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EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 1

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Donald Merino

Session 2642 Can Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) be Applied to Projects that are Temporary and Unique? Donald N. Merino, Ph.D., P.E. Stevens Institute of TechnologyAbstractProjects are defined as temporary and unique by the Project Management Institute Body ofKnowledge (PMI BoK). Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) assumes incrementalimprovements over time. If a project is temporary and unique, how can we incrementallyapply CPI over time? How do we develop lessons learned from a temporary project andhow and when do we apply them

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State of the Art in Freshman Programs

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Edward Evans; H. Michael Cheung; Rex Ramsier; Francis Broadway; Sandra Spickard Prettyman; Helen Qammar

Session 1153 Impact of Vertically Integrated Team Design Projects on First Year Engineering Students Helen K. Qammar1, H. Michael Cheung1, Edward A. Evans1, Sandra Prettyman Spickard2, Francis S. Broadway3, Rex D. Ramsier4 Department of Chemical Engineering1/ Educational Foundations and Leadership2/ Department of Curricular and Instructional Studies3/ Departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Chemical Engineering4 The University of Akron Akron, Ohio

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Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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Tim Maxwell; Michael Parten

Session 2003 Development of a Hydrogen Powered HEV as an Interdisciplinary Laboratory Project Micheal Parten, Timothy Maxwell Electrical and Computer Engineering/Mechanical Engineering Texas Tech UniversityI IntroductionOver the past several years, Texas Tech University’s Advanced Vehicle Engineering Laboratory(AVEL) has converted six conventional vehicles to hybrid electric (HEVs) and alternative fueledvehicles for the various Vehicle Challenges sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE),the three major U.S. automobile

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Experience with Experiential Learning

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Donna Summers

Session 2249 Are We Asking Our Students to Do Too Many Projects? It Depends Donna C.S. Summers Charlie P. Edmonson University of DaytonAbstractWe have all heard our students groan as we assign them a project. Most of us accept thissound as the natural order of things, but have we really listened to what the students aretelling us? Have they been the first to recognize that we are asking our students to do toomany projects?The impetus for utilizing projects in a wide variety of courses comes from many

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Capstone Course in Industrial Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

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Akbar Eslami

2004-2128 session# 3250 A capstone design project- Machine Vision System in Inspection Process Kenneth Joyner, Joshua Shipman, Benjamin Mott, Dana Harper, Edward Morris, Akbar Eslami ITT Technical Institute, Norfolk Campus/ Elizabeth City State UniversityAbstractThe purpose of this project is to design an automated inspection system that will identify, accept,or reject parts on a production line. The project simulates a major goal of industry—to monitordeviations in parts geometry. The project begins by integrating five components that worktogether as a system: a

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Design Experiences in Energy Education

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Heather Cooper

Session 2433 Using Projects to Improve Understanding of Introductory Thermal Science Concepts Heather L. Cooper Purdue UniversityAbstractEngineering and technology students often struggle with comprehension of thermal sciencetopics, due to the seemingly abstract nature of the topics when compared with materials ormachine design concepts. For example, it is difficult for some students to “see” the conservationof thermal energy explained by the First Law of Thermodynamics, yet they can easily visualizetransformations between potential

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Student Learning and Research

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Jay Porter; James Ochoa; Joseph Morgan

Session 2147 Project LIVE: A Classroom for Students on the Go J. R. Porter, J. A. Morgan, and J.A. Ochoa Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843Abstract The classical lecture environment represents one of the most important opportunities todirectly interact with students, allowing professors to leverage an array of communication andteaching techniques and to be immediately responsive to students’ questions. However, during alecture students must absorb considerable amounts of new information

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Opportunities in Environmental Engineering Curriculum

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David Pines

Session 3651 Including Service Learning In The Environmental Engineering Research Project David Pines College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture University of HartfordAbstractService learning provides a meaningful service to the community as well as a relevant learningexperience for the student. The service done by the student is linked to course outcomes andenhances the learning experience that occurs in the classroom. Service learning wasincorporated into the civil engineering curriculum at the

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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Sohail Anwar

SESSION 3625 INTEGRATION OF PROJECT BASED LEARNING INTO A FRESHMAN ENGINEERING DESIGN COURSE Sohail Anwar, Todd Batzel, Ed Sell The Pennsylvania State University, Altoona CollegeAbstractEngineering Design and Graphics 100 (ED&G 100) is a project-based introduction toengineering design course for all freshman baccalaureate engineering students at the AltoonaCollege of the Pennsylvania State University. In this three credit-hour course, an engineeringapproach to problem solving is taught with an emphasis on team work, communication(graphical, oral, and written), creativity, ingenuity

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Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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Zsuzsanna Szabo; Darrell Sabers; Reid Bailey

Session 3425 Assessing Student Learning about Engineering Design in Project-Based Courses Reid Bailey, Zsuzsanna Szabo, Darrell Sabers Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering/Educational Psychology/Educational Psychology University of ArizonaABSTRACTTeaching first year engineering students in a meaningful way is an issue struggled with atschools around the world. At the University of Arizona, our Introduction to Engineering coursefocuses on engineering design, communication, and teamwork primarily through three designprojects over the course of one semester. While the

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Trends in Construction Engineering III

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Hung Nguyen; Charles McIntyre

Session 2221 ELECTRONIC PROJ ECT DELIVERY VIA STUDENT GENERATED WEB SITES " LESSONS LEARNED" Char les McIntyr e and Hung Nguyen Civil Engineer ing and Constr uction Nor th Dakota State Univer sityIntroductionIn traditional “project-based” courses (senior level design and capstone courses), the finalproducts are typically paper-based reports and plans (CAD drawings) which include informationrelated to the design and construction aspects of the project. On occasion, the final projects aresubmitted in some form of electronic format

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Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Georgiopoulos

Session 1332 CRCD Experiences at the University of Central Florida: An NSF Project Michael Georgiopoulos*, Jose Castro*, Erol Gelenbe**, Ronald Demara*, Avelino Gonzalez*, Marcella Kysilka*, Mansooreh Mollaghasemi*, Annie Wu*, Ingrid Russell*** (*) University of Central Florida (**) University of Central Florida and Imperial College (***) University of HartfordAbstract Machine Learning has traditionally been a topic of research and instruction in computer scienceand computer engineering programs. Yet, due to its wide applicability in a variety of

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Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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Charles Forsberg

Session 1566 A Student-Centered Senior Capstone Project in Heat Exchanger Design Charles H. Forsberg Department of Engineering, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549OverviewHofstra University recently received a grant from the American Society of Heating,Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) for students to design and build a heatexchanger demonstration unit for the mechanical engineering laboratories. The grant wasawarded through ASHRAE’s Undergraduate Senior Project Grant Program. Senior mechanicalengineering students designed and built the heat exchanger unit as their

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Trends in Construction Engineering II

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Roslyn Smith; Amitabha Bandyopadhyay

SESSION 1621 A Senior Project in Construction Management Technology Based on Work sampling Amitabha Bandyopadhyay, Roslyn Smith SUNY Farmingdale, NY AbstractOne of the problems we face in 4-year engineering technology programs is to motivatestudents to work on a senior project that is based on the research methodology. Moststudents choose instead traditional design projects. The design projects are good forintegrating knowledge from various courses, but students do not get a chance to work onnew innovative areas where they have to

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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Roxanne Jacoby

Session 1793 Instilling Essential Globalization Skills Through Internet Based International Joint-Venture Projects Prof. Roxanne Jacoby Department of Mechanical Engineering The Nerken School of Engineering, Cooper UnionAbstractThe rapid, relentless, globalization of manufacturing and services, and the substantial productivity gains of the pastseveral years, has created the need for well-rounded graduating engineers, understanding the business side ofengineering just as well as the technical side. They also have to

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Technological Literacy I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Samuel Daniels; Bouzid Aliane; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

Session 1661 Project-Based Introduction to Engineering - a University Core Course Jean Nocito-Gobel, Samuel Daniels, Michael Collura, Bouzid Aliane School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, University of New HavenAbstractThis paper describes a first year engineering course that is taken by both engineering and non-engineering students. The project-based Introduction to Engineering course, EAS107P, fulfills auniversity core curriculum elective. Although engineering students take the course during theirfirst year, students from other majors typically elect to take the course later in their curriculum.The focus of EAS107P is

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Industrial-Sponsored Design

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Richard Fry

Session Number: 1325 The Benefits and Trade-offs of Web-Based Industry Sponsored Projects Richard Fry, IDSA, ITEA Assistant Professor, Industrial Design Program School of Technology Brigham Young UniversityIntroductionIndustrial Design has been a part of Brigham Young University for the past 35 years. BYU issituated in Provo, UT – 700 miles in any direction from the closest centers of Industrial Design.Sixty percent of all other industrial Design programs recognized by NASAD are located within100 miles of major manufacturing

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Thomas Mertz

Experiences Using Team Projects in a Freshman Database Course Thomas Mertz Computer Systems Technology College of Technology & Aviation Kansas State University – SalinaAbstractOver the past three semesters, a term project completed by student teams has been incorporatedinto a freshman course that introduces the design and construction of relational databases. Aftereach semester the students were surveyed about their perception regarding the usefulness andlogistics of the team experience. Each semester used a slightly different approach to the project.At the end of the third semester, students

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Charles McIntyre; Hung Nguyen

Senior Design Project Delivery via Student Generated Web Sites - "Lessons Learned" Charles McIntyre and Hung Nguyen North Dakota State UniversityIntroductionIn traditional “project-based” courses (senior level design and capstone courses), the finalproducts are typically paper-based reports and plans (CAD drawings) which include informationrelated to the design and construction aspects of the project. On occasion, the final projects aresubmitted in some form of electronic format (CD, zip, etc.) [2,5]. Currently, many engineering andconstruction firms post project information on company or project specific web sites. In order toprovide students with the “real world” experience

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Multidisciplinary Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Wesner; Cristina Amon

Session Number 3125 Carnegie Mellon’s Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Projects Course Serves a Variety of Students and Project Sponsors John W. Wesner, James H. Garrett, Jr., Eswaran Subrahmanian, Arthur W. Westerberg, Cristina H. Amon Institute for Complex Engineered Systems, Carnegie Mellon UniversityAbstractThe Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES) at Carnegie Mellon University, acontinuation of the former NSF-funded Engineering Design Research Center (EDRC), sponsorsseveral project-based engineering design courses that are open not only to Carnegie MellonCollege of Engineering students, but also to the entire

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Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Thomas Johnson

Session 2550 A New Engineering Degree Program for Secondary School Teachers Thomas G. Johnson Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department California State University, Long BeachAbstract In April 2000, the International Technology Education Association and its Technology forAll Americans Project published Standards for Technological Literacy1. These standards havebecome a major focus in the revision of primary and secondary school curricula across thenation. A renewed emphasis is being placed on teachers to

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K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

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Adnan Javed; Fazil Najafi

Improver Continuous Inspection & Capacity Innovative of a Builder Learner Course on Team Construction Participation Project Skills Work with Real Technical Property on Course or Easement Seminar AcquisitionFigure 2 Checklist Reflecting Sarasota County’s Core Competencies Page 9.1016.7 “Proceedings of the 2004

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Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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Thomas Erekson

to deliver high qualityengineering content and analytical design methods at the high school level. In fact, several stateeducation agencies have taken steps to include engineering content as part of technologyeducation at the secondary level (e.g., Massachusetts, Utah, Wisconsin). Curriculum projectslike Project Lead the Way (PLTW) are examples of high school level engineering programs. The release of the National Standards for Technological Literacy4 by the InternationalTechnology Education Association in the spring of 2000 places technology education in astrategic position with regards to teaching engineering content and analytical methods at themiddle and high school levels. These Standards were developed under a grant from the

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Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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Warren Hill

of the things that make theprogram successful, the history of PLTW, and how colleges and universities can get involvedwith the program. The pre-engineering courses that make up the pre-engineering curriculum inthe high schools are project based and as a result, the students get to immediately apply what theyare learning. The courses that make up the program will be presented and additionally, some ofthe reasons a high school would want to get involved in the program will be discussed.What is Project Lead the Way?Project Lead the Way (PLTW) is a high school pre-engineering program that has as its main focusgetting high school students to enroll in engineering and engineering technology programs incollege and to succeed in those programs. To

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K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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Joseph Reagan; Aldo Morales; Sedig Agili

Session 1460 Real Time Implementation of a Tuning Device Using a Digital Signal Processor Joseph Reagan, Sedig Agili and Aldo Morales E E/ E E T Programs Penn State University at Harrisburg Middletown, PA 17057AbstractIn this paper, an example of the use of a digital signal processing (DSP) board forteaching purposes and project implementation is demonstrated. Project implementation iscarried out through the design of a guitar tuner using a digital signal processor (DSP)platform. The goal of the design is to

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Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ronald Rockland; Levelle Burr-Alexander; Howard Kimmel

the Center forPre-College Programs, the university has been working with students, teachers, guidancecounselors, administrators and parents over the past thirty years to strengthen their skills andknowledge in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Currently, theCenter serves four thousand school-aged students annually. In 2002, NJIT became the sixthuniversity affiliate of a national pre-engineering program, called Project Lead The Way(PLTW), as one of their pre-college thrusts to increase the pool of New Jersey secondaryschool students interested and prepared to enroll and graduate from undergraduate programsin engineering-related programs.About Project Lead The WayIn 1997, Project Lead The Way, a not-for-profit

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Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Naomi Gomez; Jan Rinehart; Robin Autenrieth; Karen Butler-Purry; Angie Hill Price

Session 2550 Enrichment Experiences in Engineering (E3) For Teachers Summer Research Program Angie Hill Price, Karen Butler-Purry, Robin Autenrieth, Jan Rinehart, Naomi Gomez Dwight Look College of Engineering, Texas A&M UniversityAbstractWith funding from NSF, faculty from Texas A&M University have developed an outreachprogram aimed at providing secondary school teachers with laboratory experiences with facultyresearchers. The overall mission of the project is to excite, empower, and educate public schoolteachers about engineering so they in turn will excite, empower, and educate young people theycome in contact with

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Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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Per Andersson

. There is also a lack of guidance and teachingmaterial in the K-6 schools.With the aid of the project described in this paper the participating schools and municipalitiescan get access to thematic visits, ideas, hands-on experiments, pedagogical support and net-working. The overall objective is to secure the future supply of skilled manpower in technicaland engineering positions in the region. We aim to go beyond the traditional external con-tacts with science and technology at primary school level such as visiting science centers andpresentations by researchers. The project prioritizes:o spending more time in the classroom with the pupils – at least one week per class,o adapting activities to each individual class; its curriculum, prerequisites

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K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

Session XX60 “Let’s Go Folks!”: A K-12 Special Program Beyond Social Parameters Claudio da Rocha Brito, Melany M. Ciampi COPEC – Council of Researches in Education and SciencesAbstract“Let’s go Folks!” This is the appealing name of a project which main goal is to help students ofK-12 to develop the necessary skills to choose careers like engineering that for many reasons isso necessary for the development of a country. São Vicente City Hall present administration hasdecided to implement a special program for K-12 in public schools of the city, which resulted inthis

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K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sharon DeReamer; Nick Safai

Engineeringfrom Princeton University in 1977, and MSE in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering in 1974, MSE in CivilEngineering in 1975, and MSE in Petroleum Reservoir Engineering in 1975 all from Princeton University. He holdsa B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan in 1972. Prior to joining the academics, Dr. Safai worked inindustry, where he served as Director of the Reservoir Engineering Division at Chevron Oil Corporation inCalifornia. He has taught both at the graduate and undergraduate levels in engineering science. He has performedresearch projects for the Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Defense (DOD), National ScienceFoundation (NSF) and the Oil Industry. He had authored over 45 technical publications in technical journals