paper describes the administrative and teaching experiences with a design/buildproject course in the

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Energy Project and Laboratory Ideas

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2003 Annual Conference

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Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

transfer principles and heat recovery concepts. This paper presents an experimental setupthat will help the undergraduate mechanical engineering students in understanding the basic heattransfer processes by utilizing real life applications such as waste water heat recovery system.This heat recovery system is a preheating unit for the incoming cold water of a residential andcommercial (such as restaurant and hotels) hot water systems. It is designed to recover some ofthe heat of the waste water going into the sewage system. This project was completed with theassistance of an Undergraduate Senior Project Grant from the American Society of Heating,Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).I. IntroductionThe ever increasing desire for

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Energy Project and Laboratory Ideas

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2003 Annual Conference

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Darrell Massie

Session 3233 Evaluating Energy Services Performance Contracts With Engineering Students – Learning From Real Projects Darrell D. Massie United States Military AcademyAbstract Most campus heating and cooling plants can provide a wealth of real life opportunities toeducators who teach energy topics. This can be accomplished by evaluating existing heating andcooling systems or by analyzing potential plant upgrade projects. A common method of obtaining funding to upgrade new equipment on campuses and otherinstitutions is through Energy Service Companies

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mike Oelschlegel; Rafic Bachnak

Session 2526 A Project in PID Temperature Control and Loop Tuning Michael Oelschlegel and Rafic Bachnak Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Corpus Christi, TX 78412AbstractAutomatic temperature control can be accomplished in different ways with varyingdegrees of accuracy. One method, PID control, normally requires a tuning process afterthe system is installed. This paper describes how a kiln with manual temperature controlwas modified to automate the process by utilizing a microprocessor-based PID controller.The controller accepts input from a “K” type

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Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mark Smith; Wayne Walter

Session Number 2566 Handicapped Design Projects in a New Engineering Honors Course Wayne Walter, Mark Smith Kate Gleason College of Engineering Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY 14623AbstractAs part of a new Honors Program within the Kate Gleason College of Engineering at theRochester Institute of Technology (RIT), a multidisciplinary design project has been recentlyintroduced as a two-course sequence (1 credit each quarter), taken by honors students during thewinter and spring of their Freshman year. Instead