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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Karen C. Chou; W. James Wilde; Saeed Moaveni

An Unique Approach to Civil Engineering Design Experience Karen C. Chou1, W. James Wilde2, and Saeed Moaveni3 Department of Mechanical & Civil Engineering Minnesota State University, Mankato, MNAbstractThe ABET required major design experience is fulfilled through a 2-semester course sequencefor a total of 3 credit hours. The goal of the major design experience is to emulate the practiceof planning and designing of a civil engineering project in a way that is similar to a typicalengineering office setting. To achieve this goal, we have involved students from the freshman tothe senior level classes, faculty, and the engineering community. In addition, we have

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Leah Jamieson; Lynne Slivovsky; William Oakes

Session 2525 Evaluating Multidisciplinary Design Teams Lynne Slivovsky, William Oakes, Leah Jamieson Purdue UniversityAbstract Many program look for ways to simulate “real” design experiences. At PurdueUniversity, the EPICS - Engineering Projects in Community Service – program does thisthrough long-term team projects that solve technology-based problems for local communityservice organizations. The program currently has 24 project teams with approximately 450students participating during the 2002 academic year. Each EPICS project team consists of tento 20 students, a local

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Three P's in Introduction to Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mary Clare Robins; Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley

Session 3453 Service Learning in the Freshman Engineering Course Laura J. Bottomley, Mary Clare Robbins, Elizabeth Parry North Carolina State UniversityAbstractThe College of Engineering at NC State University has had an NSF-sponsored GK-12 project forthe past four years that sent engineering students in to K-8 classrooms as science and/or mathresources for teachers. Using the same model, in fall 2002, the Introduction to Engineeringcourse that is required of all freshmen offered a design project that included service learning as anoption. The “Outreach Project” required students

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Capstone Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Brian Thompson; Craig Gunn; Craig Somerton

Session 2425 The Role of the Faculty Advisor in the Capstone Design Experience: The Importance of Technical Expertise Craig W. Somerton, Brian S. Thompson, and Craig Gunn Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State UniversityIntroductionThe capstone design experience in the mechanical engineering program at Michigan StateUniversity is achieved through the Mechanical Engineering Design Projects course: ME 481.This course utilizes industrially sponsored design projects for which the company makes both afinancial investment ($3500) and a personnel investment (a staff engineer is

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Capstone Design and Engineering Practice

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Gesink; S. Hossein Mousavinezhad

senior status and permission of the department chair to enroll in thesequence. In the first course, students form design teams, identify a project topic, produce adesign project proposal and are instructed in topics relating to engineering professionalism.During the second course, the design teams, following their proposals prepared in Design I,implement their design project, evaluate it for compliance with their original specifications,create a project report and orally present their results at a public, formal, day-long, college wide"Conference on Senior Engineering Design Projects".ECE Design I ECE Design I is a two credit course and formally meets twice a week in a class roomformat. To be admitted to the course, each student completes

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Anita Mahadevan-Jansen; Christopher Rowe

Session 2793 Getting to know your engineering major Christopher J. Rowe, Anita Mahadevan-Jansen Vanderbilt UniversityAbstract The first semester in engineering education is arguably the most important in laying thefundamental groundwork and preparing students for advanced study in their choice of engineeringmajor. An estimated 40% of entering freshmen are uncertain as to their choice of major. Studentsare typically required to declare their engineering major as freshmen. The burden and the goal ofthis project then is to educate students about engineering and

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Yeu-Sheng Shiue

machining tools, CNC programming, and welding in their sophomore year. In order tomaintain students’ manufacturing skills through interaction and hands-on experiences, anindustry or community-related class project must be carefully selected. Applying classroomknowledge to a day-to-day product is the best way to make students realize the importance of thesubject. In the junior level Kinematics class, instead of building traditional simple four-barlinkages or slider-crank mechanisms, a project is selected to apply four-bar linkage, gear andgear train, relative motions to a day-to-day product. The current project is to design andmanufacture an automatic feeding device for children who have disabilities. The main focus ofthis project is on the

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Intro to Engineering: Not Just 1st Year Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Hugh Jack; John Farris

authors conceived of this combined course designproject to improve the quality of the design projects in both courses. Although the projectwas not completely successful in improving the quality of the design project otherimportant, if not anticipated benefits were observed. This project created social andprofessional ties between juniors and freshmen that lead to a higher level of enthusiasm forthe engineering program. It also provided the freshmen an opportunity to observe juniorlevel students including work habits/organization, use of calculus and other fundamentalsand writing. The freshmen also benefited by being mentored by the juniors. The juniorsbenefited by getting some 'management' experience and reducing the total time required

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Student Teams and Active Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

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Camilla Saviz; Kurt Schulz

on prior to pursuingdevelopment of the experiment. Students indicate their preferences from a general listof suggested topic areas or develop a topic in consultation with the course instructor.Over the course of the semester, each team researches, designs, develops, tests, andreports on the laboratory experiment developed for the selected topic. In addition togaining hands-on experience in solving an open-ended problem and resolving design,development, and implementation issues, students develop their communication,teamwork, and management skills. Following team formation, each team begins byresearching the topic and developing a formal project plan which includes a timeline.Laboratory experiment ideas are then proposed and discussed with

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Capstone Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Grimm

Session 2425 A Just-In-Time Approach to Teaching Senior Design By: Thomas R. Grimm Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Michigan Technological UniversityAbstractThe subject of this paper is the approach used to teach the senior design project course inthe Mechanical Engineering Department at Michigan Technological University. Theprimary objective in the development of the required two semester senior designsequence was to insure a positive experience in mechanical engineering design whileeliminating the procrastination that can be prevalent in long term

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sven Hvid Nielsen

studies – to stimulate the professional learning process by a balancing ofteaching/experience, theory/practice, disciplinarily/interdisciplinary and strengthen the linkbetween research, education and practice. This presentation draws on the author’s experience[1] with the never ended development and implementation of the Aalborg experiment since1974.Introduction: The Aalborg Experiment.The University was established in 1974 as an experiment in higher education with 900students from four different schools, now there are more than 13,000 students. Thecurriculum in Engineering as well in the natural science is project-organised from the day thefreshman arrives until graduation.There were special conditions for establish of AUC. It was situated in a

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Virtual Instrumentation

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2003 Annual Conference

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Michael Parten

equally important. Virtual instruments can be used to teach all of these areas ofinstrumentation. The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas Tech Universityuses its first project laboratory, offered in the second semester of the sophomore year, to covermeasurements, instrumentation and other topics.II Project LaboratoriesThe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas Tech University began stand-alone project laboratories in the early 1960s. The project lab structure has continued to evolve overthe past 40 years.1-9 Students take 5, 3-hour credit laboratories not directly associated with anylecture course. Although the laboratories have no directly associated lecture course, they do have preand co-requisites. In

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Trends in Engineering Economy

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2003 Annual Conference

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David Dryer; Paul Kauffmann; William Peterson

Session 1139 The Value Added By A Semester Paper In A Graduate Engineering Economy Course William R. Peterson, Paul J. Kauffmann, David A. Dryer Old Dominion UniversityAbstractThis paper reports the authors’ experiences with including a semester project as a portion of thecourse requirements in a graduate course in engineering economy. The required projects areintended to allow the students the opportunity to apply course concepts in real applications.Since the majority of the students in the program in which the course is taught are workingprofessionals, this

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Andrew Otieno; Abul Azad; Radha Balamuralikrishna

under the auspices of thedepartment of technology provides for two areas of specialization, Electrical EngineeringTechnology (EET) and Manufacturing Engineering technology (MET). The department alsooffers a degree in the industrial technology track. In the year 2002, the University’s Committeefor the Improvement of Undergraduate Education supported the authors’ joint proposal tochallenge engineering and industrial technology students enrolled in three different courses tocomplete an interdisciplinary project towards part-fulfillment of their course requirements. Thispaper presents a comprehensive view of this case study highlighting the relevance of the project,logistics, and outcomes both from the perspective of students and the authors. This

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Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ferat Sahin; Wayne Walter

Microrobotics byworking on multidisciplinary projects of mutual interest at various levels. This paper discussesour experience in teaching microrobotics by designing multidisciplinary projects forundergraduates and their integration with research and graduate students. It also discusses thebroader impact of these activities on various levels of students. The activities can be categorizedin three levels: undergraduate teaching, graduate research, and clubs and organizations.This paper explores our experience in developing these projects and related research, includingour lessons learned so far, and our plans for the future. Some statistical data are also provided toshow the broader impact of these multidisciplinary microrobotics teaching and research

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International Engineering Education II

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2003 Annual Conference

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Chow Michael; Barry Farbrother

professional office providing a dedicatedoffice for the EiR, and several engineering cubicles for use by college of engineering undergraduate students. Each stationcontains a computer workstation, which is linked to the ONU LAN thereby enabling students to gain access to MAP’s LAN.Currently MAP has more than fifty projects on which students work under the direction of the EiR. Therefore the programprovides students with opportunities to work on real world projects in an environment that parallels the workplace. Theagreement also provides a mechanism whereby college of engineering faculty members may invite the EiR to participate inclass activities. For up to 15 hours per academic quarter the EiR may be call ed upon to address workplace-related issues

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Merredith Portsmore; Melissa Pickering; Chris Rogers

hard to learn newconcepts at the same time as they are implementing projects and teachings to address theframeworks in their settings. STOMP students, engineering undergraduate and graduatestudents, serve as a support mechanism for these educators by helping students with hands-onprojects, resolving technical issues with equipment, answering engineering questions, doingresearch on topics, and helping to brainstorm activities. The program has been very successful infacilitating engineering education in 10 local classrooms in grades K-9. STOMP student –teacher partnerships have resulted in some fabulous new curriculum units including a 4th gradeunit entitled “Egyptians as Engineers” and a middle school unit entitled “Make your own CD –Learning

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Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ron Zuckerman; Nathaniel Bowe; LaMarr Taylor; Kyle Smith; Dan Moore

Getting Engineers to Think and Act like Entrepreneurs Nathaniel Bowe, LaMarr Taylor, Kyle Smith, Ron Zuckerman, and Dan Moore1 Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyRose-Hulman Institute of Technology is pioneering the education of undergraduateentrepreneurial engineers. Engenius Solutions is a program funded through a grant from theLilly Foundation. The project, at Rose-Hulman, is offering capital and other resources to helpundergraduate engineers understand what it takes to recognize opportunities and turn them intoentrepreneurial ventures. Students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to submit ideas to EngeniusSolutions for evaluation and review. Following an in-depth

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Speakman; Joel Perlin; Daniel Pack; Barry Mullins

Session 2793 Senior Capstone Design Experience: Hovering Robot Joel P. Perlin, Daniel J. Pack, Barry E. Mullins, and Richard E. Speakman Department of Electrical Engineering United States Air Force Academy, COAbstractThe paper describes the collective experience of a student and three mentors in creating ahovering robot in a year-long senior design project course. We present the tasks involved inidentifying requirements, generating specifications, designing the overall system, implementing thedesign, and testing and integrating subsystems. We consider the system

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Construction Engineering Advances I

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2003 Annual Conference

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Vaughn Whisker; Sai Yerrapathruni; John Messner; Anthony Baratta

tool that allows construction engineering students to interactively generate aconstruction sequence for a project in an immersive environment. The results of theseeducational initiatives were assessed through two experiments. The first experiment assessed theeducational value of having students develop 4D CAD models for a building project. Thesecond experiment was a preliminary study to determine the educational value of immersingstudents in a virtual construction project and allowing them to develop a construction plan for thefacility.The results of these experiments suggest that students can understand construction projects andplans much better when advanced visualization tools are used. The conclusions from theimmersive virtual reality

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Tools for Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sterling E. Skinner; Eric G. Chapman; Sheldon Jeter

Session 2566 Gravity Powered Block Transport: A Freshman Design Project. Clark T. Merkel, Patricia Brackin, Department of Mechanical Engineering Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyIntroduction:This paper describes a project used for a mechanical engineering, freshmen designcourse. Its focus is on how this project was used to introduce design methodologythrough practice with a project-based implementation. Four sections of a freshmandesign course with approximately 32 students each were divided into 4 person teams andwere all given the same design task: design a device which would

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Trends in Mechanics Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Redfield Robin; Robert Borchert; Brian Self

Session 1168 Evolution of an Introductory Dynamics Course Through Continuous Assessment Brian P. Self, PhD, Robert Borchert, M.S., and Robin Redfield, PhD Department of Engineering Mechanics United States Air Force Academy Colorado Springs, ColoradoAbstractTwo years ago, instructors at the United States Air Force Academy supplemented theirintroductory dynamics class with demonstrations, projects, laboratories, computational problems,and student presentations. Goals of the enhancement were to increase

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gustavo Bolaños

the respective leaders, whom are responsiblefor teaching their teammates.The subject of the design project is defined in consultation with engineers from industry, whichact as external consultants for each project during the semester. The final assessment of eachproject is made by practicing engineers. Follow up and guidance are provided by the instructorand two graduate assistants. Each semester the projects are organized in a CD-ROM, whichcontains useful information, articles and patents included, such that any potential investor caneasily find relevant information. Topics studied in the last few years include lactic acid, fuelalcohol, biodiesel, and several high-added-value products from industrial waste.1. INTRODUCTIONThe Process

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Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jerome Lavelle; Mary Clare Robbins

© 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session 1653Table 1: Goals and Learning Objectives of the E101 Course, Fall 2002 Goals and Objectives of the Course: This course is designed to introduce students to the field of Engineering and the study of Engineering as an academic discipline. The overall objective of the course is to integrate computer usage, teamwork, problem solving, and verbal/written language into a design project (within the course) and to thus develop the skills that are the foundation of a successful engineering career. An early understanding of these skills assists students throughout their undergraduate experience and

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Fernando Rios-Gutierrez; Marian S. Stachowicz

fuzzy controllers in microprocessor-basedsystems.In the next lines we describe the characteristics of the Design Workshop, present our academicexperiences, show some of the projects implemented, and finally make an evaluation of theresults and present our conclusions.SettingAll the students that took this workshop had previous experience working with the 68HC11microcontroller. They completed the introductory microprocessor class, in which they learnedthe 68HC11 architecture and the assembly language. Therefore all the students had thenecessary background to start using the 68HC12. In relation to the design and implementationof their projects, all the students had a basic background in digital design and analog systems,so that to be able to

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Multidisciplinary Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rudolph Eggert

Session 3125 Engineering Design Education: Surveys of Demand and Supply Rudolph J. Eggert Boise State UniversityAbstractTwo surveys were conducted in 2002 to learn more about the demand and supply of specificengineering design topics and activities, resulting in 1006 industry respondents and 182academic respondents.Academia appears to be meeting industry’s demand for Engineering Design Specifications,Teamwork and Overall Design Process topics. However, there appears to be a supply gap inacademia’s current coverage of Creativity Methods, Project management

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ioannis Miaoulis; Erik Rushton; Brian Gravel

fellows serve as a “real-time”resource for the teachers as an engineering activity is implemented. The project has met withmany levels of success and the focus has become how to make the work and accomplishmentsachieved sustainable. The most promising aspect has been to increase the teacher comfort levelwith the material. The challenge comes in presenting the teacher with the right amount ofrelevant material. The process of increasing teacher comfort is outlined. The benefits of offeringengineering education to elementary students became apparent with a 21% gain in standardizedtest score values.Tufts CEEO GK-12 Outreach ProjectThe Tufts University GK-12 project is a three-year project focused on pairing graduate-levelengineering and computer

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Tools for Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bret Van Poppel; Shad Reed

Session 3166 ACHIEVING COURSE OBJECTIVES: THE BENEFITS OF A HANDS-ON DESIGN PROJECT Captain Shad Reed Major Bret Van Poppel United States Military Academy, West Point, New YorkABSTRACT While there has been a push in the last few years to integrate more hands-on exercises inundergraduate education, all too often large enrollment engineering courses still rely on designprojects that require complex analysis and optimization of a particular situation to achieve course,program, and institutional objectives. Often

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Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Manuel Toledo-Quinones; Jose Colom

industry’s fast pace.The program, administered by the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (ECE) at theUniversity of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM), complements a five year curriculum byproviding undergraduate students with the opportunity to participate in a research project. Eachyear, over 20 projects, dealing with a diverse set of electrical and computer engineering topics,receive sponsorship from internationally-recognized companies.This article provides an overview of IAP and describes student projects. Also presented arestatistics about student and faculty participation. The benefits to students, industry, university,and faculty provided by the program are discussed. Possible extensions to the program aresummarized.The DepartmentThe

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Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Wierman John; Shoukas Artin; Robert Allen; Larry Aronhime

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