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Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gearold Johnson; Thomas Siller

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004 American Society for Engineering Education” Page 9.366.2curricula. The ubiquitous use of technology both in the teaching and practice of engineering alsoplays an important role in curriculum but usually not at the highest level. Rather, technologydiscussions should enter when individual courses are planned and the technology can be matchedto the course outcomes.Description of IssueThere are many ways for defining the components of the curriculum. The most commonapproach is to focus on the discipline aspects. For example, the

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fabio Urbani; Juan Iglesias

electromagnetics: A geometrical approach for problems with plane symmetryDa Silva, J.A.P. (Applied Electromagnetics Laboratory, Escola Politecnica, Universidade de Sao Paulo); Rossi, LuizNatal; Cardoso, Jose Roberto; Silva, Viviane Cristine; Lebensztajn, Luiz Source: IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,v 38, n 2 I, March, 2002, p 1313-1316Teaching electromagnetic fields and FEM for undergraduate studentsLebensztajn, L. (Escola Polit. da Univ. de Sao Paulo); Silva, V.C.; Rossi, L.N.; Cardoso, J.R. Source: IEEETransactions on Education, v 44, n 2, May, 2001, p 209LMGA-2D: A software package to teach FEA conceptsAbe, Nancy M. (Escola Politecnica da Universidade de Sao Paulo); Cardoso, Jose R.; Clabunde, Douglas R.F.;Passaro, Angelo Source: IEEE Transactions on

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Introduction to Engineering and More

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2004 Annual Conference

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Linda Katehi; Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Katherine Banks; John Gaunt; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman; Phillip Wankat

and use triangulation of that data todevelop an understanding of the program's strengths and weaknesses. These data includeprogrammatic data such as retention data as well as initiative or program specific data. Thesedata are collected in recurring efforts as part of longitudinal assessment and periodic evaluationof unique programs. More resource intensive data collection means such as interviews are usedto calibrate and validate the less resource intensive efforts that are carried out every year. Thesuccess of the FrE program can be attributed to the blending of the scholarship of teaching andthe scholarship of discovery in engineering education. The FrE program has long benefited fromfaculty efforts to adapt, apply, and forward the best of

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Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Taryn Bayles

Education, vol. 89, no. 4, 2000, pp. 413-418. 13. Churchill, S.W., “Can We Teach Our Students to be Innovative?,” Chemical Engineering Education, vol. 26, no. 2, 2002, pp. 116-121; 127. 14. Natishan, M.E., L.C. Schmidt, and P. Meade, “Student Focus Group Results on Student Team Performance Issues”, Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 89, no. 3, 2000, pp. 269-272. 15. Biernacki, J.J., and C.D. Wilson, “Interdisciplinary Laboratory in Advanced Materials: a Team- Oriented Inquiry-Based Approach,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 90, no. 4, 2001, pp. 637-640. 16. Besterfield-Sacre, M., M. Moreno, L.J. Shuman, and C.J. Atman, “Gender

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Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Neil S. Grigg; Darrell G. Fontane; Marvin Criswell; Thomas Siller

. Another conclusion is thatthese changes need to lead to changes in the educational programs that prepare their graduatesfor licensure and professional practice in civil engineering, with the topics to be addedconsiderably in excess over those which can be removed as no longer relevant. The resultingpressure on especially the undergraduate civil engineering curriculum is increasingly obvious.This leads to the following basic questions: “What should we teach civil engineering students?”and “How should the needed educational content be packaged – can all be realistically placed Page 9.910.1within a four-year undergraduate degree program

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

April Kedrowicz

objective of this collaboration is to prepare engineering students to be the leaders of thefuture by equipping them with both technical and leadership skills. So, through the integration ofcommunication, writing, teamwork and ethics into the existing engineering curriculum,graduates of the program will be prepared to occupy positions of leadership in organizations.But, to fully understand interdisciplinary work (and its successes and failures) one must firstunderstand that disciplines are cultures. Thus, when individuals from two or more disciplinesseek to collaborate in teaching or research, the result is a “culture clash” of sorts. This clash isevident through differences in language, practices, and norms. The goal, however, is not tominimize all

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wesley Bliven; Elizabeth Eschenbach

objects dissected by the teachersare electrical and contain motors, electromagnets and speakers. Teachers express an increase inconfidence and an increase in their willingness to experiment with science teaching. Theworkshop is very popular amongst teachers who state initially they are unconfident with theirphysical science knowledge. Teacher feedback attributes the popularity of the course to 1) handson activities 2) instructors’ approachableness, and 3) use of minute papers.How Things Work WorkshopThe purpose of the California Science Project1 (CSP) is to serve as a provider of services tostrengthen the science programs and science instruction of California Schools in a mannerconsistent with the California Science Framework and California

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IE Outreach and Advancement

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Wyrick

author was selected to go to Luleå for seven weeks from January to March, 1997,where he helped teach the Industrial Project course in manufacturing engineering (equivalent toUMD’s senior design), establish contacts for research, and get to know the Swedish system foreducating engineers. A materials engineering professor from Luleå came to help teach theMaterials Science course at UMD from March to May, learn the American system of education,and establish research links.The first students to take advantage of the exchange agreement were for the 1997-98 academicyear. The author spent the same year in Luleå on sabbatical, teaching a PhD course and theIndustrial Project course, doing research on technology assistance and development in small

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Ameel; Ian Harvey; Bruce Gale

dependent on the fabricationequipment available in the microfabrication laboratory, finding experienced teaching assistantshas also been difficult. Most students that have the highly specialized expertise are typicallyresearch assistants and are not available to serve as teaching assistants. The three new courses represent additions to the course offerings of the College. With nonew faculty, these courses must be taught by the current faculty, representing an overload forthose involved. Another administrative concern is the allocation of student credit hours for eachclass. With students from several different departments, and classes being cross-listed with manyof the same departments, allocation of the student credit hours (used for

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramana Pidaparti; Hasan Akay

surveys and meetings 5. Alumni and employer surveys 6. Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam results 7. Common guidelines and rubrics for student reports in laboratory experiments and major design projects 8. Jury evaluation of student work in selected key courses which cover all program outcomes 9. Instructor’s direct assessment of outcomes in exams and key projects 10. Documentation on the Web (http://www.engr.iupui.edu/me/fassessment.shtml), including exemplary student workFindings from the Assessment ProcessA systematic use of the above assessment tools for a period of four semesters revealed certainshortcomings in the programs. The shortcomings were found in the curriculum as well asdelivery of student services

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Orr; Richard Vaz

of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (BS and PhD) and Stanford University(MS), and professional experience at Bell Telephone Laboratory. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and is active inengineering education and communications/digital signal processing.RICHARD F. VAZ is Associate Professor of ECE and Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary and Global Studies atWPI. He received the BS, MS, and PhD degrees in EE from WPI. His interests are in educational methods andassessment, internationalization of engineering education, and service and experiential learning. He has won WPI’scampuswide awards for teaching and for advising. Page 9.594.10

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Innovative Curriculum Development in BAE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Fisher; Anthony Ellertson; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

% Laboratory Classroom 20% 10% 0%Figure 2. Number of students in engineering internships and co-ops at Iowa StateUniversity. 250 Internship Co-op

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Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sanjay Raman

semester 2003, the RFIC Design course enrollment was 34 students. AGraduate Research Assistant from the principal author’s research group was tasked to act asthe graduate teaching assistant (GTA) and CAD resource for the course, and was instrumentalin the preparation of the CAD tutorials described above.For the course design project, the students were divided into 10 groups of 3 and 1 group of 4by the instructor. Effort was made to balance the groups with regards to prior RF designexperience and prior VLSI design experience to the maximum extent possible. Based on thetiming of the project assignment in the course schedule, the focus of the project was on low-noise amplifier (LNA) design; however, the students had the freedom to propose

Conference Session

Novel Upper-Level Materials Curricula

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rita Caso; Jeff Froyd; Dimitris Lagoudas

plan tofacilitate learning of the new material, based upon the successful teaching and learningexperiences in the pilot. The second challenge is regularly confronted and many curricular pilotprojects have produced and shared instructional materials for the new material that the projectteams have introduced into their curricula. However, fewer resources have been generated forthe first challenge. This paper describes a curriculum innovation project that intended toincorporate so-called smart materials and intelligent systems into undergraduate engineeringcurricula at Texas A&M University (TAMU). In addition to describing the curricularinnovations, the goal of the paper is to present two concept inventory assessment instrumentsthat have been

Conference Session

Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James West; Dennis Miller; Daina Briedis

-engineering” students at MSU takethree semesters of required courses before entering a major, there is a significant discontinuitybetween the learning and application of the enabling sciences of math, physics and chemistry.More effective use of the required humanities and social science courses was also encouraged,although this is a difficult coordination and management problem on a campus as large asMSU’s (40,000+ students). In particular, the need for improved writing skills was frequentlyidentified. Alumni further recommended the integration of laboratory experiences with themainstream chemical engineering courses allowing students to exercise problem-solving skills inexperiments with a clear purpose. The need to revise the process control course

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Berliner-Heyman; Nicole Koppel; Rosa Cano; Siobhan Gibbons; Howard Kimmel

objectivessuch as classes, laboratories, hands-on activities, field trips, mentoring sessions etc. arespecific to appropriate grade course work. Each group has a main thematic unit linkingall other subjects and activities. Each group thematic unit and academic curriculum isaligned with the New Jersey Core Curriculum Standards for appropriate grade levelsproviding students with prior knowledge upon which we could build. FEMME groupsand their thematic focus are as follows: FEMME4--Environmental Science FEMME5--Aerospace Engineering FEMME6--Mechanical Engineering FEMME7--Chemical Engineering FEMME8—Biomedical EngineeringLooking at FEMME7 (Chemical Engineering), as an example, the seventh grade girlslearn about chemical engineering and

Conference Session

NASA Fellowship Program

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

with a 100 ft ethernet cable was located in a nearby laboratory in closeproximity to the launch site within the transmission range of the wireless transmitter to provide aseamless connection to the wired network. Appropriate settings were achieved to transmit the streamingvideo pertaining to the live blimp launch using one of the web servers on campus.Interested readers can acquire more information on the wireless ACCESS POINT and wireless PCNetwork Card from the website of the vendor 6.Blimp launch on November 21, 2003Goal (v) was demonstrated during the launch at NASA WFF on November 21, 2003.The gondola that was developed and instrumented for the Phase-I efforts worked adequately. However,the shape of the gondola did not allow for it to be

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TIME 9: Thermal Fluids/Fluid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Mueller; Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

temperature distribution, the heat transfer coefficient along the fin is assumed to be constant.This assumption is technically not correct as the temperature along the fin varies.Recently, a laboratory exercise in which students were to design, build, and test an “infinitely long”fin was proposed by Abu-Mulaweh [5]. One common question posed by students is “What valueshould we use for the heat transfer coefficient?” Apparently, most undergraduate textbooks do notaddress this issue directly. Thus, the motivation for this work is an attempt to answer that question.This paper examines the assumption that the heat transfer coefficient is constant and proposes asimple approach to estimate the average total heat transfer coefficient for a long cylindrical

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jan Rinehart; Robin Autenrieth; Karen Butler-Purry; Angie Hill Price

thankfully thereluctance to ask the women along for lunch and other activities is abating of late.The informal gatherings made it possible to ask the hard questions about the climate inthe college. How was it in other departments? Did people mistake you for the secretarytoo? How come he had fewer publications and students than I did and he wasunanimously approved for tenure by the departmental committee? The gatherings werean opportunity for the women to voice their fears and frustrations in a safe environmentwith sympathetic, even empathetic, colleagues. It was a way to check one’s perceptionsof reality which can be skewed when working long hours to teach classes, advisestudents, write grant proposals and papers, and serve on committees to name a

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Curriculum Development in MFG ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mitch Keil; Sam Ramrattan; Jorge Rodriguez; Alamgir Choudhury

© 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationmade. As well, based on the initial mass of a specimen and the mass after thermal distortiontesting, a percent degradation loss of specimen can be determined.Methodology The defined testing methodology consists of four major steps, which are described in the nextparagraphs. It is important to note that all specimens preparation and testing needs to beperformed in a controlled laboratory environment. Temperature was controlled at 23.9±1.1°C,and relative humidity was controlled at 50±3%. The four steps are: • Preparation of Disc Shaped Specimens • Scratch Hardness Testing • Thermal Distortion Testing • Testing Methodology1. Preparation of Disc Shaped Specimens

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K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

each school) connected in a network, with Internet access.The implementation of the program started in February of 2002; it has been dimensioned to serve10 thousand students per year, including the qualification of teachers and technical staff for thenext four years.7. Infra Structure of the ProjectThe project physical infra structure counts with 16 laboratories with 20 points of network each,in according to the international pattern EIA/TIA 568-A, where each lab contains one Rack withkey and the local network active element (Switch 24 doors 10/100 MBITS).The whole project is compounded by: 320 Celeron computers 800 MHZ/ Disk of 20GB and 128MB RAM/ Colored monitor with 15”/ CDRom/ Stabilizer; Supply of 32 printers, 2 for each lab;Large b and

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shakil Akhtar; Alaa Aly

A Course on Computer Networks Based on CC2001 Shakil Akhtar and Alaaeldin A. Aly College of Information Technology UAE University {s.akhtar, aly}@uaeu.ac.ae Abstract cryptographic algorithms and security protocols. It isThis paper presents the laboratory contents of an updated noted that because of the difficulty of both cryptographiccomputer networks course offered at the undergraduate algorithms and security protocols and also the need forjunior or senior level. The

Conference Session

Real-World Applications

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Weissbach; David Loker; Ronald Krahe

programming language that was usedfor data acquisition. The senior telecommunications systems course emphasizes voice and data "Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education"communications techniques. There are approximately seven laboratory experiments coveredwithin this course. Each of the experiments utilizes LabVIEW and typically requires two weeksto complete. As part of the course requirements, students complete a group project in place oftaking a final exam. Students select the team members and the project. Four team memberschose to work on this remote sensing project.A detailed listing of the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

G Murphy; G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

material tostudents. The adoption of Cisco VBC can result in a number of advantages for participatingacademies: • The material is supplied free of charge to participating educational institutions worldwide. • Course material is provided on-line essentially 24 hours a day for seven days a week, and is supplemented by a large selection of books 12, 13, 9, 18, simulators, examination questions and other learning material. • The material is continually updated to reflect rapid technological change. • Laboratory equipment is provided at substantial discount. • Equipment provided through the program can be used for other, non-vendor based units, and for research purposes. • Staff are trained and up-skilled

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K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Aaron Blicblau

, at the same time as the students undertake their project, they are also enrolled in atleast three examinable subjects. By having a group of two or three students work on onetopic, an extensive amount of work can be achieved.From the commencement of the project the students are given the choice of submitting eithera formal engineering report (of approximately 35 pages) or preparing a technical paper inaccordance with guidelines of the ASME9 or SAE10. These two organizations provideextensive information on the preparation of manuscripts for submission to conferences orjournals. Should the students decide to submit a “paper” they are also required to submit adetailed laboratory manual for corroboration of their work.Very few students from an

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TIME 6: Web-based Instruction

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anwar Hossain; James Fragomeni

designed to improve the interactive learning environment that students have inlearning material science in their undergraduate studies. Various courses such as metalprocessing, strength of materials, machine design, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics,manufacturing processes, mechanical behavior of materials, principles of engineering materials,materials laboratory, senior lab, senior design, and metallic corrosion require a goodunderstanding of engineering science and materials for the success of the undergraduate students.The goal would be to enhance and improve the student's materials & engineering sciencebackground and knowledge and also their computer skills using the web in an interactive user-friendly environment. Rather than simply reading

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chih-Ping Yeh

continue their education. The learning community allows students to pair up to do team project and learn from each other while at the community college and continue after transferring to WSU. This new method teaches teamwork skills in early semesters, but mostly fosters a sense of belonging, and helps students develop their education plan, provides peer mentoring and a focus on academic achievement. • Develop Individual Educational Plans: The WSU Division of Engineering Technology has set up plans of study for all six majors transferring from community colleges. WSU staff will meet with SC staff and students to assist students in setting up their electronic plans of study specifically based on Schoolcraft College transfer

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Watkins

that an engineering technologist may see on the job. Preparingthe student to use these computer based tools should be an important part of ET curricula. Anumerical methods course, with the correct focus, can meet this need for today’s student.UNC Charlotte’s course “Applied Numerical Methods” has recently been updated to includeextensive work in Microsoft Excel and Matlab, two software packages commonly used bytoday’s practicing engineers. The course teaches the basic concepts of formulating engineeringproblems for computer solution. Each topic includes computer based assignments thatdemonstrate each program’s strengths and weaknesses in that area. Emphasis is placed onengineering applications from mechanical, civil, and electrical

Conference Session

Molecular and Multiscale Phenomena

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Keith

problem”, sulfur / CO poisoning of electrodes 8. Research and development efforts in fuel cells 9. Fuel cell system economics and marketA good introductory book on fuel cells (that will be recommended, but not required) hasbeen written by Larminie and Dicks19. Supporting laboratory experiments will also bedeveloped in future years. These experiments can easily be integrated into the chemicalengineering curriculum.What Went Right / What Went WrongWorking with a large number of undergraduate students on a research project is achallenging task. This section will highlight some of the things that were a success andsome of the things that could be improved upon.Student evaluations of the instructor were excellent. This may be because the

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Leonhardt

developed the Ekranoplanvehicle project during a Technology Education course. An Ekranoplan or Wing-In-GroundEffect vehicle flies very close to a water surface. The vehicle uses design elements of bothairplanes and marine craft. Ground-effect flight enables a vehicle to carry either a larger payloador operate with greater fuel efficiency than a conventional airplane. The candidates testedseveral vehicle configurations, power sources and construction techniques. Vehicle constructionguidelines and curriculum outlines were developed to disseminate to other technology educators.The project has been used to teach the engineering design process to freshman students inWestern Washington University’s Engineering Technology Design Graphics