Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Katie Sullivan

manufacture is not competitive with nonrenewable oil or natural gas resources.3 ChE4975, hydrogen sustainability, is designed to examine and actively engage a solution to thedevelopment of alternative fuel sources by developing a working prototype of a photoelectrochemical cell (PEC) that uses solar energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.It will produce hydrogen for laboratory gas chromatography applications and for fuel cellsthat are portable sources of energy fro sustainable vehicles to showcase the role ofhydrogen engineering in a sustainable economy in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area.3 The ultimate and long term goal of research of this sort is that the development ofan alternative fuel source would aid in the sustainability

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Matthews; Perry Heedley

during the summer of 2004, at which time it was possible to dedicate a laboratory space tothe design teams. Students were also encouraged to share problems and solutions through aspecial web page. The authors strongly recommend that for any effort involving IC design, alaboratory space equipped with the relevant CAD tools be set aside for student interaction.ReviewsThe authors found that it was necessary to go over the general format and purpose of designreviews before the students' first presentations. One of the primary purposes for the reviews is toallow the assembled team and other experts to assess design decisions made and to spot potentialproblems with implementation details. Hence the reviews should be highly organized, and visualaids

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Electrical ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

AHAMAD FARHOUD

part of a team is essential in any technological field. Therefore, in thetechnology program at The University of Toledo, each major course has a laboratory attached toit. Students in these courses gain the experience of working with a team to achieve the labobjectives. That experience proved to be a valuable asset when it came to accomplishing theCapstone project. Students were required to function as a team in a proficient manner in order toexecute each and every aspect of this project. This allowed them to share ideas and skills and toexamine each others strengths and weaknesses as well as the importance of delegatingresponsibility accordingly. Students shared responsibility for everything from establishing theparameters of the project

Conference Session

Computing Tools for Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodor Richardson; Jed Lyons

will not be an extraneous use ofclassroom time. On the classroom level, the software has to fulfill the needs of the teacher notonly with curriculum but as a means of tracking student progress and getting meaningfulfeedback akin to the more traditional use of hand grading. Teachers need to feel comfortablewith the software as a teaching or reinforcement tool and feel confident in allowing their studentsto use valuable class time on such software. The students have very different needs from thesoftware, such as reliability and ease of use. Each of these levels represent a set of stakeholders,or those with a controlling interest in the software; as such, each will be discussed in furtherdetail later in this paper along with the approach used to

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

T.G. Stanford; S.J. Tricamo; R.N. Olson; R.E. Morrison; P.Y. Lee; L.M. Coulson; K. Gonzalez-Landis; J.P. Tidwell; J. O'Brien; Isadore Davis; H.J. Palmer; Gary Bertoline; Eugene DeLoatch; Duane Dunlap; D.H. Quick; Albert McHenry; Jay Snellenberger; Michael Dyrenfurth; Dennis Depew; Donald Keating

innovation while maintaining an equally complementary focus on basic scientific research.Enhancing U.S. competitiveness requires that the pipeline for creative engineering must be strengthenednot only in K-12 education but in engineering graduate education as well. We have been teaching with analmost singular emphasis toward scientific research when all along we should have been teaching with anequal emphasis toward creative engineering practice. Broad sweeping changes are required to create anew type of practice-oriented graduate education, which focuses on creative engineering and innovation,to support the postgraduate needs of the U.S. engineering workforce in industry for leadership oftechnology development and innovation as a complement to