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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Arunsi Chuku

Conference & Exposition 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationRelevant Projects, And Solar Energy.1.0 IntroductionIn February 2001,Tuskegee University participated in a proposal competition to designand build a 500-square foot completely solar energy sufficient house. The house is toutilize solar energy, in particular, to provide heat, cooling, illumination and electricity.This energy is to meet the requirements for the domestic and home-office activities of atypical American family. Eleven universities were selected in March 2001 by the NationalRenewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) working on behalf of the United States of AmericaDepartment of Energy (DOE). The number of universities participating was subsequentlyexpanded to

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K-20 Activities in Materials Science

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2003 Annual Conference

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Amanda Young; Richard Brow

school students.As part of the project, UMR undergraduates are developing and testing self-contained kits fordistribution to high schools. The kits will contain all of the materials and supplies needed forhigh school teachers to perform experiments and controlled demonstrations that illustrateimportant scientific principles in an entertaining manner. Laboratory exercises based on slipcasting and glass melting have been prepared for the kits. These hands-on activities give a basicunderstanding for what ceramic materials are and how they are produced. They emphasize theapplication of science (chemistry and physics) to form common raw materials into usefulproducts. At the end of the funding cycle, an example kit, written instructions, and an

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Stanley; Paul Kauffmann; Gary Crossman

for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering Educationnot-yet accredited program in General Engineering Technology which is being offeredasynchronously to U. S. Navy personnel.1,2 Programs are available at nearly 50 sitesthrough the distance learning program known as TELETECHNET. To support thisdistance learning program, the Department of Engineering Technology has developed anumber of new initiatives for dealing with distance laboratories, samples of which aredescribed in the bibliography.3,4,5II. Mathematics for Engineering TechnologyThe determination of appropriate mathematics courses for engineering technologystudents is an on-going challenge that never

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Dana Knox

. Laboratory surveys are now a regular featureof laboratory courses. These quickly pinpoint problems with equipment or other facilities,teaching assistants, potential safety hazards or other aspects of laboratory courses. Graduatingstudent surveys give all students a chance to comment anonymously on all aspects of theireducational experience. Exit interviews are conducted by the advisor (in the last advisementsession) and the chair (near the end of the last semester) to give/get personal feedback.These surveys were instituted for a variety of reasons. Some issues with the laboratory were notdiscovered until the surveys were instituted. Minor problems were reported that had goneunnoticed. Problems with certain teaching assistants were also discovered

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EM Skills and Concepts in the Real World

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2003 Annual Conference

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Paul Cheng-Hsin Liu; S. Gary Teng

. Communications among all project parties may be difficult and time-consuming, and5. Engineering program’s reputation may be hurt if projects are not adequately completed.This paper deals with the major issues in effective monitoring and management of industrialprojects so engineering programs can ensure the successful implementation of industrial projectsin their curriculum.Increased Workload for Faculty and StudentsThe workload involved for both students and faculty in industrial project work includes thetechnical issues involved in the project work, the understanding of project environment and status,project related company issues, and the constant changing environment for projectimplementation. The major difference in workload between a laboratory

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Benjamin Sill; Elizabeth Stephan; Matthew Ohland

different study populations.While the primary objective of the project is to understand the benefit of the use of thiseducational technology, the sensor-based laboratories are designed to be accessible for use asmodules by college faculty and by secondary school teachers and students as well so that, if thetechnology should prove effective, broader implementation will be practical. This paperintroduces the methodology of the experiment and reports on the status of the development oflaboratories. A variety of laboratory activities have been developed, including two that have beendeveloped in sensor-based and non-sensor-based versions.The use of technology in the classroomAlthough there are many who assume that the use of classroom technology has

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DEED Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Nicholas Krouglicof

a hands-on approach to engineeringeducation whereby theoretical analysis is reinforced by laboratory exercises and designexperiences. In fact, the program features two senior level capstone design courses. Design ofThermo-Fluid Systems (MER-160) applies optimization techniques and cost analysis to thedesign of thermal/fluid processes and systems. The second design course, Design of MechanicalSystems (MER-144), is a project-oriented course that provides a capstone design experience forthe mechanics area of the mechanical engineering curriculum.This paper focuses on the latter and specifically addresses the question of selecting anappropriate design project that is consistent with the course objectives and outcomes. The designproject is the

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jackie Sullivan; Daniel Knight

Session 1392 Women’s Manufacturing Workshop Series that Supports Inclusiveness and Skill Building in Undergraduate Engineering Education Beverly Louie, Daniel W. Knight and Jacquelyn F. Sullivan Women in Engineering Program/Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory and Program College of Engineering and Applied Science University of Colorado at BoulderAbstractDuring the past six years, pre-semester assessments of student skills have revealed a lack of hands-on experience by women students in the First

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Related Engineering Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rick Shoemaker

contentsof the curriculum and other curricular matters would be handled by a joint curriculum committeestaffed by faculty from ECE and OSC.The BSOE program was formed by replacing about eight courses in the BSEE with new requiredoptical engineering courses which, after some initial shakedown, evolved into the following setof courses (3-credit semester courses, except 210L and 226L which are each 1-credit): OPTI 210 Geometrical Optics OPTI 210L Geometrical Optics Laboratory OPTI 226 Physical Optics OPTI 226L Physical Optics Laboratory OPTI 342 Fourier Optics OPTI 350 Radiometry, Sources, and Detectors OPTI 370 Lasers and Electro-Optical Devices OPTI

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Murphy; Vincent Capece; John Baker

, in January 2002. The two-dayprogram involved lectures, short research projects, and laboratory work at theengineering campus. Initial lecture material covered the broad mechanical engineeringprofession. Additional presentations included gas turbine engines, alternative energysources (solar and wind), and applications of solid modeling and finite element analysissoftware. Based on the lecture material, students selected a topic, and used web-basedresources to complete a short research paper. One laboratory exercise involvedmeasurement of flow around a golf ball in a wind tunnel, with supervised calculations ofthe aerodynamic drag coefficient using Microsoft Excel software. Another exerciseinvolved each student creating a solid model of a

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Computer Literacy Among Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

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Austin Asgill; Willie K. Ofosu

establish future successes of the individual. Inability toperform satisfactorily as a student in the educational process can adversely affect the individual’sfuture.III. Institutional Requirements Computers have revolutionized not only industry, but the education system as well. Apartfrom the ease with which information can be accessed, simulation packages help in demonstratingto students, applications that would otherwise only be viewed in an industrial setting. These are allpossible through the use of computers. The computer can thus be considered as a modern daytool that all students need, if they are to succeed in school. For this reason, many institutionscreate computer laboratories where students can have access to computing

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The Use of Technology in Teaching Math

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2003 Annual Conference

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Murat Tanyel

Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationSection IV will introduce the toolkit I developed for the Fall ’02 offering of Diff. Eq. with someexamples. Section V will offer a discussion on this first experience.II. “Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder”LabVIEW is an acronym from the words “Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation EngineeringWorkbench.” This software package is based on the concept of data flow programming and isparticularly suited to test and measurement applications. The three important components of suchapplications are data acquisition, data analysis and data visualization. LabVIEW offers anenvironment which covers these vital components. One basic components of a LabVIEW virtualinstrument (VI – LabVIEW’s term for a

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Perceived Quality Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

N. K. Anand; John Weese

faculty in the fourareas. A reception and dinner for the visiting team and the entire faculty occurs Monday eveningat the Faculty Club. The visiting team members caucus afterwards at the hotel.Assistant professors represent the future of the department, so they have a breakfast meeting withthe visiting team members Tuesday morning. The morning is devoted to tours and briefings aboutthe Turbomachinery Research Laboratory, the graduate computing laboratory, and a fewMechanical Engineering faculty research laboratories. A lunch with technicians and selected staffmembers gives the visiting team a view of the department’s infrastructure. The afternoon includesa meeting with the department’s Promotion and Tenure Committee, tours of additional

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Heist; Paul Marnell; Graham Walker

associated with the video component of the course.Virtual Laboratories: these are used to provide alaboratory experience at a distance, by providing thestudents with a number of virtual experiments (Fig.4). The experiments are simulated using LabVIEW,which allowed the non-linearities and stochasticnoise of an actual experiments to be included. In theexperiments the students are presented with a GUIthat looks like the front panel of a signal conditionerfor a transducer (e.g. a strain gauge amplifier) andan output device (e.g. an oscilloscope). The studentsare then asked to perform the experiment byadjusting the various input options and observingthe subsequent result, via the output GUI. They then Fig. 4: The GUI for one of the LabVIEWhave to present

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Experienced-Based Instruction

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Allen Estes; Ronald Welch

ProjectsResearch projects give the students an excellent opportunity to participate in existing research atan Army laboratory or with a USMA faculty member. Many of these projects allow students tohave access to data and computing facilities not available at USMA. Many research projectsponsors are usually not in the local area, but an initial visit to the laboratory, constantcommunication, and any necessary follow up visits with the sponsor usually provide sufficientdirection. Usually the laboratories can easily provide the required travel funds. Many of theseprojects allow our students to influence new Army technology that they may use after theygraduate and enter the Army. A description of the project Modal Analysis of Blast Plates 5,6follows.Simplified

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jucain Butler

Session 1526A Web-based Learning Tool that Introduces Engineering Concepts by Simulating a Chemical Reactor Jay B. Brockman, Jucain Butler, and Mark J. McCready University of Notre DameAbstractThe arrival of the World Wide Web signaled the beginning of fundamental changes in howteaching, training, and self-directed learning will occur at all ages and stages of life. Because ofits versatility as a learning tool in the realm of higher education, the Web has woven its way intoengineering classes and laboratories. As a supplement to a Chemical Engineering project in

Conference Session

Design Through the Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Joseph Beaman; Philip Schmidt

traditionally had been heavily laboratory-oriented,but many lab courses went by the wayside to make room for more science and math. It is alsoworth noting that, up to this time, most young people came to engineering studies with aconsiderable amount of hands-on experience acquired by building and fixing engineered systems(cars, radios, appliances) and therefore a substantial body of conceptual understanding of howthings work. This conceptual foundation provided a good framework on which to build atheoretical base of engineering science.The emergence in the '70s of mainframe computers as engineering tools produced a demand forprogramming skills, and the introduction of programming and computing courses further forcedlab studies out of the curriculum

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Cecelia Wigal

.20Many engineering courses require students to compose documents (such as laboratory reports,activity reports, and project reports) and to verbally present project findings or laboratoryresults. However, Walvoord expresses that engineering faculty, although they know that writingis important are often reluctant to “teach” writing to their students. The faculty worry that theirknowledge of technical writing and verbal communication and their ability to constructivelyrespond to student work is limited and their ability to constructively provide feedback to thestudents is inadequate. 19 In addition, many schools and programs do not recognize thedifference between what is being taught in introductory composition courses and industry’sneeds. Ramey

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stan Harris

than if they did not experience such additional laptop computer applications. Advantage: Faculty Potential administrative pressure applied to faculty to use computers in instruction may be reduced. • Students who do not acquire the prescribed laptop computer in a timely manner may request special accommodation, e.g., the opportunity to complete the Q/E on a university personal computer in a computer laboratory. Disadvantage: Student Students who are granted special accommodation to complete Q/E on a university personal computer in a computer laboratory may need to determine availability of computer labs and of personal computers during Q/E time. Disadvantage: Student

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert LaFarge; Chaouki Abdallah

students majoring in STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields and consisted of a four-week term. Eachweekday had 6 hours containing a blend of lecture and laboratory activities. The activities weredivided into two tracks: technical and non-technical. The technical track consisted mainly ofSOE faculty members making presentations on either their research areas or areas of expertise.The non-technical track consisted of the skill/information building activities.The Diversity Programs and the Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering (EECE)Department in the School of Engineering were responsible for the Bridge Program. Chaouki T.Abdallah (Graduate Advisor for EECE) was responsible for obtaining the faculty and other

Conference Session

Where Are Tomorrow's Civil Engineers?

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tarek Rizk; Donald Carpenter; James Hanson

Page 8.509.4Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright2003, American Society for Engineering Educationwhich made for a comical load test with students standing on chairs). The award for mostvolumetric office space went to a team that ingeniously utilized cantilever structures.Geotechnical Engineering Activities A number of geotechnical engineering activities were conducted over the duration of twosessions of the program. Most geotechnical engineering activities were selected from the SoilMagic program developed through the sponsorship of ASCE. The Soil Magic program is aseries of laboratory experiments that demonstrate many of the underlying principles of soilmechanics

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Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Figliola; Beth Daniell; Art Young; David Moline

laboratories. We address the questions:“What do we want to accomplish?” and “So how might we do this effectively and efficiently?”As part of Clemson University's Writing-Across-The-Curriculum Program, English departmentconsultants worked with Mechanical Engineering faculty and graduate assistants on technicalwriting pedagogy. We report on audience, genre, and conventions as important issues in labreports and have recommended specific strategies across the program for improvements.IntroductionPedagogical questions continue about the content, feedback and methodology of the technicallaboratory writing experience in engineering programs. In fact, there is no known prescriptionfor success, and different programs try different approaches. Some programs

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Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nadia Craig; Michelle Maher; Walter Peters

concepts, complex systemconcepts, and experiential learning about these simple and complex systems.Tools:To incorporate tools that the students will use in engineering school and in their career, wepresented the class with tools to model simple systems. Computational tools and informationtechnology were presented in the “Pit and Pit’um Laboratory.” Problem solving tools werepresented using problems from higher level engineering courses and simple systems weremodeled using a projectile motion problem.The “Pit and Pit’um Laboratory” took place in the computer lab during three class sessions.These lab sessions were used to introduce the students to computer software including MicrosoftWord, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook

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What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

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Daniel Knight; Jacquelyn Sullivan; Lawrence Carlson

Session 3553 Staying in Engineering: Impact of a Hands-On, Team-Based, First-Year Projects Course on Student Retention Daniel W. Knight, Lawrence E. Carlson and Jacquelyn F. Sullivan Integrated Teaching and Learning Program and Laboratory College of Engineering and Applied Science University of Colorado at BoulderAbstractThis study evaluates the impact on student retention of the First-Year Engineering Projects(FYEP) course at the University of

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Nestor; David Rich

” have come todominate analog and digital electronics, introductory electronics courses in Electrical andComputer Engineering programs have evolved to place greater emphasis on CMOStransistors and amplifiers. However, due to the perception that chip design is tooesoteric, both lecture and laboratory coverage of this important topic are usually deferredto more advanced courses. Design experiences are instead limited to “breadboard”circuits using discrete components and operational amplifiers.This paper presents a new approach to teaching introductory electronics that incorporatesthe design and layout of CMOS chips. The coverage of topics in the two-semestersequence only needs minor changes from the traditional approach. Topics on the physicsand

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Recruitment & Outreach in CHE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Deran Hanesian

to interact with high school science teachers so as to gain their input, a pilotsummer workshop was held in July 2002. Chemistry teachers were introduced to chemicalengineering topics, related to scientific concepts taught in the high school science courses.The content material was supplemented and enhanced with hands-on experiments, some of Page 8.725.3which were performed in the chemical engineering laboratories. Interactive CDs on Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering Education“Material and Energy

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Innovative Teaching Methods in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Silvanus Udoka; Paul Stanfield

. Based on challenges from the class partnering approach, a second approach is describewhich uses the Active Learning In the Virtual Enterprise (ALIVE) system. This approachemulates shorter term interdisciplinary efforts common in Industrial Engineering practice. TheVirtual Enterprise (VE) is a full scale manufacturing supply chain, integrated using informationtechnology, and producing an actual product (desk clocks). Departmental laboratories areorganized as business departments within the enterprise. ALIVE is a set of web-based learningmodules, essentially short internships in different areas of the VE. ALIVE provides a practicaland consistent means of developing realistic problem solving skills in engineering and business

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Almstead; Karen Williams; James Hedrick

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationfrom the performing arts - who taught the mini-courses; (4) four local high school science andmath teachers, who assisted with teaching in the laboratory and accompanied students on fieldtrips (two lived in the dormitory with the students); (5) three student counselors (including oneadministrative counselor) who contacted students prior to their arrival, oversaw evening andweekend recreational activities, lived with the students, and assisted them with their classwork.The latter were selected from our undergraduate female engineering and math majors on thebasis of applications, interviews

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Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena; Joan Gosink; Barbara Moskal

systems.Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationThese capabilities will be applied to the solution of problems for areas and people whocan benefit from engineering expertise. This will be accomplished by developing a set ofworld-class of courses in humanitarian engineering, re-orienting laboratory and designelements of our curricula, and creating domestic and international internshipopportunities for humanitarian engineering. This objective is particularly relevant to theCSM, school with a long tradition of leadership in resource and minerals fields and astrong commitment to stewardship of global resources.We know of no federal funding

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Partnerships in IE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Emanuel

. These include: 1) The quality of the problems given to the students has increased significantly, thus enhancing the learning experience. Companies are no longer providing projects that are “busy work” type problems, but are now providing real problems to which they expect real solutions. 2) The almost $1 million derived from these projects has funded space and equipment for the senior design students and pass-down equipment for the department. During the last three years, the department has been able to invest more than $130,000 in the capstone design facility. Much of this has gone to new technology. One-third of the computers in the capstone design laboratory are replaced every 6 months. The replaced units are moved to