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2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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R. Asmatulu; E. Asmatulu; B. Zhang

, 2006, pp. 964-967. Biographical Information RAMAZAN ASMATULU Dr. Asmatulu has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Wichita State University for five years. He has conducted several research in the area of nanotechnology, biotechnology and education, and published over 100 journal articles and conference proceedings. He has developed nanotechnology research and teaching laboratories, and taught courses in his areas.Proceedings of the 2010 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education,Lawrence, KS, September 22-24, 2010 11 EYLEM ASMATULU Mrs

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2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Charles Baukal; Joe Colannino; Wes Bussman; John Matsson

, proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, paper AC 2007-1562.12 P. Dunn, Creating industrial partnerships with construction-management technology programs, proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, paper AC 2009- 1114.13 F.S. Gunnerson, R.T. Jacobsen and G. Pillay, A strategic alliance between regional universities and industry at a national laboratory, proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, pp. 3895-3903.14 C. Baukal, J. Colannino, W. Bussman, and G. Price, Industry instructors for a specialized elective course, proceedings of

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2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Keith E. Hedges

dramatic event that has broad impacts in engineering. Educatorsmay identify a significant event as the Kansas City Hyatt walkway collapse. Although thisbecame a learning moment in engineering education, its discussion or laboratory reenactmentexhibits synchronicity between the instructor and the learner and not the learner and the event.This asynchronous experience has the students learning about the event with a historicalsensibility. All of the relevant conclusions from academia and practice are available in the publicdomain. When engineering programs lack courses engaging real-time phenomena, they mayinhibit students from thinking critically and formulating their own opinions and conclusions fromlive events. A need exists for exploring

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2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Sara E. Wilson; Peter W. Tenpas; Ronald L. Dougherty; Christopher D. Depcik; Kenneth Fischer

faculty to include more Proceedings of the 2010 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education  6   evaluation components in their presentation or by changes in the measurement andinstrumentation curriculum.A challenge for the department during this period has been a large growth in the size of theundergraduate program, which has presented considerable strain on the laboratory classesincluding measurement and instrumentation classes. These results demonstrate that while theincreased

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Timothy J. Annesley; David P. Miller

diverse set of projects than is typically found inrobotics classes; many of which may concentrate on building towards a single task.11.1 Class StructureIn order to best understand the function of the course it’s first necessary to outline the structureof the course. Enrollment for the course was capped at 30 due to lab size and Teaching Assistantlimitations. Each week, the entire class met once for a 50-minute lecture then, again, in groupsof 15 for a 110-minute laboratory session. Each group of 15 was then divided into teams of 3.The teams worked together for the duration of the semester. The idea behind teamwork is to An earlier version of this paper appeared in the proceedings for the Global Conference on Educational RoboticsJuly 2008

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Wei Zhang

the learning outcome ofthe introductory computer architecture course.References[1] David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy. Computer organization and design, thehardware/software interface. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2005.[2] Homepage of SPIM simulator. http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~larus/spim.html[3] Sally L. Wood, Chris Dick. Concepts of parallelism in an introductory computerarchitecture course with FPGA laboratories. In Proc. of the ASEE/IEEE Frontiers inEducation Conference, 2004.Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 10[4] N. Calazans, F. G. Moraes and C. Marcon. Teaching computer

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Ana Goulart; Charles Watkins; Robert Hegedus

network architectures and protocolsthat have not been used together very often. New and usually expensive equipment may not beavailable in our laboratories to test these new technologies. Thus, we are taking advantage of ourcommunication networks modeling and simulation course to teach new technologies andprotocols and test their integration.As an example of this approach, this paper presents a course project that our junior studentsperformed. The goal of this project was to evaluate voice over IP (VoIP) over 802.11 wirelesslocal area network (WLANs). As discussed in [1], “both IP voice and 802.11 WLANs are newtechnologies, and so the base of practical experience in merging the two is small.” Voice over IPapplications are real-time applications

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Christopher C. Ibeh; Monika Bubacz; Andrey Beyle; Stefano Bietto; Stan Scoville; Dilip Paul; Charles Blatchley

nanotechnology and nanocomposites in industry and society, developmentof simple, cost-effective laboratory experiments (teachers), enhancement of research anddevelopment skills, and development of entrepreneurial skills.Several undergraduate and graduate students are sponsored year-long by CNCMM, andare required to participate in CNCMM’s research, education, ethics, entrepreneurship,assessment and dissemination (RE3AD) program[26]. ConclusionsCNCMM is a viable research and education unit at Pittsburg State University that ispositioned to enhance Kansas’ relatively new nanocomposites industry by establishing anexcellent research and education center for nanocomposites and multifunctional materialswith focus on naval

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2006 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Lawrence E. Whitman P.E., Wichita State University; Don Malzahn, Wichita State University

ofcurriculum concepts generally using a laboratory environment or case study.‘Authentic involvement’ uses industry partners to place the students in a realworld environment solving problems that are of benefit to the partner while stillrequiring students to synthesize curriculum concepts. The capstone experience inthe Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department at WSU is that of the‘authentic involvement’ type and somewhat unique in that it requires students toparticipate in two dissimilar semester-long, group projects in industry. Studentsare required to enroll in the class in their last two semesters. Therefore, thestudents take the class twice. Each semester the student works with a differentgroup of students and at a different company in a

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2006 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Rena Hixon; Steve E. Watkins; Sean J. Bentley; Marcus Huggans

Science from the University of Missouri-Rolla. She was a software design engineer fornine years, a MVS systems programmer for two years, and a teaching fellow at Wichita State University. Shecurrently is involved in precollege outreach through a homeschool robotics club. E-mail: erhixon@swbell.netSTEVE E. WATKINS received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas - Austin in Electrical Engineering in 1989.He holds an M.S.E.E. and a B.S.E.E. from University of Missouri - Rolla. He is currently a Professor at UMR andDirector of the Applied Optics Laboratory. His research interests include optical sensing, smart system applications,and engineering education. E-mail: steve.e.watkins@ieee.orgSEAN J. BENTLEY received his Ph.D. in Optics from the

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Gaffar Gailani; Sidi Berri; NIEVES ANGULO

revision and updating of 5 existing courses atCity Tech and HCC. The project will result in i. Developing curriculum for two new multidisciplinary courses “Introduction to Research Management”, and “Special Topics in Remote Sensing”. ii. Updating and revising six courses to incorporate NASA-relevant material (4 courses at City Tech and 2 at HCC); the courses will be detailed in the next section. iii. Acquiring a limited amount of engineering laboratory equipment to support the new course and the revised courses. iv. Overall, improving the quality and content of the offerings at City Tech and HCC.(3.c) To enhance students’ skills in research. The project helps students in developing their

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Jessica L. Buck; Bertiel Harris; Elizabeth Y. McInnis

might be shown mathematics laboratories, the media production facilities, and computer-assisted instruction programs. But on the way to those installations, they will pass dozens of classrooms with instructors lecturing and conducting discussions just the way they and their predecessors have been doing for decades (p. 155).Service learning is an appropriate teaching and learning approach in which the workplaceprovides a practical setting for structured problem-based learning experiences.Blumenfeld, Soloway, Marx et al. (1991) concluded that technology can play a powerful role 151in project-based learning. Technology contributes to students’ learning by enhancinginterest

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

the following reasons: 1. To ascertain the relative benefit of using a peer-to-peer active learning technique with a first semester freshman class. 2. To encourage students to communicate, provide teamwork practice and encourage learning techniques for self-directed continuing professional development − all of which are criteria of the “Program Outcomes for Engineering Technology Programs” by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)15 and part of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Green Report – “Engineering Education in a Changing World.” 3. To add variety to a nearly 3 hour lecture class that does not have a laboratory component beyond soil sieve testing, thus

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Shawn P. Gross; David W. Dinehart; Aleksandra Radlinska; Joseph Robert Yost

faculty members and utilize afour meeting per week format, in which there are three 50-minute periods (Monday, Wednesday,and Friday) used primarily for lectures. The fourth period is a 165-minute “flex” period thatmeets on Thursdays, and can be used for lectures, laboratory exercises, exams, or for overarchingproblem solution periods.Aside from the integration of concepts described above and the use of overarching problems asdescribed below, Mechanics I and II are taught in a fairly traditional manner. Most 50-minutelecture periods involve a set of PowerPoint lecture slides that run on average about 15 minutes,and then the instructor solves two or three example problems for the remainder of the period.Students are assigned simple homework

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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XAn ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern Xengineering tools necessary for engineering practice.The knowledge, skills, abilities, and characteristics that will X Xpermit students to develop as successful leaders in the CoastGuard.An ability to perform basic laboratory procedures in civil Xengineering (environmental area).A broad base of knowledge in civil engineering X X(environmental).In choosing and developing future service-learning projects, the impact on outcome achievementand the overall needs of the curriculum as identified through assessment will be considered.Additional efforts will be made to

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Phil Dacunto P.E.; Mike Hendricks

ArcMap, students began work on an atmospheric dispersion project.There were two objectives for the project: (1) enable students to visualize the cause and effectrelationships inherent in the Gaussian plume model (what happens when we increase stability, forexample); and (2) familiarize students with the use of information technology, particularly networks, tosolve a problem. The project consisted of both an individual and group component. The individualcomponent focused on objective one, while the group portion was oriented on both objectives. Studentsconducted the project during work periods in our department’s Geospatial Sciences Laboratory, whichcontains twenty networked workstations loaded with Matlab and ArcMap. In the individual

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2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Keith M. Gardiner

The Future.” 14. Wolf, J., “Sustainability of Global and Domestic Growth in the Ethanol Industry.”First Year StudentsA mandatory course for first year engineering students is now in the fifth year of offering.19 Engineering5, Introduction to Engineering Practice, involves weekly 50 minute lectures and laboratory projectexperiences in two different departments of the seven at Lehigh. These project experiences are variouslystructured, or left open to inspire student creativity within specific departmental equipment and laboratoryconstraints. The catalog states: First year practical engineering experience; introduction to concepts,methods and principles of engineering practice. Problem solving, design, project planning,communication

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2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Alfred A. Scalza

reasonable limit(about 25 students), class size does not have a great effect on project based learning. It seems to becomean issue beyond 25 students or at a lower number when the subject matter is of a more highly technicalnature. Number of students is, of course, of paramount nature when the team assignments requirestechnical equipment such as a laboratory class. Proceedings of the 2007 Middle Atlantic Section Fall Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 6Secondly, student maturity plays a role in project and experiential learning. Freshman, right out of highschool, are used

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cristián Eduardo Vargas-Ordóñez P.E., Purdue University, West Lafayette; Manuel José Alejandro Baquero Sierra, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Michael Robinson, Saint Vincent College; Jacqueline Rose Tawney, California Institute of Technology

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

Technology Jacqueline Tawney is a Ph.D. candidate in GALCIT (Graduate Aerospace Laboratories of the California Institute of Technology). Jacque is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, a leader within the GALCIT Graduate Student Council, and the founder of Women in GALCIT. In the Kornfield group within Caltech’s Chemical Engineering department, Jacque researches associative polymers, their rheological properties, and their potential for agricultural and industrial applications. She is passionate about creating positive change within her communities and being a compassionate scientist and leader. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Compassion and Engineering Ethics

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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David A. Vaccari

createcapstone projects that involve students from multiple engineering disciplines. While this cansatisfy the requirement, a closer reading yields both a different interpretation and an approach toassessment: Students can demonstrate the ability required by criterion 3-d by showing theirunderstanding of what information they need to share with other specializations as part of thedesign process. For example, plants designed by chemical engineers or environmental engineersrequire data from laboratory-scale tests, and their design specifications are in turn used by civilengineers and power engineers, among others, to complete the project. Many product designsrequire interaction between mechanical and electronic engineers.This interpretation does not

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Keith M. Gardiner

equivalent of 18 fifty-minute lecture sessions together with practical engineering laboratories for two afternoons aweek. The class usually accommodates between 150 and 175 students, they are dispatched ingroups about 25 strong to each of Lehigh’s seven engineering departments where they work insmall teams undertaking innovative problem solving assignments for half the semester. In mid-semester elected or appointed representatives from each group present their discoveries andconclusions to the whole class; groups are then re-configured and the process repeats for thesecond half of the semester. This way every student ha s an experience with the faculty andfacilities in two departments, but every student learns about the experiences of their peers

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Justin Highley

6being presented through the case study methodology. Some examples of student presentationsinclude superchargers / turbochargers, anti-lock braking systems, hybrid vehicles, and high flowexhaust systems. As seen in the syllabus, the course also incorporates three laboratory exercises in order toreinforce the theoretical concepts taught in the classroom. The first lab, the internal combustionCFR lab, employs four spark ignition engines that enable the user to vary the compression ratioand spark timing angle for various types of fuels (87 and 110 octane). Prior to the lab, eachengine is set to a different compression ratio and connected to an oscilloscope that displays thepressure and volume trace of the engine cycle. The students (in

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Alfred A. Scalza

and writing appearto be inseparable. In fact, good organization in writing seems to correlate with clear thinkingabout the subject at hand.The first learning improvement made should be to provide the student with a basic format to getstarted. “Most writers, either consciously or not, follow a standard writing plan” 2. A planshould be outlined for new students. For example; a different format is required to write aresearch paper as compared to writing a laboratory report. A brief standard ten point writingplan follows:Decide what to write about. (the assignment)What is its purpose. (why write it; not just for a grade)Decide for whom you are writing. (the instructor now but the client later)List ideas, assertions, facts and illustrations.Pick a

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Eileen M. Kowalski; Joe D. Manous

investigation of cognitive learning within the engineering profession is rather new, it hasbeen accepted by other fields of education with the most notable being the study of medicine. Untilrecently, the four-year medical school experience centered around lecture and laboratory work, somewhatsimilar to engineering education, with clinical work occurring primarily during the fourth year. Todaymany medical schools include clinical experience early in the medical school experience because studentshave demonstrated a better grasp of material when they are concurrently studying in “traditional” coursesand experience greater cognitive learning through the combination of clinical (problem-based learning)and lecture activities.1 A similar inclusion of

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ha Van Vo; Stephanie Rossman; Zsaquez Flucker; R. Radharamanan

ankle motions are similar to the natural motions of thehuman ankle. In the lab, students will analyze the stresses in the inner sockets of rigid and mobile ankles(applying compressive and flexural loading) using the material testing system (MTS) available in theMechanics of Materials Laboratory at Mercer University. 8References[1] Scott M., Ankle Anatomy, Family Practice Notebook.com, 2008[2] Muilenburg, A.L., and Wilson, Jr., A. B., A Manual for Below-Knee (Trans-Tibial) Amputees, 1996 Retrieved July 14, 2007 from http://www.oandp.com/resources/patientinfo/manuals/7.htm.[3] Yachigusa R., Wandering Around Martial Arts, Samurai, A

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Mir M. Atiqullah

laboratory for fabrication of the panels. Bibliography 1. Callister Jr., William D., “Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction,” 7th edition, John Wiley and Sons, 2007. 2. Schwartz, M.M., “Composite Materials handbook,” McGraw-Hill Inc. New York, 1984. 3. Reihart, T.J. et al., editors, “Engineered Materials Handbook Volume I Composites,” ASM International, Materials Park, OH, 1987. 4. Gdoutos, E.E., Pilakoutas, K. and Rodopoulos, C.A., Editors, “Failure Analysis of Industrial Composite Materials,” McGraw-Hill, 2000. 5. Mallick, P.K., “Fiber-Reinforced Composites: materials, manufacturing, and design,” CRC Press

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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John Adams; Charles Kochakian

presentations. All three were involved inevaluating the presentations, and every project was awarded either an “A-” or an “A” based onquality of presentation and technical depth. The evaluators all felt that in general the studentswere very enthusiastic, had put in a high degree of effort, and had digested a significant amountof information.A laboratory segment was included to provide the student a greater insight and understanding ofthe electrical engineering principles and concepts that are at the foundation of RFID technology.Due to a limited inventory of hardware and software in spring 2007 the lab experiments consistedof a set of demonstrations rather than a hands-on exercise. Since then a sufficient inventory oftags and readers have been obtained

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Elif Kongar; Paul Kontogiorgis; Nancy L. Russo; Tarek Sobh

Inclusion. in ASEE, EDI 2007 – Diversity in Engineering. 2007. San Juan, PR.[23] Morell, L. Women in Engineering. in ASEE, EDI 2007 – Diversity in Engineering. 2007. San Juan, PR.Biographical InformationDr. Elif Kongar received her BS degree from the Industrial Engineering Department of Yildiz TechnicalUniversity, Istanbul, Turkey, in June 1995. In June 1997, she received her MS degree in Industrial Engineering fromthe same university where, she was awarded full scholarship for graduate studies in the USA. She obtained herPh.D. degree in June 2003. She has been a research associate in the Laboratory for Responsible Manufacturing(LRM) at Northeastern University since September 1999. She has also been employed as an Assistant Professor

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Linda Ann Riley; Charles Thomas

, Tianjin and Qingdao and proposebuilding design criteria for athlete housing facilities to address these hazards.8. Analyze and recommend techniques that allow large populations of people to communicatesimultaneously during the event.4This competition is an excellent venue to bring students that excel in various subject areas together inmulti-disciplinary teams to develop solutions to applied engineering problems. Field Trips to the UniversityAs a component of the partnership, it is important to bring middle and high school students onto theUniversity campus to experience first-hand engineering and science activities and laboratories. In thisrespect, trips have been arranged or are in the planning stages for several collaborative

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Rashmi Jain; Keith Sheppard; Elisabeth McGrath; Bernard Gallois

commercial fire alarm system (multiple units – one per group –connected across the design laboratory to a master monitoring panel) is evaluated and then the individualalarm units disassembled to reveal their sensors (temperature and optical smoke sensors which relatenicely to sensors used in the course). Stakeholder requirements for the alarm system are considered andthen the 4th total design stage is introduced, namely Operational Scenarios, in which context diagramsand use case scenarios are developed. This requires a collection of scenarios to be established, one ormore for each group of stakeholders for the particular phase of the life cycle – only the first design phaseis considered in Freshman year. Each scenario addresses one way a particular