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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marilyn Barger, University of South Florida; Eric Roe, Hillsborough Community College; Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida; Bradley Jenkins, St. Petersburg College; Andrew Hoff, University of South Florida

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2006-901: MADE IN FLORIDA: A STEM CAREER OUTREACH CAMPAIGNMarilyn Barger, University of South Florida MARILYN BARGER is the Executive Director of FL-ATE, the Florida Regional Center for Manufacturing Education housed at Hillsborough Community College. She earned a B.A. in Chemistry at Agnes Scott College, and both a B.S. in Engineering Science and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of South Florida. She has over 15 years of experience in developing curriculum in engineering and engineering technology and is a registered professional engineer in the State of Florida.Eric Roe, Hillsborough Community College ERIC A. ROE is the Director of FL-ATE, an NSF Regional Center of

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Wenshen Pong; Tim Le, San Francisco State University

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instruction in designingfor strength. Finally, Structural Analysis (Engr 323) further develops student proficiency instructural engineering, by expanding on the concepts of analysis for reactions, internal forces,and deformations, and provides instruction in the determination of loads, structural stability andbasic concepts of design. Detailed methods for achieving strength and serviceability are coveredin subsequent design courses taken by students who wish to develop a career in structuralengineering.Elective courses for students concentrating in structural engineering include: Steel Structures(Engr 426), Reinforced Concrete Structures (Engr 425), Wood Structures (Engr 427), AppliedStress Analysis (Engr 428), Foundation Engineering (Engr 431

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S. Manian Ramkumar, Rochester Institute of Technology; Scott Anson, Rochester Institute of Technology; Charles Swain, Rochester Institute of Technology

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in theory or in practice. Somegraduate courses include reliability theory but they do not have any hands-on laboratoryactivities. The project being carried out using the NSF grant will fill this need, namely providingundergraduate reliability theory and hands on experience.Project Goals and ObjectivesThe goal of the development effort - REAL - is to prepare students for comprehensiveengineering careers by integrating the reliability knowledge and skills that are in demand by theelectronics manufacturing industry into undergraduate education. To the best of our knowledge,RIT still maintains the distinction of being the only University in the US, teaching electronicsmanufacturing as part of its undergraduate curriculum. Of the few schools that

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Ann Saterbak, Rice University; Ka-yiu San, Rice University; Larry McIntire, Georgia Institute of Technology

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seek outinternship opportunities to fulfill these needs early in their academic careers. We developedcommunication modules focused on these goals. The modules are available at:http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~cainproj/courses/bioe252.html .Module 1: For the Company Profile assignment students are prompted to select a bioengineeringcompany or academic research program of interest and to write a one page description of itsmission, products, research agenda, history, financial/management structure, and types ofemployment opportunities. In addition, they must provide contact information for the person theyintend to write regarding an internship opportunity. Materials developed include the writingprompt and two examples of Company Profiles.Module 2

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Todd Kaiser, Montana State University; Stilson Applin, Montana State University

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. This focuswill be on students in secondary schools who are still impressionable and have yet todecide on a career path. Students will be brought to the microfabrication laboratory andshown basic manufacturing techniques of the microprocessors that have become acomponent of their every day life. Early exposure to engineering concepts will increasethe student’s understanding of the technical world around them. An example of a simpledemonstration is to have the students create a simple black and white computer generateddrawing. Transfer this figure to a metalized substrate using photolithography, and thenetch away the metal layer, creating an image of their design on the substrate. Here thestudents would get an introduction the Computer Aided

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Mohan Krishnan, University of Detroit Mercy; Shuvra Das, University of Detroit Mercy; Sandra Yost, University of Detroit Mercy; Kathleen Zimmerman-Oster, University of Detroit Mercy

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% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% Figure 12: Assessment Data – Part 6 Page 11.162.12 How likely is it that you will use your knowledge of mechatronic systems in your future career? 85.7% Time 1 14.3% 0.0% Very Likely Somewhat Likely 75.0

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Unique Laboratory Experiments and Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jed Marquart, Ohio Northern University; David Sawyers, Ohio Northern University

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interpersonal and written communication skills 5. Teach students to design their own experiments using available equipment to achieve a specified objective.The first four goals can be accomplished with traditional experiments1, in which studentsfollow a specified procedure to generate a clearly-defined set of data. During the first twoyears of their college careers, students encounter this approach numerous times. The fifthobjective, while often an essential skill in professional practice, is seldom considered inintroductory labs. This paper discusses efforts by the Mechanical Engineering faculty atONU to provide a laboratory experience which satisfies all five of these goals by integrating

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chetan Sankar, Auburn University; P.K. Raju, Auburn University

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“Theworkshop has the potential to motivate Spanish-speaking students to pursue engineeringeducation” and “Translating other LITEE case studies into Spanish is valuable for engineeringfaculty and students”. The LITEE cases were originally conceived to motivate all gifted U.S.students to pursue engineering careers. The fact that the cases are now being put to use in aforeign country, with the potential for further growth, is a major outcome of the Chilean venture.The statement receiving the least positive support involved the organization of the workshopwith only 11% of the participants disagreeing or strongly disagreeing that the workshop was wellorganized. Participants were also required to write down strengths and weaknesses they

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Huettel, Duke University

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practical design skills. To prepare for a successful career in signal processing,whether in industry or academia, students should develop expertise in two domains: thetheoretical understanding of signal processing problems and the design of devices or algorithmsto solve those problems. As part of its ongoing curriculum reform, the ECE department at DukeUniversity has implemented a new DSP laboratory that impacts student instruction in multiplecourses. The overall vision for this vertically-integrated, application-driven laboratory has beenpresented previously1. This paper described the motivation for integrating a hardware-basedlaboratory into the introductory Signals and Systems course, the specific laboratory experimentsthat were conducted, and

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul Stanfield, North Carolina A&T State University; Caroline Moineau, North Carolina A&T State University; Shona Morgan, North Carolina A&T State University; Silvanus Udoka, North Carolina A&T State University

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Education, January 1999.2. Burton, L., Parker, L., and LeBold, W.K., “US Engineering Career Trends,” ASEE Prism, May-June 1998.3. Morgan, R.P., Reid, P.P, and Wulf, W.A., “The Changing Nature of Engineering” ASEE Prism, May-Hune 1998.4. Engineering Criteria 2000, Criteria for Accrediting Engineeering Programs: Effective for Evaluations during the 1999-2000 Accreditation Cycle: Engineering Accreditation Commission. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology; http://www.abet.org/download.htm, 30th November 1999.5. Curricula 2002; Manufacturing Education for the 21st Century; Volume I: David L. Wells, Editor, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 1995.6. Panitz, Beth, “The Integrated Curriculum,” ASEE Prism, September 1997.7

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Kevin Bowen, Rice University; Marcia O'Malley, William Marsh Rice University

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M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Vanderbilt University in 1999 and 2001, respectively. In 2001 she joined the Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Department at Rice University, where she is currently an Assistant Professor. Her current research interests include nanorobotic manipulation with haptic (force) feedback, haptic feedback and shared control between robotic devices and their human users for training and rehabilitation in virtual environments, control methodologies for improved performance of haptic interfaces and teleoperator systems, and educational haptics. She is a 2004 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator and the recipient of the NSF CAREER

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Mark Yeary, University of Oklahoma; Tian Yu, University of Oklahoma; Robert Palmer, University of Oklahoma; Mike Biggerstaff, University of Oklahoma; L. Fink, University of Oklahoma; Carolyn Ahern, Ahern and Associates

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Annual Conference, session 1392, pp. 1-11, 2001.[10] D. Niemeier, R. Boulanger, P. Bayly, S. Schmid, K. Muraleetharan, and A. Barros, “Integration of engineering education and research: perspectives from the NSF civil and mechanical systems 1998 CAREER workshop,” Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 199-202, April, 2001.[11] A. Jenkins, R. Breen, R. Lindsay, and A. Brew, Reshaping Teaching in Higher Education : Linking Teaching and Research, London, Kogan Page, and Educational Development Association. Distributed by Stylus in the USA. 2003.[12] E. Takle, “University instruction in observational techniques: survey responses,” Bulletin of the American Meterological Society, vol. 81, pp. 1319-1325, 2000.[13] A. Kenimer, J