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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Philip Parker; Max Anderson

Creation of a Project-Based Introduction to Engineering Course Philip J. Parker 1 and Max L. Anderson2 Session #15261 IntroductionThe freshman year for an engineering student is critical to the retention of that student. Thetypical first-year engineering curriculum in the US contains a rigorous workload of science andmathematics courses, along with two or three courses in the humanities. Often, the onlyexposure to engineering that students obtain in this first year is in an introductory engineeringcourse. We have developed an introductory engineering course that effectively engages the first-year

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Design Through the Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Joseph Beaman; Philip Schmidt

Session 2366 PROCEED: A Department-Wide Curriculum Reform Initiative in Project-Centered Education Philip S. Schmidt and Joseph J. Beaman Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Texas at AustinAbstractThe Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin has undertaken amajor curriculum reform effort entitled PROCEED, an acronym for Project-Centered Education.The strategic objectives of PROCEED are: (1) to strengthen our students’ understanding offundamental engineering theory by continuously tying it

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Curriculum Development in Manufacturing Engineering Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

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Fred Vondra; Ali Sekmen; Ismail Fidan

Session 3247 Integrated Tool Design and Manufacturing within Advanced Hands-on Projects Ismail Fidan1, Ali Sekmen2, Fred Vondra1 1 Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN 38505/ 2Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN 37209AbstractIn most manufacturing technology programs, CAD, CNC, CAM, and Manufacturing Processescourses are usually the main components of any NAIT or TAC-ABET accredited curriculum.Currently these courses are offered in separate sequential semesters and students have noopportunity to practice their

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Visualization and Computer Graphics

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2003 Annual Conference

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Eric Wiebe; Aaron Clark

Session 2438 The VisTE Project: Visualization for Improved Technological and Scientific Literacy Eric N. Wiebe, Aaron C. Clark, Miriam Ferzli and Rachel McBroom NC State University, Raleigh, NCABSTRACT: Visualization in Technology Education (VisTE) is a standards-based initiativedesigned to promote the use of graphic visualization among grade 8-12 students to improve theirhigher order thinking, communication skills, and understanding of science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics. By using simple and complex visualization tools,students can conduct

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Student Teams and Active Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

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Helen Qammr; H. Michael Cheung; Edward Evans; Rex Ramsier; Francis Broadway

Session 2330 Reflective Journals: An Assessment of a Vertically Integrated Design Team Project Francis S. Broadway Department of Curricular and Instructional Studies Edward A. Evans, H. Michael Cheung, Helen K. Qammar Department of Chemical Engineering Rex D. Ramsier Departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Chemical Engineering The University of Akron Akron, Ohio 44325Abstract: The use of affective/associative reflective journals and skill

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Projects in Ocean and Marine Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Diane DiMassa

Session 1478 Ocean-Related Senior Design Projects for Mechanical Engineers at UMass Dartmouth1 Prof. Diane E. DiMassa Mechanical Engineering II-116, U Mass Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Rd., North Dartmouth, MA 02747 508-910-6606 ddimassa@umassd.eduAbstractThis paper discusses several ocean-related capstone design projects completed bymechanical engineering students at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Someprojects are detailed analytical projects that involved complex simulations, others aresystems engineering projects

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EM Skills and Concepts in the Real World

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2003 Annual Conference

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Charles Thompson

Session 3142 Student Participation in Field Research Project Choice and Evaluation Charles W. N. Thompson Northwestern UniversityAbstractComplementing courses which teach theory and practice of management of engineeringorganizations are courses which provide the student with an opportunity to examine or test theseteachings through designing and carrying out (at least) pilot tests in real organizations. Choiceof projects and evaluation of the students' design efforts by the instructor assures that both thesubject matter and

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Design Through the Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Michael Ellis

Session No. 2366 MULTI-DISCIPLINARY TEACHING AND LEARNING IN A SENIOR PROJECT COURSE Michael W. Ellis Department of Mechanical Engineering Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, VA 24060 ABSTRACT Multi-disciplinary team projects provide students with an opportunity to expand not only theirknowledge, but also their approach to design. This paper reviews teaching and student learningin a multi-disciplinary senior

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New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Doherty; Gerald Gannod

Session 3460 Using a Product Line Approach to Develop Course Projects£ Gerald C. GannodÝÞ and John J. Doherty Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Arizona State University Box 875406, Tempe, AZ 85287-5406 E-mail: gannod,doherty.j @asu.edu AbstractProduct Line and Product Family approaches are development techniques that take advantage of common-alities that exist among a set of current or planned products. The use of a product line approach allowsfor speedier integration of new

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Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sean Daly; Roman Stemprok

Session 2648 HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE PC SKILLS APPLIED TO A SOUND CANCELLATION PROJECT Sean Daly and Roman Stemprok University of North TexasAbstractDeveloped societies experience an increased level of noise pollution. A Sound Cancellationproject was incorporated into a 2 hour-credit Electronics Specials Problems course. The activecontrol of sound is a solution by making an anti-noise for every known noise volume. The anti-noise signal will cancel itself along with the noise. A computer runs an adaptive noise controlalgorithm in assembly code. The program takes input

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Current Environmental Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ishrat Mirzana; Ali Ansari

Session No # 2151 THE “NATURAL HOUSE” PROJECT: AN EXPERIMENT IN LEARNING BY DOING Ali Uddin Ansari, Ishrat Meera Mirzana Mechanical Engineering Department Muffakham Jah College of Engineering & Technology Hyderabad, IndiaAbstractThe “Natural House”, a design and construction project of Centre for EnvironmentalStudies & Socioresponsive Engineering (CESSE) at Muffakham Jah College ofEngineering & Technology (MJCET), is directed at involving engineering students in a“real life” project with direct social benefits. The Centre’s primary objective is to

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Engineering Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tracy Camp; Laurie Smith King; Keith Miller; Barbara Moskal

Session 1761 Preparing to Teach Computer Ethics: Results from the DOLCE Project Barbara M. Moskala, Laurie Smith King, Keith Miller, Tracy Campa a Colorado School of Mines/College of the Holy Cross/University of Illinois at SpringfieldAbstractThe Developing On/Off-line Computer Ethics (DOLCE) is an NSF sponsored project which heldthree summer workshops for university faculty members. DOLCE has created web-basedmaterials for teaching computer ethics to undergraduate computer science majors. The materialsare closely

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

Session 1566 The Need of Capstone Senior Design Projects for Outside Support Hosni I. Abu-Mulaweh Department of Engineering Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne Fort Wayne, IN 46805, USAAbstractThe students in the mechanical engineering program at Indiana University-Purdue UniversityFort Wayne are required to complete a capstone senior design project. Whenever it is possible,the students are exposed to real life design problem experience. However, most of the time, thisis not achievable because of the cost of

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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James Krogmeier; Mustafa Kamasak; Maribel Figuera; Luis Torres; Jan Allebach; George Chiu; Edward Delp; Charles Bouman; Catherine Rosenberg; Lynne Slivovsky

Session 2793 An Undergraduate Design Experience in a Wireless Computing Projects Course Lynne A. Slivovsky, Jan P. Allebach, Charles A. Bouman, George T. C. Chiu, Edward J. Delp, Maribel Figuera, Mustafa Kamasak, James V. Krogmeier, Catherine P. Rosenberg, and Luis Torres Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907AbstractTraditional lecture courses are heavily focused on learning fundamental, and often relativelytheoretical, concepts usually through passive assimilation of information from

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Multimedia Engineering Education,Distance, Service, & Internet-Based Approaches

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2003 Annual Conference

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Shan Barkataki; Bolton Tom

Session 3660 Adding Excitement to Student Projects: Try Web-Based Industry Collaboration Shan Barkataki, Tom Bolton California State University, Northridge/ Northrop-Grumman Corporation, NSDIntroductionThis paper describes an experiment where university students collaborated with an industrialpartner in the design and development of “real-world” software in an actual production project.Students were given real tasks that appeared in the project’s Pert chart; therefore their assignedtasks had real deadlines, and late delivery of the student tasks had the potential for

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Projects in Ocean and Marine Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Walter Massie

Session 1478 Multi-Background Project Teams in a Masters Degree Curriculum W.W. Massie, MSc, P.E., Associate Professor and Offshore Engineering Curriculum Leader, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The NetherlandsAbstractParticipants in the Interfaculty Offshore Engineering curriculum have entered withbackgrounds in any of the following disciplines:• Civil Engineering• Mechanical Engineering• Naval Architecture• Petroleum Engineeringfrom the Delft University of Technology as well as from a number of foreign institutions. Eachyear these

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Student Learning and Research

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mohamad Ahmadian

Session 2150 Enhancing Students’ Problem-Solving Techniques Through a Special Project Course Mohamad H. Ahmadian Eastern New Mexico UniversityAbstractThe EET program at Eastern New Mexico University is a four-year program serving studentscoming from regional high schools, two-year community colleges, and two-year technicalschools. The course Special Project is a senior level capstone course. Students are required todo two projects. In each project a marketable prototype of the design must be produced.Students enhance their knowledge of

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Advances I

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2003 Annual Conference

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Khalid Siddiqi

Session No. 1121 Paper No. 2003-1203 Private Owner Selection Criteria for Design-Build Projects Pouria Mohammadian, and Khalid Siddiqi Construction Program, Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta Georgia 30060AbstractPrivate owners, in search of a more efficient method of project delivery, are increasingly turningto design-build option for project delivery. A tremendous growth in number of design-buildprojects and very few literature articles on private sector rationale for choosing design-builddelivery necessitate more studies in this particular area. This paper analyzes

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jeff Dalton; Daniel Stutts

Mini-Lab Projects in the Undergraduate Classical Controls Course Jeffrey S. Dalton, Daniel S. Stutts, and Robert L. Montgomery University of Missouri-Rolla Rolla, MO 65409 Abstract: To address a common complaint from students that the undergraduate controls lecture course in mechanical engineering is too abstract, an electromechanical mini-lab was developed. The term “mini-lab” is used here to emphasize the fact that the lab augments the lecture, but does not replace a full controls lab. This mini-lab consists of a simple DC motor and flywheel with either tachometer speed, or potentiometer

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Teaching Design with a Twist

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sohail Anwar; Eric Granlund

Session 2653 Enhancing a Freshman Level Engineering Design Course Through Project Based Learning Sohail Anwar and Eric Granlund The Pennsylvania State University, Altoona CollegeAbstractThe use of engineering design projects provides students with a broad context related tothe material presented in the lectures. Through the use of project based learning, studentsare encouraged to assume responsibility for their learning experience and to shift frompassive to more active learning pattern. This is likely to improve the knowledge retentionas well as the ability to integrate material from

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Linda Hardymon; Saeed Foroudastan

Session 2793 The Positive Impacts of Design Projects in Freshman Courses Dr. Saeed D. Foroudastan, Ms Linda O. Hardymon Middle Tennessee State University Engineering Technology & Industrial Studies DepartmentAbstractTo enhance learning and encourage freshmen students to continue within the pre-engineering andengineering technology curriculums, Middle Tennessee State University modified itsintroductory engineering course to incorporate not only the fundamentals required to the supportbasic engineering course learning

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New Electrical ET Course Development

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2003 Annual Conference

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Marvin Needler; Anna Shiver; Elaine Cooney

Session 1833 Integrating Data Acquisition Tools to Accomplish An Automation Course Project Anna Shiver, Marvin Needler, Elaine Cooney Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUIAbstract This automation course introduces students to interfacing a wide-range of equipment:programmable logic controllers (PLCs), conveyors, pneumatic actuators, control relays,hardware sensors; robots, machine vision and smart-sensors; computers and data-acquisitioncards; and to diverse kinds of software: machine vision, Matlab, and PLC software, with a majoruse of

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Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tom Wulf; Hazem Said

accomplished. This paper reports on the development of theSAIT and on the results of implementing it for the first SAIT session during summer2002.BackgroundThe Center for Information Technology and Community Development (CITCD) at theUniversity of Cincinnati is active in building bridges between higher education and thecommunity along several dimensions which involve pre-college, college and post-collegecommunities1. This paper is a description of one of the successful projects of CITCD, theSummer Academy of Information Technology (SAIT). The program provided anopportunity for high school students in under-served communities to learn aboutInformation Technology (IT) and experience college life

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Innovative Hands-On Projects and Labs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jennifer Kadlowec

Session 1368 Combining Laboratory Innovation and a Design Experience into Tools for Mechanics Jennifer Kadlowec, Frank Brown, Aditya Chaubal, Joe Plitz, Michael Resciniti, Paris von Lockette, Eric Constans, Beena Sukumaran, Douglas Cleary Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ 08028AbstractHands-on laboratories and the engineering design process are valuable experiences by which toenhance undergraduate engineering education. This paper discusses the integration of an NSFsponsored Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Innovation project, the

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Teamwork, K-12: Projects to Promote Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Arvid Andersen

internationalbusiness and competition. We have to teach our students what that all means. Students mustbe involved and learn to identify and develop skills needed to communicate, cooperate andcollaborate in groups and environments with people from diverse cultures and differentdisciplines.This paper will describe what our students are exposed to, in order to develop theentrepreneurial and soft skills needed, and how we assess the activities involved. It is also areport of nine years of experience with international teamwork in cooperation with andparticipation of more than 40 universities mainly across Europe. Students from US, Chile,China and Australia are also now joining. All projects, on this international teamworksemester, are real projects done in

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Teamwork, K-12: Projects to Promote Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stephen Silliman

hand-pump repair, and • Model 3: An REU site on water resources in developing countries (supported by the NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates program) involving students from multiple universities who train at Notre Dame and then join faculty from Notre Dame, the University of New Mexico (Dr. Michael Campana), or the University of Nevada, Reno (Dr. Scott Tyler) for research experiences outside the United States. The classroom experience involves students from a variety of disciplines who study thetechnological, economic, political and social aspects of developing water resource projects (ofvarious magnitudes) in developing countries. The course involves student projects completed incooperation with contacts in developing

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Innovative Hands-On Projects and Labs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Kyle D. Lutes; William Szaroletta

increasingly experiencing student privacy issues and is one focus of Purdue University’s Officeof the Provost.Mechanics Laboratory Report Submission and Raw Data Dissemination: The “New Way”Given the handling problems associated with large stacks of submitted laboratory reports,electronic submission of laboratory reports was initiated in Fall 2002 for MET 211. The authorpopulated the course with students on an individual basis while looking at digital photographs ofthat particular student, as a memorization aid. During the course, ten laboratory projects wererequired to be submitted in this manner and they are shown in Figure 1 below. This is the screenthat the student “sees” when logged onto WebCT™. It is estimated by the authors that theaverage

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Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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Karen Horton

, developed CAD projects of equal interest to girls and boys, anddeveloped appropriate classroom techniques to support girls’ and boys’ learning. Of the thirty-six campers attending, nine were girls. Several of the girls planned to enter technical fields butothers had no prior interest in technical careers. The directors were particularly pleased that allthe girls were enthusiastic about the camp and wanted to recruit other girls to the planned 2003CAD Camps. Page 8.636.1“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”This camp

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Teamwork, K-12: Projects to Promote Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Craig Gunn

Tools: EES.Powerpoint ME 391 – Mechanical Engineering Analysis ME 412 – Heat Transfer Reading, thinking, and teamwork Design Project Documentation: Formal Report (1 @ 10 pp. + App., Individual) Memo Report Tools: Matlab ( X @ 2 - 5 pages App., Individual) Tools: MS Word, ExcelSenior ME 451 – Controls ME 461 – VibrationsYear Laboratory and Project Reports: Laboratory and Project Reports: Laboratory

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Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steven Harper; David Meyer

interdisciplinary team ofengineering technology students at Sinclair Community College has collaborated to manufacturea scale replica for the launch. Sinclair's Aviation Technology (AVT) and Industrial Engineering Technology (IET)departments have led this project. The leadership team for the project was created from threeSinclair student organizations affiliated with the IET and AVT departments. These include theSinclair Aviation Club, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and the Society of PlasticsEngineers. These student groups gained support from local industry partners and others in thecommunity. A partnership was established with the Dayton Air Show Education Committee toinvolve High School students and the Dayton Challenger Center provided