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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ying Tang, Rowan University; Ravi Ramachandran, Rowan University; Linda Head, Rowan University; Lawrence Chatman, Camden County College

industry and academic institutions on theimportance and urgency of reflecting the impact of the SoC paradigm shift in engineeringeducation, as traditional programs, especially at the undergraduate level, have not keptpace with this evolution [1]. Recognizing the acute national demand for a new breed ofSoC engineers, our project proposes an innovative curricula prototype that cuts across theartificial course boundaries and introduces SoC knowledge through vertically-integratedand problem-oriented laboratory experiments [2]. In addition, we value the important rolethat community colleges play in starting students on the road to engineering careers, as Page

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High School Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd Kaiser, Montana State University; Peggy Taylor, Montana State University; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Howard Tenenbaum, La Jolla High School, San Diego Unified School District; Seth Hodges, St. Michael Indian School, St. Michaels, AZ

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

is accomplished byrepeating four basic steps: thin film deposition, photolithography, etching and doping (Figure 1).These steps are repeated numerous times to build up the functional solar cell. Film deposition isdone in many different methods. This course focuses on two of the simplest ways to produce thinfilms: thermal growth of silicon dioxide and evaporation of aluminum. Photolithographytransfers a pattern that is generated on a mask to a photosensitive film that covers the top surfaceof the wafer. A mask aligner is used to position the mask relative to the wafer so that maskpattern is aligned with previous processing steps. Etching selectively removes material that is notprotected by the photosensitive film. This transfers the pattern

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Research on the First Year I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Senay Purzer, Purdue University; Jing Chen, Purdue University

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First-Year Programs

number ofstudies investigate how to teach and learn decision-making skills in engineering. Weconducted an in-depth content analysis of 1) first-year engineering textbooks and 2)instructional decision-support tools published in ASEE proceedings in the last decade.We discussed our findings in the light of research and theoretical frameworks on decisionmaking. The examination of fourteen books that are commonly used as a textbook infirst-year engineering courses revealed that half of these books discussed decisionmaking usually very briefly or as one step in the design process. Twenty-nine percentlinked engineering decision making to social and ethical issues (e. g., examination ofengineering disasters and historical decisions that led to failures

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Mechanics Division Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Rockaway, University of Louisville; D. Joseph Hagerty, University of Louisville

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Mechanics

improvement in undergraduate instruction. SACS is the recognized regionalaccrediting body in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, NorthCarolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia for those institutions of highereducation that award associate, baccalaureate, master's or doctoral degrees. “An effective QEPshould be carefully designed and present a focused course of action that addresses a well-definedtopic or issue(s) related to enhancing student learning.”[1]In January 2005, a QEP Team of faculty, staff and students were charged with developing such aplan for the University of Louisville. A university-wide survey was conducted to identify areasof instruction that needed improvement, and solicit suggestions on ways

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Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Rabb, United States Military Academy; John Rogers, United States Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

civil engineers’ role in planning, designing, building,operating and maintaining the nation’s infrastructure. Students will use computer modeling andsimulation tools to design, build and test a truss bridge. Students will also design and build abridge out of K-nex components, and load the bridge to failure in a competition. Surveyedparticipants overwhelmingly praise the hands-on learning.IntroductionAccording to the 2006 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), 15-year-old U.S.students ranked at the bottom third for both mathematics and science compared to all othercountries that participated.1 The U.S. has seemingly fallen behind other developed countries, ineducating the students to succeed in the math and science curriculum. Many

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Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zhang, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

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Electrical and Computer

moreindependent processors into a single package, which is capable of executing multiplethreads simultaneously. The L2 cache on a multicore processor can be either private orshared, as depicted in Figure 1 (a) and (b), respectively. Clearly, multicore processors cannaturally benefit multithreaded programs by running them on different cores concurrentlyto improve the throughput. However, unlike other advances of microprocessors aiming atthe transparent increase of single-threaded performance (e.g., frequency scaling, pipelines,caches, and superscalar architectures), multicore processors cannot automatically reducethe latency of single-threaded programs. In many cases, there is no way to effectivelyutilize the performance of additional processor cores or

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Teaching Mechanical Systems: What's New

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nashwan Younis, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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Mechanical Engineering

factors (SCF), particularly with respect to fatigue, from a chart.Several papers added an instructional prospective to enhance the teaching of mechanicscourses to undergraduate students, the focus of this article. For example, the impact ofdemonstrations to acquaint students with the Statics concepts in the context of a realartifact was articulated in ref.1. A different approach in regard to teaching mechanicscourse came from Philpot et. al 2. They presented examples of instructional mediadeveloped for the Mechanics of Materials Course utilizing computer in novel ways thatoffer the potential for improved instruction.In the field of stress concentrations, the limited established theory does not give aninsight for the understanding of the

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Design in BME Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alyssa Taylor, University of Virginia; Katelyn Mason, University of Virginia; A. Leyf Peirce Starling, The Fletcher School; Timothy Allen, University of Virginia; Shayn Peirce, University of Virginia

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Biomedical

instructors compile adescriptive list of potential projects which is distributed to Capstone students at the beginning ofthe course. A “BME Capstone Project Fair” is held one week later, where all potential advisorsand students gather to interview one another for the various projects. After the Project Fair,students indicate their interest level in each project using a numerical ranking system (i.e. 1 =extremely interested, 4 = not interested in project). Students are also asked to indicate their toptwo project choices and to describe the reasons for their interest in the projects (i.e. previousexperience in the area, relation to career goals, etc.). Advisors also submit their preferences forparticular students based on the interviews at the Project

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Developing Young MINDS in Engineering - Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atin Sinha, Albany State University

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Minorities in Engineering

with plenty of available table space to complete the hands-on activities as well as develop the flight payload is the right choice to conduct this course. Page 15.1113.4 Figure 1. First lesson on soldering during Student Ballooning Course The students are first provided an overview of the previous balloon launch and recovery for various science experiments, introduced to electronic components, circuit drawing and prototyping, different sensors for measuring atmospheric parameters, data acquisition and data logging, analog to digital converter, real time clock etc. Then the students are made familiar with the BASIC Stamp

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Chemical Engineering Education: Underclass Years

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Margot Vigeant, Bucknell University; Donald Visco, Tennessee Technological University; Donald Woods, McMaster University

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Chemical Engineering

chemicalengineering courses are taught. The survey is now conducted by the AIChE Education Division.This year’s survey focuses on the freshman engineering courses and details how freshmen areintroduced to engineering, what topics are taught, in what environment they are taught, and howthey are assessed. Teaching methods and novel approaches are focus elements of this survey.While the survey focuses on courses specific to chemical engineers, innovative teaching methodsin general introduction to engineering courses are included as well.1. IntroductionThe former Education Projects Committee of AIChE conducted a series of surveys and studies ofhow chemical engineering is taught across Canada and the United States between 1957 and 1994.The topics covered by those

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ERM Potpourri

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Bowman, Clemson University; Lisa Benson, Clemson University

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Educational Research and Methods

commentary to a particular event in the problem solving procedure. Inaddition, we needed a tool to allow the researcher to mark where specific events, concepts, orprocedures occur while playing back student work. We refer to these marks as “tags” and thecollection of all events, concepts, procedures, or other items of interest as the “tag universe.”Our solution, MuseInk (Figure 1), addresses these deficiencies while providing visualizationtools to help researchers investigate student work and listen to provided audio commentary.Figure 1: A screenshot of MuseInk playing back student work and adding procedural andconceptual tags from the tag universe. Once inserted, locations of tags will appear as marks inthe replay scrollbar at the bottom of the

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Instructional Innovations in Architectural Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Davis, University of Hartford

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Architectural

for the design process.However, this potential has not realized. We found that requiring the students to fill out anddesign to the LEED checklist has not been very effective. The checklist, while efficientlyorganized, in 7 sections: 1.) Sustainable Sites, 2.) Water Efficiency, 3.) Energy and Atmosphere,4.) Materials and Resources, 5.) Indoor Environmental Quality, 6.) Innovation and DesignProcess, and 7.) Regional Priority Credits, is somewhat restrictive, narrowly focused, and limitsintegration.In architecture, sustainable design should not be an afterthought or a supplement of thearchitectural design, it should be a part of the design process. The integration we were hopingfor was not happening.Design StudioThe Carnegie Report "Building

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Rethinking Traditional Pedagogical Strategies

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jumoke Ladeji-Osias, Morgan State University; Richard Cerkovnik, Anne Arundel Community College; Wesley Lawson, University of Maryland; Lan Xiang, Montgomery College

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Two Year College Division

of the regulations describes the degree6, while the continuous review process isdefined in a separate section7. The degree is defined as follows: (6-1) "Associate of Science in Engineering (A.S.E.)" means a degree that recognizes a mastery in engineering and that: (a) Meets the lower-level degree academic content, outcomes, and requirements for engineering education, similar to the first 2 years of a parallel baccalaureate program in engineering education; (b) Requires at least a 2.0 on a 4.0 grade scale in all courses required by the degree program in computer science, engineering, mathematics, and the physical and natural sciences; and (c) If conferred, transfers without further review

Conference Session

Innovations in Power Education in ECE

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ruben Otero, Student at University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez; Apurva Somani, University of Minnesota; Krushna Mohapatra, University of Minnesota; Ned Mohan, University of Minnesota

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Electrical and Computer

15.458.2The mechanical power in the wind depends on a few factors and is given by4,5: 1 ܲ௪ ൌ ߩ‫ܸܣ‬௪ଷ ሺ૚ሻ 2where ρ is the air density (1.225 kg/m3 at 150 C and 1 atm.), A is cross-sectional area of theblades and Vw is the wind speed. Betz’s Law states that only a fraction of this power can becaptured by the wind turbine [Ref.5]. This fraction of the power in the wind that can be captured bythe wind turbine is called the Power Coefficient (Cp) and is defined as: ܲ௦௛௔௙௧ ‫ܥ‬௣ ൌ ሺ૛ሻ

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Exporting of Higher Education to Developing Countries

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Jordan, Baylor University

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International

their craft toward anend that has meaning as well as economic profit.Engineers are not the only people who are trying this bottom-up approach. Non-engineeringexamples of such an approach to poverty are described in the excellent book10 by ShannonDaley-Harris and Jeffrey Keenan.We have tried several different approaches to involving students on these projects. Among themhave been: 1. Students do the project as a volunteer. Implementation trips are generally done during the summer. This is the most common approach we have used. 2. Students do the project as their Master’s engineering project. This method works well with some students who are highly motivated and for whom this is more than just a project. 3. Students do the

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrian Ieta, State University of New York, Oswego; Rachid Manseur, SUNY-Oswego; Thomas Doyle, McMaster University

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Electrical and Computer

paper is to present the effort underway inrestructuring the lab course for further inclusion in the ECE program, and this experience is thought to beuseful for others as well. II. The laboratory course restructuring planThe Electronics course (3 credit hours) is currently taught in the Physics department in the classicalfashion of a separate theory course and a lab course (1 credit, two-hour labs). The course mainly enrollsPhysics students and is usually of small class size (8 students at the time it was taught by us). In the past,students had issues related to lab experiments decoupled from the studied theoretical concepts, as well asto the level of difficulty of concepts presented in lectures. Old lab equipment as well as minimum helpfrom

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SE Curriculum and Projects

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Conry, Clarkson University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

the body of knowledge that isappropriate for an undergraduate program in software engineering. Just how much of the SEEKis reflected in existing curricula? Table 1 below summarizes the topical content of the SEEK andis derived from Software Engineering 2004. As is evident from this table, not every knowledgearea represented in the SEEK has a “size” that is comparable to that of other knowledge areas.Two of the areas: the areas associated with computing essentials and mathematical andengineering foundations occupy on the order of almost 53% of the entire recommended topicalcontent as represented by the recommended minimum number of hours for each knowledge area.Professional practice, modeling, design, and verification and validation represent

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

attract high school graduates to the program are alsocovered in the paper.Introduction One of the primary requirements of high quality human life in this world is abundantclean energy [1]. The high demand for this precious resource is significantly increasing due tothe industrialization of developing countries. In addition, the global effort in exploring alternateavenues to generate energy is also climbing in an exponential manner to meet this demand [2].As the global population depletes the existing natural resources at a faster rate, many energy-based industries are rapidly exploring alternative energy generation and distribution avenues [3].The consortium will focus its efforts on preparing the high technology alternative

Conference Session

Technological Literacy and the Educated Person

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. William Graff, LeTourneau University; Paul Leiffer, LeTouneau University; Martin Batts, Le Tourneau University; Maria J. Leiffer, LeTouneau University

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

these concepts.1. Everyday Concepts – FeedbackOur society is continually becoming more technically oriented in all aspects of life.Technology may seem mysterious to fuzzies. There is, however, a certain set of basic, Page 15.1367.2easily understood information that “techies” can help fuzzies understand.Some basic concepts, fundamental to those of an engineering discipline, can be appliedto everyday life. For example, a person concerned about his or her weight can use theconcept that “measurement precedes control.” This concept comes from the engineeringprinciple of a feedback loop. If the output of a system is used to control the input, thewhole system

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Teaching II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Walter Schilling, MSOE

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New Engineering Educators

taughtduring the fall quarter. Class B, while not an identical class, served the same constituency. Italso contained many of the same students as Class A, and was of similar material, only differingsignificantly in that it was taught during the winter quarter. Thus, while not an exact match, it isan appropriate comparison with Class A. Freshman Class A Freshman Class B Freshman Course C with Performance Incentive Percent Percent PercentAssignment Submissions Late Late Submissions Late Percent Late Late Early Total Late Early 1 20 0 0.0

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Mentoring First Year Students

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rosemary Patterson, Virginia Tech; Erin Crede, Virginia Tech; Kaitlyn Hines, Virginia Tech; Tyler Aarons, Virginia Tech; Jean-Louis Bile, Virginia Tech; Jared Chelko, Virginia Tech; Whitney Edmister, Virginia Tech; Bevlee Watford, Virginia Tech

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First-Year Programs

opportunity for mentors to learn from the peer leaders and veteranmentors can in turn lead new mentors. The purpose of this study is to assess the relative successof the transition from a single facilitator model to a peer leader model. The following questionsare addressed: 1. How does the peer leader model compare to the single facilitator model with regard to program structure? 2. How does the peer leader model compare to the single facilitator model with regard to feedback?Program StructureThere are 5 different segments of the peer mentoring program developed at a large publicuniversity in Eastern United States. These programs aim to provide the opportunity for all first-year College of Engineering students to be matched with a

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Normative Commitments and Public Engagement in Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Jen Schneider, Colorado School of Mines; Jon Leydens, Colorado School of Mines

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Liberal Education

about the Page 15.475.2history of engineers in development or about the complexity of engaging and listening tocommunities? To fill that void, we conducted historical, ethnographic and other investigations.The main outcomes of this project are a course and a book for engineering students, faculty andpractitioners involved in courses, programs and projects related to ETH. Here we outline themain elements of this project and provide recommendations on where and how to use it inengineering curricula.1. Background of this projectOur journey to ESCD began in a previous curricular experiment in humanitarian engineering.After receiving a large grant

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College-Industry Partnerships: Bringing Industry into the Curriculum Development and Design Cycle

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dave Sly, Iowa State University; Daniel Bumblauskas, Iowa State University; Frank Peters, Iowa State University

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College-Industry Partnerships

universities, and a literature and industry review of sales engineeringcurriculum. These activities were performed by a committee established within the Industrial and Manufacturing SystemsEngineering department (IMSE).Review of Sales and Marketing Positions for EngineersThe committee conducted a review of sales and marketing postings within the COE, on the number of advertised positionsthat had Sales or Marketing in their title or description, as well as the number of graduates with Sales or Marketing in theirjob title. It was interesting to find that while nearly 15% of job postings indicated Sales or Marketing functions, that onlyaround 1% of post-graduation job titles included Sales or Marketing. This difference is attributed, in part, to the fact

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Special Session: Impacts of Service in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Eric Pappas, James Madison University

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Educational Research and Methods

problem solving during their undergraduateeducation.Problem-based learning (PBL), a powerful student-centered pedagogy, offers a strongframework upon which to build a curriculum that will allow our students to learn essential andglobally competitive problem solving skills3-4. Some of the benefits of PBL include: (1)improving students’ problem solving and critical thinking skills, (2) promoting high motivationfor students, (3) increasing the ability to integrate and apply engineering skills with fundamentalsof math and science, (4) enhancing the acquisition and retention of knowledge, and (5)facilitating collaborative learning. Yet, although widely used in engineering, particularly duringthe senior year, PBL practices have not extensively been

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students, Diversity, and Assessment

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica Cox, Purdue University; Osman Cekic, Purdue University; Sara Branch, Purdue University; Rocio Chavela Guerra, Purdue University; James Cawthorne, Purdue University; Benjamin Ahn, Purdue University

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Graduate Studies

constantcomparative method 20 was used to highlight the similar or different views of the respondentsregarding the problems and solutions in graduate student recruitment and retention. Theparticipants responses were grouped by re-reading of the data and possible themes wereidentified. After reading each interview the themes were reviewed and new data was classifiedunder appropriate themes.Findings and DiscussionThe themes that were identified among the sample are discussed in Figure 1. All participantsmentioned the need to raise awareness among potential engineering doctoral students about thebenefits, rewards, and relevance of obtaining such the degree. By educating engineering studentsat all levels, they might learn early the role that Ph.D. recipients

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Hornfeck, Lafayette College

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

interest for sponsoring agencies or businesses. The currentTech Clinic involves six undergraduate students and two faculty members working as aconsulting team over a one academic year period. The team is charged with developingideas to promote economic development and jobs creation in a region seeking toreestablish a business/industrial base. Long-term outcomes are expected that lead to theestablishment of commercially successful enterprises. Bibliography[1] The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Thomas L. Friedman, May, 2000, Anchor Books[2] Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—and How It Can Renew America, Thomas L. Friedman, Farrar, Straus & Gireaux, New York, 2008[3

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Teams and Teamwork in Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wael Mokhtar, Grand Valley State University

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Design in Engineering Education

structure. Page 15.259.3Davis et al14 presented a performance evaluation model that can be used to assess the designcapstone projects. They report four areas for evaluation: (1) personal capacity, (2) teamprocesses, (3) solution requirements, and (4) solution assets. They showed the importance ofdesigning skills and how a capstone project can successfully be used to develop these skills.They indicated that both the student learning and the solution of the problem grow in parallel asthe students are challenged repeatedly, think creatively and develop solutions. The discussionpresented in their work highlights the importance of student creativity as

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History, Program Design, and even a Journal Club

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Blanchard, Florida Gulf Coast University; Robert O'Neill, Florida Gulf Coast University; James Sweeney, Florida Gulf Coast University; Lisa Zidek, Florida Gulf Coast University; Simeon Komisar, Florida Gulf Coast University; Diana Stoppiello, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

, and education. collaborations.Olin used Invention 2000 to develop the entire institution from a blank slate.8, 9 “INVENTION 2000 is a blueprint for developing all academic and operational aspects of the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering from a clean slate. The plan outlines an intense two-year project intended to produce innovative educational processes for preparing the next generation of leaders in a technological society and institutional policies which will establish a commitment to continuous improvement and innovation. Intense efforts will be focused on (1) a comprehensive re-examination of engineering curricula and educational processes, (2) student life and

Conference Session

Curricular Developments in Energy Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jaby Mohammed, The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi; Sana Nawaz, Indiana Purdue Fort Wayne; Reynaldo Pablo, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

national level. Some academic institutionshave modified their curriculum to promote sustainability, and few others are in the process ofdoing so. It is imperative for the universities to modify their curricula to meet the growingdemands of the industry.If this challenge is not responded our students and our community will be failed. More over itcould make us fall behind our peers in the other parts of the world who are racing forward incommitment, action and innovation (Darwish & Agnello 2009).Methodology:The research was conducted in two parts: 1) Studying the Implementation of LEED in the curriculum of Bachelor’s of Science in Construction Engineering Technology at IPFWThe curriculum of Bachelor’s of Science in Construction

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Aspects of Public Policy in Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd Myers, Ohio University; Ben Stuart, Ohio University-Athens

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Engineering and Public Policy

address how this course came to be, how itwas accepted by the faculty and students and how it was used to satisfy ABET accreditation anduniversity requirements.Introduction Technology continues to advance in society at an ever increasing rate and becomes morepervasive in our lives year to year. As this occurs “our elected representatives understand lessand less about it” 1. Engineers and technologists are responsible for many of the technologicalinnovations but are often distanced from the regulatory process that constricts sometimesinappropriately a technology or in some cases does not restrict the technology enough. Engineers and technologists are not typically cross-trained in the social sciences andsocial scientists are not