Conference Session

Innovative Partnerships

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Caroline VanIngen-Dunn, Arizona State University; Debra Banks, Consultant

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Two Year College Division

Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon, CD-ROM.7. Anderson-Rowland, M.R., Vanis, M., Zerby, D.M., Chain, E.L., Banks, D.L., and Mater, B., “METS PilotProgram: A Community College/University Collaboration to Recruit Underrepresented Minority Students intoEngineering,” Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Salt LakeCity, Utah, CD-ROM, 9 pages, 2004. Page 11.733.8

Conference Session

Electrical ET Projects and Applications

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher Root, Bloomsburg University; Biswajit Ray, Bloomsburg University

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Engineering Technology

R33 412 T0602 TH 54 1 U1 LM139 DIP-14 TH Yes 55 1 U2 4420 DIP-8 TH Yes 56 1 U3 UC2845A DIP-8 TH Yes 57 1 XFMR_Isense SM Yes (Dot: Pin 1) Page 11.96.8 58 1 XFMR_Power TH Yes (a) Top (component) layer (c) Third layer(b) Second layer (d) Bottom (surface mount) layer Figure 4 Copper layers for the forward converter board

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments and Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shuvra Das, University of Detroit Mercy

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Unit ImmediatelyAlternative (a): Unit worked well; No failure(1) Excess cost of operating a peak unit per day instead of unit #9: $100,000(2) Number of days for which the unit failed: 0 days(3) Total cost if this recommendation is followed: row 1 * row 2: $0.00Alternative (b): Unit failed, new unit ordered and installed(1) Cost of operating this unit per day: $100,000(2) Cost of operating a peak unit per day: $200,000(3) Excess cost of operating a peak unit instead of unit #9 per day: $100,000 = row 2 - row 1:(4) Number of days unit #9 will be

Conference Session

Engineering Practice for a Moral World

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Catalano, State University of New York-Binghamton

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Engineering Ethics

2006-230: ENGINEERING IN A MORALLY DEEP WORLDGeorge Catalano, State University of New York-Binghamton Dr. Catalano is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He researches and teaches in the areas of engineering design, the fluid dynamics of the natural world and applied mathematics and is included in the Philosophers’ Index for his work in environmental ethics Page 11.568.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Engineering in a Morally Deep WorldAbstractA new code of ethics is offered for engineering and is compared and contrasted topresently existing codes. Present day engineering

Conference Session

Engineering Practice for a Moral World

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Houston, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown

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Engineering Ethics

2006-1358: ETHICS - A TOUGH CHOICEBrian Houston, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown BRIAN L. HOUSTON is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Technology at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown and Managing Partner of Roundtable Engineering Solutions, LLC. Prior to academia, he worked as a Senior Design Engineer in the petrochemical industry and is licensed in several states. He received a B.A. from Northwestern University in 1986, and a B.S./M.S. in Civil Engineering from Oklahoma State University in 1997/99. Page 11.599.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Projects

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheng Lin, Old Dominion University

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Engineering Technology

2006-55: A HYDRAULIC WOOD-PALLET MACHINECheng Lin, Old Dominion University Page 11.55.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 A HYDRAULIC WOOD-PALLET MACHINEAbstractThis paper presents a design and test of a wood-pallet machine. The project was supervisedunder the Technology Application Center (TAC) at Old Dominion University.A hydraulic-power machine was designed to press six metal plates simultaneously onto sixend surfaces of a wood pallet, which is used to stack items during movement or storage.Operation of the machine significantly reduces the manual hammering time from fourminutes to forty five seconds. Students were guided to design the mechanical

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eugene Ressler, U.S. Military Academy; Stephen Ressler, U.S. Military Academy; Catherine Bale, U.S. Military Academy

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Computers in Education

follows: 1. Convert the new bridge B to its canonical variant C(B). 2. Compute H(C(B)), the hash string for the canonical variant. 3. Search the database for all bridges Mi with stored hash string equal to H(C(B)). 4. If no such bridge is found, go to 6. 5. Otherwise convert each bridge Mi to its canonical variant C(Mi) and check whether C(B) = C(Mi) for any i. If so, a duplicate has been found, otherwise continue. 6. There is no duplicate. Store the pair B and H(C(B)) in the database.Since a standard database engine can look up a hash string very rapidly, and canonical variantsand hash strings are also quick to compute, this algorithm successfully met the performancerequirement.A second challenge was determining the unofficial

Conference Session

Energy Learning through Simulation and Analysis

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Skvarenina, Purdue University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

a continuous basis to show that graduates are demonstrating the requiredoutcomes.Although the outcomes are different for the two sets of criteria, they have a number ofsimilarities. In particular, both the EAC and TAC require an “ability to communicateeffectively,” (item g. for both). Other similarities are noted between EAC item k. and TAC itema., which require the use or mastery of techniques, skills, and modern tools; EAC item c. andTAC item d., which both deal with design; EAC item b. and TAC item c., which both includeinterpretation of data; and EAC item d. and TAC item f., which deal with formulating andsolving technical problems. The author has found that contributions can be made to all of these

Conference Session

Software Engineering Curriculum Components

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deepti Suri, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Mark Sebern, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

: Student Reactions (An Experience Report)”, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, Austin, TX, USA, March 6-8, 2000, pp.169-175. [8] Moore, M. M. and Brennan, T., “Process Improvement in the Classroom,” Proceedings of the 8th SEI CSEE Conference, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, New Orleans, LA, USA, Springer, March/April 1995, pp. 123-130. [9] Moore, M. M. and Potts, C., “Learning by Doing: Goals and Experiences of Two Software Engineering Project Courses,” Proceedings of the 7th SEI CSEE Conference, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, January 1994. [10] Naur, P. and Randell B. (eds), Software Engineering: A Report on a Conference

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd Kaiser, Montana State University; Stilson Applin, Montana State University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

done on a Cascade Microtech RF-1 probe station using an AgilentB1500A semiconductor analyzer. The equipment used is shown in figure 2 on the nextpage. Page 11.407.4 (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g)Figure 2. (a) Oxidation Furnace, (b) diffusion furnace, (c) Mask Aligner, (d) Programmable photoresist spinner, (e) Acid wet bench and (f) Cascade Microtech RF-1 probe station shown during a wafer testing

Conference Session

ChE: Innovation in Existing Courses

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barry Barkel, University of Michigan; Peter Woolf, University of Michigan

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Chemical Engineering

. Students werealso given an assignment where Matlab was used to simulate a process controller. Page 11.1026.7 BLOWER N2 C A B CW 1) Please position the sensors and control devices in this system 2) Please write the control logic for this batch reaction A + B --> C + ABC-CBA Reaction is exothermic It goes to 100% completion A

Conference Session

Modern Software Measurement Techniques

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ruiqing Jia, China University of Mining and Technology; Shanjun Xu, China University of Mining and Technology; Songyun Gao, China University of Mining and Technology; El-Sayed Aziz, Stevens Institute of Technology; Sven Esche, Stevens Institute of Technology; Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Instrumentation

coefficient C D = Df (q 0S) Df: drag force 3 Dynamic pressure q 0 = 0.5ρV0 2 ρ: density of air 4 Lift force Lf = C L q 0S q0: dynamic pressure of air 5 Reynolds Number Re = Vb v V: free-stream velocity v: viscosity of air b: characteristic length 6 Mach Number Ma = V a a: speed of sound

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University; Steven Eisenbarth, Baylor University; Cynthia Fry, Baylor University

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International

2006-1394: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A GLOBAL WORLDVIEWKenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University Ken Van Treuren is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at Baylor University. He received his B. S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the USAF Academy, his M. S. in Engineering from Princeton University, and his DPhil. at the University of Oxford, UK. At Baylor he teaches courses in laboratory techniques, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and propulsion systems, as well as freshman engineering.Steven Eisenbarth, Baylor University Steven Eisenbarth is Associate Dean of the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Baylor University. He received his B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University; Nael Barakat, Grand Valley State University

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Computers in Education

RAM, 8 analog inputs, 4 PWM outputs,and up to four 8-bit ports for general I/O. It is easily interfaced to a serial port, however to addUSB connectivity an FTDI USB-Serial bridge8 was used. Under Windows and Linux this ICappears as a serial port. The processor (thumb) board includes a power LED and four LEDs onport B for simple diagnostics. A reset switch is used to restart the processor. The design of theboard allows it to be directly inserted into a USB port, eliminating the need for any extra cables.The board was also configured with two diodes to allow it to draw power from the USB port (5V,0.5A) or from an external power source. In this case there was a voltage drop, but the ATMega32works with a supply voltage under 4V. The board uses a

Conference Session

Network Administration and Security

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ron McKean, Ferris State University

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Engineering Technology

. - Reported lose from large companies in 4th quarter of 2000... but labor market still tight.72002 – Estimated 26,000 Engineers unemployed82003 – Up to one million visas issued for high tech jobs. The motivation is challenged. Is it due to a domestic shortage or just replacement of high paid US professional with low cost foreign workers92006 – H1 B visas limits are again raised After a temporary lowering following the dot-com drop of 2000, the government has again increased it limits.Evolution of the curriculum …It soon became very clear that the networking aspect of the program would be most important forgraduate employment and industry need. Over the next several years, economic and technologytrends have supported this early

Conference Session

EM Program Trend and Development

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Merino, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

summarizes the relevance of the topic to the EM Body of Knowledge.The Core category represents the topics/fields that every EM student should knowand master. Specialties are those topics/fields where a student benefits from morein-depth knowledge. Lastly, supporting topics/fields are those that help a studentunderstand the content of which EM is a part.The ABET and ASEM column indicates whether the Core, Specialty andSupporting categories are consistent with these accreditation criteria.The ABET criteria is listed in Appendix A and is the criteria used to define EMprograms. This set of criteria is used primarily for undergraduate programs.The ASEM criteria are listed in Appendix B and are to certify graduate programsin EM.Obviously, this is a “snap

Conference Session

Issues in Digital Signal Processing

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cameron Wright, University of Wyoming; Michael Morrow, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Thad Welch, U.S. Naval Academy

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Computers in Education

Wisconsin, Madison, WI. His research interests include real-time digital systems, embedded system design, software engineering, curriculum design, and educational assessment techniques. He is a member of ASEE and IEEE. E-mail: morrow@ieee.orgThad Welch, U.S. Naval Academy Thad B. Welch, Ph.D, P.E., is with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Wyoming in Fall 2004. His research interests include the implementation of communication systems using DSP techniques, DSP education, multicarrier communication systems analysis, and RF signal propagation. Commander Welch is a member of ASEE, IEEE

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith Williamson, East Carolina University; Gene Dixon, East Carolina University; Paul Kauffmann, East Carolina University; Tarek Abdel-Salam, East Carolina University

of synthesis for traditionalcognitive theory based approaches to engineering education. These capstone courses areexpected to help students broaden their perspectives on how to integrate theoretical andpractical knowledge and how to reflect on practice. Within the last decade, employersand leading educators have been complaining that this synthesis, as it pertains to life-longlearning and expertise, may not be enough for new graduates to compete in a fastchanging global marketplace for engineering services. These leaders suggest that newgraduates need: (a) better communications skills; (b) an ability to work in Page 11.430.2multidisciplinary teams

Conference Session

ABET Accreditation of Multidisciplinary Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Cottrell, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

too hard the night before. The following day, during a meeting, your supervisor asks why you were not in. What do you say? a. Explain to your supervisor that you were ill. b. Explain to your supervisor that an emergency came up at home that entirely consumed you. c. Tell your supervisor you were absent for personal reasons. d. Tell your supervisor you were ill because of over-partying._____2. For several months now, one of your colleagues has been slacking off, and you are getting stuck doing the work. You think it is unfair. What do you do? a. Recognize this as an opportunity for you to demonstrate how capable you are. b. Go to your supervisor and complain about the unfair workload. c. Discuss it

Conference Session

Issues in Digital Signal Processing

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

CHIH-WEI HUANG, Arizona State University; Ashwinn Natarajan, Arizona State University; Rony Ferzli, Arizona State University; Andreas Spanias, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

administered before (pre-lab) and after (post-lab) thehands-on laboratory exercise. The questions posed are itemized below: 1. Peak picking of the DFT is typically used for: a. Filter design b. Speech/Audio compression c. JPEG compression d. None of the above 2. Peak picking is equivalent to downsampling. (T/F) 3. Picking the first components bares similarities to low pass filtering. (T/F) 4. In the peak picking algorithm, all the phase components are set to zero. (T/F) 5. Running DSP algorithms on a generic processor is faster than running the same algorithm on real time DSP hardware. (T/F) 6. The SNRs obtained with peak picking are better / worse (circle one) than the SNRs obtained by

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Drushel, Case Western Reserve University; John Gallagher, Wright State University

Course Contest Course Notebooks Class Semester (Lab (Undergrad Tournament Notebook Structure Site Grading (Undergrad Assistants) /Total) Structure Format /Total) 1 Spring 1995 b, c, (p, d) 19 A D campus K hand 3 2 Spring 1996 d, c 21

Conference Session

ECET Curriculum

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Adams, Western Carolina University; James Zhang, Western Carolina University; Paul Yanik, Western Carolina University; Kenneth Burbank, Western Carolina University

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Engineering Technology

has integrated the capability of displayingDSP omputation into a Simulink R block. In addition, DIP switches on the DSK board can beengaged to introduce different levels of noise. The student would have to write a Matlab Rprogram to generate different levels of noise, but would not have to be concerned with thecoding of interrupt hardware. Matlab R has integrated the interrupt handling capability into aSimulink R block of the DIP switches.Fig. 5. A/D conversion example using a sampling rate of 1 sample per second and an encoding resolution of 3 bits per sample.(a) Graph of the original signal, sample-and-hold output, and quantizer output. (b) Resulting output bits generated by the binaryencoder as a function of time.Application in a

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Baca, University of Missouri-Rolla; Steve Watkins, University of Missouri-Rolla; Ray Luechtefeld, University of Missouri-Rolla

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Hopes Sounds (e.g., voice tone) Personality Speech Patterns Thoughts Silence Feelings The following statements use inferences. a. He was bored and didn’t understand me. b. You’re acting nervous about the project. c. He had a bad attitude and it affected everyone else. d. She was upset by the decision the team made. e. It’s not standard procedure to implement the design that way. The underlined portions of the following statements use directly observable data. a) He was angry, raised his voice, and pounded on the table. b) Though I read the complicated specification, I didn’t understand it. c) I know she isn’t interested in the team

Conference Session

Digital Communications Systems

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Hoffbeck, University of Portland; Andrew Melton, University of Portland

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Electrical and Computer

to the speakers as shown below. % Continued from previous code snippet b = fir1(100, 7000/(fs/2)); % Use fir1 from the Signal Processing Toolbox to design % a 100th order lowpass FIR filter with cutoff at 7 kHz xf = filter(b,1,x); % remove digital HD Radio signal y = abs(xf); % demodulate AM signal soundsc(y,fs) % send the audio signal to speakersThere is also a recording in the database (AM_Radio_Whole_Band.csv) that covers the entireAM band (540 to 1700 kHz), which is very useful in demonstrating the concept of frequencydivision multiplexing. The spectrum of the entire AM band is shown in Figure 5, where eachspike represents one of the

Conference Session

Computer ET Projects and Applications

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Steffen, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

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Engineering Technology

anexplicit description of performance characteristics corresponding to a point on a rating scale. Ascoring rubric makes explicit expected qualities of expected performance on a rating scale or thedefinition of a single scoring point on a scale. The use of such a rubric is as important to thestudent as it is to the instructor doing the assessment. A rubric expresses what is expected fromthe student and how the instructor assesses the work.The rubric for assessing the Windows 2003 server project (Appendix B) was developed as aguideline of student assessment. This particular rubric expresses the achievement of letter gradesthrough the mastery of objectives. Each grade letter plateau expresses the number of objectivesthat the student needs to achieve

Conference Session

ChE: Curriculum Reform & Assessment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Froyd; Jean Layne, Texas A&M University; Lale Yurttas, Texas A&M University; David Ford, Texas A&M University

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Chemical Engineering

- Assigned homework and test problems a.2 Demonstrate application - Self-assessment instruments for critical concepts. (Bloom’s Taxonomy, Level 3) of - Assigned homework and lab test problems extended conceptual framework in diverse physical settings, including different length and time scales. a.3 Demonstrate connections - Concept maps across extended conceptual framework a.4 Demonstrate modeling using - Assigned problems in statistical mechanics and molecular modeling stochastic processes Desired Outcome b) Apply ChE fundamental ideas to emerging application areas b.1 Demonstrate application of - Assigned problems that demonstrate limits of traditional models conceptual framework to - Assigned problems that incorporate nanoscale

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mario Castro-Cedeno, Rochester Institute of Technology

Frontiers inEducation Conference2002, Session S1A.[3] Smith, B. L, McGregor, J., Matthews, R., Gabelnick, F., Learning Communities: Reforming UndergraduateEducation, Wiley, 2004.[4] Hurd, S. N., Building and Sustaining Learning Communities, Anker, 2004.[5] Walsh, M., Jenkins, D., Powell, K., Rusch, K., “The Campus Lake Learning Community”, Journal of CollegeScience Teaching, Vol. 34, No. 5, Mar/Apr 2005, pp. 24-27.[6] http://learningcommons.evergreen.edu/[7] Castro-Cedeno, M. H., “A Quantitative Assessment of the Benefit of a Learning Community Environment” inProceedings Frontiers of Education Conference 2005, Session F4C.[8] McKenzie, K. and Schweitzer, R., “Who succeeds at university? Factors predicting academic performance infirst year

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katrina Ramsdell, Virginia Tech; Madeline Schreiber, Virginia Tech; Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech; Michael Alley, Virginia Tech

1848 affect yearly U.S. gold production? use of iron require? A. Doubled B. Tripled The Industrial Revolution started in UK with C. Increased more than 50 times 1. The two principal resources of the

Conference Session

Ocean, Marine, and Coastal Engineering Topics

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Waters, U.S. Naval Academy; Randy Broussard, U.S. Naval Academy; Jenelle Piepmeier, U.S. Naval Academy

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Ocean and Marine

of two cameras as shown in Figure 1. The cameras with focal length f are aligned such that their x-axes are collinear and their y- and z-axes are parallel. They are offset along the x-axis by a baseline distance b. The location (X,Y,Z) of point P is computed by comparing the locations of the projections of P onto the two image planes, (x1,yl) and (xr,yr). Because of the geometry of the cameras, the left and right projections of P will appear at the same row and but at two different columns. The columnar distance in pixels is referred to as the disparity, d. Using simple camera geometry8, fb Z

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Bower, The Citadel; Kenneth Brannan, The Citadel; William Davis, The Citadel

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Environmental Engineering

Civil Engineers (ASCE) developedand adopted the Policy Statement 465 entitled “Academic Prerequisites for Licensure andProfessional Practice.” This document establishes a framework for some major changesin the education of civil engineers with the long-term goal that, at some unspecified timein the future, civil engineering candidates for professional registration would be requiredto obtain a baccalaureate degree plus 30 additional hours of gradate work (B+M/30) priorto obtaining licensure [1]. Due to the considerable impact this implementation of policystatement would have on engineering education, ASCE established the first Body ofKnowledge (BOK) committee to help develop and refine the idea presented in the policy