Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Khan, DeVry University-Addison; Shawn Schumacher, DeVry University; Lynn Burks, DeVry University

the associations between thefaculty dimensions of faculty technical currency, faculty teaching techniques, and facultycommitment to student success, and self-reported student learning and success. Facultyprofessional development activities and technical currency play an important role inpromoting student learning and success. Therefore, an investigation is warranted toexplore the relationship between student learning/success with these faculty constructs.II. Purpose of the StudyThe purpose of this research project was to explore the relationship between students’perceptions of the importance of three faculty dimensions – technical currency, teachingtechniques, and commitment to student success – and their self-reported learning andsuccess

Collection

2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Philip L. Brach; Ahmet Zeytinci

negative on the employmentapplication. Later, the engineering firm learns that while his engineering license was neverrevoked or suspended, he did have his contractor’s license revoked because he allowed anunlicensed individual who was unrelated to his contracting firm to use the contractor licensenumber on another project. The question was: Did the Engineer have an ethical obligation toreport on the employment application the revocation his contractor’s license?In summary our class found that while it may be perceived that the Engineer violated certaincannons of the code of ethics, upon careful study he did not. He had no ethical obligation toreport on the employment application the revocation of his contractor’s license. He had beenpenalized

Conference Session

Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Theodore Heindel, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Filters 9 Resistance/Capacitance Sensors Op-Amps 10 Linear Variable Differential Transformers, Strain Gauges Thermocouples, Thermistors 11 Accelerometers, Exam Thermocouples and Multi- channel Data Acquisition 12 Piezoelectric and Semiconductor Devices, Accelerometers Experimental Design 13 Electrical Noise LVDT “Design” Project 14 Standards and Codes, Review LVDT “Design” Project 15 Optional Topics No Lab 16 Final

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Naveen Nattam, Purdue University; Kermin Martinez-Hernandez, Purdue University; Doug Danforth, Purdue University; Steve Emberton, Purdue University; Ryan Pedela, Purdue University; Eugene Elkin, Purdue University; Carlos Morales, Purdue University; Kellen Maicher, Purdue University; Gabriela Weaver, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

instructional media.The goal of our NSF project is to create a set of research-validated recommendations forthe development of science-centric video games. Research in instructional design andcognition have helped guide the types and amounts of educational activities that areincluded in the game. As a result of the development of a 3D immersive video game thatincludes chemistry-based challenges, we created a process that allows artists andinstructional personnel to create the necessary design documents to make an immersiveeducational video game. This process was developed over 8 months by aninterdisciplinary team of chemistry, computer graphics technology, and computer sciencestudents and faculty.IntroductionThe focus of our research is the

Conference Session

Rethinking Aerospace Curricula and Learning

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Narayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

to real flows and structures.Digital signal processing also became accessible on PCs, transferring experimental techniquesfrom the research laboratories into the undergraduate curriculum. These capabilities enabledproject-oriented courses where students learned theory and applied it immediately to projects.We discovered that students could handle courses where several topics were learned in parallel,and where they created the “manuals” for their experiments. Project teams could interact throughthe computer. This was a far cry from the traditional model of undergraduates just beingobservers, or at best just operators following precise instructions.The capabilities demonstrated by 1993 were used to revamp the junior-level Low SpeedAerodynamics

Conference Session

Computing Curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frank Kowalkowski, Knowledge Consultants; Gilbert Laware, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

2006-2016: TEACHING BUSINESS PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS – MAKING THERIGHT CHOICEFrank Kowalkowski, Knowledge Consultants Frank Kowalkowski is President of Knowledge Consultants Inc., a professional services firm founded in 1984. He has 30 years of management consulting and industry experience in manufacturing, distribution, insurance and financial services as well as the public sector. He has been involved with wide range of projects that include e-commerce, application integration, ERP, change management, content management, benchmarking, business performance measurement, business and competitive intelligence, technology deployment and process improvement. He is the author of a 1996 book on

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Giri Venkataramanan, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Annette Muetze, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Departments of Electrical andComputer Engineering or Mechanical Engineering. They have developed a set of courses thatform a complementary suite of technical skills intimately coupled with practice in the field ofelectric drives and power electronics. A list of courses regularly offered by WEMPEC faculty islisted in Table I. The pedagogic approach in all the courses strongly follows a behaviorist model,in keeping with the nominal academic traditions within the university education. Clearlyarticulated course objectives, task-oriented homework assignments, term projects, and gradingthough examinations are the norm in the courses. However, in addition to the classroom studies

Conference Session

Use of Technology to Improve Teaching and Learning

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Chen, Rowan University; Jennifer Kadlowec, Rowan University; Dexter Whittinghill, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

statistics and mathematics community. Page 11.1402.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Using Rapid Feedback to Enhance Student LearningAbstractIn this project our goal is to improve student learning in foundation engineering courses. Ourhypothesis is that learning is improved by providing rapid feedback to students of theirunderstanding of key concepts and skills being taught. This hypothesis was tested throughexperiments in which student performance on quizzes was measured after classes in which theywere provided rapid feedback or not. The feedback system acts as a catalyst to encouragestudents, working in

Conference Session

Ethics Integration in the Engineering Curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Tech; Jennifer Mullin, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

engaged in learning ethics material. Parts of these changes are attributedto an NSF supported department-level reform (DLR) project. Traditionally, ethics instruction inthe course included reading assignments and video presentations. However, this year, apresentation assignment was developed for the course’s 32-seat workshops. Groups of 3 to 6students were assigned one of eight recent topics: 1) levee construction in New Orleans2) looting and government response in New Orleans 3) debris removal in New Orleans4) contamination issues in New Orleans 5) rebuilding New Orleans 6) Asian tsunami ofDecember 2004 7) San Francisco and earthquake preparedness and 8) Galveston and hurricanes.For each topic, groups were given instructions regarding subjects

Conference Session

Examining the Synergy between Eng'g Mgmt & Sys Eng

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Weaver, University of Detroit Mercy; Michael Vinarcik, University of Detroit Mercy

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

2006-2085: A CASE-BASED APPROACH TO SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE ANDENGINEERING EDUCATIONJonathan Weaver, University of Detroit Mercy JONATHAN M. WEAVER, PH.D. is an Associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Detroit Mercy (UDM). He received his BSME from Virginia Tech in 1986, his MSME and PhD in ME from RPI in 1990 and 1993, respectively. He has several years of industry experience and regularly consults with an automaker on projects related to CAD, DOE, and product development. He can be reached at weaverjm@udmercy.edu.Michael Vinarcik, University of Detroit Mercy MICHAEL J. VINARCIK, P.E. is an Interior Trim Engineer with Ford Motor Company and an adjunct faculty

Conference Session

Biology in Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark McConkie, Utah State University; Timothy Taylor, Utah State University; David Britt, Utah State University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

campus, growing from 20students in 1998 to 85 students in 2004 (Figure 1). The new curriculum was based on anemerging set of recommendations from a project funded by the United States Department ofAgriculture to study curriculum requirements for biological engineers2. These recommendationsaddressed the concept of a biological engineer from an agricultural and natural resourcesperspective. Many departments that adopted the recommendations and changed their degrees tobiological engineering struggled at first due to a lack of a complete pedagogical change in thedepartments. Often the departments changed the degree name and added a biology course or twoto the curriculum, but failed to fully embrace the full breadth of what biological

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Riley, Smith College; Lionel Claris, Smith College; Nora Paul-Schultz, Smith College; Ida Ngambeki, Smith College

2006-258: LEARNING/ASSESSMENT: A TOOL FOR ASSESSING LIBERATIVEPEDAGOGIES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATIONDonna Riley, Smith College Donna Riley is Assistant Professor in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College. Her work focuses on implementing liberative pedagogies in engineering education.Lionel Claris, Smith College Lionel Claris holds a master's degree in education from Smith College and currently teaches Spanish and French to elementary school students in Springfield, MA. He is a passionate advocate for new ways of thinking about learning, involved locally in the Holistic School Project of Amherst and the Re-radicalization of Hampshire College.Nora Paul-Schultz, Smith College Nora

Conference Session

ChE: Outreach Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Ford, University of Tulsa; Christi Patton Luks, University of Tulsa

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

, $75, and $50 for 2006. The students maycompete either individually or as a team, with no upper limit on the size of the team.The test circuit was designed and built by two University of Tulsa electrical engineering studentsas a project for one of their classes. Their circuit diagram is given in Figure 1, and a picture ofthe unit is given in Figure 2. The test circuit has an on/off switch and a green LED that indicatesthat the unit is on. This simple feature is very useful for determining that the unit is workingcorrectly. The students attach their equipment to the circuit with the alligator clips. The testcircuit contains a blue LED that is on when the circuit is completed through the alligator clipsand the contest entry. When thestudent

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Bergendahl, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

physical limitations thatpreclude access to a laboratory. There should be an opportunity for all engineering students tobe exposed to laboratory experiences. This project was initiated with the hypothesis that remotelaboratory experiments controlled via the internet may enhance the educational experience ofstudents who would otherwise not have a laboratory opportunity. The internet-enabledexperiment can be implemented for undergraduates and graduates, distance-learners and on-campus students, as well as for physically-challenged students.Adsorption phenomena and the need for the experimentAdsorption of contaminants to granular activated carbon is a common process used to removecontaminants from air and water. It is frequently employed to assist in

Conference Session

Faculty Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Brent, Education Designs Inc.; Richard Felder, North Carolina State University; Sarah Rajala, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

99 ratings of“excellent,” 12 ratings of “good,” and no ratings of “average,” “fair” or “poor.” While they haveoffered a variety of suggestions for improvement over the years (many of which have beenadopted), they have not consistently complained about any individual aspect of the workshop. Page 11.1018.3 The participants’ open responses comment favorably on the following workshop features:• Mini-clinics. Many workshop topics are introduced by calling on participants to react to scenarios of common occurrences in the life of a faculty member. They critique a flawed research proposal; contrast two research project descriptions

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexa Rihana-Abdallah, University of Detroit Mercy

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

spectroscopy 10 Aquatic floral assessment and quantification 11 Aquatic faunal assessment and quantification 12 Bioconcentration and Biomagnification 13 Team project 14 Team project 15 Final Report and PresentationConclusionsThe advantages and need for interdisciplinary studies at the undergraduate level havebeen echoed on numerous fronts. As a mode of discovery and education,interdisciplinary collaboration has delivered much already and promises more—asustainable environment, new discoveries and technologies to inspire young minds, and adeeper understanding and preparedness of our graduates for professional challenges andendeavors. It helps make the higher education system of the United States one of the

Conference Session

Novel Measurement Experiments

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jun Kondo, University of Hartford; Santiago Noriega, University of Hartford; Devdas Shetty, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

performed. These tests tend to be expensive and timeconsuming. With customers pushing for lower cost and products been developedat very fast pace; companies in many cases can not afford the cost or timeassociated with these test.This has forced companies to look elsewhere to find other types of tests that canprovide them with the necessary accuracy to measure vibration at a lower costwithin a shorter period of time. These test methods include the use ofpiezoelectric accelerometers, strain gauges and laser measuring equipment.ANALYSIS:Of all methods used to measure vibration; the use of lasers is the most appealingsince the equipment has minimum or no contact with the object to be measured.The purpose of this project is to develop a non contact

Conference Session

BME Curriculum Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Harris, Vanderbilt University; Sean Brophy, Purdue University; Robert Linsenmeier, Northwestern University; Alene Harris, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

Research Center inBioengineering Educational Technologies has conducted research and development on methodsto improve bioengineering education for the last 6 years. This project has sought to synthesizelearning science, learning technology, assessment and evaluation and the domain knowledge ofbioengineering so that new approaches to bioengineering education could be developed andtested. This project has resulted in a number of innovations that have been shown to improve theeducational process in bioengineering. We are currently developing methods to disseminatethese findings and make then available to the bioengineering educational community.I. IntroductionRecently, there has been a significant concern expressed by academic, scientific, business

Conference Session

Climate Issues for Women Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Sheila Edwards Lange, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

undergraduate and graduate students. The researchpresented here uses an observation about the context of education to frame the research project;and locates the project within the realm of previous research on educational climate. This projecttests the null hypothesis that the context of education does not matter for women’s experience ofclimate. Figure 1 indicates the conceptual framework utilized by this research. The mainvariables of interest are in a bold font.Figure 1. Conceptual Framework of Research Classroom Experiences Laboratory Experiences Relationship with Faculty Climate Retention Professional Development Work/Family BalanceThe contexts in which students are educated are different at the undergraduate and

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roxanne Toto, Pennsylvania State University; Mark Wharton, Pennsylvania State University; John Cimbala, Pennsylvania State University; John Wise, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Instructional Systems at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include the design of online learning and how learning occurs in those environments. Address: 201 Hammond Building, University Park, PA 16802. Telephone: 814-865-4017, FAX: 814-865-4021, email: rtoto@psu.eduMark Wharton, Pennsylvania State University Mark J. Wharton is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Penn State. He teaches undergraduate courses in Electronics (Electronics I, II, and III) and Senior Project Design, the EE capstone design course. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Penn State and his M.S. from the University of Colorado in Boulder. Prior to working at Penn State, Mark spent

Conference Session

International Exchange/Joint Programs in Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jan Helge Bøhn, Virginia Tech; Manfred Hampe, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt

Tagged Divisions

International

. The courses at URI are in English and the courses at TUB are in German. • Purdue University’s School of Mechanical Engineering is a participant of the Global Engineering Alliance for Research and Education (GEARE) 5. The core of this program is a junior-year spring/summer semester study-abroad in Germany, India, or China. The courses abroad are in English and transfer back to Purdue so there is no delay in graduation. Concurrently, the students also participate in a two-semester industry- inspired project with students from the other countries and in a two-part industry internship; in both cases, one half of the project and internship is at home, and the other is abroad.The Technische

Conference Session

Design for Manufacture and Industry

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alvin Post, Arizona State University; Thuria Narayan, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

”.In “Capstone” projects, some instructors may notice that students show a preference formachined parts in their designs. This may result from the ready availability of educationalmachine shops and familiarity with those manufacturing processes. Machined parts are oftenrelatively expensive in production and geometrically simple. In addition to their value in DFXeducation, problems like these may help students develop visualization skill with complex 3-Dparts and assemblies, or lead them to consider using additive manufacturing processes moreoften in design.GradingGood conceptual design practice calls for the generation of many alternative ideas, and someauthors believe criticism can discourage this activity. Certainly, students may be

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joerg Mossbrucker, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

the software developmentenvironment or platform. Integrated development environments (IDE) have come a longway from their terminal-based assembler or compiler origin. The major compilerdevelopment houses have settled on a semi-standard layout and philosophy of their IDE's.Excellent examples are Visual C++ from Microsoft3 and the IAR compiler family4, verysimilar to the layout shown in Figure 1. These B A C Figure 1: Typical IDEThese IDE's are project-based, showing sources (region A in Figure 1), source filedependencies (region B), and status reports (region C) among other information in a mainwindow

Conference Session

MIND Education Trends

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Dana Newell, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

have short exchanges with industry representatives, have a formalmeal at a very nice hotel, and listen to a keynote from a very charismatic engineer from industry,who happened to also be an underrepresented minority.Week Meeting Topics (Fall 05)(2 hrs.)1 Introductions, Time Management (general) Icebreaker, General course information How to “Study” to Get a 4.02 Ice Breaker, Chapter 1: Studying Engineering Video 2: Time Management, How to Catch Up If You Get Behind3 Ice Breaker, Chapter 2: Introduction to Engineering and Engineering Study Video 3: Presentations, Group activity 1-group assignment, project choice4 Engineering student panel – CEMSWE leaders

Collection

2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Carol Shields

) were implemented in 12 elementary schools in New Jersey as part ofthe Engineering Our Future New Jersey (EOFNJ) project 2. EOFNJ is a collaboration betweenStevens Institute of Technology’s Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education(CIESE), the Museum of Science, Boston, and other public and private partners. In October2003, the New Jersey Department of Education released new Core Curriculum ContentStandards that, for the first time, require technology education to be taught K-12 4. The goal ofthe project is to ensure that all New Jersey students—from elementary through high school—experience age-appropriate pre-engineering curriculum activities as a core part of theireducational experience and that pre-engineering curricula

Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Applications

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

La Verne Abe Harris, Arizona State University; Richard Newman, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

as condition of the purchase price. The studio was purchased from EARTechnology for approximately $36,000. Sony DSR-30 DVCAM deck:The use of the Sony deck was limited within the first few months of this study. The deck servedas a useful capture device only when the camera was being used to shoot raw video, and post-production was beginning on another part of the multimedia project, and the projects were shoton Mini-DV tape, rather than via the Laird Cap-Div. Camera issues:Issues with the camera, Canon XL1s, were explored to see if the extensive defects related to theoriginal XL1 have transferred over into this model. The first few of the notable issues with thecamera were: (1) the viewfinder’s sensitivity to light and potential for

Conference Session

Advancing Manufacturing Education Through Outreach and Collaboration

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Val Hawks, Brigham Young University; Michael Miles, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

engineering as physicsand calculus.” [2] For faculty and students and BYU, a recent project of studyingmanufacturing in Cambodia also became a study of Cambodian history, government, and culture.As a result it became, for both students and faculty, a learning experience in the broader, moreholistic context of manufacturing, engineering, technology, and global issues. Rationale and Organization of the Learning ExperienceThe Manufacturing Engineering Technology program at BYU has been increasing its focus onglobal aspects of engineering and technology for several years. Our goal is to provide moreeffective opportunities for faculty and students to gain an awareness of, knowledge about, andexperience in issues and opportunities of

Conference Session

Digital System Design

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sin Ming Loo, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

. 3In our hardware/software codesign course, two teams were introduced to Altera Nios and XilinxMicroblaze, respectively. With this introduction, the students proposed projects using Nios andMicroblaze. Two projects were completed: 1) co-design of USB implementation using Nios, and 2) amusic player using Microblaze. Both projects were implemented with co-design and completed asproposed. Both projects utilized hardware written externally and interfaced to the processor successfully.Our small-scale usage of these tools provided us the confidence to offer a microprocessor course as aspecial topic in the very near future before incorporating it into our normal offering. During the sameprocess, we have discovered many pitfalls to this approach of

Conference Session

Information Technology in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Josh Walter, Purdue University; Dan Montgomery, Purdue University; Shripad Revankar, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Nuclear and Radiological

hydrogen storage efficiency of 10.80% and the excellentstability of its alkaline solutions. The alkaline borohydride solutions undergo hydrolysis inpresence of various transition-metal catalysts to produce hydrogen. The hydrolysis product beingborox it can be recycled. For the hydrolysis process of NABH4, various catalysts of Pt, Ru, Ni,Co etc., have been developed for hydrogen production from borohydride solutions and reportedin recent years. However, implementation of these catalysts into the fuel cell is a challenge. Asummer research project with an undergraduate was launched in developing catalyst forhydrogen generation in PEMFC fuel cell. Catalysts based on chlorides of Co, NI and Ru wasdeveloped and was directly deposited on metal foam. The

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Industrial Technology

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg Smith, Pitt Community College; Bill Cooper, Pitt Community College; David Batts, East Carolina University; Paul Kauffmann, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Department Chair of Technology Systems at East Carolina University and research interests include technology management and managerial decision methods. During his industrial career, he held positions as project engineer, plant manager, and engineering director.Greg Smith, Pitt Community College GREG SMITH received both his Ph.D. degree in Safety Engineering from Kennedy-Western University and his Master of Science in Safety Engineering from Kennedy-Western University. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from East Carolina University and another Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from West Virginia University. He has worked in the bio-industry as a manager and leader, he has served in project and