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Innovative Curricula and Outreach

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2003 Annual Conference

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Bruce Berdanier

Session 2651 Watershed Analysis and Teacher Education Resource (WATER) Project Dr. Bruce W. Berdanier T.J. Smull College of Engineering, Ohio Northern UniversityIntroductionIt has been suggested that engineers could focus on professionalism by pursuing activities thatdirectly enhance the engineering profession such as working with organizations and universitiesto promote K-12 education in science, engineering, math and technology 2. Science andmathematics classes in the K-12 arena are considered gateways to the engineering profession 1and can provide the context that students need to make the

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Student Learning and Research

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2003 Annual Conference

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Chih-Ping Yeh

Section 2150 Undergraduate Research Projects for Engineering Technology Students Chih-Ping Yeh, Jeannie Drew, Chris Rockwell, Hai-Chun Chien Division of Engineering Technology Wayne State UniversityAbstract This paper describes three undergraduate research projects conducted in the Division ofEngineering Technology at Wayne State University. All of the three projects were supported bythe WSU Undergraduate Research Grants. The research problems, approaches taken, andrespective roles of the students and faculty

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Design for Community

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2002 Annual Conference

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Brian Thompson; Craig Somerton

Session 2625 Community Outreach for Capstone Design: The Cycle Projects Craig W. Somerton and Brian S. Thompson Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State UniversityIntroductionA current trend in engineering education is the incorporation of a service learning experience.One such example is the EPICS program at Purdue, which involves the volunteer work ofengineering students in the community [1]. Another approach, proposed herein, is to utilize thesenior capstone design experience in community outreach. This approach has been taken duringthe past three years in the mechanical engineering senior

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Globig

Session 3549 Integrating Ethics into a Project Management Course James E. Globig University of DaytonABSTRACTIn today’s increasingly technical society, constant pressure exists to provide the engineeringstudent with a comprehensive four-year curriculum that devotes sufficient attention to thetraditional disciplines of the profession while at the same time anticipates areas of developinginterest. As if this continued monitoring and refinement of the technical curriculum were notenough, because of the frequently competing demands placed on the new engineer in

Conference Session

Innovative Curricula and Outreach

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sara Hise; Jim Clark; Bryant Kiedrowski; Aaron Jennings

Session ____ Environmental Education Projects Built Around Feral Battery Research Aaron A. Jennings, Jim Clark, Sara Hise, Bryant Kiedrowski Department of Civil Engineering Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH 44106-7201Abstract Feral batteries are consumer batteries that have “run wild” to litter urban pavements. Thisproblem was first identified during a summer 2001 NSF-REU project to measure heavy metals inbrownfield soils. The project required field sampling and shopping to

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ruth Davis

Session 2793 Motivating Women Engineering Students through Community-Based Projects Ruth E. Davis Santa Clara UniversityAbstractThis paper describes a collaborative project involving students, faculty, community members,and The Institute for Women and Technology. The Virtual Development Center (VDC) site atSanta Clara University is one of nine such sites at universities around the country, eachcommitted to including the community in the definition of projects that truly benefit a segmentof the population usually ignored in the

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

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Hanna Lee; Sven Bilen; Robert Pangborn

Session 2625 Linking Student-Initiated Projects to Engineering Design Education Sven G. Bilén, Robert N. Pangborn, and Hanna Lee College of Engineering The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 168021. Introduction The engineering design process is paramount to the practice of engineering; hence,engineering programs have made increasing commitments to teaching design as part of designcourses, particularly capstone design classes. In the engineering colleges of most

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George Seaward

Session 2525 Converting Single Disciplinary Capstone Projects to Interdisciplinary Experiences George H. Seaward United States Military Academy West Point, New YorkAbstractThis paper presents a plan for taking a single disciplinary mechanical engineeringcapstone project (designing and building a Mini Baja vehicle for operation over roughterrain and in deep water) and turning it into an interdisciplinary experience. An analysisis conducted on the potential benefits of including students with engineering managementskills to assist with

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2001 Annual Conference

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Karen Davis

Session 2525 Enhancing Communication Skills in Senior Design Capstone Projects Karen C. Davis University of CincinnatiI. IntroductionMost engineering faculty would acknowledge that engineering students do not enjoy writing whileat the same time agree that writing skills are tremendously important to the practicing engineer.ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 includes demonstration of communication skills; feedback fromindustry employers indicates that this is even more important than technical skills1. The seniorcapstone

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2000 Annual Conference

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Brian S Macherone; Jagdish T. Gajjar; Cherrice Traver

Session 2253 Introducing Freshmen to Engineering Design: Weather Station Project Cherrice Traver, Jagdish Gajjar, Brian Macherone Union College/State University of New York at AlbanyIntroductionIn recent years there have been many examples of engineering curriculum reform in thefreshman year 1,2,3,4. Some involve adding design to existing freshman courses 3, others involvethe development of optional design courses 1,2 , and yet others are quite focused on a particularengineering topic such as modeling 4. This paper reports on a group design project that is part ofa

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2000 Annual Conference

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J. Wagner; Kenny Fotouhi; Ali Eydgahi

Session 3648 Microprocessor Controlled Milling Machine: A Student Project Mohammad Fotouhi, Ali Eydgahi, Joshua Wagner University of Maryland Eastern ShoreAbstractThis paper describes the details of an undergraduate design project in our DesignTechnology course and the experience gain by the student involved. The intent of thecourse is to expose students to real world design projects. Students are expected to becreative and innovative in their design projects and utilize a multitude of engineeringdisciplines that Engineering Technology Program offers at the University of MarylandEastern Shore. The objective of this

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2000 Annual Conference

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Ronald K. Goodnight; Gary B. Randolph; Dennis O. Owen

Session 1675 The Pedagogical and Andragogical Validity of Capstone Projects Dennis Owen, Ron Goodnight, Gary Randolph Purdue UniversityAbstractNon-traditional students have been the mainstay of regional and satellite university campuses formany years. Purdue University’s Anderson, Indiana site is no exception. In an effort tomaximize the educational experience of these adult learners, the faculty has experimented withseveral different instructional methodologies. Some of these experiments have proven successfulwhile others have not. In order to better develop these instructional methods, the authors

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2000 Annual Conference

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Andrzej A. Markowski; Harry Petersen

Session 2663 Rapid Prototyping for Manufacturing Engineering Technology Program Andrzej Markowski, Harry Petersen Automotive and Manufacturing Engineering Technology Minnesota State University, MankatoAbstractDevelopment, presentation and evaluation of a Rapid Prototyping class for ManufacturingEngineering Technology (MET) students at Minnesota State University, Mankato is presented.The two credit (400/500 level) class has been designed as an open-ended one-semester project inwhich students work in small groups following the typical stages of product development -designing, prototyping

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Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps II

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2002 Annual Conference

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Doug Ramers

Session 1351 Integrating Manufacturing Projects into Mechanical Engineering Programs Doug Ramers University of North Carolina, CharlotteStudents receive limited exposure to manufacturing in most undergraduate MechanicalEngineering programs - yet a significant number of mechanical engineers end up working inmanufacturing operations or engineering support. The manufacturing discipline combinesknowledge from a variety of subjects, such as statics, strength of materials, thermofluids,systems, electronics, etc., that are typically taught in

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Engrng Edu;An International Perspective

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2002 Annual Conference

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Hamid Khan

Session 2760 The Praxis of International Management Through Project Cycle Hamid Khan Master of Technology Program Northern Kentucky University Highland Heights, KY 41099 khanh@nku.eduABET Criterion I.C.2.b: “Technical Design Courses ---- These are courses in practice-oriented standard design applied to work in the field, such as construction, in whichstudents acquire experience in carrying out established design procedures in their ownareas of specialization. The key to this type of technical

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Innovative Lab and Hands-on Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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Matthew Obenchain; Keith Bearden; Dan Diaz; Brian Self

Section 2168 A Senior Research Project Applied Across the Curriculum Brian P. Self, Keith Bearden, Matthew Obenchain and Daniel Diaz US Air Force Academy, ColoradoABSTRACTIn most Engineering curricula, the courses are somewhat disjointed with very few projects orconcepts tying classes together. In the Engineering Mechanics Department at the US Air ForceAcademy, we have the opportunity to create a common thread through at least a few of thecadets’ senior level classes. At the same time, it is possible to involve the students in someresearch at the undergraduate level. Example projects that are

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Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Redfield; Michael Guarraia; Suzanne Keilson

Session 3264 Motorless Motion with Ni-Ti: A Senior Design Project Michael Guarraia*, Robert Redfield, Suzanne Keilson Loyola College, Department of Electrical Engineering and Engineering Science, Baltimore, MD, 21210/ *currently at Lockheed Martin Corp., MarylandAbstract: The goal of this project was to develop a senior design project around the principle ofmotorless motion utilizing the shape memory properties of a Nickel-Titanium (Ni-Ti) alloy.Ultimately, this was incorporated into a working prototype of a three-fingered robotic hand

Conference Session

Trends in Constr. Engr. Educ. I

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Wiggins

Section 1421 Teaching Construction Project Management With an Historical Perspective John A. Wiggins, J.D., P.E. Assistant Professor Department of Engineering Technology New Jersey Institute of Technology ABSTRACTThe construction techniques, successes and failures of historically significant projects are mostoften learned as history lessons in social studies class with little emphasis placed on the actualevents, circumstances, technology and creativity that led to the success or failure of theseprojects. A close study of the

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nick Salamon; Gautam Wagle; Cliff Lissenden

Session 2468 Design Project for Advanced Mechanics of Materials C.J. Lissenden, G.S. Wagle, and N.J. Salamon Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Penn State UniversityAbstractAdvanced mechanics of materials is a broad subject encompassing many topics. However, oftenthere is only room in the curriculum for a single course. Thus, there is a tendency to pack thecourse full of topics, in which case sufficient depth of coverage can be lost. Furthermore, designis at the heart of engineering and demands attention. Advanced mechanics of materials is amajor part of many design problems. In this

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Norman Dennis

Session Number 1315 Experiential Learning Exercised Through Project Based Instruction Norman D. Dennis, University of ArkansasAbstract This paper describes the use of students with work experience as team leaders to promotepeer-to peer teaching and learning. This concept is employed in a senior-level design coursetitled Foundation Engineering. The course utilizes a scenario based semester-long designproblem as the major learning vehicle. The design problem requires the development of afacility; typically a shopping mall, office complex or hospital, that is set on a real 100-acreagricultural site owned by the University

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2001 Annual Conference

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William Lovegrove; Timothy Owens; Matthew Bronkema

Session 2793 The HallWalker Robot: An Interdisciplinary Design Project William P. Lovegrove, Timothy S. Owens, Matthew S. Bronkema Bob Jones UniversityAbstractThe fall 2000 Bob Jones University capstone design project is presented as a model of a successfulinterdisciplinary design project. It directly addresses the hardware/software co-design that is anintegral part of many modern electronic devices by employing a software team of ComputerScience majors and a hardware team of Electrical Engineering majors. In order to facilitatehardware/software co-design, the software team implemented a

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2001 Annual Conference

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Peter Weiss; Donald Weiss

Session 3151 Hands-on Projects to Engage Non-engineering Students Peter T. Weiss, Donald J. Weiss Valparaiso University/Michigan Technological UniversityAbstractThree hands-on projects intended to engage the non-engineering student in environmental issuesare introduced and discussed. In the first, students use different sized agar cubes with a diffusingdye to observe how surface area to volume relationships affect mass transfer rates. Results canbe used to introduce students to issues such as cellular diffusion, air stripping towers, tricklingfilters, and aeration processes. The

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2001 Annual Conference

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Thomas Kerlin; Belle Upadhyaya

2660 International Collaboration on Cyber-linked Engineering Projects B.R. Upadhyaya, T.W. Kerlin The University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleAbstractThis paper describes the collaboration between The University of Tennessee and twointernational universities on cyber-linked engineering projects. This activity has beenincorporated into a senior-level course entitled Introduction to MaintenanceEngineering, which is one of the four courses being developed at The University ofTennessee under a NSF-CRCD grant. The course is designed for seniors and first-yeargraduate students in engineering. The

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High School Engineering Programs, Curriculum, and Evaluation

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Heath Tims, Louisiana Tech University; Krystal S Corbett, Louisiana Tech University; Galen E. Turner III, Louisiana Tech University; David E. Hall, Louisiana Tech University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2011-2223: TECHNOLOGY ENABLED PROJECTS FOR HIGH SCHOOLPHYSICSHeath Tims, Louisiana Tech UniversityKrystal S Corbett, Louisiana Tech UniversityProf. Galen E. Turner III, Louisiana Tech UniversityDavid E. Hall, Louisiana Tech University Dr. Hall is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Louisiana Tech University. He is interested in hands-on approaches in STEM education. Page 22.1419.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Technology Enabled Projects for High School PhysicsAbstractLouisiana Tech University has recently developed a high school physics

Conference Session

Rethinking PowerPoint and Other Acts of Communication

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elena Poltavtchenko, Northern Arizona University; John Tingerthal, Northern Arizona University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

AC 2011-1170: PROJECT-DIRECTED WRITING ASSISTANCE IN CON-STRUCTION MANAGEMENT PROGRAMElena Poltavtchenko, Northern Arizona University Elena Poltavtchenko is a Ph.D. candidate in the Applied Linguistics program at Northern Arizona Univer- sity. She is a graduate teaching assistant at NAU’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Elena obtained her B.A. in Russian Linguistics and Literature in Novosibirsk State University, Russia, and M.A. in English Applied Linguistics at the University of Houston, TX. Her current research interests lie in the area of writing in the disciplines, with a specific focus on writing in engineering.John Tingerthal, Northern Arizona University John joined the Construction

Conference Session

Active and Project-Based Learning

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lauren A. Rockenbaugh, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daria A. Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado, Boulder; Derek T. Reamon, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2011-795: PROJECT-BASED SERVICE LEARNING AND STUDENTMOTIVATIONLauren A Rockenbaugh, University of Colorado, Boulder Lauren Rockenbaugh is a PhD student at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her research involves project-based service learning and student motivation. Lauren is also the co-director of Engineering for American Communities, a multidisciplinary engineering student organization whose mission is to perform entrepreneurial engineering design work to create affordable living innovations for people in need in local communities.Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado, Boulder DARIA KOTYS-SCHWARTZ is the Faculty Director for the Mesa State College-University of Colorado Mechanical Engineering

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Capstone Courses and Design Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nihad Dukhan, University of Detroit Mercy; Mark Schumack, University of Detroit Mercy

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2011-1278: THERMAL SCIENCE CAPSTONE PROJECTS IN ME-CHANICAL ENGINEERINGNihad Dukhan, University of Detroit Mercy Nihad Dukhan is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Detroit Mercy, where he teaches courses in heat transfer, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and energy systems. His ongoing research interests include advanced cooling technologies for high-power devices with focus on metal foam as the cooling core, service learning and other engineering education pedagogies. Dr. Dukhan earned his BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toledo.Mark Schumack, University of Detroit Mercy Mark Schumack is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the

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Build Diversity in Engineering Graduate Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Allison Kang, University of Washington; Lisa A. Peterson, University of Washington; Elena Maria Hernandez, University of Washington

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Minorities in Engineering

AC 2011-2414: UW GENOM PROJECT: A SUCCESSFUL UNDERGRAD-UATE RESEARCH PROGRAMAllison Kang, University of Washington Allison Kang has a background in Biochemistry and Public Health Genetics and is currently finishing up her PhD in Science Education. Her dissertation research focuses on the impact that undergraduate research programs (URPs) have on ethnic minority students’ scientific efficacy and how the programmatic elements of URPs impact student interest and experience in science and engineering. Page 22.1659.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 UW GenOM Project: A

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Distance Education and Engineering Workforce Professional Development

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cyrus Habibi P.E., Minnesota State University, Mankato; Tina alaei; Andrew Lillesve, IRE

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Continuing Professional Development

Paper ID #6008Integrating professionalism in a project-based engineering curriculumDr. Mohammad Habibi, Minnesota State University, Mankato Dr. Habibi is an assistant professor in the Department of Integrated Engineering at the Minnesota State University-Mankato. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Electrical Engineering. Fol- lowing his postdoctoral appointments at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, he joined the Iron Range Engineering (IRE) Program in August 2011. The IRE is an innovative, 100% project-based, upper division engineering program located in Virginia-Minnesota which promotes learning

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Design Across Disciplines

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hosni I. Abu-Mulaweh, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Hossein M. Oloomi, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Donald W. Mueller Jr. P.E., Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Omobola Ayoyimika Thomas, Cummins Filtration, Inc.

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Design in Engineering Education

. Omobola Thomas graduated from Purdue University in 2011 with a bachelor’s of science degree in elec- trical engineering with highest distinction. She currently works as a Test Engineer for Cummins Filtration, Inc., and is also working towards her master’s degree in electrical engineering. Her Interest areas in elec- trical engineering include automatic control systems and digital signal processing. She enjoys watching movies, traveling, and reading. Page 25.74.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 A Multidisciplinary Capstone Senior Project: Interactive