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Design and Manufacturing Experiences II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Charles Coleman; Jennifer Craig

Using Teamwork and Communication Skills to Monitor and Strengthen the Effectiveness of Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering Design Projects Charles P. Coleman, PhD Boeing Assistant Professor Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jennifer L. Craig, M.S., M.A. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics/Program in Writing and the Humanities Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAbstract:Earlier work in a 2nd year undergraduate engineering design course suggests that there isa strong correlation

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Parent

Using open-ended design projects in an open lab to teach lifelong learning skills in an IC design course D. W. Parent EE Department, San Jose State University, San Jose CA 95192-0084, email dparent@email.sjsu.edu, PH 408.924.3863, FX 408.924.3925The ABET criterion, recognition for and the ability to engage in life-long learning, is one of themost important, given that we as engineering educators can not teach every concept that studentswill encounter over the span of a 20-40 year career as an engineer. We believe that one methodto teach and verify this critical skill in the area of Integrated Circuit (IC) design, is to have thestudents learn

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NASA Fellowship Program

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2004 Annual Conference

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Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

Session # 2470 Vertical Integration of Students and Mentoring Activities Pave the Way for Phase-II of UMES-NASA Experiential Learning Project Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, Mark Williams, Gurbax Singh, Madhumi Mitra, Robert Conry/ Geoff Bland University of Maryland Eastern Shore/NASA GSFC Wallops Flight FacilityParticipating students: Dianne Dixon, Alan Dellapenna, Joseph Jean-Louis, Matthew Mader, Jolsone Augustine, JadaCottman, Habtamu Yalfalken, Shawn Ward, Marcus Smith, Brian Vetter, Robert Fries, Joseph Ford, James Taylor, JeremyRodgers, Olatunde Alade, Amy Davis, Sushil Milak, Vinod Yadav

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2004 Annual Conference

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Elizabeth Eschenbach

Session 1392 Go With the Flow - A Student Leadership Opportunity Integrating K-12 Outreach, the Society of Women Engineers, Service Learning and Peer Mentoring Elizabeth Eschenbach, Eileen Cashman Environmental Resources Engineering Humboldt State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes a multi-year project that involved the Humboldt State University StudentSection of the Society of Women Engineers in a Service Learning project that now serves as acontinuous outreach project to young children in the community. The SWE club oversaw

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Design for Community

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2004 Annual Conference

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Nolan Van Gaalen; Kristin Wood; Carl Erikson; Frank Duda; Matthew Green; Steven VanderLeest

Session 2625 Service-Learning Approaches to International Humanitarian Design Projects: A Model Based on Experiences of Faith-Based Institutions Matthew G. Green and Kristin L. Wood Steven H. VanderLeest Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Department of Engineering, Calvin College The University of Texas, Austin Grand Rapids, MI matthew-green@mail.utexas.edu svleest@calvin.edu Frank T. Duda Carl Erikson Department of Engineering, Grove City

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Mathematics in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jule Scarborough; Conard White; Promod Vohra

Session Number Strategic Alliance Between Higher Education, Secondary Schools, and Community Business and Industry to Improve Secondary Mathematics, Science, Technology, and English Education: A National Science Foundation Project Jule Dee Scarborough, Ph.D. and Conard White, Ph.D. Presented by Promod Vohra, Dean College of Engineering and Engineering Education Northern Illinois UniversityNorthern Illinois University (NIU), Rock Valley College (RVC), and the Rockford [Illinois]Public Schools (RPS), as well as (a) Peer Master Teacher Leader(s) from Grayslake

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Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2004 Annual Conference

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Davis Charles; Tony Lin

Session 3263 Integration of Polymer Processing and Advanced Quality Assurance Courses - An Injection Molding Project using Design of Experiments Tony Lin, Charles C. Davis, Nanda K. Neethimangala Kettering University Flint, MI 48504AbstractKettering University is a co-op college for Engineering and Managerial Studies located in Flint,Michigan. Our students alternate terms of classroom/laboratory work with terms of workexperience with their corporate sponsors. Because of this unique education system, it

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New Program/Course Success Stories

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2004 Annual Conference

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Josh Humphries; David Radcliffe

from theoutset of their professional career while simultaneously having immediate value in helping themto manage a research project and capstone design project in their senior year. An integral part ofthis innovation was the development of a web-based project management tool. While the mainobjectives of the new course design were achieved, a number of important lessons were learnedthat would guide the further development and continuous improvement of this course. The mostcritical of these is the need to achieve the optimum balance in the mind of the students betweendoing the project and critically analyzing the processes used to accomplish the work.IntroductionIn most industries, engineering is increasingly managed through projects. As a new

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Interdisciplinary Approaches

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2004 Annual Conference

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Olufemi Omitaomu; Adedeji Badiru

Session # 2439 Incor por ation of Infor mation Systems Economics into Engineer ing Economic Analysis Cour ses H. Olufemi Omitaomu, Adedeji B. Badir u Depar tment of Industr ial & infor mation Engineer ing Univer sity of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-0700Abstr actIn this paper, we propose the inclusion of economics of information systems into EngineeringEconomic Analysis curriculum. Information system projects are unique projects with severaldistinguished characteristics. They are also subject to several conditions of risk. Severalgraduates

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Best Zone Papers

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2004 Annual Conference

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Margaret Pinnell; Leon Chuck

environmentalimpact of engineering. Inclusion of these soft skills into an already packed engineeringcurriculum can be difficult. One approach that appears to be effective at helping students developthe soft skills without compromising the acquisition of technical knowledge is service-learning.Service-learning is a form of project based experiential learning where the students are engagedin an activity that meets the specific needs of a community or nonprofit organization. Whencorrectly implemented, both the service and educational objectives are met. Service-learning hasbeen incorporated with varying degrees of success into many courses and/or curriculum in manyuniversities across the United States since the late 1980’s .1-3 However, only a small fraction

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Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2004 Annual Conference

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Nicole DeJong Okamoto

Session 2675 Getting Started with an Adaptation and Implementation Grant Nicole DeJong Okamoto San Jose State UniversityIntroductionThe goal of the Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program at theNational Science Foundation is to improve the quality of science, technology, engineering, andmathematics (STEM) education for all students. The activities funded seek to improve studentlearning environments, course content, curricula, and educational practices.1 The program hasfour tracks. “Adaptation and Implementation” projects adapt and implement

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Integrating Taxes, Law, & Business

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jeannette Russ

investigate realcompanies, real decisions, and even real failures. After completion of the project, the studentscan compare their solution to the historical one and speculate upon how events could have beendifferent. Another aspect of the course that simulates the real world is its cross-disciplinarynature, which introduces students to the challenges of developing a solution that simultaneouslysatisfies criteria in several different areas. In terms of classroom discussions, the World War IIsetting provides an excellent foundation, since many modern industrial engineering practiceshave roots in that era. To build upon this foundation, students are required to presentintermediate progress reports related to specific issues. Preparation for these

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Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Hazem Said

Session _2560_ Improving Students Retention by Engaging Them in Real Life Experiences Hazem Said Department of Mathematics, Physics and Computing Technology, University of CincinnatiIntroductionEngaging engineering technology students in real life experiences has a positive impacton retention rate. The Center for Information Technology and Community Development(CITCD) at the University of Cincinnati initiated the IT-Students-Work project (ITSW)as part of its plan to establish strong relationship between students in the InformationTechnology program

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Capstone Design II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ajay Agrawal; Zahed Siddique

Session 2425 FROM GOALS TO PRODUCTS IN A SENIOR DESIGN PRACTICUM COURSE Ajay K. Agrawal and Zahed Siddique School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019AbstractSenior Design Capstone is a required component of many undergraduate engineering programs.The program offers numerous challenges for both faculty and students because of the widevariety of projects in a given year as well as from year to year. This paper discusses key phasesfor successful implementation of a Senior Design Capstone Program to achieve

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Design Throughout the ChE Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

Session 1413 INDUSTRY AND ACADEMIA: A SYNERGISTIC INTERACTION THAT ENHANCES UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION Stephanie Farrell, Robert P. Hesketh, C. Stewart Slater, and Mariano J. Savelski Department of Chemical Engineering Rowan University Glassboro, NJ USAAbstractRowan University has developed a program that fosters synergistic interaction between industryand academia. This program provides a mechanism for performing industrially sponsoredresearch or design projects in an academic environment. One of the unique features of thisprogram is its

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Cottrell

Session 1793 Innovative Strategies for Teaching Graphics Communications – Designing Residential and Commercial Properties in an Introductory Course David S. Cottrell Pennsylvania State University at HarrisburgIntroductionThis paper describes the integration of design projects during the Fall Semester, 2003,into the curriculum of an introductory graphics communications course at Penn StateUniversity at Harrisburg. These projects served a double purpose of reinforcing topicstaught in the classroom as well as introducing students to the engineering design processwith their

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TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

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Paul Burt; Shih-Liang (Sid) Wang

&T) is a two-course sequence. The change from a one-semester course fouryears ago allows students sufficient time to design projects from concept through prototypeconstruction, testing, and evaluation. The class has approximately forty students each year and isdivided into four to five sections, each with a different project. Projects include professionalsociety sponsored design competitions and industry sponsored projects. Design competitionsinclude Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Aero Design Competition, Formula SAE, andMini Baja, and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Design Competition.Industry sponsored projects include those from Boeing, Caterpillar, Kimberly Clark, Gillette, andMichelin.Industry sponsored projects

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The Nuts & Bolts of TC2K

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2004 Annual Conference

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Paul Lin; Harold Broberg

Session 2149 Capstone Courses and Program Outcomes - TC2K Assessment Paul I-Hai Lin, Hal Broberg Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne AbstractThis paper discusses course objectives, student learning outcomes, teaching strategies,assessment techniques, and continuous improvement used in conducting a two-semestercapstone course. It leads the students from the conceptual stage in senior project design tothe actual implementation stage. The course is intended to enable students to succeed

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Introduction to Engineering and More

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2004 Annual Conference

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Shawn Nichols; Margaret Pinnell

Session 2653 kidslearn in Introduction to Engineering Design Margaret F. Pinnell, Ph. D., Shawn Nichols University of Dayton Dayton, Ohio 45469-0210Abstract EGR 101, Introduction to Engineering Design is a required, two semester hour, first year,multi-disciplinary engineering course offered at the University of Dayton (UD) through theschool of engineering. In the winter semester of 2003, students enrolled in EGR 101participatedin a service-learning project called kidslearn. The kidslearn service-learning project

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Industrial Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sven Nielsen

the professional learning process by abalancing of teaching/experience, theory/practice, disciplinarily/interdisciplinary and bystrengthening the link between research, education and practice. This presentation draws onthe author’s experience since 1974 with the never ending development and implementation ofthe Aalborg experiment.Introduction: The Aalborg ExperimentAalborg University (AAU) was established in 1974 as an innovative experiment in highereducation with 900 students from four different schools, now with more than 13,000 students.The innovation was mainly to use the project-based educational approach to overcome someof the problems of the traditional course-based educational system. The curriculum inengineering as well as in the

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BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Jendrucko

in a manner to maximize student learning and satisfaction. A designcourse sequence presents many significant challenges related to both technical contentand "people issues." The manner in which these have been dealt with effectively in theBME 455 - 469 course sequence is detailed below.Course ObjectivesThe objective of the BME design course sequence is for students to learn essential designmethods and skills and to be able to function efficiently and effectively as individuals andas members of design teams. Specifically, students must be able to perform acomprehensive project literature review including a patent survey, and they mustformulate product design objectives and specifications and develop design alternatives.Students must be able

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Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jon Duff

A Massively Large Student Modeling Assignment (MLSMA) Dr. Jon M. Duff Information and Management Technology Arizona State University Abstract Most curricula in engineering and technology find a “capstone project” to be highly beneficial in preparing soon-to-be-graduated majors. One consideration that confounds a successful capstone project is matching a task of sufficient significance with realistic expectations of student success. Students may possess the requisite skills but a project that tests those skills may be difficult to identify. But more likely

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2004 Annual Conference

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Suzanne Olds

Session 2530 Developing a Standards-based K-12 Engineering Curricula through Partnerships with University Students and IndustrySuzanne A. Olds1, Chirag D. Patel1, Bugrahan Yalvac2, David E. Kanter1,2, Neha Goel1 1 Biomedical Engineering Department/ 2School of Education and Social Policy Northwestern University, Evanston, ILBackgroundWe have developed a K12 engineering outreach project that aims to benefit the projectdevelopers as much as the target recipients of the instructional materials. The primary developersin this case are university biomedical engineering (BME) students, both

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Stephan

involves a robot arm. The term project provides an organizing purpose for thepresentation of more conventional digital electronics material earlier in the course.Introduction A notable trend in engineering education in recent years is the growth in interdisciplinarydegree programs which draw upon a variety of traditional “core” disciplines such as electricaland mechanical engineering. Programs such as biomedical engineering and manufacturingengineering currently account for a growing fraction of the total undergraduate engineeringenrollment at many schools. For this reason, there is an increasing need for educationalapproaches that convey the essence of a traditional discipline to students who are not majors inthat discipline. This paper

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Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mahmoud Ardebili; Ali Sadegh

environment. The class teaches fundamentals ofengineering graphics. It provides students with an opportunity to learn solid modeling asa tool for design process and product realization in addition to skills/competencies thattraditional introductory graphics classes promote.The main thrust of the new curriculum is on the project-based learning. It is believed thatpresenting the topics of the course through a project would expose the students toreal engineering practice. In fact, this approach helps students, throughout theirengineering programs, to prepare themselves for the Capstone Projects in the seniordesign courses. Specifically, students are given the opportunity to disassemble a realproduct and construct drawings of its parts. At the end of the

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Service Learning in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Leah Jamieson; Carla Zoltowski; Frank DeRego; Lynne Slivovsky; William Oakes

of the service theyprovide to their community and, in a broader sense, the impact they can have on the world. Researchhas shown that students participating in service learning have a higher comprehension of the coursematerial and also develop an awareness of their local community and the issues it faces. In engineering,there are many examples of service-learning programs ranging from freshman introductory courses tosenior capstone courses. Despite their successes, an area that the engineering education community hasyet to fully develop is the reflection component of service learning. This paper addresses thedevelopment of reflection activities and materials in the Engineering Projects in Community Service(EPICS) program at Purdue University

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Mobile Robotics in Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Steve Richards; Daniel Pack; David Ahlgren; Igor Verner

design projects—and in assessing the educational impactof robotics projects and competitions. We show that one particular assignment, the developmentof autonomous mobile robots, ties together interdisciplinary design, experiential learning,teamwork assessment and other topical educational subjects in powerful and unique ways. Weidentify best practices taken from our experiences, focusing on (a) undergraduate experiences infire-fighting robotics and in the AUVSI Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition; (b) integratingrobotics into the first year engineering design courses, advanced research project teams, andsenior design projects; (c) robot design as a medium to promote teamwork; (d) methods ofevaluation and assessment of robotics curricula and

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Massoud (Mike) Safavi; James Strueber

SESSION NO.: 1793 THE TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY SOLAR DECATHLON HOUSE ENTRY: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT Mike Safavi, James Strueber Tuskegee UniversityIntroductionThis paper describes Tuskegee University’s entry in the First Solar Decathlon Contest, sponsoredby The Department of Energy. First, the project goals, design, construction, logistics of movingthe house to the Capital’s Mall, setup, and testing aredescribed; then an analysis of the project success andfailures is presented.In 2000, The Department of Energy (DOE), BritishPetroleum Solar (BP Solar), and The AmericanInstitute of Architects (AIA), challenged all theAmerican Schools of Architecture

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Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

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Karl Stevens; Sharon Schlossberg; Maria M. Larrondo Petrie

Session Number: 1430 Students to Engineering Practice K. K. Stevens, S. M. Schlossberg, M. M. Larrondo Petrie College of Engineering, Florida Atlantic UniversitySTUDENTS TO ENGINEERING PRACTICE (STEP) is a manifestation of a research project* that setsthe task of developing a sustainable and replicable industry-academia partnership model forhelping talented, but financially disadvantaged, students complete their baccalaureate degrees intimely fashion and move successfully into the workforce. The intent of the project is todemonstrate that significant improvements in retention, placement, and workforce throughputcan be achieved by

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Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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James Mills; William Cleghorn

problems, an application was made to the Manufacturing ResearchCorporation of Ontario (MRCO), subsequently renamed Materials and Manufacturing Ontario (MMO) toprovide funding for projects with industry, which would simultaneously serve as Fourth Year UndergraduateThesis Projects. The MMO is primarily a research funding organization, with a mandate to support thetraining of highly qualified personnel, hence the MMO initiative is consistent with the overall MMO mandate. Page 9.870.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 82004