Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd Kaiser, Montana State University; Stilson Applin, Montana State University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

-weekcontinuing education workshop, which will introduce teachers to the microfabricationlaboratory. Here science and math teachers, as well as future science and math teachers,will be exposed to the techniques used to make transistors and integrated circuits. An Page 11.407.6instructional package will be given to workshop attendees to assist them in learningmicroelectronic fabrication techniques. The package would include materials to help theteacher present the fundamentals of microfabrication to the high school and middleschool students. Teaching material in the package will include presentation material suchas PowerPoint presentations and interactive

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2006 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

John E. De Leon, Kansas State University at Salina

Priority #2: Sustain teaching and curriculum quality Priority #3: Strengthen industry partnershipsSubsequently, strategies and action items were developed for each priority. At this stage ofstrategic plan conceptualization, the degree of alliance between department goals and Universitythemes was of keen interest. Appendix B displays an abridged depiction of the Department’s 4“working plan” (precursor to the strategic plan). In parenthesis is/are the theme(s) that bestaligned with a given strategy. Appearing in brackets adjacent to the theme(s) is the departmentoperational strategy (DOS) insignia and accompanying institutional goal (IG) extension

Conference Session

Computer ET Projects and Applications

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yu Cai, Michigan Technological University; Guy Hembroff, Michigan Technological University

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Engineering Technology

solving skills and learn “handson” programming. The new script programming course aims to provide students theopportunity to learn multiple scripting technologies, and gain hands-on experience onscripting.1. IntroductionA computer-related program named Computer Network & System Administration(CNSA) was introduced at Michigan Technological University in 2002 [1]. Thepurpose of this program was to serve the needs of industry by educating and trainingstudents to succeed in the field areas of systems administration and networkengineering. An integral part of the CNSA curriculum is the three-credit hour courseentitled Script Programming – SAT3400.Traditional script programming course usually concentrates on Unix Shell scriptingand / or Perl

Conference Session

TC2K Methods and Models

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gregory Neff, Purdue University-Calumet; Susan Scachitti, Purdue University-Calumet; Lash Mapa, Purdue University-Calumet; James Higley, Purdue University-Calumet; Mohammad Zahraee, Purdue University-Calumet

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Engineering Technology

2006-1985: LESSONS LEARNED: REFLECTIONS ON A DEPARTMENT’S FIRSTTC2K EVALUATIONGregory Neff, Purdue University-Calumet Greg is Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology at Purdue University Calumet. He has graduate degrees in mechanical engineering, physics, and mathematics. He is a Registered Professional Engineer, a Certified Manufacturing Engineer, and a Certified Manufacturing Technologist. He served as a TAC/ABET MET program accreditation visitor from 1996 to 2003, as secretary, program chair, chair and past chair of the MET Department Heads Committee of ASME. He was first elected to the Technology Accreditation Commission of ABET in 2003 and is currently an alternate member. He won

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Pioneering Courses

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Douglas Sicker, University of Colorado-Boulder; Tom Lookabaugh, University of Colorado-Boulder

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Engineering and Public Policy

) research. We firstsurveyed seven students then administered an anonymous online survey with 67 responses. Inthis paper we describe the program and conferences, the results of both our interviews andsurveys, and our recommendations for both these programs and similar efforts to introducestudents to public policy debates through high quality legally oriented conferences.2. IntroductionThe Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program at the University of Colorado educatesmaster’s students in a mixture of engineering, business, economics, and law; about half theprogram’s students are engineers. For the last four years, as part of the curriculum, students havebeen required to attend a year’s worth of conferences from the Silicon

Conference Session

Innovative Partnerships

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christine Shaw, Museum of Science, Boston; Michael Pelletier, Northern Essex Community College

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Two Year College Division

consider pursuing technical studies at college.The PowerUP! project also works directly with high school curriculum andinstructional practices to promote student preparation for the community collegeengineering and technology options. Through the summer seminar series, wehave provided hands on lab materials to over sixty high school educators. In ourkey partner schools programs are being established that will be able to articulateto the college degree programs by the end of this project. To date the followinghigh school programs are established:Tantasqua High School: Strong machine tech, engineering design andengineering technology program offered at both the individual course level for allstudents and as an intensive vocational training program

Conference Session

Achieving the Civil Engineering Body of Knowlegde

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Civil Engineering

pre-licensure and post-licensure periods.As volunteer pilot programs that comprise the Curriculum Committee of the Committee onAcademic Prerequisites for Professional Practice (CAP3) began to assess themselves against thenew BOK using the definitions for recognition, understanding, and ability, they quicklydetermined that it was very difficult to accurately measure whether an outcome was met or not.While “recognition, ability and understanding” were chosen because they aligned with theterminology used in ABET3 outcomes, a more measurable definition for each level was needed.After much debate and research into alternative methods by the newly formed CAP3Competency Committee, it was decided that Bloom’s Taxonomy4 for the cognitive domain

Conference Session

Engineering Practice for a Moral World

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Rossler, Oklahoma State University; Martin High, Oklahoma State University

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Engineering Ethics

want to see ethically-mindedengineers exit the graduation stage and enter the work force. But how can faculty increase thechances of that occurring? Other professions that impose on practitioners a high level ofprofessional responsibility might provide useful answers. Surprisingly, no better professionexists for this purpose than the legal profession. The endless parade of jokes about attorneyshides the fact that the legal profession possesses a refined ethics curriculum and accountabilityprocess.This paper seeks to understand what the legal curriculum suggests to engineering educatorsabout how and what to include in an ethics curriculum. The paper outlines the high level ofdevelopment of ethics in law school curricula and the intense

Conference Session

Web-based learning

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Animesh Patcha, Virginia Tech; Glenda Scales, Virginia Tech

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Engineering Technology

contributions in the area of distance and distributed learning, the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. has instituted the ``W.S. `Pete' White'' Award for Innovation in Engineering Education. In addition, faculty study groups, which had been initiated a couple of years back, are continuing successfully with approximately one fourth of the faculty in the Engineering curriculum participating in them. These study groups serve as a unique opportunity for new and seasoned faculty to receive feedback on instruction as well as an opportunity to practice new instructional techniques. According to several faculty, these study groups allow faculty to allocate specific time in their busy schedules for the sharing of teaching and learning

Conference Session

Sustainable Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado-Boulder; Diana Shannon, University of Colorado-Denver; Jay Shah, University of Colorado-Boulder; R. Scott Summers, University of Colorado-Boulder; Jim Ruttenber, University of Colorado

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Environmental Engineering

importance of training our students in issues relatedto society and public health, most undergraduate environmental engineering programs lack arequired course in public health. A survey of ABET accredited B.S. degrees in EnvironmentalEngineering (http://www.abet.org/schoolareaeac.asp) using curriculum published on eachuniversity’s website revealed that of 47 programs: 12 require a course in public health,environmental toxicology, or industrial hygiene at the junior or senior level; and an additionalfour programs include one of these courses on a list of recommended technical electives (note Page 11.593.2that at six programs a clearly defined

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

José L. Torres; Vijendra Agarwal

to motivated students by providing incentives through summer researchfellowships. However, lot more remains to be done toward fully realizing UR potential andengaging larger number of students in such activities. While CSI has shown a fairly steadygrowth, we are far from realizing participation of students from every academic department. Itis our belief that the most critical need in institutionalizing UR at any institution is toproactively engage faculty in the discussion on how to integrate research into the curriculum.A number of fine examples of integrating research in the curriculum can be found in March2006 CUR Quarterly. Equally critical factor for us to recognize what Peter Burns5 stated verysuccinctly and eloquently: “We need to

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert LeMaster, University of Tennessee-Martin; David Farrow, University of Tennessee-Martin

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Manufacturing

industrial controls course in an engineering curriculum issomewhat surprising, since many processes and products use the methods taught in such acourse. As pointed out by Clough3, discrete and batch process control is often a missing link inan undergraduate engineering student’s controls education. In fact, the first technical skill listedin the Society of Manufacturing Engineer’s list of educational competency gaps isManufacturing Process Control4. Members of the UT Martin Industrial Advisory Committee,who come principally from manufacturing backgrounds, have consistently emphasized theimportance of this course. Although industrial controls courses are not common in engineeringcurriculum, they do exist, and Bachnak5 describes a similar three course

Conference Session

Innovative Partnerships

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Theodore Branoff, North Carolina State University; Pooneh Lari, North Carolina State University; Michelle Hsiang, Research Triangle Institute

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Two Year College Division

2006-319: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGETEACHERSTheodore Branoff, North Carolina State University Ted is an associate professor of Graphic Communications at North Carolina State University and has been an ASEE member since 1987. He has taught courses in introductory engineering graphics, computer-aided design, descriptive geometry, instructional design and course design. Ted has a bachelor of science in Technical Education, a master of science in Occupational Education, and a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction. His current academic interests include spatial visualization ability, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, constraint-based modeling, graphics education, and

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luke Niiler; David Beams, University of Texas-Tyler

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Liberal Education

cohort have with their writing in Engineering courses are problems shared by other inexperienced writers in other disciplines. For example, while student writers Page 11.694.12 across the disciplines as observed by Dr. Niiler in the UT-Tyler Writing Center are not required to employ tables, figures and graphs in their written work, they are required to integrate and document secondary sources into their research papers. These students often place extended quoted material directly into the body of an essay with little to no regard for context. EWI student writers made the same error: assuming, like

Conference Session

Programs for High School Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bill Elmore, Mississippi State University; Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

areas include integrated freshman engineering and courses throughout the chemical engineering curriculum including unit operations laboratories and reactor design. His current research activities include engineering educational reform, enzyme-based catalytic reactions in micro-scale reactor systems, and bioengineering applied to renewable fuels and chemicals. Page 11.1406.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Using Research as a Tool for Student RecruitingABSTRACTThe Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering, in conjunction with the MississippiScience and Mathematics School

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Tatiana Malyuta

curriculum development especially incomputer majors, that cannot keep up with rapid changes in IT, reluctance to perform radicalchanges in curricula and textbooks, and the impossibility to cover the spectrum of today’sexisting approaches and technologies in a limited number of courses. From our point of view, itis time for reconsidering and rebuilding database programs of computer majors and transformingthem into data programs, in which the roles of data in IS are clearly defined, and themethodologies of design and implementation, as well as the corresponding technologies, areexplained in these roles’ context. Such an approach, in our opinion, will not only provide asystematic coverage of data technologies, but will also allow for easier and more

Conference Session

Defining Technological Literacy

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Neeley, University of Virginia

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

integrative, interdisciplinary field. As the description from theUniversity of Alberta illustrates, STS is fairly new, an “emerging field of academic study.” Thedefinition used by MIT captures a central aspect of the identity of STS: it has emerged to addressa distinctive set of historical circumstances that MIT characterizes as “an unprecedented andmomentous integration of science, technology, and society.” This sense of responsiveness to thehistorical moment is shared by most researchers and educators in the field of STS. The MITdescription also emphasizes the relevance of STS to the contemporary world, asserting that STSis “crucial to understanding major events of our time (war and conflict, the economy, health, theenvironment) and to addressing

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce Berdanier, Ohio Northern University

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Environmental Engineering

2006-144: STUDENT GENERATED REAL-TIME NOTE DEVELOPMENT ANDWEB PAGE ARCHIVALBruce Berdanier, Ohio Northern University Bruce W. Berdanier is currently an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering in the TJ Smull College of Engineering at Ohio Northern University. In this position, Dr. Berdanier is responsible for teaching all of the courses in Environmental Science, Water and Wastewater Treatment, Solid and Hazardous Waste, Surface Water Quality and Project Management that are included in the Civil Engineering curriculum. Additionally, Dr. Berdanier directs all teaching and research activities in the Environmental Engineering laboratory. Dr. Berdanier also conducts research in surface

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Robert Avanzato

well suitedfor curriculum integration and enhancement, such as the project-based course outlined inthis paper. The podcasting theme provides an opportunity to teach a variety of conceptsin engineering and information technology in a context-based approach. The availabilityof low-cost software and hardware tools makes it practical for both students andinstructors to design, create, and distribute podcast media. In this way, the students canbe both consumers and producers/creators of podcast-based content. RSS feedaggregators and music management tools allow students and faculty to download,organize, manage, and subscribe to existing podcasts that have been developed internallyor are distributed through other colleges and organizations. The

Conference Session

Customizing Courses for Industry Training Needs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Tidwell, Boeing Co.; John Robertson, Arizona State University

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Continuing Professional Development

2006-1281: CONTENT ENRICHMENT - EXPLOITING THE CYCLE FROMACADEMIA TO INDUSTRY TO ACADEMIAJohn Robertson, Arizona State University John Robertson is a professor in the College of Science and Technology at the ASU Polytechnic in Mesa, Arizona. His research interests are in process control and data management for integrated circuit production, especially novel non-volatile memories. From 1994 to 2001, he was a Director in Motorola’s Semiconductor Products Sector and before that, he held the Lothian Chair of Microelectronics at Edinburgh University, UK.Joseph Tidwell, Boeing Co. Joseph P Tidwell was the Coordinator of Engineering and Technical Education for the Boeing Company at Mesa, AZ from

Conference Session

FPD7 -- Service Learning

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Kazmer, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; John Duffy, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Beverly Perna, Tsongas Industrial History Center

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First-Year Programs

Engineering Education, 2006 Learning through Service: Analysis of a First Semester, College-Wide, Service-Learning Course1. AbstractService-learning is a pedagogy which strives to integrate student learning with communityservice. In an engineering context, service-learning provides a project-based experience in whichstudents are confronted with real clients and problems, often of immediate need. In the context ofcourse development, however, many engineering faculty seem to feel that service learning isinfeasible in technical and/or large engineering courses, and that the overhead and opportunitycosts associated with service learning exceed the benefits received by students.This paper contemplates two years of service

Conference Session

EM Program Trend and Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yesim Sireli, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; S. Gary Teng, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Ertunga Ozelkan, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

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Engineering Management

2006-588: GROWTH OF A YOUNG ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT PROGRAMYesim Sireli, University of North Carolina-Charlotte Yesim Sireli is an Assistant Professor at the Engineering Management Program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She received a Ph.D. degree in Engineering Management from Old Dominion University, and also holds MSc and BSc degrees in Electrical Engineering. Her research interests include business forecasting, decision analysis, customer-oriented product development, quality management, and technology management.S. Gary Teng, University of North Carolina-Charlotte S. Gary Teng is the Director of Engineering Management Program and Center for Lean Logistics and

Conference Session

Network Administration and Security

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xuefu Zhou, University of Cincinnati

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Engineering Technology

developlab exercises so that students may know how to implement, manage and analyze a networking aswell as to gain a better understanding of the protocol operation. The lab exercise below is basedon these two software platforms.Pedagogical DesignOur lecture class follows the integrated approach [4] that combines the best of top-down andbottom-up schemes in teaching networking. We begin with an introduction of computer networkapplication, followed by the introduction of data transmission, packet switching networks andinternetworking. I adopted this integrated approach because it is better to have students be ableto use both Ethereal and OPNET IT GURU earlier to explore the underlying principles andapplication as well. The idea behind this pedagogical

Conference Session

Progress on Raising the Bar

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Ressler, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

—could logically be integrated into the undergraduate civil engineering curriculum or offered as part of a professional practice- oriented master’s program. From an accreditation perspective, however, it is only possible to address these topics in the Basic Level Civil Engineering Program Criteria. Addressing these professional practice topics at the graduate level would require their inclusion in the Advanced Level General Criteria—which cannot be approved without the broad support of the other engineering societies. Since these topics are, to some degree, discipline-specific, it would be virtually impossible to gain the support necessary for their approval.In response to these considerations, the

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Oerther, University of Cincinnati; Cathy Maltbie, University of Cincinnati; Baikun Li, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg; Jin Li, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Amy Pruden, Colorado State University; Peter Stroot, University of South Florida

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Environmental Engineering

. Page 11.489.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Disseminating Molecular Biology for Environmental Engineers with NSF CCLI SupportAbstractFor the past five years, more than fifty undergraduate and graduate students at the University ofCincinnati have participated in a term-length course, CEE69 Molecular Biology forEnvironmental Systems. Using a self-paced approach, teams of students complete laboratoryexercises to answer open ended questions about the composition of the microbiologicalcommunity in an environmental sample. With the financial support of a Adaptation andImplementation (A&I) track grant from the NSF Course, Curriculum, and LaboratoryImprovement program the course from

Conference Session

FPD4 -- Real-World Case Studies & Projects

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roth Elliot, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago; Phillip Jacob, Northwestern University; Stacy Benjamin, Northwestern University; Bruce Ankenman, Northwestern University; James Colgate, Northwestern University

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First-Year Programs

Excellence. Dr. Colgate's principal research interests are cobots - collaborative robots - and haptic interface. He has served as U.S. Editor of Robotics and Computer Integrated Manufacturing, and as an associate editor of the Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control and the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation. In addition to his academic pursuits, Dr. Colgate is a founder of Cobotics, Inc. (now part of Stanley Assembly Technologies*) a leading supplier of human interface technologies for the industrial marketplace. From June 1999 until September 2000, Dr. Colgate took a sabbatical leave from Northwestern University to work at Cobotics as the Company’s President. More recently, he

Conference Session

IP and Supporting Student Startups

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Moore, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; David Shepard, Engenius Solutions

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

and developing their idea. A better integration of entrepreneurshipprograms such as Engenius Solutions and Rose-Hulman Ventures into the curriculum may allowthese inventors and innovators to both develop their ideas and obtain their degree within the fouryear time period.Our ProcessSubmitting an idea to Engenius Solutions is simple via our online application. Upon receivingan application, the student management team discusses the idea and then performs a brief patentand internet product search. Those ideas which pass our criteria for sponsorship are accepted.The review and product analysis selection process allows the student managers to learn moreabout evaluating ideas for further investment. In a product development cycle, this

Conference Session

Approaches to K -12 Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eugene Brown, Virginia Tech; Robert Kavetsky, Office of Naval Research; Robert L. Stiegler, NSWCDD; Peter N. Squire, NSWCDD; Juanita Jo Matkins, College of William and Mary; Gail Hardinge, College of William and Mary; John A. McLaughlin, McLauglin Associates

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

-- Peter Squire received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from Mary Washington College. He is a scientist for the B 34 Human System Integration branch at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) and is pursing a Ph.D. in Human Factors and Applied Cognition at George Mason University.Juanita Jo Matkins, College of William and Mary JUANITA JO MATKINS -- Dr. Matkins is an Assistant Professor of Science Education at the College of William and Mary. She was a K-12 teacher for 18 years, and the Virginia recipient of the 1995 Presidential Award for Excellence in Secondary Science Teaching. She has written and published several papers and reports on various

Conference Session

Electrical ET Projects and Applications

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Austin Asgill, Southern Polytechnic State University; Thomas Fallon, Southern Polytechnic State University; Walter E. Thain Jr.

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Engineering Technology

was acquired, which will be used to improve this layer insubsequent iterations.Course content should be sufficiently rigorous, while integrating many curriculum concepts andtechnologies, so as to motivate the students to press hard to meet required goals and rely on theiracquired abilities. Additionally, the capstone course should also be enjoyable and provide ameaningful experience that the student can draw upon as an employee within thetelecommunications industry. In brief: the capstone course content and format should reflect the Page 11.426.9desired knowledge and skills required of graduates of the TCET curriculum in final preparationfor

Conference Session

Preparing Engr Students for International Practice

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gunter Heitmann, Technical University-Berlin

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International

. After world war II Europeancountries started the process of collaboration, harmonisation and integration, beginningalready in 1955 with the Treaties of Rome. Since that time Europe has increasingly promotedstudents, graduates and the work force in general to be prepared for an internationally orientedpractice and at least a common European labour market. Strengthening the globalcompetitiveness of Europe in general and of the European Union in particular the activitiesshifted more and more from “Europeanisation” towards a global focus. The European Unionin cooperation with its meanwhile 25 member states increased its activities to prepare studentsand graduates for an international practice and to attract students from abroad to study and