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Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mark Orwat; Mark Evans; Joseph Hanus

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliography1. Cotton, Kathleen and Wikelund, Karen Reed, “Educational Time Factors”, Close-Up #8, Research You Can Use, School Improvement Research Series (SIRS), Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, 2001, http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/sirs/4/cu8.html.2. Anderson, L. "Student Involvement in Learning and School Achievement." CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH 26 (1975): 53-62.3. Anderson, L. "Policy Implications of Research on School Time." THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR 40 (1983): 25-28.4. Borg, W.R. "Time and School Learning." In TIME TO LEARN, edited by C. Denham and A. Lieberman

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Learning Styles

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2002 Annual Conference

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Philip Parker

Overview and Problem IdentificationWe assessed the cognitive style and learning preferences of students enrolled in Introduction toEnvironmental Engineering (CE334) at UW-Platteville. This course is required of all Civil andEnvironmental Engineering students, and contains three 1-hour lectures and one 2-hourlaboratory period per week. Dr. Parker taught the two laboratory sections during the period ofthis study. The course contained 44 juniors and seniors, and included students who enrolled attheir first opportunity and students who put it off until their final semester.Engineering students at UW-P who have made it through the challenging calculus, physics, andchemistry requirements (such as those enrolled in CE334) appear in general to be more

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Techniques for Improving Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nicholas Steneck; Donald Carpenter; Trevor Harding; Susan Montgomery

EducationThere is an interesting trend with respect to copying. 96.8 % of students believe that copyingfrom another student during an exam is cheating. This number drops to 72.0 % for copyinghomework from another student, 59.1 % for copying laboratory reports from previous terms,49.3 % for copying homework from previous terms, and 17.9 % for copying passages out of thetextbook. There is a corresponding increase in students who thought these acts were unethicalbut not cheating. Exams, laboratory reports, and homework are all methods of assessing studentperformance in a class and all play a role in the final grade, yet students are obviously making adistinction between them. In most classes, exams weigh more heavily towards the final grade thanlaboratory

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Mentoring Graduate Students for Success

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2002 Annual Conference

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Patricia Stubblefield; Elisabeth Alford

education in avariety of ways. Many of the graduate students are teaching assistants assigned toundergraduate laboratories where they instruct students on conducting experiments,oversee the lab work, answer students’ questions, check engineering notebooks, andreview or grade lab reports. In some departments or courses, the TAs have lessresponsibility; in some cases, an experienced graduate student may teach a lab courseunder minimal supervision by engineering faculty. Regardless of their particularassignments, teaching assistants have a significant role in the educational mission of theinstitution.Because teaching assistants have an impact on the quality of undergraduate research andinstruction, engineering educators, like their counterparts in

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Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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Loc Vu-quoc; David Mikolaitis; Norman Fitz-Coy; R. Keith Stanfill

questions developed by the IPPDteams in previous years.DOD projectsThe US Air Force, via Wright Laboratory at Eglin Air Force Base, has funded a series ofprojects. They are motivated to participate for a wide variety of reasons including a desire tobuild a stronger tie to the University, getting a fresh perspective on problems, recruit students to Page 7.826.8work at the laboratory, and be a “good citizen” by supporting higher education within the State.“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Subrata Roy; Karim Nasr; K. Joel Berry

specified speed. Thispaper provides the authors’ personal experiences in teaching project-based thermodynamics toKettering University junior students for six quarters and documents the results showing promisethat encourages design integration and project-based learning in the energy systems curriculum.Effects of this teaching method on students’ learning are also documented.2. CURRENT STATUSAt present, Kettering University offers the Energy Systems Thread (EST) that spans over three4-credit hour courses and one laboratory course. A thread is defined as a sequence of courseswith an identifiable set of objectives and outcomes, tying a number of courses to each other andis consistent with the program’s educational objectives. The courses belonging to

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Harold Underwood

deepened for me, by learning more aboutNASA’s applications and engaging in on-site collaboration with experienced NASA colleagues.Undergraduate student David Watson learned what working life is like in a research labenvironment while practicing cutting-edge engineering research methods, helping him refine hisown career direction. Other benefits were realized later during the academic year, as I relatedNASA illustrations from my experience to physics students and showed electromagnetics studentshow to simulate high frequency structures using PC-based computer aided design (CAD)software, obtained on educational discount. The SFP at NASA-GSFC, using computationaltools and laboratory equipment unavailable at my home institution, made these

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconected World

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2002 Annual Conference

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A.K.M. Abdul Quader; Shamsuddin Ilias; Franklin King; Keith Schimmel

,” IUCN – The Word Conservation Union, 2000.7. IUCN Bangladesh 2000, “Red Book of Threatened Birds of Bangladesh,” IUCN – The Word Conservation Union, 2000.8. Quader, A.K.M.A., Design and Building of Process Plants – some practical guidelines, World University Service Press, Dhaka (1992), ISBN 984-30-0018-8.9. Quader, A.K.M.A., Pilot plant – a forward step to technological break-through for Bangladesh, Proceedings of the seminar on ‘Problems of Transfer of Laboratory Research to Industrial Application’, Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR), Dhaka vol. 1,265(1976).10. Quader, A.K.M.A., Considerations in the design of an ammonia-urea synthesis plant, Proceedings of

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Assessing Teaching and Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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Donald Headley; Sanjiv Sarin

.Author BiographiesSANJIV SARINSanjiv Sarin is a Professor of Industrial Engineering and Associate Dean for the College of Engineering at NorthCarolina A&T State University. He received a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute ofTechnology, New Delhi and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the State University of New York, Buffalo. He is amember of ASEE and IIE, and a registered Professional Engineer in North Carolina.DONALD B. HEADLEYDonald Headley is a Visiting Professor at North Carolina A&T State University. He is a Human Factors ResearchPsychologist with the Army Research Laboratory – Human Research and Engineering Directorate, Aberdeen ProvingGround, Maryland. He received a B.S. in Research Psychology

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ET Graduate Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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W. Kaminski

WashingtonUniversity in Ellensburg, Washington. Professor Kaminski graduated with a BSME from the University of Detroit, anMSME from the Univeristy of Michigan and a PhD from the University of Florida. Dr Kaminski has worked forprograms. He was a Senior Research Scientist at the United Technologies Research Center from 1979 to 1987developing CO2 lasers and manager of an optical phased array laboratory. Page 7.1137.8 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education

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Assessment and Its Implications in IE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jack McGourty

Transactions on Education, 43(2), 125-131. Page 7.1305.7 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education Session # 2557 10. Hmieleski, K. (2000). Barriers to online evaluation: Surveying the nation’s top 200 most wired colleges. Report prepared by the Interactive and Distance Education Assessment Laboratory at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. 11. Hmieleski, K. (2000). Ibid.Jack McGourtyJack McGourty is

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Enhancing Engineering Math with Technology

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2002 Annual Conference

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Peter Edwards

Page 7.844.5 solution. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationAlthough students may use the applets initially in the university’s computer laboratory in aformal tutorial, the work may be finished in the student’s own time on the Internet fromhome since the applet / worksheet combination is self-contained. Some students have eveninitiated the use of other applets themselves as they become more engaged with theMathinSite culture. The overall effect here is of empowerment – students become the ownersof their own learning process.Why use MathinSite?Why should this material be developed? Surely

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Valarie Arms; Aly Valentine; J. Richard Weggel

are the topic of this report satisfy a portion of this need and insure that thevarious advisors at least consider the same course objectives in arriving at a grade. Grades areobtained for each deliverable required from the students, the Proposal, Oral Presentation andFinal Report.Assessment FormsFollowing the 1996-97 academic year, several new assessment instruments were developed forthe freshman design component of Drexel’s Engineering Design and Laboratory courses (ED&LI, II & III) and for the design component of the humanities courses, HUM107 and HUM108. The Page 7.446.1details of how Drexel’s Freshman Design Program is

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Marie Dahleh

covered which may differfrom the department syllabus, any laboratory projects, design experience, oral or writtencommunication projects and any social or ethical issues discussed in the course. The curriculumcommittee, to determine if the department syllabus needs to be changed, reviews the coursereports annually.Senior Exit surveyAll graduating seniors are asked to fill out a survey just before graduation in the spring. Thissurvey is quite detailed consisting of 23 questions many with multiple parts. Several questionsspecifically ask the students to give an opinion about how well the department met the MEprogram outcomes. The rest of the questions were included to correspond to questions o n theone-year alumni survey and will be used for

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Introduction to Engineering Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

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Brenda Henry Groff; Carlos Pomalaza-Raez

an Introductory Programming Course for Engineers,” Proceedings of the 1998 ASEE Annual Conference, June 28 – July 1, Seattle, Washington.11. Genalo, L. J., Williams, B. D., “The Freshman Engineering Problems and Programming Course: Integrating New and Old Tools,” Proceedings of the 1995 ASEE Annual Conference, June 25-28 1995, Anaheim, California, pp. 1532-1536.12. Goff, R.M., Gregg, M.H., “Freshman Hands-On Engineering Laboratory at Virginia Tech,” The Innovator, The SUCCEED Newsletter, no. 11, Spring 1999, pp. 12-15.13. Starr, G.P., “The UNM Mechanical Engineering Lego Robot Competition,” Proceedings of the ASCE Specialty Conference on Robotics for Challenging Environments, 1998, pp. 230-236.14. Hayes, G.M., and Hallan

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; David Oglesby; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

Design and Assessment Laboratory, and his research focuses on Web Designand Usability Assessment.Web AddressMaterials presented in this paper are available via the Internet at: http://www.umr.edu/~bestmech/preview.html Page 7.719.15 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education

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Technology for Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Ribando

program. Over the last 15 years he has played a very active role in the development of the Page 7.1275.6infrastructure for making use of technology in instruction at the University. The work reported here wasbegun under the University of Virginia’s Teaching + Technology Initiative faculty fellowship program.Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Session 3430TIMOTHY C. SCOTTTimothy C. Scott is Instructional Laboratory Director and an

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Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Larry Dunn; Jessica Matson; Kenneth Hunter

B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Tennessee Technological University. He hasover 26 years of engineering experience, including positions in academia, industry, the United States Army, agovernment laboratory, and his own consulting business. He is a registered P.E. in the State of Tennessee.JESSICA O. MATSONJessica Matson is currently Professor and Chairperson of the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Departmentat Tennessee Technological University. She received her B.S. from Mississippi State University and her M.S. andPh.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology, all in industrial engineering. She has previously served on the facultyat Mississippi State University and the University of Alabama and is a registered P.E

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Design for Community

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2002 Annual Conference

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Darrell Gibson; Patricia Brackin

theUniversity of Tennessee in Nuclear Engineering and her Ph.D. is from Georgia Institute of Technology inME. She has also been an Associate Professor at Christian Brothers University. Her industrialexperience includes Oak Ridge National Laboratories and Chicago Bridge and Iron. She is a registeredPE.J. DARRELL GIBSON is a Professor of M.E. at Rose-Hulman Inst of Tech where he teaches design,noise control, and structural mechanics. His BS and MS are from Purdue in Aero Engineering and hisPh.D. is from the University of New Mexico in ME. He has also been an Associate Professor at theUniversity of Wyoming and a Visiting Professor at Colorado State Univ. His industrial experienceincludes General Dynamics Corp, J.I Case Co, Sandia Labs, NASA/Langley

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul King

convert this laboratory-basedsystem into a clinical one. The key component in the system design will be a fiber optichandheld probe that is capable of delivering laser light and collecting the tissue signals withoutinterference from the room lights or the optical fiber itself. Thus the task of your company willbe to design such a clinical Raman probe based on fiber optics that can be used in humanpatients.5) Assistive Device for the ElderlyMost of know about the famous commercial “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up”. In response to arequest from the Rehabilitation Center, your task is to develop an assist device for elderlypersons and persons with a disability who sometimes fall and do not have the ability or strengthto lift themselves without

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Goldberg

specific registers and counters of the8051 microcontroller. Note these tasks are essential in microcontroller applications, and eachmicrocontroller has unique hardware and software to efficiently perform them.The assembly language code and hardware involved in these three tasks are presented in classlecture. (Figure 1 shows the assembly language code for the three tasks. Note the code may notbe complete). The students study the 8051 instructions that are employed in the three tasks.Students follow up in laboratory by entering the code with a text editor and assembling anddownloading the code using the Rigel RJ 31P 8051 board and READS51 software developmentenvironment. They construct a hardware interface board consisting of drivers and LEDs

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rachel Shinn

7.1099.6Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationfaculty resources.IV. Early Teaming ExperiencesAs our space option evolves, we have added more space courses to support our design sequence. One of these courses is a laboratory course in which the students do experiments related tospacecraft. Because we are a small school, this gave us the opportunity to arrange a groupproject as a final project for the lab course that gives them a preview of the teaming experience.These students, in their junior year, have a team project that helps them practice teaming with thesame students they will be working with in their

Conference Session

Teaching Green Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Charles Turner

an ever lighter human footprint onthe earth."Writing in The New York Times, Jay Parini endowed Orr, chair of theEnvironmental Studies Program, with the apt appellation "environmental guru."Orr led more than 250 students, faculty, and town residents in discussions withnational ecological designers during the building's initial design phase three yearsago. He also raised most of the funds for the project.For Oberlin, that knowledge has resulted in a 14,000-square-foot, $6.6 million,self-sustaining structure of classrooms, laboratories, and surrounding gardens.More than a building where teaching takes place, the Lewis Center is a place thatteaches. By virtue of the building's design concepts, students learn ecologicalcompetence and mindfulness

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Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kevin Torres

gates are used for address decoding. These were hand wired usingwire wrap techniques. Page 7.1059.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationUsing a Lattice Mach4 PLD and DesignEXPERT software, all the logic gates would beprogrammed into the PLD saving valuable laboratory time. Another advantage is fast designtime. Faster changes can be made and simulated with the software than wire wrapping.LED ExampleFrom Lattice Semiconductor Corporation University Program, ispStarter Kits part# Mach4-sk44can

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kathrine Nguru; Murat Tanyel

taught at Drexel University where he worked for the EnhancedEducational Experience for Engineering Students (E4) project, setting up and teaching laboratory and hands-oncomputer experiments for engineering freshmen and sophomores. For one semester, he was also a visitingprofessor at the United Arab Emirates University in Al-Ain, UAE where he helped set up an innovativeintroductory engineering curriculum. Dr. Tanyel received h is B. S. degree in electrical engineering from BogaziçiUniversity, Istanbul, Turkey in 1981, his M. S. degree in electrical engineering from Bucknell University,Lewisburg, PA in 1985 and his Ph. D. in biomedical engineering from Drexel University, Philad elphia, PA in1990.KATHRINE NGURUKathrine Nguru is a graphic design

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ECE Design, Capstone, and Engr. Practice

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2002 Annual Conference

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Z. Joan Delalic; Richard Cohen; Jim J-S Chen; Dennis Silage

, an associate of the System Chip Design Center and teaches microelectronics and VLSICAD design. Dr. Delalic is the faculty advisor of the College IMAPS student chapter.JIM J-S CHEN received the PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University in 1985. He is a Professor,Chair of Mechanical Engineering, Director of the Thermal Processing Laboratory and teaches heat transfer andmaterials processing.RICHARD COHEN received the PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University in 1977. He is anAssociate Professor and teaches heat transfer, thermodynamics, and combustion. Dr. Cohen is the faculty advisor ofthe College SAE student chapter.DENNIS SILAGE received the PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975

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Entrepreneurship Education for Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Baum; Karen Thornton; David Barbe

development. The company plans to begin test marketing in the second quarter of 2002. Articulation Innovations, LLC is a partnership between faculty at the University of Maryland Dental School and two Hinman CEOs. The dentists have developed patented devices for clinical and laboratory procedures in Prosthodontics and related dental specialties and the CEOs have joined the team to improve the engineering of the design and to develop a marketing plan for the product. NCIIA seed funding has provided professional level engineering and business software that is facilitating the team in improving the design and getting the product to market.F. Technology OpportunitiesSome of the CEOs have definite business ideas when they enter the program

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

student team and the piston pump built by them. Figure[6] shows one of the student teams getting ready for pump-testing at the end of springsemester of 2001.Besides attending class lectures the ENES 100 students used the Computer AidedEngineering (CAE) Laboratory and the Workshop facilities at UMES extensively duringthe project. The 3 credit hours of the course include 2 lecture hours and 2 Laboratoryhours per week. The two lab hours were utilized for software skills development,manufacturing efforts in Carpentry and Machine Shop, as well as teamwork. The firsttwo weeks of lab time was utilized for introduction to Microsoft Word, Excel andPowerPoint, followed by 7 /8 weeks of demonstration and training using ProEngineer.The remaining lab hours

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Techniques for Improving Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Cindy Finelli; Trevor Harding

(www.engr.wisc.edu/services/elc/) and Wisconsin Engineering Education Laboratory (www.engr.wisc.edu/weel/)The centers listed here have a variety of goals and missions, ranging from offering extensiveopportunities for faculty development and TA training to serving as a focal point for assessmentefforts. Some of the centers facilitate extensive research into learning and assist faculty inidentifying funding opportunities. Generally the centers are supported by the institute’s budgetand have a half-time or full-time director to lead their activities. Based on the success of thesecenters, other schools have been considering establishing centers for engineering education. Toassist in this effort, the roundtable discussion at the 2001 ASEE Annual Conference

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New ET Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jeff Kimble

praise for thedelivery method.Fire ResearchWhile the FSET program at UNC Charlotte is only two and one half years old, research isunderway. There is a belief by those in the department that research is a key factor in stayingcurrent and in providing valuable learning opportunities for the students. Two of the students’classes require some exposure to the research element. Once the labs are fully functional,distance education students will be required to attend laboratory sessions for one week eachsemester during their research classes. The University was reluctant to put the research lab forthe program on campus, as it would be cost prohibitive to retrofit a building to handle theequipment and to install smoke scrubbers so that room size