Conference Session

Innovation in Construction Engineering Education I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tulio Sulbaran, University of Southern Mississippi; David Marchman, University of Southern Mississippi

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Construction

provide an example of data collected, archiving mechanism and retrieval procedures ofeach agency involved in this project. Therefore, the content of this paper could be used as aneducational experience for students and junior professionals that are trying to create thefoundation for similar studies.Introduction to Construction ZonesMaintaining and upgrading the United State’s aging highway system requires a number ofconstruction zones at any given time. These construction zones temporarily negatively impacttraffic flow and deteriorate safety conditions impacting both road users and constructionworkers. Construction zone accidents involving motorists account for 70% of the total highwayaccidents. Motorists suffer approximately 700 fatalities

Conference Session

Educating Graduates in Engineering For A Flat World

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carolyn Percifield, Purdue University; David Bowker, Purdue University; Demetra Evangelou, Purdue University; Mi'schita' Henson, Purdue University

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International

,” Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS), for a feasibility study;3. develop intellectual and practical tools so students can “make themselves ready” for creativity, openness to new ideas, and working effectively without enough information; and4. develop teamwork and build a community of students who will share their experiences with others when they return.The results from the student feedback were overwhelmingly positive.Introduction“Solutions of societal problems require that these [safe, reliable, and innovative] technologiesbe applied in innovative ways with consideration of cultural differences, historical perspectives,and legal and economic constraints, among other issues. … We aspire to an engineeringprofession that will

Conference Session

Software Engineering Topics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marcelo Jenkins, University of Costa Rica

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

programming. His research interests are in software engineering and software quality assurance and has authored more than 25 technical papers on the subject. As an independent consultant, he has worked with some of the largest software companies in the Central America region in establishing software quality management systems. In the last 12 years, he has taught several seminars on software quality assurance and software project management. Dr. Jenkins is an ASQ Certified Software Quality Engineer (CSQE) and a member of the ASQ Software Division. Page 12.711.1© American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Innovation in Construction Engineering Education II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tulio Sulbaran, University of Southern Mississippi; David Marchman, University of Southern Mississippi; Shelton Houston, University of Southern Mississippi

Tagged Divisions

Construction

United States. Alsoin 2003, more than 16,700 people died in run-off-the-road crashes (39 percent of all roadwayfatalities), and head-on crashes represented 12 percent of all fatal crashes. In short, roadwaydepartures are a significant and serious problem in the United States.The work presented herein is a part of a project funded by the Mississippi Department ofTransportation to determine the safety effectiveness of “Rumble Stripes” in reducing roadwaydepartures in Mississippi. More specifically, this paper presents a series of assessments donenationwide to measure the impact of rumble stripes. The content of this paper will serve as thefoundation to establish the method to determine the impact of rumble stripes in Mississippi.This work followed

Conference Session

Electrical Engineering Technology Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rocio Alba-Flores, Alfred State College

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Engineering Technology

EducationAbstractThe Electromechanical Engineering Technology program at Alfred State College requires asequence of two courses in embedded systems. Embedded Controller Fundamentals andEmbedded Controller Applications. Both courses involve hands-on, project oriented laboratoryexercises. For the embedded controller courses, students are required to purchase a specified low-cost microcontroller evaluation system instead of a textbook. A reasonable priced reference text isrecommended, and students are strongly encouraged to use extensively the online manualsavailable from the microcontroller manufacturer. Among the many benefits that we have identifiedby requiring students to buy their own microcontroller system is that they learn to be more carefulwith safety

Conference Session

Teaching Courses in Renewable Energy Systems

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Weissbach, Pennsylvania State University-Erie; Isaac Aunkst, General Dynamics Corporation

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

recently been hired to work on power electronic system design for General Dynamics Electric Boat Division. Page 12.64.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 A Microcontroller-Based Solar Panel Tracking SystemAbstractRenewable energy is rapidly gaining importance as an energy resource as fossil fuel pricesfluctuate. At the educational level, it is therefore critical for engineering and technology studentsto have an understanding and appreciation of the technologies associated with renewable energy.One of the most popular renewable energy sources is solar energy. This paper describes acapstone design project where

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Eduaction - Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rahul Rai, Virginia Tech; Asli Sahin, Virginia Tech; Ashley Studd, Virginia Tech; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Tech

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Design in Engineering Education

. Through a National Science Foundation sponsored REU (ResearchExperience for Undergraduates) supplement, 6 undergraduate students were given theopportunity to work closely with a faculty, a post-doctoral researcher, and graduate students inthe realm of engineering design. This paper presents an overview of the research conducted bythe REU students in the area of engineering design, the structure of the REU program, and thestudents’ overall experience including the effects on student interest in graduate school.Research OverviewThe research projects for the undergraduate students (here after referred as REUs) are mainlyconcentrated in the areas of product family and product obsolescence. These areas representemerging fields in engineering design

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elvin Shields, Youngstown State University

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2007-71: FOSTERING CREATIVITY IN THE CAPSTONE ENGINEERINGDESIGN EXPERIENCEElvin Shields, Youngstown State University Dr. Elvin Shields is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. His research has been generously sponsored by a University Research Professorship during the 2005-2006 academic year at Youngstown State University. Since 1995, Dr. Shields has coached approximately 250 mechanical engineering students through nearly 90 capstone design projects ranging from collegiate competitions to industrial problems. Page 12.756.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007

Conference Session

Innovations for the Senior Year of the ME Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elvin Shields, Youngstown State University

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2007-72: FOSTERING CREATIVITY IN THE CAPSTONE ENGINEERINGDESIGN EXPERIENCEElvin Shields, Youngstown State University Dr. Elvin Shields is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. His research has been generously sponsored by a University Research Professorship during the 2005-2006 academic year at Youngstown State University. Since 1995, Dr. Shields has coached approximately 250 mechanical engineering students through nearly 90 capstone design projects ranging from collegiate competitions to industrial problems. Page 12.757.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007

Conference Session

Teaching Innovation in Architectural Engineering I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammed Haque, Texas A&M University; Gaurav Shah, Texas A&M University

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Architectural

AC 2007-292: 4D CONSTRUCTION VISUALIZATION: TECHNIQUES WITHEXAMPLESMohammed Haque, Texas A&M University MOHAMMED E. HAQUE, Ph.D., P.E. Dr. Mohammed E. Haque is the holder of Cecil O. Windsor, Jr. Endowed Professorship in Construction Science at Texas A&M University at College Station, Texas. He has over fifteen years of professional experience in analysis, design, and investigation of building, bridges and tunnel structural projects of various city and state governments and private sectors. Dr. Haque is a registered Professional Engineer in the states of New York, Pennsylvania and Michigan, and members of ASEE, ASCE, and ACI. Dr. Haque received a BSCE from Bangladesh University of Engineering and

Conference Session

Retention Programs for Women Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly Douglas, Kansas State University

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Women in Engineering

events.Prior to fall 2004, WMW had a single project manager who was an engineering student.This individual was selected in the spring of each year to serve during the followingacademic year. This leadership structure required that a new project manager be trainedeach year and occasionally the learning curve was fairly steep. During the 2004-2005academic year, WMW transitioned to a leadership structure that provided morecontinuity. Specifically, each year WMW has two project managers, one senior projectmanager and one junior project manager. Essentially, applicants for the projectmanager’s position agree to a two year term. Project managers are selected so that one isan engineer and one is a scientist. The project managers create the mentoring groups

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ismail Jouny, Lafayette College

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

curricular innovation to produce ECE graduates that can work in anenvironment that may rely on outsourcing a portion of its operations, and also make theknowledge base of these graduates stronger in areas that are not likely to be outsourced,or perhaps should not be outsourced for security reasons or for physical and logisticalconstraints. IntroductionThis paper focuses on changing the electrical and computer engineering (ECE)curriculum in response to outsourcing. The assumption is that outsourcing of certain ECEfunctions will continue in the short term and may perhaps strengthen to include moredesign related ECE projects [10]. Outsourcing of several technical responsibilities to theFar East is not only an

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2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Robert Avanzato

vehicles, scuba diving, and dancing. Residents can engage in construction of 3Dmodels and access a variety of media. Many universities, organizations, and corporations haveestablished presence in Second Life to take advantage of this interactive, dynamic and globalenvironment. This author is currently teaching a project-based freshman-level information sciences andtechnology course at Penn State Abington College (Abington, PA) during the fall of 2007 whichincorporates a 7-week module on the use of virtual worlds to enhance undergraduate educationand campus life. The author has investigated a number of existing Second Life resources toprepare for the instruction of this module. The Second Life course module began with a scavenger

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Jason Moore; Mitchell A. Thornton; Ronald W. Skeith

enough to coverseveral of these topics should be used. The choice of what language to use for an indrotuctoryprogramming class is in fact a greedy algorithm in which you choose the most versatilelanguage. This greedy algorithm should yield the selection of the Perl programming languagesince Perl is a versatile enough language to cover all of the mentioned programming skills plusmany more. However, programming skills to be taught is not the only variable that should be takeninto consideration. One most also consider whether or not students will have access to theprogramming language on their personal computers. Since students are likely to spend more timeworking on programs and projects that can be done on their computers as opposed to

Conference Session

Software Engineering Topics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Valentin Razmov, University of Washington

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

US public university. The feedback was gathered via end-of-term course-specificquestionnaires, separate from and much more detailed than the typical university-sponsoredcourse evaluations. In total, 162 students gave feedback, while 5 different instructors wereinvolved with the course, one of whom – the author of this paper – was actively engaged in all 8offerings.To give the reader a sense of scale, the end-of-term student questionnaires featured 60-150questions – mostly multiple choice questions, as well as some free-form short-answer questions.The subject of the questions were the course structure, the instructors’ teaching approach, classsessions, readings, writing assignments, project experiences, tools, the feedback that

Conference Session

Using Technology to Enhance Teaching and Learning

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexander Haubold, Columbia University; John R. Kender, Columbia University

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2007-1694: INTRODUCTION OF VIDEO JOURNALS AND ARCHIVES IN THECLASSROOMAlexander Haubold, Columbia UniversityJohn R. Kender, Columbia University Page 12.985.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Introduction of Video Journals and Archives in the ClassroomAbstractWe report on two innovative approaches of using video recordings in project-based coursestargeted at journaling student and team performance and project progression. The first approachis strictly managed by instructors and staff, and involves periodical recording of studentpresentations, which are made available to students for self and peer evaluation. The secondapproach is loosely managed

Conference Session

Curriculum Reform with Cooperative Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Walsh, California Polytechnic State University; Jon Whited, St. Jude Medical; Robert Crockett, California Polytechnic State University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

Whited, St. Jude Medical Jon Whited graduated from San Diego State University with a BS in Engineering Management. He is currently Manager, University Relations and Recruiting for St. Jude Medical, Cardiac Rhythm Management Division. He has worked as a Software Test Manager and Systems Test Manager for General Electric Space Systems and as Manager of Software Product Assurance for TRW’s military space programs. Mr. Whited has developed engineering recruiting programs with universities through Co-Op programs, Sr. Projects, offering students the opportunity to take St. Jude Medical e-learning classes in clinical applications for engineers, and providing jobs on campus as University Associates

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janice Miller-Young, Mount Royal College; Sean Maw, Mount Royal College

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Design in Engineering Education

knowledge is important, so are teamwork, communication and critical-thinking skills, as well as the ability to continually learn and stay current with ever-changingtechnology. First-year design courses have been added to the curriculum in an effort to introducestudents to what engineers actually do2,3 while they are also learning professional skills and theengineering design process4,5.Using design projects to teach engineering skills has been a major innovation in engineeringpedagogy6. There is strong evidence that team projects and problem-based learning inengineering design courses: • Maximize student achievement6-9; • Stimulate student interest in engineering10; • Motivate learning in upper division engineering science courses10

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wagdy Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2007-2290: INCORPORATING SYSTEM-LEVEL DESIGN TOOLS INTOUPPER-LEVEL DIGITAL DESIGN AND CAPSTONE COURSESWagdy Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia IEEE Senior Member Page 12.875.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Incorporating System-Level Design Tools into upper-Level Digital Design and Capstone CoursesAbstractThis paper describes the efforts to incorporate system-level digital design tools and state-of-theFPGA boards in the capstone design course sequence. This paper provides the details of twocapstone projects in the areas of digital communications and image processing. This paper alsodetails the challenges

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Hill, University of Hartford

undergraduate students. The coursepreviously did not have laboratory content. In considering how to increase the course content byone credit, to four credits, we first considered adding laboratory content, then chose to trysomething new and add studio content. Studio format is a method of teaching engineeringmaterial, using cooperative learning and hands on activities. With studio content, the coursechanged from being a bother to one that students truly appreciate.The term “studio format” has a range of meanings attached to it in the literature. We use theterm here to mean an instructor led scheduled time period that is not project oriented, usingcooperative and hands-on learning techniques. Courses are often taught entirely in the studioformat

Conference Session

Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nihad Dukhan, University of Detroit Mercy; Michael Jenkins, University of Detroit Mercy

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

functionality. They also had to provide a technical report ofthe design and construction of it. In addition, they were required to create complete experimentalprocedure, data sheets, and analysis and to describe the requirements for a lab report based on theexperiment that future students can complete and turn in for a grade in the heat transfer lab. Thelast part of the project that challenged the students to reflect on their own learning and the wayfuture students may learn the concepts. The reflection component may not be present in typicalprojects, and/or may not be probed. The learning of the students was probed via a survey of afew questions. The questions asked the students if the project increased their understanding ofthe technical concept they

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design in the Classroom

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Adriaens, University of Michigan; Corrie Clark, University of Michigan; Robert Sulewski, University of Michigan; John Wolfe, Limno-Tech, Inc

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Environmental Engineering Design Course ExperienceCourse Motivation and ObjectiveEvery year, the instructors of the senior design course for Civil and Environmental Engineeringdevelop course materials and projects to illustrate the various professional life aspects ofpracticing engineers, including successful project proposal writing, development of statusreports, and final project delivery, analysis of ethics issues, and economics. The students areexpected to work in multi-disciplinary teams to successfully complete a civil/environmentalproject need. Defining the technology opportunity space, a compelling practical need, and aproject that capitalizes on the backgrounds of students in structures and materials, construction

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norb Delatte, Cleveland State University; Rosemary Sutton, Cleveland State University; William Beasley, Cleveland State University; Joshua Bagaka's, Cleveland State University

engineering codes and procedures. There is much that engineering students andengineers can learn from failures, and failures play an important role in engineering design.Therefore, there is a recognized need for failure awareness in the undergraduate engineeringcurriculum. This need has been documented in a number of papers and at a number ofconferences over the past 15 years. This project is a specific response to that need, and willprovide much needed access to thoroughly developed examples, and a heightened appreciationof the role failure analysis knowledge can play in higher education and public safety. The expected outcomes of this project will be educational materials on failure casestudies for use in civil engineering and engineering

Conference Session

Effective Tools for Teaching Engineering Economy

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phil Rosenkrantz, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

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Engineering Economy

Making). For the 2002-2003 academic year the author was involved with acampus research program call the "Collaborative On-line Learning and Teaching" (COLT)Program. Twelve faculty members who submitted acceptable proposals were part of a campusresearch project to work collaboratively and explore how on-line teaching and learning could beused and whether there could be measurable benefit to the campus community. Results weredocumented and presented to the campus community and to ASEE in 2003. Since 2003 thecourse has been taught several times each year with efforts to incorporate student Page 12.1356.2recommendations and improve course management

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Martello, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Jonathan Stolk, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Liberal Education

already overcrowded curriculum. This paper presents thegoals, design approach, implementation, and selected outcomes of one integrated project-basedcourse (using Paul Revere and other case studies to integrate materials science with the history oftechnology) and uses it to discuss the advantages of disciplinary integration, particularly withrespect to improved student self-direction and contextual understanding. Assessmentsadministered during and after class suggest that this integrated course successfully engenderedhigh student motivation along with an increase in student aptitudes over the course of thesemester without a corresponding loss of discipline-specific knowledge. The implementation ofthis integrated course and the evaluation of its

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Henriette Bier, TU Delft; Dave Hoffers, TU Delft; Matthijs Frederiks, TU Delft; Sander Korebritz, TU Delft

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

AC 2007-934: BR: AN INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE-PROTOTYPE FOR 3DLAYOUTHenriette Bier, TU Delft After graduating in architecture [1998] from the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, H. Bier has worked with Morphosis [1999-2001] on internationally relevant projects in the US and Europe. She has taught computer-based architectural design [2002-2003] at Universities in Austria, Germany and the Netherlands and started a doctoral research at TU Delft [2004]. Her research focuses not only on analysis and critical assessment of digital technologies in architecture, but also reflects evaluation and classification of digitally-driven architectures through procedural- and object-oriented studies. It

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University; Richard Newman, Arizona State University; Arunachala Nadar Mada Kannan; Slobodan Petrovic, Arizona State University; Govindasamy Tamihzmani, Arizona State university

meet the workforce needs of our national energy,transportation, and electronic industries. The project intends to establish an educationalconsortium through collaboration between high schools and community colleges inArizona and Texas along with Arizona State University at the Polytechnic campus. Thiswill be accomplished by leveraging existing teaching and research expertise and facilitiesin the field of alternative and renewable energy. The strategy of the project is to meet the workforce needs by increasing thenumber of graduates, including underprivileged groups, with Associate of AppliedScience degrees (AAS), certificate programs, and Bachelor of Science (BS) degrees bypreparing them using world-class facilities. Furthermore, the

Conference Session

Methods & Techniques in Graduate Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yamilka Baez-Rivera, Mississippi State University; Lennon Brown, Mississippi State University; Noel Schulz, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

graduate student in Engineering because of her research work. Her Research work is related to last year internship in Northrop Grumman Ship Systems in Ocean Springs, MS. During that time, Yamilka was a link in a pilot project between the university and the company in where she apply what she learned in class and research at MSU, to the real shipboard power systems problems in the company. Her work is going to continue this summer, when she goes back to Northrop Grumman for second consecutive year as a summer intern. She is an active student in research, courses and extracurricular activities, especially sports. Some research interests include control techniques and the application in power systems

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Bramhall, Sheffield Hallam University; Keith Radley, Sheffield Hallam University

Tagged Divisions

International

years experience in video and media production. His current role is to promote and facilitate innovation in the curriculum, working with teaching staff in the use of digital video and media to enhance the student learning experience. Page 12.1207.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Promoting Learner Autonomy in EngineeringAbstractThis paper will report on a current project that is being conducted within one of the UKCentres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETLs): ‘The Centre for PromotingLearner Autonomy’, at Sheffield Hallam University. The paper will outline the role of

Conference Session

Technology Integration in the Classroom for Manufacturing II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Smith, Purdue University; Niaz Latif, Purdue University; Stephen Elliott, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

quickdecisions related to scrap, re-work, and poor performance, thus reducing the production costs.For this project, a single production assembly line was chosen at a tier-one automotivecomponents manufacturing plant. A visual data system was implemented on a high-volumeproduction line and thus provided the manufacturer with productivity and quality performanceinformation quickly. After the implementation, the quality and productivity of the productionline were observed to be significantly higher. The average number of defects was reduced by30%, and the average number of parts produced per person per hour was increased by 5% for theproduction line.Sharing the project with undergraduate/graduate students in the manufacturing field will helpstudents