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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Joseph C. Musto; Vincent C. Prantil

use of physical modeling techniques from machine dynamics, as well as implementation of the Newton-Raphson method for solving nonlinear simultaneous equations for the system shown in Figure 1: x = L1 cos(q1 ) + L 2 cos(q1 + q 2 ) y = L1 sin(q1 ) + L 2 sin(q1 + q 2 ) y x Figure 1: Schematic of the Robot • Assignment 2 -- Development of a Trajectory Plan: This phase of the project involves the planning of a robot arm movement from one desired point in space to another

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Practice/Industry Partnership

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Badger; Geraldine Peten; Anil Sawhney

technologies, an emergence of new organizational and contractualstructures has developed. These activities coupled with new construction means, methods, andmaterials have caused new opportunities to pulsate throughout the construction industry Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © Page 7.907.2 2002, American Society for Engineering Education(Tommelein and Fischer 1999). Agencies involved in the construction business have to implementstrategic plans to adapt to these changing forces and to prepare themselves for new opportunities.One of

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Global Engineering in an Interconected World

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2002 Annual Conference

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A.K.M. Abdul Quader; Shamsuddin Ilias; Franklin King; Keith Schimmel

programs. Bangladesh is one of the world’spoorest and most densely populated countries. Environmental pollution, especially surface waterpollution, is a significant problem with increased industrial activities in the textile and fertilizersectors. Thus, sustainable planning and management of water resources has become a priorityconsideration for the future welfare of Bangladesh.BUET is benefiting from the linkage program in the following areas: faculty development inpollution prevention, curriculum development in pollution prevention, facility and equipmentplan development, and development of collaborative research in pollution prevention wit hemphasis on surface and groundwater contamination and water purification. Cost savings andsustainability

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Women in Engineering: A Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mariesa Crow; Karen Butler-Purry; Noel Schulz

women faculty. Together thesetwo different aspects provide opportunities to increase the retention of women faculty within theranks of engineering colleges.Off-Campus NetworkingThe three authors are active members of the IEEE Power Engineering Society (PES). In the late1980s there were less than five women faculty in power engineering who were active in IEEEPES meetings. During the early and mid-1990s, several new women faculty were hired in thearea of power engineering around the United States. The first interactions were informal. A pairof women faculty would be talking over coffee and one or two others would join them. Soon thewomen faculty started planning a lunch or dinner activity at a local restaurant during each IEEEPES meeting. At

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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David Livingston; James Squire

learners but 90-95% of traditional course content is verbal/text-based 14 thisis an improvement although a single cohesive course text would help the minority of verballearners. Laboratory construction work balances the design homework and project reports foractive and reflective learners. The vast majority of students are sequential 14, and their learningstyle naturally agrees with the modular nature of class instruction. Global learners can view theoverall schematics and plans from the start of the course; although they do not know enough toprocess this information yet, the weekly modular nature of the course prevents them from fallingseriously behind and prods them towards that “eureka” moment when they suddenly understandhow the elements

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Tomorrow's Civil Engineering Profession

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2002 Annual Conference

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KC Mahboub; Anna Phillips; Paul Palazolo; Scott Yost

, approximately60% of the articles were related to topics of teaching methodology, assessment ideas, andsuggestions for curricular improvement, indicating that these are indeed areas that engineeringeducators are aware of.4 Furthermore, many of these researchers are able to combine researchinterests with curricular improvements AND please university administrators at the same time bydocumenting their efforts for ABET review.Besterfield-Sacre et al’s 1998 presents a plan for using ABET criteria in conjunction withassessment of student feedback and evaluation data to improve/tailor/customize teaching.2 Theseexamples are just a few examples of projects and papers in progress in engineering programseverywhere.Still not convinced that we’re out in our

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Patton

Graduation Check-off Sheets (ELE, CEN) web Determine outcomes required to Faculty meeting minutes electronic text, web achieve objectives Report to Visiting Committee password restricted web GPA Indicator Report web form/database Determine how outcomes Faculty/Staff Annual Plans electronic text will be achieved Curriculum Sheets (ELE, CEN) web Graduation Check-off Sheets (ELE, CEN) web Determine how outcomes Faculty meeting minutes electronic text, web will be assessed Report

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Samira Hasan; Tom Roberts

updated semi-annually, and provides information to new students in a timely manner. · A Student Organizations Handbook 6 has been developed to explain student organizations and to provide up-to-date contact information. This information has also been added to the College’s web pages. · Residence Life Coordinators report that engineering students have a better understanding of university processes than other students on campus. · The number of students with study plans at the end of the first semester has increased 25% since 1995. (Figure 2)Recommendations for Future Improvements · Work with department heads and faculty to enhance their understanding of freshmen and to improve

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Technology Entrepreneurship Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Katherine Emery; John Feland

series which brings approximately 25entrepreneurial thought leaders (CEO’s, Venture Capitalists, authors) to speak on campus eachyear.Educational visionClasses within the STVP program focus on case-based instruction and experiential learning.Entrepreneurship education takes place in the classroom and the community. Studentscollaborate in teams to research and analyze cases, write business plans, and conduct real-worldresearch and internships within new ventures in Silicon Valley.John Dewey established the link between doing and knowing. According to Dewey, sharedexperience or joint action is crucial to the learning process. Educative experiences must leadfrom the classroom into the real world. The role of the educator is to view teaching and

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Real-world Applications in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Randall Timi; Dannie Hutchinson; William Strenth; James Otter

accepted into the course, they began an orientation and trainingsession. The orientation session consisted of a company history, company policies andprocedures, company paperwork and a review of projects (past and present). The trainingsegments included special seminars on various topics presented by either faculty or constructionprofessionals. The typical seminars included topics covering leadership, planning andscheduling, estimating, design process, safety, team building, contract documents and costcontrol.Once the orientation process was completed, the students, based on their resume and theirinterviews, were assigned positions and projects. The project teams then met with the projectcoordinator (one of the faculty) to review the project. The

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Practice/Industry Partnership

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael McGeen

for rapid prototyping machines. This is not the case with building design.Buildings today are still being produced with floor plans and section drawings that are two-dimensional, 2-D lines and text. Cad packages such as AutoCad Architectural Desktop canproduce 3-D drawings and render them with materials and light sources, but many of the drawingentities it uses do not translate into “stl” files without some extra programming. Why is thisprogram written this way? AutoCad Architectural Desktop is written this way because buildingsare assembled differently than machine parts. An exterior wall is an assembly of dozens ofindividual building components. It is not one homogenous material like a piece of machinery

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Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Terry Collins; Alisha Youngblood

discussed.The conclusion section of this paper outlines the planned structure of a new MSEM program.Discussed are the identification of a target audience, admission and degree requirements, andpotential core and elective courses. These factors will take into consideration what is typical forother programs and special circumstances more unique to a specific target audience.Benchmarking ProcessA benchmarking study is conducted to gain insight into other MSEM programs. In all, 17programs are analyzed and results compiled. These programs vary in their size and scope, but thecriteria for selecting the EM programs are based on geographic and demographic region, missionof the institution, state support, and engineering-based degrees. The Internet is used to

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Chris Caenepeel

success skills. The course culminates in a heterogeneous team based project.The students are introduced to a generic project planning strategy that focuses on goals,methodology, timelines and work distribution among personnel. Team building exercisesare used to establish team norms and to demonstrate the synergistic advantages of acollaborative project. An inexpensive project, which involves engineeringmeasurements and estimation, is selected to challenge the student’s creative skills. Theproject culminates in a final written report. The course utilizes a combination ofinstructor (50%) and peer based(50%) evaluations that provide feedback and stimulateindividual performance. Peers are asked to identify results achieved by all teammembers. In

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Hilsen; David Wyrick

Production andOperations Management. The results, shown graphically in Figure 3, indicate that there has beenno change in student learning preferences in the last ten years. These data are typical results andthe pattern remains the same.Rounding out the Learning Experience—Suggestions to Complete the LoopAs the data show, engineering students show a penchant for learning by the converger method ofabstract conceptualization and active experimentation. Convergers love to design things, makedecisions, and evaluate plans. They tend to be action oriented, but may come to a conclusion toofast or solve the wrong problem if they are excessive. Page

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonard Perry

meaningful the students need to apply the knowledge andinformation learned in the classroom in a real world environment. Service-Learning provides a“hands-on” opportunity for students to develop these skills.In the Fall of 2000, a community service project was identified with the Business ProcessRedesign (BPR) group at University of San Diego (USD). The Oracle corporation isimplementing new a enterprise resource planning system throughout USD. The BusinessProcess Redesign group assists each department at USD in defining and documenting of theircurrent as-is processes because the departments are overwhelmed with current day-to-dayoperations and do not have the time or expertise to document their current processes. During Fall2000 and Fall 2001, ISE

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Assessment and Its Implications in IE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Amy Zeng; Arthur Gerstenfeld; Sharon Johnson

Project engineering practice.(e) The broad education necessary to understand the impact of Senior Design Project engineering solutions in a societal context. IQP(f) An ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, including statistics as Production Planning and well as integral and differential calculus. Control Production Planning and(g) An understanding of fundamental physical laws. ControlCommunication Skills(h) An ability to communicate effectively. Senior Design ProjectTeamwork

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MINDing Our Business

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2002 Annual Conference

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Treva Fitts; Susan Wynn; Martha Absher; Kristen Ford; Judy Russell; Glenda Kelly; Adefolakemi Oni; Gary Ybarra

MUSCLE fellows tofocus their efforts and help students gain mastery through hands-on activities.Teachers are starting to view the MUSCLE fellows as support for their instructional program.Initially, teachers expressed some reservations, fearing that working with the fellows wouldmean additional work for them. However, they have found that the fellows provide valuableinformation and fresh insight when planning lessons for math and science. Teachers have alsobeen more willing to integrate science lessons with math and reading.One of the major challenges of MUSCLE program has been to find a good match between thefellows and teachers. Initially, each fellow was assigned to work with several teachers, and thegroup of fellows worked with every teacher

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Teaching Outside the Box

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michael Matthews; James Ritter; James Mc Intyre; James Becnel; Chuck Holland

of the group. E1 is also responsiblefor presenting the technical oral report, although all group members will attend the oralpresentation. The oral presentations are given to the instructor and the entire laboratory class.E2 is responsible for the written technical report which is submitted at the time of the oralpresentation. The written report contains detailed descriptions of their experimental design, datarecorded, data analysis, dynamic modeling, design problem, and conclusions / recommendations.The third group member, E3, is responsible for authoring and submitting the experimental plan,which details proposed experimental conditions prior to operating the apparatus. Theexperimental plan is approved by the TA, who may provide direct

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Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie A. Jernigan; Garlie Forehand; Alexander B. Quinn; Judith Norback

Page 7.1111.5 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationjobs. A variety of examples will be reviewed. Students will be asked to join in discussion ofhow the criteria for communication excellence apply to their most recent talk and report. Second, planning sheets for each of the five categories of criteria are being developed tomake it easier for students to utilize the criteria. For example, the sheet on receiving messageswill include questions on identification of the audience members, their backgrounds and areas ofinterest, their perceptions of the main project issues, and the relevant

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jed Lyons

Columbia, South Carolina. The following summer,the Fellows organize and present a teacher recertification workshop called “Engineering - TheStuff of Science.” In the workshop, Fellows will help teachers who did not have the opportunityto participate directly during the school year. This yearlong program plan will be repeated withmiddle schools and again with elementary schools in subsequent grant years.ActivitiesThe graduate Fellows help teachers adopt, adapt and develop state-of-the art learning materialsthat situate science learning in design problem solving and other experiential learning activities.The Fellows provide content knowledge from their particular sub-disciple of engineering to theappropriate teachers, effectively integrating their

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Capstone Mechanical Engineering Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Yves Mercadier; Pierre Vittecoq; Patrik Doucet; Jean-Sébastien Plante; Francois Charron; Yves Van Hoenacker

undergraduate curriculum. The students work on the sameproject during the last four terms of their program (more than two calendar years as a result ofthe work terms). They receive 12 credits for their design project work.This paper presents our ten years of experience in using design projects as a tool for teachingengineering design. It also sets out our development plan for teaching engineering design overthe next five years. NSERC (National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada)Engineering Design Chair will support these future developments.2.0 ENGINEERING DESIGN PROJECTS 2.1 1992 to 1994 - Pilot Program in Engineering DesignFollowing a literature review on the use of design projects as a tool for teaching engineeringdesign in other

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Ronald K. Williams

60 40 20 0 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 Figure 2 – Graph of Participation by Yearbridges. As this trend became apparent, FMEC and MSUM officials began to search for reasonsfor the decrease. Interviews with teachers and students at the competition, and with otherscience teachers throughout the region offered several possible causes: • More events compete for student time each year. The February competition date, set to occur during E-Week, requires the students to be planning and building their bridges at the same time they are working toward MathCounts, Science Olympiad, JETS competitions, and sports tournaments, among others. If they view

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Design and Innovation

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Snyder; Mike Toole; Mike Hanyak; Mathew Higgins; Daniel Hyde; Edward Mastascusa; Brian Hoyt; Michael Prince; Margot Vigeant

-funded project.IntroductionBucknell's College of Engineering is implementing Project Catalyst, a three-year effort todevelop a general-purpose model for the nationally recognized need of systemic engineeringeducation reform. The plan is to integrate instructional design techniques, transform the Page 7.399.1 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”classroom into a cooperative learning environment, and incorporate efficiently and effectivelythe use of information technology in the teaching

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Teaching Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Sterrett; Richard Helgeson; Robert LeMaster

courses with design Introduction to solid model based projects integrated into the course. CAD. Course mimics how a design project is conducted in industry and requires development of project plans, schedules, tracking of resources, activity reports, patent searches, development of 3D CAD component and assembly models, and component and assembly drawings. Oral and written communication. 5th Semester 6th Semester Core and specialty engineering courses Core and specialty engineering courses with design projects integrated into the with design projects

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Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas J. Webster; Karen Haberstroh

for another type of advanced degree now? 1 (yes: junior), 6 (no: 2 completed undergraduate studies in Dec. 2001, 1 senior, 3 juniors) 9) Do you plan to apply to graduate school next year? 2 (yes: 2 juniors), 5 (no: 2 completed undergraduate studies in Dec. 2001, 1 senior, 2 juniors) 10) Do you plan to apply for another type of advanced degree next year? 2 (yes: 2 juniors), 5 (no: 2 completed undergraduate studies in Dec. 2001, 1 senior, 2 juniors) 11) Do you see more "real-world" relevance in your courses after completing the REU program? 6 (yes), 1 (no change) 12) Has your GPA improved after attending the REU program? 4 (yes), 2 (no change), 1(N/A: studying abroad) 13) Has your interest in BME related

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Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Cyrus Taylor

,even though the program is only a year and a half old.Thus we were delighted when it was reported in early December 2001 that the Governorof Ohio had announced “state assistance for NeoMed Technologies” in the form of “a 60percent, six-year tax credit.”4 Marc Umeno, the founder and President of NeoMedTechnologies, was attracted to Cleveland to become a student in the first class of thePhysics Entrepreneurship Program. NeoMed 5 had secured seed funding earlier this year,allowing it to begin the FDA approval process and begin early clinical trials for theirnovel screening test for coronary artery disease. NeoMed had also earlier won both theWeatherhead Business Plan Competition and the Case-Weatherhead Business LaunchCompetition. It had also

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mingle; Tom Roberts

Society for Engineering EducationIn engineering, this is doubtful at the baccalaureate level of instruction since the curriculum iswell planned and only modest change occurs between faculty members. However, as facultyimplement changes to ABET and seek to streamline curricula, generational conflict is likely tooccur. The greatest difference might exist in the capstone design courses as various members ofthe faculty often emphasize different design aspects. For instance, Civic and AdaptiveGenerations will stress design analysis, while Idealist and Reactive Generations may accentuatedesign synthesis. In the current situation with X (Reactive) and Boomer (Idealist) Generations asfaculty, this is unlikely to become a problem. However, as the

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International Engineering Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Feng Liu; Fazil Najafi

program that prepares students for their future job careeropportunities.The UF offers a very comprehensive and flexible CE education program. It mandates that allstudents must take the required CE courses in all fields of civil engineering, which includeConstruction, Geomatics, Geotechnical, Materials, Structures, Transportation and WaterResources. In addition, it also provides all the necessary elective courses for the students who areinterested in specific areas of CE. The program effectively combines the required core coursesand elective courses. Through this program, students are well prepared for their futureprofessional career; they should be capable of working in design, planning and constructionmanagement. By taking a wide range of

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Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Wrate

. · Government Buildings and Operations This sector includes the approximately 15,000 government buildings in Wisconsin. It is broken into two sub-sectors: Energy Star Buildings and Water and Wastewater IOFs. · Other This includes financing methods for the major markets sector, market assessments, renewable energy plans, and technology research and development.MSOE’s main task is administrator of the major markets sector. In addition to this task, MSOEhas individual or shared tasks in most of the sectors.First Year’s Technical TasksThe technical tasks assigned to MSOE in the first year of the program are extremely varied.They include tasks in the general and IOF industries sub-sectors, new commercial buildings

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Long; Donald Leone

selection of projects; c) reviews team proposalsincluding planning of the work and division of labor; d) conducts progress report meetings andkeeps the project on schedule; e) assists in the preparation of the written and oral reports; f)assigns the final grade.Recently, the department set up a web site that encourages alums to post information aboutthemselves4. Most cited recent or current job experience. Some were so interesting, that wethought they would make excellent capstone projects – except that they were not local. Havingrecently been involved in a distance learning exercise, we recognized that under the rightconditions, a mentor need not be from the “local” area, but could technically guide a project froma distance. One of the goals that