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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Suxia Cui; John Fuller; Pamela Holland-Obiomon; Warsame H. Ali

(STEM). Because energy is a growing issue andtoday’s students are the key to its future, the camp introduced student to energy concerns andpossible solutions for the state of Texas and our Nation. The students participated in lectures,discussions, hands-on experiments, a field trip and design competitions involving related toenergy and renewable energy sources. The activities were designed to strengthen thestudents’ foundations in math and science. The goal of this camp is to help develop a moreskilled pool of college graduates for tomorrow’s workforce which is vital to economicsuccess of Texas and the nation. 5 The summer camp provided seventeen

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Nathan Podoll; Kassim M. Tarhini P.E.; Hudson Jackson

biweekly meetings and managedissues that arose concerning curriculum, teaching media, physical facilities, and scheduling.Having identified the benefits of course coordination, USCGA has successfully used thisapproach for more than 10 years. The approach used at USCGA, while described here in a linearfashion, is cyclical in nature with constant feedback within the activities shown in Figure 1.Apart from the identified benefits, another contributing factor to using a course coordinationapproach is that a third of the faculty is rotating military personnel. Course coordination helpsmaintain a high level of academic consistency and performance as new rotating military faculty(RMF) develop their teaching skills. As has been shown from studies by

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Robert Simoneau; Diane Dostie

. The IT departments have been extremelycooperative but cautious in order to protect the integrity of their systems. Communication channelsare improving as the members better understand the limitations of each other's communicationsystems and IT facilities. Work continues on moving PolyCom onto individual faculty members'computers. Regardless, there is still a lot of work to be done to improve communications andinformation transfer across the VIP. The issues with IT are formidable and need constant attention.The IT staff at each campus is extremely concerned, and rightfully so, of firewall breaches. The useof open source software “outside” the campus is still being investigated and may provide the long-term solution that will be needed

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Brian Savilonis

Spanagel, David Traver, Robert and WobbeKristin, “Great Problems Seminars: A New First-Year Foundation at WPI,” ASEE Zone1 Conference, West Point, NY (2008).Author Biography: The author received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from UBuffalo in 1976 and has been on the faculty at WPI since 1981. His interest is in appliedthermo fluids, including biofuids; for three years he has been especially active in theGreat Problem Seminar as well as Thermo fluid Design. 100 Institute Rd, Dept. ofMechanical Engineering, WPI, Worcester MA 01609. bjs@wpi.edu. 508-831-5686. 5

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Charles Thomas; Loren Byrne; Jeremy Campbell

, and come froma wide range disciplines. We expect that courses will be added in the future as more and moreattention is paid to sustainability by faculty. The balance between required and elective courseswas struck to limit the number of new courses needed and to encourage the inclusion ofsustainability issues in existing courses so that they might be added to the list of approvedelectives. In addition, this balance will allow more students to partake in the minor because theycan use courses from their majors as part of the minor.The focus of this paper is on the first of the newly-created required courses “Introduction toSustainability Studies.” The initial offering of this course was in the fall semester of 2009, and itwas co-designed and co

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Ismail I. Orabi

Capstone Mechanical Engineering Design Experience - An Industry Based Partnership Ismail I. Orabi, Ph.D. Professor of Mechanical Engineering Tagliatela College of Engineering University of New Haven West Haven, CT 06516AbstractThe objective of this paper is to present our findings and experiences in how to use industrialprojects successfully, especially in terms of guidelines for selecting projects and managing themthroughout the course. This paper will convey the impact of the changes to student learning andoverall experience of the faculty involved using

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Elif Kongar; Kurt A. Rosentrater

, to meet the need for increased sustainability education,it is useful to consider what industry is looking for in terms of employees. An online searchreveals that there is definite interest by employers in sustainability issues, especially as theyrelate to engineering positions [5]. However, enhancing the curricula to address the needs ofindustry while keeping the academic education in line with today’s emerging technologies can becumbersome due to many competing factors. For instance, introducing elective coursework tothe graduate study might be a good way of achieving this strategy. However, given theastounding number of emerging technologies and new research areas, this option might not besufficient in terms of meeting industry needs

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Vijay Kanabar; Robert Schudy

designing and developing such courses and successfullyteaching and managing a project-based course. This paper explores the role of simple tools that areavailable for free and more complex tools that provide live two-way audio- and video communication inonline learning environments.IntroductionThe purpose of this paper is to describe tools and techniques and the methods and procedures of teachingproject based courses at a distance. It is a very vast topic so we scope our paper to two key topics. Thefirst half of the paper introduces the online and blended model for teaching courses at a distance. Thesecond half introduces the topic of simple and complex tools to teach the course and to manage projectsonline. We also address quality issues as they

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Gautham Das; Rishi Cariappa

to 2002. This 62Kilometer (km) long road was developed primarily by the BDA. In addition to connecting theinner roads to the freeways, numerous national highways are interconnected by the ORR. TheORR was constructed to meet the guide lines as specified by the Ministry of Surface Transport(MOST) of India. To meet the overwhelming demands of this construction project and since theywere a large number of engineering colleges in Bangalore, the BDA decided that it would bebeneficial to them if they used final year civil engineering students from BU and VTU to assistin various stages of the project. Administrators and faculty members of the two Universities sawthat the students would get hands on training while working on this project and the