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Innovative Techniques & Funding Research

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2004 Annual Conference

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Primus Tillman

Session 2438 Biometrics, Image Capture and Enhancement Primus J. Tillman Assistant Professor, College of Business and Technology East Tennessee State UniversityEvery time the terror alert level is raised, image capture and enhancement also becomes an issue.Homeland security is a very real dilemma that requires the most modern technology and toolsavailable to help prevent a recurrence of the events of September 11, 2001. But the besttechnology and tools are useless without enough trained, skilled, and experienced persons whocan use them

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Dennis Silage

Session 1532 Reintroducing Amateur Radio In ECE Capstone Design Projects Dennis Silage Electrical and Computer Engineering College of Engineering, Temple UniversityAbstractPresented here from experience are the salient steps for the reintroduction of Amateur Radio intothe capstone design project in Electrical and Computer Engineering and diverse examples ofsuch projects. These steps include the involvement of the faculty supervisor, the establishmentof an Amateur Radio station as a communications laboratory sponsored by the department, asurvey

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DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Farris

Session 1725 Marketing Enhances Engineering Product Innovation John Farris, Paul Lane Padnos School of Engineering / Seidman School of Business Grand Valley State UniversityAbstractProduct innovation is increasingly a multi-disciplinary undertaking. In an effort to prepareleaders for this interdisciplinary effort, the authors are developing a methodology and a guidingmodel to teach the product innovation process to graduate engineering and marketing students.In this innovative program, two parallel courses are offered in one semester. The

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

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Timothy Hancock; John Norton

semester of instruction. The GSM program complements the orientation andtraining that the GSI receives by providing mentoring and support throughout each semester thatthe GSI teaches. This paper will elaborate on the details of the GSM program at the Universityof Michigan College of Engineering from a mentor’s point of view and will provide someexamples of typical GSM/GSI interactions. In addition survey data from GSIs will be presentedto characterize the overall effectiveness of the GSM program.1 IntroductionThe Chronicle of Higher Education has reported that many colleges are making efforts to betterprepare their graduate students to teach in the classroom1. These efforts are generally focused oninstructional programs which provide Ph.D

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Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2004 Annual Conference

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Stephen Tricamo; Dennis Depew

Session 1455 Enabling the U.S. Engineering Workforce to Perform: Building Organizational Sustainability for Innovation in Professional Graduate Engineering Education S. J. Tricamo,1 D. R. Depew,2 A. L. McHenry,3 D. D. Dunlap,4 D. A. Keating,5 T. G. Stanford 5New Jersey Institute of Technology 1 / Purdue University 2/ Arizona State University East 3 Western Carolina University 4 / University of South Carolina 5 AbstractThis is the second paper in the panel session of the National

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Interdisciplinary Approaches

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2004 Annual Conference

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Robert Dunn; John Brauer

Session 2439 Undergraduate Integrated Engineering & Business Practice Curriculum in the College of Engineering Robert M. Dunn, Ph.D. , John M. Brauer College of Engineering University of Notre DameAbstractThe College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame has completed the third year ofteaching its undergraduate Integrated Engineering & Business Practice Curriculum. Thecurriculum was developed as a response to corporate and parental requests for a morecomprehensive engineering education. The curriculum is

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Issues in Computer Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Tulio Sulbaran; Chad Marcum

Preliminary Study on the Characteristics of Virtual Environments for Reaching New Heights in Education Tulio Sulbaran, Ph.D., Chad Marcum University of Southern MississippiAbstractIn researching virtual environments for educational purposes, it has been found that there are noset characteristic guidelines to develop educational material using virtual environments.Recognizing this fact, this paper is an attempt at listing and defining key characteristics forvirtual environments for education. The approach that was used to identify these characteristicswas a combination of literature reviews and experimental exploration of virtual reality over theInternet

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Technology-Based Entrepreneurship Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Muhlbaier; Peter Jansson

Undergraduate Entrepreneurs: Novel LED Taillight Assembly Design, Prototyping and Market Tests Peter Mark JanssonA, Michael MuhlbaierA, Sebastian BlicharzB, Greg DigneoA A Rowan University/BDrexel UniversityABSTRACTRowan University's Engineering Clinic courses have made it possible for motivatedundergraduate entrepreneurs to take their creative ideas and turn them into prototypes. SpaghettiEngineering is a start up company whose short-term goal is to design and fabricate a highperformance line of automotive taillights. It consists of a multidisciplinary team of five electricaland computer engineering and mechanical engineering students from two

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NEE Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

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Brian Houston

Session 3575 The Tr ansition fr om Pr ivate Life to Academia: Advice for the New Instr uctor Br ian L. Houston Univer sity of Pittsbur gh at J ohnstownAbstr actThe most common route to becoming a faculty member develops from the successful completionof an advanced degree which affords a natural transition to faculty status. This path providesample opportunity to develop the necessary skills and organizational tools to begin life in theacademic world with a minimum amount of anxiety.A less frequent path taken is a transition from

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Entrepreneurship Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Wilburn Clouse

schools may offerone or two more courses to further enhance the student's understanding ofentrepreneurship. Still other colleges and universities offer a complete four-year degreeprogram and/or master's degree or doctorate. Still, the vast majority of schools offerlittle or nothing to teach students about self-employment, creative thinking, and theprocess of generating new and creative ideas for opportunity development. There are at least two general underlying assumptions about entrepreneurshipeducation. Some schools, especially some schools of business, assume thatentrepreneurship cannot be taught. To them, it is an inborn skill that is derived fromyour gene base. In these types of schools, students appear to be already either starting

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Multimedia Engineering Education: Distance & Service Learning, Web-based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Hazem Said

Session _3260__ Towards Using Problem-Based Learning in Teaching ComputerProgramming – Step 1: Developing Synchronized Multimedia Lectures Using Video and PowerPoint Hazem Said and Fazal khan Department of Mathematics, Physics and Computing Technology, University of CincinnatiIntroductionThis paper is motivated by the first author’s desire to implement Problem-based learningor Project-based learning (PBL) in his computer programming classes. PBL is a popularteaching pedagogy that emphasis student's understanding of the course contents. Theclassroom and instructor's role in PBL

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ryan Kowalski; Paul Santi

Session Number Using an Assessment Test to Identify Important Aspects of Education Paul M. Santi, Ryan J. Kowalski Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401Introduction Quite often, in addition to teaching technical skills, we must teach some abstract andintangible skills. In the field of geological engineering, one of these skills is the ability to usegeologic information to design optimal subsurface investigations of sites for foundations,chemical contamination, or geologic hazards. In order to teach this skill, a computer

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Math Software Use in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Elton Graves

The Impact of Calculus Reform as Seen by Engineering Seniors Elton Graves Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractDuring the academic years of 2001-2003 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology participated in aNSF sponsored project to determine The Impact of Calculus Reform on Long-term StudentPerformance. The project was broken down into three major components. The first componentwas to compare registrar data for students who had taken a traditional calculus curriculum withthose who had taken calculus in a “reformed” curriculum. The second component was aquestionnaire to discover the views of graduating seniors to the use of

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Materials Science for Nonmajors

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sarah Leach

Session 3464 Teaching About Materials Using Electronic Devices Sarah E. Leach Purdue UniversityAbstractIntroductory materials courses must, of necessity, contain a great deal of theoretical andfoundational information about the structure and properties of materials. Materialcategories are often studied separately, with comparisons being made between types. Thispaper describes a laboratory experience designed to bring together different types ofmaterials, by studying complex manufactured devices. Many electronic packagingsystems, including chip carriers and thick-film

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Han-Way Huang

the 16-bit HCS12 with the hope that customers will migrate their low-end and high-end applications of the 68HC11 to these microcontrollers, respectively. Onthe other hand, 8-bit microcontrollers from other vendors also gain significant marketshare in the last few years. The Microchip 8-bit microcontrollers are among the mostpopular microcontrollers in use today. In addition to the SPI, USART, timer functions,and A/D converter available in the 68HC11 [6], the PIC microcontrollers from Microchipalso provide peripheral functions such as CAN, I2C, and PWM. The controller-area-network (CAN) has been widely used in automotive and process control applications.The Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) has been widely used in interfacing peripheral chips

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Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Sexton

Session 2004-1840 TEACHING ENERGY SYSTEM DESIGN USING COMPUTER SIMULATION Michael R. Sexton Mechanical Engineering Department Virginia Military Institute Lexington, VirginiaAbstractThis paper describes the use of system simulation in teaching the design and optimization ofenergy systems at the undergraduate level. A case study involving the optimum design of avapor compression refrigeration system is presented. This project was selected from senior levelcourses in Energy Conversion Design

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

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James Strueber

3160 Rural Economic Development through Building Energy Efficient Houses for Under $3,000 J. STRUEBER, V. Harris, E. Meyer, E. Carter, E. Maweza, M. Matshaya, Tuskegee University/Tuskegee University/University of Fort Hare/Tuskegee Uni- versity/University of Fort Hare/University of Fort HareAbstractThis paper looks into creating community-based economic development through materials de-velopment and building small energy-efficient housing for the rural areas of the Eastern Provinceof South Africa. This is a student exchange project between Tuskegee University and the Uni-versity of Fort Hare, Republic of South Africa

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Real-World Applications

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2004 Annual Conference

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Robert Weissbach; David Loker; Ronald Krahe

Session 1649 Remote Sensing with GPS Sensor and Cellular Modem David R. Loker, P.E., Ronald P. Krahe, P.E., Jeffrey Kirsch, Ted J. Yowonske, R. Joseph Cunningham, Joseph R. Petrovich Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeAbstractIn this paper, a remote sensing project is presented for a senior technical electivetelecommunications course in the Electrical Engineering Technology Baccalaureate Program atPenn State Erie, The Behrend College. There are several noteworthy characteristics of thisproject. First, the project used a

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Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

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2004 Annual Conference

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Heinz Erbe; F. Wilhelm Bruns

Session 3120 Distributed Real and Virtual Learning Environment for Mechatronics F. Wilhelm Bruns, Heinz-Hermann Erbe ARTEC Center for Work, Environment, Technology Bremen University/ Institute of Professional Education Technische Universität BerlinAbstract:A European project DERIVE developed a learning environment where on-site and remotecomponents merge into a cooperative learning process. The envisaged system allows to worktogether with complex real and virtual systems, consisting of parts which may be

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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G Murphy; G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

Session 1763 An Examination of Vendor-Based Curricula in Higher and Further Education in Western Australia G. Murphy, G. Kohli, D. Veal and S. P. Maj Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA, AustraliaAbstractVendor-based curricula are becoming increasingly prevalent in two-year college (Technicaland Further Education (TAFE) courses and in University programs in Western Australia.This reflects a world-wide trend in the provision of such programs; for example, in October2003 Cisco Systems reported that there were over half a million students enrolled in CiscoNetworking Academies in 150

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BME Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

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Larry McIntire; Ka-yiu San; Ann Saterbak

formthe foundation of engineering. Focusing on applications in biological systems to teach theseconservation laws provides a new and unifying approach to the introductory, interdisciplinaryfundamentals course in Biomedical Engineering departments.Chapters 1 and 2 provide exposure to bioengineering problems and motivation for a quantitativeengineering approach. The manuscript begins with a basic review of engineering calculationswith an emphasis on elaborating the physical variables, which are introduced in the context ofdifferent biomedical technologies. The fundamental framework of the conservation laws isdescribed in Chapter 2.Chapters 3-6 cover conservation of mass, energy, charge, and momentum in biomedical systems.Each chapter begins with a

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

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Pete Hanlon; John Hill; Bryan Goda; Lisa Shay

Session 2532 Outcome Assessment at the U. S. Military Academy Lisa A. Shay, Bryan S. Goda, Peter Hanlon, and John D. Hill Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996 {lisa.shay/bryan.goda/peter.hanlon/john.hill}@usma.eduAbstract - The United States Military Academy (USMA) recently had seven of its programsfavorably reviewed by the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) and the ComputingAccreditation Commission (CAC) of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET). The favorable comments of the

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Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Naomi Gomez; Jan Rinehart; Robin Autenrieth; Karen Butler-Purry; Angie Hill Price

Session 2550 Enrichment Experiences in Engineering (E3) For Teachers Summer Research Program Angie Hill Price, Karen Butler-Purry, Robin Autenrieth, Jan Rinehart, Naomi Gomez Dwight Look College of Engineering, Texas A&M UniversityAbstractWith funding from NSF, faculty from Texas A&M University have developed an outreachprogram aimed at providing secondary school teachers with laboratory experiences with facultyresearchers. The overall mission of the project is to excite, empower, and educate public schoolteachers about engineering so they in turn will excite, empower, and educate young people theycome in contact with

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Nontraditional Ways to Engage Students

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2004 Annual Conference

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Andrew Czuchry; W. Andrew Clark

living laboratories has not been fully utilized. The purpose of this paper is tosuggest a conceptual framework for closing this gap. This framework is based upon ourexperience working with graduate student teams on projects with the Oak Ridge NationalLaboratories Center for Entrepreneurial Growth and East Tennessee State University’s (ETSU’s)Innovation Laboratory. Both are high-technology business incubators striving to commercializetechnology developed in university or government laboratories. High-technology businessincubators present an excellent experiential learning opportunity for engineering and technologystudents faced with the challenge of translating theory to practice. Our experience, gainedthrough personal observation and via a

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

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Linda Katehi; Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Katherine Banks; John Gaunt; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman; Phillip Wankat

Session 2555 Development of Graduate Programs in Engineering Education Linda Katehi, Katherine Banks, Heidi Diefes-Dux, Deborah Follman, John Gaunt, Kamyar Haghighi, P.K. Imbrie, Robert Montgomery, William Oakes, and Phillip Wankat Purdue University, West Lafayette, INAbstractLong-term and sustainable engineering education reform requires a pipeline for educating futureengineering faculty and professionals interested in pursuing careers in K-12 teaching andadministration. Purdue University is evaluating the development of new M.S. and Ph.D. degreeprograms in

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Parent

Using open-ended design projects in an open lab to teach lifelong learning skills in an IC design course D. W. Parent EE Department, San Jose State University, San Jose CA 95192-0084, email dparent@email.sjsu.edu, PH 408.924.3863, FX 408.924.3925The ABET criterion, recognition for and the ability to engage in life-long learning, is one of themost important, given that we as engineering educators can not teach every concept that studentswill encounter over the span of a 20-40 year career as an engineer. We believe that one methodto teach and verify this critical skill in the area of Integrated Circuit (IC) design, is to have thestudents learn

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Serving the Information Needs of Engineering Technology Educators

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2004 Annual Conference

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Lance Miller; Jack Waintraub

Session 1150: Serving Needs of Engineering Technology and Engineering Educators NATIONAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION CLEARINGHOUSE ASEE 2004 Annual Conference Sponsor: Engineering Technology Division By: Jack Waintraub, Lance Miller NJCATE: A National Center for Advanced Technological EducationAbstractNJCATE, a National Center for Advanced Technological Education dedicated to advancing thestate of Engineering Technology education, has been a catalyst and a resource for technologicaleducation since its inception in 1995. Most recently it was funded by the National ScienceFoundation Advanced

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Leadership in the Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Ward; Robert Martinazzi

Session 3615 TEACHING LEADERSHIP WITH 10,000 WORDS Robert Martinazzi, David Ward University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractAn old adage states “Pictures are worth a thousand words.” An appropriate deductionfrom this phase can be “Movies are then worth ten thousand words.” With this basicpremise, a unique component to an Engineering Leadership class involves the studentsviewing three films, namely, “Braveheart,”1 “The Patriot,” 2 and “Gladiator.” 3 Eachfilm contains a wealth of verbal and visual leadership examples which inspire men towillingly sacrifice their lives for a “vision” greater than

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Role of Professional Societies

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2004 Annual Conference

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Dianne Dorland

Session 2443 Professional Society Challenges: Sustainability Moving Forward Dianne Dorland Rowan UniversityProfessional societies face many challenges in today’s market. Some challenges are ongoing,such as attracting and retaining members, offering appropriate services, conferences, meetings,and products all while managing efficient and cost-effective operations. Other challenges aredriven by changing professional needs, new markets and emerging technologies. In chemicalengineering, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers identified a series of factors

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Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

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Robert Riggins; Bruce Mutter

Session 2648 Autonomous Ground Robotic Vehicles for Electrical Engineering Technology Robert N. Riggins, Bruce V. Mutter Bluefield State College bmutter@bluefieldstate.eduAbstractThis paper discusses the design and provides an analysis of the performance of an autonomousground robotic vehicle (GRV) called Vasilius. Three sections of focus are presented. First, thepaper describes the hardware and software design of Vasilius. A novel idea of modeling anautonomous vehicle after human senses and the human decision-making