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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Norb Delatte

). Page 8.400.7Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 7: The faculty workshop pageThe workshop outline is as follows: • Introduction • Sources for case materials • Engineering Mechanics cases • Structural Engineering cases • Other CE courses • Ethics, Professional Issues, and Capstone Design • Forensic engineering courses • Group discussion and brainstormingSeveral colleagues from the ASCE TCFE Education Committee – Kevin Rens, PaulBosela, Ken Carper, and Oswald Rendon-Herrero – will assist in the workshop asinstructors.Future ActivitiesThis is a “proof-of-concept” project

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Assessment in BME Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Gassert

.2This was also the practice at MSOE and remains the practice for all engineering programs atMSOE except for BE. The BE faculty concluded that design cannot be taught in just one year.Learning design takes practice and time. As a result, in 1992, the MSOE faculty introduced a BEcurriculum that included a four-year capstone project.3 The BE faculty believe that the four-year design process is important for two reasons.First it gave students time to learn and understand the importance of the design process.Secondly, it provides a valuable assessment tool whereby the BE faculty can assess studentlearning not only for design but also for other curriculum outcomes.3 The roll of the capstonedesign course for assessment and continuous quality

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stephen Peretti; Paula Berardinelli; Naomi Kleid; Deanna Dannels; Chris Anson; Lisa Bullard; Dave Kmiec

programs have engaged in comprehensive curricularchange, others have designed new stand-alone communication courses for engineering students4. Manyof these communication-intensive courses target technical communication as a key critical skill to learn5.Other such communication courses for engineers focus on different communication skills such aslistening, teamwork, visual aids, group creativity, and audience analysis6. Most often, the communication and teamwork instruction that occurs in engineering curricula iswithin the senior capstone course (such as a design course). In many of these cases, senior level coursesinclude assignments that require communication and teamwork skills such as team design projects, teambrainstorming sessions, or

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Matthew Campbell

Education Figure 2: The students begin by developing their web portfolio within a nine step introductory “wizard”.resolved by an environment similar to that of a word processor, the issue of getting students tocompose concise descriptions of their projects is still a problem. This difficulty is addressed inthe next section.2.2 From the Bottom up (Moore)ME 333T, Engineering Communication, is a required course that students usually take duringtheir junior year. It is a prerequisite for the design methodology course and the capstone designcourse. The major project in the course is a semester-long research project that culminates in aformal report on a topic relevant to engineering or science. In the spring

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Paul Hallacher

traditional instruments/techniques (DSC, NMR, DMA) to probe details at the nanometer level; • a seminar series on nanotechnology (with invited external speakers from industry, and academia), including field trips to industrial sites; and • a senior project (or capstone thesis for the engineering majors). Efforts are also underway within the Department of Engineering Science andMechanics of the Penn State College of Engineering to develop a minor course of studyin nanotechnology. The cornerstone of this effort is an existing senior year/graduatecourse in nanotechnology, which has already been offered two times to more than 50students. This course, entitled Nanotechnology: Methods and Applications addresses thequestion

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Construction Engineering Advances II

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2003 Annual Conference

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Charles McIntyre

– CE 204 CE 204 CE 204 CE 204 3:00 3:00 – CME 320 CME 320 CME 320 4:00 CAPSTONE CAPSTONE 4:00 – CME 370 CME 370 5:00 Figure 2. CCL Use Analysis - Fall Semesters MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 8:00 – CME 325 CME 325 CME 325 9:00 9:00 – CME 205 CME 205 CME 205 10:00 CE 483

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Michael Batchelder; Elaine Linde; Dan Dolan; Daniel Dolan

CompE.Student teams have become very successful at completing the increasingly imaginativeprojects they choose.Results from the five years over which the course has been developed show increases inteaming skills; increased cooperation among students of different departments leading tomore multidisciplinary capstone design projects; increased multidisciplinary participationin student competitions such as IEEE Robotics, American Solar Challenge, and FormulaSAE; increased levels of enjoyment as students succeed in real engineering projects(especially obvious as students cheer on their team’s robot in the end of semestercompetition). Page 8.844.1IntroductionSDSM&

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Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Harvey Lyons

teaming skills will continue throughout the curriculum by including “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 8.1055.4 Copyright June 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”team-based, open-ended design projects in the engineering mechanics, fluid mechanics,thermodynamics and machine design courses. The author has employed his mechanics andmachine design courses as precursor for the capstone effort by promoting the projectrequirements initially implemented in the freshman introductory course. The capstone effort isthen no longer afflicted with an

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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MICHAEL HOLTZ; Chandra Sekhar; Ashfaq Ahmed; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

Session 1311 INTERNET BASED LESSON AND TEST DELIVERY, AUTOMATIC GRADING AND RECORD KEEPING SYSTEM Omer Farook, Chandra R. Sekhar, Jai P. Agrawal, Ashfaq Ahmed and Michael Holtz Purdue University CalumetABSTRACTThe paper describes the “Internet Based Lesson and Test Delivery, Automatic Grading and RecordKeeping System”. This system is conceived and designed as part of the Senior Design Project ofElectrical Engineering Technology curriculum during a two-semester course offering. These twocourses are the capstone courses in Electrical Engineering Technology curriculum offered in 7th and8th semester. This

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Satish Ranade; Howard Smolleck

. Faculty and industry advisors, workingjointly, carefully coordinate student activities. The Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) assumed the lead in helping toinitiate the program by committing internship positions and providing financial support for eachof the students. Three senior students, two juniors, and an exchange student initially joined theprogram and completed the first two power courses in the Spring 2002 semester. These studentswere employed by faculty during the Spring 2002 semester and three of them worked for PNMduring the subsequent summer, after which they returned in the Fall to complete the powersequence. The senior students from this group are also completing their Capstone Designsequences with projects

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Assessment of Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jack McGourty

among themselves in order tomake changes to team process in support of the design project.At the end of the course, student teams presented their final designs to a panel of subject matterexperts including course faculty, alumni, and members of Columbia’s science and technologyventure group, who facilitate the University’s patent licensing and other innovation-relatedventures. To assess the team project outcomes, an evaluation rubric was adapted from workconducted at the University Pittsburgh for a senior capstone design course within their productrealization certification track [12]. As with the original Pitt rubric, the Columbia projectevaluation rubric was based on the specific project requirements. Student project teams and theirdesigns

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nam Kim; Sean Clancey

implemented in an effort to determine whether the curriculum meets educationalobjectives set forth by ABET EC2000 as well as program criteria set forth by the AIChE. Theseare the eight tools: (1) a department “skills test” administered to graduating seniors who volunteerto take the test; (2) internal and external reviews of plant design reports and AIChE senior designprojects; (3) an exit interview of graduating seniors, conducted by the department head, regardingtheir views of the curriculum; (4) a survey, conducted by the College of Engineering, of alumnitwo and five years after graduation; (5) portfolio of written material in capstone andcommunications classes; (6) internal and external review of oral presentations in capstone courses;(7) student

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Gene Liao; Gregory J. Koshurba

Session Design of a Universal Robot End-effector for Straight-line Pick-up Motion Gene Y. Liao Gregory J. Koshurba Wayne State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes a capstone design project in developing an end-effector for robotic arm thatis capable of grasping objects of varying sizes. The design parameters are as follows. Thecenter point of end-effector should remain as close as possible to the same location, i.e. astraight-line path, over the range of gripper motion. The selected size and shape of the graspedobject are

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Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steven O'Hara; John Phillips

the structuralconcepts to their future design projects, as well as build on their knowledge of structures.Architecture : Shading indicates level of Architectural Engineering Faculty contact/emphasis Page 8.690.1“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Oklahoma State University’s School of Architecture offers five year professional degrees inArchitecture and Architectural Engineering. The first two years of the five year curriculumconsist of the pre-professional program, in which architecture and architectural

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Azzedine Lansari; Abdullah Abonamah; Akram Al-Rawi, McKendree University; Faouzi Bouslama, Université Laval

report. The report will become part of the student’s record and is forwarded to colleges.The colleges can then decide on how they wish to use this feedback in decisions regarding entryto internship.During their final baccalaureate year, Zayed University students must successfully complete aninternship and develop a capstone project. The capstone project serves as a culminating focalpoint, encouraging students to tie together the knowledge, skills and abilities they have developedduring their learning experience at the university. Students’ abilities in the ZU Learning Outcomeareas are assessed in connection with both the internship and capstone. In their internship

Conference Session

Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Wierman John; Shoukas Artin; Robert Allen; Larry Aronhime

where 10-13 teams of 10 undergraduate students each work on independent projectsannually posed by sponsors such as researchers, clinicians and individuals in need. The designprojects culminate in a prototype and final report. About ¼ to ½ of these projects have potentialfor commercial application. In entrepreneurship and management, a program exists where teamsof between three and five undergraduate students develop business plans for ideas that areproposed to them by biomedical engineering students. Business plans for projects withcommercial potential examine factors necessary to convert the project idea into a viableenterprise. Such issues include market size, revenue and reimbursement, market penetrationstrategies, costs of operations, legal

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Nestor; David Rich

design of bipolar devices are de-emphasized, but not eliminated. Similarly, we retainbasic coverage of discrete-component design. We add coverage of integrated circuitprocessing and the design of basic analog and mixed-signal circuits at the transistor andlayout levels.In the lab, students start with traditional exercises using operational amplifiers, discretecomponents, and circuit simulation. They next undertake integrated circuit projects thatinclude the design and layout of basic logic gates and differential pairs. The labconcludes with a capstone project where students design, lay out, and simulate complexcircuits based on material found in IEEE technical publications.The resulting course sequence gives ECE students a better understanding

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Miskimins

Page 8.921.1geological engineering (GE), geophysical engineering (GP), and petroleum engineering (PE).Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationThis class is a senior design capstone course and is required for graduation from the PetroleumEngineering Department. The class is an elective for undergraduates from the Geology andGeological Engineering and Geophysical Engineering Departments who are interested in pursuinga career in the petroleum industry. The class is taught by a faculty team comprised of one memberfrom each of the three disciplines.The main objectives of the MPD course are the development of team skills, the

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Potpourri Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Walter

Session 2003-1393 Teaching Engineering Design – One University’s Program Patrick L. Walter, Ph. D. Engineering Department, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TXabstractThis paper describes the design process as taught at Texas Christian University (TCU). Theintent of the design course is to develop student engineers capable of a seamless transition toindustry. Success in industry is primarily based on three criteria: (1) schedule – did the projectget completed on time, (2) cost – did the project get completed within budget, and (3)performance – did the delivered product(s) satisfy the customer? The

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Josue Njock-Libii

design projects in advanced mechanics of materials; Atherton (1998) 1 discusses controls;Schilling & Hagen (2000) 34, sanitary engineering; Lightner, Carlson, Sullivan, Brandenmuehl &Reitsma (2000)17, the concept of a living laboratory in Colorado; and Westerberg &Subrahmanian (2000)43, product design.D. Senior year: Capstone Design courses: These courses are offered toward the end of theundergraduate career of students to allow them to integrate what they have learned. Typically,they solve a practical problem that is both substantial and relevant. Capstone design courses aretaught in a wide variety of approaches. Two sample references to capstone designs are: a casestudy in which senior designs were supervised and evaluated by

Conference Session

Course and Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Rennels

technology students are notpermitted to take the FE exam during their senior year in the state of Indiana. Additionally, whilethe FE exam does cover a wide range of topics, it lacks questions in several of the requiredsubject areas of the CIMT and MET programs, thereby making it limited as an assessment tool.These graduation exams have been incorporated in the capstone, senior design project courserequired in each program. MET students take MET 414, Senior Design Projects and CIMTstudents take CIMT 481, Integration of Manufacturing Systems in the 8th semester in theirrespective plans of study. The exam represents 10% of the student’s grade for these courses. Itwas decided by the department’s faculty that to insure that students take the exam

Conference Session

Current Issues in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

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Lloyd J. Griffiths; Anne J. Marchant; E. Bernard White

curriculum reflects the latest advances in the IT field, includinginterdisciplinary and global approaches where appropriate. An acceptable level ofcompetency in IT can be achieved within the constraints of the required 120 semestercredit hours of class work and projects. This number of credits meets Universityrequirements as well as the existing Commonwealth of Virginia guidelines forundergraduate degrees.In addition to University General Education [GE] requirements, including humanities andsocial sciences as well as mathematics and basic sciences requirements, the BS-IT programrequires IT foundation, core, and concentration courses as described below. Eachconcentration includes a seven-hour capstone design project. As shown in the sampleschedule in

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Current Issues in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

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Michael Brzoska; Atsushi Inoue; Min-Sung Koh; William Loendorf

), CSCD 350 (Software Design I), CSCD 440 (OperatingSystems), TECH 377 (Microprocessors II), TECH 416 (Data Communications), TECH 490(Senior Capstone), TECH 491 (Senior Development Project), CSCD 451 (Software Design II),and TECH 417 (Network Security).Prior to any development of the curriculum, two curriculum research and planning activities willbe completed. The first is to conduct a survey of at least 10 schools operating ABET-accreditedsoftware engineering technology degree (or closely related) programs to gain useful programinformation. The survey will ask questions about curriculum and pedagogy; texts and materialsused; laboratory facilities, manuals, and exercises; student enrollment and retention demographicsand strategies; faculty

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Innovative Teaching Methods in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Silvanus Udoka; Paul Stanfield

seniordesign projects. Additionally, most industrial engineers have experience interacting with otherengineers earlier in their academic career through common engineering courses. However,interaction with business students rarely occurs before the senior year, if then. This deficiencyprevents the development of a key skill required for industrial engineering practice. This paper describes two innovative approaches to experientially teach multidisciplinaryproblem solving to teams of engineering and business students. Both approaches allow theinteractions to occur earlier in the curriculum. The first approach is through class partnering.Such partnering emulates more long term interdisciplinary efforts such as design teams andconfiguration

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Multimedia Engineering Education,Distance, Service, & Internet-Based Approaches

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Prince Anyalebechi; Okechi Egekwu

year a student acquires deeper understanding byselecting an emphasis or concentration area. This requires a student to take a minimum offour 4xx-level courses and six credit hours of capstone work (i.e., 18 credit hours) in aspecific technology area. To broaden their undergraduate education, students, in addition tothe ISAT courses, must also satisfy a required 30 credit hours of liberal studies (generaleducation) electives. Twenty-one credit hours are available as approved electives toencourage the student to develop further in an ISAT related area of interest. The capstoneof the program is a senior project, in which students work in teams of four to six membersto solve an industry or government-related problem. These problems are

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Student Chapters - Formulas for Success

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Evans; Eric Lachance; Allen Estes

” Session 3215appear until the final semester during independent study projects, the capstone designexperience, or in the professional practices course. Until then, problems may be open-ended, butnot necessarily creative.Competitions associated with the ASCE Regional Student Conference provide a venue forstudents to be highly creative in their entries and their presentations. The AISC Steel Bridgecompetition offers a set of functional requirements. Students design and fabricate a steel bridgethat carries the required load while minimizing weight and deflection and maximizing aestheticquality. There is no approved solution and the students only have to do it better than otherstudents who presumably have the same skills and knowledge background. The

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Corradeschi; Raymond Carr; Lewis Natiello; Donald Carlucci; Albert Messano; Keith Sheppard

expanded design course sequence, having a design course each semesterto form a Design Spine1. The Design Spine allows development of many of the “soft skills”demanded of engineering graduates, as embodied in ABET Criteria 2000, by evolving them overthe four years of the design sequence. It is also a means to enhance learning, as each of the designcourses is linked to engineering courses taught concurrently. The first five design courses of theDesign Spine are core requirements for all engineering disciplines. This takes the students intothe second half of Junior Year when they take Design 6 in their chosen discipline. Design 7 & 8are the disciplinary capstone senior design courses in Senior Year.The core sequence starts in 1st semester with an

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Frontiers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Wilson; Kim Needy; Karen Bursic

forstudents pursuing a Bachelors degree in Engineering Technology for the Mechanical, Civil andElectrical disciplines. Three sections of ET 1103 are offered each calendar year with enrollmentsof approximately 30 students each.These courses (IE 1040 and ET 1103) are for the most part taught in isolation of other courses inwhich the concepts can (and should) be applied (such as senior design “capstone” courses). Theauthors have made strides to more fully integrate engineering economic analysis into the IndustrialEngineering curriculum in the senior design course. However, more can be done to integrate itfurther within the Industrial Engineering curriculum as well as within the other engineeringdisciplines.Project DescriptionThe project contains three

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Vieth; Kazem Kazerounian

advanced undergraduate students (called Galileo Ambassadors) to assist high school teachers in delivering and implementing the modules mentioned in (1) above, as well as to be a resource (to students and teachers) in engineering, science and math education; 3) Sponsorship of a capstone "Engineering Competition" between the participating school districts where each team, under the mentorship of Ambassadors, is given the same engineering problem to solve; 4) Designating several two-semester Senior Design Projects in the School of Engineering to education intensive projects in which selected high school students participate as team members; 5

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Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Taylor

levels of interest, a formal course of study leading to anEntrepreneurship Certificate is available. The certificate program requires a minimum of 15semester hours. Students gain knowledge in finance, marketing, and accounting followed by amanagement course in entrepreneurship where the capstone project is a business plan. The following elements are discussed in detail below: the seminar series, the “companyexperience and the Idea Fair, the Certificate, and the leadership of the program.The Seminar Series The Seminar Series is a weekly event that interested students can attend on an ad hoc basisor can take for one hour of class credit. Credit enrollment is currently about 40 students. Weeklyattendance is typically 100 students. This