Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods in IE Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Kundrat, Grand Valley State University; Shabbir Choudhuri, Grand Valley State University

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Industrial Engineering

. “Manufacturing WorkEnvironments”, a graduate course at Grand Valley State University (GVSU) addresses the issuesrelated to work measurement, method improvement, safety, and ergonomic aspects in workdesign. As a practice oriented teaching school, GVSU highly emphasizes the culmination of thelearning process by the realistic execution of the principles and techniques taught in a course. Inthat tradition, this course employed a semester ending project as an important tool to develop theproper understanding of the course materials.This particular project idea involved improving the efficiency, performance and workenvironment at the Science, Technology, and Engineering Preview Summer (STEPS) camp heldat Grand Valley State University. The STEPS camp at the

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James E. Kilduff, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Jong-In Han, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Environmental Engineering

Biocontrol (biological pesticides) 1 Generation of valuable products from waste 1 Tests and Project Presentations 3Microbial DiversityIt is essential for students to know how diverse microbial species and their activities inenvironments are, and understand how they function. Thus in the second part of theproposed course, a variety of microbial species, in particular environmentally relevantspecies (e.g., pollutant-degraders and waterborne pathogens) and their importantcharacteristics will be introduced. Traditional and modern microbial methods tocharacterize microbes will also be taught. At this point, we anticipate that a significantportion of students

Conference Session

Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qingli Dai, Michigan Technological University; Zhanping You, Michigan Technological University

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Mechanical Engineering

numericalproblems and generate charts and graphs using MATLAB. This course is designed to givestudents opportunities for hands-on practice through the lab work and project studies. The authoralso instructed senior students to use MATLAB for experimental data analysis in course MEEN4131 (Mechanical Engineering Laboratory). In this paper, these successful teaching experiencesare summarized and some additional suggestion is also addressed.IntroductionMATLAB has been largely used in many engineering schools, because it provides a friendlyinteractive system that incorporates numeric computation, symbolic computation, and scientificvisualization [1-2, 4-10]. Authors taught a sophomore course to help the students apply theMALAB tool for engineering problem

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Bean, Paul Smith's College; James Carroll, Clarkson University; John P. Dempsey, Clarkson University; Andrew H. Strong, Clarkson University; William R. Wilcox, Clarkson University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

incorporate these into the class arepresented.BackgroundIn 2003, Clarkson University received a grant from the National Science Foundationentitled "Hands-On Learning in Engineering". The major goal of this project was toincrease the number and quality of hands-on experiences in engineering classes. The firstclass for attempted reform was the freshman engineering class ES100, Introduction toEngineering Use of Computers. ES100 is a second-semester freshman year course takenby approximately 350 students; nearly all are engineering majors.Prior to the Spring of the 2004-2005 academic year, ES100 was handled independentlyby each of four engineering departments, each with their own instructor, teaching solelyto their own majors, using their own

Collection

2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Liesl Hotaling; Susan Lowes

-engineering curricula to mainstream NewJersey K-12 education. The goal of the Engineering Our Future New Jersey project is to ensurethat all K-12 students in New Jersey experience pre-engineering curricula, with a focus oninnovation, as a required component of their elementary, middle, and high school educationwithin the next five years.The EOFNJ program is transitioning from the pilot phase into a state-wide implementationphase. This paper will provide an overview of the EOFNJ program, describe the currentprogram efforts, describe the exemplary curricula used at the middle school level in the EOFNJprogram, and offer preliminary evaluation results of the middle school pilot study.1.0 IntroductionEngineering Our Future New Jersey (EOFNJ) is an

Conference Session

Installing & Assessing Technology Literacy Courses

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Ohland, Clemson University

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

graduate students to K-12 curriculum development, hosting K-12 science andengineering competitions.19Each year at the University of Missouri Rolla, 300-400 first-year engineering students engage ina team design-build activity as a part of Engineering Design with Computer Applications, arequired Basic Engineering course. Five-person teams receive some funding support incompleting projects like a human-powered water pump, a portable bridge, a disc launcher, abubble machine, and a hands-free pencil sharpener. In spring 2003, the course objectives wereextended to develop educational materials for the K-4 classroom including designing andbuilding a device and an accompanying educational game or activity. The extension of the BasicEngineering course was

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Yost, University of Detroit Mercy

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Electrical and Computer

Collection Assessment Alumni Surveys (2002-2003) College/ Department Senior Design Exam Project JuryFigure 1: Electrical Engineering Program Educational Objectives Evaluation and Outcome AssessmentProcessThe Electrical Engineering Program Outcomes (provided in Appendix A) are assessedusing a number of assessment strategies: College/Department Exam, Senior ExitSurvey/Interview, Coop Employer Survey, Alumni Survey, Senior Design Project Jury,and a number of In-Course Assessment Instruments implemented in the curriculum. Inthis paper

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Venkat Chandrasekhar, Northwestern University; Marcel Grdinic, Glenbrook North High School; Nathan Unterman, Glenbrook North High School; R.P.H. Chang, Northwestern University; Emma Tevaarwerk, Northwestern University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

prototype design project showthat the design project was successful in engaging student interest, and that themacroscopic models and activities were helpful in facilitating student understanding ofhow a scanning probe microscope works. All of the students were able to successfullybuild a working atomic force microscope and acquire an image.IntroductionThe introduction of the “iPod Nano” this past year is proof enough that the word “nano”has entered into the mainstream of public awareness. The buzz about nanoscience andnanotechnology is that it may generate up to $1 trillion/year in new business ineverything from pharmaceuticals to computers. To support this new business, it isestimated that we will need 3 million workers trained in nanotechnology

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Filsinger, University of Cincinnati

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Computers in Education

lessonslearned from this first attempt, and presents a more technology-based project-oriented approachto such a course, outlining a ten week AI course tailored to the needs of our ECET students aswell as providing samples of possible projects.IntroductionOnce considered a topic for purely theoretical computer science, the field of artificial intelligence(AI) has found its way into a large number of real-world technology applications, particularly inthe area of control systems. As such, a course in AI is becoming increasingly important forelectrical and computer engineering technology students. The key features of a technology-based AI course are that it must deal with students who lack the extensive mathematicalbackground of a typical computer science

Conference Session

Internet and Distributed Computing

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fani Zlatarova, Elizabethtown College

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Information Systems

course offered at theauthor’s academic institution. They do not cover the complete set of views of abstraction. Thenewly emerging DB applications dealing with Web-oriented queries and multimedia queries(audiovisual queries, special queries, XML queries, queries performed in mobile environment,and others considered in1, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13) have been considered in the next DB-oriented course,Database Systems Development and Applications. Similar issues have been researched in theReadings and Projects in Computer Science and Information Systems course, and in the out-of-class student seminar on Information Systems, organized by the author.In the introductory DB course, students should be able to easily switch from one to another typeof the expression

Conference Session

Programs for High School Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill Elmore, Mississippi State University; Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, in Columbus, MS (approximately 25 miles from theMississippi State campus) has joined in a program for providing research experiences for juniorand senior high school students. Three students participated in the program in the fall 2005semester. The goals of the program include recruiting high school students to consider programsof study in chemical engineering or related fields at Mississippi State and to increase students’technological literacy by participating in active research projects. Of the three participants forfall 2005, one has declared his intention of studying chemical engineering at Mississippi State.The authors felt that the program objectives were met for helping students to become morefamiliar with our program and curriculum

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Orlich, Washington State University; William Thomson, Washington State University; Richard Zollars, Washington State University

form a community (item #3mentioned above), firm up housing arrangements for the summer, distribute information on theresearch projects that would be available for the summer, and tour the campus and laboratories.All of the teachers, whether they were able to visit the campus or not, then were asked to return alisting of the top three projects on which they would like to work. By the end of May all teachershad been assigned projects, with two teachers assigned to each project and each pre-serviceteacher paired with an in-service teacher. This allowed about two weeks for the teachers tocommunicate with each other, and with their mentor, prior to the start of the on-campus portion ofthe program. We found this two week period to be extremely

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rashmi Jain, Stevens Institute of Technology; Anithashree Chandrasekaran, Stevens Institute of Technology; Bernard Gallois, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

2006-1543: INTRODUCING ‘TOTAL DESIGN’ IN AN ENGINEERING DESIGNCURRICULUM: A PILOT EXPERIENCERashmi Jain, Stevens Institute of Technology RASHMI JAIN is Associate Professor of Systems Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. Dr. Jain has over 15 years of experience of working on socio-economic and information technology (IT) systems. Over the course of her career she has been involved in leading the implementation of large and complex systems engineering and integration projects. Dr. Jain is currently the Head of Education and Research for International Council of Systems Engineering (INCOSE). She teaches systems integration, systems design and architecture, and rapid systems

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jana Whittington, Purdue University-Calumet; Kim Nankivell, Purdue University-Calumet; Joy Colwell, Purdue University-Calumet; James Higley, Purdue University-Calumet

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Engineering Design Graphics

University Calumet, we useassessment measures which include faculty evaluation, class critiques and written peerevaluations that individually addresses each level of technical, aesthetic and creative aspects ofeach project or assignment. Discussions or critiques first address the success of technical aspects,then move to the aesthetic aspects, and then the overall creative attributes of the students’ work.This type of evaluation is not only valuable for the students to comprehend each level and puttheir soft skills to work, but also provides valuable assessment feedback to the faculty.The CGT program is relatively new, having been started in the year 2000 with 18 students, andhaving grown to its present size of about 200 majors. The program has

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Nastasi, Stevens Institute of Technology; Keith Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology; Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

SolidWorksTMWeek 1 2 Surface Modeling/ Advanced Replication SolidWorksTMWeek 1 3 Bill of Materials / Analysis COSMOSTMWeek 1 4 Project Presentation/ Virtual Reality CATIATM / EON RealityTM The course commences with 3-D free hand sketching of contemporary objects withcomplex surfaces. The goal is to use the sketching exercises to help students think through howthey will tackle the graphical representation of complex three-dimensional objects before theyturn to the digital tool. This is in addition to learning the valuable skill of how to make effectivefreehand sketches for communicating

Conference Session

Building Communities for Engineering Education Research

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech; Ruth Streveler, Colorado School of Mines; Nancy Chism, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Karl Smith, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; Ronald Miller, Colorado School of Mines

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Educational Research and Methods

at the Colorado School of Mines and Research Associate Professor in Academic Affairs. Dr. Streveler holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Master of Science in Zoology from the Ohio State University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Indiana University at Bloomington. She is co-principle investigator of three NSF-sponsored projects: Developing an Outcomes Assessment Instrument for Identifying Engineering Student Misconceptions in Thermal and Transport Sciences (DUE - 0127806), Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (ESI-0227558), and Rigorous Research in Engineering Education: Creating a Community of Practice (DUE

Conference Session

Teaching Innovation in Architectural Engineering I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Theodoropoulos, University of Oregon

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Architectural

students from learning how to incorporate seismic designlessons into the architectural design process.BackgroundIn the past two decades the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the FederalEmergency Management Agency (FEMA) have funded several projects directedto architectural education. Recently, the Earthquake Engineering ResearchInstitute (EERI), with the support of FEMA, completed Designing forEarthquakes, a manual for practicing architects that was developed in response tothe need for a text that consolidated information needed by architects preparingfor practice in earthquake country. Page 11.1111.2In 2000, the Building Science Safety Council (BSSC), with

Conference Session

Trend in Construction Engineering Education II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Haiyan Xie, University of Arkansas-Little Rock; James Tramel, University of Arkansas-Little Rock; Wei Shi, University of Florida; Mei Lu, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology

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Construction

China. Her research interests are in the areas of analysis, design, and implementation of 3D/4D modeling, construction information systems; user modeling; virtual reality, information integration, collaborative systems, human-computer interactionand project-management improvement. She is a member of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Associated Schools of Construction (ASC), and Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU).James Tramel, University of Arkansas-Little RockWei Shi, University of FloridaMei Lu, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology Page 11.723.1© American Society for

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Kilmer, Purdue University College of Technology at Kokomo

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Engineering Design Graphics

2006-1077: IMAGINING FUTURE TECHNOLOGY THROUGH SEAMLESSMOBILITYLisa Kilmer, Purdue University College of Technology at Kokomo Lisa Kilmer is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Graphics Technology. Page 11.714.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Imagining Future Technology through Seamless MobilityAbstractThis article discusses the development, implementation, and evaluation of a company sponsoredcompetition, MOTOFWRD by Motorola, into a course project for engineering graphicstechnology students that encourages creativity, critical thinking, and imagining futuretechnology. The

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Research

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Nerenberg, University of Notre Dame

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Environmental Engineering

for anEnvironmental Engineering research project. The paper describes challenges related tolanguage, culture, and technical background, and provides suggested strategies for addressing thechallenges and improving the REU experience. While the paper focuses on a Hispanic studentfrom Puerto Rico, the strategies may be applicable to other situations, such as minority or foreignexchange students or foreign or minority graduate students.IntroductionThe engineering and science fields historically have been underrepresented in women and inseveral minorities.1 Underrepresented minorities include Blacks, Hispanics, American Indians,Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians or other Pacific Islanders. While the percentage ofminorities in science and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Bunting, Oklahoma State University; Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State University

design and electromagneticsrequired for all electrical engineers, and the introductory engineering economics courserequired for all engineering students. Other participants included a faculty member fromthe OSU library and a colleague in education. A total of eight faculty participated.During the first semester, faculty learned the teaching techniques used in the project:case studies, team learning, and project-based learning. Biweekly meetings let facultydiscuss problems and concerns they felt in transitioning away from lecture. Facultybeliefs about teaching were deeply rooted in personal experience, some of which werecompatible with the assumptions inherent to this project and others that were not. Themajor, unanticipated problem encountered

Conference Session

Ocean, Marine, and Coastal Engineering Topics

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Merrick Haller, Oregon State University; Antonio Baptista, Oregon Health & Science University

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Ocean and Marine

. Dr. Baptista's research employs an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to studying coasts and land-margins. Specifically, he is interested in prediction of coastal hazards and environmental pathways at regional scales, tides and Tsunamis, hydraulic transport, estuarine geochemical modeling and land-water interactions. Page 11.947.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 NANOOS-Pilot: a collection of ocean observing tools for improving ocean safety and coastal designAbstractThe NANOOS-Pilot project (Northwest Association of Networked Ocean ObservingSystems) is an

Conference Session

Engineering Without Borders Programs Involving Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bernard Amadei, University of Colorado-Boulder; Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado-Boulder; R. Scott Summers, University of Colorado-Boulder; Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado-Boulder

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International

universities are doing enough proactively to teach studentswhat they need to know to operate in a future environment is an open question11. Clearly, engineersmust complement their technical and analytical capabilities with a broad understanding of so-called“soft” issues that are non-technical. Experience has shown that social, environmental, economic,cultural, and ethical aspects of a project are often more important than the technical aspects but are Page 11.566.3not often emphasized in conventional engineering education.An issue of equal importance is the education of engineers interested in addressing problems specificto developing

Conference Session

Manufacturing Processes

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tom Carlisle, Sinclair Community College; Charles Winarchick, Sinclair Community College

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Manufacturing

”1 state: “It is said that there is nothing so practical as goodtheory. It may also be said that there’s nothing so theoretically interesting as goodpractice.” Marquardt2 in his “Harnessing the Power of Action Learning” states “...allforms of action learning share the elements of real people resolving and taking action onreal problems in real time and learning while doing so.” This is what our educational approach to engineering technology education has been allabout. To address these issues, we create laboratory problems, institute engineering coopprograms, and do capstone projects, all to get students exposed to “real world problems”.These are all excellent approaches and should be applied wherever practical. There areproblems associated

Conference Session

Construction ET/Technology Curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Behling, Purdue University; Mark Shaurette, Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

reconstruction segments of the construction industry. These research projects willhelp the industry overcome challenges, will provide faculty with field experience that can beshared in the classroom and, through publication, will help to build a body of knowledge for thedemolition and reconstruction segments of the construction industry.This paper will be of significance to those interested in demolition and reconstruction educationin addition to those seeking to develop new curricula, particularly specializations. Specifically,this paper will detail the process from engaging an industry segment or segments to developingthe actual courses in the newly developed specialization.BackgroundConstruction is central to the basic human needs of “food, shelter

Conference Session

Preparing Engr Students for International Practice

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natalia Kapli, Pennsylvania State University; John Wise, Pennsylvania State University; Thomas Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University; Wesley Donahue, Pennsylvania State University

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International

, University Park, PA 16802. Telephone: 814-865-4015, FAX: 814-865-4021, email: TALME@engr.psu.eduWesley Donahue, Pennsylvania State University Wesley Donahue is an Associate Professor affiliated with both The Smeal College of Business Administration and the College of Education, and he is the Director of Management Development. Dr. Donahue brings over 25 years of manufacturing, sales and organization development experience to his position at Penn State. Formerly, he worked with the Fortune 500 company Brockway Inc., now Owens-Brockway, where he began as a project engineer and rose to manager of technology for the corporation’s international division. Subsequently, he co-founded and served as

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Real World Concepts

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rosida Coowar, University of Central Florida; Sandra Furterer, University of Central Florida; Temitayo Akinrefon, University of Central Florida; Ala` Battikhi, University of Central Florida; Ana Ferreras, University of Central Florida; Kelvin Gibson, University of Central Florida; Ramamoorthy Lakkoju, University of Central Florida; Katherine Meza, University of Central Florida

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Engineering Management

variation, and eliminate waste. It hasbeen used successfully in the automotive, chemical, healthcare, high-tech, financial and retailindustries. The Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Department at the University ofCentral Florida has incorporated service experiential learning opportunities into the curriculumwithin a Total Quality Improvement course. This course teaches the Six Sigma body ofknowledge together with Lean Principles and provides hands-on Six Sigma project experience.This paper describes how a team of faculty and students used the Lean Six Sigma Technology todocument and improve the pre-application process used by the College of Engineering andComputer Science at the University of Central Florida.1. IntroductionIn the Fall

Conference Session

Innovative Laboratories in BME

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lanny Griffin, California Polytechnic State University; Daniel Walsh, California Polytechnic State University; Robert Crockett, California Polytechnic State University

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Biomedical

, Inc., a San Luis Obispo-based biotechnology startup company. He has also served as an Assistant Professor at Milwaukee School of Engineering and was employed by McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Company, where he was a lead engineer and Principal Investigator on projects to develop technology evolution plans for the Space Station. Page 11.362.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 COSMM: An Undergraduate Laboratory for Engineering and Manufacturing Complex, Organic Shapes Using Nature as a TemplateIntroductionThe COSMM (Complex/Organic Shapes and Multiple

Conference Session

Software Engineering Teaching Methods and Practice

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Walden, Northern Kentucky University; Rose Shumba, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

purpose of a software engineering class at our institutions is to teach students how towork in teams to develop a secure software project from specification through delivery. The soft-ware engineering class has prerequisite classes in programming, but has no security prerequisites.Therefore all security concepts necessary for our secure software development processes must beintroduced in the software engineering class. As a single semester doesn’t offer the necessary time to broadly cover information securityin addition to software engineering, the class focuses on security topics that fit directly into thesoftware development lifecycle. For example, the course teaches students how to securely usecryptographic APIs in their projects but

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clark Merkel, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; David Fisher, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

capped by a three week project where the studentsdesign and build a system or device which uses the Handy Board microcontroller as thebrains for their project. As a first exposure to smart control, the Handy Board is an easy-to-use and robust hobby controller. However, it is not a commonly used industrialdevice, nor is it suited to be an embedded controller for projects in other courses whichthe students take later on.To address these perceived weaknesses, the course content has been expanded to includea module on programmable logic controllers (PLCs). A PLC is another name forindustrial computer. It has been designed to have features which make it very useful inan industrial setting, such as being rugged and reliable, having easy-to-access