Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Weaver, University of Detroit Mercy; Karim Muci-Küchler, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2008-1195: IN-CLASS CREATIVITY EXERCISES FOR ENGINEERINGSTUDENTSJonathan Weaver, University of Detroit MercyKarim Muci-Küchler, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Page 13.723.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 In-Class Creativity Exercises for Engineering StudentsAbstractThe flattening of the world is rejuvenating the call for engineering educators to better developstudents that are creative and innovative so that they can have a clear advantage in a verycompetitive global economy. Much has been written and many exercises developed in responseto this calling. Unfortunately, while many such exercises are fun and engaging and serve

Conference Session

Course-Based Approaches to Entrepreneurship

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Weaver, University of Detroit Mercy; Nassif Rayess, University of Detroit Mercy

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

to the need for some entrepreneurship education, the discussion will shift to questionsof how, when and where. The simplest mechanism is to include classes on entrepreneurship intothe core curriculum. A quick web search reveals that some schools have been effective in Page 13.1360.2integrating entrepreneurship into their core curriculums. Unfortunately, the authors' first-handexperience (UDM is currently in the process of redefining its core curriculum) is thatEntrepreneurship will not be part of the core curriculum at UDM in the foreseeable future.Furthermore, technology and engineering curricula are so overloaded that adding extra content

Conference Session

Technical Capacity Bldg for Developing Countries & Service Learning

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Jordan, Baylor University; Glenn Blalock, Baylor University; Walter Bradley, Baylor University; Cynthia Fry, Baylor University; Anne Grinols, Baylor University; Brian Thomas, Baylor University

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International

for a technical company. Thetechnical entrepreneurship class can be taken on campus in the spring or during the summer in Page 13.1359.3east Asia.These three opportunities are all part of a strategy to encourage our students to think and actglobally.Engineering Service Projects—Preliminary WorkUp to this point, our engineering service projects have not been done for academic credit. Somestudents have taken a related technical elective in Appropriate Technology that helped to preparethem for their international experience. By doing this on a volunteer basis, we are able to recruitstudents from the freshman year through the senior year to work

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

students’ innovation-related skills as well as students’ reflections on the class. Themain idea is to develop a student-centered environment that helps students to develop a can-do,proactive, innovative mindset; an environment that will light their spark of innovation, and providethem with resources to translate their ideas from paper to prototype. We have identified four majorgroups of relevant skills, namely, problem solving, “big picture”, personal and social skills, and usedseveral different activities to try to boost them. A variety of projects and challenges, and multi-sensory activities were synthesized to create an empirical, authentic, and multi-disciplinaryexperience. This effort is in line with our college longer term goal to infuse

Conference Session

Learning from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Blessing, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Kristen Mekemson, Kern Family Foundation; David Pistrui, Illinois Institute of Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

pitches just-in-time for theircompetitions. One of the realizations coming from the capstone design experience inentrepreneurship is that students need to be exposed to entrepreneurship principles earlier in theirstudies in order to allow them the opportunity to select an appropriate capstone project and learnthe principles of entrepreneurship in time for the competition.Another popular approach used by the KEEN schools to work entrepreneurship into existingcourses was to use educational modules to introduce appropriate topics. A module typicallycovers one aspect of entrepreneurship (such as intellectual property or idea generation) that ispresented in one or more class periods. Ideally, a module contains a lesson plan and some typeof assessment

Conference Session

Opportunities for Entrepreneurship Programs and Program Assessment

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Mason, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

considers whether entrepreneurshipcan be learned and the specific skills and traits that are associated with successfulentrepreneurship. It examines the activities of entrepreneurship centers and otherprograms for engineering students and concludes that there are a lot of resourcesavailable to develop an entrepreneurial mindset. The problems are that we need to reachfar more students, continually learn more about what works to make them effectiveentrepreneurs and innovators and develop more champions within the engineeringfaculties to get our students what they will need.The importance of entrepreneurial thinking for engineersThe National Academy of Engineering has pointed out that engineers will need to bemuch more entrepreneurial in the 21st

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Adriaens, University of Michigan; Timothy Faley, University f Michigan

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

strategic, market and financial criteria.Teaching PhilosophyTechnology-based entrepreneurship, regardless of whether it takes place within a large Page 13.562.2organization or in a startup, requires a mixture of technological and business skills. Our aim indeveloping a joint graduate-level entrepreneurial curriculum between engineering and business isto enhance the blended strengths of the two parties, not turn each into the other. Building thebridge between the two disciplines is the goal, not creating an engineering school within thebusiness school or vice versa.Most entrepreneurial curricula begin with a course on some form of writing a business

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Unique Approaches

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul A. Nelson, Michigan Technological University; Edward Lumsdaine, Michigan Technological University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

implementing new technology. Besides economics, he has taught in the areas of management, finance, strategy & policy, and operations management. During the past few years, his teaching has focused on entrepreneurship. His work in curriculum and program development has been supported by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation through the Michigan Entrepreneurial Education Network, NCIIA, and NSF. He advises the local Entrepreneurs & Inventors Club which includes members from two universities and the community.Edward Lumsdaine, Michigan Technological University Dr. Edward Lumsdaine is currently Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan Technological University and Special

Conference Session

International Division Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claudio Brito, Council of Researches in Education and Sciences; Melany Ciampi, Organization of Researches in Environment, Health and Safety

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International

characteristic is the inclusionof extra classes specially selected as aquiculture and business management and the effectivework in projects. The work in projects was developed in a fishing community or in fishingcaught industry, supervised by a professor.4.2 Computer Science Engineering - five years program, totally ministered in a traditional waywith the insertion of Digital Systems course taught at distance in a first moment and lately withthe introduction of Communication Systems course. They were available in punctual and non-punctual systems with tutors to help to solve doubts and intermediate the student – professorinteraction.4.3 Electrical Engineering – five years programs that had what was called “free period” thatwas a time when the students

Conference Session

Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harpal Dhillon, Excelsior College; Salahuddin Qazi, SUNY Institute of Technology; Sohail Anwar, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona College

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Page 13.898.2substance detectors, which incorporate structures holding molecules that change theirelectrical conducting properties in the presence of the substances being detected. Thedevelopment of a new class of nanoscale transistors and molecular electronics has alsobeen made possible by the utilization of nonotechnology. These molecular electronics(transistor), combined with nanoengineered fabrics and structural members possessingamazing strength, have enabled engineers to create computers with incredible processingspeed and enormous memory capacity.In spite of the unlimited potential of nanotechnology in the consumer products domain, thecommercial applications of this technology have been confined to utilization of colloidalnanoparticles

Conference Session

Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Khanjan Mehta, Pennsylvania State University; Sven Bilen, Pennsylvania State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2008-1422: CHAMPIONING HIGH-TECH RENAISSANCE: SENSOR ANDCONTROLLER SYSTEM INTEGRATION COURSEKhanjan Mehta, Pennsylvania State University KHANJAN MEHTA is a Senior Research Associate in the College of Engineering at Penn State. His professional interests include Innovative System Integration, High-Tech Entrepreneurship and International Social Entrepreneurship. He is an amateur photographer, cook, bartender, poet, traveler, adventurer and proud generalist.Sven Bilen, Pennsylvania State University SVEN G. BILÉN is an Associate Professor of Engineering Design, Electrical Engineering, and Aerospace Engineering at Penn State. His educational research interests include developing techniques

Conference Session

Learning from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen Thornton, University of Maryland; Jacqueline Rogers, University of Maryland (Retired); Nathan Myers, University of Maryland; Monica Neukomm, University of Maryland

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2008-1241: HILLMAN ENTREPRENEURS PROGRAM - CHALLENGES,IMPACT ON A DIVERSE POPULATION, AND EARLY OUTCOMESKaren Thornton, University of Maryland Karen Thornton has more than twenty years experience working as an educator and mentor in two industries, first music performance where she was an artist entrepreneur, and now by supporting young entrepreneurs. She was the program director the University of Maryland’s (UM) award-winning Hinman Campus Entrepreneurship Opportunities (CEOs) Program from its launch in fall of 2000 until December 2006. Karen is currently directing the new Hillman Entrepreneurs Program that is a partnership between UM and Prince George’s Community College and she spends

Conference Session

Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Farris, Grand Valley State University; Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University; Shabbir Choudhuri, Grand Valley State University; Christopher Pung, Grand Valley State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

classes toenable students to reap the rewards of their product ideas. The university's intellectual property policycontains two interesting facets that pertain to student innovation. First, students own their ideas. If a studentproposes an idea to work on in a course then the student owns the resulting intellectual property as long asthe student does not use more resources than the typical project in the class. The other interesting part of thepolicy is the concept of the innovation committee. The innovation committee, consisting of faculty andadministrators, reviews intellectual property submitted by faculty and students. Faculty are required to submittheir patentable ideas but for students it is optional. If the committee decides the idea has

Conference Session

Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jay Porter, Texas A&M University; Joseph Morgan, Texas A&M University; Richard Scruggs, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

and Industrial Distribution Department in 1989 and has served as the Program Director of the Electronics and Telecommunications Programs and as the Associate Department Head for Operations. He received his BS degree in electrical engineering (1975) from California State University, Sacramento, and his MS (1980) and DE (1983) degrees in industrial engineering from Texas A&M University. His education and research interests include project management, innovation and entrepreneurship, and embedded product/system development.Richard Scruggs, Texas A&M University Richard M. Scruggs is the director of Mays Business School's Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship at Texas A&M

Conference Session

Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stuart Kellogg, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

business and entrepreneurship area. While use of the modular approachprovides increased flexibility for students, it also tends to compress curricular contentwhich significantly increases the challenge of incorporating engaged pedagogies withinthe classroom. To provide a balance between active learning and increased flexibility,courses were divided into skills oriented classes and courses with a significant activelearning component. Skills classes make extensive use of a multi-media approach andindependent study options. For courses requiring extensive use of active learningcomponents, an inverted classroom approach is used to provide more extensive deliveryof content outside of the regular class time. This paper discusses some of the pros andcons

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Unique Approaches

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shawn S Jordan, Purdue Univeristy; Robin Adams, Purdue University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

solution.What actually happens in a Rube machine? Brainstorming stepsIn parallel with selecting a theme and writing a storyboard, early meetings were devoted tobrainstorming innovative ideas for steps. Many of these ideas came from classes, museums,cartoons and television, interesting objects from the real world, and even late-night shoppingexperiences. Thinking of how different kinds of energy, such as mechanical, chemical, orelectrical, could be transformed sometimes resulted in new ideas being generated. Some stepsstemmed from the development of a particular technology over time. For instance, the author’smachines often featured two-rail roller coasters for billiard balls. Each year, the roller coastertechnology would be pushed to further exploit

Conference Session

Course-Based Approaches to Entrepreneurship

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

core competencies of creativity through in-class activities and games, as well as assignedwork. In addition, the students study and implement various methodologies of creative problemsolving through various problems and product development assignments. Teamwork isemphasized and each student is given at least two opportunities to act as a team leader during aproblem solving or product development project. All students’ leadership skills are both self-assessed and assessed by each team member.On the first day of the course, the students were surveyed on their general perceptions ofcreativity, problem solving, teamwork , leadership, the role of creativity in engineering, and theirpersonal view on their own creativity. After the course, the same

Conference Session

Course-Based Approaches to Entrepreneurship

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelly Crittenden, Louisiana Tech University; Jon Pratt, Louisiana Tech University; James Nelson, Louisiana Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Ph.D. in Finance at the University of Arkansas in 1986. He has 30 years experience in banking, investments and small business. He is the Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Information Technology where he works to foster collaboration between multidisciplinary groups of faculty, students and commercial interests in Louisiana to encourage new business creation. He teaches the university’s innovative entrepreneurship courses emphasizing technology commercialization.James Nelson, Louisiana Tech University Dr. Jim Nelson is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies for the College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University. He is also the Robert Howson Professor

Conference Session

Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Faley, University f Michigan; Peter Adriaens, University of Michigan

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

” to “riches”phenomena. There are lots of steps in between that all successful businesses follow. Sometimesa business will pass through these intermediate steps very quickly, but they still pass throughthem.The entrepreneurial programs and courses are now well integrated. The entrepreneurial programchanges have aided the new courses as well as been helped by them. The knowledge thestudents gain in the courses certainly help them perform better in the programs. Contrarily,student’s participation in the programs often sparks their interest to “learn more” and enroll inthe classes. Together the courses and programs give the feel for a consistent and contiguouscurriculum in entrepreneurship. Although we now have a full spectrum of courses and

Conference Session

Focus on Under-Represented Women

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Donohue, University of Virginia; Larry Richards, University of Virginia; Carolyn Vallas, University of Virginia

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Women in Engineering

identification of academic and socialfactors contributing to persistence,i but none, as far as can be determined, addresses the questionusing the strategy upon which the research presented in this paper is based: a review ofconsistently high-performing programs. We therefore decided to perform a qualitative analysisof engineering programs which have conferred at least 30%, on average, of their baccalaureatedegrees to females from Academic Year (AY) 2001 (Class of 2002) to 2005 (Class of 2006) toidentify core, common factors which support persistence of female undergraduates inengineering studies. The floor of 30% represents a level of achievement above the nationalaverage of approximately 20% of undergraduate engineering degrees conferred to females (as

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joye Jepson, Antioch University; Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering

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Women in Engineering

actively encourage their faculty members to participate in research,educational and leadership activities beyond the engineering college”.[2, p. 7] The theme ofchanging the education system by encouraging cross-department integration of course materialwas suggested in the education literature as a way of retaining women and minorities in STEMprograms. Because of the complexities of world issues, globalization and meeting society needs,students need to understand and make connections among disparate areas (e.g., environments,issues, topics). Cross-department integration affords the opportunity to prepare students forfuture careers by linking technical classes with course work in business management, liberal arts,entrepreneurship and systems

Conference Session

Multinational and International Design

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Mehalik, University of Pittsburgh

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2008-1825: EVALUATING AN INTERNATIONAL COURSE IN PRODUCTREALIZATION FOR GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIESMatthew Mehalik, University of Pittsburgh Page 13.573.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Evaluating an International Course in Product Realization for Global OpportunitiesAbstractThis paper discusses lessons learned from a new course offered in the spring of 2007 at theUniversity of Pittsburgh entitled Product Realization for Global Opportunities. The lessonslearned consist of results from post-trip surveys and from an extensive questionnaire designed byNCIIA to assess entrepreneurship learning. The results reported consist of

Conference Session

Capstone Design III

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Don Dekker, University of South Florida; Stephen Sundarrao, University of South Florida; Rajiv Dubey, University of South Florida

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Design in Engineering Education

Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Capstone Design Courses: Content RecognitionIntroduction:The Capstone Design course at The University of South Florida brings realistic designexperiences into the academic environment. The course is completed in each of the two 15 weeksemesters. The students do all of the design phases: define the project, conceptual design,embodiment design and detail design, plus other experiences, such as report writing, makingdrawings, and presentation skills. In addition, the students read and discuss two engineeringethics case studies, are instructed in Pro-Engineer, and have lectures on several pertinent topics,such as patents and licensing, entrepreneurship, professionalism, and safety. The

Conference Session

Capstone Design III

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Chang, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Jessica Townsend, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Design in Engineering Education

, creativity and an understanding of thesocial, political and economic contexts of engineering. The F.W. Olin Foundation decided thebest way to maximize its impact was to help create a college to address these emerging needs.The Foundation's commitment in excess of $400 million to Olin College remains one of thelargest such commitments in the history of American higher education.The college officially opened in Fall 2002 to its inaugural freshman class. During the prior year,thirty student "partners" worked with Olin's faculty to create and test an innovative curriculumthat infused a rigorous engineering education with business and entrepreneurship as well as thearts, humanities and social sciences. They developed a hands-on, interdisciplinary

Conference Session

Design Communications

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Lumsdaine, Michigan Technological University; Monika Lumsdaine, E&M Lumsdaine Solar Consultants, Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

, engineering design, entrepreneurship and innovation—a synthesis of many years of experience working as engineer in industry as well as serving as dean of engineering and professor at six different universities in the U.S. and four different universities abroad. His engineering specialties are in aero-acoustics, vibration, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, solar energy, and engineering design. He has published over 100 papers in these fields. Dr. Lumsdaine is a Fellow of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineering) and RSA (the Royal Society of Arts) in the UK. Contact info: lumsdain@mtu.edu.Monika Lumsdaine, E&M Lumsdaine Solar Consultants, Inc. Monika Lumsdaine is management consultant for

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Don Dekker, University of South Florida; Stephen Sundarrao, University of South Florida; Rajiv Dubey, University of South Florida

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

” again. The currentAdjunct Professor and lead author took it over in the Fall of 2006. The course has beenindividualized with each faculty teaching based on their interests and experience. However, thecollaboration has provided a continuity that would have been difficult, if not impossible, to do inany other way. It is like teaching two classes if the instructor has to teach the course and developthe contacts to provide the projects.There is a synergy when the Center for Rehabilitation Engineering and Technology and theCapstone Design course team up that provides the senior mechanical engineering students withan excellent Capstone Design experience. It does, however, take two instructors to do this. Asthe old song says, “It Takes Two to Tango

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susannah Howe, Smith College

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2008-2318: FOCUSED FOLLOW-UP TO 2005 NATIONAL CAPSTONE SURVEYSusannah Howe, Smith College Susannah Howe is the Design Clinic Director in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College. She coordinates and teaches the capstone engineering design course and serves as co-faculty advisor for entrepreneurial activity at Smith. Her interests include innovations in engineering design education, entrepreneurship education across disciplines at the undergraduate level, and durability and structural performance of cementitious and natural building materials. Page 13.616.1© American Society for Engineering

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Design for Society and the Environment

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Pappas; Ronald Kander, James Madison University

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2008-691: SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES: THE SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERINGDESIGN CURRICULUM AT JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITYEric Pappas, Dr. Eric Pappas is Associate Professor of Integrated Science and Technology at James Madison University. He developed, and was director of, the Advanced Engineering Writing and Communications Program in the College of Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) from 1993-2003. Dr. Pappas was on the faculty of Virginia Tech from 1987-2003 and taught classes in technical writing, creative writing, American literature, interpersonal communications and public speaking, creative thinking, leadership, engineering design

Conference Session

Learning to Communicate with Engineers and Non-Engineers

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Wilson, University of CIncinnati; Teresa Cook, University of Cincinnati; Jo Ann Thompson, University of Cincinnati; James Everly, University of Cincinnati

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Liberal Education

on theimportance of writing for a successful future, especially if this agreement is evident throughoutthe entirety of students’ engineering education.2 Page 13.389.2The paper also outlines how college faculty developed “The Sixty Percent Solution: ACommunication Reality Check.” The innovative interdisciplinary course was taught by ninecollege faculty from a variety of disciplines: Engineering Technology, Architecture, Business,Construction Science, English, and Computer Science. It explored the idea that technology,community service, entrepreneurship, and oral and written presentations lend strength to eachother. Working in groups, students

Conference Session

Bridging and Freshman Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wendy James, Oklahoma State University; Karen High, Oklahoma State University

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Mathematics

AC 2008-1277: FRESHMAN-LEVEL MATHEMATICS IN ENGINEERING: AREVIEW OF THE LITERATURE IN ENGINEERING EDUCATIONWendy James, Oklahoma State University Wendy James is a PhD student in the College of Education at Oklahoma State University. Currently she has a fellowship promoting collaboration between the College of Education and OSU's Electrical and Computer Engineering department on an NSF funded curriculum reform project called Engineering Students for the 21st Century. She has her M.S. in Teaching, Learning, and Leadership from OSU, and her B.B.S. in Mathematics Education from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. She has taught math and math education classes at both the high school and