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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Kelly; Theodore A. Bickart; Pamela Suett

Page 10.746.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationcivil engineering exam a list of design standards is given which must be used to answerquestions in the structural and transportation areas.The National Standards Strategy looks at the broader picture particularly the role ofstandards and conformity assessment in global commerce and in ensuring thecompetitiveness of U.S. industry. Standards developing organizations have a stronginterest in training the professionals needed in future standards development work. Inaddition, the NSS is looking for SDOs to provide educational opportunities worldwide

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Controls, Mechatronics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Viveca Deanes; Olakunle Harrison

exposure to this type of analysis, they quickly gain an appreciation forits importance in design and manufacturing. It is in FMEA that the multidisciplinary nature ofmechatronics is emphasized. Students get to see the various levels of system integration andcomponent and software interaction.III. ObservationsAfter three semesters of using the approach outlined above, we have observed an improvementin students’ problem solving skills over previous semesters. Some of the improvements aredifficult to quantify using traditional assessment instruments. However, based on day-to-dayinteractions with students in the mechatronics class, we have made the following observations,which suggest improved engineering problem solving skills: • Increased

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Technology and Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Tront

othercourses the students were taking that semester. Page 10.1430.8 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationAssessmentSeveral different measures were taken in order to assess the effectiveness of the use of tablet PCsin this class. First, students were asked to keep a journal chronicling their experience with thetablet PCs. Several basic questions were suggested for discussion in the journals. Theseincluded indicators of student satisfaction with the hardware and software itself as well asindicators

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Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Clifton Johnston; Diane Douglas

are treated as inflexible and the writing is imbedded in no real organizationalcontext. Students see the requirements of the writing task as arbitrary if writing isassigned as a means to assess writing skill rather than as a means to communicate projectinformation.In problem-based learning environments such as an engineering design lab, especially ifstudents are working on real world problems and if communication assignments areimbedded in design projects, the inherent problems of the student writer are somewhatdiminished. Students who develop ideas in conjunction with, and with feedback from,real clients are motivated to write clear and coherent reports. While it remains true thatinstructors usually grade these reports, students see

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Recruiting and Building Diversity

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Johnson; Mary Anderson-Rowland

students who were either a minority or female or both.The CIRC program students meet five times a semester. CIRC informative sessions includeguest speakers on how to get involved in an engineering research project, writing a resume toobtain an internship, how to select and apply for graduate school, and getting funding forgraduate school, which will be described in detail. Assessment of the program is done at eachmeeting and feedback is provided to the students at the next meeting. Students in the CIRCprogram are obtaining research positions and are considering graduate school as part of theircareer goals.The Fulton School of Engineering graduate recruitment activities include booths at nationalmeetings, participation in GEM (National Consortium

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Technology-Based Entrepreneurship Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Clifton Kussmaul

, UMLdiagrams, or PERT networks, before applying them to the projects. Guest lecturers providebroader perspectives; for example, a local patent attorney discusses intellectual property.Student assessment is based on a combination of individual (35%) and team (65%) factors: 10% individual assignments & class participation 15% peer evaluations received & given 10% final course portfolio 25% team assignments, meeting minutes, project progress 25% written product proposals 15% oral product presentationsLessons from IndustryThe original structure of the course20 and the projects has been influenced by a number ofincreasingly common factors and approaches in industry, which are described below. Given thesmall class

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K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Serdar Tumkor; Ali Imre Aydeniz; Ismail Fidan

) software. So, an effective exchange of ideaswas possible and documentary records are easily assessed and stored in an organizedenvironment. The most important reason this method that was chosen was to analyze “if themethod is suitable for the team members that are placed far from each other”.In this semester, group members worked individually and communicated with each other bycomputer. All documents that were prepared individually were shared in the internet so that othergroup members could reach the documents.During project preparation all groups were observed carefully and every week they wererequired to make a presentation so that the problems caused by this kind of collaboration studycould be noted. This also allowed the supervisor to

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Collaborative Programs and Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Levenburg; Paul Lane; John Farris

of teaching the appropriate mix of theoryand practice to feed the entrepreneur’s passion for innovation? These innovators needpractical interdisciplinary courses to assess the feasibility of their ideas. Further manyneed to work with engineering professionals to transform their ideas into realistic designsand prototypes. Have you got faculty who are comfortable doling out engineering asneeded? The quick answer to all these questions is probably, “No.” Are we missing theopportunity to build the communities in which we live by failing to encourage, support,and lead innovation?IntroductionIn the spring of 2003 the Center for Entrepreneurship located in the Seidman BusinessSchool at Grand Valley State University received a grant to develop a

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Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhanmin Zhang; Susan Tighe; Gerardo Flintsch; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

about facility condition. Advanced materials and more sophisticated equipmenthave increased facility life-spans. However, probably the most revolutionary advances haveresulted from increases in computing power. Today’s computers can store and analyze largequantities of data, allowing the evaluation of different maintenance and rehabilitation options interms of timing, location, and actions. Nevertheless, even with these technological advances,additional improvement is needed in areas such as information management and data integration,condition assessment, performance prediction, life-cycle analysis, and resource allocation Page

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Introduction to Engineering and More

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jared Berrett

requirements, makes real life connections to theactivity with stories, and illustrates how this particular technology is used and impacts oursociety. When the activity has been sufficiently explained and demonstrated the students arethen sent to work and once again they choose which activity they will begin with. The pedagogyis based on the knowledge that students must structure their own information to make learningmeaningful and activities are varied to allow for multiple intelligences to emerge. This nonlinear theoretical foundation of learning guides not only Brad’s instructionalpractice, but the facility, and assessment as well. Brad spent 25 years transforming an oldwoodshop into a renowned technology lab and in 1996 was able to design a

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Urban; Debra Banks; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright c 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe selection of the robots would then be a more important aspect of the project requirementsformulation and analysis.The Department of Computer Science and Engineering is evaluating the results of three offeringsof a placement exam that is used for determining entry into the first computer science course.Preliminary results indicate that the placement exam will be used as a basis for allowing entryinto the first computer science course. The introduction of outcomes and assessments foraccreditation purposes has been a benefit for course to course transition throughout the degreeprogram. However, the placement

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Nontraditional Ways to Engage Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathy Brockway; Greg Spaulding

and final component of the future plan for entrepreneurship is curriculumtransformation.In the effort to train entrepreneurs, the most fundamental and least visible of the activitieswill occur in the classroom. The classroom challenge will be to integrate entrepreneurialculture into the existing courses. This integration will not be easy or quick, and it will Page 9.1215.5require support from administration and faculty. The administration will have to showacceptance and outcome assessment based on the new culture, and the faculty supportwill entail a shift in teaching style and content. These changes will gradually “kindle thefire” toward a more

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Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Cedric Walker; Carol Mullenax

. 125 CENG 10 Effect of Antibiotics Upon Bacterial Growth Mix up various concentrations of antibiotics (ampicillin & kanamycin) and add to samples of e. coli at 5:00 p.m. on the first visit; culture overnight, and return the next morning at 9:00 a.m. to assess the effects. 127 BMEN 4 Intro to Computational Modeling in Engineering

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TIME 2: Laboratories

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jed Lyons

ideas.AssessmentThe effects of problem based learning in this course have been assessed with a pre/post survey.The pre-survey is administered on the first day of class, and asks students to rate their level ofcompetency in fifteen skill areas. The post-survey is administered on the last day, and asksstudents to again rate their level of competency in the same skill areas. This method is preferredover asking students to self-rate changes in their level of learning. Students write the last fourdigits of their social security number on their survey, which allows the surveys of students whodropped the class, or who only filled out the post survey for some reason, to be discarded prior todata analysis. The results for the five items that changed the most over the

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TIME 5: Solid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nashwan Younis

Applied Load (N) Fig. 4 Difference in principal strains versus applied loadIt is very beneficial to the students to observe the photoelastic fringe development stages atdifferent loads for the coated part. Aside from its esthetically pleasing character, the developmentof a fringe pattern is rich with information for students. Full-field interpretation of fringepatterns, aids the students in the overall assessment of nominal strain magnitudes and gradients.Examining the intensity and the patterns of fringes for 11880 N and 16720 N loads shown in Fig.5, the students can distinguish the difference in the localized high stress zone compared to the

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisabeth Cuddihy; Steve Lappenbusch; Jennifer Turns

protocolanalysis, concept mapping, and ethnography.ELISABETH CUDDIHY is a doctoral student in the University of Washington’s TechnicalCommunication department. She holds bachelor’s degrees in Anthropology and ComputerScience and a Master’s in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo.Her interests include user interface design and assessment, design communication, andundergraduate and graduate education. In recent research, she is assessing how undergraduatescommunicate design rationale and she is developing methodology for remotely evaluatingWebsite design.STEVE LAPPENBUSCH is a doctoral student in the University of Washington’s TechnicalCommunication department. He holds a bachelor’s in English Textual Studies and

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Hunter

disguised himself as one of his captains so he could move among the troops and talk with them to assess their condition and will to fight. Several aspects of the battle are of engineering significance. The English troops consisted primarily of archers with longbows, which proved to be highly effective weapons against the French armored cavalry (knights). The English archers also employed portable defensive structures consisting of sharpened stakes to fend off cavalry charges. Issues of soil trafficability on the muddy battlefield were a major factor in the English victory.Most of the material for this vignette was obtained by Internet research.8,9,10This vignette has been used in a

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Web-Based & Distance Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Segalewitz; Charlie Edmonson

the Web to Enhance Classroom Learning,Computers in Education Journal, 20033. Buchanan, E. A. (1999). Assessment Measures: Pre-tests for Successful Distance Teaching andLearning, On-line Journal of Distance Learning Administration (2)3. Retrieved fromhttp://www.westga.edu/~distance/buchanan24.html.4. Lockee, B., Moore, M., and Burton, J., “Measuring Success: Evaluation Strategies for DistanceEducation”, EDUCAUSE Quarterly, No. 1, 2002, 20-265. Callahan, A., Givens, P.E., and Russell, G.B., “Distance Education Moves into the 21st Century: AComparison of Delivery Methods”, ASEE Proceedings, 1998, Session 25426. Samples, J.W., “Distance Learning – Don’t Forget the Pedagogy”, ASEE Proceedings, 2001, Session27937. Nilson, L., Teaching at Its Best

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Lab Experiments & Other Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Anderson; Lance Perez; Jerald Varner

laboratory experience will increase student learning and facilitate achievement of the course objectives in each of the four courses. 2. A consistent laboratory experience will increase prerequisite retention from course to course in the four-course sequence.A mixed methodology3,4 study that included both quantitative and qualitative techniques wasused to assess the impact of the lab1. The quantitative data from this study5 indicated increasedstudent outcomes in each course as a result of the laboratory experience. In addition, studentswho had used the laboratory in ELEC 304 and/or ELEC 305 scored higher than a control groupof students who had not used the laboratory in either course on a prerequisite exam given tostudents entering

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Non-Technical Skills for ET Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charlie Edmonson; Donna Summers

able to make oral presentations about their proposals, plans, and project activities.Various methods are used to assess how well students are able to achieve the courseoutcomes, including: • Projects (either with industry or a simulated project) • Written technical reports (proposals, plans, budgets) • Oral Presentations (proposals, plans, project update summaries) • Homework • Quizzes/examsTeam Management SkillsHenry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company, once said: Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.A wide variety of skills are needed to work together effectively. Four, in particular, standout: understanding others, negotiating, time management, and

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Issues in Computer Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gabe Garcia; Ian Leslie

initial method of assessing student performance with laptops versus those without, isbased on the method of resampling[1,2]. This method does not depend on the underlyingdistribution. The basic method was to develop the probability distribution of all possiblesubgroup scores. Here the subgroup size is equal to the number of students receiving laptops.Consider a class with a total of N students in which M laptops were distributed at random, M< N. From the final scores in the course all possible averages of M grades were desired. The N!number of possible combinations is . This number can be very large for a typical (N − M )! M !class and

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Faculty Development II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca Bates

of the second semester would allow new faculty to reconnect with people theymight not bump into regularly.In addition, MSU now addresses some needs of new faculty with a formal mentoring program.The mentor/mentee pairs are assigned using the criteria that they share the same college (andthus hiring dean) but not the same department. In addition to the introductory reception and talkat the beginning of the year, hosting meetings of the large set of mentors and mentees during theacademic year would contribute to the development of new groups of interdisciplinary peers.Another initiative that allows faculty to be involved with interdisciplinary groups is facultylearning communities on diverse topics (such as classroom assessment techniques

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BME Introductory Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Samantha Richerson; Daniel Cavanagh

Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationProgram incorporates direct assessment measures into the curriculum, the exact effects of thisnew teaching approach will ideally be identified.IntroductionIn fall 2004, Bucknell’s first class of biomedical engineering majors, i.e., the Class of 2007,enrolled in our Introduction to Biomedical Engineering course at the beginning of their secondyear. Up until 2004, this introductory course was taught in a traditional lecture and lab fashionto students majoring in other engineering and science disciplines. As the size of the newbiomedical engineering program is targeted to

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Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Reyer; Stephen Williams; Joerg Mossbrucker; Owe Petersen

with diversity, and global interactions. The PDT allows students to: perform an ongoing self-assessment, identify their strengths and weaknesses, and develop strategies to improve in the seven skill areas. The PDT is an instrument that the student can use to prepare for an interview for employment or acceptance to graduate school and a document that may be used in a professional portfolio along with transcripts, resume, references, etc. A track within the electrical engineering program is being developed that incorporates courses from humanities and social sciences, business, and technical communications. The track would consist of a three course business sequence, a three course humanities

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Recruitment and Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Warren; Diana Mellar

Vermont Tech. Itwas discovered that the Recruiting CQI Team functioned more effectively once a CQI cycle or"loop" was developed that was specific to the area of focus (recruiting), yet general enough to beadapted to any particular improvement initiative. We have presented several innovativetechniques in this paper that could perhaps be adapted at other institutions. While not allcampuses in the country are located close to ski areas or snowmobile trails, with some creativethinking, colleges from other regions in the country may be able to discover similar mutualmarketing opportunities. To assess the possibilities of mutual marketing opportunities, collegesmay wish to pose these questions: 1) Where do large crowds gather in the region on a

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Understanding Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Durward Sobek

concept is superior. This suggestion recognizes that acomplete assessment of an idea is not always possible at a conceptual level. The transition phaseis then used to test preliminary designs of a concept.Ulrich and Eppinger2 emphasize product architecture decisions in the transition from conceptdesign to detailed design. Specifically, they point out the need to identify the product’ssubsystems, define their functions, and decide how modular to make the design. The degree ofmodularity is determined by a) the separation of function among the components/subsystems, and Page 10.1358.6b) the complexity of interface. In other words, how easily can a

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Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Darrell Gibson; Patricia Brackin

Engineering Design Courses”, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC, 1999.[4] Ohland, M.W., M.L. Loughry, R.L. Carter, and A.G. Yuhasz, "Designing a Peer Evaluation Instrument that is Simple, Reliable, and Valid" Proc. Amer. Soc. Eng. Ed., Salt Lake City, Utah, June 2004General References> Bellamy, L, et al. Teams in Engineering Education, A Report Submitted on Work Completed Under Sponsorship of the National Science Foundation, Grant Number USE 9156176, Tempe, Arizona, 1994.> Brackin, P., and Gibson, J.D., “Techniques for Assessing Industrial Projects in Engineering Design Courses”, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 2001> Brackin, P., and Williams, J., “Teaching and Assessing Team Skills in

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Graduate Student Experiences and Funding

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nolan Hertel; Michael Shannon

radioisotopes; materials transportation and storage; and disposal of waste materials, including assay, criticality safety, worker protection, cost, and optimization of facility management; d. assess the environmental impact of nuclear facilities using the principles of radiological assessment.4Note that the radiological engineering degree was not meant to be a degree in health physics orradiological health engineering, although it does cover those areas. The degree was intended togive graduates the ability to seek nuclear-based jobs in non-power areas. With this change camethe reorganization of numerous courses, however, the greatest effect on the overall curriculumwas the addition of two courses, one in radiation

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Engineers & Engineering Education in Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, and Turkey

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Birgül Tantekin-Ersolmaz; Gülsün Saglamer; Ekrem Ekinci

Turkey met to discuss various common issuesincluding quality assurance and accreditation and the Engineering Evaluation Board is formed toestablish an assessment and accreditation system for engineering education in Turkey. TheEngineering Evaluation Board (MÜDEK) is composed of members from universities, theTurkish Quality Association, Istanbul Chamber of Industry, and the Turkish Chamber ofEngineers and Architects. The functioning of this body is in parallel with ABET EC2000, i.e.program accreditation based on continuous quality improvement. At present, MÜDEK isrunning an experimental assessment procedure for 7 engineering programs of two universities.These programs prepared their self-study reports and received their campus visits in

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Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Kukulka

Session 3133 Development of Energy Design Projects at Buffalo State College to meet TAC/ABET Outcomes David J. Kukulka Buffalo State College, Mechanical Engineering Technology Program, 1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York 14222Students completing their studies in the Mechanical Engineering Technology Program at BuffaloState College (BSC) are required to complete a senior design project. The Accreditation Boardfor Engineering and Technology (ABET) has developed a set of learning outcomes used to guidefaculty in assessing the effectiveness of