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Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Hy Tran; Catherine Clewett

Scientific Attitudes A 31.2 8.9 33.9 5.7 2.8 Career Interest in Science C 26.4 9.7 27.6 6.7 1.2 Enjoyment of Science Lessons E 27.4 9.8 28.6 7.0 1.2 Attitude toward Scientific Inquiry I 33.2 6.7 35.8 5.2 2.7 Leisure Interest in Science L 24.4 10.3 25.7 8.0 1.3 Normality of Scientists N 32.1 6.1 32.4 5.5 0.3 Social Implications of Science S 34.0 8.6 34.1 6.5 0.1 Mean of Seven Scales 29.8 8.6 31.2 6.4 1.4While the students showed some improvement in their attitudes towards science andengineering

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Leah Jamieson; Lynne Slivovsky; William Oakes

for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationEach EPICS project involves a team of eight to twenty undergraduates, a not-for-profitcommunity partner – for example, a community service agency, museum or school, orgovernment agency and a faculty or industry advisor. A pool of graduate teaching assistantsfrom seven departments provides technical guidance and administrative assistance.Each EPICS team is vertically integrated, consisting of a mix of freshmen, sophomores, juniors,and senior and is constituted for several years, from initial project definition through finaldeployment. Once the initial project(s) is completed and deployed, new projects

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ronald DeMara; Avelino Gonzalez; Annie Wu; Jose Castro; Ingrid Russell; Mansooreh Mollaghasemi; Marcella Kysilka; Erol Gelenbe; Michael Georgiopoulos

efforts in the Evaluate CRCD efforts in the Develop improved ML Research classroom classroom Modules Develop improved CTML I and CTML II educational materials C R CD Sen io r s t ud en t s g ra du at e Time beyond Summer ‘05

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Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Carolyn Clark; Prudence Merton; Jim Richardson; Jeffrey Froyd

Engineering Curriculum [6-11]that was initiated at TAMU in 1989. For the 1995–96 academic year or third year of the grant,each FC partner intended to improve its first-year curriculum pilot, implement a sophomorecurriculum pilot, and prepare plans for pilots of a junior curriculum in one or more engineeringmajor(s). The action plan called for work in the fourth and fifth years of the grant to continue in asimilar fashion until the entire undergraduate engineering curricula were restructured.FC faculty and administrators approached their task with a mental model of how curricular changeoccurs. The term “mental model” [12] refers to the mental representations of reality that peopleuse to understand phenomena. They contribute to people’s pictures, ideas

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Understanding Students: Cognition

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2003 Annual Conference

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F. Lee Grismore; Dr. Juliet Hurtig; Dr. Barry Farbrother

of bachelor degrees is less than thevalue of Nreq, a positive difference signal is formed and feeds back into the system in such a way asto increase the fraction of students that remain on the engineering pathway. Ks stands for “Schoolsystem input coefficient” and K c stands for “College system input coefficient”. Each of these Page 8.180.2coefficients is the sum of two terms. The functional relationship for Ks is“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education” K s

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Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2003 Annual Conference

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William O. Jolley; Hartley T. Grandin, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

application of the method. Modern finiteelement developments have become very sophisticated, and the available softwaredeveloped for the user has become very easy to use. It has become more important thanever to insure that the analyst, in his/her search for the best modeling method, correctlyuses the tools available.What Type of Education is Required to Carry Out a Proper Element Analysis?When FEM first appeared in the 1960's it was introduced into the engineering curriculumat the graduate level. As the method and computer technology matured, FEM wasintroduced at the undergraduate level in engineering and engineering technologyprograms, even in some two-year technology programs. Graphical user-friendlyinterfaces (GUI) have significantly reduced the

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Capstone Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Grimm

topics is presented here, followed by a list of the topics included in thesecond semester MEEM4910 course. The course meets twice a week for 50-minutesessions on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.Week Topic(s) 1 The Product Design Process and Presentation of Projects 2 Need Identification and problem Definition, Design Notebooks, QFD and Design Specifications 3 Team Behavior and Tools, Planning and Scheduling, Progress Reports 4 Information Sources, Intellectual Property and Patent Searches 5 Patent Costs & Foreign Patents, Concept Generation and Creativity 6 Introduction to Axiomatic Design Concepts, Concept Evaluation Methods 7 Embodiment Design, Human

Conference Session

What's New in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Paul Ranky

Page 8.78.3Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education.the disassembly industry, we have included three important files (that are hyper linked tothe spreadsheet too). These being the rating rules, regarding Severity, Detection andOccurrence. (As an example, consider the rules we use in our risk analysis rule-basedsystem).Severity is a rating corresponding to the seriousness of the effect(s) of a potential failuremode. Severity applies only to the effect of a failure mode. The purpose of establishing avalue of disassembly severity is to be able to quantify the seriousness of failing during oneor more disassembly process steps

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Student Interaction

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2003 Annual Conference

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Paul Ranky

Education.Each case in this library first looks at the real-world customer requirement, then expertsoffer one or more solution(s) by explaining real-world solutions, working with realmachines, or processes, or systems, and /or engineering management tasks, and thendiscuss further development, service, maintenance, integration, connectivity and manyother issues with several feedback loops, sound methods, and practical examples. Duringthe discussion, as well as at the end each 3D multimedia eBook case in the library offersplenty of discussion and improvement opportunities, as well as open-source computationalsolutions and templates for real or virtual teams to test and validate their own logic, anddata.Our approach mirrors real-world issues of the

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New Electrical ET Course Development

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2003 Annual Conference

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Biswajit Ray

two-channel digital oscilloscope. A typicallab station is shown in Figure 2 below. The laboratory is also equipped with GPIB/RS-232capable high power (150 V/8 A) dc power supplies for motor control applications includingelectrically controlled motor loading system. Figure 2 Typical laboratory station.The instrumentation and data acquisition specific software and hardware are briefly describedbelow.Software:LabVIEW 6.0 from National Instruments12Data acquisition (DAQ) board: • Model 6024E from National Instruments • High performance multifunction board o 16 single-ended or 8 differential analog input channels, 12 bit resolution, 200 kS/s o 2 analog voltage output channels, 12 bit

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Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Brad Kinsey

Engineering in a Changing World, Arlington, VA, 1996, NSF-96.2. National Science Board, Science and Engineering Indicators – 1996, Washington, D.C., 1996, NSB-96.3. Bishop J., “Developing Students’ Spatial Ability”, The Science Teacher, vol. 45, 1978, pp. 20-3.4. Sorby, S. and B. Baartmans, “The Development and Assessment of a Course for Enhancing the 3-D Spatial Visualization Skills of First Year Engineering Students”, Journal of Engineering Education, July, 2000, pp. 301-7.5. Hsi, S., M. Linn, and J. Bell “The Role of Spatial Reasoning in Engineering and the Design of Spatial Instruction”, Journal of Engineering Education, April, 1997, pp. 151-8.6. Pleck, M., “Visual Literacy – An Important Aspect of Engineering Design”, Proceedings

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Student Chapters - Formulas for Success

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mark Evans; Eric Lachance; Allen Estes

. The interactionbetween students and practicing professionals who are attacking the challenges of the dayinspires the students to learn. The USMA CE program will continue to integrate the studentchapter activities into the curriculum to the point that the two become inseparable.References1. Henkel, Kenneth; Mow, Maurice; and Anderson, Edward, “Factors for a Successful ASCE Student Chapter”, Conference Proceeding, part of Civil Engineering Education, George k. Wadlin, ed., 1984.2. Shah, Kanti L., “Benefits of an Active ASCE Chapter to an Undergraduate Engineering College”, Conference Proceedings, Education and Continuing Development for the Civil Engineer: Setting the Agenda for the 90’s and Beyond, ASCE, Las Vegas, NV, April 1990.3

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Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher Murad

) ip s t (s n ec se sh io on oj

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ET Design Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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Zbigniew Prusak

, while the remaining 77% were minor inventions or repackaged existing solutions4, 5 . So over three quarters of the inventions are not real inventions, they are not even innovativesolutions. Engineer is not a synonym for inventor, but rather for creator 6. However, since forthe most part engineering education does not loose sight of the fact that The Best Solution is TheIdeal Solution, it is definitely worthwhile to teach what steps to take to arrive at The BestSolution.2. Lean Manufacturing Principles and Successful DesignsSince about 1960’s in Japan and late 1980’s in the USA, Lean Manufacturing principlesrevolutionized approach to the entire process of fabricating a product. In its core is a quest forelimination of waste not only on

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Teaching Strategies in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

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Joan Walker

Session 2109 The use of concept mapping as an alternative form of instruction and assessment in a capstone biomedical engineering design course Joan M.T. Walker1, Paul H. King2, & David S. Cordray1 Psychology and Human Development 1/ Biomedical Engineering2 Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 37203AbstractGrounded in interdisciplinary efforts to improve student learning and professionaldevelopment in the domain of bioengineering, this paper describes the design, use, andevaluation of an alternative form of instruction and assessment in a yearlong seniorbiomedical engineering (BME

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A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mark Kithcart; Legunchim Emmanwori; G. Van Ness Burbach; Dominic Clemence; Caesar Jackson; Guoqing Tang

. Inaddition, working collaboratively in research projects has enabled them to gain team workingexperience, communication, negotiation and consensus building skills. Preparing project reportsand presenting their research results at conferences have developed and nurtured their writingand presentation skills.References[1] Brown, K., J. McCullough, S. White, N. Veale, and J. Park (2002). “Forward finite-difference modeling ofseismic wave propagation,” the 2002 SPGRE project report, College of Arts and Sciences, North Carolina A&TState University, Greensboro, NC 27411, July, 2002[2] Dhanasar, M. and C.R. Jackson (2002). “Development of the seismic physical modeling facility: data acquisitionmodule,” in Proc. 7th Annual Life and Physical Sciences

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Lorena Basilio; Frank Claydon; Betty Barr; David Shattuck; Stuart Long; Jennifer Ruchhoeft

, American Society for Engineering Education” Shattuck et al., Summer Camp and Course Workshops for Sophomore Level Electrical and Computer Engineerswe felt that a new and additional effort could help our students even more. We chose to concentrate our efforts on two required courses taken by our students in thesecond semester of their sophomore year. These two courses are Circuit Analysis, andElectromagnetics. (Their formal names and titles are ECE 2300 Circuit Analysis, and ECE 2317Applied Electricity and Magnetism.) Both courses are standard three semester-credit-hour lecturecourses, with three hours of lecture per week, and class sizes that vary from the low 20’s to mid50’s. These courses were chosen because of the low success rate for

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

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Saleh Al Hashimi; Colm Mealy; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller

PI Freshman (A rabic) 60.0 PI Freshman ( English) 50.0 % Students 40.0 30.0 20.0 10.0 0.0 0.0-24.9 25.0-49.9 50.0-74.9 75.0-100.0 % Corre ct Res ponse s Page 8.350.3 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering

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Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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James Turso; David Johnson; Shannon Sweeney

mathematical treatment of mechanical vibrations and experimental analysis.The graphics-based block diagram language of Simulink allows students to ‘build’ thedifferential equation(s) for single-degree-of-freedom, as well as multiple-degree-of-freedom,systems. The Simulink software package includes a wide array of system input functionsincluding step, impulse, random, user defined, and sinusoidally varying. Frequency domainresponse characteristics are easily obtained using Simulink. The use of Matlab, then, provides ameans for the student to develop a dynamic model of, for example, an automobile’s suspensionsystem, and perform sensitivity analyses on several, or all, of the system’s key parameters withvirtually instantaneous results.Matlab, and its

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

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Susan Lord

, Raleigh, NC, pp. 65-67, 1990.(2) Waterman, A. S., "An Overview of Service-Learning and the Role of Research and Evaluation in Service- Learning Programs," in Service-Applications from the Research Learning, Edited by Alan S. Waterman, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, New Jersey, 1997.(3) Projects that Matter: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Engineering (AAHE’s Series in Service- Learning in the Disciplines), Edmund Tsang, editor, (American Association for Higher Education, Washington, DC), 2000.(4) William Oakes, John Duffy, Thomas Jacobius, Panos Linos, Susan M. Lord, William W. Schultz, and Amy Smith, “Service-Learning In Engineering,” Session F3A, 2002 Frontiers in Education Conference, Boston, Massachusetts

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Kelvin Kirby

) established by the Texas A&M S ystem Board of Regents. 2. CM 3 is the permanent organization for C ARR. 3. Establish CARR/CM 3 accounts for Life Cycle Support . 4. Evaluate capital pr oducing capabilities: * Professional Services. * Radiation Testing. * Material Charact erization / Surface Analysis . * Simulation Services. * New Research and Service Opportunities. * Expansion of current capab ilities. * Incorporating special purpose teams. 5. CM 3 as the incubator of Small Business Innovative Re search . (SBIR) initiative. Figure

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What's New in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Saumitra Mishra; Boris Ramos; Amy Zeng; Arthur Gerstenfeld; Sharon Johnson

supply chain impacts. Students who participated in the TIME WISE exercises in Fall2002 were overwhelmingly positive about the laboratory activities in student evaluations. Wealso found the interaction and exploration required by the labs to be a stimulating and satisfyingteaching experience.Acknowledgement. Partial support for this work was provided by the National ScienceFoundation’s Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement Program under grant DUE-0126672.Bibliographic Information[1] Ambrose, S. A. and C. H. Amon, “Systematic Design of a First-Year Mechanical Engineering Course at Carnegie Mellon University,” Journal of Engineering Education, 86, no. 2, 173-181, April 1997

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Publicity Elements of Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Staggers; Lynne Slivovsky

the document development cycle to identify and prioritizedocumentation needs and to select final projects for documentation based on degree of need andproject scope, given tight timelines and limited resources. The documentation teams anddeliverables they ultimately produced are detailed in Table 1.Working in teams of 3-5, students planned a documentation set needed by the EPICS team. Thedocumentation set could include one or more documents that fulfilled internal (EPICS)development team needs, or fulfilled the needs of particular EPICS’ end-user group(s). Workingwith EPICS team members, each group of writers identified the most critical needs fordocumentation and developed appropriate documents. The project, detailed in Table 2, consistedof

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole Amare; Charlotte Brammer

how engineering departmentsteach writing and vice versa. Recently, increased communication and cross-disciplinary effortsbetween traditionally disparate departments, such as engineering and English, has helped toalleviate this rift and eliminate stereotypes. However, there is always internal strife as well withindepartments; for example, exactly what is taught in freshman English—specifically how and whycomposition instructors teach writing the way(s) they do—has been a heavily debated topic forthe past ten years in English conferences like the MLA, CCCC, and NCTE, in journals likeCollege English, CCC, and Journal of Advanced Composition (JAC), and in numerous bookssuch as Peter Elbow’s What is English?, Sharon Crowley’s Composition in the

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Partnerships in IE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Burtner

the job market especially in the manufacturing industriesof the 21st century. With a goal to link industry more tightly to the engineering school, anundergraduate engineering program may identify two objectives: to improve U. S. technologicalcompetitiveness by creating a substantive, people-based technology transfer relationship betweenindustry and engineering colleges; and to improve the industrial relevance of the undergraduateengineering experience without compromising the teaching of fundamental science andmathematics. These objectives can be achieved through curricula developed by a team ofprofessors who have a strong industrial background, demonstrated teaching ability, significantmanagement experience, good undergraduate and graduate

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Otieno; Abul Azad; Radha Balamuralikrishna

competency gaps among newly hired graduates. The Next step - Partnership with schools (1997). Manufacturing education for the 21st century. Volume IV. Dearborn, MI: Society of Manufacturing Engineers.3. Jeffries, M. J. (1991). Some aspects of industrial and academic change. Proceedings of the 1991 Conference on Frontiers in Education, West Lafayette, IN.4. Kitto, K. L. (1997). Integrating concurrent engineering into undergraduate design and research experiences. Proceedings of the 1997 Conference on Frontiers in Education, Pittsburgh, PA.5. Kara, S., Kayis, B. & Kaebernick, H. (1997). Resources for new product development in Australia. Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing, 7(3): 237-249.6. Azevedo da Silveira

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Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tushar Patil; Ofodike Ezekoye; Justin Cone; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

interactive “story” with multiple perspectives. In non-linear fashion,students can choose which perspective(s) they wish to focus on, all the while piecing together forthemselves the complex personal relationships that drive business. Page 8.266.9 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session 3554For example, the character that represents the marketing cycle, Mary, interacts with nearly everybusiness

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International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Carney; Michael Nolan; James Lampe; Raymond Thompson

Session 2260 A Faculty-Led Global Study Trip for Student Credit Michael S. Nolan, Raymond E. Thompson, Thomas Q. Carney & James E. Lampe Purdue UniversityAbstractThe Aviation Technology (AT) Department of Purdue University is now entering the third year ofan ongoing globalization effort. Activities have included visits to numerous aviation programsaround the world for the purpose of setting up aviation specific Study Abroad opportunities. Thedepartment offered an aviation law course in Oxford, England for Aviation Technology studentsin 2002. The Aviation Management major is now requiring a

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Corradini

, 2002)2 Michael L. Corradini, Chair, "The Future of University Nuclear Engineering Programs and UniversityResearch and Training Reactors", Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Committee Report, U. S.Department of Energy, 2000.3 Gary S. Was and William R. Martin, Ed., Manpower Supply and Demand in the Nuclear Industry (AnnArbor, Michigan: Nuclear Engineering Department Heads Organization, 1998).4 Neal Todreas, Chair, "A Technology Roadmap for Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems", NuclearEnergy Research Advisory Committee Report, U. S. Department of Energy, 20025 The conventional nuclear engineering degree programs consists of 30 credits: Atomic and nuclear physics (3) Reactor physics (3) Radiation effects and

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Multidisciplinary Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

M.J. (John) Frye; Myron (Ron) Britton

R = 2 + S(H-125)/C where: 2 = value assigned for having a tower to test S = 1, if the tower supports the 20 kg mass S = 0, if the tower does not support the 20 kg mass H = height of the tower, in mm C = number of cards usedLaboratory 3- Brainstorming exercise in groups no larger than 20 students. Week 1, generate as many ideas as possible. 20 ideas receives 3 points, 25 receives 4 points and 30 or more receives 5 points. Week 2, prepare a design recommendation based on the previously generated ideas.- Design a folding sawhorse. The design must be presented in freehand graphic form, on a flip chart page, using a broad nib felt tip pen