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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

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Yingzi Du; Robert Ives; Delores Etter; Thad Welch

secure sites, making financial transactions, allowing access tonetworked computers, or identifying a terrorist in a public place. Due to the potential for researchthat this relatively new field holds, and its importance to homeland defense, we have built a newBiometric Signal Processing Laboratory, and developed a new course in biometric signalprocessing. This course was designed for seniors in the electrical engineering major so that theycould become familiar with the basis for these new technologies. The course was organized togive the students some background in image processing, from which the identificationalgorithms are formulated, and had them design simple identification algorithms. The studentswere exposed to state-of-the-art

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Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Jordan; Cheryl Sundberg

. Page 9.806.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”IntroductionOur involvement in this outreach program was a natural outgrowth of our previous involvementwith introducing pre-service teachers to engineering concepts. We have created a course inengineering problem solving for future teachers1. A key part of this was to use laboratories toteach engineering skills to these future teachers2. We had an outreach into the K-12 communityas a result of this class. In the past, our students have made presentations on topics covered inthe class and related topics to fourth grade classes in our community

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Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2004 Annual Conference

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Krishna Vedula

) - utilizes the extensive network of ResearchExperiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites as a platform for providing in-service and pre-service K-12 teachers with discovery-based learning experiences in the MPS disciplines that theycan incorporate in their classroom activities. The EEC Division also funds RET sites. RET sitesprovide groups of in-service and pre-service K-12 teachers and community college faculty withdiscovery-based learning experiences in Engineering laboratories and facilities, which will thenbe incorporated into their classroom activities during the school year.Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) - program has an emphasis on:• introductory undergraduate courses presented through the development of text, software

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Innovations in Nuclear Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Gary Sandquist; Brian Moretti; Edward Naessens

taught by the Departments of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineeringand Computer Science, Geography and Environmental Engineering, and Mathematics. Exposureto a wide range of disciplines broadens the science knowledge of the cadet and prepares the cadetfor lifelong science literacy and study. Cadets in the program augment their education throughan Advanced Individual Academic Development (AIAD) program that provides research anddevelopment opportunities with national and military laboratories such as the Los AlamosNational Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory,Aberdeen Proving Ground, and others. These intense summer training programs offer cadets theopportunity to participate in ongoing

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum and Outreach

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2004 Annual Conference

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Elizabeth Eschenbach; Eileen Cashman

environmental science majors via hands-onprojects, case studies and active learning. The air resources module is taught over a three-weekperiod in a fifteen-week semester. The module curriculum is delivered over 6 lectures and two3-hour laboratory periods. This paper describes the lectures, labs and out of class activities. Thepedagogical approach incorporates web-based teaching strategies including Just-in-TimeTeaching (JiTT), developed by physics instructors and used by many different disciplines. Aftercompleting assigned readings, the students take online quizzes that summarize these readings.The lecture period is used to clarify misconceptions that were discovered in the students’responses to the online quizzes as well as present new material

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Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Heather Cooper

and kinetic energy in a simple mechanical system. Laboratoryexperiments help alleviate the difficulties in some cases, but even a lab-based introductorythermal science course in the Mechanical Engineering Technology department at PurdueUniversity does not consistently improve student understanding of the basic principles. Thispaper describes the development and implementation of simple open-ended projects, used inconjunction with the laboratory portion of the course, as a means for increased studentunderstanding. Project topics have ranged from proving basic equations to investigating morecomplex problems, such as the effect of window treatments on cooling requirements or thefeasibility of alternative energy sources. Results from Fall 2003

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Materials Science for Nonmajors

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jamie Workman

understanding of how all this academicinformation will be important and utilized in the future. To help the students maximizetheir learning in the classroom and begin to understand the complexity of themanufacturing industry, various activities, laboratories, and tools have been developedfor this Introduction to Materials course. These ideas were developed to engage thestudent in this course and help them obtain a deeper understanding and appreciation ofthe material world than they would get with a traditional lecture format. This paperdiscusses the strategies and tools used to present various materials concepts to thestudents along with the guided activities and laboratory experiments performed by thestudents.IntroductionYoung children are very

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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James W. Boggs; R. Chris Williams; Kris G. Mattila; Todd Scholz

environment uses collaborativelearning in an entirely team-based course which utilizes the faculty more as mentors thandeliverers of information. Students focus on social interaction to foster development of theseskills.Pavement Enterprise and ScholarshipThe Pavement Enterprise was created in conjunction with the Thompson Scholars Programwithin the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Michigan Tech and is part of theEnterprise curriculum (http://www.enterprise.mtu.edu/students/minor.html). Bob Thompsonestablished the Thompson Scholars program with a generous gift of $3.6 million to fundundergraduate scholarships, graduate scholarships, laboratory improvements, and support todevelop, manage, and operate the Pavement Enterprise2. Bob

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robi Polikar; Maria Tahamont; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

resources to offer new degreeprograms. The resulting gap between the demand for qualified BME professionals and the pro-grams for educating them constitutes a significant, yet unmet, national need. Our goal is to de-velop a new educational paradigm to help reduce this gap. This paradigm is based on introducing novel multidisciplinary content into core engineeringcurriculum, and it consists of integration of content specific laboratory experiments into corecourses to provide essential background, followed by an elective providing topical depth. BMEis used as the novel content and ECE as the core curriculum. The method is versatile, as it can beeasily modified to integrate other novel multidisciplinary content into any engineering program.We have

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New Electrical ET Course Development

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2004 Annual Conference

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Biswajit Ray

technology graduates1. Specifically, the referenced surveyindicates that employers want graduates with a working knowledge of data acquisition, analysisand interpretation; an ability to formulate a range of alternative problem solutions; and computerliteracy specific to their profession. Additionally, potential employers of our EET graduates arein the automated manufacturing and testing sector of the industry; and that motivated the creationof an instrumentation and data acquisition course2 based on a thorough review of experiment-based data acquisition-supported instrumentation courses at other institutions3-6. This three-credit course meets for two one-hour lectures and one three-hour laboratory per week. Thedistinction between lecture and

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2004 Annual Conference

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Paige Smith

for the levelof expertise brought to the research team by undergraduate students. Faculty with more openended, exploratory research found they had more difficulty managing and motivating thestudents compared to faculty with more specific projects. The most successful projects werethose that required a large number of “hands” and less experience, compared to those thatrequired a steep learning curve before students could be useful or productive in the lab.Mentors observed that the students often blamed themselves when things went wrong as opposedto understanding that setbacks are a natural part of the research process. For most of theparticipants this was their first experience with conducting actual research versus “canned”laboratory

Conference Session

Design Throughout the ChE Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

studentsin all four disciplines. Indeed, the hallmark of the engineering program at Rowan University isthe multidisciplinary, project-oriented Engineering Clinic sequence.The Engineering Clinics are taken each semester by every engineering student at RowanUniversity. In the Engineering Clinic, students and faculty from all four engineeringdepartments work side-by-side on laboratory experiments, real world design projects andresearch. The solutions of these problems require not only proficiency in the technical principles,but, as importantly, require a mastery of written and oral communication skills and the ability towork as part of a multidisciplinary team which are essential skills for professional success [2, 3,4]. Rowan’s Clinic Program

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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J. Schmalzel; A. Marchese; Jennifer Kadlowec; Shreekanth Mandayam; Stephanie Farrell

2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Session 1526multidisciplinary education through collaborative laboratory and course work; (2) teamwork asthe necessary framework for solving complex problems; (3) incorporation of state-of-the-arttechnologies throughout the curricula; and (4) creation of continuous opportunities for technicalcommunication [3]. The Rowan program emphasizes these essential features throughout thecurricula, beginning with the introductory freshman

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Christopher C. Ibeh; Marjorie Donovan; Oliver Hensley; James Otter

0 to 10 Difficulty 0 to 10 KNOWLEDGE ELEMENTS (EKEs) Laboratory Section Tensile Strength Testing 8.9 7.1 9.4 7.4 8.6 9.0 Impact Strength Test 9.0 6.7 8.4 7.2 8.1 7.9 Melt Flow Index 9.0 7.6 8.6 8.0 7.4 7.7 Torsional Test 3.9 2.4 3.2 3.8 4.0 3.4 Plastisol 2.4 1.6

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Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Diana Muldrow; Rosa Cano; Deran Hanesian; Henry McCloud; Angelo Perna; Howard Kimmel

education and careers which is well above thenational average. The structure of the program and its objectives, classroom discussions,lectures, laboratory experiments and demonstrations, homework, projects, mentoring sessions,and field trips are specific to appropriate grade course work.To accomplish a true academic continuum, a main thematic unit that is aligned with the NewJersey Core Curriculum Standards was created for each group that links all other subjects andactivities. Each unit and academic curricula follows the Standards for appropriate grade levelsand provides students with prior knowledge upon which we can build. FEMME groups and theirthematic focuses are: FEMME 4—Environmental Science FEMME 5—Aerospace Engineering

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International Engineering Education II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

student’s load is measured in Value Unit (UV). The Value Units are the measureof intensity with which a course is taught, takes into reduces to a normalized number the numberof hours per week spent in lectures, laboratories, and the effort a student puts in its own time. Foreach semester, the student must register for the courses required by the plan of study, workloadvaries from 30 UV to 17 UV per semester, averaging 6 courses per semester.The first semesters courses are common and shared with students from other colleges, with arequirement of 31 UV in “General Education” courses. These include Philosophy, Writing,English, Sociology, Algebra, Trigonometry, Physics, and Chemistry. During the secondsemester, the student is introduced to the first

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeremy Linder; Murat Tanyel

senior author has developed a number of “toolkits”,computer simulations written in LabVIEW, to provide virtual laboratories in DSP andCommunication Systems courses. He is quite enthused about these toolkits, but how do thestudents regard them? A questionnaire taken in last year’s class resulted in positive comments aswell as constructive suggestions. This paper will report on the students’ involvement in thedevelopment of the Communication Systems toolkit through their feedback. It will summarizethe reactions of two different classes at different institutions to the same toolkit. It will alsoreport on the efforts taken to address the constructive suggestions and describe the effect ofstudent involvement on the project on learning in the

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences and Funding

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nolan Hertel; Michael Shannon

lecture-based and provided thestudents with enough information to understand the course content. The main focus of thecourse was in three main areas; overview of the theory of particle accelerators, basic types ofsources and the monitoring/cooling considerations in source design. This course served asprerequisite to the radiation applications course. Figure 1 shows the course description andcourse goals from the 1997 Georgia Tech General Catalog and Table 1 presents the breakdownof lectures for the course.5Course Credit 3 Credit Hours (3 Lecture / 0 Laboratory)Course Description Particle Accelerators; radiation sources for

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Akbar Eslami

2004-1186 session 1793 Gel Time and Temperature for Two Thermosetting Resins Steven D. Gordin, Akbar M. Eslami, Howard L. Price Department of Technology Elizabeth City State University Elizabeth City NC 27909AbstractThe results of an investigation of gel time and temperature of two thermosetting resins have beenused to design a laboratory experiment for an undergraduate materials science course. Theexperiment is part of a larger effort to establish an undergraduate program in

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Griffin, Texas A&M University at Qatar

included a laboratory and a manufacturing course thatcontained a laboratory. As part of this activity, we decided to increase the design activity andmaterial selection within the new course. Starting in fall 2002, we made a copy of a materialsselection program, CES-4œ (Granta Design Limited) available to each student taking the course.A number of activities were devised to help the students become familiar with the program. Theculminating activity was for each laboratory group to design a children’s playground. They wereto select the materials and the manufacturing processes for a playground that could handle 20 to40 children from the ages of 2 or 3 to about 12 to 13 years old at one time. The Parks andRecreation Departments of both communities

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Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Seals

proposal.IntroductionDUE’s grant programs generally fall into one of two broad categories; i.e., curriculumdevelopment or workforce preparation. Of the two, faculty members, particularly newfaculty members, have historically shown greater interest in the former. Depending on thetype of educational program being served, the Division administers two major programs:Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) and Advanced TechnologicalEducation (ATE). These programs are described in detail below.With two exceptions, the remainder of DUE’s grant programs are directed at workforcepreparation and expansion. The specific workforce preparation and expansion programsare: Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics Scholarships (CSEMS); FederalCyber Service

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TIME 3: Thermal Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ella Fridman

direction to the exhaust gases decreasing an efficiency of the cycle.4. Lab simulations are used as a culminating activity that helps students to developskills in the higher levels of learning in the Bloom’s taxonomy: Analysis, Synthesis andEvaluation. The lab simulations have been designed with sound pedagogical goals inmind. The simulation portion of the Learning Tool is well integrated into other learningactivities, and the simulations as authentic and interactive as possible6. The followingexample involves experiments with the 7-stage Armfield Centrifugal Compressor, modelFM 12. It is a small-scale radial flow rotodynamic machine that is available in ourThermal/Fluid Science laboratory

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nam Kim

students in theprocess control laboratory experiments. A simple circuit to turn on/off an electric bulb orelectric heater can be used for real-time tuning. The initial controller setting of three keycontroller parameters [proportional gain (KC), integral time constant (τI), and derivative timeconstant (τD)] can be computed using the major tuning approaches such as Ziegler-Nichols,Cohen-Coon and Tyreus-Luyben methods.The robustness of the tuned parameters has been tested for a disturbance in the set point as wellas in the process. Each of these disturbances is illustrated graphically to demonstrate itsperformance. This approach provided students an instant quantitative guideline as to how goodthese tuning methods are for a given

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Matis; Linda Ann Riley

Session 1526 Teaching Theoretical Stochastic Modeling Courses Using Industrial Partners and Their Applied Problems Timothy I. Matis, Linda Ann Riley New Mexico State University Department of Industrial Engineering P.O. Box 30001 – MSC 4230 Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001 This paper describes a pilot project funded by the National Science Foundation’s CourseCurriculum and Laboratory Improvement program that addresses the common learningchallenges of engineering students enrolled in an undergraduate stochastic processes

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Thorndyke; Timothy J. Anderson; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

Calculus 2 Physics Phys1Hon Honors Physics with Calculus 1 Phys2Hon Honors Physics with Calculus 2 Phys1Lab Physics with Calculus 1 Laboratory Phys2Lab Physics with Calculus 2 Laboratory ChemIntro Introduction to Chemistry Chem1 General Chemistry 1 Chemistry Chem2 General Chemistry 2 Chem1Hon Honors General Chemistry 1 Chem1Lab General Chemistry 1 Laboratory Chem2Lab General

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Instrumentation in the Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Tonkay

to understand the basicconcepts involved in measuring signals, converting them to a different form and controlling asimple system. Most of the activities developed are accessible from the Internet so studentsanywhere can have concepts reinforced through computer-based activities. The activities varyfrom viewing animations to interacting with programs, to working with interactive Excelspreadsheets. The activities are meant to supplement actual laboratory experiences that normallyoccur in engineering curricula.Greenfield Coalition Curriculum ApproachTo implement the concepts of experiential learning and allow students to more easily acquirecore competencies, Greenfield Coalition developed a unique approach to design coursematerials. An

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Industry-Based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Rothaupt

criticisms leveled at engineering schools by the Societyof Manufacturing Engineers in their Curricula 2000 Report1 and the Manufacturing EducationPlan: 1999 Critical Competency Gaps2 document and in other papers which alleged that schoolsoffer too few “practical” and “hands-on” courses. Stout has a rich tradition of teaching studentstechnical skills that can only be taught in laboratory experience. By integrating theory and Page 9.727.1Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Educationexperimentation with

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Johnson

information is communicatedfrom the device to each assembly workstation using a specialized wireless infrared system with aprogrammable microcontroller. This proof-of-concept project was one of several components ina Manufacturing Engineering Technology senior capstone course. The resulting device wasgiven the name “Smart Pallet” by Dr. Wesley Baldwin who also presented the original conceptfor the project.Background:The operating environment for this project is a student constructed computer integratedmanufacturing (CIM) laboratory. A 15 foot by 6 foot oval assembly line track is the centralcomponent in the CIM laboratory. Assembly workstations are positioned at several pointsaround the outside perimeter of the assembly line track. In addition, GE

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NASA Fellowship Program

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sid Wang; Kenneth Roberts; Joseph Monroe; Ajit Kelkar; Devdas Pai

undergraduateenvironment at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. This program isdesigned to significantly improve undergraduate education in the areas of mathematics, science,engineering, and technology (MSET) by directly benefiting from the experiences of NASA fieldcenters, affiliated industrial partners and academic institutions. The three basic goals of the program were enhancing core courses in MSET curriculum,up-grading core-engineering laboratories to compliment upgraded MSET curriculum, andconduct research training for undergraduates in MSET disciplines through a sophomore shadowprogram and through Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) programs. Since the inception of the program nine courses have been modified to

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Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Kavetsky

New Paradigms in Naval Science and Technology R. Kavetsky, D.K. Anand, J. Short, G.E. DieterDirector, S&T Revitalization, Office of Naval Research/Professor of MechanicalEngineering, University of Maryland, College Park/Defense Laboratories ProgramAssistant to the Deputy Director Defense Research & Engineering/Dean of Engineering(Emeritus), University of Maryland, College ParkIntroductionThrough the years the Department of Defense (DoD) has been able to provide its forces withsuperior warfare capabilities with their innovative use of human resources. These significantadvances in warfare capability were brought about in large part by successful transformationsintroduced through the