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Ahmed S. Khan; Beverly Cronin; Maneesh Kumar; Atef Mustafa; Pankti Patel; Joey Socorro

) logistics, and item 915 MHz (USA) management 950-956 MHz (Japan)Industrial, 2.4 GHz 12.5 centimeters Item managementScientific, &Medical (ISM)Source: RFID, Applications, Security, and Privacy, Simpson Garfinkel and BethRosenberg, Addison-Wesly (2006), p. 21.II. DeVry University’s Senior Project Capstone Course Sequence DeVry University’s Electronics Engineering Technology/Computer EngineeringTechnology (EET/CET) program senior project is a two-semester course sequence in whichstudents synthesize knowledge and skills learned in the previous courses. In the first course(EET-400, Project management), students research, plan and develop a project

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Zachary Bensusan; Leslie Gregg; William Leonard

communication andthe necessity of ensuring all parties agree on every topic.One lesson taught early in the process is the importance of project planning. Through typicalclass projects, students are shown how to do this; however, they rarely follow the plan. This isbecause students are used to working with less rigid restraints than what industry demands.When working for a company, students are forced to create a project plan and follow it to theletter in order to ensure all deadlines are met. Project planning is extremely important to masterin order to successfully complete nearly all engineering courses as well as all projects throughouta student’s future career.An important benefit, which comes from working with industry, is the

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Brian Kosobudzki; Bill Grove; Sam Aguilar; Vince Sabella

phase ofimplementation began with tedious planning and purchasing of building material/parts.Two DC electric motors were obtained and tested. It soon became apparent we needed to 3purchase an external directional control circuitry which could provide 24 volts and up to1 amp of drive current to the steering motor. Meanwhile, the measurements for a motorsupport bracket were taken and programming was being performed. The last 3 weeks wasthe most intensive with all parts coming together at the same time. The motor to hubadapter was machined and fitted to the test vehicle right as the motor bracket was beingassembled. The last couple weeks of the semester the adapter and motor support bracketwere

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Colin Campbell; Steve Lambert; Oscar Nespoli

-disciplinary partnerships,and generate increased awareness and appreciation of design engineering.Ideally design case studies involve a real situation and real data, require judgment as well asanalysis, require problem formulation and refinement, are motivating, and integrate materialfrom other courses in the same or earlier years.Several cases will be discussed from various disciplines in engineering. For example: HydroQuebec Photovoltaics; Indian Rooftop Rainwater Harvesting; Nanticoke Power Station (coal);Ladle Tipping in Foundry; Fluid Power Control Systems; Soil Contamination (FEA model andphysical model), etc. Plans to release the case studies free of charge to other institutions will alsobe discussed.2. IntroductionThe University of Waterloo

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sail andpowerboat route from Georgian Bay to Lake Nipissing. To find route B, I visited the OntarioArchives and uncovered plans and profiles for two ship canals on the French River one set dated1898, the other 1908. One made use of the parallel Pickerel River this was the key to possiblesuccess. The firm allowed me to hire a pilot who had experience in oblique photos ofengineering sites and with a navigator using our a map prepared with the possible six barriers tobe crossed, flew the route upstream and gave us a set of colour slides to present at the interview.We had found the best solution prior to any other firm taking a look and won the contract to dothe detail study by the default of others withdrawing. The project was 75% funded by

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Chirag Variawa

’). Student teams then develop their ownsolutions to the issue presented by the client. Each team is responsible for meeting with theclient, developing a problem statement, and presenting feasible ideas on how to address theclient’s need. Throughout this process, each team meets weekly with a ‘project manager’ who istypically a Professor in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, providing each teamwith advice. Typical issues presented by the client vary from the design of a heat exchanger for awhirlpool at a gym, to developing a complete floor plan of an indoor rowing facility. Each groupis expected to approach the project in a professional manner– a portion of their grade depends onthe quality of research done in developing their team CDS

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Chitralekha Potnis; Ajit Potnis

only when industry & institutewalk hand in hand and co-operate with each other in getting right type of technical staff at theright time.With the rapid rate at which technologies are changing and the still faster rates at which newtechnologies and disciplines are emerging, the in-service technical personnel as well as theemployers are desperately in need of an organized system which could assist them periodically inupdating their knowledge and professional skills.An engineer is basically a problem solver. A particular structure of thinking, mental organizationand intellectual ability is required for solving problems. Careful planning to inculcate theseabilities in a prospective engineer is essential. Engineers are involved in the

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Doug Reeve P.Eng.; Annie Simpson; Veena Kumar; Emma Master; Dave Colcleugh; Greg Evans P.Eng.

ethnic backgrounds and 29% say their experience has done “very little” to contribute to their understanding of people of other racial and ethnic backgrounds. • Engineering students are more likely to say the University emphasizes learning effectively on your own than working effectively with others.The NSSE results have served to strengthen the Faculty’s commitment to the goals setout in the Faculty’s strategic plan. The Faculty’s Mission Statement includes: “To ensurethat our students are equipped with the academic, leadership, and communication skillsrequired by the engineering profession and society in general”. A more explicitstatement regarding leadership development can be found in the undergraduate section ofthe plan

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Nasser Saleh

(CEAB) requirement for teaching lifelong learning skill through thecurriculum as per clause 2.1.1 “The criteria are intended to identify those programs that developan individual’s ability to use appropriate knowledge and information to convert, utilize andmanage resources optimally through effective analysis, interpretation and decision-making. Thisability is essential to the design process that characterizes the practice of engineering”.6Information literacy sessions have been planned not to be a separate entity of most courses butthey were infused and integrated with regular course work. IL sessions are used to be a corerequirement for first year engineering project course, engineering communication, andengineering design courses. These

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Lisa Schneider; Michael Kelley; Shefford P. Baker

, drawing on other successful collaborative learning efforts inthe college.BackgroundIn 2006, Cornell College of Engineering Dean Kent Fuchs formed a Curriculum Task Force andcharged it with the task of developing recommendations for changes in the Engineering CollegeCommon Curriculum. The group was composed of senior faculty members from mostengineering departments in the College, the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs, and theDirector of Engineering Learning Initiatives. The Task Force was expected to take into accountthe Undergraduate Studies Objectives from the Cornell College of Engineering Strategic Plan of2005: • Enhance the undergraduate educational environment and experience • Enhance the engineering undergraduate curriculum

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Carl A. Lundgren

developed and used in MechanicalEngineering Technology courses at RIT. These cases are a portion of a larger effort to create areadily accessible digital media library of these cases. The results of the impact of case studies onundergraduate student interest and awareness of IP and entrepreneurship are encouraging. IntroductionCareer paths for college graduates are different than for their parents, long stable careers with asingle employer are increasingly unlikely. Many recent graduates in fact plan to advance theircareers with strategic changes in their employment. A second element of the change in careerexpectations is a growing acknowledgement that in a global economy, innovation and invention isthe key

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Wei Cao; Peggy Vance; Robert Lockhart

, promote and help k-12 school teachers and kids whoare enthusiastic to learn new cutting-edge technology. In this article, the short history, organization methodology andstrategy, competition format, college student involvement, follow-upfeedback and future plan will be discussed. The next competition, The 6th Lego Robots Competition for High,Middle and Elementary Schools in WV will be held on May 2008.Motivation from WVU In 2000 and 2001 summers, WVU professor, Dr. Wei Cao, as a NASA Research fellow,joined the Bus Tour with his NASA colleagues, which was aiming to promote science andtechnology for the k-12 kids in their early ages. The bus tour was a big success. The kidswatched the shows conducted by NASA scientists and engineers

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Michael A. Jackson; Thomas Schulte; Nathaniel Kane; Elaine Lewis; Surendra Gupta; Santosh Kurinec

disciplines notadequately provided by traditional engineering or science programs. Education must not onlykeep pace with this trend but also lead and foster this growth. The opportunities innanoelectronics are considerable. It is predicted that CMOS will be supplemented by novelnano-enabled solutions, such as those described above. Prudent semiconductor manufacturersmust plan for nanotech’s impact on their businesses today and prudent educators must plan foreducating a high tech work engineering workforce.The Bachelor of Science program in Microelectronic Engineering at RIT started in 1982 withbasic PMOS process on 2” wafers. Today the program supports a complete 4 and 6 inch CMOSline equipped with diffusion, ion implantation, plasma PVD and CVD

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Susan J. Masten; Robert V. Fleisig

recommended adesign competition, although others were intimidated by the idea. Several teams went beyond requirements for conceptual designsand developed prototypes. Several modifications were made for the following year. The two design projects were reduced to one,to allow for greater concentration of effort on one project. The current plans call for continuation of the design projects sponsoredby EWB but with an increased number of projects. In cooperation with EWB, a greater number and breadth of topics is beingdeveloped. Effective projects may neither be too broad nor too narrow. Past projects often suffered from a lack of studentimagination simply because there was no concept generation and selection opportunity. Some projects simply involved

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Tom Moran; Jeffrey Wagner

/promoter to contract with them for the needed services.As a group, students helped set the scope of the concert and, working with actual BLM manualsand application forms, analyzed the effort that would be needed to ensure the conditions for allnecessary permits were met in a timely fashion.4 The economics professor visited the class threetimes. On the first visit, he presented an overview of his plans for the concert and providedstudents with background information on the economic situation faced by small farms and theforces at play in their survival. He also described the origin and history of the Farm Aid concert.Based on this first meeting, students were asked to create an inter-office memo (internalcommunication) alerting co-workers to the

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Gregory E. Needel

programming. This allows students to gain exposure to their field of interest whileacquiring a basic knowledge and respect for other disciplines.IntroductionRobotics as an area of interest encompasses every field of engineering, and requires a wellcalculated plan to implement a successful robot. The diversified nature of robotics gives studentsa comprehensive view of an entire system, rather than just their component disciplines. Skills inspecific areas such as mechanics, programming, system design, and the human interactionsrequired to work in multidisciplinary groups can all be learned through hands-on exposure withrobotics. This experience also has the potential to expose students to the interactive nature ofengineering in the real world.The use

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Robert Edwards; Gerald Recktenwald

Figure 9 This exercise requires the use of an air flow bench to make the measurements, making thisthe most expensive of the suite of exercises. Commercial versions of this type of flow bench canbe purchased, however, both Portland State and Penn State Erie have built their own at a greatlyreduced cost. Plans for building a flow bench will be part of the final report for this project.Sudden Expansion Exercise The sudden expansion experiment was deployed in an introductory fluid mechanics coursefor third year Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering students during Fall 2007.Figure 10 shows a schematic of the laboratory apparatus. A blower draws air through a ductconstructed from tubing of two diameters. The transition between diameters

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Thomas F. C. Woodhall

objectives to the students, it also is intended to motivate students. AsOehlers points out, there is a body of work that shows how students are directly motivated bywhat they are being assessed on5. By pointing out to students the benefits of advancing throughthe problem definition phase, they are likely to engage more actively in the process. Couplingwith this is an emphasis that the final product of the design process is not the sole criterion onwhich students will be evaluated and creativity early in the design is stressed. It is important thatthis is made clear to both the assessor and the student. While the output of the phase, acomprehensive plan of approach and a well defined understanding of the needs and issues of theproject, is important

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Deborah Tihanyi; Margaret N. Hundleby

the work at hand. The assignment is made with the explicit understandingthat the skills of representing do not stay static—that is, only written or only in a report genre—but will be required in a number of different ways and in a number of different locations.And, in addition, they can plan the text of comments, but they will always have to be prepared tothink on their feet, as in being subject to question and answer sessions. For this kind of occasion,they will still be subject to evaluation in light of agreed-on expectations for the discipline as wellas on communication concepts for public speaking and the use of visual representation.The strategy we are using here makes the student liable to assessment both with and without anyformal