Conference Session

Stimulating Broader Industrial Participation in Undergraduate Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda A Thurman, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; William F. Heybruck, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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College Industry Partnerships

% Students > "Agree" F09 Sp10 F10 n=160 n=91 n=155Mock Interview DayPrepared for co-ops, internships or FT employment 84.4% 94.4% 89.7%Interviewer gave useful feedback 81.9% 85.4% 83.2%Found it valuable 86.3% 96.6% 85.8%Sponsored Senior Design ProgramThe sponsored Senior Design Program aligns teams of students to work on company sponsoredtechnical projects. The companies provide a technical contact for the team to work with. Thiscontact insures that the team is working

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Betsy Palmer, Montana State University; Patrick T. Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Betty J. Harper, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Dan Merson, Pennsylvania State University

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Design in Engineering Education

addition to the Common Core, engineering (and other HMC) students take “Clinic,” thesignature curricular feature of the College‟s engineering program. Clinic is a required, five-semester, experiential-learning capstone course that is essentially an adaptation of medicaleducation‟s clinical experience. Students work in teams on meaningful, industry-specified and Page 22.430.12sponsored, engineering problems. Each clinic team must address the project‟s contextual aspectsand their implications.The “Integrated Experience” (IE), another key curricular element, is a required one-semester,interdisciplinary, team-taught course specifically intended to

Conference Session

Energy Education and Industrial Partnership Needs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick A. Tebbe, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

LEED certification to local industry, MSU has pursuedoptions for supporting training in this area. While students are exposed to general LEEDconcepts through course and capstone design projects, as well as the annual ASHRAE StudentDesign Competition, all of the topics in Table 2 do not fit into the engineering curriculum. MSUhas partnered with local industry through grants from the State of Minnesota to developcontinuing education courses addressing HVAC, green buildings, and LEED. We have foundthat at the Green Associate level these courses are applicable to both current students andworking professionals. Excellent instructional resources exist through USGBC and in manycases a trained USGBC instructor can be obtained. Note that one

Conference Session

Accreditation and Assessment in SE Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janet E. Burge, Miami University; Paul V. Anderson, Miami University, Ohio; Michael Carter, North Carolina State University; Gerald C. Gannod, Miami University; Mladen A. Vouk, North Carolina State University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

perspectives still farther.We selected the CS/SE participants so that the project team included an instructor teachingeach of six courses from each of the PIs’ programs and from one of the other institutions.These courses start with the introductory programming course, CS1, taken as first or secondterm Freshmen, and end with the Senior Capstone/Senior Design course that typically Page 22.900.3concludes most programs. The courses in between are the second programming course(CS2), Data Structures, Databases, and Software Engineering. These courses are common toboth the CS and SE curriculum and among them, and depending on the institution, oftenspan all

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Education and Workforce Development Challenges

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sinead MacNamara, Syracuse University

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Civil Engineering

mixed up for each new project. As the numbers were uneventhere was the occasional architect-architect pairing (interestingly, we found this often resulted inthe least interesting design work). Further when we gave the students one opportunity to picktheir own partner (inside or outside their discipline), three quarters of the class chose to form aninterdisciplinary team.The course is an elective in both schools, but we hope that once the curriculum has been testedand refined that we will ultimately apply what we have learned to capstone design in engineeringand design studio in architecture. By quirk of scheduling and other core requirements all of theengineering students in the course so far have been third year students. These students are

Conference Session

The CE Profession: Perspectives from the U.S. & Canada

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tanya Kunberger, Florida Gulf Coast University; Steven J. Burian, University of Utah; Whitney A. Lutey, Montana State University; Audra N. Morse, Texas Tech University; Robert O'Neill, Florida Gulf Coast University; Kristen L. Sanford P.E., Lafayette College; Andrea L. Welker, Villanova University

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Civil Engineering

senior faculty in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at West Point.Dr. Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt, Lafayette CollegeAndrea L Welker, Villanova University Dr. Andrea L. Welker, PE is an associate professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering depart- ment at Villanova University. Dr. Welker, a geotechnical engineer, teaches the following classes: Geology for Engineers, Soil Mechanics, Soil Mechanics Laboratory, Geotechnical Capstone Design, Foundation Design, Geosynthetics, Geoenvironmental Engineering, and Professional Practice. Most of Dr. Welker’s research focuses on the geotechnical aspects of stormwater control measures. In addition to her teach- ing and research duties, Dr. Welker is the

Conference Session

ELOS Best Paper Nominations

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Debra J. Mascaro, University of Utah; Stacy Bamberg, University of Utah; R. Roemer, University of Utah

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

of the freshman year and year-long design projects in the threesubsequent years as outlined in Table 1. These hands-on competitive (years 1-3) or capstone(year 4) design experiences help the students comprehend the practical aspects of theirtheoretical learning and give them an opportunity to creatively apply course material. In years 1-3, the design projects are closely integrated with the course content, and involve “spiraling” ofconcepts in successive semesters and years. Weekly laboratory experiences provide additionalhands-on learning and prepare the students to achieve the various design project milestones.Table 1: Design courses in the four-year Mechanical Engineering curriculum. Year Semester Class

Conference Session

IE Technical Session I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth A. Cudney, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Steven Michael Corns, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Jennifer A. Farris, Texas Tech University; Stephen Gent, South Dakota State University; Scott E. Grasman, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Ivan G. Guardiola, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Industrial Engineering

area ofcompetence for many engineering undergraduate, as well as graduate, disciplines is theapplication of structured problem solving methods, e.g., lean, to improve the performance oforganizational processes.This virtual learning environment will enhance undergraduate engineering education by utilizingtechnology as a learning tool in lean, by fostering student development through active learning inthe classroom, and through projects based on current real-world challenges, thus improvingstudent learning, motivation, and retention. The paper highlights the learning modules to bedeveloped in the virtual learning environment. The long-term goal is to evaluate the impact ofthe curriculum changes on student learning, outreach, and industrial

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2011 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Sohum Sohoni; David Fritz; Wira Mulia

, Microcomputer Principles, Computer Architecture, Compilers,Embedded Systems) as students progress through a Computer Engineering curriculum. Thesystem consists of a fully pipelined, MIPS-like processor with surrounding support hardware.The support hardware includes a programmable interrupt controller, VGA controller andframebuffer, UART, memory controller, simple cache, timer, and GPIO hardware. Allcomponents are written in Verilog HDL, are open-source, and are freely available. To supportthe hardware components, a unified assembler, cycle accurate simulator, and board interfacesoftware package is included. The software is written in Java, works on Linux, Windows, andMac OS, is open-source, and is freely available from the project website[1].With only

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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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) – Indicates a Work in Progress Friday, April 1, 2011 (Morning)08:30 – 09:45 AM Concurrent Session Presentations Experiential Learning  Jim Helbling, et al., Configuration Of Senior Capstone Course Using Team- 1 Teaching To Maximize Communication Skills And Minimize Team Conflict  Mohammad Amin, et al., Investigation of a Masters Research Project for 13 Validation of Program's Goals and Student Learning Outcomes  Jennifer Van Donk, et al., Developing a low cost prosthetic foot for the Vida Nueva 30 Clinic: A multidisciplinary senior design project Instrumentation & Lab Studies  Ricardo Medina, et

Conference Session

Program Criteria, Assessment, and Sustainability in Civil Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mikhail Gershfeld, S.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Judith Ellen Sheine, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Gary LeMarr McGavin, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Department of Architecture

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Civil Engineering

architecture degrees within the College of Environmental Design. Although there are somediscussions about creating an architectural engineering minor shared between the Civil Engineer-ing and Architecture Departments, no such program presently exists. The emphasis on structuralengineering is typically addressed through technical electives. The AE Studio is one such elec-tive.The impetus for experimenting with this type of collaborative environment was the College ofEngineering’s desire to build a pedestrian bridge connecting two engineering buildings. The con-ceptual design by students was attempted as a senior (capstone) project effort on more than oneoccasion. The results were predictable; the designs produced were structurally sound and eco-nomical

Conference Session

Developing Systems Engineering Curriculum, Part II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ricardo Pineda, University of Texas, El Paso; John E. Weaver, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company; Oscar H. Salcedo, University of Texas, El Paso; Jose Luis Falliner, The University of Texas, El Paso; Richard T. Schoephoerster, University of Texas, El Paso

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Systems Engineering

executives in the sponsoring company in addition to the creation of written internalmemorandum or technical reports within the company. We are trying to mirror the MedicalSchool model by requiring about 500 hours of on-site industry practice; we consider the practiceto be similar to a capstone project but the major difference being the actual experience in realisticenvironments where the students are exposed to the dynamics of leading, advocating,communicating, technical and non-technical issues, etc. in a multidisciplinary team.This combination of industry practice and PBL approaches presented the most difficultchallenges for the program implementation due to the very different financial models betweenacademia and industry; details of the hybrid

Conference Session

Developing Systems Engineering Curriculum, Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard E Fairley, Software and Systems Engineering Associates

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Systems Engineering

techniques used by software engineers • Software engineering techniques used by systems engineers • The intangible and malleable nature of software • The four essential properties of software • The three additional factors • Risk management of software projects • Software development processesFor purposes of exposition, we distinguish software engineering from softwareconstruction. Software engineers are concerned with analysis and design, allocationof requirements, component integration, verification and validation, re-engineeringof existing systems, and life cycle sustainment of software. Programmers, whomay also be capable software engineers, construct software (i.e. engage in detaileddesign

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics and Justice

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Engineering Ethics

targetingsome of the worst by-products of industrialization). 10More recently, and the Committee for Social Responsibility in Engineering (CSRE) grew out oflate-1960s and early-1970s radicalism. In the early 1970s, CSRE published thenewsletter/magazine SPARK, which emphasized the role of engineering in its social andpolitical-economic context, including especially labor relations. 11 SPARK highlighted andcriticized a range of “oppressive” applications of engineering skills and technology, withparticular attention paid to the connections between engineering and military. Instead ofworking on military projects, SPARK’s editors encouraged engineers to employ their skillstoward progressive, liberatory ends. One of the editors’ major goals was to bring

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Tony Kerzmann; Gavin Buxton; Maria V. Kalevitch

our future sustainability, while discussing the role of technology inaddressing these issues. The final core class is a capstone class in which expert speakersare invited from the campus community and the Pittsburgh region to address topicsfollowing a particular alternative energy course theme. The students are required tocomplete an undergraduate research project that is related to this theme.The remaining 6 credits that students are required to complete as part of the minor arechosen from a number of upper-level courses focusing on specific areas of expertise in bothscience and business disciplines. This increases the accessibility of the minor to the widerRMU community and introduces alternative energy and sustainability to non

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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

James Guthrie

freedom in themethodologies employed in their classrooms. These methodologies have included graphicanalysis, computer modeling, physical model building and individual and team projects withsometimes more than one approach used in a class. This variety of approaches provides thoseteaching the courses with a wealth of approaches to use in the classroom and may also provideother institutions with examples they may incorporate into their programs.The ARCE Department, with the Architecture and Construction Management departments, isnow reviewing the five support course sequence and especially the two capstone courses. Thelikely outcome will be to further define and reinforce learning outcomes and content but also toallow diversity in instructor

Conference Session

New Faculty Development

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

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New Engineering Educators

- 5 students/team), 9 short form reports, individual Tools: MS Word, Excel, Matlab ME – 471 Machine Design II ME 481 – Senior Capstone Design Design Project Documentation: Formal Design Reports Problem Definition, Progress Tools: C Programming, Excel, Matlab, WWW report, Project Report ( 1 @ 35- 200 pages) Detailed description

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg Murray, Pittsburg State University; Randy Winzer, Pittsburg State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2011-1098: USING THE PRINCIPLES OF MANUAL TRAINING TOPERFORM S.T.E.M. OUTREACH FOR URBAN YOUTHGreg Murray, Pittsburg State University Greg Murray is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Technology Department of Pitts- burg State University in Pittsburg, KS. He received his BSET in 1993, and his MST in 1995 from Pittsburg State University, and his MBA in 2002 from Wake Forest University. Professor Murray worked in indus- try for over 11 years in various product development, process engineering and management roles. He currently teaches subjects based in Engineering Graphics, Computer-Aided Design, Capstone, and Fluid Mechanics.Prof. Randy Winzer, Pittsburg State University Randy Winzer is an

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

(Ruth) Jill Urbanic, University of Windsor; Susan S. Sawyer-Beaulieu, University of Windsor

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Design in Engineering Education

Industrial Engineering Students1 Introduction1.1 Introduction to capstone design project workshopsThe classical senior capstone design course consists of establishing an environment wherestudents are given the experience in solving a substantial problem while working in a teamenvironment. The engineering design problems to which Canadian engineering students areexposed must be open-ended, and require the integration of curriculum elements1. In theIndustrial Engineering (IE) program at the University of Windsor, industrial sponsors from avariety of sectors (automotive, food, recycling, hospitals, and so forth) are engaged to providereal open ended projects to the industrial engineering students over a two term period. Withrealistic ill defined opened

Conference Session

Computer and InformationTechnology-Related Issues

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jorge Rodriguez, Western Michigan University; Alamgir A. Choudhury, Western Michigan University; Brian Dragone

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Engineering Technology

will be beneficial to medical professionals and engineers because this willallow for more rapid analysis and solutions which ultimately is beneficial to the patient.This was a very challenging and rewarding senior design project for the students in anEngineering Design Technology program. This project really hits the Multidisciplinary aspectthat is expected in a capstone project. Students were required to go beyond the subjects and toolsthat are learned in their coursework, and learn about spine anatomy, biomechanics, 3DSlicer, andintegrating several CAE tools into one common project. Great feedback was received fromfaculty and industry people, and the students get highly satisfied with the experience at the end.This project is a showcase

Conference Session

Experiential Learning and Globalization in BME

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric M. Brey, Illinois Institute of Technology; David W. Gatchell, Illinois Institute of Technology

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Biomedical

Engineering Research Center. He joined the BME depart- ment at IIT in 2007, where he is interested in problems associated with molecular and cellular engineer- ing, specifically the computational modeling of cellular migration. David teaches several courses within the BME department, most notably the senior design capstone sequence (BME 419 and 420) which he co-instructs with Dr. Jennifer Kang Derwent. He also is the lead instructor for IPRO 2.0, an interdisci- plinary project-based course required of all undergraduate at IIT. David collaborates actively with IIT’s entrepreneurship academy as well as its math and science education department. David is a member of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) and the American

Conference Session

Why Industry Says that our Engineering Students Cannot Write

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey A. Donnell, Georgia Institute of Technology; Betsy M. Aller, Western Michigan University; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; April A. Kedrowicz, University of Utah

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

AC 2011-1503: WHY INDUSTRY SAYS THAT ENGINEERING GRADU-ATES HAVE POOR COMMUNICATION SKILLS: WHAT THE LITERA-TURE SAYSJeffrey A. Donnell, Georgia Institute of Technology Jeffrey Donnell coordinates the Frank K. Webb Program in Professional Communication at Georgia Tech’s George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical EngineeringBetsy M. Aller, Western Michigan University Betsy M. Aller is an associate professor in industrial and manufacturing engineering at Western Michigan University, where she teaches and coordinates the capstone design project sequence. She also teaches first-year engineering, manufacturing for sustainability, and graduate-level project management courses.Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University

Conference Session

First-Year Activities and Peer Review Strategies in Civil Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Civil Engineering

AC 2011-1348: GLOBAL INTERESTS AND EXPERIENCE AMONG FIRST-YEAR CIVIL ENGINEERING STUDENTSAngela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt, PhD, PE, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, & Ar- chitectural Engineering at the University of Colorado - Boulder (CU). She is affiliated with the Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities at CU. She has taught the first-year Introduction to Civil Engineering course 13 times, starting in 1997. She also teaches a senior capstone Environmental En- gineering Design course, which included international water and sanitation projects in 2001, 2002, 2006, and 2010. Her research interests include ceramic water

Conference Session

Recruitment, Retention, and First-Year Programs in ECE

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hector A. Ochoa, University of Texas, Tyler; Mukul Shirvaikar, University of Texas, Tyler

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Electrical and Computer

real projects in thedifferent areas of electrical engineering.This paper will present the data collected as a part of the course offering over two academicyears, specifically split into two analysis categories. The first part of the data analysis will focuson the effect of the course on student retention, extracted from the freshman cohorts. The secondpart of the data analysis will focus on student surveys performed at the end of the semester. Thissurvey was designed to measure vital components of overall course effectiveness with finergranularity, including students understanding of topics such as the role of electrical engineersand their impact on society. The data collected and analyzed over the last two years clearlyshows an increase in

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raghu Echempati, Kettering University

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Mechanical Engineering

-ended projectsand a discussion of the five (5) principles of innovation. A math professor was also invited toteach a topic on the applications of calculus and statistics in the design and selection of rollingcontact bearings. For each mini-project and the final project, the students are asked to write abrief review of NABC analysis. (Need, Approach, Benefits and Competition). The overallappreciation for inclusion of innovation and entrepreneurship topics and the NABC analysisseem to be encouraging.IntroductionWhile many universities are considering, developing and/or implementing a separate curriculumin entrepreneurship and innovation, however, little seems to be done to realize that these topicsare highly interdisciplinary across many areas

Conference Session

Simulation and Virtual Instrumentation

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Antonio Francisco Mondragon, Rochester Institute of Technology; Prafull Purohit, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Engineering Technology

design with a strong emphasis on hands-on experience for the students.The last module in the sequence is being taught as a capstone course that is geared more towardsindustrial like applications and industrial design environment. This includes project managementtechniques, version control and project sign-off milestones.Based on the above guidelines, we are developing a design experience for the students based ona popular commercial computer architecture such as the ARM processor[1, 2]; the flexibility ofextending this architecture by creating hardware accelerator blocks by the integration of a highdensity FPGA; and by the addition of off-the-shelf sensor components that are interconnectedthrough the popular I2C communications bus.During the

Conference Session

Aerospace Curriculum and Collaborations

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sanjay Jayaram, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Engineering, Aviation, and Technology; Michael Swartwout, Saint Louis University

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Aerospace

currently teaches Freshman Design, Mechanical Design, Capstone ME Design, Freshman Engineering, and Intro. to Aero/Astro. He has publications in many sources with a focus on spacecraft. Swartwout has headed numerous student based spacecraft both at Washington University and Saint Louis University, as well as NASA projects. He is a member to many professional societies, including a Senior Member of AIAA, the Institute of Electri- cal and Electronics Engineers, the American Society for Engineering Education, Tau Beta Pi, the NASA Missouri Space Grant Consortium, and the NASA In-Space Propulsion’s Solar Sail Technical Advisory Group.Michael Swartwout, St Louis University

Conference Session

FPD VII: Innovative Curriculum Elements of Successful First-Year Courses

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara Elizabeth Carruthers, The Ohio State University; Paul Alan Clingan, The Ohio State University - EEIC

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First-Year Programs

Engineers, 2006. Frontiers in Education Conference.6. Education and Training of the Nanotechnology Workforce. Fonash, S. s.l. : Journal of NanoparticleResearch, 2001.7. Zeigler, B.P. Theory of Modeling and Simulation. Malabar : Krieger Publishing Company, 2000.8. Using Computational Fluid Dynamics to Excite Undergraduate Students About Fluid Mechanics. Pines,D. s.l. : American Society of Engineering Education, 2004.9. The Use of Advanced Simulation Tools in Capstone Design Projects. Barber, T. s.l. : World Scientific andEngineering Academy and Society, 2007.10. Use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in Teaching Fluid Mechanics. Sert, C. and Nakiboglu, G.s.l. : American Society of Engineering Education, 2007.11. Computational Aerodynamics Goes to

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy D. Ropp, Purdue University, West Lafayette; David M. Whittinghill, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Raymond A. Hansen, Purdue University; Erin E. Bowen, Purdue University; Joshua L. Holmes

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Computers in Education

workenvironment into the students’ repertoire of critical industry skills. Working within the AviationDepartment’s Hangar of the Future Research Laboratory at Purdue University, students arechallenged to innovate upon the use of common personal computing devices and data networksused in aircraft maintenance, creating more intuitive electronic performance support to aircrafttechnicians.As part of semester projects, students within a senior capstone course AT 402 AircraftAirworthiness Assurance are assigned hands on, design-build-test projects relating to smarterprocesses, smarter tools and smarter networks for aircraft maintenance. They must reach out andwork collaboratively with other students and instructors to experience first hand the challengesof

Conference Session

Developing Systems Engineering Curriculum, Part II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael C Smith, University of Virginia; Reid Bailey, University of Virginia

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Systems Engineering

cohort to determinewhich topics are of greatest interest to the current cohort. While these topics are often similarfrom year to year, they vary with changes in technology, the global context, and currenteconomic conditions.The  Program  includes  33  credit  hours:  ten  three-­‐credit  courses  and  a  three-­‐credit  seminar  series.      The  four  core  courses  that  are  required  to  earn  the  Master  of  Engineering  degree  are:   • SYS6001:  Introduction  to  Systems  Engineering  (the  first  course  in  the  curriculum)   • SYS6043:  Applied  Optimization     • SYS6045:  Applied  Probabilistic  Modeling   • SYS6002:  Systems  Integration  (the  Capstone  Project)    The  common  elective