Conference Session

Design Projects in Wind and Solar Energy

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Billy Hill, Rowan University; Ryan McDevitt, Rowan University; Peter Mark Jansson

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

while setting up different size wind datacollection towers. These skills are invaluable when it comes to entering into a career, whetherthe career be engineering or some other profession.III. Project DescriptionDetermining feasibility of wind power requires the erection of tall masts outfitted withanemometers, wind vanes and data loggers in order to collect data on wind speed and direction.The data collected aloft is sent down to a data logger at ground level and stored there untilcollection of the data was required. But before this could be done, specific procedures had to betaken to raise these 20 and 30 meter towers. Before beginning erection of towers, a suitablelocation for the tower had to be established. Each site was looked at and

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ravel Ammerman, Colorado School of Mines; Pankaj Sen, Colorado School of Mines

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Electrical and Computer

between Academia and IndustryAbstractCurrently the electric power industry is facing a looming shortage of qualified and well-educatedcandidates to fill a large number of positions within the electric energy sector. The job ofpreparing electrical engineering students for careers in the broad interrelated areas of electricalpower systems, machines and energy is a formidable challenge. This task is further complicatedbecause it must be accomplished using very limited financial resources within the short timeframe available in a typical undergraduate engineering curriculum. This situation providedColorado School of Mines (CSM) with a unique opportunity to design a very effectiveundergraduate power engineering curriculum

Conference Session

What's New in Dynamics?

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter Avitabile, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Tracy Van Zandt, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Jeffrey Hodgkins, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Nels Wirkkala, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

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Mechanical Engineering

donot command the subject matter well enough and sometimes feel that it is too late to catch up onreview what they now realize they should have already known from previous courses. Figure 1shows a cartoon expressing the student’s eventual realization as they approach the latter part of Page 11.503.2the undergraduate educational career. Professor, why didn’t someone tell us that the material covered in other courses was critical and going to be really important for the work we

Conference Session

Course-based Approaches to Entrepreneurship Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Doug Abbott, MT Tech of the U of MT; Lance Edwards, MT Tech of the U of MT; John Evans, MT Tech of the U of MT; Leo Heath, MT Tech of the U of MT; Mike Johnson, MT Tech of the U of MT; Timothy Kober, MT Tech of the U of MT; Mary North-Abbott, MT Tech of the U of MT; Roger Oldenkamp, MT Tech of the U of MT

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

questions about the managerial andentrepreneurial aspects of the course and whether it had changed their thoughts regarding careerpossibilities. Six of the eight (75%) students envisioned a career in some sort of managementfunction and again cited this course as adding value regarding the business and management sideof the industry. Two of the students suggested that this course removed the fear of the unknownas to what is necessary to operate a business and it even instilled a sense of confidence as topossibly starting a new venture. While six of the eight aspired to a career in management, alleight basically understood the role of the entrepreneur and two of the students stated that theysaw themselves taking the role of an entrepreneur within

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum & non-Technical Skills

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Hata, Portland Community College; Sohail Anwar, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona College

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Engineering Technology

programsaddressing nanofabrication are needed if the nation is to successfully exploit the nanotechnologyopportunity. Efforts are underway within several colleges and departments of The PennsylvaniaState University to develop options, minors, or concentrations within existing baccalaureatedegrees. A key factor driving these efforts, in addition to nanotechnology career opportunities, isthe need for students to be prepared during their undergraduate studies to support newnanotechnology research programs as graduate students.Nanotechnology at Portland Community CollegeFifteen years ago in January of 1990, Intel Corporation’s Oregon Site asked Portland CommunityCollege (PCC) to develop a new associate of applied science degree program to preparetechnicians for

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Pioneering Courses

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Douglas Sicker, University of Colorado-Boulder; Tom Lookabaugh, University of Colorado-Boulder

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Engineering and Public Policy

, anonymous survey stage. 1. How many SFTP conferences have you attended and when? How did you attend them (in person or through distance education)? 2. What is your background (education, professional)? 3. What did you expect to get out of the conference(s)? Were your expectations met? 4. Was the conference an efficient use of your time? Would there be any way to make it more efficient? 5. How relevant was the conference to your education at CU and to your anticipated career? How well did the conferences tie into your coursework? Page 11.575.4 6. Is the conference format effective? What might make it more effective

Conference Session

Achieving the Civil Engineering Body of Knowlegde

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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C. Conley, U.S. Military Academy; Decker Hains, U.S. Military Academy; Scott Hamilton, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

of “Student Chapter” andtypically have one or two practitioner advisors in addition to the faculty advisor. The characterof ASCE student groups vary widely across the U.S., as do the regional “Student Conferences”in which they can participate. Active chapters and clubs include most or all of the civilengineering majors in a program and these students participate in the vast majority of activitieslisted below. At the other end of the spectrum there are some student groups that only coordinatea few activities and involve only a limited membership. Regional Conferences can also rangefrom very large weekend-long venues having upwards of twenty competitions, involving outsidespeakers, career fairs and attracting well over a thousand students to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Giri Venkataramanan, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Annette Muetze, University of Wisconsin-Madison

directs research in the areas of electric machine design and has recently been awarded the NSF-Career Award for leading research in the area of electric machine design optimization. Page 11.640.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Features of a constructivist microclimate situated in a behaviorist learning environment at a university-based engineering research consortiumI. IntroductionA pressing need to reinvigorate the mission of the university to provide effective learningexperiences for the students while maintaining the scholarly vitality of the faculty is

Conference Session

Revitalizing Cooperative Education and Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Stwalley, Purdue University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

host organizations have recently beeninquiring about the possibility of these types of experiences, and the potential of this programseems to have captured the present students’ interests, particularly those in leadership roles oncampus already. We intend to use a separate employer accreditation procedure for this program,and we anticipate that our initial leadership Co-Ops will be engineers and technologists thatultimately intend to pursue administrative and managerial careers. A single continuous year long experience, the Concentrated Cooperative Education Page 11.391.7Program (C2), is expected to benefit smaller departments and

Conference Session

K-12 Activities

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leilah Lyons, University of Michigan; Zbigniew Pasek, University of Windsor

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

. Collected data allows for demographic analysis of visitorpopulation, user performance assessment, and provides game-play perspective useful foreffective game design. Presented results are based on a year-long study involving about17,000 museum visitors.1.0 Outreach in the Form of a Museum Exhibit: Overview of the ProjectGovernment funding supports research work on the cutting edge of manufacturingtechnologies, but the general population’s understanding of manufacturing processes,equipment, and careers lags far behind that edge. To bridge the gap, the NSF EngineeringResearch Center for reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (ERC/RMS) at theUniversity of Michigan invested in the creation of a museum exhibit to be installed at theAnn Arbor Hands-On

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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W. Lawrence Neeley, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Larry Leifer, Stanford University

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Design in Engineering Education

which these “bits” of design—as designated by individualprofessors—serve to create a complete design educational experience over the course of astudent’s academic undergraduate career. Indeed, from our inspection of syllabi, we suspect thatit may very well be that, for design education experiences, the sum of the parts may actually beless than the whole. It was observations such as these that motivated a second, qualitative phaseof analysis.The qualitative analysis was guided by a necessary rejection of the second assumption of thequantitative phase. During our qualitative analysis of the data, we set aside the assumption thatdesign designations are equivalent, while maintaining that each designation is correct, based atthe very least, upon the

Conference Session

International Exchange/Joint Programs in Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard McGinnis, Bucknell University; Jeffrey Evans, Bucknell University

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International

for civil engineering students.It is established that study abroad can help prepared engineering students to meet the changingdemands of the profession and prepare them better for a career in the global economy.4,5 To thatend, at a fundamental level the activities of the program were designed to stimulate the students’awareness and thinking about the many non-engineering issues that both affect and are affectedby engineering decisions. Historically, engineering education has focused on the technicalaspects of engineering (stress, strain, etc.) and, many would argue, virtually ignored the role ofengineering in society. While technical aspects of engineering will and should remain at the coreof an engineering education, it is widely recognized

Conference Session

Biology in Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark McConkie, Utah State University; Timothy Taylor, Utah State University; David Britt, Utah State University

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Biological & Agricultural

actually happens), the written curriculum (what isdescribed, if in no other place than the course catalog), and the tested curriculum (what isevaluated)12.Profits (Curriculum Level)• Courses can be designed to be balanced and well-scoped. In biological engineering, common principles apply to a variety of applications in different specialization areas (i.e. bioprocessing, biomedical, bioenvironmental). Ensuring that core courses offer a balanced set of examples, problems, labs, etc. representing the full breadth of applications is important to match diverse student interest and career paths. As an example in our bioinstrumentation course, we teach data acquisition appropriate for EKG measurements as well as soil moisture content. The

Conference Session

Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen Thornton, University of Maryland-College Park; Anik Singal, Affiliate Classroom, Inc.; David Barbe, University of Maryland-College Park; James Green, University of Maryland-College Park

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

M.B.A. from the University of Maryland. She managed her own career as a performing musician for 25 years and taught at Towson University and Jacksonville University. Ms. Thornton was a Fulbright Scholar. Page 11.289.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 “Bringing Student Innovations to Market: A Hinman CEOs Success Story” James V. Green, Anik Singal, David F. Barbe, and Karen S. Thornton University of Maryland, College ParkAbstractThis paper discusses a study of the challenges and opportunities navigated by Anik Singal

Conference Session

Leadership and Administration in ET

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lakshmi Munukutla; Albert McHenry

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Engineering Technology

community has deep seated memories that categorize ET as subordinate to engineering. (3) The basis for differentiation may vary across the ET community. (4) The engineering and engineering technology characteristics, functions, and career initiation processes are merging at the boundaries. (5) There is strong demand for the ET graduate’s skill set and competence, but they must serve the employer without the emotional satisfaction of being associated with the favored brand. (6) ET graduates are first thought of as two-year technicians. (7) ET programs exist at four levels of education without clear distinction.Branding Engineering Technology An approach to the

Conference Session

Faculty Involvement in International Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Siller, Colorado State University; Gearold Johnson, Colorado State University; Amy Pruden, Colorado State University

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International

, 2000. 4(1): p. 19-24.6. Jensen, H.P. and M. Gundstrup, International Experience During Study: A Way of Preparing Engineering Students for Their Professional Career. Global Journal of Engineering Education, 1998. 2(1): p. 29-32.7. Jones, R.C., Cross-Border Engineering Practice. Global Journal of Engineering Education, 1999. 3(2): p. 135-138.8. Riemer, M.J., English and Communication Skills for the Global Engineer. Global Journal of Engineering Education, 2002. 6(1): p. 91-100.9. Caspersen, R., Encouraging Engineers to Learn Cross-cultural Skills. Global Journal of Engineering Education, 2002. 6(2): p. 135-137. Page

Conference Session

Network Administration and Security

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ron McKean, Ferris State University

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Engineering Technology

, creative responses, and lessons learned. Analogous to the naturalworld, survival depends upon continuous improvement. Not only is an educational programjudged by economic viability but also an ethical responsibility to meet its educational goals.Most importantly, the undergraduate educational experience must lay a foundation for asuccessful career as well as a valued societal member. The interaction of curricula, resources,marketing, technology and other factors are also discussed.While assessment and continuous improvement are important for external accreditations andinternal reviews; it is helpful to look back and examine their long-term benefits. These methodsprovide information that generally indicates needs for improving quality in the form

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Jones, Southwest Tennessee Community College; James M. Northern, Southwest Tennessee Community College

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

and can create and solve new problems in real time. The tablet PC and projectoreliminate the need for a blackboard. Having the flexibility to teach courses with minimalfacilities allows the Engineering Technology Department to move its classrooms to appropriateoff-campus sites near the students.RationaleHistorically the Engineering Technology programs have been available only at the maintechnology campus. Students knew what field they were interested in, were very mature,working, and advancing their careers. To attract more students, the Engineering TechnologyDepartment has developed a just-in-time initiative. The department is offering a seamlesseducation that starts with a technical certificate and progresses to an associate’s degree

Conference Session

ELD Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce Reid, Pennsylvania State University-Wilkes-Barre

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

.13). This is exactly how librarians should be operating on behalf of all their staff members.They should use their influence and experience in the field to help further their cohort’s careersin the library profession.Andrew Hill, a player for John Wooden in the early 70s, didn’t play much at UCLA despitebeing an all-city player in Los Angeles. He was resentful about his lack of playing time and howhe felt the coach had treated him unfairly. Many years later, after a very successful career intelevision that centered on getting the very best from creative people, he suddenly realized thatevery managerial process he used on the studio lot with great success, he had learned in practicesand games during his career at UCLA under the tutelage of

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricio Tapia, University of Florida; Fazil Najafi, University of Florida

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International

only the education process but also the wayshow Teacher Assistants perceive their responsibilities. Becoming a Teacher Assistant atUniversity of Florida helps student’s financial needs and prepares those who want topursue an academic career. For Chileans, being a Teacher Assistant is considered a highprestige.IntroductionTeacher Assistant (TA) activities play an important role in the education of civilengineers since students learn and have the opportunity to interact with their fellowstudents. TA’s activities include performing assigned class duties, office hours, assistingstudents in the laboratory, field trips, and grading. The emphasis in each activity is afunction of the type of topic covered by the course. Theoretical subjects need

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Neetika Kohli, Purdue University; Cordelia Brown, Purdue University; Monica Cox, Purdue University; David Meyer, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

students. During this important point in astudents’ academic career, it is critical that the students’ initial exposure to engineering is learnercentered, knowledge centered, assessment centered, and community centered1. Wirelessresponse units can serve as the catalyst to stimulate these interactions.The Introduction to Digital System Design course2 is offered by the School of Electrical andComputer Engineering. Students majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineeringare required to take the course. A number of Computer Science students take the course as wellto fulfill degree requirements. This four credit hour course has a weekly three hour lab that istightly integrated with the course material covered during the three hour a week

Conference Session

Knowing Our Students III

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Guili Zhang, University of Florida; YoungKyoung Min, University of Florida; Matthew Ohland, Clemson University; Timothy Anderson, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

merit-based scholarships if the GPA drops below 3.0 and cannotgraduate with a cumulative GPA below 2.0. A high student GPA should also reflectcomprehension and satisfaction with the academic subject and thus discourage migration toanother discipline. In contrast to these conclusions, Seymour and Hewitt reported results from aqualitative study that indicated that students leaving engineering were academically no differentfrom those that remained,17 noting that students left for reasons relating to perceptions of theteaching quality, institutional culture, and career aspects. Thus the importance of college GPA asa factor in engineering attrition is less clear. Further clouding the issue is the tendency of poorperformance to be accompanied by poor

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Bunting, Oklahoma State University; Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State University

the reported difficulties onteams, students overwhelmingly reported they were much better able to function on ateam by the end of reformed courses and the experience prepared them for a career orcapstone design.To highlight changes between lecture and reformed courses we looked at differencesbetween the extreme numeric responses SALG data (1 & 2 responses vs. 4 & 5 responseson a Likert scale) of lecture vs. reformed courses. Faculty identified ten course outcomes(from 77 SALG questions) that were associated with students who are independentlearners (i.e. using the textbook, teamwork, enthusiasm) and six outcomes associatedwith dependent learners (i.e. learned facts and equations, got help from professor or TA).While there were gains

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joerg Mossbrucker, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

design and test of mobile robotics applications.Bibliography1. See the description of the Electrical Engineering discipline at the IEEE USA web-site at: http://www.ieeeusa.org/careers/yourcareer.html2. See the MSOE web-site for course description at of all courses mentioned in this paper at: http://www.msoe.edu/eecs/cese/courses/curriculum.php?progcode=EE15.1&abet=03. See Microsoft's web-site at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/4. See the web-site of IAR, one of the industry's leader in IDE's for embedded systems at: http://www.iar.com/5. See the ISO/IEC9899 standard, available on-line at: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/6. See the web-site of Atmel Corp. at: http://www.atmel.com/dyn

Conference Session

Using Teams, Seminars & Research Opportunities for Retention

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carolyn Vallas, University of Virginia; Anaïs Miodek, University of Virginia; Larry Richards, University of Virginia

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Women in Engineering

degrees awarded in the U.S. at the undergraduate, mastersand doctoral level has declined from 1966 to 2001.2 In order to meet this increasing demand forengineers and other technologically trained professionals, the U.S. needs to boost interest inthese fields, and increase the pipeline to ultimately graduate more students at all levels in scienceand engineering.Research has shown that in the U.S., science, math and engineering fields are not highly desiredas academic or career options, in part because there is a serious disconnect between the subjectmaterial and its real-life applications.3 A research experience, especially at the undergraduatelevel, helps highlight the connection between technical engineering research and engineering’sbenefits to

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert LeMaster, University of Tennessee-Martin; David Farrow, University of Tennessee-Martin

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

will go above and beyond what is required andprogram the machines to perform more and more complex tasks than are requested.Student FeedbackA recent (2004) graduate of the UT Martin program indicated, by telephone, that the automationcourse and laboratory were beneficial to him in his position at a local manufacturing firm, wherehe works directly with robots and PLCs. This graduate indicated that he had had experience withPLCs prior to taking the course and further indicated that the robotics material of the courseyielded the most benefit for him in his career. However, the graduate did relate that the PLCmaterial of the course would have benefited students who had no PLC experience prior to takingthe course, in his opinion.Another recent

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phillip Wankat, Purdue University

-profit schools. For-profits have excelled at training faculty, particularly part-time faculty, inactive teaching methods. For-profits have shown that their educational methods result instudent learning, and some observers believe the approaches developed by the for-profitsrepresent the wave of the future.2 Thus, it makes sense for faculty in traditional engineeringand engineering technology programs to know more about the for-profits and to learn fromthem.Bibliography1. Career Education Corporation, Form 10-K, For Fiscal Year Ended Dec. 31, 2004.2. Berg, G. A., Lessons from the Edge: For-Profit and Non-Traditional Higher Education in America,ACE/Praeger Series in Higher Education, Westport, CT, 2005.3. Apollo Group, Inc., Form 10-K, For Fiscal

Conference Session

FPD4 -- Real-World Case Studies & Projects

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Liesl Hotaling, Stevens Institute of Technology; Richard Sheryll, Center for Maritime Systems, Stevens Institute of Technology; Rustam Stolkin, Center for Maritime Systems, Stevens Institute of Technology

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First-Year Programs

. These projects help expose students to practical design issues in thefreshman year, foster creative problem solving skills and may aid student retention onengineering programs. These projects have also been successfully piloted in pre-collegeprograms, aimed at generating interest in engineering careers among high school students.We describe ongoing work to extend these projects to include computer control and sensoryfeedback, allowing students to develop autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). Further, weoutline ongoing work to assess the effectiveness of these modules.1 IntroductionThis paper describes an ongoing effort, at Stevens Institute of Technology, to develop a set ofeducational modules, which will teach fundamental engineering

Conference Session

Non-Technical Skills in ET

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jay Bhatt, Drexel University; Vladimir Genis, Drexel University; Joshua Roberts, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

informative libraryexperiences to the students. The role of the communication and collaboration among thefaculty and the librarian to develop the content for the library skills workshops andassignments to assess the information skills learned are considered crucial for providingenriching library experience. The core information skills that will enhance the knowledgefundamentals form the central theme of this collaboration between the faculty, students,and librarians.Applied Engineering Technology (AET) Program at Drexel UniversityThe Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Applied Engineering Technology at DrexelUniversity’s Goodwin College is designed for students who plan to pursue careers in avariety of design, manufacturing, and production-related

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wenshen Pong; Tim Le, San Francisco State University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

instruction in designingfor strength. Finally, Structural Analysis (Engr 323) further develops student proficiency instructural engineering, by expanding on the concepts of analysis for reactions, internal forces,and deformations, and provides instruction in the determination of loads, structural stability andbasic concepts of design. Detailed methods for achieving strength and serviceability are coveredin subsequent design courses taken by students who wish to develop a career in structuralengineering.Elective courses for students concentrating in structural engineering include: Steel Structures(Engr 426), Reinforced Concrete Structures (Engr 425), Wood Structures (Engr 427), AppliedStress Analysis (Engr 428), Foundation Engineering (Engr 431