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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Surendra Singh

engineering practice is alsonecessary.” The internship program in the electrical engineering department at The University ofTulsa falls outside the educational requirement. It is not required for the students to undergo thetraining. Rather, students who are interested in getting industrial experience are welcome toparticipate. The importance of providing industrial experience to the students while in school hasbeen recognized by the educational as well as the industrial community. Several schools havebeen successful in establishing such programs [3],[4]. But how to fit such an experience in thetightly knit four-year curriculum is still an open question. Some schools that have a co-op Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mihaela Radu, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Clint Cole; Mircea Dabacan, Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania

objectives and to better prepare the students for the globalindustry’s needs5.Trying to organize and to integrate in a very packed curriculum a Digital Design ProjectCompetition open to students presently and formerly enrolled in Digital Design courses is theidea being addressed in this paper. This paper presents the results of the on-going efforts tryingto organize first edition of such a competition at Rose Hulman Institute of Technology, TerreHaute, IN.The competition is sponsored by Digilent, Inc., Pullman, WA, a company producing state of theart FPGA boards. The emphasis of the competition is on conceptual design, implementation andvalidation of the projects using FPGA boards and Verilog as HDL.IntroductionAs the complexity of microelectronic

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Optical and Wireless Communication Systems

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ernest Kim, University of San Diego

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Electrical and Computer

taken by students concurrently.Bibliography Page 12.1248.71. Jandhyala, V.; Kuga, Y.; Allstot, D.; Shi, C.J.R.., “Bridging circuits and electromagnetics in a curriculum aimed at microelectronic analog and microwave simulation and design,” Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education, 2005. (MSE '05), pp. 45 – 46, 12-14 June 2005.2. Munoz, M.; Garrod, S., “In process development of an advanced undergraduate communications laboratory,” Proceedings of the 27th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, 1997, vol.2, pp. 751 – 755, 5-8 Nov 1997,3. Lumori, M. L

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Distance, Remote, and Virtual Experiments

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Trishna Das, University of Minnesota-ECE; Paul Imbertson, University of Minnesota-ECE; Ned Mohan, University of Minnesota

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

exactlyrepresent the operation of the machines because of incorrect or incomplete modelingassumptions.Moreover an undergraduate electric drives course that integrates up-to-date computer hardwareand software tools meets the expectations of today’s students (and employers) who want to usecomputer and simulation tools in every aspect of a course and thus the improved laboratorymethods will attract more students1.BackgroundThe addition of computer-based collaboration to the Electric Drives laboratory course is anenhancement and continuation of work done at the University of Minnesota to improve its entirepower curriculum. This work has spanned over a decade with support from the National ScienceFoundation (NSF) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR)2 and has

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IE and EM Program Mangement

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Hagenberger, Valparaiso University; Peter Johnson, Valparaiso University; Doug Tougaw, Valparaiso University; Jeffrey Will, Valparaiso University; Mark Budnik, Valparaiso University; Kathleen Sevener, Valparaiso University

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Engineering Management

disciplines. Prior to the 2000-2001 academic year,both the ME and ECE departments had an independent senior design sequence. In the summer of2001, these were merged by the ME and ECE departments, and this has continued to the present.The senior design curriculum change was motivated by a need to place additional emphasis ondeveloping student skills in product design and effective multidisciplinary teamwork. Muchcurriculum development at our university and others has focused on these skills since theintroduction of Engineering Criteria 2000 by the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology. Additionally, multidisciplinary design and teamwork have been active areas incurriculum development at other universities.Each team of four to six students

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sharlene Katz, California State University-Northridge; Kathleen Alfano, College of the Canyons

, College of the Canyons Kathleen Alfano is Director/Principal Investigator of the California Regional Consortium for Engineering Advances in Technological Education (CREATE), an NSF ATE Regional Center for Information and Manufacturing Technology. She graduated from Chestnut Hill College with a B.S. in Chemistry (1976), Purdue University with a M.S. in Education (1981), and the University of California, Los Angeles with a Ph.D. in Higher Education, Work and Adult Development (1993). Dr. Alfano has been on the faculty at College of the Canyons since 1996. Page 12.1392.1© American Society for

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Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ming Huang, University of San Diego; James Kohl, University of San Diego; Veronica Galvan, University of San Diego

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2007-219: A CASE STUDY OF COURSE CLUSTERING STRATEGY TOENHANCE RELATIONAL LEARNINGMing Huang, University of San Diego Ming Z. Huang is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of San Diego. Dr. Huang is a registered Professional Engineer and is actively involved in research focusing on integrating industry practices with engineering educations. Dr. Huang received his B.S. from the National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan in 1980, M.S. from the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, Rhode Island in 1984, and Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio in 1988, all in Mechanical Engineering.James Kohl, University of San Diego James G. Kohl is an

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Engineering and Sustainability

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brock Barry, Purdue University; Aman Yadav, Purdue University

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Engineering Ethics

, this provides us with a good starting point to thinkabout how cases can be effectively integrated in engineering ethics as an instructional method.ConclusionWhile case-based instruction is clearly the most commonly employed method of ethicsinstruction in the engineering curriculum, it is by no means the only method. Other methods ofintegrating ethics into the engineering curriculum include the use of external course work (e.g.,philosophy classes), service-learning projects, team-based senior design course work, and theacross the curriculum approach (integration of ethics in multiple courses throughout theacademic career). However, we know little about whether or not the use of case studies is betterthan the other methods of ethics

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Simulation and Virtual Instrumentation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ganapathy Narayanan, University of Toledo

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Engineering Technology

’ arechanged in each of the five basic functions to see how the simple functions changes in shape. Ingeneral, it is known that an engineering technology student will use these functions 80% of timein his professional career. So, his understanding of these functions and its x-y plots will helpclarify his understanding of derivatives and integrals of these functions.The input commands for computing the five basic functional values for given values of ‘a’ and‘b’ at ‘x’ are seen in MATLAB Command Window, as shown in Figure 1. The MATLABfunctional (f1, f2, f31, f32, f33, f4, f5) values output are shown in Figure 2. One can change thevalues of parameters 'a', 'b' and 'n' in these functions as well as for the variable 'x' value. Figure 1: MATLAB

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Shannon G. Davis; Carol S. Gattis; Edgar C. Clausen

laboratory exercises. ThePartnership Program consists of three parts: 1) instruction at the institutes using a number ofhands-on activities that will be used in the classroom; 2) follow-up activities at the middle andjunior high schools and; 3) evaluation, both during and after the summer institutes.In evaluating Year 1 of the program, several important lessons were learned:• Arkansas Science Curriculum Frameworks are structured with minimal overlap from grade to grade, making it difficult to structure activities that fit equally well in each middle school grade levels.• Despite the imperative to directly align experiments with the Curriculum Frameworks, teachers and students thoroughly enjoyed experiments with an engineering theme.• None

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New Trends in ECE Education II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dorin Patru, Rochester Institute of Technology; Daniel Phillips, Rochester Institute of Technology; Eric Peskin, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE)

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Electrical and Computer

are outlined and how these topics meet the intendedinstructional objectives is shown. A description of the lab assignments, which complement thelectures and further foster the instructional objectives follows. Finally, possible futureimprovements are indicated.IntroductionThe introduction of Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) devices in the 1980s made theintegration of memory and input / output peripherals along with the central processing unitpossible. This resulted in the development of the prototypical microcontroller, also commonlyreferred to as an integrated microcomputer. Their ubiquitous use in almost all contemporaryelectronic systems indicates the importance of courses which teach electrical engineeringstudents how to use and/or

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Deran Hanesian; Angelo J. Perna

underrepresented groups (ethnic and racial minorities, women, and thephysically challenged) in science, technology and engineering, where they havelong been underrepresented. K-12 Programs at NJIT and elsewhere have theirorigins over 30 years ago with most of these programs aimed at increasing thepool of minorities entering engineering and science and, in the past decade,research programs for undergraduates have been added to further increase thispool. Undergraduate research at NJIT has been an integral part of the curriculum,as an elective course, in each of the two senior year semesters since the 1960’sbut on occasion juniors have been allowed into these courses for credit. The UREProgram (1990) and the McNair Program (1999) were added and in some cases

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hector Estrada, University of the Pacific

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Architectural

design course. Finally, the entire system is covered in the capstone design course.These types of tools are very useful because they provide students with a “real world” case tostudy throughout their structural engineering training. Results obtained from the end of classstudent evaluations have not changed significantly since the introduction of the case study in thestructural engineering course sequence; however, the students have made a number of positivecomments regarding the use of these materials in the course evaluation surveys.IntroductionStructural engineering is an integral part of most civil and architectural engineering programsacross the United States. The National Council of Structural Engineers Associations (NCSEA)has developed a

Conference Session

Student Teams and Project-Based Learning

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State University; Christine Co, Oklahoma State University; Bear Turner, Oklahoma State University

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Educational Research and Methods

inwhich students design, build, and test a complex project. These programs are increasinglyindustry sponsored 1, and expose students to many of the real constraints engineers face.Capstone courses are the primary mechanism used by many universities for integratingcommunication, and teamwork skills and social, economic, and ethical issues into theengineering curriculum 2. The capstone concept has been extended by other schools such as theDesign4Practice program at Northern Arizona University and the projects program at WorcesterPolytechnic Institute 3-5 in which dedicated design courses are integrated into all four years of theundergraduate curriculum. Improvements in student performance following capstone programshave been observed in several

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Computer-Assisted Lab Studies

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julio Garcia, San Jose State University; Patricia Backer, San Jose State University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

and laboratory content for Tech 167—Control Systems in line with theories of effectiveness in web-based instruction1,2,3 2. Develop multimedia lecture materials for the teaching/learning of Tech 167—Control Systems using WebCT4 Page 12.286.2 3. Revise the laboratory activities to integrate an electronics kit (consisting of data acquisition hardware) so that students can complete them following the model established by Wang5 4. Adapt the curriculum materials in line with research on learning styles of women and minority students 5. Integrate LabVIEW and Multisim in the Tech 167 class to provide the students

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Laboratory and Internship Innovations in IT/IS

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ed Crowley, University of Houston

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Information Systems

, Firefox, and Apache.Because the objectives are curriculum dependent, it would be helpful to review thecurriculum within which our cryptography course evolved.Our Applied Cryptography ClassOur College is a small college within a large university. In addition to other goals, ourapplied security program is designed to prepare students to provide enterprise securityassessment and evaluation. Expected job titles for our graduates include securityinvestigator, manager, and auditor.The scope of the applied cryptography class includes cryptographic services required tosecurely store and transmit confidential information. It also includes relatedcryptographic services such as those that provide integrity, authentication, andnonrepudiation. Specific topic

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Youakim Al Kalaani, Georgia Southern University; Kurt Rosentrator, USDA

textbooks as well as current websites is provided below in Appendix A. While notintended to be comprehensive, this list will provide an initial foundation for instructors whodesire a basis for educational materials.Understandably, not all academic programs will be able to accommodate this addition with allother programmatic requirements currently in place. Therefore, it is beneficial to examine othermechanisms for incorporating specific learning modules. Many approaches have been found tobe quite successful vis-à-vis infusing particular educational topics into existing coursework.Furthermore, integrating ethics instruction into undergraduate engineering and technologyprograms has been a popular topic in recent years12. The mechanisms that have been

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention and Diversity in Engineering Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tim Brower, Oregon Institute of Technology; Richard Grimsley, Project Lead The Way; Pam Newberry, Project Lead The Way

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Engineering Technology

university and high school STEMfaculty. For this approach to work, STEM must be embraced by all disciplines asnot a single, stand-alone entity, but as an integral building block to a successfulcareer for the student. Page 12.1300.2Importance of STEMOne of the biggest challenges facing our nation today is the dwindling number ofAmerican scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians (STEM) at atime when we are facing increased competition from other countries. At the sametime, there exists a vast untapped talent pool in those Americans who traditionallyhave been underrepresented in STEM fields, including women, HispanicAmericans, Native Americans, and

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Utilizing On-Line Technology in Entrepreneurship Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jay Porter, Texas A&M University; Joseph Morgan, Texas A&M University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

established the Mobile Integrated Solutions Laboratory (MISL)in 2002 to enhance the senior project design experience for the undergraduate students. Thesingle semester, “works once” project model typically employed in academia was expanded to atwo-semester sequence for project planning1 and project execution.2, 3 This resulted in three keybenefits to the curriculum. First, because the students were given an additional semester tocomplete their project, the faculty noticed a significant increase in the quantity and quality of Page 12.631.2effort by the students. Second, this increase in quality has resulted in more interest in the designand innovation

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stacy Wilson; Dennis George; john bruni

of StudentEngagement (NSSE) which is administered to each freshmen and senior student.The Department of Engineering at WKU is an ABET accredited program that has a mission ofproject-based engineering education. The department has chosen to engage students through thistype of educational experience. Since the programs in the Department of Engineering are ABETaccredited, the ABET criterion must be satisfied. The three programs in the department; civilengineering, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering; have created individualassessment programs in order to continuously improve the programs. Project courses and designexperiences play an integral role in the delivery of the project based courses at WKU. This paperwill examine the

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhengtao Deng, Alabama A&M University; Cathy Qian, Alabama A&M University; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo, Alabama A&M University

Page 12.250.2results from the simulation and experimental investigation using a hypersonic Arc Heater testfacility. This research required integration of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), plasmadynamics, electromagnetics and mechanical design.Background about AAMU and the SEAARK ApproachAAMU is a charted historically black university. It is located in the northeast side ofHuntsville, Alabama, an important world center of expertise for advanced missile, spacetransportation and electronic research and development. Among the leading government andindustry organizations located in this area are: the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, theArmy Aviation and Missile Command Center (AMCOM), the Redstone Arsenal TestingCenter, the Boeing Company

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Aspirational Visions of Civil Engineering in 2025 & Policy 465

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Russell, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Gerry Galloway, Univ of Maryland; Thomas Lenox, American Society of Civil Engineers; James O'Brien, American Society of Civil Engineers

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Civil Engineering

requiredseminars, additional and redesigned courses, and enhancement of content in currentcourses and formal experience.The committee also decided that the outcome regarding specialized technical knowledgeis best accomplished in a post-graduate program of study. By not including thefulfillment of the technical specialization outcome in the undergraduate program of study,necessary outcomes can be achieved to the required level of achievement withoutrequiring an increase of the undergraduate curriculum beyond four years. Further, thisapproach facilitates program accreditation by delineating the content of the curricula—that is to say, the outcomes expected to be accomplished at the undergraduate level.Licensure Committee:Professional licensure activities

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Sawyers, Ohio Northern University; John-David Yoder, Ohio Northern University

programming language. However, due to significant changes in the Freshman andSophomore curriculum, the prerequisite programming course is no longer available.Due to the removal of programming from the general engineering curriculum at Ohio Northern,two options were considered: ending the requirement for structured programming in upper-levelcourses (relying solely on application-specific software tools), or offering a Programming courseconcurrently with Numerical Methods in the Junior year. While commercial software is usefulfor solving many problems, the mechanical engineering faculty decided that knowledge of astructured programming language was still an important skill for our students to develop12. As aresult, a C++ programming course was

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Trends in Construction Engineering Education I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Mulva, Texas State University-San Marcos; Robert Tisdel, Texas State University - San Marcos

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Construction

make changes to building assemblies and components with an understanding ofoverall cost and schedule impact. Importantly, cross-discipline integration between design andconstruction dramatically decreased the time needed for cost estimating, planning andscheduling. It also facilitated reductions in consultant billings for specific civil, structural, andMEP design services.Through a case study approach, this paper validates the use of Building Information Modeling asan integrated format for construction education. It demonstrates the advantage which acomprehensive interface can provide to an engineering student; one which depicts the integrationbetween design and construction services. In such an environment, students are able tosimultaneously

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Communication and Professional Skills in BME

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo; Daniel Cavanagh, Bucknell University

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Biomedical

Conference. Page 12.331.106. Manuel-Dupont S, “Writing Across the Curriculum in an Engineering Program,” J of Eng Ed 1996 p. 35-40 Building Engineering Communication Skills 107. Morello, J, “Comparing Speaking Across the Curriculum and Writing Across the Curriculum Programs,” Communication Education. January 20008. McNair LD, Norback JS, Miller B, “Integrating Discipline-Specific Communication Instruction based on Workforce Data into Technical Communication Courses, “ Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Conference.9. Norback JS, McNair LD, Laughter MJ, Forehand GA, Sutley-Fish, B, “Teaching Workplace

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

E. Bernard White, George Mason University

“The perceived diminishedrelevance of Computer Science is being driven by two complementary phenomena: computingapplications are being viewed less as applications of computing technology and more as integralcomponents of everyday tasks, and the field of computing is examining itself in an effort tounderstand how to prepare students for rapidly changing careers increasingly integrated withother disciplines.” These types of observations require that educational program administratorsand other computing professionals continually review the evolving field of computing in aneffort to understand how to prepare students for rapidly changing careers increasingly integratedwith other disciplines.3. Reasons for Loss of IT JobsIt is true that the high

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Intersdisciplinary Courses and Environmental Undergraduate Research

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Braun, California Polytechnic State University; Emmit B. Evans, California Polytechnic State University; Randall Knight, California Polytechnic State University; Thomas Ruehr, California Polytechnic State University

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Environmental Engineering

, where he is also Director of the Minor in Environmental Studies. He received his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley and has also been a faculty member at Ohio State University.Thomas Ruehr, California Polytechnic State University Tom Ruehr is a professor in the Earth and Soil Science Department at Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo. He has a Ph. D. from Colorado State University. He has received the University Distinguished Teacher award, served the U.S. Department of Agriculture as national co-chairman of the committee for Agricultural Ethics and Public Policy Curriculum Development, and helped lead the U. S. Agency for International Development world conference on Agricultural Systems

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Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Sweeney, Florida Gulf Coast University; Diane Bondehagen, Florida Gulf Coast University; Claude Villiers, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Boutique Engineering: Student Learning in a Multidisciplinary Engineering Concepts and Methods CourseIntroductionEGN1008C Engineering Concepts and Methods is a first year course that has been designed andteam-taught by a multidisciplinary troika of faculty (one bioengineer, an environmental engineer,and a civil engineer) in the fall semester of 2006. This paper provides an overview of the overallphilosophy, content, and evaluation of assessment results obtained in our first offering ofEGN1008C as a highly integrated and multidisciplinary “gateway” technical course to our threecurricula in bioengineering, environmental engineering, and civil engineering.OverviewThe new U.A

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Project-Based Education in Energy Conversion

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margaret Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

EducationThermodynamics (ME680) during their fourth or fifth years. Like their peer institutions, RIT hasthe desire and requirement to improve curriculum structure, integration, and assessment. ME413 and 680 form a progression in course work into the study of Thermodynamics and,therefore, the courses are carefully integrated. This integration is achieved through a courseassessment process conducted by the faculty leads from both courses.The goal of Thermodynamics is to provide studentswith practical and relevant engineering science Table 1. Summary of Topics Exploredbackground in thermodynamics. The course also in Thermodynamics (ME 413)provides the groundwork for subsequent courses in Topical Areas

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Outreach Projects and General Energy Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bin Wu, University of Missouri, Columbia; Sanjeev Khanna, University of Missouri; Richard Wyatt, University of Missouri; Roger Korenberg, Missouri Department of Natural Resources

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

12.1205.2IntroductionThis paper describes how a systematic effort is being carried out at the University of Missouri-Columbia, to promote student awareness of best practices in energy efficiency, reusable energy,waste reduction and productivity improvements. In particular, it illustrates how the activities of anewly established Missouri Industrial Assessment Center (U.S. Department of Energy, IACProgram) in the College of Engineering can be logically integrated with both graduate andundergraduate engineering education in this regard.Missouri Industrial Assessment CenterWith the backing of the U.S. Department of Energy, and in partnership with the Missouri StateDepartment of Natural Resources (MoDNR), the State Department of Economic Development,the University of