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NEW Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2005 Annual Conference

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Harvey Abramowitz

aResearch Engineer at Inland Steel Research Laboratories and Visiting Professor at the University of Missouri, Rolla.He has also been a Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University. Dr. Abramowitz is a Professor of MechanicalEngineering and is responsible for the materials sciences courses. Currently, he is also the AIST Foundation Ferrous Page 10.1350.16Metallurgy Grant Professor. Major areas of research are the cryogenic treatment of steels and the treatment of wastestreams for metal recovery. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

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New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gul Okudan; Madara Ogot

whatthe cycle and why in lecture, having the students practice the how in an in class exercise, and then having them apply the what-if to an open ended problem, typically embodied in their design projects.Cooperative Student formed groups that they sat next to in class and also worked with for grouplearning projects. Numerous in class activities where used including problem-solving, research online, laboratory exercises, etc., where the students worked in their groups. Teaming skills and exercises were also taught and practiced including project management, group personality assessments, etc.Active learning

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

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Akhlesh Lakhtakia; Christine Masters; Judith Todd

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education • Bio-Micro and Bio-Nano engineered systems.Courses from other departments may be substituted with permission of the advisor.At the graduate level, the multiscale wave-materials interaction initiative is developing a newgraduate concentration and future graduate certificate program in laser-materials interactions.This program is being developed with collaboration among the engineering science, mechanicaland nuclear, industrial and manufacturing, electrical, and materials science and engineeringdepartments as well as the Electro-Optics Center (EOC), the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL)and the Materials Research Institute. The following five graduate courses are being

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

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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

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Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tan-Yu Lee; John Dantzler; Robert Leland; Jim Richardson

their diagrams. 5. Most students did not show improvement in their ability to articulate the problem solving process. 6. Some students continued to speak negatively about their math and problem solving abilities, as if conforming to an established social norm.A key goal of our course is transfer of improved problem-solving ability to future coursework.We will compare performance on final exam questions in future Calculus and Physics classes ofstudents in the experimental and control groups.6. AcknowledgementThis work was supported in part from NSF Grant DUE-0341463 under the Course Curriculumand Laboratory Improvement – Educational Materials Development (CCLI-EMD) program as aproof of concept study.Bibliographic Information [1

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Innovation for ChE Student Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

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Alfred Carlson

moreintermediate goals. The students were only juniors and probably were used to solvingshorter (homework) problems. My feeling is that they had trouble pacing themselvesthrough these longer problems and would have benefited from some instruction ondividing up a problem and organizing a “plan of attack”.) The students were expected tocome to class but were free to come and go to the library or the lab to look overequipment related to the machinery they were asked to design. A few talks were given bythe instructor in the laboratory when requested or to start a new problem. (For examplewe have a refrigeration unit in the lab and the instructor demonstrated and lectured on theunit.) A course website was made available to the students which had the

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Susan Kowalski; Adam Kowalski; Frank Kowalski

microcomputer- based laboratories.” American Journal of Physics 65: 45-54.9. Sokoloff, D.R. and Thornton, R.K. (1997). “Using interactive lecture demonstrations to create an active learning environment.” As in CP399, “The changing role of physics departments in modern universities: Proceedings of ICUPE.” Redish, E.F. and Rigden, J.S, (eds.). The American Institute of Physics. Available online at http://www.psrc-online.org/classrooms/papers/mestre.html.10. Breslow, L. (2000). “Active learning, part II: Suggestions for using active learning techniques in the classroom.” Teach Talk Article appearing in the MIT Faculty Newsletter Vol. XII, No. 3, accessed online at http://web.mit.edu/tll/published/active_learning_2.htm.11. Mazur, E. (1997

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Dantzler; James Richardson; Tan-Yu Lee; Robert Leland

exercises.We were pleased to see an interaction between Math ACT scores, our course and post testperformance. In a future study we might consider the impact of Math ACT scores, MathPlacement scores (given to freshmen at University of Alabama), and pre and post testperformance. Probably more interesting to engineering educators would be evidence ofimproved problem-solving ability in future courses. We plan to compare problem solvingperformance on final exam questions in future Calculus and Physics classes of students in theexperimental and control sections.6. AcknowledgementThis work was supported in part from NSF Grant DUE-0341463 under the Course Curriculumand Laboratory Improvement – Educational Materials Development (CCLI-EMD) program as aproof of

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Innovative Curriculum Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ernest Tollner; David Gattie

understanding with living systems. Theequation of state notion for living systems is further discussed under a separate heading.The quasi-static processes is an idealization that is applicable to all thermodynamicsystems that can never be satisfied rigorously in the laboratory but can be approachedwith almost any degree of accuracy with nonliving systems. The applicability of thequasi-static approach to the study of the living system is debatable, as has been alluded toearlier.The far-from-equilibrium notion has been characterized by 1) failure in the linearphenomenological laws (e.g., Fourier’s, Stoke’s, Fick’s, Ohm’s, etc.) to transportrespective constituents; and, 2) the development of self-organized structures for energydissipation. The 5/3ds law

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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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

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Measuring Perceptions of Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stephen Thompson; Jed Lyons

, collaborations between university-based STEM personnel and K-12 teachers, and inquiry-based instruction.Dr. Lyons is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Carolina and the Directorof the South Carolina Center for Engineering and Computing Education. He teaches laboratories, design, andmaterials science to undergraduates, graduate students and K-12 teachers. He researches engineering education,plastics and composites. He is the principal investigator for the GK-12 program. Page 10.92.14 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Paul Lagace; Earll Murman

lifecycle aspects of aircraft design, have general relevancefor those considering or involved in the development of such offerings.Broadly speaking, aircraft system design could be said to rest upon two bodies of knowledge(BOK) – engineering sciences and engineering practice. The first relies on knowledge emergingfrom physics, chemistry, mathematics, and other sciences while the second relies on knowledgeemerging from actual aircraft system programs. One can access the BOK in the first categorythrough laboratory experimentation, numerical techniques, and analysis. Although industrialinput is important for focusing on critical issues, by and large academics can become proficientin most of the engineering science disciplines without significant

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Topics of Interest-Nuclear Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Barbara; Shripad Revankar

. Technical evaluation of UT-3 thermochemical hydrogen production process for an industrial scale plant. Int J Hydrogen Energy, 1997;22(1):49-56.22. Brown LC, Besenbruch GE, Schultz KR, Showalter SK, Marshall AC, Pickard PS, Funk JF. High Efficiency Generation Of Hydrogen Fuels Using Thermochemical Cycles And Nuclear Power. AIChE 2002 Spring National Meeting, Topical TH - Nuclear Engineering, Session THa01 139 New Orleans, LA, March 11-15, 2002.23. Nifenecker H, David S, Loiseaux JM, Giorni A. Hybrid Nuclear Reactors. Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 1999:43(1):683-827.24. Southworth F. Very-High-Temperature Reactor. Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory. http://energy.inel.gov/gen

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wei Lin; G. Padmanabhan

activities included measurements of the water quality parameters using theCalculator Based Laboratory monitors (CBL) with different probes, and using alum, sand Page 10.55.8and activated carbon for water purification. The material for each parameter or treatment “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”method was prepared as stand-alone unit. Teachers had choices to work with theirstudents on their selection of the parameters and water samples. The measurements canbe qualitative, comparing the parameters for

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Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Donald Carpenter; Trevor Harding; Cynthia Finelli

. “Cheating in academic institutions: A decade of research.” Ethics and Behavior. 11(3): 219-232. 2001.12 Beck, L., and I. Ajzen. “Predicting dishonest actions using the Theory of Planned Behavior.” Journal of Research in Personality. 25(3):285-301. 1991.Biographical InformationDR. TREVOR S. HARDING is Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at KetteringUniversity. Dr. Harding is Director of the Biomedical Materials Research and the Environmental Scanning ElectronMicroscopy Laboratories at Kettering University. He currently serves on the ERM Division Board of Directors aswell as the Advisory Board for the Kettering University Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.DR. DONALD D. CARPENTER is Assistant Professor of

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Capstone/Design Projects: Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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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

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Diversity: Women & Minorities in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Joan Begolly; Jennifer Gilley

science and engineering for bothboys and girls26. In two studies specific to engineering technology, Flowers notes that technologyeducation in high school evolved from industrial arts and frequently takes place in dirty “shop”classrooms that are highly socialized to be “male” spaces14,19. In addition, technology educationstudents frequently make things like gun racks and drag racers that are clearly male-stereotypical. More attention to professional laboratory space and gender-free assignments mightimprove the entry of girls into the engineering technology pipeline through technology educationin middle or high school, as well as broadening the popular definition of technology. Zywno et al note that “engineering is perceived as a

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Capstone/Design Projects: Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Andrew Vavreck; Rebecca Strzelec

for Engineering Educationcampus is one of four campuses of Penn State to offer a BS in EMET, and at Altoona, theprogram emphasizes manufacturing and automation.1 The students gain skills in a wide varietyof technologies and have available state-of-the-art laboratories, including CAD, controls, andautomation. A machine shop and projects area are also available. The projects area is used forannual student design competitions, including SAE Mini Baja and the ASME Student DesignContest and for student projects as part of the EMET capstone design course.One of the most useful tools students have to help with the development of their capstone designprojects or student design competitions is the fused deposition modeling (FDM) system. TheFDM allows

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Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Hofle; Ken Bosworth

school’s computer laboratory, capable of multimediapresentations, and giving each participant a workstation to use if necessary.The topics comprising the sessions, as they occurred in chronological order during the workshop,were: 1. The looming problem: a shortage of scientists and engineers. 2. What is engineering, and how is it different from science? 3. The engineering design process. 4. Calculations, significant figures, and scientific notation. 5. Collecting and reporting data. Accuracy vs. precision. Sources of error. 6. Physical units and dimensions. How can these guide you in solving a problem? 7. Estimation problems, and reasonableness/validity checks. Visualizing the magnitude of a result of a computation or

Conference Session

Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Sutterer; Robert Houghtalen; James Hanson

and willing support from mentors and theinstitute. Ready and willing support includes advance preparation and planning by the facultymentor. A plan for working with the student in a way that is fruitful for the faculty and studentmust be developed in advance. The importance of this effort on the part of the only party (thefaculty mentor) who can truly do this planning cannot be overstated. With respect to institutesupport, NSF expects the students to have access to appropriate facilities. Appropriate facilitieswill include access to literature, suitable equipment, and technical expertise. Since most REUstudent work will not be PhD-level work, suitable equipment may consist merely of a desktopcomputer, software and basic laboratory space. Thus

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ward; Tonya Emerson

and egg-bungee and catapults in the second course. Courseobjectives include the development of skills in written and oral communication, teaming, projectplanning, idea generation, determining appropriate problem specifications, basicexperimentation, and performance prediction. The two six-unit courses replace separate first-year engineering, computer graphics, and physics courses seen in typical engineeringcurriculums and integrates them into the described two course active-learning series. Thecourses also include homework laboratories where students perform simple experiments toreinforce fundamental scientific ideas. Finally, sophomore through senior students act asfacilitators for first-year teams to assist them in their transition to

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Computer & Web-Based Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Mincer; David McDaniel; Laurence Caretto

students have one class meeting in a computer laboratory for a hands-ondemonstration. Following this initial introduction, students are free to use the toolbox in theirhomework solutions, but they have to use tables for examinations. The use of tables is requiredbecause not all students have access to a laptop computer, which would be required to run thetoolbox.* The requirement to learn tables for examinations limits the students’ use of the toolboxduring the semester.The main application of the thermodynamic toolbox at CSUN has been for design projects.These projects are intended to provide students the experience of determining parameters in aprocess with several components. One problem that has been used in this regard is shown inFigure 9

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Curriculum: Ideas/Concepts in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kofi Nyamekye; Yildirim Omurtag

article publication based on their dissertation work4. • ENGR 8300: Engineering Leadership for Innovation: Today, engineers and scientists create and implement technologies in their organizations, including educational institutions. Examples include Nanoscience Technologies at universities and private research laboratories. This course focuses on the strategic use of innovation in engineering, science and technology with a view towards developing effective technical leaders. It covers the integration of technology and strategy with innovation in modern organizations, thereby achieving competitive advantage4. • ENGR 8500: Research Methods in Engineering I: The course provides strong

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A through K and Beyond

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

by the individual (through the group) should not be overlooked; • Sharing known skills- Students who possess certain knowledge or skills (computer skills, laboratory skills, data analysis and reduction skills, writing skills, presentation skills, etc.) should be willing to pass it on, and/or share it with their group members; • Collaborative skills- Groups cannot function effectively if members do not have (be willing to learn) or use some needed social skills. Such as: leadership, decision-making, trust building, and conflict management; • Monitoring progress- Groups need to discuss amongst themselves whether they are achieving their set goals; they need also to prioritize the scheduled

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Outreach and Recruitment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

equations) for analysis of fourbar mechanisms. latitude and longitude. Tour of Mechatronics Laboratory. Complete Project/ Report/Lesson Plan if DAY –5, July 2, 2004 -Forward and Inverse Kinematics of Robots necessary. -Multiple solutions and basic trigonometry applications for inverse kinematics -Righty and Lefty configuration Discussion & Question and Answer. -Demonstration and Experiments with LEGO Robots suitable for middle and high school. Wrap Up.Grading Scheme : Classwork (50%), Project

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Larry N. Bland

Can ABET Professional Skills Stimulate Curriculum Changes That Aid in Student Recruitment? Larry N. Bland John Brown UniversityIntroduction In November 1996, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)board of directors approved one of the most significant changes to accreditation of engineeringprograms in modern times. Previous accreditation requirements had been a very rigid set of rulesfrom almost thirty pages of detailed requirements that covered course requirements, credits anddistribution, faculty staffing, and laboratory facilities. [1] The new criteria became known asEngineering Criteria 2000. These

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International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

process information. Kolb contrasted receiving information throughconcrete experience (when reading and doing homework) with receiving through abstractconceptualization (when thinking about concepts and models). For processing information, onceit is received, Kolb contrasted reflective observation (when listening to lectures) with activeexperimentation (when involved in active exercises and/or in laboratory settings).(14,15) Learningis enhanced as more of the learning styles are engaged. It is believed that about 20 percent of theinformation presented is retained if abstract conceptualization is used alone. Whereas retentioncould reach 90 percent if all four stages are employed.(14, 15)Different preferred learning styles are a fertile area to

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Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Conrad Newberry

memberssometimes have internal organizational problems. The design solution will be documented by a100 page report (conciseness is one aspect of good engineering) and a live team (everyoneinvolved) oral presentation (forty minute presentation with ten additional minutes for questionsby the review panel – again, conciseness is a key factor) to a review panel of missile designprofessionals from industry and government. There are some critics who will say that thisapproach yields nothing but a “paper” design. However, to the author’s knowledge, almostevery known (hardware) missile has started life as a “paper” design.In this missile model curriculum, the missile design courses are taught as laboratory courses withsix contact hours per week (two-quarter

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IP, Incubation, and Business Plans

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Dean Burton; Ashbjorn Osland

been employed. • Recipient of NBIA’s 1995 Randall M. Whaley Incubator of the Year Award. • The Incubator has remained financially self-sustaining since its inception.”Other universities observed Rensselaer’s success and founded their own incubators. Mian (1996a) in a study of Page 10.1096.1university technology business incubators found that the university affiliation adds value to incubator client firmsdue to the university’s image, laboratories and equipment, and student employees. Mian also listed the

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Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Feldhaus

appropriate manner for all eligible students.7. Indianapolis Public Schools Career and Technology Center agrees each year to routinely coordinate and review the course syllabus with an appropriate Purdue School of Engineering and Technology representative. All parties understand that any changes made in the course syllabus, in instructional contact, or in instructional equipment or laboratory experiences afforded to the student may result in immediate termination of this agreement.This agreement will become effective upon approval by the Indianapolis Public SchoolsCareer and Technology Center and the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology forall students who are enrolled in the course noted above during academic year 2003-2004and