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Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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

Enhancing Infrastructure Management Education through Collaboration Gerardo W. Flintsch, Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt, Zhanmin Zhang, Susan Tighe Virginia Tech / Lafayette College / University of Texas at Austin / University of WaterlooIntroductionEfficient and well-maintained infrastructure systems are essential for societal stability, economicgrowth, and sustainable competitiveness. Although the United States is served by some of thebest civil infrastructure systems in the world (valued at more than 20 trillion dollars)1, many ofthe current systems are reaching the end of their service lives. For example, the United Statesinfrastructure

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Industrial Collaborations

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jerry Visser; Carrie Steinlicht; Teresa Hall

Session 3448 The Convergence of Creative Enterprise and Engineering Technology Education Teresa Hall, Jerry Visser, Carrie Steinlicht South Dakota State University / Great Plains Rapid Prototyping Consortium Brookings, SD 57007IntroductionAmerican industry has undergone significant change in the past decade as evidenced by theoutsourcing of manufacturing and high technology jobs due, in large part, to the globalization oftechnology. The loss of 2.6 million manufacturing jobs and, more recently, new trends inoutsourcing high-tech and service

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Engineering/Education Collaborators

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2004 Annual Conference

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Tamara Knott

Session 3130 Bridges for Engineering Education: Exploring ePortfolios in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech T. W. Knott1, V. K. Lohani1, O.H. Griffin, Jr1, G.V. Loganathan2 G. T. Adel3, and T. M. Wildman4 1 Engineering Fundamentals/ 2Civil and Environmental Engineering/ 3 Mining and Minerals Engineering/ 4Teaching and Learning Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityAbstractOne of the objectives of an engineering/education collaborative known as Bridges forEngineering Education

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Current Issues in Aerospace Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ronald Sterkenburg; Jim Lampe; David Stanley

Collaborative Efforts in Engineering and Technology Education R. Sterkenburg, D.L. Stanley & J. Lampe Purdue UniversityAbstract - Over the last two years, Mechanical Engineering (ME) and Aviation Technology (AT)students at Purdue University have been collaborating and competing in several aviation relateddesign-build projects. This paper will describe three such projects: The Personal lifting vehicle(PLV), the lighter than air vehicle (Blimp), and the Hovercraft. Elements of collaboration,competition, and design-build strategies were utilized in an effort to increase student motivation.In the first project students of ME and AT worked together to design and

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Engineering/Education Collaborators

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2004 Annual Conference

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Tom Thompson; Terri Fiez; Larry Flick; Edith Gummer

Session 3130 Enhancing Campus Collaborations Through Design Research in Engineering Education Reform Tom Thompson, Larry Flick, Edith Gummer, Terri Fiez Department of Science and Mathematics Education/Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State UniversityAbstractSuccessful collaborations are important to implementation of systemic reforms in undergraduateengineering education. Evidence for this exists with the formation of national coalitions ofengineering programs and campus collaborations between professionals in engineering andeducation. Electrical Engineering and

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Engineering/Education Collaborators

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2004 Annual Conference

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Zsuzsanna Szabo; Darrell Sabers; Reid Bailey

Session 3130 Integrating Education Students in the Assessment of Engineering Courses Reid Bailey, Zsuzsanna Szabo, Darrell Sabers Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering/Educational Psychology/Educational Psychology University of ArizonaABSTRACTMost engineering educators have several engineering degrees and no education degrees. Thissituation leads to well-meaning instructors without the knowledge necessary to most effectivelyteach their students. Meanwhile, education students frequently lack opportunities to applyassessment techniques learned in their classes. A collaboration between engineering

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Engineering/Education Collaborators

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2004 Annual Conference

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Norma Velasquez-Bryant; Gokhan Pekhan; Ahmad Itani; Pamela Cantrell

2004-3130 Nevada Teachers Integrating Engineering into Science Pamela Cantrell, Norma Velasquez-Bryant, Gokhan Pekcan, Ahmad Itani University of Nevada, RenoIntroductionThe Teachers Integrating Engineering into Science (TIES) Program is a collaborative projectamong faculty from the College of Education and the College of Engineering at the University ofNevada, Reno and teachers and administrators from four Nevada school districts. The TIESpartnership presents opportunities for both university professors and middle school scienceteachers to work collaboratively for the development and implementation of best practices inscience and mathematics education. This paper describes our project

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Engineering/Education Collaborators

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jeffrey Connor; Vinod Lohani

will now beresponsible for improving engineering education and pedagogy within the College byundertaking scholarly activities in collaboration with their colleagues in other engineeringdepartments and experts in education psychology and pedagogy. The three key issues that theCollege and ENGE must address are: i) the need for faculty and administrators to betterunderstand the teaching and learning process so that they will be willing and enthusiasticpartners in change, ii) the culture for assessment within COE is poorly developed and lacks anexplicit focus on learning, and iii) the fact that the existing engineering curricula does not fullymeet contemporary standards as suggested by several decades of progress in understandingstudent learning

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Keshav Varde

Session 1535 Broadening Engineering Education through International Programs Keshav S. Varde College of Engineering & Computer Science University of Michigan-Dearborn Dearborn, MichiganAbstractIn recent years there has been a rapid move to globalize engineering profession throughoutsourcing product development, manufacturing and service. Nowhere has this been moreobvious than in automotive and computer/software industry. Realizing the need to provide someaspects of global education to engineering and computer science

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Topics in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

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Wafeek Wahby

Session 2549 Industry and ET Education Collaborations From A Construction Engineering Perspective Wafeek Samuel Wahby, Ph.D., B.Th. Professor, Industrial Technology Program Coordinator Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IllinoisAbstractThe preparation of ET graduates who can make a smooth transition from their academic traininginto the work force with confidence and maximum productivity in areas of education, research,and business can be achieved through well defined, carefully designed, and appropriatelyimplemented academia

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Industrial Collaborations

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Ziegler

racing, egg-drop competitions, modelrocketry, hands on computer applications, and many other interesting endeavors revolvingaround technology. Through interactions with middle and secondary students, there is hope tosuccessfully encourage young students to continue their post-secondary education intechnological fields.This paper begins by providing an overview of both formal and informal outreach projects at themiddle and secondary school level in most of the engineering and technology disciplines. Briefdescriptions of many student projects are included.A community-based multidisciplinary outreach project involving a coordinated mix of digitalelectronics, digital photography, and roller coasters is then described in detail. This project wasused

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Engineering Ethics Papers Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Margaret P. Battin; Gordon B. Mower; Angela R. Harris; JoAnn Lighty

2004-995 Engineering Ethics – A Collaboration between Engineering and Philosophy JoAnn S. Lighty, Margaret P. Battin, Angela R. Harris, Gordon B. Mower University of Utah, College of Engineering/ College of Humanities, Department of PhilosophyAbstractThe College of Engineering at the University of Utah has recently initiated a Center forEngineering Leadership, born out of a recently-awarded grant from the Hewlett Foundation,CLEAR (Communication, Leadership, Ethics, and Research). The Center’s goals are toincorporate communication skills, team building, and

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Provocative Presentations & Lunch

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Kleppe

Session “Developing Collaborative Relationships for Education Relating to Invention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship” John A. Kleppe Electrical Engineering Department University of Nevada, Reno Reno, NV 89557-0153 kleppe@ee.unr.eduAbstractThe Electrical Engineering Department (EE) at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) has since1986 been teaching a special senior level Capstone class. This multidisciplinary class involvesstudents from electrical and mechanical engineering, and students from

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Thomas Edgar; Joel Farber

Session 1763 Teaming "Design of Small Earth Dams" – A Practitioner/Professor Collaboration Thomas V. Edgar, P.E., Ph.D. and Joel Farber, P.E., P.G. Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering University of Wyoming Laramie, WY 82071/ TriHydro Corporation Laramie, WY 82070Abstract The course “Design of Small Earth Dams” is sufficiently broad and involved that theUniversity of Wyoming has taught it for almost 20 years using both a practicing professionalengineer

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Toshiyuki Yamamoto; Kazuya Takemata; Masakatsu Matsuishi

Session 1793 Engineering Design Education in a Hybrid Way, Combining Face-to-Face Instruction with e-Learning Collaboration - Incorporating e-Learning Collaboration to Break the Cultural Barrier in Students’ Work Dynamics - Masakatsu Matsuishi, Dr. Eng., Kazuya Takemata, Dr. Eng., Toshiyuki Yamamoto, Ph.D. Division of Engineering Design Kanazawa Institute of Technology ISHIKAWA 921-8501 JPNAbstract This paper presents one of many effective ways to overcome instructional issues

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Industrial Collaborations

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2004 Annual Conference

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Carol Considine; Paul Kauffmann

Session # 3448 Design, Development, and Delivery of Certificate Programs for Funding Opportunities and Industry Collaboration Carol Considine, Paul Kauffmann Old Dominion University, East Carolina UniversityAbstractMany engineering technology departments have four general areas that are used for evaluation oftenure and promotion. These areas include teaching, research and scholarly activities, service,and other professional activities. Although teaching is the primary mission in most engineeringtechnology programs, external funding as part of the research area is playing a larger

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Industrial Collaborations

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2004 Annual Conference

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Willie Ofusu; Austin Asgill

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationWhile the understanding of active components such as transistors and passive components suchas resistors, inductors and capacitors was useful, the training of these graduates was not basedsolely on this. Training of these graduates was based rather on the modular and system levels.For this, the students were taught the functions and hence applications of the modules and theinterfaces needed to connect them together, taking into account the different standards employedin industry. The students were taught the various types of equipment needed to measure factorssuch as voltage and current levels, and frequency of

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Industrial Collaborations

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2004 Annual Conference

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James Smith; Scott Dunning

years with some out for as many as twenty years. Most had families with some“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”having children already in college. Their biggest concern was their ability to handle theadvanced mathematics used in the upper level EET classes. To ease the students into thecurriculum, the first course selected was one that was one that did not depend on differentialequations. Extra time was scheduled for recitation periods to focus on mathematics skills.Class ScheduleNext, a schedule had to be planned that would fit with the employees’ work schedules and fitwith instructor’s

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Hazem Said

Society for Engineering EducationWhen a student selects a question, the application displays the question and the availableanswer as shown in figure 4.Figure 4: The student interface displaying an answer to a questionThe administrator interface which is accessible by the staff of the learning center providesa control panel to answer questions, edit answers, view feedback and add newadministrators as shown in figure 5.Figure 5: The instructor’s interface to the online learning centerProposed Collaboration among International ProgramsThe online learning center can provide a great tool for collaboration among institutionsaround the world. This can be applied to the area of computer programming or other areasin engineering education. Students from

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TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sami Ainane; Joseph Hoffman; Gary Pertmer; Chandra Thamire

A Novel Collaborative Program in Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Thamire, C., Ainane*, S., Hoffman, J., Pertmer, G.A.* Frostburg State University/University of Maryland, College Park*AbstractOver the past few years, the University of Maryland (UM) and Frostburg State University (FSU)have collaborated to develop a novel undergraduate mechanical engineering degree program inwestern Maryland. Designed to serve the students in the region and provide engineeringgraduates and further engineering educational opportunities for local industries, the programutilizes both live-instruction and distance-education as the delivery modes. Students in theprogram

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Novel Upper-Level Materials Curricula

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Henry; James Bandstra

the University of Pittsburgh atJohnstown (UPJ) and Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC) collaborate to provide avaluable educational experience for engineering technology students. A description of themotivation for pursuing this collaboration and each organization’s respective role in fulfilling thecollaboration is presented. In addition, examples of typical laboratory experiments are presentedin the context of those motivations and roles. The authors hope that the collaboration describedmay provide guidance for the ASEE community to leverage this approach with their respectivelocal resources.Goals of the CollaborationA basic tenet of the educational philosophy of the Mechanical Engineering Technologydepartment at UPJ is to teach the

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Teaching with Technologies

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2004 Annual Conference

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Zahed Siddique

Session 2258 INTERNET-BASED COLLABORATIVE DESIGN ENVIRONMENT Zahed Siddique School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering University of Oklahoma Norman, OK 73019AbstractThe use of Internet in education has opened the possibilities to explore and adopt newapproaches to teach distributed collaborative engineering design and analysis. In most instancesengineering design courses are offered during the senior year of the undergraduate curriculum,which allows the students to apply different engineering concepts to design a

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Real-World Applications

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2004 Annual Conference

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Joseph Fuehne; David Lenart

the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIntroductionDuring the past several years, the Purdue University School of Technology atColumbus/Southeast Indiana has joined with Columbus Regional Hospital to offer twoor three Technology in Action days for local high school students. The focus of thiseffort has been to introduce young people to careers at the hospital or in the medicalprofession that are unrelated to training in medicine. Indeed, careers in computertechnology and mechanical engineering technology are emphasized.A short presentation is given by representatives from both the hospital and PurdueUniversity

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Marjan Zadnik

Publisher, Dortrecht, 1998), pp. 558.10 M.W. McLaughlin, in International handbook of educational change: part one., edited by A. Hargreaves, A. Lieberman, M. Fullan et al. (Kluwer Academic Publisher, Dortrecht, 1998), pp. 70.11 P. Ramsden, presented at the Course Experience Questionnaire Symposium 1998, Sydney (The University of New South Wales), 1999.Biographical InformationJOAN GRIBBLEDr Joan Gribble is the Teaching Associate for staff in the Division of Engineering, Science and Computingwhere her role is to work collaboratively with staff to meet the challenges of improving teaching and learning.She has worked for more than 30 years in school and tertiary education and has completed a masters thesis oncurriculum and educational

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Ken Bernard; Judy Collins; Fred Guzek; Pedro Leite; Jung Oh; Gail Simmonds

include innovative teaching andamplified teaching effectiveness. Further benefits include the collegiality of the developmentprocess.Background on CollaborationKSU Online – KSOL (http://online.ksu.edu) is an online course management tool developed atKansas State University by the Division of Continuing Education (DCE). The system includesfeatures that are organized into five modules: Content Management, Communications, Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section ConferenceAssessment, Utilities, and Help. Within each module, faculty can choose the functions to beimplemented such as posting lectures notes, video clips, and voiced over lecture slides.The

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Carmen Boje; Nicolae Dragulanescu

Department of Applied Electronics and Information Engineering (e-mail: nicudrag@artelecom.net)Abstract Today, information - rather than labor or capital - is becoming the key factor inproduction. Thus, the actual so-called “Post-Industrial Society” is the Information Society,whose fundamentals are Information Science and Information Technology. In this paper, anattempt is made to outline the epistemological1 approach of information concept withindifferent disciplines as well as the need of a general higher education in Information Science.Problem solving, decision-making and paperwork reducing are some of most frequentinformation processes currently involving engineers and managers in multi-disciplinaryteams

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Bahman Motlagh; Walter Buchanan; Alireza Rahrooh

the loop.1. IntroductionThe Department of Engineering Technology at University of Central Florida has been involvedin teaching control feedback concepts since its inception. Over the yeas this commitment hasevolved into a four-credit upper division course, EET4732. This course introduces analog controlsystems with the following topics; mathematical modeling and simulation, time and frequency Page 9.743.1response, stability analysis, analog controller design and implementation, and an introduction to “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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JoAnn Lighty; Holly Moore; David Richardson; Nick Safai

Building Bridges From the Community College to a University Engineering Education A Model for Collaborative Approach Dr. Holly Moore, Dr. Nick M. Safai, and Dr. David Richardson Salt Lake Community College Dr. JoAnn Lighty - University of UtahAbstract Salt Lake Community College’s Engineering Department and the four-year institutions of higher education in the state of Utah are involved in a uniqueeducational partnership. Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) students transferto the University of Utah (U of U), Utah State University, Weber State Universityand Brigham Young University – all of which provide ABET

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Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Tord Dennis; Robert Fulton

complete the product development lifecycle complete. We firmly believe that thefuture of engineering education must involve integrating IT into the classroom to foster multidisciplinarydistributed collaborative product development in the undergraduate curriculum and we welcome thisopportunity to share our experiences with our colleagues.I. IntroductionThe supply-chain network has become the modern paradigm of the efficient product developmentenvironment. Corporations have formed cooperative networks of entities collaborating to producequality products quickly at low cost. To make such an enterprise system effective, corporate entities Page

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BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Saleh Sbenaty

Session 1109 Collaborative Efforts between the Local Industry and Engineering Technology and Biology Students in Building a DNA Microarrayer Saleh M. Sbenaty, Ph.D. Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies Middle Tennessee State UniversityAbstractThe current paper describes the collaborative efforts between engineering technology students,biology students, and a local industry in building an advanced microarrayer system for DNAtesting. BioVentures, a biotech company located in Murfreesboro, TN and one of the worldlargest suppliers of DNA markers