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Mobile Robotics in Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Dillard

Mutiplexed LED’s Pushbutton Potentiometer External access to all MCU pins User’s guide with 7 coding tutorialsCourse Format In the curriculum, the robot laboratory is a one-hour credit course that meets formallytwice each week. On Monday afternoons, all students meet in a lecture format, conducted bythe laboratory coordinator, for discussion of major issues and policies. In this way, allstudents get the same information early in week for consideration. During the week, sessionsof 10 – 14 students meet in the laboratory room under the direction of teaching assistants towork directly on their implementations

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Bahman Motlagh; Walter Buchanan; Alireza Rahrooh

© 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”digital control systems in view of greater flexibility of a digital controller1. This course wasoriginally taught in a traditional, lecture oriented fashion due to the lack of laboratory equipment.This traditional approach of teaching control systems ignores the gap between theory and reality.No matter what illustrated examples used in textbooks or lectures, students are only exposed toequations, matrices, block diagrams, frequency response, and signal flow graphs. Even simplesystems, such as a single-input, single-output DC motor can be abstract when described only onmathematical terms. Not only do demonstrations and experiments help students bettercomprehend theoretical concepts, they allow

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TIME 1: Controls

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Carnell; John Lumkes; Joseph Musto

supported through a generousgrant from the John Deere Foundation. As part of the team that taught the original version of theComputer Applications in Engineering II course during the Spring 2003 term, the contributionsof Dr. John Pakkala, Dr. William Farrow, and Mr. Richard Phillips of the MSOE MechanicalEngineering Department are gratefully acknowledged.Bibliography1. McKnight, S.W., W. Cole, G. Tadmor, E.C. Everbach, and M. Ruane, “Teaching computing to engineeringfreshmen through a ‘High Tech Tools and Toys’ Laboratory”, Proceedings of the 2001 American Society ofEngineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Albuquerque, NM, June 2001.2. Musto, J.C. and W.E.Howard, “Integration of laptop computers into a freshman mechanical

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Assessment & Evaluation of Graphics Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Stewart; David Elrod

, classes meet for two hour-long lectures and athree-hour laboratory session each week. The lectures are taught by a team of four faculty. Eachlaboratory session is led by two teaching assistants. A total of ten teaching assistants support thelabs and hold office hours during the fall and spring.Initially, ME/CEE 1770 was a text-based course. Lectures were from presentations that Page 9.228.1accompanied the required course textbook. Laboratory activities were established to go with the Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Devenport; Terry Wildman; Glenda Scales

2004-307 THE ENGINEERING STUDY GROUP INITIATIVE AT VIRGINIA TECH: INVOLVING ENGINEERING FACULTY IN THE DISCUSSION AND EXPLORATION OF EDUCATIONAL ISSUES William J. Devenport, Glenda R. Scales, Terry M. Wildman Virginia TechAbstractAn initiative to promote the formation of voluntary study groups amongst engineeringfaculty at Virginia Tech is described. The groups provide an opportunity for faculty tofreely discuss and exchange their teaching ideas and collaborate with more and lessexperienced colleagues, thus reducing the isolation they often experience

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Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Kosky

local partner industrial and academic institutionsincluding IBM, General Electric R&D, RPI, Wadsworth Center (a New York state laboratory),and the Albany NanoTech Center. Six expert outside speakers delivered key lectures. Through a recent NSF-NUE grant, we are developing nanotechnology-teaching modulesto expose students to methods of synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials, and a web-based undergraduate textbook on nanomaterials. Page 9.627.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for

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Graduate Student Experiences and Funding

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2004 Annual Conference

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Audeen Fentiman

Session 2177 Supporting Graduate Students: A Catalog of Opportunities Audeen W. Fentiman The Ohio State UniversityIntroductionFinding support for graduate students in Nuclear Engineering can be a challenge. Many studentsare supported as Graduate Research Associates (GRA) on faculty projects, and some serve asGraduate Teaching Associates (GTA) helping to teach undergraduate nuclear engineeringcourses. As enrollments in Nuclear Engineering programs grow, the number of promisingstudents can exceed the number of traditional GRA and GTA positions available. There are,however, a

Conference Session

Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Thomas Johnson

elements, numerical control; metal cutting and turning; drilling,boring, milling; shaping planning, sawing broaching; grinding, sanding; gears and gear-cutting, threads and thread-cutting. (Lecture-problems 1 hour, laboratory 3 hours.) Traditional grading only. Concentration in communicationsOur program has one concentration in communications consisting of 12 semester units. Thetable below shows the courses covering this concentration. Following the table is a listing of thecourses including the catalog descriptions. The concentration courses cover communications inregards to teaching (CECS 310E), learning (ENGR 400E), problem solving and design (ENGR304), and business practices (ENGR 310). Several breadth

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning: Instruction & Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Easton; John Stratton

Technology. RIT was unique Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationwithin western New York State in that it housed the only bachelor’s programs in EngineeringTechnology.The School of Engineering Technology, housed in the College of Applied Science andTechnology, was quick to realize this market potential. The initial approach for developing thispotential incorporated remote site teaching. In practice, it involved faculty members traveling toremote sites to conduct classes on a scheduled basis. Often it was possible to link with acommunity college in the off-campus area. The host school would provide the

Conference Session

Course Development and Services

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Mokodean; Xiannong Meng; Maurice Aburdene

the course web sites and collected information, such ascourse syllabi, course schedule, textbooks used, project descriptions, and laboratory exercises.We categorized the information into five groups: how the subjects were covered, whichtextbooks were used, the contents of the laboratory exercises, course projects, and courseobjectives and outcomes. The information reflected the facts at the time of the survey. Thefindings are empirical and informal. We hope the information is useful for colleagues who areteaching, or are preparing to teach computer network related courses.References 1. J.P. Abraham “The Undergraduate Networking Course”, white paper, ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Computer Networking: Curriculum Designs and Educational

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Rethinking Collection Development

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2004 Annual Conference

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Karen Clay

. Example of a record in the Refworks databaseWe identified 66 research centers affiliated with the Stanford School of Engineering, anddata has been collected for 23 of these. The Refworks database contains 2052 records,each representing a document produced by a Lab or Center. Table 1 lists the Centerswhich have some content in the database and shows how many records were input foreach Center. Many have very few records, while for others, notably the KnowledgeSystems Laboratory, the Center for Turbulence Research and the Center for IntegratedFacility Engineering, we created hundreds of records. Page 9.1139.2 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society

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Lessons Learned From Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Peter Avitabile; Charles Goodman; Tracy Van Zandt

students in the most efficient manner possible.Teaching techniques should challenge, educate, and promote innovative thinking from students.The lecture-based format of teaching which predominates in engineering education may not bethe most effective manner to achieve these goals [3,4]. Constructivist learning theory asserts thatknowledge is not simply transmitted from teacher to student, but is actively constructed by themind of the learner through experiences. [5,6].The laboratory environment is an excellent opportunity to force the students to “think on theirown”. Real-world laboratory exercises and experimental approaches clearly show that there isnot always an “answer at the back of the book”. While students at times become frustrated bythis

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2004 Annual Conference

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Amy Hsiao

, American Society for Engineering EducationDiscussion and ConclusionThis active laboratory exercise was not only fun but constructive in teaching sophomore-levelstudents fundamental mechanical properties of everyday materials. The early placement of thelaboratory exercise in the quarter allowed for the students to be introduced to mechanicalproperties as hands-on, experimental phenomena first, which were then reinforced withclassroom definitions of these terms. This laboratory exercise introduced simple testing of stressand strain that is emphasized in later laboratory sessions on tensile testing (of metals andpolymers) and compression testing (of wood and fiberglass composite) using a load frame. Thislaboratory exercise was a useful reference

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Technological Literacy II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Nippert

session 1761 What is Design and How Do We Let Non-Engineers in on the Secret That it’s Fun? Charles Nippert, Antonia D’Onofrio, Stephen Madigosky, Akshay Vilivalam Widener UniversityAbstractEngineering design is often one of the more interesting and exciting aspects ofengineering. Yet few outside the profession ever experience its challenges. At WidenerUniversity, an education course is offered to in service high school teachers that providesthem with an opportunity to develop a Virtual Laboratory designed around standardscience experiments. Programming was performed by one of the authors, while

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Multidisciplinary Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bullen Frank

generalengineering theory from units that students had previously covered. Student teams obtaineddata on materials, strain gauges and amplifier properties using their own investigation skills;carried out their preliminary work in dedicated laboratory space; completed analysis at theirown pace and used the design process to integrate the project with academic teaching andinstruction. The student teams were able to consult with technical and academic staff on amore informal and peer level basis. Staff operated less in an instructive mode and more asexternal consultant engineers, or facilitators to each group.Ongoing Unit RefinementTo fully develop the students’ understanding and appreciation of team work and groupdynamics, it was necessary to include some

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TIME 6: Web-based Instruction

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James G. Brasseur; Laura L. Pauley

methods required in one application. The Texaco Lab also includes computer simulations of laboratory experiments. Page 9.904.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education4. The IDEALS courses (Integrated Design, Engineering Analysis, and Life Skills) teach the theory of mechanical engineering analysis and then directly apply those skills to an engineering design problem. The IDEALS concept has been applied in ME 31, Thermodynamics II, and in a senior lab course where students must identify

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Dillard

microcontrollers with microtrainerssystems. This approach has two deficiencies. First, students must be in the laboratory todebug real-time code and physically connect peripherals, leaving little opportunity forextracurricular experimentation. Second, treating only the microcontroller distances thestudent from the ubiquitous PC and its standards. A new approach to teaching computer systems and assembly language for sophomoreelectrical engineering students is being investigated at Auburn University. Due to curriculumrestrictions, the sophomore level course has no formal hardware laboratory. From the outset,four issues were addressed: treating PC-related issues via the 8086 microprocessor (ourtraditional approach), introducing embedded systems with simple

Conference Session

Experience with Experiential Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Adam McGough; Coral Nocton; Ken Patton; Ismail Fidan

, and implementationsaccomplished via this workshop.The State of the Art The mission for all instructors is to educate their students the best way possible.Their teaching techniques should challenge, educate, and promote the students'innovative thinking1. The lecture-based format of teaching, which predominates inengineering education, may not be best to achieve these technical learning goals2.Through the lecture method, an instructor introduces students to course work byproducing notes on a chalkboard or overhead projector. The instructor then hopes thatstudents can regurgitate this collected information on their homework or exams. Someclasses, if students are lucky, have accompanied laboratory practices where they can gainhands-on

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Genalo

Page 9.988.9PreK-12 classrooms and technology in teacher education.Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition CopyrightÆÉ 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationMELANIE SCHILTZis a senior in elementary education from Manilla, Iowa. She works in the Toying With TechnologySM Laboratory asan undergraduate teaching/laboratory assistant. Her interests include integrating engineering concepts into theelementary education curriculum. Page 9.988.10Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition CopyrightÆÉ 2004, American

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Topics in Mechanical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

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Nancy Denton; Heather Cooper

diagnosticscourse was developed to prepare engineering technology students for the sophisticated testingand analysis technology of the maintenance field. The conceptual content of the course has beenrelatively constant; however, the laboratory activities have evolved significantly to adoptadditional technologies and software. This paper will review the original course design andcompare it to recent course offerings, with emphasis on the ongoing effort to incorporatemonitoring of a variety of operating parameters and to engage with industry.BackgroundThrough advances in solid-state electronics, instrumentation, and computing capabilities in the1970s and 1980s, the field of machinery condition monitoring obtained the technology needed tomake predictive

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Hancock; John Norton

scholarship of teachingand learning.Graduate student instructors (GSIs) are an important component of the CoE teaching staff.There are 318 faculty, including assistant, associate and full professors, as well as 62 non-tenuretrack instructors. An average of 215 GSIs supplement the instructional faculty each term, along Page 9.596.1with an untold number of graders. The duties of a GSI are varied and range from leading Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationdiscussion and laboratory sections to holding

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Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Camille George

Session 2233 Fuel Cells and Discovery-Oriented Teaching Camille George Programs in Engineering & Technology Management University of St. Thomas, St. Paul MinnesotaAbstractFuel cells and the hydrogen economy are mentioned in every media outlet. However, the averagegraduating mechanical engineer does not know any more about fuel cells than an interestedlayman. Are our future engineers equipped with the inquiry-based skills needed to adapt torapidly changing technologies? A fuel cell engineering class has been introduced at theUniversity of St

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hyun Kim

power area.The mission of the Center is: • to support the missions of the University and the College of serving its major constituents and striving to create a teaching and learning environment that promotes academic excellence and fosters intellectual growth and scholarship. • to promote and develop fluid power technology. • to develop a productive partnership between the University and the fluid power industry through cutting edge research and innovative educational programs3. Structure of the CenterThe Center consists of four functional units that include two laboratories and two programs. Thelaboratories are a hydraulics laboratory and a computational laboratory. The two programs are atechnical assistance

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Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

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Chris Daubert; Steven Peretti; Paula Berardinelli; Deanna Dannels; Chris Anson; Lisa Bullard

Session 2131 Assessment of Teaming, Writing, and Speaking Instruction in Chemical Engineering Courses Steven W. Peretti, Paula Berardinelli, Lisa Bullard, Deanna P. Dannels, Dave Kmiec , Chris M. Anson, Chris Daubert North Carolina State UniversityA multidisciplinary faculty team at North Carolina State University has been iterativelydesigning and implementing teaming, writing, and speaking instructional modules to beimplemented within a junior-level chemical engineering laboratory course and a senior levelcapstone design course. The laboratory course is the

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ming-Sung Koh; Mick Brzoska; William Loendorf

underrepresented students with the potential to be replicated in other technology and engineering programs at other institutions. • The design of a curriculum that bridges software and hardware technologies including: team-based projects, experience-based learning and extensive laboratory hands-on experience. • The formation of an SET Program Advisory Board comprised of actively involved individuals with diverse backgrounds in the development and maintenance of software intensive systems from industry and government. • The development of an SET program Assessment Plan to meet the Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (TAC of ABET) criteria

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ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Greco

high-levelbehavior of networks, including their architectures, protocols and performance 1–5.Laboratory work associated with such courses concentrates on software, using eitheravailable network cards as part of a physical network or simulating the behavior of anetwork 6–17. The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department currently offers anetworking course that emphasizes the lower-level operation of a network, including thephysical medium, the packet format, and simplified protocols for Token Ring andEthernet networks. In the laboratory component of the course, students realize each typeof network using a microcontroller in conjunction with peripheral hardware. The

Conference Session

IS and IT Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Taz Daughtrey; Edgar Sibley; Anne Marchant

nation’s overallinformation security defense.A joint MS/PhD class was used during the fall 2003 semester at GMU to test possible exercisesfor the capstone course as well as provide a pool of teaching assistants and mentors for theundergraduate program. The curriculum was also expanded in the spring 2004 semester jointlyby JMU and GMU. The capstone course, which will be taught in a closed laboratory setting,will be piloted by faculty from both institutions in the summer semester of 2004 at GMU. Page 9.273.1Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2004, American Society for

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Computer-Based Measurements

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Koenig; Viva Austin; Bryan Gassaway; Thomas Hannigan

control of the wind tunnel and selection ofvarious data acquisition options is detailed, and the development of the current LabVIEWprogram is discussed. The importance of being able to re-equip and reprogram DACSinstrumentation and presentation is presented as being essential in maintaining a positiveimage of the research laboratory.The Early TunnelResearch facilities and undergraduate teaching laboratories are a necessary part of anyaerospace engineering programs physical infrastructure. Academic faculty members areencouraged to continue research in their primary interest areas, and indeed such researchis a requirement for those at research institutions. Large-scale laboratory systems such aswind tunnels are not simply static facilities. A

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sami Alsaialy; Dalia Tawy; Thomas Schubert; Susan Lord

the semester moved from almost exclusive usage of the 571 to approximatelyequal usage of the two instruments.Thus the development of a LabVIEW interface for an older, more complex transistor curve tracerimproved its utility in a teaching laboratory situation significantly. Experienced users movedfrom infrequent usage to usage equivalent to that of a newer, simpler curve tracer. New usersseem to prefer using the interface, although that preference may be a function of classroomrequirements. When asked the best and worst features of each instrument, complaints centeredaround the 370’s size, age, and the transistor sockets rather than the user interface: only onecomplaint was received concerning software problems. The ease of use, the LabVIEW

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Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Krishna Vedula

, laboratory and demonstration experiments, and web-based resources;• development and dissemination of new teaching modules for nanoscale science and engineering that can be used in existing undergraduate courses;• incorporation of undergraduate research opportunities based on nanoscale science and engineering into the curriculum at any level, particularly during first and second year studies;Engineering Education Program - has the goal to increase the quantity and quality of U.S.citizens who earn BS degrees in engineering. We welcome unsolicited proposals from facultywith cutting edge new ideas for undergraduate engineering education improvements.Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE/EHR)NSF is determined that all students at all levels will