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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Laura Bottomley; Aaron Clark

the Department of Education Office of Vocational and AdultEducation (OVAE) set forth an agenda to meet these demands for the future of our workforce inAmerica.In January of 2001, the Department of Education (OVAE), under the direction of StateSupervisors (NASDCTEc), developed a strategy to update current curricula to meet future needsof employers. This movement was funded by the US government and called the “Career ClustersProject.” This joint effort by states throughout the US was to develop curricula guidelines thatcould be used in future curricula development to ensure that the products will meet future needsof employers. The project was designed for both secondary and post-secondary education, but

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Mihalasky; Gina Boesch; Keith Sheppard

an educational environment that has beennamed Technogenesis™ to capture an orientation towards entrepreneurship that permeates thebroader institutional mindset, from undergraduate programs through to graduate programs andfaculty scholarship. Technogenesis has been embraced as a strategic direction for the Institutethrough retreats, group discussions and forums over a number of years involving faculty,trustees, administrators and students.Curriculum development has seen the introduction of entrepreneurship elements into theundergraduate engineering core, mostly through the eight-semester design sequence, as well aselective coursework and seminars. Students are encouraged to work with faculty on projects thathave the potential to spawn

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Moujalli Hourani

their graduates have the ability to design and conduct experiment, as well as toanalyze and interpret data”. The innovative approach is a project consisting of designing,constructing, and testing of structural systems made of different materials, and subjected todifferent loading and support conditions. The paper presents the detailed description of theproject, all the steps performed by the students, and the difficulties faced by the students in theirfirst attempt of this project. In addition, the paper concentrates on the Outcomes and theAssessments of the project according to criterion 3.of ABET 2000.Introduction In the fall of 2002 the school of engineering programs at Manhattan College have gonethrough the accreditation process

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Michael P. Hennessey

: mphennessey@stthomas.edu Abstract The project-based undergraduate J-term course Kinematics and Mechanism Design is described, both technically and from a pedagogy point of view. In this course students discovered the kinematic car, a classic example of a nonholonomic mechanical system that everyone can relate to; especially mechanical engineering students. Technical work entailed kinematic modeling using    MATLAB /SIMULINK and CAD modeling and visualization using SolidWorks along with corroborating experimental work using scale model vehicles (i.e. Jeep Liberty SUV, Allis

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

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Byron Newberry

Session 2368 Hands-on Learning in Engineering Mechanics using Layered Beam Design B. L. Newberry Oklahoma Christian UniversityI. IntroductionA sophomore level Engineering Mechanics project is presented that uses design and constructionto reinforce student learning of beam deflection and flexural shear strain. The project requires thestudent to design, to build, and to test a layered beam that minimizes cost yet provides specific in-plane and out-of-plane stiffness. Each student is presented with an inventory of available

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stephen McClain; Bruce Cain

@me.msstate.eduAbstractThe undergraduate laboratory sequence in mechanical engineering (ME) at Mississippi StateUniversity (MSU) begins with ME 3701—Experimental Orientation, a one-hour laboratoryfocusing on engineering measurements, instrumentation, and modern data acquisition (DAQ)systems. Instruction and student projects in ME at MSU concerning modern DAQ systems havechanged considerably in past five years. One driving force in changing the DAQ instruction isthe departmental requirement of student laptop ownership. Modern DAQ systems are currentlyintroduced using National Instruments, Inc., PCMCIA data acquisition cards and DAQ signalaccessories hosted by the students’ laptops. Using the students’ laptops with department ownedPCMCIA DAQ cards has eliminated the

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Engineering Education; An International Perspective

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Bannerot

Session 2560 Cultural Influences in Design Jean-Luc Herbeaux, Richard Bannerot RohMax Additives GmbH / University of HoustonAbstractA short design project was given concurrently to sophomore engineering students at theKanazawa Institute of Technology (Ishikawa, Japan) and at the University of Houston (Texas,USA) as part of the first engineering design course taken in both curricula. Students were askedto design and build at least one low-cost device whose main purpose was to support a set ofchopsticks while not in use. The project was introduced in the first week of

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jackie Sullivan; Daniel Knight

-Year Engineering Projects course at the Universityof Colorado at Boulder. Moreover, instructors in this course have observed a pattern of femalestudents choosing other activities within their teams rather than engaging in the hands-onconstruction aspect of product development. To address these concerns, a Women’sManufacturing Workshop (WMW) series was piloted during the 2002-03 academic year througha partnership between the Women in Engineering Program (WIEP) and the Integrated Teachingand Learning Laboratory (ITLL). Another aim was to provide women students a context forpursuing engineering through acquisition of knowledge and skills applicable to the design-buildprocess in a low-risk setting. This paper discusses the effects of the WMW on

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Building Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mark Plichta; Mary Raber

Page 8.1133.1problems, perform testing and analyses, make recommendations, build prototypes, manufactureProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education. Session 3454parts, stay within budgets (real and imaginary), and manage multiple projects. The objectives ofthe Enterprise Program are to • provide opportunities for students and faculty to develop entrepreneurial and innovative engineering skills, • provide students with a multi-disciplinary design experience that involves other baccalaureate

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Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2003 Annual Conference

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Larry Williamson; Randy Winzer

students have gained duringtheir tenure at PSU. In 1996 the two professors in charge of the class decided to use the NASAsponsored human powered moon buggy competition (http://moonbuggy.msfc.nasa.gov/) as acommon project for the students to accomplish the goals and objectives of this class. In 2002some of the students from the Electronics Engineering Technology Program’s “Capstone” coursedecided to design and build a system to gather telemetry from a student built moon buggy.IntroductionPittsburg State University in 2003 will celebrate 100 years of providing learning opportunities tostudents. Pittsburg is located in the southeastern corner of Kansas and is centrally positioned nearlarger cities such as Wichita, KS, Kansas City, MO and Tulsa, OK

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Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

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Susan Lord

, and pilot their shoes across a25-meter pool. WOW is organized by the engineering student societies at USD and sponsoredby industry and businesses within the local community.The WOW event is also used as a fun design project for teams of first-year engineering studentsat USD. Utilizing the engineering design process introduced in the classroom, student teamsmust consider three important design considerations: buoyancy, stability, and propulsion. In Fall2002, the engineering students visited local high schools to present how they applied theengineering design process to design Walk On Water shoes. This service-learning projectreinforces the USD students’ comprehension of the design process and helps them develop theircommunication skills while

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Tools of Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

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Elizabeth Davis; David Socha; Valentin Razmov

Session 1531 When Conflict Helps Learning David Socha†§, Valentin Razmov§, Elizabeth Davis † Center for Urban Simulation and Policy Analysis § Department of Computer Science & Engineering University of WashingtonAbstractWe describe techniques, implemented in a junior software engineering course, for creating anenvironment of safety and for regulating the amount of conflict so that students can learn how touse conflict to benefit their learning and the project instead of

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Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mike Cheung; Rex Ramsier; Ed Evans; Francis Broadway; Helen Qammar

. Some of our recent experiences inapplying new strategies in this course will be discussed. While addressing theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) criteria in our coursestructuring, our methodology uses a hybrid combination of techniques including (1)project-based learning, (2) field trips, and (3) team-working tasks and group activitiesboth inside and outside the classroom. The discussion in this paper includes contentanalysis of free-form written student responses, reports, and reflection statements, andhow we can use these to modify the course and provide feedback to the students. Weenvision that these early experiences improve student attitudes and encourage moreactive and meaningful student participation in their own

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Taryn Bayles

Session 2793 Introduction to Engineering Course – High School Partnership Taryn Melkus Bayles Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering University of Maryland Baltimore CountyIntroductionUMBC has undertaken three major initiatives to improve engineering education and awareness.The first initiative was to develop and present a three-day summer workshop to introduce highschool teachers and counselors to the field of engineering. The second initiative was to revampthe Introduction to Engineering Course (ENES 101) to include hands-on project based

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Teamwork & Assessment in the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sharon Sauer; Pedro Arce

instruction is not of the “same quality” as individual-orientedinstruction when it comes to assessment. In this contribution, we will describe someaspects that we believe are helpful to achieve a high level of student involvement in team-oriented environments with a proper assessment of performance. Descriptions related tothese aspects are included below.Why Projects as Final Exams? The use of projects as an enhancement of class instruction,although not widely spread across the curriculum, is known to engineering instructors.These projects, in general, are targeted for the instruction of certain techniques that areeither too involved or too difficult to introduce as a regular topic during the course.However, the assessment of these projects is

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Advances I

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2003 Annual Conference

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Julian Kang; Byeong-Cheol Lho

, thecomputer application can identify the critical path in the network and calculate the total durationof the project using Critical Path Method (CPM). The construction schedule is then conceptuallyillustrated using the bar chart. The conceptual expression of the schedule has been consideredeffective for illustrating the entire construction schedule. However, it may take many years todevelop a skill for understanding the complicated construction sequence and detecting any logicalerrors hidden in the construction schedule if the construction schedule is depicted using the barchart. Undetected logical errors in the schedule could delay the entire construction project.Project engineers try to proactively detect any logical errors hidden in the

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Multimedia Engineering Education,Distance, Service, & Internet-Based Approaches

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2003 Annual Conference

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Prince Anyalebechi; Okechi Egekwu

year a student acquires deeper understanding byselecting an emphasis or concentration area. This requires a student to take a minimum offour 4xx-level courses and six credit hours of capstone work (i.e., 18 credit hours) in aspecific technology area. To broaden their undergraduate education, students, in addition tothe ISAT courses, must also satisfy a required 30 credit hours of liberal studies (generaleducation) electives. Twenty-one credit hours are available as approved electives toencourage the student to develop further in an ISAT related area of interest. The capstoneof the program is a senior project, in which students work in teams of four to six membersto solve an industry or government-related problem. These problems are

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DEED Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Nicholas Krouglicof

Session 3425 The Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design Experience at Union College Prof. Nicholas Krouglicof Union College Department of Mechanical Engineering Schenectady, NY 12308AbstractDesign of Mechanical Systems (MER-144) is a project-oriented course that provides a capstonedesign experience for the mechanics area of the mechanical engineering curriculum at UnionCollege. Choosing an appropriate design project for this course, one that integrates all of

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Multidisciplinary Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stephen Peretti; Paula Berardinelli; Naomi Kleid; Deanna Dannels; Chris Anson; Lisa Bullard; Dave Kmiec

programs have engaged in comprehensive curricularchange, others have designed new stand-alone communication courses for engineering students4. Manyof these communication-intensive courses target technical communication as a key critical skill to learn5.Other such communication courses for engineers focus on different communication skills such aslistening, teamwork, visual aids, group creativity, and audience analysis6. Most often, the communication and teamwork instruction that occurs in engineering curricula iswithin the senior capstone course (such as a design course). In many of these cases, senior level coursesinclude assignments that require communication and teamwork skills such as team design projects, teambrainstorming sessions, or

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Nikolai Dechev; William Cleghorn

the students are assigned a computer project which involves simulating a mechanismusing Working Model 2D software. The purpose of the project is to give students an opportunity todesign a mechanism without having to build a physical prototype, and to familiarize them withmechanism simulation software. Generally students have no previous experience using thissoftware. Therefore, one lecture session is set aside for students to be introduced to the software.Each project is designed such that it is difficult to solve analytically, thereby forcing the student toexplore the software while trying to solve the project. In order to minimize the number of differentsolutions for each project, mechanisms for which there is just one input are used. The

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Recruitment & Outreach in CHE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tricia Lytton; Margie Haak; Edith Gummer; Dan Arp; Willie (Skip) Rochefort

Session 2213 OSU GK-12 Fellowships to Enhance Science and Engineering Education in Oregon Schools Willie E. (Skip) Rochefort, Margie Haak, Edith Gummer, Tricia Lytton and Dan Arp Chemical Engineering Dept., Oregon State University/Chemistry Dept., OSU/ Science and Math Education Dept., OSU/ North Eugene High School, Eugene, OR/ Botany and Plant Pathology Dept., OSUAbstract The goal of the NSF funded OSU GK-12 project is to facilitate the development of active sciencelearning and to enhance the delivery of science education (defined here as education in science,technology, engineering

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Novel Courses for CHEs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mariano Savelski

Page 8.81.1companies employing 3,000 people and producing $700 million in shipments [4]. The abundanceof food processing companies in New Jersey demands a steady pipeline of well-preparedengineering graduates. Rowan Engineering students respond to the regional emphasis on food processing with atremendous interest in the industry. In their senior exit interviews, an overwhelming number ofgraduating seniors strongly indicated a need for more exposure to food-oriented projects andcourses. To respond to student demand and regional industrial needs, Chemical Engineeringfaculty have secured support in recent years for undergraduate Clinic research projects withGeneral Mills, Campbell Soup, Pepperidge Farm, and C. W. Brown. Food experiments

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Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Elise Barrella; Keith Buffinton

-long learning of not only technical skills, but also peopleskills, written and oral communication skills, and teambuilding skills.6Institutions of higher learning have responded to the new demand with a variety of degreeprograms and special centers at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. These educationalopportunities can be classified into several categories: engineering management, systemsengineering, engineering entrepreneurship, and leadership, internship, and other multi-disciplinary programs. Most of these programs are designed to introduce engineers to thebusiness world through courses, project teams, and interaction with business enterprises andbusiness leaders.The overall purpose of this study is to summarize the approaches

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New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Muthukrishnan Sathyamoorthy

fall semesters of the junior year and a part or the entiresummer between the semesters with industries. Several students from the departments ofelectrical and computer engineering, mechanical as well as chemical engineering areexpected to participate in this experiential learning program. Each student will have twomentors, one from the industry and the other is a faculty member from the student’s parentdepartment. The year-long program offers the student the opportunity to participate indesign projects at a level which is not possible with the more traditional summer orinternship employment. In addition to the design experience, students will have benefits incommunication skills, exposure to industrial standards, safety training and

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

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Laila Guessous

class project that combines a laboratoryexperiment with a CFD flow analysis. A series of labs/projects was developed to enablestudents to compare and analyze pressure and velocity measurements obtainedexperimentally in a wind tunnel to those generated using Fluent, a commercial CFDsoftware package. This paper, describes the setup and write-up of one of theseexperiments and class assignments, “Flow in a Venturi”. Results and lessons learnedfrom this course experience will also be discussed.Brief Course DescriptionThe CFD course described in this paper was first introduced at Oakland University in theFall semester 2001. The primary aim of this 4-credit hour course was to present thephysical and mathematical foundations of computational fluid

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A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

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2003 Annual Conference

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Dale Long; Kevin Sutterer; Frederick Berry

newsletter, maintain membership information and lead thefaculty/staff mentoring team administering the program.Educational BenefitsHands-On Learning Models: The students work in teams to complete hands-on projects to learnelementary engineering and science principles. Examples include mousetrap-powered cars,where elements of force, aerodynamics and simplicity of design were crucial to developing asuccessful project; construction of ho t air balloons, where the students' efforts must consider heattransfer, aeronautics and teamwork; and constructing model bridges, where students learnedproject planning, cost effectiveness and computer techniques to build sturdy bridges.Learning That Science and Engineering Are Fun Career Fields: EXPLORE ENGINEERING

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K-20 Activities in Materials Science

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jed Lyons

betweenepoxy-glass composites and southern yellow pine. During the six-week program, the teachers learned to conduct literature research in thelibrary, to design experiments, to fabricate composite material overlays on wood beams, to testthe beams to determine strength and stiffness improvements and to test the bond strength aftervarious environmental exposures. Through these experiences, the teachers gained increasedcontent knowledge, design of experiments skills, and useful instructional materials.IntroductionThis project was made possible by a Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Supplement1 tothe University of South Carolina’s Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12) grantfrom the National Science Foundation. The objective of

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Building Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships

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2003 Annual Conference

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Todd A. Watkins; Drew Snyder; John Ochs

, business and even arts and science. College recruiters areconstantly asking our students “Have you worked in teams?” “Has it been a successfulexperience?” “What team building and leadership skills have you developed?”Lehigh students enrolled in our Integrated Product Development (IPD) courses are fortunate tohave this experience while undergraduates. Recruiters have stated that each year the students inLehigh’s IPD program are “the best prepared in this class of recruits.” In addition our studentreport to us that the job interview itself often focused on the results on their year-long IPDproject. This is not by happenstance, but by design and planning.The IPD projects has been designed to give students industrial experience in new

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Engineering / Education Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joel Weinstein

the central office and the new office located across the street which will allow claimsadjusters to update and submit claims information—including digital photographs—into acentral repository. The result is a project in which each student must learn a foreigntechnology, learn to work as a team, learn how to deal with the other disciplines, developa working business plan and deliver a working prototype to solve the problem. The resultsare impressive. The team figured out how to speak one another’s languages and producedan actual prototype demonstrating the synergistic combination of backgrounds andeducational experiences that were taxed into creating a remarkable solution in a shortperiod of time.By completing the project, engineering students

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Moriarty

following sections, we detail the coursedelivery method as well as a breakdown, by discipline, of team effort. We end with adiscussion of results and observations on improving the experience. II. COURSE STRUCTURE AND LOGISTICSThe design experience is offered as a required portion of a senior level Lab course. Allstudents participating in the solar car project and the three faculty advisors from eachdiscipline meet weekly as a group for one hour. The faculty select the teams prior to thefirst of these group meetings, in which the project is defined, constraints are given and theoverall course procedures are outlined. Teams are required to keep a logbook whichdetails the though processes, methodologies and design considerations