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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Aaron S. Bradshaw; Gary N. McCloskey; Franklin Miguel

various levels, the ability to understand and continually evaluate the problem athand, the ability to consider the impacts that a solution may have on the community and the environment,and the ability to deal with uncertainties that are prevalent in the natural world. For most students, theirfirst exposure to these aspects of engineering may not be until after graduation when they enter theprofession. However, it is also possible to give students “real world” exposure in the classroom if thecourse can bring in some of these elements.This paper presents a design for a civil engineering design course where the students apply learnedtechnical skills while fostering their “soft” engineering skills that are critical for success in practice. Thecourse

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Abdelshakour Abuzneid; Khaled Elleithy

practical approach to figure out how to build an early and safetyresponse system that could fully work under sever emergencies such 9/11 catastrophic incident. Westarted with the understanding of the need of adapting the current available technologies; wirelesstechnologies in particular. We have checked for different approaches that could get us the best fault-tolerance. We needed to have a direct feedback from within the incident to the external world with anefficient and working channel of communication from the external emergency responder (presuming thatthey cannot be inside the incident area) to the people who need help inside the incident area. The qualityof video and audio streaming over wireless channel is not great yet under most of the

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

John Adams; Charles Kochakian

examining RFID adoption for the college’s library. The intention is for EE,CS and business to gain from working together and the department will carefully assess this“multidisciplinary” aspect of the course going forward.The course addresses specific business related topics including: • Business opportunities, planning and best practices • Supply Chain Management • DOD and Wal-Mart Mandates • Creating a Pilot Project Plan • Moving from Pilot to Production • Pharmaceutical Applications • Cargo Security 6The topic of RFID lends itself very well to discussions on the global impact of engineeringsolutions. For example

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Rashmi Jain; Keith Sheppard; Elisabeth McGrath; Bernard Gallois

need to be defined in order to build the theoretical basis of the field.Fundamental to systems engineering is system design (SD). SD impacts the engineering of a system fromearly on in its life cycle. Stevens (Jain) is undertaking research that focuses on defining SD concepts.Beyond identifying the core concepts in SD, it is also necessary to explore the variety of conceptions,correct or incorrect, that students hold about SD concepts. The majority of SE programs focus on thegraduate-level and emphasize practical aspects of the field. As a result, some basic concept definitions areoften overlooked. Students have their own beliefs or perceived meaning of SE concepts that may notcorrespond to accepted views in the field.A necessary step in the

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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seniorcapstone projects as a result of all the lecture topics.In the Fall of 2003, a new course called “Construction Project Management” (CPM)became a prerequisite to CED. CPM lectures included all of the topics that had beenidentified as necessary for a Civil Engineer to succeed after graduation: • Construction Industry Overview • Design Package Components • Scheduling • Engineering Economics • Cost Estimating • Contracting/Project Management • Engineering Ethics • Sustainable Design • Capital Asset Management • Planning • Facilities ManagementCPM also fostered educational outcome achievement in areas relating to engineeringethics, professional practice issues, and engineering economics and deepened studentknowledge of

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Arthur Heinricher; Brian Savilonis; David Spanagel; Robert Traver; Kristin Wobbe

explored the chemical,ethical, physiological and economic dimensions of a (simple) question: Why do we eat what weeat? The students completed projects on subjects ranging from hunger in Worcester tocontrolling fertilizer runoff. Power the World focused on the physics, history, and theenvironmental and economic impact of energy technologies. The students completed projectsranging from an energy cost analysis of green roofs and photovoltaic systems for WPI to airpollution in China.This paper will describe the final student projects as well as the smaller projects and activitiesdesigned to help students develop the intellectual skills needed for research and professionalwork, including clear, succinct writing, oral presentation, pair and small group

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Dean M. Aslam; Aixia Shao

nano-concepts without focusing on education research. Historically, efforts to increase impact of learning techniques have Fig 1 Cell phone: Integration offocused on a number of ideas; a restructuring of school science around new technologies; current (solid),real-world problems [1], inquiry based studies [2][3][4][5] including in 2008 (dashed) and futureDesign-Based Science (DBS) [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] (dotted). 1and Learning By Design (LBD) [16][17][18], augmented reality (AR) [19][20][21][22][23][24][25], andTechnology Assisted Science, Engineering and Mathematics (TASEM) [26][27][28]. The explanation ofnano-structures and nanotechnology are

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Qing Li

is higher than their male counterparts. Astin and Astin (1992) have indicated that a femalestudent with a high SAT math score and a strong science orientation is a good indicator for enrollment forengineering majors. Sax (1996) has also shown that a female student with the motivation of making a theoreticalcontribution to science is the best predictor of enrollment of a STEM graduate degree. Some researchers believethat, through well designed intervention programs, female students’ tinkering and technical self-efficacies andtheir belief in societal relevance of engineering can be increased to make a difference in their attitudes towardsthese traditionally male dominated fields (Baker, et. al., 2007).Ethnicity. In order to encourage more

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Gregory S. Parnell; Michael J. Kwinn

Department of System Engineering at the United States Military Academy, we have two ABETaccredited programs: systems engineering and engineering management. There are many types ofsystems engineering programs. The programs range from discipline systems engineering programs (e.g.,computer systems engineering) to programs that emphasize problem solving for complex technologicalsystems involving many engineering disciplines. Our department is a problem solving systemsengineering program. Our problem solving focus includes stakeholder analysis for problem definition;system design; modeling and analysis for design evaluation; decision making; and implementation usingproject management techniques. After commissioning in the Army, our graduates will serve

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Peter Thomas Tkacik

driving tires all the way to the end of the longest straight. Being a student designed vehicle, it alsosuffered from some reliability issues.National outreach is also a part of the race outing. Prior to leaving for Thanksgiving break, it wasannounced that the race engine would be rev limited to 11,000 rpm for the class outing. Not really 5effecting the race engine, the rev limit was chosen for impact as the predominantly out of state studentsreturned home with tales of their school adventures. Even the highly engineered Nascar cup cars rarelyrun above 8,000 rpm.The installation of video and sensorsPrior to the race outing, another “hands-on” lab included the instrumenting of the car. The class