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Information Integration and Security

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2004 Annual Conference

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Melissa Lin

, No. 4, 2002, pp. 697-713, http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/414/cody.pdf17. Apache Web Services Project, http://ws.apache.org18. Java Servlet Technology, http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/archive.html19. Java Technology - The Source for Developer, http://developers.sun.com/20. JDBC Basics, http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/jdbc/basics/21. Java Remote Method Invocation, http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/rmi/22. Java Native Interface, http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/jni/ Page 9.836.1023. ebXML- Electronics Business using XML, www.ebXML.org Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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George D. Gray; Raju Dandu

prospective students, job fair / industry trade show participationand company lunchtime visits. Another unique approach to notifying new students involves anational high school program called “Project Lead the Way”. This is a two year program in pre-engineering studies for high school students. Wichita currently has three local high schoolsinvolved with this program and will be establishing articulation agreements for their graduatingstudents. Obtaining start up scholarship money is also very important to a new program and wehave been fortunate to have The Boeing Company donate $7,200 in scholarship moniesspecifically in support of the MET program. With this recent announcement, we believe thatsome of the other major aircraft companies will follow

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Suzanna Long; David G. Spurlock

director of continuing studies for Pittsburg State University. Currently, she ispursuing a Ph.D. in engineering management at UMR. Her research interests include motivation and career change;training and retention in science education; and the application of systems engineering to records managementsystems.David G. Spurlock is an assistant professor with the Engineering Management Department at the University ofMissouri-Rolla and has over ten years of industry experience in systems engineering and project management. Priorto joining the faculty at UMR, he taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he earned a Ph.D.in organizational psychology. He also holds an M.A. in psychology from Pepperdine University, and a

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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F. G. Edwards; E. W. LeFevre; W. M. Hale

,figural representation, and open-ended questions. Product Assessment includes: reports,research papers, and projects, in the engineering curriculum; but, also includes: diary/journals,portfolios, exhibits, and videos. Performance Assessment in engineering curriculum typicallyincludes: 1) oral presentation or lab demonstration. And lastly, Process-Focused Assessmentincludes: oral questioning and self-assessment checklist.Constructing a good examination takes time, lots of time, and although universities often placepublishing and research dollars above teaching, if instructors take the time to construct goodexaminations their student evaluations should improve (Felder, 1992). Some aspects of a goodexamination are given by Felder (2002) but, other

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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B. Terry Beck; David A. Pacey

measurement & instrumentation, machine design, and senior design projects. He is alsoDirector of the Undergraduate Program. Dr. Pacey received his B.S. (1974) in agricultural engineering andhis M.S. (1979) and Ph.D. (1989) degrees in mechanical engineering from Kansas State University. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section Conference

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Assessment Issues II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Cox; Janice Bordeaux; David Caprette; Beth Beason; Ann Saterbak

. Without a primary focus on generic capabilities, it is especially difficult to holdstudents to the expectation that as they advance in a laboratory program the quality of their workshould advance as well.Many interdisciplinary capstone design courses in engineering implicitly emphasize genericcapabilities. Generic capabilities such as teamwork, communication, critical thinking andmaturity, together with content-specific knowledge, are important to a design group’s success [3-4]. To facilitate this type of interdisciplinary learning environment, students from differentdepartments may be grouped to work on capstone design or laboratory projects [5-8]. Studentsmay also be required to work on projects or experiments requiring knowledge across

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Current Issues in Aerospace Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Wayne Cottrell

Society for Engineering EducationResearch Activity. As indicated earlier, the appropriate method for evaluating transportationresearch activity is not clear. Involvement in the UTCP and the annual meetings of the TRB wasused here, but there are other measures. These would include financial measures, such as theamount of research funding or the number of funded projects, as well as research products, suchas publications by and citations of the faculty. The number of transportation-themeddissertations and theses completed might also be a measure of the level of research.Faculty. Although Cottrell (4) addressed the number of full-time transportation faculty at eachinstitution, this paper did not attempt to summarize this statistic. In the research

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Assessment Issues I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Tyler Cummings-Bond; Robin Adams

. Accuracy of the final compiled list was evaluated with a set of test subjects knownto have CAREER grants yet not be in traditional academic careers paths. As of 2003, thenumber of CAREER recipients in engineering related projects totals 548. Given the goals of thegrant, this population may be described as “low-risk” in that the likelihood of obtaining tenure isquite high.Searching for Current PositionSearching for current position information was time consuming and required many validationsteps. Google® was the primary web search engine used. When Google did not return usefulsearches we used a number of other strategies such as searching the PhD granting institution todetermine if the subject was still hosting a website and using Dogpile®, a meta

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Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

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George Morgan; Gene Gloeckner; Amin Karim; Ahmed Khan

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NASA Fellowship Program

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2004 Annual Conference

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Philip Chen; John Tharakan

. Spacecraft contamination engineering influences spacecraft operations becausecontamination can degrade the physical properties of thermal and optical systems. The presenceof contaminants in the field-of-view affects sensor's operations. Without proper contaminationcontrol, contamination induced degradation will render millions of dollars worth of instrumentsuseless. Over the past decade, the NAFP Fellow (Dr. Chen) has spearheaded spacecraftcontamination engineering projects at NASA, leading a contamination engineering team thatgrew from a small team of 12 to more than 36 NASA scientists, engineers and on-sitecontractors. The purpose of the spacecraft contamination engineering course is to build onfundamental knowledge from physics and

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EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 2

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michelle Summers; Julie Phillips; Nathan Harter; Mark Dean; Donna Evanecky

, Vol. 16(2).5 Wheatley, M. (1992). Leadership and the new science. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler.6 Forrester, J. W. (1990). Principles of systems. Portland: Productivity Press.7Galagan, P.A. (1991). The learning organization made plain: An interview with Peter Senge. Training &Development (37– 44).8 Ackoff, R.L. (1995). Evolution of Management Models. The Center for Quality of Management 1050 V2.1.9 Forrester, J. W. (1995). The Beginning of System Dynamics. The McKinley Quarterly (4) 4-13.10 MIT System Dynamics in Education Project (n.d.) Retrieved January 10, 2004 fromhttp://web.mit.edu/sdg/www/JayForrester.html.BiographiesMARK DEANDr. Mark L. Dean is an assistant professor in the School of Technology at Purdue University, New

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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S. Natasha Beretvas; John Pearce, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

Conversion) hardware and virtual instruments(on the PC) to display the results of circuit measurements in real time. The instruments arerealized completely in software and represent a nearly complete instrument suite, includingarbitrary waveform generators and noise sources. The hardware can be connected to a standardlaptop PC over its PCMCIA bus, and can thus be simultaneously projected onto existingclassroom video systems. This allows the instructor to show circuit solutions in real time usingreal physical devices, with attendant uncertainties in component values, offset voltages, leakagecurrents, and noise. With ELVIS, circuit behavior can be seen by students during lecture rather

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Integrating Taxes, Law, & Business

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2004 Annual Conference

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J. Timothy Cromley

at www.uspto.gov and discussion below.)4. How to Value a PatentThose interested in evaluating a patent should recognize that some investments in R&D or high-tech bear much fruit while many others do not. A project involving telecommunication satellitesin which Motorola and others had invested $5 billion, for example, went into bankruptcy.21Similarly, more than 862 dot-com companies reportedly failed during the 1-1/2 year periodstarting in January 2000.22 Moreover, merely obtaining a patent is no assurance that theunderlying technology has any significant economic value. The top 10% of patents in bothGermany and the U.S. accounted for over 80% of total patent value.23 One economist, BaruchLev, suggests that “the majority of [those

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Issues for ET Administrators

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Stratton; Maureen Valentine; Carol Richardson

engineer, senior engineer, director of engineering, design engineer,president/owner, project engineer, associate professor, department manager, and team leader.The MET Northeastern University survey job titles were engineer, manager, technician,designer, student, and other. Northeastern University reported that 43 of 55 (75%) respondentswith a MET bachelor degree were functioning as either an engineer or manager and 6 of 55(10%) as technicians or designers while 50% of the associate degree respondents were workingas technicians or designers. Northeastern University reported that 45 of 62 (70%) of the EETBS graduates were functioning as either an engineer or manager and 4 of 62 (6%) as technicians.The University of Dayton survey (1992-1996

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Pre-College and ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Frank Cheng

controller’s functions based upon the given control systemspecifications. The GUI design method used in this project also demonstrates the feasibilities forimplementing other techniques in SISO control study using MATLAB-based programming andtools.Bibliography 1. Phillips, C. L., Feedback Control Systems, 4th ed. Prentice Hall, 2000. 2. The Mathworks, Manual of Simulink, Version 5, 2002. 3. The Mathworks, Manual of Control Tool Box, 2002. 4. The Mathworks, Manual of MATLAB, 2002BiographyFRANK S. CHENG is an associate professor in the Department of Industrial and Engineering Technology at CentralMichigan University. He received a M.S. degree and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Chenghas taught courses in

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Course/Program Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

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Suguna Bommaraju

was administeredrandomly about 5 times over the semester. At the beginning of the semester one-minuteevaluations were administered every week and later spaced bi weekly (total 7). The assessmentof teaching effectiveness and learning was mostly from the student’s perception. Center for theenhancement of learning and teaching has helped tremendously throughout the project. As thisprogram was implemented for the first time, there was no external help either in terms ofteaching assistants or other faculty members.III.1 Weekly QuestionnaireAt the end of the class, students are asked to fill out a weekly questionnaire. These weeklyquestionnaires are conducted randomly throughout the semester. The number of studentsparticipated in these assessments

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New Electrical ET Course Development

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2004 Annual Conference

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James Zhang

Telecommunications Program at Western Car-olina University. Dr. Zhang’s research interests include Communications Theory, Wireless Networks, BandwidthEfficient Modulation Schemes, Signal Design and Information Coding, and Digital Signal Processing Techniquesfor Communications. Dr. Zhang is a member of IEEE and ASEE. KEN BURBANK is an Associate Professor and Director of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technologyat Western Carolina University. Dr. Burbank is active with IEEE, SME, and TAC of ABET, and strives to bringpractical engineering activities into the classroom. His current project is the development of a photonics programwithin the Electrical Engineering curriculum. ROBERT ADAMS is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Caroline Baillie

link between research, practice and teaching.AcknowledgementsI would like to thank the interviewees for their time and patience, Ference Marton, JonasEmanuelsson and the Dept. of Education and Educational Research, Gothenburg University, TheTrecentenary Foundation of the Bank of Sweden and the ‘AGORA’ project Wissenschaftskolleg,Berlin, for supporting this study.Bibliography1..J.Bowden, and F.Marton., The University of Learning Kogan Page, (1998)2.Driver, Rosalind/Asoko, Hilary/ Leach, John/ Mortimer, Eduardo/ Scott, Philip, (1994) “Constructing ScientificKnowledge in the Classroom”, Educational Researcher, 23, Issue 7, pp.5-123.JohnCowan Beyond reflection where next for curricula which concentrate oncapabilityin Baillie and Moore (Eds) (2003

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BME Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

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Robert Roselli

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Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sayward Touton; Cory McDonald; Amy Monte; Gretchen Hein

PeaceCorps volunteer. This service is considered the equivalent of seven research credits. Uponcompletion in the Peace Corps, M.I. students must defend a project report, rather than atraditional thesis, detailing their accomplishments as a volunteer. These students, from acrossthe country, were selected to be mentors in the GUIDE program because they typically havediverse interests and are service motivated. As the most academically experienced, the graduatestudents are the leaders of each group and responsible for mentoring both undergraduatestudents.Having just completed their first year in the GUIDE scholarship program, the second yearundergraduate students may have sophomore or junior status. They have exhibited a desire tocontinue an education

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Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2004 Annual Conference

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Keith Koenig; Viva Austin; Bryan Gassaway; Thomas Hannigan

or senior seminar project has provided a continual update of aportable wind tunnel system. This system was effectively used in classroomdemonstrations and student lab activities for fluid mechanics and aerospace engineeringclasses. The present requirement of all ASE 4721 laboratory students to design andimplement a complete data acquisition and control program for this wind tunnel system isan effective tool for gauging readiness of those students to move beyond rudimentarytraining received in ASE 4113. This task provides good motivation to all upper divisionstudents who are required to take these courses, and improves their confidence in theirabilities to perform incidental programming. Using a complex benchmark assignmentreviews those

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sean Holleran; Elaine Chan; Chad Rasmussen; Alan McGaughey

several advantages, such as more freedom in theirchoice of thesis advisor and project, and are more desirable candidates to admissionscommittees. The workshop consists of a panel made up of a variety of speakers who stressdifferent aspects of the fellowship application process. In 2002 the panelists included a financialaid coordinator from the UM Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department, two UMfaculty members who review grant applications for the National Science Foundation, arepresentative from the UM Sweetland Writing Center, and several UM graduate students who Page 9.217.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for

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ERM Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

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Malinda Zarske; Janet L. Yowell; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan; Lawrence E. Carlson

tools is provided to the teachers to take back totheir classrooms. All such curricula will become available online in late 2004 through theTeachEngineering digital library collection.SettingOne aspect of our professional development workshops that appeals to teachers is theopportunity to come to the university and spend time learning away from their classrooms. Theteachers in our four-day workshops, for example, constructed hands-on engineering projects thatrequired resources not commonly found in a K-12 school, such as a CNC laser cutter. This was agreat new experience for most teachers. However, for teachers that were not local, commuting tothe university and paying for accommodations was a deterrent from attending. The newer two-day workshop

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Watkins; Joel Esposito; Matthew Feemster

. experiment results, critique the proposed simulationmodel, and then augment the model in an effort to improve simulation accuracy. In each componentof the project, the students utilized the WinCon real-time interface to actuate the robotic link and tocollect measurements from the numerous sensors embedded on the physical plant. In Section 2, weprovide a brief overview of the course objectives. In Section 3, a description of the WinCon real-time interface and the rigid-link, flexible joint system is presented. The modular laboratory exercisesare described in Section 4. In Section 5, the success of the sequence of laboratory exercises isquantified in the form of follow-up evaluation sheets completed by the participating students.2 Course Overview

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Interdisciplinary Approaches

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2004 Annual Conference

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Robert Creese

C. “Time-Based Break-Even Analysis and Costing”, 1998 AACE International Transactions,AACE International, Morgantown, WV pp. ABC.02.1-ABC.02.6.2. Robert C. Creese, “Time-Based Breakeven Analysis”, 1998 Joint Cost Management Societies Proceedings, pp.AACE.02.01 - AACE.02.07.3. Creese, Robert C. “:A New Break-even Analysis Uses Production Time vs. Quantity”, Modern Castings, March1996, p. 52-3.4. Hand field, Robert B., and Ernest L. Nichols. Introduction to Supply Chain Management, Upper Saddle River,NJ, Prentice-Hall, (1999), pp 53-4.5. Newbold, Robert C. Project Management in the Fast Lane-Applying the Theory of Constraints, St. LuciePress/APICS Series on Constraints Management, Boca Raton, FL. St Lucie Press (1998), 284 pp.Bibliographic

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Maintaining the Engineering Workforce

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2004 Annual Conference

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Douglas Jacobson

guarantee for admission to the M.S. in computer engineering program.Increased marketing has led to increased off campus enrollment, which was to be expected butdoes pose a problem for the instructors of the courses. The two courses with the highest offcampus enrollments are Information System Security and Information Warfare, each withtypically over 60 off campus students. The former has several large projects which creates agrading increase for the instructor. The department has provided Teaching Assistants (TA) tohelp with the overload. Information Warfare has a lab component with one large “break-in” labthat lasts several weeks. Since the labs are all designed to be accessed over the internet the

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Recruitment and Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

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Alan Price

the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering”spatially referenced data sets—i.e., data reference by location in space, described in terms ofshape, place, and relationship to other spatial data, and contains attribute information—ArcMap8.2 from ESRI 9 was used to analyze and present the results of the study.V. Research Methods and DatasetsThis paper is a descriptive and exploratory study of the early use of GIS at DeVry University,Pomona, to data mine using freely available California state educational data and DeVryUniversity historical student data. Data or information needed to complete the project

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Nontraditional Ways to Engage Students

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2004 Annual Conference

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Thomas O'Neal; Thomas Jacobius; Joseph Steig; Arnold Heggestad; Abigail Barrow; Phil Weilerstein; David Barbe

of Research. He serves on the boards of several Venture Funds and has been involved in multiple startups.THOMAS M. JACOBIUSTom Jacobius is Director of Interprofessional Studies and The IPRO® Program at Illinois Institute of Technology inChicago, Illinois. Tom received the B.S. degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Illinois Institute ofTechnology and the Master of Management degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Managementwith a concentration in marketing. He has established the interprofessional project (IPRO) team course requirementas IIT’s signature educational experience for students across all disciplines and professional programs and allacademic levels, and involving just as broad a range of faculty

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Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Elsa Bruno; David Swanson; David Barnhart; David Richie; Jerry Sellers; Kenneth Siegenthaler

mission of the Astronautics Department is to produce the world’s finest Air Force officerswho live our core values of integrity, service, and excellence and understand space. In keepingwith this mission, the Department has created the Space Systems Research Center (SSRC) andthe FalconSAT program1. Our philosophy of “Learning Space by Doing Space” is carried outthrough the SSRC. This center provides a facility in which our astronautics majors can design,assemble, test, and operate small, scientifically relevant satellites. FalconGold, FalconSAT-1,and FalconSAT-2 were the first spacecraft in a series of projects created by cadets. In recentyears, the program has expanded to include select management, physics, computer science, andelectrical

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Steven Hietpas

Page 9.105.10Cradled Dynamometer Design. The cradled dynamometer was design by two mechanicalengineering students for their senior design project. The design consists of two parallel I-beamrails, with cross members, mounted on locking castors. Between the rails is mounted a 5 kW DCfield wound generator, with shafts extended out each end, to enable connection of motors ateither side. The generator is cradled with bearings at each side. A lever arm is mounted on thelower side of the generator and extended to a compression/expansion transducer, which isconnected to one of the I-beam rails. The output of the transducer is sent to an signal transducerand display unit (original equipment manufacturer, OEM). With proper calibration, students areable