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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Steve Zilora

school students to write researchpapers even though relatively few of them will ultimately become researchers. The reason is thatthey need to be able to conduct and write about their research in order to be successful in collegeregardless of their major. Similarly, 21st century college students need to be able to collect,analyze, and present information in order to be successful in college regardless of their major.This paper describes an informatics course suitable for upper level high school students. Thecourse introduces students to skills that will allow them to work comfortably and effectively withdigital information during their college studies. Successful completion of such a course wouldempower college-bound students and help them

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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John Adams

, save money, createeducational opportunities, and partner with external agencies.” 3 ASEE-NE 2010 Conference - WITAdams: Renewable Energy Education …As of this writing, the board is still in its early stages, with development of a coherentoverall strategy as the first order of business. A number of successful RE^3 strategieshave been adopted at the college in recent years, including the SHW installationmentioned above, an ice making installation incorporating state of the art heatreclamation, and more. Up to the present, these strategies have been pursued piecemealrather than as part of a coherent strategy.Role in Campus

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Hudson V. Jackson P.E.; Kassim M. Tarhini P.E.; Corinna Marie Fleischmann P.E.; Nathan Rumsey; Sharon Zelmanowitz P.E.

Selection and Execution of Civil Engineering Capstone Design Projects at the United States Coast Guard Academy Hudson Jackson, Kassim Tarhini, Corinna Fleischmann, Nathan Rumsey, Sharon Zelmanowitz United States Coast Guard Academy, New London, CT Session: Teaching project based courses and design courses, including senior design courseAbstractCivil engineering students at the United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA) must completea capstone project as a graduation requirement. The main objective is to enable students toexperience real life engineering problem solving, design, team work, project execution andmanagement. To satisfy program and accreditation requirements, the projects must have

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Marie Planchard

Teaching Students to Integrate Life Cycle Assessment into Product Design through Sustainable Engineering Marie Planchard, DS SolidWorks Corp.Session: Industrial Partnering for Preparing Engineers for the 21st Century Global EconomySustainable engineering is the integration of social, environmental, and economic conditions intoa product or process. Successful products are developed by integrating Life Cycle Assessment(LCA) directly into the Computer Aided Design (CAD) model. Teaching students to understand,improve, and communicate the environmental impact of their design reflects the current state ofthe global economy. Engineering parameters such as material selection and the

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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A. Richard Vannozzi

the process of learning and how learning isexperience based. By adhering to ELT in instructional design for CAD, GIS and other softwareintensive courses, classroom approaches can be crafted to keep the software in its proper place asa tool. ELT provides a unified context for understanding the relationship between the abstract“hypothesis” and the concrete result of the button pushing. Kolb’s conceptualization of these isshown in Figure 1. Zull refers to the components of Kolb’s ELT as the “four fundamental pillarsof education: gathering, reflecting, creating, and testing. [3]” Irrespective of which instructional design model or process one might prefer, at somepoint learning objectives are defined and then a specific activity is

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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

MODEL ACTIVITIES FOR COORDINATING CORE ENGINEERING COURSES Nathan Podoll, Kassim Tarhini, and Hudson Jackson United States Coast Guard Academy, New London, CTSession: Tools, techniques and best practices of engineering education for the digital generation Alternate Session: All other topicsAbstractThe United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA) is a small undergraduate institution ofapproximately 1000 cadets with eight majors. The four engineering majors require students totake basic engineering courses such as Statics, Mechanics of Materials, and Dynamics. Thesecourses are offered in multiple sections in a given semester and serve as the

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Benjamin Cadieux; Lee Denaro; Paul Ellsworth; Adam Robert; Salah Badjou

course. At the beginning of the semester students form groups of 3 to 5 members,brainstorm to come up with a project idea, write a formal proposal, and proceed to develop aprototype. The following is a college catalog description of the course: Students work in teams to design and construct an interdisciplinary project. Teams, with clearly defined individual responsibilities, are required. During the course of the semester, each team undertakes the necessary activities to bring about a successful design project that is well understood, documented, and presented in both oral and written form. Emphasis is placed on research, innovation, project management, decision- making, prototyping, design for

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Charles R. Sullivan; Mark J. Franklin

: 1. Express fundamental limits toinclude lighting, motors and drive systems, heating, possible energy efficiency, and evaluateventilation and air conditioning, transportation, existing or proposed technologies relative toappliances and electronics. those fundamental limits. The focus is quantitative technical analysis, not 2. Apply first- or second-lawpolicy or description and evaluation of technical efficiency analysis appropriately to a varietyoptions. The analysis is primarily at a systems level, of different types of systems. 3. Analyze