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Assessment & Quality Assuranc in Engr Ed

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2003 Annual Conference

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Roger Reynolds; Macy Reynolds

hard copy or by email.The purpose of a journal is to alert the professor as to how well a concept was understood orwhich students are struggling and perhaps give some prescriptive solutions. To assess theeffectiveness of journaling, students at the University of Dayton were assigned weekly emailjournals in two introductory programming classes and an engineering economics class. Theclasses contain first to fourth year engineering technology students. The anticipated outcomeswere to offer a quick check on the basic skill level of students, provide early intervention when astudent did not understand concepts, create an informal communication with a professor soquestions that might not get asked in class could be addressed informally, and finally

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Outreach and Freshman Programs

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Mark Smith; Wayne Walter

Session Number 2566 Handicapped Design Projects in a New Engineering Honors Course Wayne Walter, Mark Smith Kate Gleason College of Engineering Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY 14623AbstractAs part of a new Honors Program within the Kate Gleason College of Engineering at theRochester Institute of Technology (RIT), a multidisciplinary design project has been recentlyintroduced as a two-course sequence (1 credit each quarter), taken by honors students during thewinter and spring of their Freshman year. Instead

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Outreach and Freshman Programs

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John Brader; Jed Lyons

-school activities with two different populations of students and theirdevelopment and implementation of the GK-12 Summer Institute for Teachers. Data from acomprehensive assessment process has been used for both formative and summative assessmentof the program.II. Program DescriptionThe first cohort of GK-12 Fellows at the University of South Carolina included four PhD, fiveMS and two BS/MS students from the disciplines of mechanical, chemical, civil andenvironmental engineering. Student selection criteria included U.S. citizenship, admission to agraduate program in the College of Engineering and Information Technology, disciplinaryknowledge as evidenced by the student's resume and GPA, and a personal statementdescribing teaching and career

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Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

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Emily Mowry

Society for Engineering Education Page 4 of 9September 23 – Guest speaker on ethics in biomedical technology (BME department)September 25 – Case study: Transmyocardial revascularizationSeptember 30 – Case study: Biomedical technology – VeriChipOctober 2 – Design of an analytical thought process that incorporates ethical considerations into BME designOctober 7 – Introduction to team project, assign teams and topics, Introduction to genetics research, view segments of Cracking the Code of LifeOctober 9 – Case study: Who owns the human genome? Race to decode the human genomeOctober 14 – Case study: Humans as “virtual subjects” for gene therapy research; Iceland DNA

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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ZT DENG; Xiaoqing (Cathy) Qian; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo; Zhengtao Deng

Session 1693 Evaluation of Assessment Tools for Outcome Based Engineering Courses Drs. Z.T. Deng, Ruben Rojas-Oviedo and Xiaoqing (Cathy) Qian Mechanical Engineering Department, Alabama A&M University P.O. Box 1163, Huntsville, AL 35762 Voice: (256) 858-4142, E-Mail: AAMZXD01@AAMU.EDUAbstractThe implementation of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)Engineering Accreditation Criteria 2000 (EAC 2000) into Mechanical Engineeringundergraduate curricula is critical to the success of engineering education. The EAC Criteria2000 emphasizes an outcome

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Issues for ET Administrators

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2003 Annual Conference

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Roger Reynolds; Macy Reynolds

Session 1492 Student Journals Promote Communication for Adjunct Instructors in Engineering Courses Macy Reynolds, Roger Reynolds University of DaytonAdjunct instructors often have trouble finding convenient times to schedule meetings withstudents because they are not on campus other than just before and after their classes. Thesemeetings are especially important to students who need to clarify concepts from morequantitative content of engineering technology courses. As two adjunct professors at theUniversity of Dayton, the authors have

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Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

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David Click; Dan Pearce; P. Paxton Marshall

, and almost never the limiting one.”William A. Wulf and George M. C. Fisher, Issues in Science and Technology, spring 2002.INTRODUCTION Design requires the synthesis of many competing factors in order to develop thebest solution given the perceived problem. The Solar Decathlon project at the Universityof Virginia (UVA) attempted to teach students how to design and build a solar-poweredhouse. In the process the potential and problems of engineering design education wereexposed. There is a traditional triad in building design and construction made up ofengineering, architecture and construction. The mismatch in cultures and goals betweenthe three is profound and can lead to misunderstandings and even a degree of animosity.Yet when managed

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Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

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Anita Mahadevan-Jansen

for important information in pursuit of helping them construct their ownknowledge. Computer technology provides an additional mechanism to help teachers with theinstructional process necessary to sustain a generative learning environment in a classroom.Learning Objectives for the First-Year CourseIn order to meet the needs of today's freshmen, a paradigm shift based on engineering design andproblem solving is being considered for the freshmen year. It is believed that a focus on definingvarious types of problems and the problem solving process will provide a better foundation for anengineering education than a course that focuses on how to use computing tools to solveproblems. The main difference between the modalities is in the way content

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Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stephanie Carter; John Feland

-MBA’s, designed to bootstrap engineers andscientists up the knowledge level necessary to take their product from concept to market. Theunderlying assumption to building all these skills is that the students have an innovative product tobring to market. Few engineering curriculums teach students to innovate. There is a continuumfrom science to business. Entrepreneurship programs focus on the business cycles over thetechnology cycles, assuming students understand the development of technology from their owndomain experience. Innovation Fence Moore’s Chasm Innova

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Martha Sloan; Ashok Goel

Session 1532 Undergraduate Research in the Modeling and Simulation of GaAs-Based High-Speed Circuits Ashok Goel, Martha Sloan, Jason Decker, Stephanie Draeger, Trevor Dupras, Nuri Eady, Jeff Espenschied, Eugene Lee, Rebecca Morrison, Nicholas Sze, Paul Toth and Stephanie Weitemeyer Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI 49931 AbstractAn undergraduate research site in the area of modeling and simulation of GaAs-basedhigh-speed

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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Michael Deisenroth

Session (2003-246) ABET and Engineering Laboratory Learning Objectives: A Study at Virginia Tech Karen R. Most, Michael P. Deisenroth, Ph.D. Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, Virginia 24061In light of emerging simulated and remote engineering laboratory courses, the AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology (ABET) has taken on the task of assessing whether thesenew courses can truly accomplish the goals of educational laboratories. The

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Julie Sharp, Vanderbilt University

technicalcommunication. In addition to the regular five-hour lab and one-hour class meeting per week fortechnical communication lectures and classroom activities, course delivery includes Webcourseware, e-mail, individual conferences, and alumni guest speakers.Usually both professors are present during the one-hour class although the class is usually devotedto communication. Occasionally, both professors share the hour when the chemical engineeringprofessor needs more time to explain technical issues. Sometimes both professors comment onreport writing requirements and critique sample reports.Over the past few years, like other engineering educators who have expanded their teachingtechniques to include the latest advances in technological tools, 12-17 I have

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Innovations in the CHE Laboratory

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James Fenton; H. Russell Kunz; Suzanne Fenton

through gas diffusion layers to the catalyst on theirrespective sides of the MEA. Activated by the catalyst in the anode, hydrogen is oxidized toform protons and electrons. The protons move through the proton exchange membrane and theelectrons travel from the anode through an external circuit to the cathode. At the cathodecatalyst, oxygen reacts with the protons that move through the membrane and the electrons thattravel through the circuit to form water and heat.A general review of PEM fuel cell technology and basic electrochemical engineering principles Page 8.1140.1can be found in references [1]-[7]. Proceedings of the 2003 American

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Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

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

hostility” with whichmost academic engineers view entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship. He further notes that thespecialized nature of the university in general does not nurture academics that are synthesizers4.The types of obstacles noted by these authors are real. Nevertheless, there is a clear messagefrom industry and also implicit in ABET that the undergraduate learning experience forengineers must be modified to provide context for the theoretical knowledge. Business issuesand the marketplace are a valid context for engineering.Our SolutionEngineering students at UT Austin are benefiting from educational innovations5. Gains incognitive science and the proliferation of instructional technology resources are resulting inbetter instructional

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Keyser; Ronald Musiak; Richard Mindek; Mary Vollaro; Steven Schreiner

to 88 freshmen in five sections of anIntroduction to Engineering class. This integration was initiated for a variety of reasons, including concernover meeting accreditation criteria, a desire to make ethics emphasis more explicit in the curriculum, andpersonal interest of the faculty. The lectures were based on case studies and a philosophically linked methodfor evaluating ethical dilemmas, taught during an ethics workshop attended by one of the faculty at the IllinoisInstitute of Technology during the summer of 2001.Based on student comments and on data collected from Impact Surveys at the end of the semester, this firstformal integration of ethics into these courses was successful. While most students admitted never havingbeen taught

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Motivating students to achieve

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ramesh Gaonkar

Session 3475 Teaching Lessons from Engineering Feedback Model for New Educators Dr. Ramesh Gaonkar Computer & Electrical Engineering Technology SUNY, Onondaga Community College Syracuse, New YorkAbstract:*The Shannon s communication model is often used as a presentation vehicle in a teaching andlearning environment. The model includes an input, an output, and a receiver or a transmitter.In engineering, we view this model as a open loop system. A classroom lecture by itself

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Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ramesh Gaonkar

Session 3475 Teaching Lessons from Engineering Feedback Model for New Educators Dr. Ramesh Gaonkar Computer & Electrical Engineering Technology SUNY, Onondaga Community College Syracuse, New YorkAbstract:*The Shannon s communication model is often used as a presentation vehicle in a teaching andlearning environment. The model includes an input, an output, and a receiver or a transmitter.In engineering, we view this model as a open loop system. A classroom lecture by itself

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Mentoring, Outreach, & Intro BME Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

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Luke Herbertson; Daniel Cavanagh

this lab has been designed for first-semester sophomores, a more advancedversion of the lab is currently being planned for junior and senior level students. The moreadvance model may include a recirculating blood supply, greater variations in transmembranepressures, the use of bovine serum and corresponding analytical modeling.Biomaterials Testing LaboratoryWith the current advances in artificial skin development and skin replacement technologies inthe field of biomedical engineering, we have integrated a two week materials science moduleinto our Introduction to Biomedical Engineering Course. This component of the course isdesigned assuming the students have not had an introductory materials science course. Tocoincide with the lecture

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Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Wierman John; Shoukas Artin; Robert Allen; Larry Aronhime

technology, where hingesrotate around joints, thereby encouraging the user to use upper body movement while movingforward. A business plan anticipates market penetration through extensive testing with steadystate sales of about 5000 units/year and gross revenues between $2.5M and $5M annually. Hinge Hinge Hinge Page 8.723.4Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition© Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 1. An isometric view of Strider

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Integration vs. Compartmentalization

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Jeff Goldberg

25 students and we are becoming more established oncampus with each additional semester. We have had 24 graduates with placement in both industryand graduate school. Each year approximately 60 students hear our informational presentationsand seek information about the program.The program allows students exceptional flexibility in designing a degree program to meet theirneeds. Requirements ensure that the students cover areas within engineering and outside ofengineering and we focus on the application of technology. Our requirements are designed to beagile in that students can quickly piece together degree programs in "hot" areas.We have formulated research questions based on the needs of our key stakeholders. In thisreport, we present

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Norb Delatte

degrees from The Citadel in1984, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986, and The University of Texas at Austin in 1996.He served for eleven years in the United States Army Corps of Engineers. He is a member of ASEE,ASCE, and ACI. Page 8.400.9Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education

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Best Teaching Practices for ABET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Marilyn Dyrud

Session 2661 Four Reasons for Including an Ethics Component in Engineering Classes Marilyn A. Dyrud Oregon Institute of TechnologyABET Criterion 3 requires that engineering programs pay some attention to ethics andprofessionalism. For already jam-packed curricula, however, simply adding a required ethicscourse might not be feasible.This paper examines several reasons encouraging instructors to consider an ethics across thecurriculum approach in lieu of a stand-alone course. These include acquainting students withprofessional expectations, fostering an awareness of ethics in the

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Trends in Engineering Economy

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2003 Annual Conference

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Dennis Kulonda

offinancial and managerial accounting usually required in the business school curricula. Even thesingle combined course offered in some business schools seems too a large price to pay accordingto many engineering faculty. Since the students usually find the accounting material uninterestingand in their view, unimportant, they tend to side with the latter faculty group creating even moreimpetus for the technology driven argument to avoid the topic altogether.Of course, this is a narrow argument, which, if followed, graduates engineering students bereft ofany financial literacy and unable to understand the accounting scorecard in their eventual workorganizations. One possible solution is to identify the most critical learning objectives and deliverthem

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Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

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Marlee Walton

Session 2615 The Integrated Civil Engineering Curriculum: The Gap Between the Blackboard and Business Marlee A. Walton Iowa State UniversityAbstract:Civil Engineering curricula have been criticized for not effectively preparing engineering studentsfor the workplace. Industry wants technically competent students who also can work as part ofteams, manage projects, communicate well and understand the economic, social and politicalcontext of their professional activities. The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET), with

Conference Session

Projects in Ocean and Marine Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Diane DiMassa

Session 1478 Ocean-Related Senior Design Projects for Mechanical Engineers at UMass Dartmouth1 Prof. Diane E. DiMassa Mechanical Engineering II-116, U Mass Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Rd., North Dartmouth, MA 02747 508-910-6606 ddimassa@umassd.eduAbstractThis paper discusses several ocean-related capstone design projects completed bymechanical engineering students at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Someprojects are detailed analytical projects that involved complex simulations, others aresystems engineering projects

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rafael Rodriguez-Solis; Rafael Medina; Jose Colom

the laboratory experiments. It is expectedthat with this experience, the students will choose their concentration area before their junioryear, and will help coordinate future courses in the ECE Department. The laboratoryexperiments are performed in the facilities of the High-Tech Tools and Toys Laboratory, createdwith the support of NSF CenSSIS.II. EE Department BackgroundThe University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, the third largest campus of the state-owneduniversity system of Puerto Rico, homes the daily activities of about 765 faculty and almost15,000 students. According to the American Society for Engineering Education's (ASEE) 2000edition of Profiles of Engineering and Engineering Technology Colleges UPRM ranks 14 th in theU.S. in terms

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Teaching Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Georg Mauer

,” Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering EducationAnnual Conference & Exposition Montreal 2002.http://www.asee.org/conferences/caps/document2/2002-2039_Paper.pdf Page 8.625.8 Proceedings Of The 2003 American Society For Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education[6] Tom Morel, Rusl Flowers, Jerry Schumacher, Don Welch “Use Of Robots To TeachInformation Technology And Problem Solving At West Point,” Proceedings of the 2002American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Montreal 2002.http://www.asee.org

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mausumi Syamal; Gary Ybarra

Session 1566Developing and Assessing Integrated Mechanical Engineering Curriculum for Middle School Students Mausumi N. Syamal and Gary A. Ybarra Duke University Pratt School of Engineering, Durham, NCAbstract – Our society is becoming increasingly dependent on technology. The use of cellphones and mp3 players permeates every age group and socio-economic stratum. The creationof new devices that improve human life quality is the essence of engineering. Yet, the vastmajority of the population does not even know what engineering is. In a 1998 Poll 61% of adultsclaimed that they were “not

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Learning and Teaching Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Glenn Ellis; Alan Rudnitsky; Borjana Mikic

discusses her initial choice to be a physics major becauseof her love of math and science, but then adds, “my new involvement in social justice convincedme that I wanted to work towards improving lives more directly than a physicist might…So afterpondering my potential life as a physicist, I decided that I wanted more social responsibility.From the little that I’ve heard and read, engineering might be the right mix of math, science, andsocial responsibility.”In her final version, this student quotes from readings from her humanities and a social scienceclasses as she outlines the various considerations that an engineer must have. From socialtheorist Harold R. Kerbo, she concludes that “with new technologies come people without thosenew technologies

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What's New in Engineering Economy

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Sullivan; Lawrence Ambs; Julia Sullivan; John Dixon; Janis Terpenny

Session 2139 The Engineering Economics of Energy Use and Capital Investment Janis P. Terpenny, Lawrence L. Ambs, John R. Dixon, Julia L. Sullivan,1 and William G. Sullivan2 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA1/ Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA2AbstractA potential capital investment involving energy use or energy conservation is always incompetition with other possible uses of the same available capital. The competition may comefrom other energy related projects, or from proposals for, say new