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Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jill Lynn

accreditation and other regulatory requirements thatThe world of education is changing just as every are an intricate component of engineering andother area of our world today is changing due to the technology education. Currently however, distanceincreasingly technically driven, fast-paced world education is being used successfully not only byaround us. People today are busier and more trainers in industry, but by many professionaltechnologically proficient than they were twenty, educators in the engineering and technology fields.fifteen, five or just one year ago, causing These educators are providing new opportunities forincreasingly new demands for beginning

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Computer Literacy Among Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

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Austin Asgill; Willie K. Ofosu

facilitiesfor personal development. The digital divide is thus a gulf that must be bridged if there is to besome form of equity in the aspirations of all people in the society. With many academic institutions now requiring that their students each own a computeras a basic tool for use during their college education, this paper will attempt to examine theimpact of such requirements on minority students, students from low-income families, and thosewho are attempting to work and pay their own way through college.I. Introduction It is an accepted fact that education is important in the developmental process of anynation. This invariably leads to the question of numbers of educated people and numbers of theuneducated. Quality of education

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard K Sase; Julie Wei

Session 2793 The Challenges to an Undergraduate Student Team Undertaking A Complex Project Julie H. Wei and Richard K. Sase California State Polytechnic University, Pomona/ Main San Gabriel Basin WatermasterAbstractCal Poly Pomona’s Civil Engineering Department offers a capstone course that allows studentsthe opportunity to work in a group on a comprehensive project that will ready them for a careerin Civil Engineering. The project discussed in this paper was to evaluate the sediment removalplan in San Gabriel Canyon Reservoirs by

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Cross-Section of Construction Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Joseph Cecere

Capstone Course in Construction Management Joseph J. Cecere , Ph.D., CPC Pennsylvania State University/ HarrisburgABSTRACTCapstone courses offered in most construction engineering programs are designed to pull together much of whatthe student has already learned in previous courses. This will enable the student to gain an appreciation of howthe different aspects of a construction project come together. The course is not an in depth study of any onefunction or technical aspect, but rather a synergistic overview of the project

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Innovative Lab and Hands-on Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Szaroletta; Nancy Denton

withtechnical report writing. This paper includes an overview of FPB theory, analysis techniques, andtraditional laboratory procedures, and details the success of the FPB DAQ upgrade, operation,and outputs.Introduction:Beam flexure represents one of the three most common loading categories for mechanicalsystems. As such, it is on the syllabi of nearly all sophomore-level mechanics of materials courses,including the mechanical engineering technology course under consideration here. Within thelecture setting, FPB theory is developed from free-body diagram through beam deflection. Theoryis reinforced by analytical practice solving related homework problems 1-3. The corresponding FPBlaboratory has afforded students the opportunity to experimentally and

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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Suzanne Heyman; Aisha K. Lawrey; Ronald H. Rockland

curricula for use in middle and high schoolscience and mathematics classrooms and the provision of institutes for teacher professionaldevelopment. The Outreach component involves the implementation of an “Engineering theFuture” outreach program and the formation of alliances with three groups of stakeholders:educators, counselors and parents.This paper will discuss PrE-IOP’s “Building an Engineer” teleconference series. Details will begiven on the first teleconference titled “Building an Engineer: How to Help Our Students” andwill discuss how a segment about women and minorities in engineering led to the topic for thesecond teleconference “Building an Engineer: Women in Engineering” that is scheduled for May6th, 2003.Underrepresentation of women in

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Angela Miller; Monica Schmidt

(*). Cadettes & Senior Girl Scouts complete 6 of the following activities, including the ones with double stars (**).1. Examine objects from the Biological World with magnifying glasses, hand lenses, loupes, etc. Suitable objects include your fingertips, leaves, plants, vegetables, pet fur, human hair, & wood.2. Examine objects from the Physical World with magnifying glasses, hand lenses, loupes, etc. Suitable objects include salt crystals, rocks, gems, metals, ceramics, plastics, fabrics, yarn, & stamps. Look at a fracture surface on a broken object (like a paper clip or a pencil).3.* Use a compound microscope to examine specimens in transmitted light (where light goes through the

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

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Fabio Carrera; David DiBiasio; Natalie Mello

multidimensional andinclude student barriers (perceived detraction from progress in the major, financial, language,reluctance to travel), faculty barriers (time away from research, family, reward system), andinstitutional barriers (curriculum constraints, awarding of credit, academic calendar, academiccontent).WPI has found ways to overcome these barriers and has been providing an internationalexperience for its graduates since 1980 – currently more than 50% of each graduating class hasan international experience. Our paper will attempt to answer three important questions: Whatinstitutional structures make our program work? How do we know the program works? How cansignificant international experiences work at other engineering schools?BackgroundThere are

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International Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

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David Holger; James Melsa; Loren Zachary

experience for students, it is important not to get too involved withdefining the concept. After all, any experience is better than none. It is equally important not to getbogged down in a search for the ideal or perfect experience; six weeks in a structured summerprogram is a beginning. There are many forms of international experience, and no single Page 8.155.11 Managing in the Next Society, Peter Drucker, 2002experience will be best for all situations. It is important to start early to create interest and facilitatecontinuing opportunities at later points in the students’ educational career.This paper presents the results of a recent Global

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Assessment Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Norris; Duco Jansen; Sean Brophy

essay responses toquestions during class by using student’s wireless laptops as input devices. Free-text responsecapability may increase learning potential because students need to rely more on generatingknowledge and less on routine recall of memorized information. Moreover, the system lends itselfvery well to implementation in models of challenge-based learning that include phases ofgenerating ideas and revisiting initial intuition after instruction. Finally, VSAS compliments theengineering school’s initiative to embed the use of technology with classroom instruction throughwireless network infrastructure and laptop computers to all students. This paper presents severalexamples illustrating the value added by using the short answer and essay

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Manufacturing Systems Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Devdas Shetty

in the lectures or in the laboratory practices orboth. Due to recent technological advances in computer technology and software, it is nowfeasible to implement more advanced, more efficient, highly interactive and very user -friendlysystems without using expensive custom-written software and tools. In the laboratoryapplications, from the technical point of view, all the engineering problems deal with somephysical quantities such as temperature, speed, position, current, voltage, pressure, force, torque,etc. A computer equipped with the suitable interface circuits, data acquisition systems andsoftware, can give a visual look to these quantities, and can process the acquired data. [2]In this paper, a model of teaching and learning experiences

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Gehringer

“back end” to our database, we initially usedWebAssign, an Web-based testing and assessment system developed at NCSU.However, WebAssign had a lot of functionality that we were not using, and our userswere frequently bewildered by all the choices presented through the user interface. Thisled us to substitute a MySQL database for the WebAssign database, and create our ownUI using Java. Not only is this easier to navigate; it also returns search results muchmore quickly than WebAssign.The following sections will guide the reader through the various functions provided bythe Course Database. The first step in using the database is to obtain an account. Thiscan be done by sending e-mail to the author of this paper. You should provide someevidence of

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Assessment in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Bianey Ruiz; Stephanie Adams

, Attitude and Group Behaviors in a Technical Environment. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 378 192)25. Buckmaster, L. (1994). Effects of activities that promote cooperation among seventh graders in a future problem-solving classroom. Elementary School Journal, 95(1), 49-62.BIANEY C. RUIZ-ULLOA is a doctoral candidate in Industrial Management Systems Engineering at the Universityof Nebraska-Lincoln. She holds a M.S. degree in Industrial and Management Systems Engineering from theUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln. She received a M.B.A. and B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the NationalUniversity of Tachira – Venezuela.STEPHANIE G. ADAMS received

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Mathematics in the Transition

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2003 Annual Conference

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Kyria Alfaro; Michael Mooney

Session 2665 Engineering Based Math and Science Curricular Units Implemented in 4th, 5th and 8th Grade Classrooms: A Case Study Kyria Alfaro, Lorena Barbosa, Yetunde Ishola, Patrick Gorman, Nicholas Marquez, Michael Mooney1.0 IntroductionAdventure Engineering (AE), launched in 1999 with funding from the National ScienceFoundation, is a middle grade science and math outreach initiative aimed at students who,without the benefit of a positive mathematics and/or science applications experience, willnot otherwise consider technical careers in mathematics, science, and engineering. AEcreates adventure-based curricular

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2001 Annual Conference

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Jose Saldivar; Ighal Mehmedagic; Siva Thangam; Richard Cole

laboratory is part of arequired course in thermal engineering taken by all students in the current mechanical engineeringcurriculum. It is intended to facilitate the verification of classroom description of the air-standardOtto-cycle in the context of the observed performance of a single cylinder gasoline engine.The current implementation of the system allows for the students to conveniently measure both the in-dicated and brake horsepower as well as the fuel consumption, air intake rate and engine efficiency ona real-time basis as a function of compression ration, engine speed and load. The collected data isarchived stored in the PC for access by students via the campus network. This paper describes thedesign, development and implementation of the

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2001 Annual Conference

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Audeen Fentiman; Robert J. Gustafson; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

ofcomputer packages for word processing, spreadsheets, computer aided design,mathematical calculations, and preparation of visual aids. In the laboratory portion of theclass, they design and conduct experiments to investigate fundamental concepts, takeapart off-the-shelf products to explore the engineering design process, and then design,build, test and document a product of their own. Development and content of thesecourses are described in companion papers.2. Desired Characteristics: Basics and Laboratory Page 6.352.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2001, American

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2001 Annual Conference

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Michael Larson; Melanie Landry; Donal Collins

Session 2793 Development of a Crawfish Processing Machine in a Capstone Design Course Michael Larson, Donal Collins, Melanie Landry Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tulane University, LA 70118AbstractThis paper describes how an entrepreneurial focus can be brought to a capstone designcourse in mechanical engineering. During the 2000-2001 academic year, seniorundergraduates in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Tulane University weredivided into teams to prototype, test, refine and manufacture a new product under thedirection of faculty and graduate students who created the

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2001 Annual Conference

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Mohammad Naraghi; Bahman Litkouhi

programming module of the course, which is the focus of this paper, coversintroductory topics in Visual Basic. These topics are program development cycle,programming tools, the programming environment, VB objects, VB events, numbers,strings, input and output, built-in functions, subprograms, modular design, structuredprogramming, relational and logical operators, IF blocks, select case blocks, use oflooping, creating and using arrays, 2-D arrays and VB graphics. An interesting andunique feature of this course is its semester long group project.At the beginning of the semester students are asked to form their project groups. Studentsare given the freedom to form groups based on their preference (choosing classmates thatthey can work with comfortably

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2001 Annual Conference

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Aaron C. Clark; Eric Wiebe

technology has had a significant impact on how and what students are taught in engineering design graphics. Though the establishment of computer labs on campuses has hit near saturation, instructional issues concerning the use of computers in engineering graphics are still evolving. As more and more instructional activity takes place outside of traditional labs via distance education technologies, what access students have to computing resources at their homes or dorms and what computer skills they possess to use these computer-based tools becomes increasingly important. Instruction taking place outside of traditional computer labs provides fewer opportunities for instructors to provide remediation in computer skills. This paper will

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2001 Annual Conference

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Bahador Ghahramani

Source Control Branch, Nonpoint Source Pollution The Nation's Largest Water Quality Problem, EPA841-F-960 0 4A. (URL: www.epa.ffov/owow/nps}[12] U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water Regulations and Standards, Perspectives on Nonpoint Source Pollution, Proceedings of a National Conference: Kansas City, Missouri, 1985.Biography of the AuthorDr. Bahador Ghahramani is an Associate Professor of Engineering Management in the School ofEngineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR). Prior to joining UMR he was aDistinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) in AT&T-Bell Laboratories. His workexperience covers several years of academics, industry, and consulting. Dr. Ghahramani haspresented and

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2000 Annual Conference

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William L. Scheller

classes. In the manufacturing engineering course, teams were assigned sothat manufacturing and mechanical engineers worked together. A questionnaire on specific engineeringknowledge was used to assist in team assignments.IntroductionMuch has been said and written about the desirability of interdisciplinary, team based projects forundergraduate engineers. This paper does not repeat these points, rather describes the implementationof such a project.Manufacturing Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Kettering University (formerly GMIEngineering & Management Institute) are separate academic programs and are not part of the samedepartment. Manufacturing Engineering is in the Department of Industrial and ManufacturingEngineering and Business

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2000 Annual Conference

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Wesley P. Lipschultz; Jean Landa Pytel; Jayne Klenner-Moore

that requires students to identify their strengths and interests and match these withthe interests and skills required of specific majors. Realistic and accurate information about themajors was therefore crucial to the construction of this model. Examples of job scenarios,typical days, required skills, and types of problems encountered were provided by practicingengineers and then used as building blocks in the development of the program. This paper willfocus on the role that the information obtained from practicing engineers played in thedevelopment of the program.I. IntroductionInstruments have been designed for students who are beginning the path of self-exploration andcareer choice to help them distinguish among broad categories of majors

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2000 Annual Conference

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Rosalyn S. Hobson

set forth in the course syllabus. The high school students (a) gain exposure tocollege and the study of engineering, (b) learn more about engineering and the types of thingsengineers do, and (c) learn about electronics and the construction of a digital programmablemobile robot.This paper describes service-learning and the Introduction to Engineering course and how thetwo are incorporated to enhance the educational experience of the VCU students and provide aservice to the Richmond, Virginia community.I. IntroductionAs institutionalized service-learning has developed, there have been many different definitionsof this pedagogical approach to teaching. Each definition has subtle differences that cater toeach individual program. There is not one

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2000 Annual Conference

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Yi-Xian Qin; Partap Khalsa; Michael Hadjiargyrou; Mark W. Otter; Kenneth J. McLeod; Danny Bluestein

Page 5.170.1report on the status of engineering education worldwide, which noted the students’ remarkablelack of curiosity about the physical meaning of the subjects they were studying (3).Indeed over the last half-century, curricula have moved away from presenting students with anequal balance of the three major knowledge processes; the cognitive, perceptive and pragmatic.The shift in science and engineering education has been toward the cognitive, i.e. the analytical,linear, and rational skills, which are critical to defining a problem, gathering information, anddiagnosis. While technical skills are an absolute necessity in engineering, organization leadershave noted that engineering graduates lack breadth of vision, flexibility, and a

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Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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2002 Annual Conference

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Tim Diemer; Rob Wolter; Cliff Goodwin

compared to us. We have a certain sense of pride that our group operates the best...Term Project During fall semester 2001 and spring semester 2002, VC groups were offered the option of agroup project or a term paper. All groups selected the project. The assignment was to, "Build aWeb page, Web site, or multi-media presentation that identifies, describes, and/or represents Page 7.1202.5your VC group." Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education The assignment was intended as measure of group

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Tomorrow's Civil Engineering Profession

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2002 Annual Conference

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KC Mahboub; Anna Phillips; Paul Palazolo; Scott Yost

, approximately60% of the articles were related to topics of teaching methodology, assessment ideas, andsuggestions for curricular improvement, indicating that these are indeed areas that engineeringeducators are aware of.4 Furthermore, many of these researchers are able to combine researchinterests with curricular improvements AND please university administrators at the same time bydocumenting their efforts for ABET review.Besterfield-Sacre et al’s 1998 presents a plan for using ABET criteria in conjunction withassessment of student feedback and evaluation data to improve/tailor/customize teaching.2 Theseexamples are just a few examples of projects and papers in progress in engineering programseverywhere.Still not convinced that we’re out in our

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Technology for Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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Billy Crynes

Education Conference, Proceedings, Austin, TX, January 25-28, 2000. Page 7.1207.5“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright @2002, American Society for Engineering Education”6. Assessing Learner Differences in Distributed Learning Environments, “Book of Essays,” (with C. Dillon and B. Greene). First Research Workshop of EDEN, Prague, Czech Republic, March 16-17, 2000.7. “A New Way To Teach Chemical Engineering Fundamentals,” (with W.S. Chung and Y.K. Lai). Proceedings and CDROM, ASEE, Charlotte, NC, June 20-23, 1999.8. “Pixels, Papers and Possibilities,” (with L

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Laboratory Experiences for Env. Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jean Roberts; David Pines

wasdesigned to support the Water Quality Engineering course. Students are taught various analyticalmethods used in assessing the quality of a water sample. Review of the environmentalengineering curriculum showed that the courses were not well integrated. In summer 2001,shared activities were developed to improve the integration of the courses.This paper describes how externally sponsored water research projects and the integration of theWater Chemistry Laboratory and Water Quality Engineering courses has strengthened theenvironmental program. Student surveys, sponsor feedback, and comments from independentreviewers have been used to continually improve the program.II. Environmental Research ProjectsWith funding from the National Science Foundation

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Louis Rivest

years ago. One ofthe author’s first teaching assignments was a course entitled Computer-Aided Design ofAerospace Components. The content of this advanced CAD course draws on the practicalexperience gained while making digital design tools part of a business strategy to improve designproductivity. The course thus aims at making engineering students understand both the tools andhow to make them improve the design process. This paper presents the course original structureand content as well as some decisions made while defining it.ContextComputer-Aided Design of Aerospace Components is an optional course intended for third orfourth year engineering students. This course is included in the standard curriculum forAutomated Production Engineering

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Teaching Green Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Tamara Knott; Jean Kampe

College of Engineering at Virginia Tech; the green modifications, currently inprogress, will facilitate meeting the College's goal that every engineering graduate is exposed toenvironmental issues and is made aware that engineering systems have environmentalconsequences. The paper includes the plan, a sample problem, and a discussion of theimplementation of the plan. This work was first presented at the Virginia Tech GreenEngineering Conference in July 2001.IntroductionFirst-year students often enter university education without a clear idea of where they areheaded. Many enter engineering colleges because they excel in math and science classes andhave always been told that “engineering” is the right place for them to be. The Division