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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Barry Farbrother

Main Street, Ada, OH 45810, USA. m-launsbach@onu.edu6 J. T. Wagner, EE Undergraduate, 525 South Main Street, Ada, OH 45810, USA. j-wagner@onu.edu7 K. J. Zwingler, ME Undergraduate, Unit 3594, 525 South Main Street, Ada, OH 45810, USA. k-zwingler@onu.eduASEE Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. June 20-23, 2004works two to three days a week in the EiR office at ONU and the remaining time atMAP’s headquarters located in Findlay, Ohio.The EiR serves two functions. The first is as a supervisor, handing out assignments andkeeping track of the progress of those projects. The EiR also functions as a mentor –training, explaining and instructing the students about MAP, job responsibilities

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Qaissaunee

Session #: 1526 Wireless Communications Model Program Development Michael Qaissaunee, (mqaissaunee@brookdalecc.edu) Brookdale Community College Newman Springs Road Lincroft, NJ 07738 732-224-2879 This work is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number DUE-0302909 ABSTRACTThe goal of this project is the modification of an existing Electronics Engineering TechnologyAssociate of

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Rodger Dalton; Paul Klenk; Gary Ybarra

disciplines: civil, mechanical, electrical/computer, and biomedical engineering.The mature program now includes fully developed lesson plans for two sections of students,Techtronics I for 6th grade and Techtronics II for 7th grade, each led by a graduate studentcoordinator and five undergraduate teaching Fellows. Emphasis is placed on learning throughhands-on experience and creating an environment that encourages inquiry. Students first studyapplicable scientific theory and are introduced to instrumentation and software tools that will beneeded later. Each unit then culminates in the construction of a related project such as balsawood bridges, Lego robotics, AM radios, or heart monitors. With a student return rate of over70% for 2003-2004, the

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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George Catalano

engineering science, design and project-management by executing a real-world project.The projects have been generated both in-house through the sponsorship of a BinghamtonUniversity faculty member and externally by an industrial client. Additionally amechanism was established wherein a team of students developed a project from theirown imagination with the requirement that an engineering faculty member serve as theadvisor. The course sequence has been offered for the past two years. Data gathered fromthe offering of the courses as well as assessment of the students’ experiences has shedlight on both the strengths and weaknesses of the existing engineering program.Introduction Each year, more than 100 students receive undergraduate degrees in

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Nontraditional Ways to Engage Students

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2004 Annual Conference

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Andrew Czuchry; W. Andrew Clark

2004-1428 Technology-Based Business Incubators: Living Laboratories for Entrepreneurial Students W. Andrew Clark and Andrew J. Czuchry East Tennessee State University, Johnson CityAbstractThose teaching entrepreneurship to engineering and technology students are faced with thechallenge of converting theory into learning opportunities that provide real-world-practicalexperience. Although the literature stresses the need for experiential learning through group andfield projects and case studies, the potential of capitalizing on technology-based businessincubators as

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Toshiyuki Yamamoto; Kazuya Takemata; Masakatsu Matsuishi

whileconducting Project-based Learning in Engineering Design courses targeting lower classmen inengineering institutions in Japan. The Kanazawa Institute of Technology (henceforth, KIT) is a pioneering university thatbegan Engineering Design Education in 1996. Engineering Design courses are characterized byproject-based learning in groups. A group, consisting of 5 students, chooses an engineering topicrelating to daily life, defines its domain, and solves its problems that may have multiplesolutions. Although project-based group learning is an important instructional concept, students havenot experienced any type of project-based group learning in their pre-college education. In orderfor students to become used to such courses, our courses are

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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sue Ellen Haupt; Jessica Gregory

Planning Approach for the Society of Women Engineers Mentoring Girl Scouts Sue Ellen Haupt, Jessica D. Gregory Utah State University/ Pennsylvania State University Abstract Utah State University College of Engineering is actively working on recruiting and retaining women in engineering. This project is one that combines the two toward affecting both goals at once. The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) section at USU has organized a mentoring system with the local Girl Scout council. The primary idea is a top-down mentoring approach where activities are designed and run by women and girls that are a step ahead of the participants. In

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Dilip Mirchandani; Kathryn Hollar; Beena Sukumaran; John Chen; Yusuf Mehta

development; and (iv) understand the environmental impacts of development andexplore the role of appropriate technologies in developing sustainable strategies.The second in the series is an engineering course called Sophomore Clinic II, which is taken byall engineering students at Rowan University. Sophomore Clinic II is the 4th course in aninnovative eight semester multidisciplinary engineering design and practice, project-orientedcourse sequence that is a hallmark of the Rowan Engineering program. The students in thiscourse work on projects related to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. As part of the course,students participate in a semester-long project in which sophomore students from all engineeringdisciplines calculate CO2 emissions for the

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Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Wafeek Wahby

- termecological and environmental effects of building the Three Gorges Dam. Other far-reaching effects of the project on areas such as energy, industry, business, culture, societyand transportation are now starting to become a tangible reality rather than speculations.Time will show to what extent the fears and concerns that many are having were justified.SummaryThe largest project in the world, China’s Three Gorges Dam (TGD) – 1.44 miles (2.31km) long and 620 ft (185 ms) high – is well into its third and final phase. Since Sunday,June 1, 2003, waters of the Yangtze River – third longest river in the world after the Nileand the Amazon – have been flowing through water diversion holes at the bottom ofTGD in the portions completed during Phase I (1993-1997

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Design for Community

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2004 Annual Conference

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Timothy Prestero; Neil Cantor

students to build on each other’s work. Finally, DtM works with NGOs,corporate partners and local entrepreneurs to ensure that promising student innovations result inproducts and services for communities in need.Since its launch in 2000, DtM has reached over 400 engineering students—roughly half of themwomen and minorities, and many of whom have realigned their life trajectories to include workin underserved communities. In 2002, DtM completed a proof-of-concept implementation inMIT's mechanical engineering capstone design course with Prof. Woodie Flowers. DtM is nowexpanding within MIT and to other schools in the US and UK.2.1. DtM Project AreasDesign that Matters works to address the needs of underserved communities in developingcountries as

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Entrepreneurship Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Solt Michael; Malu Roldan; Burton Dean; Asbjorn Osland

positive regarding the NVF. A significant NVF exhibit was the Hewlett Packard Mobile Computing Grant (HPMCG). All teams completed projects that were impressive to most observers from the university and greater community but additional lessons were learned that will be important to subsequent comparable projects, as well as next year’s NVF.During 2003 a team of faculty from the Colleges of Engineering, Humanities and the Arts, andBusiness at SJSU and also several entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley focused on new venturecreation by students. First, we’ll briefly summarize our experience with the SJSU Silicon ValleyBusiness Plan Competition (SVBPC) that took place in spring 2003. But the bulk of this paperwill focus on the

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Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jeannie Brown Leonard; Janet Schmidt; Linda Schmidt; Paige Smith

Session 2131 A Pilot Investigation of Functional Roles on Engineering Student Teams Ms. Jeannie Brown Leonard, Dr. Janet A. Schmidt, Ms. Paige E. Smith, & Dr. Linda C. Schmidt University of Maryland, College ParkIntroductionThe project team has become a primary learning environment for engineering students.Engineering education accreditation1 has been revised to include the ability to function onmultidisciplinary teams as a required student learning outcome in response to industryidentification of shortcomings in team skills2. Unlike

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Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ming-Sung Koh; Mick Brzoska; William Loendorf

underrepresented students with the potential to be replicated in other technology and engineering programs at other institutions. • The design of a curriculum that bridges software and hardware technologies including: team-based projects, experience-based learning and extensive laboratory hands-on experience. • The formation of an SET Program Advisory Board comprised of actively involved individuals with diverse backgrounds in the development and maintenance of software intensive systems from industry and government. • The development of an SET program Assessment Plan to meet the Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (TAC of ABET) criteria

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EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 1

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2004 Annual Conference

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Martha Garcia-Saenz

1776 Applying Game Theory and Real Options to Competitiveness in Construction Businesses Martha Garcia-Saenz Purdue University North CentralIntroductionNet Present Value (NPV) has been the tool used to decide about the future of many projects for along time. Refinements in calculations are necessary on a daily basis because of global businesscompetition. Better tools for decision-making are indispensable for managerial flexibility inorder to respond quickly to changes. For many years, decision-making was tied to strategiesfixed in advance, and when

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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Zvi Aronson; Souran Manoochehri; Peter Dominick; Kishore Pochiraju; Beth McGrath; George Korfiatis; Keith Sheppard

visualization and immersion in alternative designs of engineeredsystems. The product realization environment encompasses the real time execution ofengineering projects, products and services for example on the factory floor or the projectsite. The human environment encompasses all interactions, real or virtual, with all Page 9.1289.1project stakeholders from teammates to users. Cutting across all three environments isincreasing awareness for the need to incorporate the process of systems thinking.Systems thinking entails the notion that every engineering project, no matter how small,is treated as a system and not as a mere collection of components

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Service Learning in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Patti Clayton; Steven Peretti; Lisa Bullard

Session 3161 Service-Learning in CHE Senior Design Lisa G. Bullard, Patti H. Clayton, and Steven W. Peretti North Carolina State University ABET 2000 Criterion 3 explicitly states that engineering graduates must have “anunderstanding of professional and ethical responsibility,” “an ability to communicateeffectively,” and “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineeringsolutions in a global and societal context.” Service-learning is the approach we chose to enhanceour students’ capacities in these areas. For the past two years, senior projects containing

Conference Session

Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2004 Annual Conference

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Roger Seals

, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education forall students, including: majors in STEM disciplines; prospective K-12 teachers; studentspreparing for the technical workplace; and all students as citizens in a technologicalsociety.The Division’s grant programs sponsor projects in the two broad areas of curriculumdevelopment and workforce preparation. The scope and objectives of these programs areherein described. Some of these programs are congressionally mandated but administeredby the Division. Greater attention is given to the Course, Curriculum and LaboratoryImprovement Program that was developed by the Division to provide leadership andresources for the improvement of STEM education. Guidance is provided on how toprepare a successful

Conference Session

Design And Manufacturing Experiences I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jim Lyall; Rachel Shinn

-semester design sequence with the first semester being a Page 9.444.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ÆÉ 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationpaper design of an entire spacecraft and mission. The second semester is dedicated to design,build, integration and test. In order to accomplish this in a single semester, only a fewsubsystems can be done in detail, so the project is de-scoped from the previous semester’s designto be some portion of the design that the students can complete in a single semester.The benefits

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques & Funding Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jim Leake

, American Society for Engineering”OverviewThe class meets four hours a week, with students receiving three semester credits (or 0.75 unitsin the case of graduate students) for their efforts. The only prerequisite is an engineering graphicscourse that includes parametric solid modeling, although students are also expected to be familiarwith solid mechanics concepts. Class time is divided between a classroom equipped with acomputer and projection system, and a computer laboratory.In the classroom either the instructor gives lectures, or the students themselves makepresentations on topics that they have previously researched. Lectures cover such subjects astransformation matrices, geometric modeling (solids, splines, and surfaces), finite

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Roger Hadgraft; Mike Xie

Session Number: 1608 Civil and Infrastructure Engineering for Sustainability Assoc. Prof. Roger Hadgraft, Prof. Mike Xie, Mr Nomer Angeles School of Civil and Chemical Engineering, RMIT University Melbourne, AustraliaIntroductionIn 2002, the School of Civil and Chemical Engineering at RMIT University began a project torenew its Civil Engineering program, ready for the new 2004 academic year. This programhad high acceptance in the marketplace (high graduate employability) but average studentsatisfaction scores (as measured by the national CEQ data).As part of this renewal process

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DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Vaz

, and the role ofsenior capstone design in the curriculum is more summative than formative, leaving little roomfor remediation and subsequent improvement. First-year design experiences can providecontext, motivation, and excitement, but first-year students are typically without the technicalbackground to experience a genuine electrical and computer engineering (ECE) design processthat fills an unmet need and addresses all of the tradeoffs between technical and nontechnicalmatters that occur in product design.For over 30 years, the undergraduate engineering programs at Worcester Polytechnic Institute(WPI) have featured a substantial senior capstone design project as one of three degree-requiredproject experiences. While faculty reviews of the

Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Roth; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

student involvement and for increasing the quality of the experiences. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for EngineeringTypes of Research Experiences Available to Lafayette StudentsLafayette College facilitates three different mechanisms for student research, as described in thefollowing paragraphs.Independent StudyA student takes an independent study during a semester for course credit (for a Civil Engineeringmajor, this course typically counts as a civil engineering elective). Any student may request towork with a faculty member on an independent study project, and the project may take a varietyof forms

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DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Will Cluett; Peter Weiss; Kim Woodhouse; David Bagley; Susan McCahan

cohesive course outline. The newcourse, entitled Engineering Strategies and Practice (ESP), is a two-course sequence (26 weekstotal) that was offered on a pilot basis for 100 students in the 2003-04 academic year.There are many different elements that have been developed for design courses.1 The two-course sequence that was piloted this past year combines a number of these elements and hassome special attributes. There is a major design project carried out for a real client. The team ofinstructors is a mix of engineering professors, communication instructors, and industryprofessionals. In addition, considerable class time is allocated to understanding how human,social, and environmental issues are brought into the design process. This is done, in

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tord Dennis; Robert Fulton

design and deliver a product over a two-year period. This paper documents one of the pilot DCPD projects conducted by students and facultyat Georgia Tech and the University of Maryland College Park during the spring semester of 2003 toidentify and explore potential issues relating to the “Grand Experiment". We introduce our 2-yearcapstone DCPD project which began in the fall semester of 2003 with Mechanical Engineering studentsfrom Georgia Tech, University of Maryland and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign collaboratingto design an amphibious utility vehicle for the John Deere Corporation. We also outline our plans forinvolving students from Industrial Design, Manufacturing, Business and other disciplines in the springsemester of 2004 to

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Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Shana Craft; David Click; P. Paxton Marshall

domestic hot water and space heating using a radiant floor. There is also a stone-linedsunroom for collecting and storing solar energy, and adjustable louvers over the extensive south-facing glazing to regulate incoming solar radiation. Data logging, control and user interface areintegrated by a LabVIEW-based automation system. The house continues to serve as alaboratory for multidisciplinary capstone design team projects. The project, which allows students to learn energy concepts in an integrated realisticsetting, provides numerous benefits for engineering students that are often lacking in standardengineering instruction, and that are being emphasized by the new ABET EC 2000 criteria. Itintroduces them to holistic systems thinking—that

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Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Anthony Richardson; Dick Blandford

. Objectives3.1 Objectives in Creating the CourseIn looking at the computer engineering curriculum at the University of Evansville (UE) it seemedthat the spring term of the junior year was the best time to offer such a course. This allowsstudents to obtain adequate prerequisite preparation. It also gives them the opportunity tofollow-up and complete a major capstone project which includes real-time and embeddedsystems during their senior year. The objectives in creating the course were: • Keep hardware and software costs low so that the course can be offered inexpensively and so that students can do course assignments in their home/dorm as well as in a lab. • Use hardware and software similar to that currently being used in industry

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Multidisciplinary Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul King; Lloyd Massengill; Joel Barnett; Donald Kinser; Andrew Dozier

Session 3125 Development of a Joint BME, ME, and EE/CE Senior Engineering Design SeminarPaul H. King, Ph.D., P.E., Donald L. Kinser, Ph.D., P.E., Joel Barnett, Ph.D., Lloyd Massengill, Ph.D., Andrew Dozier, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN, 37235AbstractIn the spring term of 2003 the design instructors from the departments of BiomedicalEngineering (PK), Mechanical Engineering (DK, JB) and Electrical and ComputerEngineering (LM, JB, AD) met to discuss the possibility of collaboration oninterdisciplinary design projects and the development of a common design lecture for allfour majors

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Innovations in the ChE Laboratory

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Dunbar

Session 2213Construction and Testing of a Pilot Scale Drinking Water Treatment Process Paul D. Dunbar*, Lori Morris+, and L. Yu Lin++*Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Kentucky, Paducah Extension Campus,Paducah, KY/+Ensafe Inc., Memphis, TN/++Christian Brothers University, Department of CivilEngineering, Memphis, TNAbstract This project was a senior design project for a civil engineering student. The project’sgoal was to build a cost-effective and energy efficient system to treat surface water on a pilotscale. Due to its relatively inexpensive costs and the safe nature of the project, this type ofproject can serve as an

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Interdisciplinary Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Frank Pietryga; Gregory Dick

documentation.This paper focuses on the third of these.The programming course at UPJ has always included programming projects. Nominally,one programming project is assigned each week. No assignment is made in those weeksduring which an exam is being administered. In the second half of the course moresubstantial projects are assigned; these may be intended for one and a half or two weeksduration. The result is that students typically complete about ten programming projects.Students submit a report documenting their experience with each project. The report Page 9.146.1includes: Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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Real-World Applications

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Weissbach; David Loker; Ronald Krahe

Session 1649 Remote Sensing with GPS Sensor and Cellular Modem David R. Loker, P.E., Ronald P. Krahe, P.E., Jeffrey Kirsch, Ted J. Yowonske, R. Joseph Cunningham, Joseph R. Petrovich Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeAbstractIn this paper, a remote sensing project is presented for a senior technical electivetelecommunications course in the Electrical Engineering Technology Baccalaureate Program atPenn State Erie, The Behrend College. There are several noteworthy characteristics of thisproject. First, the project used a