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ECET Curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Adams, Western Carolina University; James Zhang, Western Carolina University; Paul Yanik, Western Carolina University; Kenneth Burbank, Western Carolina University

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Engineering Technology

Ken Burbank is an Associate Professor and Director of Electrical Engineering at Western Carolina University. Dr. Burbank is active with IEEE, SME, and TAC of ABET, and strives to bring practical engineering activities into the classroom. His current project is the development of a photonics program within the Electrical Engineering curriculum. Page 11.41.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 A Digital Logic Based Experimental Design of a DSP/Communication System for ECET StudentsAbstractThis article discusses the results of a senior design

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Elementary School Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katie Bush, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Jennifer Gray, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Megan Holmes, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Karen Kosinski, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; John Orr, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Leena Razzaq, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Jill Rulfs, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

2006-1201: HOW DO YOU TEACH ENGINEERING IN GRADES K AND ONE?Katie Bush, Worcester Polytechnic Institute KATIE BUSH is a third year graduate student in the Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics Joint Ph.D. Program between Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA. She received her Bachelors of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering in May 2003 from the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY and began working on the PIEE project in June 2005.Jennifer Gray, Worcester Polytechnic Institute JENNIFER GRAY is a first graduate student in Mechanical Engineering Master of Science Program

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edward Wheeler, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; JianJian Song, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; David Voltmer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1991. His interests include electromagnetic compatibility, high-speed digital system design, microcontroller-based system design, embedded and real-time systems, electronics design automation, and algorithms and architecture for parallel and cluster computing.David Voltmer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology David Voltmer is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Iowa State University in 1961. His interests include electromagnetics, microwave metrology, systems engineering, and entrepreneurial student projects

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Successful Grant Proposals

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Kuyath, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Deborah Sharer, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

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Engineering Technology

technologists. The strategy is to engage high schoolstudents in engineering activities through engineering and engineering technology clubs (calledJETS clubs) in the nine-county region around Charlotte1 (the clubs were established during thefirst year of the project). As members of the club, students participate in fun and engaging hands-on activities and competitions designed to pique their interest engineering and engineeringtechnology. Each school opens membership in the club to all high school students, but teachersparticipating in the project are encouraged to ensure that at least 50 percent of their members arefrom underrepresented groups (females, African American, Native Americans, and HispanicAmericans). Throughout the academic year, UNC

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yuyi Lin, University of Missouri-Columbia; Donald Harby, University of Missouri-Columbia; Dong Y. Jang; Wei Zheng, Xiamen Unviersity, China

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International

countries may have different requirements of theeducational objectives for graduating seniors, the course material has a minimum set of topicswhich will be used by all participating schools. Then, a more extensive part of the coursematerial will be elective topics that cover special needs. These special needs could be differentgovernment or ABET requirements, or it could be project specific knowledge that is toospecialized to be taught to all students. An example of the common topics is how to use QualityFunction Development to generate a set of quantifiable design objectives. An example of theelective topics is the tolerance stack analysis and design, which is necessary knowledge fordesign projects requiring high precisions assemblies.Some

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IP and Supporting Student Startups

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul Swamidass, Auburn University; Brian Wright, Auburn University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

conferences before.Brian Wright, Auburn University Brian Wright, Auburn University. Dr. Brian Wright is the Associate Director for Commercialization in the Office of Technology Transfer, Auburn University. As associate director, he works with and assists the technology transfer officers on various projects, oversees initiatives to reach out to industry and other research institutions, and markets, negotiates and licenses technologies from Auburn's research laboratories. For more than two years, he has worked closely with the Thomas Walter Center in commercializing selected Auburn inventions. Page

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Benjamin Anderson, Iowa State University; Thomas Daniels, Iowa State University

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Computers in Education

). Page 11.1459.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Xen Worlds: Xen and the Art of Computer Engineering EducationAbstractXen Worlds is being developed to provide a method for performing assignments and lab work ininformation assurance, operating systems and networking courses that require root access to theindividual machines, or the entire network. Currently, there is no existing approach thataddresses the root access requirement and the entire life-cycle of an assignment from problemdefinition, to turn-in of the end product. The Xen Worlds project is aimed at creating a versatile“virtual lab” where an entire network of virtual machines, (a Xen World), can be provided toeach

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Approaches to Emerging Topics

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lawrence Boyer, St. Louis University; Dane Johnston, St. Louis University; Wesley Karmazin, St. Louis University

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Aerospace

Exposing Aerospace Engineering Students to Flight Simulation Software, Hardware and Systems IntegrationAbstractAerospace Engineering students are exposed to software and hardware in the Flight Simulationcourse at Parks College to familiarize them with an Aero Engineer’s view of the world of real-time, pilot-in-the-loop flight simulation, impart some skills that could be useful to them shouldthey go into this industry and reinforce their knowledge of flight dynamics. This course hasspawned an interesting student project which is the main focus of this paper – the developmentof a PC-based mobile flight simulator.IntroductionWith respect to the Flight Simulation course at Parks, this paper reports1) the use of student written

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IP and Supporting Student Startups

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Craig Silvernagel, University of North Dakota; Richard Schultz, University of North Dakota

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

great interest within academia is the ownership of student-generated intellectualproperty (IP), particularly in an era when entrepreneurship and innovation are being stressedacross academic disciplines. Students involved in engineering capstone design projects, businessplan courses and competitions, and research activities have immense potential to conceive andprototype product, process, system, and service concepts within the university classroom andlaboratory environment. Faculty members serving as mentors and liaisons to industry partnersgenerally facilitate the innovation process in the context of their employment as universityprofessionals. The research questions addressed in this project focus on who actually owns theintellectual property

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Omnia El-Hakim, Colorado State University

Associate Engineering Research Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 1983-84. • Graduate Research Assistant, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 1978-84. • Hydraulics and Irrigation Designer and Researcher, Ministry of Irrigation, Cairo, Egypt, 1966-1977. (iii) Publications (related to the CASA project) 1. El-Hakim, O. “Colorado Alliance for Minority Participation”, presented at 2005 Annual Conference and Exposition of the American Society of Engineering & Education (ASEE), Portland, OR Convention Center, June 12-15, 2005. 2. El-Hakim, O., et. al, “Challenge of Multi-Disciplinary K-12 Summer Content Institute”, presented at 2005 Annual

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Program Delivery Methods and Real World Concepts

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Raghvinder Sangwan, Pennsylvania State University; Kathryn Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University-Great Valley; Matt Bass, Siemens Corporate Research; Dan Paulish, Siemens Corporate Research

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Engineering Management

he was involved in a distributed development project with over a thousand developers in six countries across three continents. Dr. Sangwan holds a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Sciences from Temple University.Kathryn Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University-Great Valley Dr. Kathryn W. Jablokow is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies, Pennsylvania State University. A graduate of The Ohio State University (Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, 1989), Dr. Jablokow’s teaching and research interests include robotics, control systems, and problem solving in science and engineering. She is the author (under the name K. W. Lilly

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Emerging EM Areas

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Peterson, Old Dominion University; Morgan Henrie, University of Alaska Anchorage; Shannon Bowling, Old Dominion University

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Engineering Management

Management School, a MS Project Management from The George Washington University as well as a BSEE and BA Technology Management. Currenlty Morgan teachs Operation Management at the University of Alaska Anchorage.Shannon Bowling, Old Dominion University Shannon Bowling is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering at the Old Dominion University. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Clemson University, SC in August 2003. He received his M.S. in Engineering Technology with an emphasis in Quality Management (2000) from East Tennessee State University, TN and his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering Technology (1998) from Bluefield State

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shashi Marikunte, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Frances Harackiewicz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; John Nicklow, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Lizette Chevalier, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

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Graduate Studies

interest in participating in the seminarseries. The success of this pilot project at the department level provided the incentives toexpand the project to the college level. Thus, starting Fall 2005 the training seminar wasexpanded to the college level to include all the departments within the College ofEngineering.Training ProgramThe objective of the training program was to supplement the University’s mandatoryworkshop for teaching assistants. The training was in the form of a series of seminars Page 11.268.3designed to enhance teaching and professional skills of graduate students. The seminarfulfills three-fold need of the students. One is the need for

Conference Session

Recruiting and Retention

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary Crossman, Old Dominion University; Anthony Dean, Old Dominion University

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Engineering Technology

times during the semester.Course TopicsAs mentioned before, the major goal of the two freshman engineering course is to reduceattrition from the College, particularly at the freshman level. To accomplish this, all freshman Page 11.835.3students are introduced to the various disciplines using various design concepts and projects.Since each engineering discipline has five weeks, most have developed design projectsappropriate to their discipline that can be performed in groups in that period of time. This is alsotrue of the second engineering technology module with a construction project. However, the firstengineering technology module, where

Conference Session

Digital Communications Systems

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sven Bilen, Pennsylvania State University

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Electrical and Computer

Radio1. Introduction This paper discusses the implementation of a course in software-defined radio (SDR)technology and systems. The course contains significant computer and hands-on project work inorder to implement working SDR systems. Focusing on SDRs provides a method to tie togethermany of the classes in a typical electrical engineering undergraduate’s curriculum: core coursessuch as Circuits and Devices, Signals and Systems, Embedded Microcontrollers, andEngineering Electromagnetics; as well as many of the popular elective courses such asCommunications, Controls, and Signal Processing. Building a functioning SDR system requiressome understanding of all of these topic areas. SDR is an emerging technology that promises to have a

Conference Session

ECE Curriculum Innovations

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mehmet Ozturk, North Carolina State University; Michael Escuti, North Carolina State University

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Electrical and Computer

thestudents experiment with virtual test instruments, which looked much like the equipment theyused in the hardware laboratory. A semester-long mandatory hardware project was added to thelaboratory, which also turned out to be a great success. Finally, an optional golden solder projectwas created for students interested in applying their new knowledge to a simple design project.When the dust settled after these changes, we were left with a new introductory course onsignals, circuits and systems, which is the subject of this paper. The first part of the course coversfundamental concepts such as Kirchoff’s laws, Ohm’s law, AC and DC voltage sources, linearand non-linear resistive elements, capacitors, and representation of periodic signals in both

Conference Session

Tools and Support for Software Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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J. Scott Hawker, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

Department at RIT. He has worked with the NASA Technical Standards Program applying semantic web, formal modeling, information retrieval, and other advanced information technology to better create, manage, find, deliver, and use standards and lessons learned for aerospace system engineering. He is now applying these technologies in development of tools for collaborative learning in software engineering courses and projects. Dr. Hawker is a member of the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, ACM, American Society for Engineering Education, Standards Engineering Society, and the Association of Aerospace Standards Users

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education Program Innovation

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Waldorf, Cal Poly State University; Sema Alptekin, Cal Poly State University; Robert Bjurman, General Motors Global Engineering

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Manufacturing

prototyping (i.e. Star Trek technology), new businesses/industries/jobs and other positive effects of manufacturing should be the focus. The campaign may involve traditional advertising or other outreach projects such as a kids television show (like Bob the Builder) or Lego League or robotics competitions. Several professional organizations (National Association of Manufacturers, National Council for Advanced Manufacturing, industry groups, academic groups, etc.) should work together on this. • Sponsor more conferences and meetings on manufacturing engineering education (17) It is recommended that the series of conferences focusing specifically on manufacturing engineering education be continued. It

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Physical Models and Other Interactive Tools

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Douglas Cleary, Rowan University

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Civil Engineering

. Examples of how reinforced concrete design courses have beenenhanced in other ways include design of two- and three-story frames6 and self-selected Page 11.582.2literature reviews, design, or research projects by student teams7. These additional activities areused to reinforce the technical material and increase higher-level learning. These added coursecomponents can also provide a good opportunity to offer alternate patterns of teaching andlearning.The remainder of this paper describes how the physical testing of four beams was incorporatedinto a reinforced concrete design course to demonstrate fundamental beam failure modes andductility. The

Conference Session

Promoting Scientific and Technological Literacy

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeremy Ernst, North Carolina State University; Aaron Clark, North Carolina State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Page 11.1181.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Supporting Technological Literacy Through the Integration of Engineering, Mathematic, Scientific, and Technological ConceptsABSTRACTNational emphasis is placed on schools to produce technologically literate students whilepromoting and teaching pre-engineering education. A technologically literate personunderstands and effectively communicates basic technological concepts, processes, andinterrelationships with engineering, mathematics, science, and society. Federal and stateagencies have been funding projects related to these areas over the past decades and will mostlikely continue to do so.VisTE (Visualization in Technology Education) is a National Science Foundation

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Software Engineering Teaching Methods and Practice

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yung-Hsiang Lu, Purdue University; Mark C Johnson, Purdue University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

teams resort to simple strategies. Instead, the in-structor should provide a reference player that implements an advanced strategy and thenencourage students to defeat this reference player.IntroductionA typical course on software engineering discusses software process, project management,requirement and design, and maintenance.4, 14 While these topics provide a theoretical foun-dation for the students to construct large-scale software, these concepts can be better con-veyed through a semester-long team project. Students can learn how to collaborate withtheir teammates in the project. A recent study13 suggested that students would be bettermotivated through competition. In the spring semester of 2005, a senior-level course onsoftware

Conference Session

Visualization

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chunxia Pan, Iowa State University; Shana Smith, Iowa State University

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Engineering Design Graphics

environment, by creatingdepth (Z-axis) cues for the space to which the object belongs. The depth information provided instereo images can help users perceive geometric and design features more clearly, morerealistically, and more accurately than traditional 2D projection views. Therefore, stereo VRdisplay systems can help users more fully understand design objects, when compared withconventional 2D display systems.Currently, there are several different methods for generating a stereo view of a 3D object. Themost popular stereo display methods include: anaglyphic, polarized, line interlaced, frameflipping, and sync doubling. Each stereo display method characteristically has its own strengthsand weaknesses.Both anaglyphic and polarized stereo systems

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Engineering and Public Policy Pioneering Courses

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristen Tull, Lafayette College; Sharon Jones, Lafayette College

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Engineering and Public Policy

used in the course include assigned chapters from a generic public policy text, PublicPolicy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives,1 and a reader of current events known as TakingSides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Science, Technology, and Society2. In addition,there are several additional readings which are either provided by the instructor, or students aredirected to the online copy of a journal article. The students are also required to find somereadings on their own for the assigned projects to improve their information literacy skills asthey relate to engineering public policy issues.As a sophomore-level course at a liberal arts college, the emphasis is to introduce students to thetheoretical aspects of engineering public

Conference Session

Construction ET/Technology Curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Russell Marcks, Sinclair Community College; Larraine Kapka, Sinclair Community College; Alan Watton, Sinclair Community College

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Engineering Technology

2006-1338: TEACHING IMPROVED METHODS OF TUNING AND ADJUSTINGHVAC CONTROL SYSTEMSRussell Marcks, Sinclair Community College Russell Marcks is a Professor at Sinclair Community College in Mechanical Engineering Technology. He teaches in the areas of fluids, thermal sciences and control with a specialization in HVAC systems. Professor Marcks is a lead investigator for this grant.Larraine Kapka, Sinclair Community College Larraine Kapka is an Assistant Professor at Sinclair Community College in Mechanical Engineering Technology. She teaches in the areas of fluids and thermal sciences with a specialization in HVAC systems. Professor Kapka is the project coordinator for this grant.Alan Watton

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Interdisciplinary Education in ET

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Evans, Purdue University; Matthew Kirleis, Purdue University; Casey Smith, Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

telecommunications systems. He is a member of the ASEE, ACM, and a senior member of the IEEE. His research interests include understanding the mechanisms that create performance degradation in distributed computing systems, focusing in the areas of high performance computing and sensor networks.Matthew Kirleis, Purdue University Matt Kirleis is a senior in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology program at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. His academic interests include microcontrollers, communications and controls. He is a member of Tau Alpha Pi. In his spare time he enjoys working on various electrical projects such as building an RC Engine Dynamometer for his senior

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Learning from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gerald Nelson, Mississippi State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

2006-76: DEVELOPING ENGINEERS WITH AN ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRITGerald Nelson, Mississippi State University Gerald Nelson, an industrial engineering graduate (1974) with an MBA (1985) from Mississippi State University, began his career with a co-op experience at Rockwell International. Nelson worked five semesters with Rockwell before joining them full time after graduation as a Project Engineer and Program Manager. Nelsons career includes former positions as Plant Manager, Trinity Industries; President and Chief Operating Officer of the Wear Resistance Group of Thermadyne Industries, Inc.; Executive Vice President of Operations, Viasystems Group, Inc.; and Chief Operating Officer of

Conference Session

FPD3 -- Professional Issues for First-Year Courses

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dwight Tolliver, University of Tennessee; Lauren Hines, University of Tennessee; J. Roger Parsons, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

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First-Year Programs

year and has continued to grow and develop.One of the key components of the program is team projects. Students are placed into fourto six member teams and given various projects throughout the course of the year. Theteams are formed based on several different factors. First, personality type is considered,as identified by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, so that each team has members withvarious personality types. Next, ACT scores and gender are considered. Historically,higher ACT scores were grouped together and lower ACT scores were grouped together.Teams were arranged so that those teams with female members had at least two femalesin the group.The team projects correspond with the concepts and skills students are learning in theirclasses

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Fry, Brigham Young University

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Liberal Education

page for the d.school. “We believe having designers in the mix is key to success in multidisciplinary collaboration and critical to uncovering unexplored areas of innovation. Designers provide a methodology that all parties can embrace and a design environment conducive to innovation. In our experience, design thinking is the glue that holds these kinds of communities together and makes them successful.”8This statement describes the influence on education of the increasingly “messy”, large scaleproblems and projects that will typify projects in our modern society. It also marks theseparation of the “process” used by applied artists/designers from their traditional “results”.Rather than just being applied to the

Conference Session

Achieving the Civil Engineering Body of Knowlegde

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fred Meyer, U.S. Military Academy; Allen Estes, U.S. Military Academy; Ronald Welch, U.S. Military Academy; David Winget, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

Assessment the Easy Way: Using Embedded Indicators to Assess Program OutcomesI. IntroductionThe culminating design experience for civil engineering majors at the United States MilitaryAcademy (USMA) is CE492, Design of Structural Systems. CE492 serves as a “capstone”experience or one in which students are faced with a multi-disciplinary design projectincorporating facets from all previous civil engineering courses. Previous capstone experienceshave required students to design structures planned for construction or currently underconstruction at the Academy, thus providing an opportunity for site visitations and activeparticipation with key players in the project development process. Since CE492 provides amulti-disciplinary

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Martha Green, Texas A&M University; Parag Ravindran, Texas A&M University; Rita Caso, Texas A&M University; Jeffrey Froyd; Xiafeng Li, Texas A&M University; L. Alan Minnick, Texas A&M University; Ram Shukla, Texas A&M University

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Design in Engineering Education

NSF initiatives in the areas of engineering and science education.Jefferey Froyd, Texas A&M University Jeffrey Froyd is a Research Professor in the Center for Teaching Excellence and Director of Academic Development at Texas A&M University. He was Project Director for the Foundation Coalition, one of the NSF Engineering Education Coalitions and Project Director for "Changing Faculty through Learning Communities," a project sponsored by the NSF Research on Gender in Science and Engineering Program.Xiafeng Li, Texas A&M University Xiafeng Li is a PhD student of computer science at Texas A&M University. He got his B.S. from Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute in