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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Teresa Sappington; Emma Seiler

The Cinder ella Pr oject Ter esa Sappington, Emma Seiler Mississippi State Univer sityCinderella – Modern Parity At the stroke of midnight, Cinderella realized she must go. She raced down the longcastle staircase. “Don’t fall, don’t trip,” she kept repeating to herself. Oh, how fun it was todance with a prince, a real prince. But, oh, how her feet hurt. Was this the true price of beauty?Just as she realized the impossibility of running in glass high heels, one hung on a crack in thestep. As the clock kept clanging, she quickly removed the other shoe and raced on into the night.Once upon a time… The Cinderella Project grew

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tapas Das; Project Fellows; Louis Martin-Vega; Liz Hunnicutt; Grisslle Centeno; Geoffery Okogbaa; Cheriese Edwards; Ashok Kumar; Rajesh Ganesan

The STARS GK-12 Program at the University of South Florida Louis Martin-Vega, Rajesh Ganesan, Tapas K. Das, Cheriese Edwards,Geoffery O. Okogbaa, Grisselle Centeno, Ashok Kumar, Liz Hunnicutt, and Project Fellows.University of South Florida / School District of Hillsborough County, FloridaAbstract: This paper documents the development and implementation of STARS(Students, Teachers, And Resources in the Sciences) a unique graduateFellowship program at the University of South Florida that targets the K-5 schoolenvironment. Sponsored by NSF's GK-12 program, the USF implementation hasresulted in the development of innovative outreach and educational tools andmodules in cutting edge technology areas such as

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Problem-Solving & Project-Based Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

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Taryn Bayles

Project Based Learning Design Projects for Introduction to Engineering Design Courses Taryn Melkus Bayles Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering University of Maryland Baltimore CountyAbstractOver the last four years, the Introductory Engineering Science (ENES 101) course has beenrevised from a traditional lecture and design-on-paper course, to an active learning lecture andproject based learning engineering design course. The design teams are required not only toresearch, design, construct, evaluate, test and present their product, but also to develop amathematical model of their product’s performance. Successful

Conference Session

Service Learning Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Moeller; Margaret Pinnell; Bernard Amadei; Jay Shah; R. Scott Summers; Angela Bielefeldt; Robyn Sandekian

;www.mines.edu/academic/epics/ values, society & decisions; environment, resources, science & technology; international studies.University of Dayton, OH. Engineering ETHOS provides international service internships as wellin Technical, Humanitarian as through collaborative research and hands-on classroomOpportunities of Service (ETHOS) projects that support the development of appropriatequickplace.udayton.edu/ETHOS technologies for the developing world.Georgia Tech. School of Civil & Courses include: Lab for Sustainable Design & Construc-Environmental Engineering. tion; Sustainable Issues for

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Service Learning Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Pines

Session 2451 NPDES Phase II Stormwater Rule – An Excellent Opportunity to Get Students Involved in a Service Learning Project David Pines College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture University of HartfordAbstractThe National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Phase II Stormwater Rule wasimplemented to improve surface water quality by reducing the pollutant discharges bystormwater. The NPDES Phase II Rule requires the development of a stormwater managementplan for small municipal separate storm sewer systems

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Service Learning Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Limbrunner; Charline Han; Chris Swan

. borders. Over the last year, students in the Department ofCivil and Environmental Engineering at Tufts University have engaged in a number of projectsin communities in Nicaragua and Ghana. This paper describes these projects, in terms of theengineering aspects, but also discusses the value these projects have in the education of theinvolved students. It is concluded that service learning projects, in general, provide a valuablepedagogical tool for educating future engineers.Introduction The mission statement of Tufts University states it will “offer to …students a rigorouseducation …that provides the knowledge and intellectual skills to become responsible andproductive participants and leaders of society; … to enhance learning and develop

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Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Philip Dunn

Developing a Workable Senior Construction Management Capstone Project Philip A. Dunn, Jr. PE Assistant Professor of Construction Management Technology, School of Engineering Technology, University of Maine at OronoAbstractA senior capstone course should challenge students to use the skills that they have developed intheir college experience. Because construction management curricula is so diversified, seniorcapstone projects have to be practical exercises that incorporate both business principles andprofessional construction management practice. In the spring 2004 semester at the University ofMaine, a construction management capstone class was

Conference Session

First-Year Design Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

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Teodora Shuman; Greg Mason

Three Freshman Team Design Projects Teodora Rutar, Greg Mason Mechanical Engineering Department, Seattle UniversityAbstractThis paper contains a detailed description of three design team-projects developed for a freshmancourse in mechanical engineering. All projects include the research, design, prototyping, testing,and analysis phases of the design process, and can be completed within half of a two quarter-credit course. They are detailed and in-depth, spanning beyond the typical “hobby-shop”freshman projects.The three team-projects are the design and testing of a wind turbine, a door handle, and aflywheel. The description of each includes the list of project

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship, Design, and PBL

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ken Ports

Senior Design Project Commercialization and Entrepreneurship Ken Ports, Carmo D’Cruz, Muzaffar Shaikh, Carolyn Fausnaugh Florida Institute of TechnologyAbstractThis paper describes the development and growth of an innovative new program that is asynergistic combination of Florida Tech’s technology commercialization-related course offeringsin Engineering Management, its Senior Design course curriculum, and its new businessaccelerator, Florida TechStart. The program is designed for the subset of senior design coursestudents who desire to leverage their design course experience by commercializing theirinnovative products and technologies and creating start-up companies.Florida Tech’s

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Integrating Mathematics and Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ranjith Munasinghe

Multidisciplinary Research Projects for Engineering Students Ranjith A. Munasinghe Department of Mathematics West Virginia University Institute of Technology Montgomery, WV 25136 rmunasinghe@wvutech.eduIntroduction Undergraduate engineering students learn calculus during the first three semesters incollege. Most of the calculus topics are taught as abstract concepts without any science orengineering applications. It is not any better in other classes such as differential equations andlinear algebra. Students are asked to solve algebraic and differential equations

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

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Beverly Davis

Initiating Interdisciplinary Projects: Finding Common Ground Gil Laware, Beverly Davis, and Karl Perusich Purdue University, College of Technology, 1733 Northside Blvd. South Bend, IN 46634AbstractSuccessful approaches to interdisciplinary projects depend on several key components. The firstand foremost is to recognize commonality in purpose. In an educational setting, that is thestudent. As colleagues at a prominent university, we have been encouraged by the president ofour university and the dean of our college to work collaboratively across our disciplines. Most ofthe interdisciplinary projects and scholarly activities undertaken by the authors

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Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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J. Darrell Gibson; Patricia Brackin

Session XXXX CAPSTONE DESIGN PROJECTS WITH INDUSTRY: EMPHASIZING TEAMING AND MANAGEMENT TOOLS M. Patricia Brackin, J. Darrell Gibson Department of Mechanical Engineering Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe benefits of company sponsored capstone design projects, both to academia and to industry,have been well established. At Rose-Hulman the benefits to students include the broadening oftheir engineering skills, the required interaction with practicing engineers, the strengthening ofteaming skills by working in design groups, the development of

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Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2005 Annual Conference

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Max Rabiee

Session 1532 Student Projects in PLC Networking Max Rabiee, Ph.D., P.E. University of CincinnatiAbstract:A case study of Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) networking in the classroom and itsimplementation during the laboratory session will enable students to better understand thesubject. In this paper, we will present a PLC network project that was part of an honors contractprogram in a flexible automation course. Students who participate in the university honorsprogram can complete the project as partial fulfillment of their honors program’s

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Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

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George York; Daniel Pack

Multi-Disciplinary Senior Design Project: A Case Study on a Multiple Mobile Robots Project Tyler Gilbert, Tom Kubler, Adam Palmer, Harold Gilbert, Erlind G. Royer,George York, Gary Dameron, and Daniel Pack United States Air Force AcademyAbstractIn this paper, we present the conduct of a multidisciplinary team senior design project at theAir Force Academy (USAFA). The procedure is presented in the context of one senior designproject. The project is carried out by a team made up of two senior students majoring incomputer engineering, one senior student majoring in electrical engineering, and oneinstructor playing the roles of a system

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Education Ideas in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Gassert; Deepti Suri

Gathering Project Requirements: A Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Experience. Deepti Suri, John Gassert Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Milwaukee School of Engineering 1025 North Broadway Milwaukee, WI 53202-3109 {suri, gassert}@msoe.edu AbstractMilwaukee School of Engineering has one of the first ABET-accredited undergraduate softwareengineering (SE) programs in the United States. As part of the curriculum, SE students areexposed to Requirements Engineering (RE) in their junior year

Conference Session

Engineers & Mathematicians Communicating

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2005 Annual Conference

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Peter Avitabile; Tracy Van Zandt

Session 1165 INTERWEAVING NUMERICAL METHODS TECHNIQUES IN MULTISEMESTER PROJECTS Dr. Peter Avitabile, Associate Professor Dr. John Mc Kelliget, Professor Tracy Van Zandt, Graduate Student Mechanical Engineering Department University of Massachusetts Lowell One University Avenue Lowell, Massachusetts USA Peter_Avitabile@uml.eduAbstractThe numerical processing (integration

Conference Session

Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Charles Feldhaus

Project PETE: Pathways to Engineering and Technology Education Charles Feldhaus, Ed.D Purdue School of Engineering and Technology Indiana University Purdue University IndianapolisIntroductionThis paper details a unique, funded, secondary/post-secondary partnership titled ProjectPETE: Pathways to Engineering and Technology Education. This partnership betweenthe Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) Career and Technology Center and the PurdueSchool of Engineering and Technology at Indiana University Purdue UniversityIndianapolis (IUPUI) provides a variety of pathways for IPS students to attend thevarious post-secondary programs offered by the Purdue School of Engineering

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Aiman Kuzmar

Student's Ownership Of Class Project Improves Learning Aiman S. Kuzmar, Ph. D., P. E. The Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractAn alternative approach to the project assignment process in the Steel and ReinforcedConstruction courses (AET 214 and AET 215 respectively) in the Architectural EngineeringTechnology Program at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus was introduced andimplemented in the past four years. Instead of dictating the project topic by the instructor, thestudents were given the freedom to choose their own topics with a few necessary restrictions.This paper gives details on this alternative approach. As usual, there are advantages andshortcomings. This paper

Conference Session

New Endeavors

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2005 Annual Conference

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Carmine Polito; Rachel Husfeld

Lessons Learned From An International Service Learning Project Carmine Polito and Rachel Husfeld Department of Civil Engineering, Valparaiso University/ Student President, Engineers Without Borders-Valparaiso University ChapterIntroductionIn May of 2004, a group of students from the Valparaiso University chapter of EngineersWithout Borders (EWB-VU) undertook a trip to the village of Nakor, Kenya with the goal ofconstructing a water supply and irrigation system they had designed. While the project wassuccessful, numerous problems were encountered in its implementation. These challengesresulted in the group learning several important lessons, which will not only be applied to

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Bruce Feodoroff

Original Quarter One Projects Utilizing Rapid Prototyping Bruce A. Feodoroff New England Institute of TechnologyAbstractThis paper describes the success New England Institute of Technology (NEIT) is experiencing ingrabbing hold of the first quarter students’ creative energy and motivating them to succeed inMechanical Engineering Technology. The introduction and use of a rapid prototype machine hassignificantly impacted not only the quality of the resulting original project models or prototypesbut has greatly enhanced the learning experience for quarter one (freshmen) students. This hashelped in sustaining the students’ interest in Mechanical Engineering

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Issues in Computer Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Hassan Rajaei; Mohammad Dadfar

Session 3620 Job Scheduling in Cluster Computing: A Student Project Hassan Rajaei, Mohammad B. Dadfar Department of Computer Science Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, Ohio 43403 Phone: (419)372-2337 Fax: (419)372-8061 {rajaei, dadfar}@cs.bgsu.eduAbstractCluster computing has become widespread by utilizing COTS (Commercial-Off-The-Shelf) PCs,a high-speed network, and Linux operating system. This simple configuration of multiprocessorsystem can

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Bruce Mork; Leonard Bohmann

Outcomes Assessment Embedded into an ECE Course Project Leonard J. Bohmann and Bruce A. Mork Michigan TechAbstractIn an effort to reduce the overhead associated with outcomes assessment, the Electrical andComputer Engineering Department at Michigan Tech has developed tools which extractassessment data from information collected for normal departmental operations. The ECEdepartment has developed one such tool to assess the writing skills of students in their Junioryear. A conceptual design project is assigned in a required course (the most recent project wasan off-the-grid power system for a remote cabin) with students

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

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Roya Javadpour

Creative Approach to Teaching Project Management Service Learning Roya Javadpour California Polytechnic State UniversityIntroductionA project is a complex, non-routine, one-time effort limited by time, budget, resources,and performance specifications designed to meet customer needs[1]. Therefore, theyrequire a unique approach to management and administration. A creative approach istaken in designing and teaching the graduate level Technological Project Managementcourse offered as part of the Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering department’sprogram at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. The coursecovers the basic

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jessica Moffitt; Jennifer van Rij; Jeffrey Wolchok

Vibrational Energy Scavenging: An Interdisciplinary Engineering Design Project By: Jeff Wolchok1 Jessica Moffitt2 Jennifer van Rij2 1 Department of Bioengineering 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah Page 10.1447.1

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Donald Schwartz

Managing and Assessing Software Engineering Group Projects Donald R. Schwartz Millsaps CollegeWhile the benefits of assigning group projects are numerous, managing and evaluating them cansometimes become daunting tasks. Among the biggest challenges include determiningindividual grades for group members and attempting to reflect the “real world” by mixing up themakeup of each group and the tasks to be completed. After trying various approaches and stylesfor more than a decade, I think that I have developed a useful pedagogy for managing groupprojects, one that attempts to allow each student to work on different parts of different projects,with a

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Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kendrick Aung

Session XXXX Design Exercises and Projects in Energy Engineering Course Kendrick Aung Department of Mechanical Engineering Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas 77710Abstract Energy Engineering is a senior elective course for mechanical engineering majors in theDepartment of Mechanical Engineering at Lamar University. In order to increase the designcontent in elective courses, team-based design projects and assignments were extensively used inEnergy Engineering. The course covers four parts

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Zbigniew Hladysz; Robert Corey; JASON ASH; Glen Stone; Dale Skillman; Charles Kliche; Larry Stetler; David Dixon; Larry Simonson; Stuart Kellogg

Project-Based Learning Incorporating Design and Teaming Larry D. Stetler, Stuart D. Kellogg, David J. Dixon, Glen A. Stone, Larry A. Simonson, Zbigniew J. Hladysz, Charles Kliche, Robert Corey, Dale Skillman, Jason T. Ash South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, Rapid City, SD 57701Abstract:Projects that provide inquisitive design and analysis are utilized in a 1st-year engineering andscience curriculum at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology to introduce students toexperimentation, data collection, analysis, technical report writing, and presentation. Projectsallow for construction of numerical models, development of predictions, and

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Capstone/Design Projects: Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Rafic Bachnak

Session 1647 Restructuring the Capstone Course Leads to Successful Projects Rafic Bachnak, Satyajit Verma, and Tim Coppinger Texas A&M University-Corpus ChristiAbstractThe engineering technology programs at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi share acapstone projects course that allows students to use their problem solving skills and thetechnical knowledge they gain throughout their college experience to develop a device orsystem that meets some specific requirements. As a result of concerns raised during arecent ABET accreditation visit, the course was restructured in order to ensureconsistency in

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Doucette; Gunter Georgi

Session Number ______ ASEE Paper # 2005-0659 A Simple Digital Logic Project for Freshman Engineering David R. Doucette, Gunter W. Georgi, and Lorcan M. Folan Polytechnic UniversityAbstractLike many other schools, Polytechnic University has developed robotics projects usingcommercial products such as Robolab for its Freshman Engineering course. These projects havebeen well-received by many students1. However, some Freshman students have commented thatthey wanted something more related to Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering.To meet this demand, we have developed a project for digital logic design that

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Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Niewoehner

Implementing and Teaching Risk Mitigation in Project Courses Robert Niewoehner United States Naval Academy Abstract Faculty members teaching courses involving Design-Build-Operate projects have severaldistinct responsibilities regarding risk management. First, they have the obvious responsibility tosafeguard the physical welfare of the involved students. Furthermore, they have a responsibilityto instill in their students an appreciation for controlling risk in the operation of engineeringsystems. This paper applies industrial risk management processes to the educational designproject both as a means