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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

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Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

Session xxxx Canaries in the mineshaft: engineers in the global workplace Bethany S. Oberst, Ph.D., James Madison University and Russel C. Jones, Ph.D., P.E., World Expertise LLCAbstractWe need to get beyond the overheated rhetoric about the offshoring of jobs and look seriously athow engineers and the engineering profession want to live and act in society. This articleoutlines the current debate about the migration of jobs overseas and the dismemberment ofengineering and technology jobs into commodifiable pieces. It is written so as to provide

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sven Nielsen

industrial relations have led to a number of different modes of co-operation withmutual benefit which has been reflected in other areas of M.Sc., Ph.D. and researchprogrammes.Of course, the lecturing of theories, methods and techniques can best be done at theuniversity. But when students are to learn academia and professional skills, all the cycles ofKolb´s [6] and Cowan´s [7] learning model have to be included. Following the four stages ofthe Kolb or Cowan learning circle, the engineering problem solution let the students to beinvolved in e.g.: 1) analysis and diagnosis of industrial issues, 2) development/design ofsolutions – holistic as well as detailed, 3) planning/implementation and control of solutions 4)a dynamic learning process for

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Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Staver; Naiqian Zhang; Masaaki Mizuno; Gurdip Singh; Mitchell Neilsen; Donald Lenhert

electronic systems used in automobiles, industrial automation, andother control systems continues to increase dramatically. These systems typically includesubsystems with separate processors. The processors must communicate to coordinate theiractivities. A typical system consists of an interconnected collection of distributed processors* This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under NSF Grant No. 0227709.Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) Page 9.528.1and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Eichinger; Mark Wilson; Anton Kruger; Marian Muste; Tao Xing

Conference, Boulder, CO, pp. T3E-1 – T3E-6. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education[12] Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation (1994). Standards for Evaluations of Educational Programs, Projects, and Materials, McGraw Hill, New York, NY.[13] Naghedolfeizi, M., Arora, S., and Garcia, S. (2002). “Survey of LabVIEW Technologies fro Building Web/Internet-Enabled Experimental Setups,” Proceedings American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Motreal, Quebec, Canada.Author BiographiesMARIAN MUSTE received his Ph.D. in Civil and

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Mathematics in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

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Anne Spence

Centered, Inquiry Based Approach to Page 9.538.9 Middle Grade Science and Mathematics Education. Journal of Engineering Education. 91(3):309-318. “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2004, American Society for Engineering Education” 3. Robinson, W.H., et al. Incorporating Engineering into High School Algebra and Geometry. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition. Session 2665. 4. Rosser, S., ed. Teaching the Majority: Breaking the Gender Barrier in Science

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Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2004 Annual Conference

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Robert Weber; Rob Walstrom; Kukjin Lee; Jayme Hero; Galen Faidley; Bernard Lwakabamba; Feng Chen; Julie Dickerson; Carolina Cruz-neira; Diane Rover

necessary for designing anddeveloping the subsystem. A sub-design document consists of several sections: • Description + Goal: describes an overview. e.g., what is it for?, why do we need it?, when do we need it? • Input/Output: describes information necessary for interfacing with other subsystem(s). e.g., what data should be given?, what data will be generated? • Operations: describes functionalities of the subsystem. • Requirements: describes required capabilities. • Constraints: describes any assumptions. e.g., frequency range should be within the ISM band, ideally 915 MHz, for the Data Acquisition and Control subsystem. • Resources: describes necessary resources for designing and

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Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Masi

applicable, in what company organization group are you working this summer(Marketing, research and development, manufacturing, etc.)? What’s your supervisor’stitle?D. How does your group fit into the organization structure of the company?2. PRODUCT/ PROCESSA. If applicable, are you working on particular product (s) or processes as part of yourjob? If so, what?B. If you are working on particular product(s) or processes, how might you describe theproduction/ distribution stream for that product? Where does your group fit into thisstream? Who, in essence, are your group’s ‘customers’? Who does your group receive‘supplies’ from? (Recall the IAP lecture on the beer production / distribution stream.)?C. If you are working on improving a particular product

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Vish Prasad; Richard Schoephoerster; Ofer Amit; Alan Carsrud

upongraduation. Program activity complies with the requirements of the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) for senior design projects.The Biomedical Engineering Mentoring and Internship program is offered to seniors majoring inBiomedical Engineering. The program is comprised of a three-semester sequence that beginsduring the latter half of the Spring Semester of the Junior year or the Summer Semester of theSenior year. Seniors that do not participate in the program do an in-house senior design project.The program offers two tracks: an entrepreneurial track and a corporate track. In theentrepreneurial track student entrepreneur(s) recruit prospective team members for the durationof the project and lead the development of their own

Conference Session

A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mark Kithcart; Legunchim Emmanwori; G. Van Ness Burbach; Dominic Clemence; Caesar Jackson; Guoqing Tang

. Inaddition, working collaboratively in research projects has enabled them to gain team workingexperience, communication, negotiation and consensus building skills. Preparing project reportsand presenting their research results at conferences have developed and nurtured their writingand presentation skills.References[1] Brown, K., J. McCullough, S. White, N. Veale, and J. Park (2002). “Forward finite-difference modeling ofseismic wave propagation,” the 2002 SPGRE project report, College of Arts and Sciences, North Carolina A&TState University, Greensboro, NC 27411, July, 2002[2] Dhanasar, M. and C.R. Jackson (2002). “Development of the seismic physical modeling facility: data acquisitionmodule,” in Proc. 7th Annual Life and Physical Sciences

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Lorena Basilio; Frank Claydon; Betty Barr; David Shattuck; Stuart Long; Jennifer Ruchhoeft

, American Society for Engineering Education” Shattuck et al., Summer Camp and Course Workshops for Sophomore Level Electrical and Computer Engineerswe felt that a new and additional effort could help our students even more. We chose to concentrate our efforts on two required courses taken by our students in thesecond semester of their sophomore year. These two courses are Circuit Analysis, andElectromagnetics. (Their formal names and titles are ECE 2300 Circuit Analysis, and ECE 2317Applied Electricity and Magnetism.) Both courses are standard three semester-credit-hour lecturecourses, with three hours of lecture per week, and class sizes that vary from the low 20’s to mid50’s. These courses were chosen because of the low success rate for

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

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Saleh Al Hashimi; Colm Mealy; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller

PI Freshman (A rabic) 60.0 PI Freshman ( English) 50.0 % Students 40.0 30.0 20.0 10.0 0.0 0.0-24.9 25.0-49.9 50.0-74.9 75.0-100.0 % Corre ct Res ponse s Page 8.350.3 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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James Turso; David Johnson; Shannon Sweeney

mathematical treatment of mechanical vibrations and experimental analysis.The graphics-based block diagram language of Simulink allows students to ‘build’ thedifferential equation(s) for single-degree-of-freedom, as well as multiple-degree-of-freedom,systems. The Simulink software package includes a wide array of system input functionsincluding step, impulse, random, user defined, and sinusoidally varying. Frequency domainresponse characteristics are easily obtained using Simulink. The use of Matlab, then, provides ameans for the student to develop a dynamic model of, for example, an automobile’s suspensionsystem, and perform sensitivity analyses on several, or all, of the system’s key parameters withvirtually instantaneous results.Matlab, and its

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sig Lillevik

“wish they had a course like this when they attended school.” They have all beenvery supportive and help to reinforce the instructional objectives.Bibliography 1. Todd, R.H., et al., “A Survey of Capstone Engineering Courses in North America,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 84, no. 2, 1995, pp. 165-174. 2. Bloom, B. S., Krathwohl, D. R. (1984). Taxonomy of educational objectives. Handbook I. Cognitive domain. New York: Addison-Wesley. 3. Grove, A. S., Only the Paranoid Survive (1999). New York: Time Warner Books. 4. Grove, A. S., High Output Management (1995). New York: Random House. 5. Shaeiwitz, J. A., “Observations on Forming Teams and Assessing Teamwork,” 2003 ASEE Annual Conference and

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Motivating Students to Achieve

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2004 Annual Conference

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Craig Turner; Keith Johnson; W. Andrew Clark

” their idea (in this case their seniorprojects) to the business students involved in their “strategic experience” class. These students(already broken into teams by business functional expertise) then voted on which project/s theywould like to take on for their semester assignment. Upon this selection thetechnology/engineering student/s became members of the team. This provides some degree ofbuy in for the non-technological students. It also provides an opportunity for the technologystudents to think through the benefits/costs that are involved in their innovation.Pedagogical IssuesThere are several issues that make teaching in a multi-disciplinary course a challenge. First, thedifferences in background mean that instructors will need to clearly

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Steven Hietpas

Studies.Bibliography1. NSF-Faculty Workshop on Teaching of Electric Drives, University of Minnesota, Department of Electrical Engineering, Minneapolis, June 19-21, 1997.2. N. Mohan, Electric Drives: A Systems Level Approach University of Minnesota Press, 2001.3. S. M. Hietpas and M. E. Ropp, “Improving Undergraduate Power Engineering Education: A System-Level Approach to Teaching Electromechanical Energy Conversion,” NSF-CCLI A&I Grant, # DUE-9952517, June 1999.4. S. M. Hietpas, “An efficient pedagogical approach for integrating power electronics, drives and the PMDC motor into the traditional energy conversion course,” 2002 ASEE Annual Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 2002.5. S. M. Hietpas and M. E. Ropp

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Engineers & Engineering Education in Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, and Turkey

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2004 Annual Conference

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Lerzan Özkale; Fatma Küskü; Gülsün Saglamer

gendereddistribution”, International Journal of Engineering Education, 18(4): 400-408.[8] Kennedy, H. L. and Parks, J. (2000), “Society cannot continue to exclude women from the fields of science andmathematics”, Education, 120 (3):529-537.[9] ITU Archives, unpublished data.[10] Turkish Chamber of Engineers and Architects, http://www.tmmob.org.tr/yayin/bulten/bulten04/bulten04-11.htm[11] Akduman, İ. Ekinci, E and Özkale, N. L (2001) “Accreditation in Turkish universities” (2001) EuropeanJournal of Engineering Education Vol.26, No.3, 231-239.[12] Koushki,P.A.; Al-Sanad,H.A. and Larkin,A.M. (1999), “Women Engineers in Kuwait: Perception of GenderBias”, Journal of Engineering Education, 88(1):93-97.[13] Özkale, N. L and Küçükçifçi, S (2002) “The Ongoing Effects

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Novel Upper-Level Materials Curricula

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Henry; James Bandstra

the Mechanical Engineering Technology program thefirst-hand experience of working with practicing engineers and technicians in their work place. Page 9.180.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationCTC is organized as a non-profit educational corporation whose primary business activity is toperform engineering services work for the U. S. government. These services include informationtechnology and environmental services as well as problem solving in materials andmanufacturing. As part of its

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

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Susan Lord

, Raleigh, NC, pp. 65-67, 1990.(2) Waterman, A. S., "An Overview of Service-Learning and the Role of Research and Evaluation in Service- Learning Programs," in Service-Applications from the Research Learning, Edited by Alan S. Waterman, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, New Jersey, 1997.(3) Projects that Matter: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Engineering (AAHE’s Series in Service- Learning in the Disciplines), Edmund Tsang, editor, (American Association for Higher Education, Washington, DC), 2000.(4) William Oakes, John Duffy, Thomas Jacobius, Panos Linos, Susan M. Lord, William W. Schultz, and Amy Smith, “Service-Learning In Engineering,” Session F3A, 2002 Frontiers in Education Conference, Boston, Massachusetts

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kelvin Kirby

) established by the Texas A&M S ystem Board of Regents. 2. CM 3 is the permanent organization for C ARR. 3. Establish CARR/CM 3 accounts for Life Cycle Support . 4. Evaluate capital pr oducing capabilities: * Professional Services. * Radiation Testing. * Material Charact erization / Surface Analysis . * Simulation Services. * New Research and Service Opportunities. * Expansion of current capab ilities. * Incorporating special purpose teams. 5. CM 3 as the incubator of Small Business Innovative Re search . (SBIR) initiative. Figure

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What's New in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Saumitra Mishra; Boris Ramos; Amy Zeng; Arthur Gerstenfeld; Sharon Johnson

supply chain impacts. Students who participated in the TIME WISE exercises in Fall2002 were overwhelmingly positive about the laboratory activities in student evaluations. Wealso found the interaction and exploration required by the labs to be a stimulating and satisfyingteaching experience.Acknowledgement. Partial support for this work was provided by the National ScienceFoundation’s Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement Program under grant DUE-0126672.Bibliographic Information[1] Ambrose, S. A. and C. H. Amon, “Systematic Design of a First-Year Mechanical Engineering Course at Carnegie Mellon University,” Journal of Engineering Education, 86, no. 2, 173-181, April 1997

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Publicity Elements of Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Staggers; Lynne Slivovsky

the document development cycle to identify and prioritizedocumentation needs and to select final projects for documentation based on degree of need andproject scope, given tight timelines and limited resources. The documentation teams anddeliverables they ultimately produced are detailed in Table 1.Working in teams of 3-5, students planned a documentation set needed by the EPICS team. Thedocumentation set could include one or more documents that fulfilled internal (EPICS)development team needs, or fulfilled the needs of particular EPICS’ end-user group(s). Workingwith EPICS team members, each group of writers identified the most critical needs fordocumentation and developed appropriate documents. The project, detailed in Table 2, consistedof

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole Amare; Charlotte Brammer

how engineering departmentsteach writing and vice versa. Recently, increased communication and cross-disciplinary effortsbetween traditionally disparate departments, such as engineering and English, has helped toalleviate this rift and eliminate stereotypes. However, there is always internal strife as well withindepartments; for example, exactly what is taught in freshman English—specifically how and whycomposition instructors teach writing the way(s) they do—has been a heavily debated topic forthe past ten years in English conferences like the MLA, CCCC, and NCTE, in journals likeCollege English, CCC, and Journal of Advanced Composition (JAC), and in numerous bookssuch as Peter Elbow’s What is English?, Sharon Crowley’s Composition in the

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering and the Liberal Arts

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Van Treuren

student’s professional non-engineering skills. For this reason, a speech course, anengineering economics course, and a management course were highly recommended and thefaculty advised students to take these courses. Page 7.480.3 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationIn the mid 90’s these course recommendations were slowly abandoned and students wereallowed greater freedom in the choice of electives. Presently, the four humanities and socialscience elective courses have now been reduced to a course

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeanne Garland; Christine Helfers; Ronald Roedel; Sarah Duerden

. Page 7.681.14 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2002, American Society for Engineering EducationReferences1 Belasco, S. Constructing Literacies. Fortworth, Allyn & Bacon, 2001, p. 22 Anderson-Rowland, M. & J. Urban. “Evaluating Freshman Retention Efforts in EngineeringHousing,” Proceedings, FIE Conference, October 2001, Reno, Nevada, Session TG4, p. 1.3 Gerdes, H. & Mallinckroft, B. “Emotional, Social, and Academic Adjustment of CollegeStudents: A Longitudinal Study,” Journal of Counseling & Development, Volume 7, Number 2,Jan/Feb 94. pp. 281-289.5 Wintre, M.G & Yaffe, M. “First-Year Students’ Adjustment to

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Partnerships in IE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Burtner

the job market especially in the manufacturing industriesof the 21st century. With a goal to link industry more tightly to the engineering school, anundergraduate engineering program may identify two objectives: to improve U. S. technologicalcompetitiveness by creating a substantive, people-based technology transfer relationship betweenindustry and engineering colleges; and to improve the industrial relevance of the undergraduateengineering experience without compromising the teaching of fundamental science andmathematics. These objectives can be achieved through curricula developed by a team ofprofessors who have a strong industrial background, demonstrated teaching ability, significantmanagement experience, good undergraduate and graduate

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Otieno; Abul Azad; Radha Balamuralikrishna

competency gaps among newly hired graduates. The Next step - Partnership with schools (1997). Manufacturing education for the 21st century. Volume IV. Dearborn, MI: Society of Manufacturing Engineers.3. Jeffries, M. J. (1991). Some aspects of industrial and academic change. Proceedings of the 1991 Conference on Frontiers in Education, West Lafayette, IN.4. Kitto, K. L. (1997). Integrating concurrent engineering into undergraduate design and research experiences. Proceedings of the 1997 Conference on Frontiers in Education, Pittsburgh, PA.5. Kara, S., Kayis, B. & Kaebernick, H. (1997). Resources for new product development in Australia. Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing, 7(3): 237-249.6. Azevedo da Silveira

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Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tushar Patil; Ofodike Ezekoye; Justin Cone; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

interactive “story” with multiple perspectives. In non-linear fashion,students can choose which perspective(s) they wish to focus on, all the while piecing together forthemselves the complex personal relationships that drive business. Page 8.266.9 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session 3554For example, the character that represents the marketing cycle, Mary, interacts with nearly everybusiness

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International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Carney; Michael Nolan; James Lampe; Raymond Thompson

Session 2260 A Faculty-Led Global Study Trip for Student Credit Michael S. Nolan, Raymond E. Thompson, Thomas Q. Carney & James E. Lampe Purdue UniversityAbstractThe Aviation Technology (AT) Department of Purdue University is now entering the third year ofan ongoing globalization effort. Activities have included visits to numerous aviation programsaround the world for the purpose of setting up aviation specific Study Abroad opportunities. Thedepartment offered an aviation law course in Oxford, England for Aviation Technology studentsin 2002. The Aviation Management major is now requiring a

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Corradini

, 2002)2 Michael L. Corradini, Chair, "The Future of University Nuclear Engineering Programs and UniversityResearch and Training Reactors", Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Committee Report, U. S.Department of Energy, 2000.3 Gary S. Was and William R. Martin, Ed., Manpower Supply and Demand in the Nuclear Industry (AnnArbor, Michigan: Nuclear Engineering Department Heads Organization, 1998).4 Neal Todreas, Chair, "A Technology Roadmap for Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems", NuclearEnergy Research Advisory Committee Report, U. S. Department of Energy, 20025 The conventional nuclear engineering degree programs consists of 30 credits: Atomic and nuclear physics (3) Reactor physics (3) Radiation effects and

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Multidisciplinary Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

M.J. (John) Frye; Myron (Ron) Britton

R = 2 + S(H-125)/C where: 2 = value assigned for having a tower to test S = 1, if the tower supports the 20 kg mass S = 0, if the tower does not support the 20 kg mass H = height of the tower, in mm C = number of cards usedLaboratory 3- Brainstorming exercise in groups no larger than 20 students. Week 1, generate as many ideas as possible. 20 ideas receives 3 points, 25 receives 4 points and 30 or more receives 5 points. Week 2, prepare a design recommendation based on the previously generated ideas.- Design a folding sawhorse. The design must be presented in freehand graphic form, on a flip chart page, using a broad nib felt tip pen