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Integrating Art, Humanities, and Engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John J. Marshall PhD, University of Michigan

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Paper ID #5697Learning Outcomes from an Art-Engineering Co-curricular CourseProf. John J. Marshall PhD, University of Michigan John Marshall’s research focuses on: design methods; tangible interaction; and cross-disciplinary collabo- ration. He has a collaborative approach to designing, making and teaching that recognizes the boundaries of the problem being addressed, not the artificial boundaries of traditionally-defined disciplinary practice. Marshall is an Assistant Professor at the Stamps School of Art & Design and an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Learning, Evaluation, and Assessment

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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K.S. Krishnamoorthi, Bradley University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

b.1 Observe good laboratory safety procedures have an ability to b.2 Formulates an experimental plan of data gathering conduct experiments, as b.3 Carefully documents data collected well as to analyze and b.4 Develops and implements logical experimental procedures3b interpret data related to b.5 Selects appropriate equipment and instruments to perform manufacturing the experiment processes, materials b.6 Is able to operate instrumentation and process equipment evaluation, and manufacturing systems.2. Why do engineers need education in statistics?Study of statistics creates in an engineer the ability for

Conference Session

Intercollegiate and Cross-disciplinary Collaboration

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barbara Burks Fasse PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology; James William Schwoebel, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ethan James Craig, Georgia Institute of Technology; Anish Joseph, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ajit Vakharia, Georgia Institute of Technology; Steve M. Potter PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kim Dooley, Texas A&M University; James DUPE Linder, Texas A&M University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

surveys, available to the participants online using the GTNeuro.net website(powered by Drupal 6.0’s webform feature, secured with AES encryption), were utilized tomonitor and understand the perspectives of LINCR Fellows (biweekly), PIs (monthly), andmentors (biweekly) before, during and after the LINCR program. The survey instruments weredeveloped by the LINCR planning committee and were sent out to the relevant user groups asreminders via the Boomerang application attached to Google mail. These short feedback formswere used to assess how the collaborations were proceeding and/or ask the graduate studentshow valuable the collaborations are to their particular research. We took survey data in abiweekly capacity to see how impressions change

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Capstone Projects, Design Projects, and Teamwork

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael W. Prairie, Norwich University; Gregory Wight P.E., Norwich University; Peter Kjeer, Harvard University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Generator System Electrical Mechanical Civil Generator Turbine I Structure Monitor Turbine II Transmission Figure 1. Top-level organizational structure for the generator project.Electrical teamThe generator design was based largely on a straightforward permanent magnet generator (PMG)plan that is designed to be built with basic tools that are likely to be found in communities indeveloping countries. The plans are available on line from Hugh Piggott,2 as well as through theoriginal sponsoring organization Practical Action

Conference Session

Micro-Technology and Nanotechnology

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Harold T. Evensen, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

students with the possibilities for these fields. An overview of theSpring 2012 offering is presented below. Overall, the plan of the course was to start at the“micro” scale, with MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) and microsystems, and progress tothe nanoscale and finally to the intersection of nanotechnology and biotechnology. We wantedstudents to experience fabrication of nanomaterials, and also to make measurements on these. Page 23.53.2Also, we sought to inject as many applications as possible. Finally, due to the “overview” natureof this course, we have for now precluded introducing the operation of time-consuminginstrumentation such as an

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Multidisciplinary Learning, Evaluation, and Assessment

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lawrence E. Whitman, Wichita State University; Cindi Mason, Wichita State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

therequirements for an Engineering BS degree, each student will complete the program courserequirements including at least three of the following six activities:1. Undergraduate Research2. Cooperative Education or Internship3. Global Learning or Study Abroad4. Service Learning5. Leadership6. Multidisciplinary EducationPrevious papers have described global learning efforts8 and leadership9. The complete plan for―The Engineer of 2020‖ was also reported10, 11. The focus of this paper is centered on the servicelearning opportunity made available to engineering students by the CoE through the creation ofthe ENGR 202 course ―Service Learning in Engineering‖, which will be described in furtherdetail in a subsequent section of this

Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Multidisciplinary Instruction

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Catherine Skokan, Colorado School of Mines; Ravel F. Ammerman, Colorado School of Mines; William Hoff, Colorado School of Mines

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

handwriting, helpful explanations, and the many illustrative examples that he doesin class. The other two instructors for the remaining sections were a Teaching Professor and anadjunct. These sections contained about 60 students each as well.The three main tasks in this project completed were: 1. The initial planning stage was done over the summer, 2011 by the PIs. At this time we refined the plan for delivering the hybrid course, and developed the methods for taking and posting the videos. We used Blackboard for hosting the videos, as this allowed us to restrict access to the videos to the students enrolled in the “hybrid” section only. 2. The effort during the fall semester was to tape the lectures and post them online. We

Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Multidisciplinary Instruction

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey R Seay, University of Kentucky

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

requested.The questions were grouped into 3 categories. The first group of questions were designed todetermine the student’s self-assessed belief in the importance of sustainability to themselves, thecountry and industry. The second group of questions was designed to determine the student’sself-assessed knowledge of engineering job functions as well as their how sustainability might fitinto their future career plans. Finally, the third group of questions was designed to determine thestudent’s self-assessed knowledge of key concepts in sustainability. The assessment questionsare illustrated in Figure 5 and the results are given in Figures 6 – 8. The demographics of theassessment included 22 chemical, 4 mechanical and 1 biosystems and agricultural

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Curriculum Development and Multidisciplinary Instruction

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Deborah Newberry, Dakota County Technical College; Marilyn Barger P.E., National Science Foundation ATE Centers

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

creators) are creating and what ourcustomers (other educators) need may be one of the fundamental reasons for the lack ofemerging technology or application driven examples into the classroom.For example, DCTC spent significant time and effort creating lecture materials to complementthe module content. This effort involved obtaining copyright approval for some material, as wellas redrawing or creating new content. This was a tedious activity undertaken prior to the surveyactivity. Based on the survey data and well as the focus groups, lecture material is of moderateimportance to the user community. In many cases, educators just plan to use their own lecturematerial or minimally use that resource. Therefore, time was spent creating material that was

Conference Session

Micro-Technology and Nanotechnology

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maher E. Rizkalla, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Mangilal Agarwal, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Sudhir Shrestha, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis; Hazim A El-Mounayri, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Kody Varahramyan, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis

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the presenting students. The poster presentationsessions are managed and organized at the level of national and international conferences.The newly developed track provides three modules of research-based courses in three years, inaddition to the team-based capstone design project that students must pursue during their senioryear. Details on these two components are given below.Senior Capstone Design Project: In this course, all ECE and ME students are required to performa two-semester project that incorporate design components from various courses throughout thecurricula. This course assists students with design methodology, the consideration of alternativesolutions, and project planning in engineering design. Oral presentation and report

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Capstone Projects, Design Projects, and Teamwork

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tomas Enrique Estrada, Elizabethtown College

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

throughoutvarious stages of the process and uploading them to the Internet. The contest also served as ameans of external validation for their work.The students surveyed the existing literature in solar trackers and developed their own design,with the objective of increasing tracking efficiency. Their design was a hybrid concept,combining active tracking and chronological tracking. This paper includes a detailed explanationof the design, adapted from the students’ senior project report.The Hybrid Solar Tracker ranked among the top 100 projects worldwide for the Phoenix ContactXplore Contest and won the award for Best Senior Project in the department. While there werefactors to be improved on, both in terms of planning and execution, this project was a

Conference Session

Intercollegiate and Cross-disciplinary Collaboration

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University; James M Widmann, California Polytechnic State University; Lynne A Slivovsky, California Polytechnic State University; J.Kevin Taylor; David W. Hey, California Polytechnic State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

3 0 1 Low-Medium17 Pop a Wheelie 2011 2* 1† 1 MediumTotals 52 9 33 NANote: Students who reported 'extensive prior experience' to people with disabilities (* = 1 male / † = 1 female)Comments that are specifically related to the Kinesiology student collaboration are providedbelow based on three themes: (a) the Etiquette Presentation (b) Planning and Scheduling, and (c)Improving Future Projects: Communication between the Disciplines. Names have been changed,but are consistent with the gender of the engineering student.Theme 1

Conference Session

Robotics, Mechatronics, and Control Systems - Multidisciplinary Perspectives

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael A. Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Taskin Padir, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

curriculumFIGURE 1. The WPI Robotics Engineering program is consists of Introduction to Robotics at thestructured around a core consisting of Introduction to Robotics, 1000 level (1st year) and a four-courseUnified Robotics I-IV, and the Capstone Project [11]. Unified Robotics sequence at the 2000 and3000 levels (sophomore and junior years, respectively). Figure 1 provides a visualization of theRBE curriculum. All courses are offered in 7-week terms with 4 hours of lecture and 2 hours oflaboratory session per week. Further, in keeping with the long history of the WPI Plan, thesecourses emphasize project-based

Conference Session

Capstone Projects, Design Projects, and Teamwork

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emil H Salib, James Madison University; Joshua Alfred Erney, James Madison University; Matthew Edwin Schumaker

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

co-advisors and the consultants. This approach will also help the students to describe in morespecificity their skills inventory and in a timely manner identify those who may be potentially“the glue” of the project and those who may need to be “separated” for special training and tasks.In addition, the course advisor should offer an example of best practice in the area of systemintegration and/or management.As we mentioned above, we are planning to improve the process and form of soliciting students‟skills inventory. In addition, we believe that including, at the onset of the project, learning stylesin higher education [16] assessment as part of the skills inventory exercise may help theinstructor, the consultants and the entire class to

Conference Session

Intercollegiate and Cross-disciplinary Collaboration

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matt Olfat, University of Virginia; Kari Wold, University of Virginia; Roy Lee Hayes Jr, University of Virginia; Mark Endel Paddrik, University of Virginia

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

educational process has been limited. Forexample, Mitchell, Hunsader and Parker 23 propose a simulation of a futures market togive students a grasp of how to value futures. They establish a lesson plan and even go sofar as to define the class size and time required to complete the simulation. Similarly,Hull, Kwak and Walker15 develop a simulation-based lesson to teach the intricacies ofIPO management and establish all the same metrics. Stretcher and McLain30 flip theprocess by developing a lesson wherein the students themselves must program asimulation to calculate net present value. Observably, there exist a number of singular simulation proposals for individualtopics in relatively introductory finance. However, none go so far as to simulate

Conference Session

Capstone Projects, Design Projects, and Teamwork

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacob T Allenstein, The Ohio State University; Bob Rhoads, Ohio State University; Peter Rogers, The Ohio State University; Clifford A Whitfield, Ohio State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

important authentic performance requirements while satisfying relevant societal and professional constraints. 3. Establish Team Relationships for Quality Students establish relationships and Performance implement practices with team members, advisors, and clients that support high Page 23.560.5 performance and continuous improvement. 4. Manage Project Schedule and Resources Students plan, monitor, and manage project

Conference Session

Robotics, Mechatronics, and Control Systems - Multidisciplinary Perspectives

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Devdas Shetty, University of District of Columbia, DC; Arunkumar Chandrashekarappa Giriyapur, B.V.Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering & Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Maximum permissible manufacturing costs, cost of tooling, investment and depreciationSchedule End date of development, project planning and control, delivery date K.Chen et al19 have provided a set of guidelines for the overall requirements analysis.These guidelines will be useful to generate the function structure and the specifications. Thefollowing tables can be referred to generate overall requirements [K.Chen et al] 19: Table 2 Requirements from mechanical engineering point of view1 Kinematic requirements2 Force requirements3 Energy requirements4 Material properties requirements5 Material selection requirements6 Geometric constraint requirements7 Manufacturability requirements

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Micro-Technology and Nanotechnology

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hisham Hegab P.E., Louisiana Tech University; James D Palmer, Louisiana Tech University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

. Engineering degree offered by theCollege. A professional track Masters program was also created to serve the large number ofnon-thesis students seeking training and skills in micro/nanotechnology. Thesemicro/nanotechnology graduate programs formed the foundation to build an undergraduatedegree program in this field.Initial planning for the new nanosystems engineering undergraduate degree began in the summerof 2003, when the College’s Engineering and Science Foundation (industrial advisory board)was approached about the possibility of establishing an undergraduate degree program focusingon nanotechnology. The advisory board unanimously endorsed the concept. As a result, in theFall of 2003, an interdisciplinary team of faculty from within the College

Conference Session

Robotics, Mechatronics, and Control Systems - Multidisciplinary Perspectives

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Li Tan, Purdue University, North Central; Jean Jiang, Purdue University, North Central

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

the course. For example, any course learning outcome achieving anaverage rating score below 3.5 will raise a concern and require an action plan for improvement.Figure 7 displays a comparison between the student survey and instructor assessment. 6 Student 5 Instructor 4 3 2 1 0 O1 O2 O3 O4 O5 O6 O7 O8 O9 O10 O11 O12 Page 23.12.13 Figure 7. Comparisons

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Robotics, Mechatronics, and Control Systems - Multidisciplinary Perspectives

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jose Antonio Riofrio, Western New England University; Steven G Northrup, Western New England University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

not seek to provide a thorough survey oranalysis on curriculum shaping, but such can be found in other relevant work.2,6,7,8 The work hereby presented specifically addresses the instruction of a single, non-elective,junior-level undergraduate introductory course to Mechatronics in the Mechanical Engineeringprogram at Western New England University (WNE). WNE does not currently have aMechatronics program for undergraduates (there are plans to start one in the near future), but itdoes offer a master’s-level concentration. That said, the course addressed in this paper is not apre-requisite for this concentration. Prior to this course, the students have had standard freshman- and sophomore-level coursesin the ME curriculum such as Statics

Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Multidisciplinary Instruction

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Darshita N. Shah, Teaching and Learning Laboratory at MIT; Jennifer E French, Teaching and Learning Laboratory at MIT; Janet Rankin, The Teaching & Learning Lab - MIT; Lori Breslow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

, all of the important aspects of a pivotal concept cannot bepresented in a 15-minute video. The multidisciplinary theme provided a framework for which Page 23.1347.7  specific facets of the pivotal concept would be presented. The theme also helped in the selectionof relevant examples for the video.Finally, the organization of the video content was detailed in the outline. Before the script for thevideo narration was drafted or any visuals were planned, the outline served as a check to ensurethat a cohesive story was being presented. At this point, sections were added, deleted, orrearranged so that the content was properly scaffolded for the

Conference Session

Integrating Art, Humanities, and Engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Timothy W. Simpson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Marcus Shaffer, Penn State Architecture; Elisha Clark Halpin, Penn State University, School of Theatre, Dance Program; Amy Dupain Vashaw, Center for the Performing Arts @ Penn State; Dorothy H. Evensen, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

prototype for an entrepreneur as part of their capstone project may partner with ateam of business students who develop a business plan for the same sponsor, or engineeringstudents might work with a team of students in Information Science and Technology (IST) tocreate use cases and develop specifications for a new product data management system for anindustry sponsor. While this is by no means unique the Learning Factory, it has enabled theengineering capstone teams to work with students in six other colleges over the past five years:Arts & Architecture, Business, Communications, Earth & Mineral Sciences, Health & HumanDevelopment, and/or IST. To date, most of these cross-college partnerships entail only twocolleges (and usually

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Learning, Evaluation, and Assessment

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew E. McFarland, University of Virginia; Reid Bailey, University of Virginia

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Conference Session

Micro-Technology and Nanotechnology

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zhiyong Gu, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Bridgette Maria Budhlall, University of Massachusetts; Hongwei Sun, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Carol Forance Barry, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Alfred A. Donatelli, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Jill Hendrickson Lohmeier, University of Massachusetts Lowell

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Multidisciplinary Engineering