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Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

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Russel Jones

Session # 2560 Technical Capacity Building in Developing Countries to Promote Economic Development Russel C. Jones, Ph.D., P.E. President, Committee on Capacity Building World Federation of Engineering OrganizationsAbstractIn the pursuit of a more secure, stable and sustainable world, developing countries seek toenhance their human, institutional and infrastructure capacity. To do so they need a solidbase of technologically prepared people in order to effectively improve their economiesand quality of life. Such a base of qualified engineers and technologists will

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Venubabu Vulasa; David Grieve; Chetan Sankar; Bob Bulfin; Paul Swamidass

-Technology (B-E-T) program, and the College ofEngineering, University of Plymouth, participated in a joint effort to replicate real-life productdesign process with a mixture of engineering and business students. This paper describes theexperience, its lessons and compares it with other attempts at multinational student design-teamprojects.Introduction In the last ten years, an important change is occurring in new product development inlarge technology-intensive American manufacturing firms. They are tapping into engineeringtalent in countries around the world without actually bringing internationally trained engineers tothe US. Consequently, complex product/process design is undertaken by teams made ofprofessionals located in more than one

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Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

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Hsiao-Shen Tsao; Belle Wei

STUDYING OFFSHORING THROUGH A STUDY-TOUR OF TAIWAN AND CHINA Belle Wei, Jacob Tsao College of Engineering, San Jose State University San Jose, California 95192AbstractIn recent years the pace of offshoring knowledge-based technology jobs has quickened.This is primarily due to the advances in communication technology and the availability ofa large low-cost talent pool in developing countries. As a result, American engineeringgraduates will compete and collaborate with their counterparts in other parts of the world.It is critical that they understand the dynamics of a global economy and recognize theneed to acquire the skill set that

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Diversity: Women & Minorities in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Joan Begolly; Jennifer Gilley

Session 3148 Great Progress, Great Divide: The Need for Evolution of the Recruitment Model for Women in Engineering Jennifer Gilley and Joan Begolly Penn State New KensingtonAbstractDespite years of recruitment efforts, the percentage of engineering bachelor’s degrees awarded towomen in the U.S. still hovers at only 18%, and the percentage of degrees awarded inengineering technology stands at 16%. The question then remains, what keeps high school girlsfrom choosing engineering or engineering technology as a potential career path? Or conversely,for those

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jerome Lavelle; Joseph Herkert

,especially in light of Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC 2000) of the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) (for example, see [1,2]). While some attention has beenfocused on traditional three-two programs or Bachelors/Masters Programs, little has beenfocused on dual degree programs in engineering and non-technical fields. In this paper wepresent a status report on the Benjamin Franklin Scholars (BFS) Dual-Degree Program now in itsfifteenth year of operation at North Carolina State University. Students in the program earn aBachelor of Science degree in engineering or computer science from the College of Engineering,and a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree from the College of Humanities and SocialSciences. Students may elect

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Curriculum: Ideas/Concepts in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Saeed Foroudastan

Session 2160 The Middle Tennessee State University Experimental Vehicles Program: Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Engineering Projects Saeed D. Foroudastan, Ian D. Campbell Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies Department Middle Tennessee State UniversityAbstractMiddle Tennessee State University (MTSU) decided to combine several competition vehicleprojects into one Experimental Vehicles Program (EVP). The goal was to facilitate fundraisingand resource sharing, and to improve chain of command within the

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Azzedine Lansari; Akram Al-Rawi, McKendree University; Faouzi Bouslama, Université Laval

) Page 10.1415.4 The ZU Learning Outcomes (ZULO) Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThe GELO and MALO are course embedded, and the ZULO are a set of higher intellectualoutcomes, which can be achieved at different levels of the students’ learning experiences.The GELO are designed to help students develop an understanding and the ability to apply thetheoretical structures and methodologies of the academic disciplines. There are five GELO:Creative Expression; Culture and Society; Humanities; Language and Communication; andScience, Mathematics and Technology. The GELO knowledge domains are

Conference Session

College Engineering K-12 Outreach III

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2005 Annual Conference

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Judith Miller; Paula Quinn; Jill Rulfs; John Orr

Society for Engineering Education 2. To implement the technology/engineering portion of the Massachusetts Science and Technology/Engineering Curriculum Frameworks (MSTECF)[1] in grades K-6; and 3. To develop curricular materials and prepare teachers so that the project is self-sustaining after the NSF grant expires.Massachusetts is one of the few states to have mandatory curriculum standards in engineeringand technology at the K-12 levels and appears to be the only state with such standards in the K-6grades) which specifically incorporate engineering and technology topics. Hence, Massachusettsis an ideal venue for the extension of NSF’s previous science and mathematics initiatives to theengineering disciplines.More details on

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Yasemin Jones; Elaine Maldonado

The Adjunct Academy at City Tech: Academic Support for First Year Engineering Students at an Urban College Yasemin Jones, Elaine Maldonado College Learning Centers New York City College of Technology, CUNY AbstractUrban students in engineering programs can face certain challenges including: 1)Inadequate academic preparation for college 2) Family and work responsibilities and 3)Lack of in-school support in the formation of their academic/ professional identities. TheAdjunct Academy at City Tech (CUNY) project was created to improve the lives ofadjunct, engineering faculty and engineering students

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New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jared Odom; Saeed Foroudastan

Session 3662 Proposal for Alternative Energy Applications in the Field of Desalination Saeed D. Foroudastan, Ph.D., Professor, Jared Odom, Research Assistant, Olivia Dees, Research Assistant Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies Department Middle Tennessee State UniversityAbstractMany parts of the world are currently suffering from such an intense deficiency in ground andsurface water, that this life sustaining treasure often makes the “black gold” of oil resources lookunimportant by comparison

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Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jameson Wetmore

Monitoring Air Bag Performance: Exploring the Social Facets of Engineering with STS Jameson M. Wetmore Department of Science, Technology & Society University of VirginiaIntroductionOver the past several decades a new social science discipline has been emerging that seeks tobetter understand the relationship between technology and society. This discipline is sometimescalled “Science & Technology Studies” or “Science, Technology, and Society,” but is oftensimply given the umbrella title of “STS.”1 The discipline has attracted scholars from the fieldsof sociology, history

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Houdeshell

Using a Structuredness Instrument to Characterize End of Course Projects James Jay Houdeshell National Center for Manufacturing Education at Sinclair Community CollegeAbstract A course culminating project, a popular instructional activity in engineering andengineering technology courses, typically provides students with either a rewarding or afrustrating experience. Many times professors, in order to bring real industry practice into theclassroom, ask students to solve problems based on complex cases. Depending on the student'sfamiliarity with the project context, a student’s problem solving skills, and the nature of theproblem, student

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gregory Watkins; Ambrose Barry; Nan Byars

Teaching Computer Competencies to Today’s Computer Age Students Gregory K. Watkins, Nan A. Byars, Ambrose G. Barry William States Lee College of Engineering The University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, NC 28223AbstractThe Engineering Technology (ET) department at UNC Charlotte began offering the first twoyears of its BSET curriculum in the fall semester 2004, having previously been exclusively a“two plus two” program. Although much of the first two years includes basic studies in English,math, and physics, the department has chosen to teach its own freshman level class in computercompetency.The goal of ETGR 1100

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Erdinc Acar; Faruk Taban; Ismail Fidan

Teaching Basic Engineering Concepts in a K-12 Environment Using LEGO® Bricks and Robotics Faruk Taban1, Erdinc Acar2, Ismail Fidan3, Ayhan Zora4 1 University of Nevada, Reno / 2Coral Academy of Science / 3 Tennessee Technological University / 4Technology Center, Deere & CompanyAbstractThis paper explores the impacts of basic engineering concepts of LEGO® Bricks and Robotics inCoral Academy of Science in Reno, Nevada - a Science, Math and Technology Middle and HighSchool - collaborated with the Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Nevada, Reno(UNR). A team from middle school students designed and developed a LEGO® Robot and

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Kelly; Theodore A. Bickart; Pamela Suett

accomplished? Based on information from the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology (MIT) library web site, mechanical engineering students are firstdirected to search the national standards network to determine if there is an AmericanNational Standard (ANS). However, a standard becomes an ANS only if the standardsdeveloping organization (SDO) is accredited by the American National StandardsInstitute (ANSI) and subsequently submits the standard to ANSI for approval.Consequently, not all standards students could be working with are ANS's. In fact, MITmaintains a collection of all ANSI approved standards in its library, along with those ofASTM International (ASTM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(IEEE) (electronic access). It also

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

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Terry Wildman; Kumar Mallikarjunan; Mark Sanders; Jeffrey Connor; Vinod Lohani

From BEEVT to DLR – NSF Supported Engineering Education Projects at Virginia TechVinod K. Lohani1, Mark Sanders2, Terry Wildman3, Jeff Connor1, Kumar Mallikarjunan4,Theo Dillaha4, John Muffo5, Tamara W. Knott1, Jenny Lo1, G. V. Loganathan6, GregAdel7, M. L. Wolfe4, Richard Goff1, Mike Gregg1, Mike Chang4, Foster Agblevor4,DavidVaughan4, John Cundiff4, Ed Fox8, Hayden Griffin1, Sue Magliaro9 1 Department of Engineering Education/ 2Professor and Program Leader, Technology Education/ 3Center for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching/4Biological Systems Engineering/5Academic Assessment Unit/6Civil and Environmental Engineering/7Mining and Minerals Engineering/8Computer Science/9Director, School of

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NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

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2005 Annual Conference

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Russ Pimmel

Programs for Engineering Education in the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education ∗ Russell Pimmel Program Director Division of Undergraduate Education National Science FoundationAbstractThe programs of the Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) serve as the focal pointfor the National Science Foundation’s efforts in undergraduate education. Theseprograms are directed at strengthening the vitality of undergraduate science, technology,engineering and mathematics (STEM) education for all students. DUE has a number ofdifferent programs, each with a

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sean Falkowski

Bringing Members of Industry into the Teaching Profession Sean A. Falkowski University of DaytonWhen coming from industry a new faculty member of engineering technology has manychallenges. The learning environment is enhanced by the faculty member’s experience gained inthe engineering field. Examples from industry can be used in the classroom to bring about a feelfor the applications necessary in engineering and technology. Also brought by this new facultymember are techniques used in professional practice as well as skills needed to survive in theworkplace. But this change of careers can bring new

Conference Session

College Engineering K-12 Outreach III

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2005 Annual Conference

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Neha Goel; Johnathan King; Ellen Chen; Danny Le; Alene Harris; Ragu Vijaykumar; Cordelia Brown, Purdue University; Monica Cox, Purdue University

, Peabody College at Vanderbilt University/ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern UniversityIntroduction In 1999, the VaNTH Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Bioengineering EducationalTechnologies became the first National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Center solely devotedto bioengineering education research. Comprised of researchers from Vanderbilt University,Northwestern University, the University of Texas at Austin, and the Health Sciences &Technology of Harvard/ the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (HST/MIT), the VaNTHERC was created to “unite educators and engineers, in industry and academia, to developcurricula and technologies that will educate future generations of

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Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Anthony; C. Richard Helps; Barry Lunt

science, along with a setof course descriptions ….”3 (Ch 2, p. 1) This was later superseded by Curriculum ’78, thenComputing Curricula 1991, then Computing Curricula 2001 (CC2001)3. The 2001 versionsignificantly expands the scope of the document, openly embracing the new computingdisciplines of computer engineering (CE) and software engineering (SE), and incorporating thediscipline of information systems (IS), traditionally housed in schools of business. Both of thenew computing disciplines (CE and SE) were invited to submit a volume similar to CC2001, as asubset of the entire field of computing curricula. With the emergence in 2003 of a society forinformation technology (IT) education (SIGITE, the Special Interest Group for InformationTechnology

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ME Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Matthew Panhans; Joseph Musto; William Howard

Session 1566 The Impact of Emerging Trends in Mechanical Engineering on a Small Undergraduate Institution Joseph C. Musto, Matthew A. Panhans, William E. Howard Milwaukee School of EngineeringAbstractThere is a wealth of published information offering opinions on the future of undergraduateengineering education, and proposing curricular and institutional reforms. These proposedreforms are motivated by three distinct sets of considerations: • emerging technological change, • student/population demographics, and • global sociological conditions.In this paper

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Daniel Davis

IMPROVING STUDENT LEARNING WITH A MORE EFFECTIVE TEACHING ENVIRONMENT Daniel Davis Associate Professor Department of Architecture College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture University of Hartford Phone: 860.768.4094 / Fax 860.768.5074 ddavis@hartford.eduAbstractThis paper attempted to consider how a quality school environment enhances, even improves,attitudes and achievements, and how a well-designed university facility is one that carefullyintegrates the curriculum and the

Conference Session

NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

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2005 Annual Conference

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Patrick Carriere

diverse population. The following provides an overview of active andcrosscutting programs that strongly emphasize integration of engineering research andeducation in several divisions at NSF that would be of interest to engineering researchers andeducators. A list of contacts and proposal target month for the following programs is providedin Table 1.Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC/ENG)1. Engineering Research Centers (ERC) - focus on the definition, fundamentalunderstanding, development, and validation of the technologies needed to realize a well-defined class of engineered systems with the potential to spawn whole new industries orradically transform the product lines, processing technologies, or service deliverymethodologies

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Frank Pietryga

Session Number ______ Solving Differential Equations Using MATLAB/Simulink Frank W. Pietryga, P.E. University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractDuring the sophomore year, the mechanical and civil engineering technology students arerequired to complete a course in computer systems, programming and applications. The selectedsoftware package for this course was MATLAB designed and developed by the Mathworks 1.Each student was provided with a student version of the programming software. After theintroductory material had been covered, the latter part of the course was used to solve

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Abul Haque; Afsaneh Minaie

, M. M., S. Rahman, A. N. M. E. Rafiq, and M. M. Islam, “On-line Handwritten Bangla Numeral Recognition by Grid Method”, Proceedings of Second International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE 2002), Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp 269-272, 2002[7] Rahman, A. K. M. A., and C. M. Rahman. “Image Compression With a Counter Propagation Network”, Proceedings of International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT2000), Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp 215-220, 2001[8] Moshad, M. A. A., and M. M. Ali, “Recognition of Handwritten Bangla Digits by Intelligent Regional Search Method”, Proceedings of International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT 2001), Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ali Setoodehnia; Ali Kashef; Mark Rajai; Akbar Eslami

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationALI E. KASHEFAli E. Kashef is a Professor of Industrial Technology at the University of Northern Iowa. He also serves as acoordinator for the cooperative program. He is on the review board for the Journal of Industrial Technology. Hereceived his B.S. in building Engineering and Design from Lincoln University, Missouri in 1980, M.S. inIndustrial Management from Central Missouri State University, Missouri in 1981, and Ph.D. in Vocational Studiesfrom the Southern Illinois University, Illinois in 1990.MARK RAJAIDr. Rajai is currently a graduate faculty and researcher in College of Professional studies

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jing Pang

education exist on market, they usually have multiple functionalitiesand they are expensive for many engineering students. In order to offer students moreopportunities to use new technologies in the digital labs or at home, the author designed twolow cost CPLD boards during the summer of 2004. The author taught computer engineeringand electrical engineering students the art of the logic design using the FPLD technology atthe California State University, Sacramento (CSUS). This paper describes the issues relatedto the integration of the CPLD boards with the Introduction to Digital Logic Design course.IntroductionIntroduction to Logic Design is a common engineering course that is offered at manyuniversities. In the past, students studied digital

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Developments in Chem Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Christi Patton; Daniel Crunkleton

underclassmen into the design competition process would provide a sense ofaccomplishment earlier in their academic careers, which could improve retention. Acompetition requiring the newest technologies would attract the best and the brighteststudents to the team. A socially significant competition would provide better outreachopportunities, and could provide recruitment benefits.Getting Involved: Fuel cell researchEventually, it was decided to involve chemical engineers in automotive designcompetitions. This involvement arose from a combination of two factors: (1) a desire toparticipate in design competitions relevant to underclassmen and the general public; and(2) continuing research in alternate fuel technologies, especially fuel cells

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kamal Shahrabi; Feng Huang; Ali Setoodehnia; Hong Li

,” IEEE Phot. Tech. Lett. pp.1665-1667, Vol. 11, No. 12, (1999). C. X. Yu, M. Margalit, E.P. Ippen, and H.A. Haus, “Direct measurement of self-phase shift due to fiber nonlinearity,” Optics letters, Vol 23, 9, pp 679- 681 (1998) Page 10.396.9“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @2005 American Society for Engineering Education”10. R. Chang and R. Gibby, “A theoretical study of performance of an orthogonal multiplexing data transmission scheme” IEEE transactions on communication technology, Vol. Com-16, No. 4, August 1968.11. J.X

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College Engineering K-12 Outreach III

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Carlsen; Robin Tallon; Phil Henning; Nicola Ferralis; Leanne Avery; Daniel Haworth; Elana Chapman

/Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractPenn State University has hosted a NSF sponsored GK-12 Outreach project for the pastfive years, and has just begun the second phase of the project. The Penn State projectutilizes the talents of many science and engineering graduate students as teachers,mentors and role models for the K-12 classrooms. The project focuses on developingskills of students in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematicsthrough the use of Advanced Transportation Technologies. The GK-12 students areinvited to participate in research in various ways in support of Advanced TransportationTechnology such as undergraduate/graduate student competitions like Future Truck andChallenge X. The quantitative assessment planned at the