Conference Session

Direct Measures of Student Performance

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fred Meyer, U.S. Military Academy; Stephen Bert, U. S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

Academy. He serves as the Course Director for CE404, Design of Steel Structures and CE492, Senior Capstone Design course. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Virginia. MAJ Bert received a B.S. degree from Norwich University in 1995 and an M.S.C.E. degree from Virginia Tech in 2005. Page 12.144.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 A Technique for Program-Wide Direct Assessment of Student PerformanceAbstractThis paper builds on previous work related to the direct assessment of student performance.Previous work assessed CE program outcomes using a single

Conference Session

International Case Studies:Collaborations, Exchanges & Interactions

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joerg Mossbrucker, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Stephen Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Edward Chandler, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Holger Dahms, Lübeck University of Applied Sciences; Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Jens Thiedke, Lübeck University of Applied Sciences

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International

attractive forstudent participation. Hence, for MSOE and the Lübeck University of Applied Sciencesresolving details regarding length of stay abroad, tuition issue, capstone project, and numerousother points was central to the successful implementation of the exchange program. The majorstructural differences such as having a private university on a quarter system versus a foreignstate university on a semester system “pushed” the exchange program towards a year-longexperience, as opposed to a shorter stay. That, however, is not only more difficult to implementbut more difficult to maintain. At this point in time the MSOE-Lübeck University of AppliedSciences student exchange program is entering its 12th year for the Electrical Enginering (EE)program

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Entrepreneurial Leadership and Non-traditional Ways to Engage Students in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen High, Oklahoma State University; Paul Rossler, Oklahoma State University; Martin High, Oklahoma State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

that involvespartnerships among public schools, higher education, and the private sector to increasethe quantity and quality of engineers and engineering technologists graduating. Morethan 660 state high school students are currently enrolled in the curriculum. TheEngineering Design and Development (EDD) module is a capstone course for senior highschool students, focusing on invention and entrepreneurial skills. Dr. Karen High servesas a trainer for this course. The module includes innovation and invention, and showsstudents how to take engineering one step further.A one-credit hour engineering orientation course was developed in the fall of 2006 thatintroduced engineering entrepreneurship to former Project The Lead the Way students—now

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stacee Harmon, Oklahoma State University; Wendy James, Oklahoma State University; Richard Bryant, Oklahoma State University

and requirescooperation and participation of each member. While much of the work is done as ateam, each student completes every task and demonstrates conceptual masteryindependent of the team performance. In this situation, even though there is a hands-on/procedural component to the course, learning is focused upon the specific contentknowledge. In this context, the purpose of the team projects is to demonstrate Page 12.1036.6understanding of a concept and the ability to apply it to a new situation, not to displaytechnical ability. Since design courses tend to be the capstone in an undergraduate engineeringprogram, conceptual knowledge is often

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques in Graphics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Priti Bhatnagar, Daniel Webster College; Christopher McInnis, Daniel Webster College; Chad Hebert, Daniel Webster College; Sonja Crowder, Daniel Webster College; David Guo, Daniel Webster College; Nicholas Bertozzi, Daniel Webster College

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Engineering Design Graphics

depending on the scope of the project. • Also, the design projects used in the first two courses are defined by the instructor and clear milestones are established for the students. The focus is as much on the design process as it is on the design project. In the upper-level design courses the student teams submit their own project proposals and set their own milestones.Syllabi for the first three design courses can be found at: (http://faculty.dwc.edu/bertozzi/ ). Themost recent design project descriptions and assessment milestones can also be found at this site.The two senior capstone design classes are still under discussion and development at this time

Conference Session

Teaching Ethics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Waleed Abulfaraj, King Abdulaziz University; Mohamed Hassan, Alexandria University, Egypt

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

meeting, assume professional society leadership positions, etc. Students must fulfill specified outreach requirements during their college career before they can graduate. 5. Place more emphasis on professionalism and ethics in a senior capstone class: Two full lectures of the senior design project are devoted to these topics. One of the lectures (in the context of engineering standards) is devoted to the role of professional societies in the development and maintenance of standards. The students are made aware of the need to become involved with the professional societies, and the importance of their service in standard-setting committees. Another lecture is devoted to the topic of ethics in

Conference Session

Gender and Accessibility Issues in K-12 Engineering Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Veronica Burrows, Arizona State University; Judy Sutor, Arizona State University; Marilyn Carlson, Arizona State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

introductory materials engineering classes. Most recently, he has been working on Project Pathways, an NSF supported Math Science Partnership, in developing modules for a courses on Connecting Mathematics with Physics and Chemistry and also a course on Engineering Capstone Design.Veronica Burrows, Arizona State University Veronica Burrows is Associate Director of the Center for Research on Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology and Associate professor in the Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering at Arizona State University. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Drexel University and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Princeton

Conference Session

FPD6 -- Early Intervention & Retention Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Knight, University of Colorado at Boulder; Jacquelyn Sullivan, University of Colorado at Boulder; Beverly Louie, University of Colorado at Boulder

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First-Year Programs

collaborative team situations arms students with a powerfultool to promote effective teams.Social Style Applications in Engineering EducationSocial style theory potentially has several applications in engineering education — including theareas of teamwork, diversity and assessment. The team has become an important learningmechanism in engineering education, with Capstone senior design project teams common acrossengineering programs and Cornerstone first-year team-based courses ubiquitous.[8, 9] If teams areadopted as an engineering learning mechanism, students must be taught how to work in projectteams, as success is far from assured when five first-year students are assigned a designproject.[9, 10] Our experience, gained though teaching a first-year

Conference Session

Design Methodolgy

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Foley, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Design in Engineering Education

designprocess’.Introduction Imagine the scenario of a patient with a broken arm seeking help from a treesurgeon. We would hope that before diving into the complexities of fixing a broken armthe tree surgeon would look at the big picture and re-direct the confused patient to anappropriate medical practitioner, perhaps along the way handing out a business card.Such a far fetched scenario is quite often not far from the mark for the engineer. Indeedmany ‘design’ problems are often presented in such eloquent and well specified formatsthat the engineer often feels obliged to dive into a design process. Despite this, it isimperative to take a step back from the initial project proposal, problem description, etc.and undertake a situation

Conference Session

Computer Engineering Technology Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wangping Sun, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Engineering Technology

, Inc., New York.18. Pimmel, R., 2001, “Cooperative learning instructional activities in a capstone design course,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 90, No. 3, p. 413-421.19. Sun, W.P., 2007, “Introducing cooperative learning into a traditional mechanical engineering course,” submitted to Journal of Technology Interface. Page 12.81.1220. Sun, W.P., and Anderson, J., 2006, “Teaching plant design/material handling by using project-based approach,” Proceedings of the 2006 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.21. Johnson, R., 2002, Matlab programming style guidelines, available from: www.datatool.com/downloads

Conference Session

ABET Accreditation of Multidisciplinary Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Harvey Palmer, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

student on theteam is exposed to the best practices of managing a project. Finally, each team of students ismentored by a multidisciplinary team of faculty members who not only provide the full range oftechnical expertise needed for the design project but also model the way in which amultidisciplinary team should function. In its fourth year, this multidisciplinary capstone designinitiative has expanded to embrace programs in other colleges as well, including programs suchas industrial design and business.As stated above, all accredited engineering programs must meet or exceed expectationsregarding the inclusion of these outcomes in their program. The issue isn’t “can these outcomesbe achieved,” but rather “can engineering programs evolve to a

Conference Session

Engineering in Middle Schools

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Larry Richards, University of Virginia; Christine Schnittka, University of Virginia

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

all grade levels. At the national level, the International TechnologyEducation Association (ITEA) standards have led to curriculum materials to introduceengineering in middle and high schools (http://www.iteaconnect.org/). Our ETKs aredesigned to meet state and national standards in science and/or math, and whenappropriate to also meet the Massachusetts and ITEA standards. Each ETK includes a listof the specific standards addressed.The ETK Design ProcessThe ETKs are developed by teams of fourth year Mechanical Engineering students in ayear long capstone design class. For the last five years, this experimental class has beenoffered as one of several options for meeting the capstone design requirement. During ourlast ABET visit, the examiners

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alka Harriger, Purdue University; Kyle Lutes, Purdue University; Jack Purdum, Purdue University

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Electrical and Computer

projects give them practical experience in userrequirements definition and working with agents who are external to the educational process.This paper describes CIT’s software development curriculum at Purdue and shares what aspectsof each course contribute to increased employability for summer internships and for part-timejobs during the school year.Department OverviewThe Department of CIT was established in 1978 under the name Computer Technology. Sincethat time, CIT has grown to include about 600 current majors and over 3,100 alumni. Currently,the Department offers one degree at the main campus, the Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computerand Information Technology. The BS degree provides a foundation for continued education (e.g.,graduate education

Conference Session

EMD Program Design

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ertunga Ozelkan, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; S. Gary Teng, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Thomas Johnson, Besam Entrance Solutions; Tom Benson, Pass and Seymour-Legrand; Dean Nestvogel, Pass and Seymour-Legrand

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Engineering Management

AC 2007-709: A COLLABORATIVE CASE STUDY FOR TEACHING“ACHIEVING LEAN SYSTEM BENEFITS IN MANUFACTURING AND SUPPLYCHAINS” TO ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT STUDENTSErtunga Ozelkan, University of North Carolina-Charlotte Ertunga C. Ozelkan, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Management and the Associate Director of the Center for Lean Logistics and Engineered Systems at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Before joining academia, Dr. Ozelkan worked for i2 Technologies, a leading supply chain software vendor in the capacity of a Customer Service and Global Curriculum Manager and a Consultant. He also worked as a project manager and a consultant for Tefen Consulting in the area of

Conference Session

Engineering Management Program Management

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Elson, National University; Shekar Viswanathan, National University; Howard Evans, National University

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Engineering Management

AC 2007-2407: ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT WITHIN A SYSTEMSENGINEERING PROGRAMJohn Elson, National UniversityShekar Viswanathan, National UniversityHoward Evans, National University Page 12.646.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Engineering Management within a Systems Engineering ProgramIntroduction Designing curricula may seem to be just another design effort, similar to other design projects.And this might be a reasonable analogy if the design project is considered in its entirety, fromassessing marketplace needs all the way through to design and quality verification. Thus, onemight have this mindset when designing

Conference Session

ChE: Innovations in Student Learning

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brent Young, University of Auckland; Robert Kirkpatrick, University of Auckland; William Svrcek, University of Calgary

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Chemical Engineering

Kirkpatrick, University of Auckland Robert Kirkpatrick is the Distinguished Designer in Residence at Chemical and Materials Engineering and Director of the Energy Centre at the University of Auckland. He received his B.E. (1971) and Ph.D. (1975) degrees in Chemical Engineering from Auckland and the UK respectively. He has 30 years of experience in petrochemicals and oil & gas working for Union Carbide, Mobil Oil and Methanex. Roles included Technical, Operations, Design, Projects, Development and Management.William Svrcek, University of Calgary William Svrcek is a Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He received his B.Sc

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2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Doug Reeve P.Eng.; Annie Simpson; Veena Kumar; Emma Master; Dave Colcleugh; Greg Evans P.Eng.

, designing green chemistry labs, designing a compost system for anapartment building, developing a website for recruiting future chemical engineeringstudents, designing an energy efficient home insulation plan, designing a bio-engineeringfacility, harnessing bio-methane, and organizing student tours. In 2007 the tours visited amunicipal waste incinerator, a refinery and a steel mill. The rationale for the projects wasto allow students to apply their newly acquired knowledge, self-awareness, and teamskills.As a capstone to the summer program, students presented their group project work toinvited alumni and industry leaders. This was a formal event, where students presentedand were asked questions about their research and design work. Alumni voted

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Hansen, The University of Texas-Tyler

teacherpreparation programs, which typically represent adaptations of traditional technology educationteacher preparation programs. Traditional technology education programs continue to focus onlearning material processing, tool use, and project-based activities directed at making things(Custer and Wright, 2002; Lewis, 2005) and neglect the creative elements associated with Page 12.421.3inventing, innovating, and designing.Rigby and Harrell (2005) suggest that there is an accepted understanding of “pre-engineeringconcepts” that should be taught at the secondary level, however, the details of these concepts arenot provided. They also state, as a goal of their

Conference Session

Innovation in Construction Engineering Education II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gunnar Lucko, Catholic University of America; Panagiotis Tsopelas, Catholic University of America; Timothy Garland, Catholic University of America; Rodrigo Gonzalez, Catholic University of America; Thomas Lee, Catholic University of America; Justin Molineaux, Catholic University of America

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Construction

the benefits inuniformity of education and professional qualification are obvious, the adverse effects are notbeing attended to. Students are learning because they are required to learn and not because theyare willing to learn.I am so refreshed to see the implementation of this course into our program. The course has theimmediate scholastic benefits similar to a capstone design course where students pool theirknowledge of simple engineering components to solve complex engineering problems. The keydifference being that these are real projects and real problems. There is now an outside drive ofcompassion and satisfactions which motivates students to learn. The structuring of the course isalso crucial to its success. For students to have any

Conference Session

Preparing Engineering Students for International Practice

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alan Parkinson, Brigham Young University

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International

more comfortable formatfor some students but less immersion in the culture.Partner Sub-contractThe home university partners with an abroad university and contracts for courses to be taught tostudents of the home university (usually in English). Students may live on-campus. Unlike anexchange program, parity of exchange does not have to be maintained.Project-based Learning/Service LearningStudents travel abroad and are immersed in another culture via a project that connects technologywith the abroad society. Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is perhaps the leader in this typeof format. There has also been growing interest in programs such as Engineers Without Borders,which provide service learning via humanitarian projects.Research AbroadA

Conference Session

Improving ME Education: Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Efstathios Michaelides, University of North Texas; Reza Mirshams, University of North Texas

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Mechanical Engineering

unified way concepts such as momentum and thermal boundary layers.6. A project course on “thermal engineering projects,” offered in the second semester of the junior year, is taught jointly by the professors who taught the thermal science courses and serves as the cornerstone project course for all the thermo-fluid concepts the students have been taught in the previous semester.7. The senior-year courses are reserved for the typical capstone design course and two required courses on nuclear energy and alternative energy sources. These and technical elective courses, including a recommended course on entrepreneurship, form the bulk of the senior year curriculum.8. Technical elective courses are planned to be offered with

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education Curriculum I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wing Chan, Alabama A&M University; Peter Romine, Alabama A&M University

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Manufacturing

technical electives. In their junior year, they would replace“Natural/Physical Science w/Lab” with “Microbiology” (Bio 330 & Bio 330L). Also, they wouldtake “Fundamentals of Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning” (MET 407) as their EETelective. During their senior year, students would be required to take elective course 2(Biotechnology) and elective course 4 (Biotechnology Manufacturing Laboratory) as their EETelectives. In their “Capstone Design Phase I and II” (EET 428 & EET 429), students would berequired to do their project in the area of Biotechnology Manufacturing or find an internship witha local biotechnology company in order to gain practical experience. Students selecting theproject will be evaluated by a professional

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computer-Oriented Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sohail Anwar, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona College; Jungwoo Ryoo, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona College; Harpal Dhillon, Excelsior College; David Barnes, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona College

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Information Systems

) is designed to provide graduates with the knowledgeand skills necessary to apply current methods and technology to the development, design,operation, and management of electro-mechanical systems. The program is specifically intendedto prepare graduates for careers in industries where automated systems are used and to preparethem both to meet current challenges and to be capable of growing with future demands of thefield. It accomplishes this by accepting associate degree students from either mechanical orelectrical engineering technology programs, cross-training them in the alternate discipline, andthen exposing them to a spectrum of instrumentation and industrial controls concepts. Theprogram culminates with a capstone project design course

Conference Session

Introductory Materials Science for the 21st Century

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carolyn Skurla, Baylor University

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Materials

offering, I solicited and discussed ideas forimprovements and changes to the laboratory format with faculty, staff, and students who hadpreviously taken the class. Because of its small size, our machine shop is too small to allowextensive student training on the equipment; however, the students strongly recommended thatmore hands-on experience with manufacturing methods was needed. They suggestedcomponents of laboratory exercises that could be deleted from the formal exercise and convertedinto self-paced, independent student activities. Our department’s machinist is heavily involvedin working with students in the capstone design courses in the second half of each semester;therefore, the assistance of the staff machinist was incorporated into

Conference Session

Curriculum Implementation of Materials Advances

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Santosh Kurinec, Rochester Institute of Technology; Surendra Gupta, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Materials

• Plasma processes • Electrochemistry • Chemical Mechanical Planarization • Materials Analysis • Optical properties and lithographyThe program encompasses capstone senior design project that involves design and developmentof integrated device, component, process or capability at RIT. Students publish their seniorproject papers in proceedings published each year. The trend over the last several years showsthat ~ 30-50% of senior projects entail materials process development. In addition, students getopportunities during their co-op experience to engage in materials/process development projects.Further graduate coursework in materials science and engineering will provide deeperunderstanding of materials engineering fundamentals

Conference Session

Graduate Education and Undergraduate Research in ET

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mean-Shang Chen, Central Michigan University; Michael Chan, China Travel Ship Management Limited; Dru Wilson, Central Michigan University

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Engineering Technology

areas.Michael Chan, China Travel Ship Management LimitedDru Wilson, Central Michigan University Page 12.913.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Integrating CAD/CAM/CAE and Composite Molding Technologies in a Research ExperienceAbstractThis paper discusses the research experience of a student who integrated design andmanufacturing functions to improve a brake shoe used on a band saw. The CAD/CAM andcomposite tooling technologies selected for this project were primarily based on student’sundergraduate and graduate course work. The scanning/digitizing and rapid prototypingtechnologies were also studied. This

Conference Session

Design Methodolgy

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jose Salinas, United States Military Academy; Bobby Crawford, USMA; Tony Jones, USMA

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Design in Engineering Education

. The final EDP, the culmination or “capstone” project, was deliberately designed to fall along the extreme right of every one of the scales, leveraging the anticipation of an extremely fun project to build excitement and enthusiasm for what would prove to be a significantly challenging engineering problem. Students were tasked to develop prototype

Conference Session

Implementing the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge into Courses and Curricula

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Roberts, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; Christina Curras, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; Philip Parker, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; Michael Penn, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; Max Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

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Civil Engineering

culminates in a capstone design class that is taken in the last se-mester in school. Projects for this class are often solicited from communities and non-profitorganizations, and typically incorporate a service learning component.In reviewing the existing UWP CEE curriculum for this curriculum development project, itbecame clear that the curriculum had not changed significantly in over 20 years. To illustratethis, the curricula from the 1985 and 2005 catalogs are shown in Table 1. The course changesare very minor, and the total revisions made in 20 years to the UWP CEE curriculum consistof the following: replacing Route Layout with Construction Engineering; replacing TechnicalWriting with 3-9 more credits of Social Sciences and Humanities; changing

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Industrial Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Durfee, Eastern Washington University

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Engineering Technology

greatresponse to this need including accreditation requirements requiring students to work in acollaborative, team-oriented, capstone design project. Another avenue to expose students to thistype of work is undergraduate research. But using an existing building as a laboratory lendsitself more to analysis than it does to research. In other words, the students will be seeking datato answer questions posed to them by their instructor. The students will be studying questionsthat, in many cases, already have answers. This might lead to the thought that it will be of lesservalue to the student. Some studies, however, indicate that when students are working on a large,complex, hands-on project, to them it is research and they derive many of the same benefits

Conference Session

ChE: Innovations in the Classroom

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Raymond, Bucknell University

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Chemical Engineering

course. A typicalcurriculum then can become a series of seemingly unrelated courses (in the student’s mind) thatare often only connected in a senior capstone or design course. Even the typical senior capstonecourse usually limits the application aspects directly to the students’ major and to what isconsidered mainstream or directly related to the discipline. Ideally, however, students shouldhave ample opportunities to integrate and apply previous course content to new courses, areas,and problems. This should include interdisciplinary concepts and areas that may be considerednon-traditional for a particular major. The courses described in this paper were designed to takeadvantage of proven pedagogical methods to improve student learning.In the