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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Michael P. Hennessey

solving the entire MineMadness problem was too difficult in the time allocated so the design problem was simplified to focus exclusively on “getting-over-the-wall,” i.e. the 4 x 4 or 4 x 8’s and no longer was stability, steering and mine management functionality required. Thatsaid, design teams were advised to plan for the addition of eventual steering and mine management modules to be incorporated(in a stable sense) into their machines. Detailed design and manufacturing ensued with students heavily utilizing the CADsystem (SolidWorks [6-9,10]), machine shop, and machine component suppliers (note: no “parts kit” was provided). The lattercomment is important since most students were totally unfamiliar with where to find and purchase real

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Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2004 Annual Conference

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Hur Koser; Dennis Freeman; Alexander Aranyosi; Aleem Siddiqui

Program, andthe Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Division of the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology. The authors gratefully acknowledge contributions to this project made by GaryChan, Roozbeh Ghaffari, Steve Gondek, as well as faculty, teaching staff, and students whoparticipated in the lab.References[1] Whitesides, G. M., Ostuni, E., Takayama, S., Jiang, X., and Ingber, D. E. (2001). Soft lithography in biologyand chemistry. Annu Rev Biomed Eng, 3:335-373.[2] Kamholz, A. E., Weigl, B. H., Finlayson, B. A., and Yager, P. (1999). Quantitative analysis of molecularinteraction in a microfluidic channel: the T-sensor. Anal Chem, 71:5340-5347.[3] Bruchez, M., Moronne, M., Gin, P., Weiss, S., and Alivisatos, P. A. (1998). Semiconductor

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2004 Annual Conference

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Steven Fisher; Jed Lyons

Session 2530 Effects of Elementary- and Middle School-Based GK-12 Programs On Graduate Student Teaching and Communication Skills Jed S. Lyons, Steven P. Fisher University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208AbstractThe NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education program at the University of SouthCarolina supports engineering graduate students and advanced undergraduates to serve ascontent resources in local schools. A primary objective is to develop the teaching andcommunication skills of the fellows, who can become the

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Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sara Ross; Patrick Giordano; James Blanck; Dona Johnson; Peter Jansson

review. The Team House is an 8,607ft2 building, which houses Rowan University’s football teamand their faculty. The Team House was constructed in the 1970’s and is most heavily usedduring the football season, and the training periods around it. In reviewing the Team House, itproved to be quite efficient in its current state. In interviewing faculty working in the building,we found them to be very energy conscious. During the summer months, air conditioners are Page 9.1338.5only in operation if and when the room is occupied. Also, lights are turned off when rooms are Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education

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Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Zsuzsanna Szabo; Darrell Sabers; Reid Bailey

textbooks4,5 and a structure centered around three team-baseddesign projects each term. Other elements of the course that focus on helping students learnabout engineering design include in-class activities, a video highlighting design at an innovativeindustrial firm, and lectures on design.As taught in ENGR 102, engineering design is composed of three universal phasesi: 1) ProblemFormulation, 2) Problem Solving, and 3) Solution Implementation. In Problem Formulation, theneeds of the project are identified and represented in terms of criteria and constraints. In ProblemSolving, multiple concepts are generated and analyzed, and one to two are selected forimplementation. The concept(s) remaining after Problem Solving are built and tested in

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lili Zhao; Chris Brus; Julie Jessop

. Page 9.1407.11 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education1. Kail, R., Carter, P., Pellegrino J. (1979). The locus of sex differences in spatial ability. Perceptions and Psychopysics, 26, 182-186.2. Linn, M. C., Peterson, A. C. (1985). Emergence and characterization of sex differences in spatial ability: A meta-analysis. Child Development, 56, 1479-1498.3. Tapley, S. M., Bryden, M. P. (1977). An investigation of sex differences in spatial ability: Mental rotation of three-dimensional objects. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 31, 122-130.4. McGee, M. G. (1979). Human spatial

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2004 Annual Conference

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Rose Marra; Cherith Moore; Mieke Schuurman; Barbara Bogue

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Hochstein

Session 1566 AN ASSESSMENT PROCESS FOR A CAPSTONE COURSE: DESIGN OF FLUID THERMAL SYSTEMS William S. Janna, John I. Hochstein Herff College of Engineering The University of Memphis Memphis TN 38152Extended AbstractAn assessment process has been developed in order to measure how well a capstone designcourse, Design of Fluid Thermal Systems, meets the needs of the students with regard to processeducational goals and educational objectives. The ultimate purpose of the process

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Judy Collins; Beverlee Kissick; Jung Oh; Alysia Starkey

address IL objectives and assess the outcomes of their efforts.Since the 1950's, academic librarians have been integrating library or bibliographic instruction(now known as Information Literacy) into the undergraduate curriculum2. IL made its debut asthe rapid development in information technology created an information society. As we are allreminded daily, one of the biggest challenges today is the tremendous growth of information,now regarded as a valuable commodity affected by the knowledge-based economy: “Theknowledge based economy is characterized by the need for continuous learning of both codifiedinformation and the competencies to use this information. . . . the skills and competenciesrelating to the selection and efficient use of

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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Karim Muci-Kuchler; Jonathan Weaver

response tothose changes. In the presence of ever increasing competition and intense business pressures,corporations discovered that a crucial factor to remaining competitive and to having productsthat are successful in the market place was to substantially improve their PD practices andprocesses. Something became obvious: companies win or lose, lead or follow, succeed or failbased on the competitive strength of their new product development process. In the early 1980’s most companies employed a functional organization to support alltheir product development endeavors. Under that framework, a strong emphasis was placed onthe technical competence of an individual in his/her particular area of expertise. In the specificcase of a product

Conference Session

Assessment Issues II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Cox; Janice Bordeaux; David Caprette; Beth Beason; Ann Saterbak

that the confidentiality of responses wasnecessary to encourage students to be more forthright in their appraisals.The revised survey was posted online for universal use in the fall and spring 2004 semesters at:http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~bioslabs/labgroup/selfeval.html (pre-lab form) andhttp://www.ruf.rice.edu/~bioslabs/labgroup/posteval.html (post-lab form). Students are firstasked to enter their name and campus identification number, identify up to three laboratorycourses in which they are enrolled, and then report the date of the survey, their academic status,and major(s). Drop-down menus and radio buttons minimize incidental reporting errors andmake it easier to analyze the data. Students are asked to rate their proficiency for each

Conference Session

The Nuts & Bolts of TC2K

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2004 Annual Conference

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Paul Lin; Harold Broberg

-learning process as afeedback control mechanism for ensuring all necessary activities for achieving objectivesin the long-term, efficiently and economically even when strategy and goals change overtime. We note that measures and assessments serve both as a communications tool and abasis for deploying consistent overall performance requirements.Our EET Program Educational Objectives are: 1) Have the knowledge and ability to use current industrial practices and design procedures for development and implementation of electrical/electronic(s) systems. 2) Be prepared for career advancement, promotion, and mobility. 3) Have the knowledge and ability to continue learning, either on-the-job or in graduate school. 4) Be contributing

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Minorities in Research

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2004 Annual Conference

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G. Padmanabhan

://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/seind00/start.htm2. Denes, R. and Highsmith, R. (1998). “Keeping Score: Comparative Performance of Engineering Institutions in Creating Access, 1997-1998.” NACME Research Letter, Vol. 8, No. 2. http://www.nacme.org/pdf/RL-1998-10.pdf3. May, Gary S. and Chubin, Daryl E. (2003). “A Retrospective on Undergraduate Engineering Success for Underrepresented Minority Students.” Journal of Engineering Education, January.4. Baker, G. (1984). “Pre-College Preparation of Minority Students for Careers in Engineering.” Transactions of American Nuclear Society, Vol. 46, pp. 35-36.5. Snyder, N. and Bowman, B. (1989). “Improving the Pre-Engineering Education of Low-Income Minority Youth

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett; Debra Ricci; Arnold Weimerskirch

satisfaction of all stakeholdersand our assessment methods integrate their requirements and expectations.II. The Baldrige Education Criteria for Performance ExcellenceThe Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award was established by a resolution of Congress in1987 in response to a compelling need to improve the quality of products and services made inAmerica. The purposes of the Award Program were to advance the knowledge of qualityprinciples, share information broadly across U. S. industry, and to recognize role models and bestpractices. The Program proved to be highly successful. Many experts give the Baldrige Programcredit for revolutionizing management practice and revitalizing U. S. industry. The BaldrigeProgram’s success in revolutionizing American

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

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Phillip Cornwell

and unknowns is the problem considered solved. Page 9.794.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 4 A snapshot of one of the steps in the solution to a problem involving conservation of energy.Example 3:In this example students are asked to examine a slider-crank mechanism and to determine theequations necessary to find the forces at two points as a function of the crank angle, s. Acomplete statement of the problem is shown in Figure 5.In the engine

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Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Stratton

during a sabbatical leave for the purpose ofdetermining the future of electric power systems and how this will impact the courses in electricpower systems at the Rochester Institute of Technology.Why all the changes?The current backbone of the electric power system was constructed in the first 80 years of thetwentieth century to provide power through vertically integrated regulated electric utilities. Aftermany mergers and some bankruptcies, the federal government passed the Federal Power Act inthe 1930’s. This established the basic groundwork for investor owned utilities for many years.The United States federal government mandated a move to a deregulated environment in the late1980’s, followed soon after by specific laws to this effect by most

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

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2004 Annual Conference

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Biswajit Ray

differential analog input channels, 12 bit resolution, 200 kS/s • 2 analog voltage output channels, 12 bit resolution, 10 kHz update rate • 8 digital I/O channels with TTL/CMOS compatibility; and Timing I/OGPIB controller board: • IEEE 488.2 compatible architecture (eight-bit parallel, byte-serial, asynchronous data transfer) • Maximum data transfer rate of 1 MB/sec within the worst-case transmission line specificationsSignal conditioning accessory: • Model SC-2075 from National Instruments Page 9.747.2 • Desktop signal breakout board with built-in power supplies, connects directly to 6024E DAQ board Proceedings of

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Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sadie Miller; Donna Riley

Intermediate and Appropriate Technology. Appropriate Technology: Choice and Development. Durham, NC: Duke Press, 1984, 31-47.15. Hazeltine, B. and Bull, C. Appropriate Technology: Tools, Choices, and Implications. New York, Academic Press, 2002.16. Hall, Stephen S. Science Triumphs, Market Fails. Technology Review, Jan/Feb 1999, 78.17. Yunus, Muhammad. Alleviating Poverty through Technology. Science, 282 (Oct. 16, 1998).18. Albee, A. and Gamage, N. Our Money our Movement: Building a poor people’s credit union. London: Intermediate Technology Publications, Ltd., 1996.19. Stevens, J. “Martin Makes a Middle Class” San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, December 8, 2002.20. Wharton, D. Designing with Users: Developing the Lorena Stove, Guatemala. In

Conference Session

Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Diane Schuch Miller; Donald Falkenburg

Page 9.1415.1describes a turbine-generator unit in a power plant vibrating heavily and shaking the building. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationTwo engineers recommend conflicting solutions. The plant manager, must to make a decisionthat could cost the company millions of dollars [4].Greenfield Coalition Case Study Approach and RationaleMost often, case studies are presented in a narrative format. They describe the initial eventstriggering the exploration or study, the identification of and diagnosis of the problem(s), and thestrategies and treatments for resolution. While this

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

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Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

Session xxxx Canaries in the mineshaft: engineers in the global workplace Bethany S. Oberst, Ph.D., James Madison University and Russel C. Jones, Ph.D., P.E., World Expertise LLCAbstractWe need to get beyond the overheated rhetoric about the offshoring of jobs and look seriously athow engineers and the engineering profession want to live and act in society. This articleoutlines the current debate about the migration of jobs overseas and the dismemberment ofengineering and technology jobs into commodifiable pieces. It is written so as to provide

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sven Nielsen

industrial relations have led to a number of different modes of co-operation withmutual benefit which has been reflected in other areas of M.Sc., Ph.D. and researchprogrammes.Of course, the lecturing of theories, methods and techniques can best be done at theuniversity. But when students are to learn academia and professional skills, all the cycles ofKolb´s [6] and Cowan´s [7] learning model have to be included. Following the four stages ofthe Kolb or Cowan learning circle, the engineering problem solution let the students to beinvolved in e.g.: 1) analysis and diagnosis of industrial issues, 2) development/design ofsolutions – holistic as well as detailed, 3) planning/implementation and control of solutions 4)a dynamic learning process for

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Staver; Naiqian Zhang; Masaaki Mizuno; Gurdip Singh; Mitchell Neilsen; Donald Lenhert

electronic systems used in automobiles, industrial automation, andother control systems continues to increase dramatically. These systems typically includesubsystems with separate processors. The processors must communicate to coordinate theiractivities. A typical system consists of an interconnected collection of distributed processors* This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under NSF Grant No. 0227709.Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) Page 9.528.1and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Eichinger; Mark Wilson; Anton Kruger; Marian Muste; Tao Xing

Conference, Boulder, CO, pp. T3E-1 – T3E-6. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education[12] Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation (1994). Standards for Evaluations of Educational Programs, Projects, and Materials, McGraw Hill, New York, NY.[13] Naghedolfeizi, M., Arora, S., and Garcia, S. (2002). “Survey of LabVIEW Technologies fro Building Web/Internet-Enabled Experimental Setups,” Proceedings American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Motreal, Quebec, Canada.Author BiographiesMARIAN MUSTE received his Ph.D. in Civil and

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Mathematics in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

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Anne Spence

Centered, Inquiry Based Approach to Page 9.538.9 Middle Grade Science and Mathematics Education. Journal of Engineering Education. 91(3):309-318. “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2004, American Society for Engineering Education” 3. Robinson, W.H., et al. Incorporating Engineering into High School Algebra and Geometry. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition. Session 2665. 4. Rosser, S., ed. Teaching the Majority: Breaking the Gender Barrier in Science

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Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2004 Annual Conference

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Robert Weber; Rob Walstrom; Kukjin Lee; Jayme Hero; Galen Faidley; Bernard Lwakabamba; Feng Chen; Julie Dickerson; Carolina Cruz-neira; Diane Rover

necessary for designing anddeveloping the subsystem. A sub-design document consists of several sections: • Description + Goal: describes an overview. e.g., what is it for?, why do we need it?, when do we need it? • Input/Output: describes information necessary for interfacing with other subsystem(s). e.g., what data should be given?, what data will be generated? • Operations: describes functionalities of the subsystem. • Requirements: describes required capabilities. • Constraints: describes any assumptions. e.g., frequency range should be within the ISM band, ideally 915 MHz, for the Data Acquisition and Control subsystem. • Resources: describes necessary resources for designing and

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Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

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Barbara Masi

applicable, in what company organization group are you working this summer(Marketing, research and development, manufacturing, etc.)? What’s your supervisor’stitle?D. How does your group fit into the organization structure of the company?2. PRODUCT/ PROCESSA. If applicable, are you working on particular product (s) or processes as part of yourjob? If so, what?B. If you are working on particular product(s) or processes, how might you describe theproduction/ distribution stream for that product? Where does your group fit into thisstream? Who, in essence, are your group’s ‘customers’? Who does your group receive‘supplies’ from? (Recall the IAP lecture on the beer production / distribution stream.)?C. If you are working on improving a particular product

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Vish Prasad; Richard Schoephoerster; Ofer Amit; Alan Carsrud

upongraduation. Program activity complies with the requirements of the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) for senior design projects.The Biomedical Engineering Mentoring and Internship program is offered to seniors majoring inBiomedical Engineering. The program is comprised of a three-semester sequence that beginsduring the latter half of the Spring Semester of the Junior year or the Summer Semester of theSenior year. Seniors that do not participate in the program do an in-house senior design project.The program offers two tracks: an entrepreneurial track and a corporate track. In theentrepreneurial track student entrepreneur(s) recruit prospective team members for the durationof the project and lead the development of their own

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sig Lillevik

“wish they had a course like this when they attended school.” They have all beenvery supportive and help to reinforce the instructional objectives.Bibliography 1. Todd, R.H., et al., “A Survey of Capstone Engineering Courses in North America,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 84, no. 2, 1995, pp. 165-174. 2. Bloom, B. S., Krathwohl, D. R. (1984). Taxonomy of educational objectives. Handbook I. Cognitive domain. New York: Addison-Wesley. 3. Grove, A. S., Only the Paranoid Survive (1999). New York: Time Warner Books. 4. Grove, A. S., High Output Management (1995). New York: Random House. 5. Shaeiwitz, J. A., “Observations on Forming Teams and Assessing Teamwork,” 2003 ASEE Annual Conference and

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Motivating Students to Achieve

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2004 Annual Conference

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Craig Turner; Keith Johnson; W. Andrew Clark

” their idea (in this case their seniorprojects) to the business students involved in their “strategic experience” class. These students(already broken into teams by business functional expertise) then voted on which project/s theywould like to take on for their semester assignment. Upon this selection thetechnology/engineering student/s became members of the team. This provides some degree ofbuy in for the non-technological students. It also provides an opportunity for the technologystudents to think through the benefits/costs that are involved in their innovation.Pedagogical IssuesThere are several issues that make teaching in a multi-disciplinary course a challenge. First, thedifferences in background mean that instructors will need to clearly

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Steven Hietpas

Studies.Bibliography1. NSF-Faculty Workshop on Teaching of Electric Drives, University of Minnesota, Department of Electrical Engineering, Minneapolis, June 19-21, 1997.2. N. Mohan, Electric Drives: A Systems Level Approach University of Minnesota Press, 2001.3. S. M. Hietpas and M. E. Ropp, “Improving Undergraduate Power Engineering Education: A System-Level Approach to Teaching Electromechanical Energy Conversion,” NSF-CCLI A&I Grant, # DUE-9952517, June 1999.4. S. M. Hietpas, “An efficient pedagogical approach for integrating power electronics, drives and the PMDC motor into the traditional energy conversion course,” 2002 ASEE Annual Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 2002.5. S. M. Hietpas and M. E. Ropp