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TYCD 2004 Lower Division Initatives

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jianping Yue

those majoring in science, technology,engineering, and mathematics. There are also many programs that support the participation ofcollege professors. This paper describes some of NASA’s representative education and researchprograms such as the Undergraduate Student Research Program, Graduate Student ResearchersProgram, Jenkins Predoctoral Fellowship Program, Faculty Fellowship Program, Administrator’sFellowship Program, KC135 Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program, K-12Student Involvement Program, etc. This paper also introduces a variety of other NASA’seducation and research programs.1. IntroductionSince its inception in 1958, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has madeextraordinary achievements in space

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Assessment Issues II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ramon Vasquez; Anand Sharma

Session No: 3431 CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVE: A CAMPUS-WIDE ASSESSMENT EFFORT Anand D. Sharma Ramón E. Vásquez Espinosa University of Puerto Rico University of Puerto RicoAbstractEver since the approval of the new Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET) Engineering Criteria (EC 2000) on November 2, 1996, educational institutions acrossthe United States have had to assess and evaluate their undergraduate engineering programs froma different perspective. The University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez undertook steps fully fouryears prior to the actual site visit. All six undergraduate engineering programs were

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Ken Bernard; Judy Collins; Fred Guzek; Pedro Leite; Jung Oh; Gail Simmonds

the group once a week sharing meetingwith new and creative perspectives on hybrid instruction. The survey in 2003 shows that in four Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section Conferencedisciplines (Aviation, Chemistry, Computer Systems Technology, and English), a majority(70%) of students found KSOL to be convenient and beneficial to their learning. Students’demand for access to KSOL features in their courses across the curriculum led to increasedfaculty support for its adoption, and consequently, to a continuous improvement process to thesystem due to its developers solicited and acted upon faculty feedback. In March of 2003,KSU’s Student

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TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

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Paul Burt; Shih-Liang (Sid) Wang

Company has made a long-term commitment to NC A&T, funding studentscholarships with internships, faculty fellowships, and the establishment of a Project Center. TheGillette Project Center was created to provide students with an opportunity to gain project relatedexperience of technologies used for the design of Gillette product and manufacturing equipment.The Gillette Faculty Fellowship, similar to the Boeing Faculty Fellowship [1], encouragesfaculty to be more engaged in engineering practice by allowing professors to spend an extendedperiod of time at Gillette to learn of their business and technological requirements. Thefellowship enables faculty to gain in-depth knowledge from Gillette personnel, which helpsminimize the level of industrial

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Multidisciplinary Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ken Alford

requirements with their project advisor. The primary student references are Dennis1 andBrooks.2 In CS408A, students implement, test, and complete their project.Completed project solutions must address technological, social, political, and economicconsiderations in the design and fielding of their completed product. Ethical engineeringdecision-making consistent with the safety, health, and welfare of the public is also an importantconsideration.Multidisciplinary senior design project teams range in size from four to twenty students. Theorganization of individual teams varies from teams with students from four or more engineeringdisciplines to teams with students from two engineering disciplines. Each team configurationprovides its own set of

Conference Session

Library Instruction Forum

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2004 Annual Conference

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Francis Derby; Bruce Reid

referenced data to identify trends, and assess possible impact of options forsolving spatially related problems. No longer restricted to engineering and the social sciences,the application of GIS technology extends to all forms of activities where geographicallyreferenced data are used. In addition to academia, the technology is being used extensively byFederal, State and local agencies, public and private institutions, as well as individuals.In order to provide data and visualization support for such activities, libraries are compelled toprovide the requisite data, computer hardware, and software for patrons to perform spatialanalysis and visualization. Many institutions are investing financial resources to acquireelectronic data, computer hardware

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Qaissaunee

;• Plan, develop, and host academic/industry training seminars; • Contribute to regional institutions’ program improvement; andThis work will benefit regional industry, government agencies, high school teachers andstudents, community college faculty and students, those switching into information technology Page 9.1424.1careers, and those with bachelor’s degrees in unrelated fields. Proceeding of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationOverview Brookdale Community College, working as a regional

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ET Distance Learning: Instruction & Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Gilah Pomeranz; James Houdeshell

Session 1648 Preliminary Results From a NSF-ATE Funded Distributed Hybrid Instructional Delivery Project James J. Houdeshell and Gilah Pomeranz National Center for Manufacturing Education at Sinclair Community CollegeIntroductionThe National Center for Manufacturing Education (NCME) in partnership with the TAC/ABETaccredited Quality Engineering Technology Department at Sinclair Community College receiveda two year National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education (NSF-ATE) grant todevelop and test a distributed-hybrid instructional delivery methodology. The primary outcomeof the

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Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ronald Bennett; Elaine Millam

3155 Beyond Professionalism to Leadership: Leveraging Leadership for a Lifetime Elaine Millam, Ronald J. Bennett, Ph.D. Engineering and Technology Management University of St. Thomas St. Paul, MinnesotaABSTRACTIn 2000, our Industry Advisory Board asked how we knew that we were achieving ourmission, how could we determine that our students were becoming the leaders as weclaimed and, further, how would we know what our program was contributing to studentpersonal growth? The ensuing discussion among

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Information Integration and Security

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2004 Annual Conference

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Melissa Lin

optimize a knowledge management with information technologies is acontinuous effort. As a greater number of people adopt it, they will look for moreopportunities to share and collaborate in other ways. Page 9.836.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright2004, American Society for Engineering EducationTypical enterprise applications, including ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM(Customer Relationship Management), SCM (Supply Chain Management), and ERM(Employee Relationship Management), require various types of integration of businessprocess

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Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2004 Annual Conference

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Malika Moutawakkil; Lisa Hunter; J.D., Christine Andrews; Leslie Wilkins

Session Number: 3486 Center for Adaptive Optics Akamai Summer Internship Program Christine L. Andrews, Lisa Hunter, Malika Moutawakkil, Leslie Wilkins Maui Economic Development Board/University of California, Santa CruzIntroductionIt is estimated that over the next ten years, the U.S. will need an additional 1.9 million workers inscience, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).1 Traditionally, the STEM workforce hasconsisted of mostly white, non-Hispanic men, who made up 70% of the STEM workforce in1997.2 In the same year, underrepresented minorities - African-Americans, Hispanics, andAmerican Indians - comprised just over 6% of the general STEM workforce.2 This reliance on apredominately white, male workforce is

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TIME 8: Materials, MEMS, and Nano

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2004 Annual Conference

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Thomas Adams

Session 3566 An Undergraduate MEMS Course for Everyone Thomas M. Adams Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractMiniaturization is becoming a dominant theme in a large variety of technologies. With thisincreased miniaturization comes the need to familiarize undergraduate students from a variety ofscience and engineering students with such technology. Unfortunately, most courses currentlyoffered in micro electrical mechanical systems (MEMS) target graduate-level students or senior-level students with highly specialized backgrounds. Recently, eight faculty members

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Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chih-Ping Yeh

economically disadvantaged students’completion of baccalaureate degrees. The Michigan Department of Career Development’s KCPInitiative provides oversight to the MICUP Program and technical assistants to the institutions. This paper describes a college-university partnership program supported by the MICUPProgram. This partnership program, namely the Tech Scholar Learning Community, wasestablished between the Division of Engineering Technology at Wayne State University inDetroit, Michigan and Schoolcraft College in Livonia, Michigan. The main objective is to createa learning-centered program that ensures the success of academically and economically under-prepared students as they transfer to four-year institutions. The majors that are the center

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Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2004 Annual Conference

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Can Saygin

learning within the scope of integrated manufacturing concept and theirlaboratory requirements are discussed. A sample project is described in order to highlight theoverall approach.IntroductionThe rapid growth of information technologies that has provided public access to a vast assemblyof educational resources and learning opportunities has transformed the capacity of highereducation to deliver educational and training programs to learners of different age groups. Page 9.56.1Increased enrollment of adult learners who demand an education using these new information “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education

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Provocative Presentations & Lunch

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Kleppe

subjects at the university level is the lack of “buyin” by other faculty members. The topics are considered “non-traditional” and do not appear tosupport an engineering research program. Young faculty members may therefore consider thefield too “risky” to become involved.A study conducted by the Southern Technology Council found that few universities arerewarding faculty involved in innovation and entrepreneurship [1]. Additionally, the mostcommon reward is simply an acknowledgment. The report recommends that universities adoptinventing and technology transfer as part of the tenure and promotion process. All facultymembers learn that a balance must be maintained between teaching, research, and service.However, entrepreneurial activities often

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chenhhsin Liu; Ken Patton

Enterprises showed how to make rubber silicon mold from RP parts. Andthe workshop finished with RP curriculum development and implementation and NSF fundingopportunities the last day before closing ceremony and evaluation. In general, the workshop waspacked with exciting activities and yet not overwhelming materials. There were seveninstitutions indicated that they will buy at least one of the Rapid Prototyping technologies Page 9.365.4introduced during the workshop. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering

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Support and Partnership Opportunities

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Ochs

sustained funding (see sectionbelow), faculty from Marketing and Management, Computer Science, MechanicalEngineering, Economics, Sociology and Design Arts have formed a team to developproposals for research in the economic, social and technical aspects of entrepreneurshipand the development of enabling technologies that assist globally dispersed productdevelopment teams.Educational outreach: The Integrated Product Development program has teamed withLehigh’s Iacocca Institute for Global Entrepreneurship (www.iacocca-lehigh.org/cap/) tosponsor Career Awareness Programs (CAP) for highly qualified, underrepresented highschool students. The focus of these one-week summer programs included business,engineering and design arts, all with a technical

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Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Hazem Said

Session _2560_ Improving Students Retention by Engaging Them in Real Life Experiences Hazem Said Department of Mathematics, Physics and Computing Technology, University of CincinnatiIntroductionEngaging engineering technology students in real life experiences has a positive impacton retention rate. The Center for Information Technology and Community Development(CITCD) at the University of Cincinnati initiated the IT-Students-Work project (ITSW)as part of its plan to establish strong relationship between students in the InformationTechnology program

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Trends in BAE

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2004 Annual Conference

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Patricia Haan; Joshua Peschel

Scientific Inquiry 3. Embedded Information Technology 4. Assessment and Learning Products 5. Learning Experiences with Instructional Technologies 6. Strategic Planning for Implementation The instructional material and techniques presented are to serve only as an informationalprecursor to later engineering hydrologic design coursework. It is not indented to replacecurrently accepted basic hydrologic design instructional methodology, rather is shouldsupplement current practices. Spatial information technologies are now a reality in industrial andresearch projects concerning hydrologic and other environmental parameters. This work isintended to serve as a suggested bridge from traditional to spatially distributed decision-makingand

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BME Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

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Larry McIntire; Ka-yiu San; Ann Saterbak

formthe foundation of engineering. Focusing on applications in biological systems to teach theseconservation laws provides a new and unifying approach to the introductory, interdisciplinaryfundamentals course in Biomedical Engineering departments.Chapters 1 and 2 provide exposure to bioengineering problems and motivation for a quantitativeengineering approach. The manuscript begins with a basic review of engineering calculationswith an emphasis on elaborating the physical variables, which are introduced in the context ofdifferent biomedical technologies. The fundamental framework of the conservation laws isdescribed in Chapter 2.Chapters 3-6 cover conservation of mass, energy, charge, and momentum in biomedical systems.Each chapter begins with a

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CE Body of Knowledge

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Robinson; Kevin Sutterer

knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to practice as alicensed professional civil engineer by the ASCE Task Committee on Academic Prerequisites forProfessional Practice (TCAP3). The BOK can be attained through a combination of formaleducation, both baccalaureate and post-baccalaureate, and experience. Several engineeringcolleges, including Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (RHIT), were invited by TCAP3 todesign model curricula compliant with the formal education component of the BOK. We willdiscuss the process used to evaluate our curriculum with the goal of designing a BOK curriculumwithin our four-year undergraduate program. Interestingly, TCAP3 did not explicitly designatewhat parts of the formal education are to be attained in a

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Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2004 Annual Conference

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Tim Maxwell; Michael Parten

carbon dioxide emissions. Converting the end-use technologies to hydrogen allows theconsumption of hydrocarbon fuels with large-scale carbon management schemes in place at thepoint of hydrogen production. In addition, once the supply infrastructure and end-usetechnologies for using hydrogen are in place, then the evolution towards hydrogen productionfrom renewable energy resources becomes transparent to the user. 2The major driving force of internal combustion engine technology development during the lastthree decades has been the environment. Industry is facing zero regulated emissions as well assubstantial reductions in CO2 emissions. Although hydrogen fueled fuel cells are beingconsidered as a promising candidate for the future, there are two

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Experience with Experiential Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

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Adam McGough; Coral Nocton; Ken Patton; Ismail Fidan

experience. There have been several attempts to revise engineering curriculumto improve understanding and foster creative thinking3. RP laboratories and practices maybridge lecture based education and laboratory execution in design and manufacturing Page 9.659.1courses, and then increase students’ comprehension. “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Conference & Exposition Copyright©2004, American Society for Engineering Education” In July 1999, TTU’s Technology Access Fund provided a computer laboratory tosupport many of the software needs for CAD, CAM and CNC practices. Fifteen DELLOptiPlex

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Roger G. Harrison; Matthias U. Nollert; David W. Schmidtke; Vassilios I. Sikavitsas

science and engineering technology. Undergraduate students in engineeringtypically receive good training in how to solve well defined problems. However, they usuallyreceive very little training in the creative activity that is involved in the development of newtechnology; often, students read only their textbooks in engineering courses.One way to get students to think creatively about developing new technology is to incorporate arequirement for a research proposal into the course. However, a survey of the literature ineducation has revealed that little has been reported about using research proposals in coursestaken by undergraduates. In fact, only two such instances have been found. In an undergraduatecourse for chemistry majors entitled

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Jung Oh

theseassignments become enjoyable course work and learning projects they are attached to in apersonal way. This project is one of my teaching strategy tools to respect a variety oflearning styles, to connect chemistry into our daily lives, and to engage students learningwith their own talents and insights.Introduction and ObjectivesOne of the seven principles of good practice in undergraduate education by Chickieringand Gamon’s is to respect diverse talents and ways of learning1. I have used theVARK(Visual, Aural, Read/Write, Kinesthetic) learning styles survey by Bonwell andFleming2 to recognize different leaning styles among my students and observedkinesthetic style as predominant learning style among engineering technology students asreported earlier3

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Design for Community

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2004 Annual Conference

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Nolan Van Gaalen; Kristin Wood; Carl Erikson; Frank Duda; Matthew Green; Steven VanderLeest

andglobally, to help educate engineering students. Several local urban projects in Harrisburg, PAhave included community gardens, building straw-walled sheds, and roof-top gardeningtechniques.Many of the Engineering Department’s global extra-curricular projects have been facilitatedthrough Dokimoi Ergatai18 (Greek for “Approved Workers”), basically a student runorganization, which collaborates with faculty, staff, and the local community to initiate, nurture,and oversee the development of appropriate technologies for implementation in needy areasabroad. Some of the projects have included: ‚ Photovoltaic(solar) electric power systems for a medical dispensary in Burkina Faso and a hospital in Zambia ‚ Solar-powered drinking water

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ET Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Fox

Session 3548 Featuring Robotics in a Senior Design Capstone Course Harry W. Fox Cleveland State UniversityAbstract For the past few years the Department of Engineering Technology have offered a seniordesign capstone course that helps Electronic Engineering Technology students developinterdisciplinary skills and knowledge to work on designs and products requiring the integrationof mechanical, electrical, and microprocessor-control systems. Mechatronics is a term frequentlyused for this integration. The course features an autonomous mobile robot that the

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Innovative Techniques & Funding Research

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2004 Annual Conference

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La Verne Harris; Mary Sadowski

faculty/teachers are good learners and inspiredteaching can complement good scholarship.8 Scholarship of Integration utilizes the creation of coherent patterns of new knowledge bysynthesizing and making connections across disciplines. Integration may result in theexamination of knowledge, technologies or applications. It may lead to the refinement andcombination of information in related fields. Cross-disciplinary programs like “Biocomplexityin Environment” and “Nanoscale Science” are enjoying large increases while core programslike engineering are slated to grow at less than the rate of inflation.9 Boyer8 states thatintegration must be “serious, disciplined work that seeks to interpret, draw together, and bringnew insight to bear on

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Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

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Dae-Wook Kim

careercounseling in science and engineering[4]. Page 9.199.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationEstablished in 2001, the Puget Sound Consortium for Manufacturing Excellence(PSCME) is a regional education-industry partnership aimed at enhancing the connectionbetween manufacturing technology education, student career goals, and private sectordemand. The PSCME, a three year project funded through the National ScienceFoundation (NSF), is interested in promoting science and engineering careers to K-12students. In

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Real-World Applications

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2004 Annual Conference

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Robert Weissbach; David Loker; Ronald Krahe

Session 1649 Remote Sensing with GPS Sensor and Cellular Modem David R. Loker, P.E., Ronald P. Krahe, P.E., Jeffrey Kirsch, Ted J. Yowonske, R. Joseph Cunningham, Joseph R. Petrovich Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeAbstractIn this paper, a remote sensing project is presented for a senior technical electivetelecommunications course in the Electrical Engineering Technology Baccalaureate Program atPenn State Erie, The Behrend College. There are several noteworthy characteristics of thisproject. First, the project used a