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Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Smith; Angela Quick

to Georgia Tech's French campus (Georgia Tech Lorraine) is the Frenchhigh school, the Lycée de la Communication. In early 2002 and with the support of the GeorgiaTech’s Atlanta and French administrations, the Lycée de la Communication (in Metz, France)and Rockdale Magnet School for Science and Technology (25 miles from Georgia Tech’sAtlanta campus in Conyers, Georgia USA) agreed to an experiment in which French and USstudents are paired to perform joint research projects. In autumn 2002, ten US students visitedFrance to meet with their French research partners. In April 2003, French students willreciprocate and visit Georgia. Each visiting group resides in local homes and participates in theacademic and home life of their host families. The

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Innovative Teaching Methods in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Silvanus Udoka; Paul Stanfield

seniordesign projects. Additionally, most industrial engineers have experience interacting with otherengineers earlier in their academic career through common engineering courses. However,interaction with business students rarely occurs before the senior year, if then. This deficiencyprevents the development of a key skill required for industrial engineering practice. This paper describes two innovative approaches to experientially teach multidisciplinaryproblem solving to teams of engineering and business students. Both approaches allow theinteractions to occur earlier in the curriculum. The first approach is through class partnering.Such partnering emulates more long term interdisciplinary efforts such as design teams andconfiguration

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International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

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Frank Duda

the need for technical assistance,financial aid and education. This is made clear by past research done by others 3, 4, 5. However,because of the differences in culture, we needed to ask the questions, hear the answers anddevelop potentially helpful projects around the answers.Survey MethodologyThe surveys were done on an informal basis built around three questions and 150 to 200 leaders.The methodology for the survey was to meet with the leaders and informally ask the threequestions and then to record the responses. The questions and answers were further support forour belief in the basis for a successful new research center model.This study used qualitative research methods, in particular in-depth interviews, focus groupdiscussions and a

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Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

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2003 Annual Conference

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Katie Torrey; James Hertel; Douglas Oppliger; Gretchen Hein; Glen Archer; Jason Keith

students to the concept of mass balances. This problem wasused to illustrate how to properly set-up and document engineering problems, design and usespreadsheets, and observe the effect of changing process variables on an overall design. Thestudents also learned technical writing skills by summarizing the project in a short report.Additionally, ENG1101 students were given a problem where they had to use unit conversions tosolve a Biomedical Engineering problem. In Fundamentals of Engineering II (ENG1102), anElectrical Engineering project introduced the students to control logic design. Starting with aconceptual 3- D model of the mechanical design, the project required the team to develop asystem configuration diagram, energy budget, functional

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Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2003 Annual Conference

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James Johnson; Bill Kitchen

The Case Files James Johnson, William Kitchen Nashville State Technical Community CollegeThe Case Files is a National Science Foundation funded project designed to produce a readilyaccessible inventory of case studies and professional development workshops to help facultyimplement case studies in their technology classes. This project is built on two previous projectsthat explored techniques for training faculty how to use authentic case studies that incorporate the“Case Files Learning Cycle” defined by project partners from the Learning Technology Center atVanderbilt University.Four case studies were developed and tested in colleges and

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Parker; Max Anderson

first-year student by introducing him or her to engineering design through five design projects.Specifically, the goals of the project are to:1) Create a “portable” first year Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering (ICEE) course based on the Sooner City program.2) Assess the success of the ICEE course at meeting the following global objectives: a) Stimulate interest in engineering among freshmen; b) Provide freshmen with an understanding of the breadth of the civil and environmental engineering profession; c) Positively impact retention of freshman civil and environmental engineering students.3) Provide course materials on a web page to

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Intro to Engineering: Not Just 1st Year Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Janet Schmidt

first year students were introducedto the design process through the realization of an actual product (e.g., human powered waterpump) by working in small teams, Teaching Fellows (called TFs) have a variety of roles atypicalof most undergraduate teaching assistants.2 Specifically, TFs act as role models, tutors, and teamfacilitators in addition to assisting the faculty member with tasks such as grading, supervisingstudy sessions and occasionally teaching a class section on material related to the class project orteam dynamics. The purpose of the present paper is to describe the Teaching Fellows programtoday, ten years after its inception. While many features have remained virtually the same,significant changes in the students targeted for

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Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jeremy Poling; Emily Blakemore; Lee Greguske; Glenn Wrate

to determine if additional funding of either technology was warranted. Theresults were also published on a student-developed web page. Since the study was performedwith students, in a high traffic area, this research was a wonderful vehicle to increase studentinterest in the energy efficiency area. This paper documents the two technologies, the students’response to the different technology, the methods used to compare the technologies, and thedevelopment of the web page. In addition, suggestions for further work in the area are made, andlessons learned on this project are discussed. It was found that while the amount of energy savedis small for an individual machine, Wisconsin alone has over 75,000 of these machines, so thetotal energy

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Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sandra Courter; Jay Martin

Session 1653 2nd and 3rd Order Refinements/Improvements to an Experiential Design and Introduction to Engineering Course for First-Year Students Sandra Shaw Courter and Jay K. Martin University of Wisconsin-MadisonABSTRACT A three-credit course for first-year students with the objective of providing anauthentic engineering design experience and an introduction to engineering has been inplace at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1994. From the inception, the coursehas been centered on real projects the students carry out in collaboration with bona fideclients. During

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Innovation in Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Corradeschi; Raymond Carr; Lewis Natiello; Donald Carlucci; Albert Messano; Keith Sheppard

introductory design experience with some linkageto a concurrent Graphics course2. Elements of teaming, project management, economics andeffective communication are included. The second half of the course is focused on a major teamproject to build a robot that can negotiate obstacles and fulfill a prescribed task in competitionwith the robots from other teams. The project introduces students to sensors, algorithmdevelopment and microprocessor programming, and it is also fun! The design sequence continuesin the 2nd semester of Freshman year with a design course that strongly links to a Mechanics ofSolids lecture course3. The third design course links to the Thermodynamics and EnergyConversion course4. These design laboratories further advance the

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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MICHAEL HOLTZ; Chandra Sekhar; Ashfaq Ahmed; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

Session 1311 INTERNET BASED LESSON AND TEST DELIVERY, AUTOMATIC GRADING AND RECORD KEEPING SYSTEM Omer Farook, Chandra R. Sekhar, Jai P. Agrawal, Ashfaq Ahmed and Michael Holtz Purdue University CalumetABSTRACTThe paper describes the “Internet Based Lesson and Test Delivery, Automatic Grading and RecordKeeping System”. This system is conceived and designed as part of the Senior Design Project ofElectrical Engineering Technology curriculum during a two-semester course offering. These twocourses are the capstone courses in Electrical Engineering Technology curriculum offered in 7th and8th semester. This

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Student Teams and Active Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

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Janet Schmidt; David Bigio; Linda Schmidt; Paige Smith

Session 1430 Engineering Students and Training in Teamwork: How Effective? Linda Schmidt, Janet Schmidt University of Maryland Carol Colbeck Pennsylvania State University David Bigio, Paige Smith, and Lee Harper University of MarylandAbstractThe motivating principle of the BESTEAMS (Building Engineering Student Team Effectivenessand Management Systems) project is to create a modular student team training program that canbe integrated into any

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Student Teams and Active Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

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Daniel Raviv; Rosalyn Berne

Session 2330 Eight-Dimensional Methodology for Innovative Thinking About the Case and Ethics of the Mount Graham, Large Binocular Telescope Project Submitted by:Rosalyn W. Berne, Division of Technology, Culture and Communication,University of Virginia, 351 McCormick Road, Thornton Road, Charlottesville, Va. 22904.434-924-6098. rwb@virginia.eduAnd,Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University, Electrical Engineering Department, FloridaAtlantic University, Boca Raton Florida, 33431. 561-297-2773. ravivd@fau.eduAbstract Case analysis is a common method for

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Partnerships in IE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Susan Griffin; Paul Griffin; Donna Llewellyn

The Impact of Group Size and Course Lengthon a Capstone Design CoursePaul M. Griffin¹, Susan O. Griffin and Donna C. Llewellyn²¹School of Industrial and Systems Engineering²Center for Excellence in Teaching and LearningGeorgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta, GA 30332January 15, 2003AbstractIn the spring semester of 2003, the School of Industrial Engineering at Georgia Tech ranan experimental one-semester version of their capstone course, Senior Design. Thestandard version is two semesters in the length, and the purpose of the experiment was tocompare the marginal benefit of the second semester for the student (and project sponsor)to the cost of running the second semester in terms of faculty and sponsor resources. Inaddition, a survey was

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Engineering / Education Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steve Shooter; Micheal Hanyak; Matt Higgins; Marie Wagner; Ed Mastascusa; Dan Hyde; Brian Hoyt; Bill Snyder; Michael Prince

Session 3531 Engineering Engineering Education A Conceptual Framework for Supporting Faculty in Adopting Collaborative Learning Brian Hoyt, Michael Prince, Steve Shooter, Michael Hanyak, , E.J. Mastascusa, William Snyder, T. Michael Toole, Mathew Higgins, Daniel C. Hyde, Marie Wagner, Margot Vigeant Bucknell UniversityAbstractOver the last three years, nearly a quarter of Bucknell’s engineering faculty haveparticipated in Project Catalyst, a NSF funded project to promote systemic change

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steven Beyerlein; Michael Klein; Matt Walker; Kevin Organ; Dan Gerbus

(IEW) at the University ofIdaho is formed of a diverse group of graduate students whose purpose is to develop anenvironment that fosters professional as well as technical excellence. This paper analyzes theactions taken each year by IEW leading to the formation of well-trained, collaborative, and highly-reflective cohort of graduate students that support design education. This team is developedthrough directed study courses, team projects, personal reflections and monumental technical andinterpersonal challenges. Since 1994, IEW has been successful in delivering hardware thatexceeds expectations of industry customers, shortening time frames required for large-scaledesign projects, enriching senior design mentoring, and expanding the number of

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Trends in Biological & Agricultural Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ron Lacey; Ann Kenimer

Session 2003-1240 Teaming Freshmen with Seniors in Design Ann Kenimer, Ronald Lacey Associate Professors, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M UniversityIntroductionThe Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at Texas A&M University offersdesign-focused courses for freshman and senior engineering students. The senior-level coursesconstitute the curriculum’s capstone design experience. Seniors work in teams of four to five on adesign project suggested by industry clients. Many of these same projects are used in the freshman

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Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

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Marlee Walton

Session 2615 The Integrated Civil Engineering Curriculum: The Gap Between the Blackboard and Business Marlee A. Walton Iowa State UniversityAbstract:Civil Engineering curricula have been criticized for not effectively preparing engineering studentsfor the workplace. Industry wants technically competent students who also can work as part ofteams, manage projects, communicate well and understand the economic, social and politicalcontext of their professional activities. The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET), with

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Manuel Toledo-Quinones

participate in a multidisciplinary program focused on promoting careers inmass transport. Participating students from the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)Department of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM) improved and acquired skillsin areas such as software development, distributed computing, embedded systems, machinevision, image processing, and multimedia. The program complements UPRM’s ECE curriculumby combining a year-long development experience with participation in workshops, publicpresentations and report writing.As a way of illustration, this article presents two projects being developed by ECE students aspart of UPR/MIT/Tren Urbano Professional Development (TUPD) program, which is brieflyoverviewed first. The first

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Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Taylor

program has threephases: a seminar series, a project experience with strong ties to entrepreneurial business, and aformal course of study leading to a certificate. Student interest has been excellent, withattendance at the seminars being as high as 160. Approximately 30 students are pursuing thecertificate in the second year. The program has been endowed by an alumnus who established theJack Hatcher Chair in Engineering Entrepreneurship. An advisory board of successfulentrepreneurs is providing leadership for the program.Introduction The role of the engineering entrepreneur in the expansion of the economy is self-evident.Engineers with entrepreneurial sprit and skills are the locomotives of the technology-based startupcompany and, perhaps

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Laura Bottomley; Aaron Clark

the Department of Education Office of Vocational and AdultEducation (OVAE) set forth an agenda to meet these demands for the future of our workforce inAmerica.In January of 2001, the Department of Education (OVAE), under the direction of StateSupervisors (NASDCTEc), developed a strategy to update current curricula to meet future needsof employers. This movement was funded by the US government and called the “Career ClustersProject.” This joint effort by states throughout the US was to develop curricula guidelines thatcould be used in future curricula development to ensure that the products will meet future needsof employers. The project was designed for both secondary and post-secondary education, but

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mihalasky; Gina Boesch; Keith Sheppard

an educational environment that has beennamed Technogenesis™ to capture an orientation towards entrepreneurship that permeates thebroader institutional mindset, from undergraduate programs through to graduate programs andfaculty scholarship. Technogenesis has been embraced as a strategic direction for the Institutethrough retreats, group discussions and forums over a number of years involving faculty,trustees, administrators and students.Curriculum development has seen the introduction of entrepreneurship elements into theundergraduate engineering core, mostly through the eight-semester design sequence, as well aselective coursework and seminars. Students are encouraged to work with faculty on projects thathave the potential to spawn

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Moujalli Hourani

their graduates have the ability to design and conduct experiment, as well as toanalyze and interpret data”. The innovative approach is a project consisting of designing,constructing, and testing of structural systems made of different materials, and subjected todifferent loading and support conditions. The paper presents the detailed description of theproject, all the steps performed by the students, and the difficulties faced by the students in theirfirst attempt of this project. In addition, the paper concentrates on the Outcomes and theAssessments of the project according to criterion 3.of ABET 2000.Introduction In the fall of 2002 the school of engineering programs at Manhattan College have gonethrough the accreditation process

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

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Byron Newberry

Session 2368 Hands-on Learning in Engineering Mechanics using Layered Beam Design B. L. Newberry Oklahoma Christian UniversityI. IntroductionA sophomore level Engineering Mechanics project is presented that uses design and constructionto reinforce student learning of beam deflection and flexural shear strain. The project requires thestudent to design, to build, and to test a layered beam that minimizes cost yet provides specific in-plane and out-of-plane stiffness. Each student is presented with an inventory of available

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stephen McClain; Bruce Cain

@me.msstate.eduAbstractThe undergraduate laboratory sequence in mechanical engineering (ME) at Mississippi StateUniversity (MSU) begins with ME 3701—Experimental Orientation, a one-hour laboratoryfocusing on engineering measurements, instrumentation, and modern data acquisition (DAQ)systems. Instruction and student projects in ME at MSU concerning modern DAQ systems havechanged considerably in past five years. One driving force in changing the DAQ instruction isthe departmental requirement of student laptop ownership. Modern DAQ systems are currentlyintroduced using National Instruments, Inc., PCMCIA data acquisition cards and DAQ signalaccessories hosted by the students’ laptops. Using the students’ laptops with department ownedPCMCIA DAQ cards has eliminated the

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Engineering Education; An International Perspective

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Bannerot

Session 2560 Cultural Influences in Design Jean-Luc Herbeaux, Richard Bannerot RohMax Additives GmbH / University of HoustonAbstractA short design project was given concurrently to sophomore engineering students at theKanazawa Institute of Technology (Ishikawa, Japan) and at the University of Houston (Texas,USA) as part of the first engineering design course taken in both curricula. Students were askedto design and build at least one low-cost device whose main purpose was to support a set ofchopsticks while not in use. The project was introduced in the first week of

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jackie Sullivan; Daniel Knight

-Year Engineering Projects course at the Universityof Colorado at Boulder. Moreover, instructors in this course have observed a pattern of femalestudents choosing other activities within their teams rather than engaging in the hands-onconstruction aspect of product development. To address these concerns, a Women’sManufacturing Workshop (WMW) series was piloted during the 2002-03 academic year througha partnership between the Women in Engineering Program (WIEP) and the Integrated Teachingand Learning Laboratory (ITLL). Another aim was to provide women students a context forpursuing engineering through acquisition of knowledge and skills applicable to the design-buildprocess in a low-risk setting. This paper discusses the effects of the WMW on

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Building Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Plichta; Mary Raber

Page 8.1133.1problems, perform testing and analyses, make recommendations, build prototypes, manufactureProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education. Session 3454parts, stay within budgets (real and imaginary), and manage multiple projects. The objectives ofthe Enterprise Program are to • provide opportunities for students and faculty to develop entrepreneurial and innovative engineering skills, • provide students with a multi-disciplinary design experience that involves other baccalaureate

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Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Williamson; Randy Winzer

students have gained duringtheir tenure at PSU. In 1996 the two professors in charge of the class decided to use the NASAsponsored human powered moon buggy competition (http://moonbuggy.msfc.nasa.gov/) as acommon project for the students to accomplish the goals and objectives of this class. In 2002some of the students from the Electronics Engineering Technology Program’s “Capstone” coursedecided to design and build a system to gather telemetry from a student built moon buggy.IntroductionPittsburg State University in 2003 will celebrate 100 years of providing learning opportunities tostudents. Pittsburg is located in the southeastern corner of Kansas and is centrally positioned nearlarger cities such as Wichita, KS, Kansas City, MO and Tulsa, OK

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Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

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Susan Lord

, and pilot their shoes across a25-meter pool. WOW is organized by the engineering student societies at USD and sponsoredby industry and businesses within the local community.The WOW event is also used as a fun design project for teams of first-year engineering studentsat USD. Utilizing the engineering design process introduced in the classroom, student teamsmust consider three important design considerations: buoyancy, stability, and propulsion. In Fall2002, the engineering students visited local high schools to present how they applied theengineering design process to design Walk On Water shoes. This service-learning projectreinforces the USD students’ comprehension of the design process and helps them develop theircommunication skills while