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The Best of Interdisciplinary Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Rossi; Herbert Ingley; Erik Sander; Dow Whitney; Marc Hoit; R. Keith Stanfill

Session 1693 Integrating Entrepreneurial Projects into a SuccessfulMultidisciplinary Capstone Design Program at the University of Florida R. Keith Stanfill, Erik J. Sander, William J. Rossi, H. A. Ingley, E. Dow Whitney, Marc I. Hoit University of Florida Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering / University of Florida College of Engineering / University of Florida Warrington College of Business Administration / University of Florida Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering / University of Florida Department of Materials Science

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A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

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G. Burbach

@ncat.eduAbstractPyramid Environmental & Engineering, P.C. entered into a research partnership with NorthCarolina A&T State University to develop undergraduate research programs in geophysical andenvironmental sciences under the University’s Talent-21 Program, funded by the NSF’s HBCU-UP. One goal of this partnership was to develop research projects for undergraduate studentsthat would be supervised by professional scientists and engineers. In the summer of 2001 westarted the first such research project: a geophysical survey of an abandoned gold mine site, theNorth State Gold Mine, which was beginning residential development. There was concern thatvoids associated with former mine workings might pose significant geotechnical, environmental,and safety

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Donald Wilcher

Session 2003-143 Developing Laboratory Based Electronics/Software Projects using a LEGO Mindstorms Programmable Brick Donald Wilcher MaDon Page 8.405.1Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition?2003,American Society for Engineering EducationIntroductionOne of the challenges confronted by EC (Electrical – Computer) engineering educators isdeveloping electronics and software laboratory

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Design for Community

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Rex Ramsier; H Michael Cheung; Edward Evans; Francis Broadway; Helen Qammar

Session 2625 Focusing on Teamwork Versus Technical Skills in the Evaluation of an Integrated Design Project Helen K. Qammar, H. Michael Cheung, Edward A. Evans, Department of Chemical Engineering Francis S. Broadway, Department of Curricular and Instructional Studies Rex D. Ramsier Departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Chemical Engineering The University of Akron Akron, Ohio 44325Engineering educators

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Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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Francis Di Bella

Session 1447 Mechanical Engineering Technology Division: “Integrating Culture as well as Engineering Instruction in Capstone Project and Machine Design Courses” Francis A. Di Bella, PE (617 373 5240; fdibella@coe.neu.edu) Assistant Professor, School of Engineering Technology Northeastern University; Boston, MAC.P. Snow’s famous 1959 Rede Lecture on the clash of the “Two Cultures”: Art andScience continues to reverberate in the halls of science and engineering education. Snow’slecture brought to the surface what seemed apparent to most

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Capstone Design and Engineering Practice

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Nathan Adams

Session 3232 Industry – University Collaboration on Under-Graduate Engineering Design Projects An Industrial Mentor’s Perspective Nathan G Adams The Boeing CompanyIntroductionFor the past four years the Boeing Company at Mesa Arizona has sponsored several under-graduate engineering design projects including a global engineering design program with ArizonaState University in Tempe, Arizona and Leeds University in the UK. A Global EngineeringDesign Team, i.e., GEDT, co-sponsored by Rolls-Royce, created project

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Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2003 Annual Conference

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Dustin Swanger; Guy Johnson

Session 2286 Project Lead The Way® Synergy of Colleges and Universities with Secondary Education Guy Johnson Rochester Institute of Technology Dustin Swanger, Ed.D Monroe Community CollegeAbstractProject Lead The Way® (PLTW), a nonprofit corporation, has developed a national programforming partnerships among public schools, higher education institutions and the private sectorto increase the quantity and quality of engineers and engineering technologists graduating fromour educational

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Trends in Biological & Agricultural Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Saba Choudhary; Naz Azadi; Mike Ratino; Lauri Kreeb; Jason Congdon; Paul Schreuders

Session 1554 Control Systems in Designing and Programming a Robotic Ant Paul D. Schreuders, Naz Azadi, Lauri Bennett, Saba Choudhary, Jason Congdon, Mike Ratino University of Maryland, College ParkAbstractControl Systems are employed in robotics to successfully achieve a desired task. The mainobjective of this project was to challenge the Biological Systems Control class to learn andimplement control techniques in the designing and programming of a robotic ant. The class waspresented with three different challenges and each group applied its own design

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Potpourri Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Barry Lineberger; Larry Stikeleather

Session 3425 Incorporating a Design of Experiments (DOE) Project into a Sophomore Level Introduction to Engineering Design Course Larry F. Stikeleather, Barry Lineberger Department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering North Carolina State UniversityAbstractThe task of teaching the engineering design process at the sophomore level can be enhanced byjudicious use of hands-on projects which allow the students to put into practice the concepts andmethods being taught. The challenge for the

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Partnerships in IE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Joan Burtner

Session 3657 Industrial-Related Projects in the Upper-Level Industrial Engineering Curriculum at Mercer University Joan Burtner, Shelia Barnett, Ramachandran Radharamanan and Scott Schultz School of Engineering, Mercer University, Macon, GA 31207AbstractIndustrial-related projects are spread throughout the industrial engineering curriculum at MercerUniversity. Beginning with the introduction to industrial engineering course, and continuingthrough to the senior design course sequence, students enrolled in Mercer's industrial

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Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Jendrucko; Anthony English; Monica Schmidt

Session 2209 Involvement of Clinical Medical Professionals as Technical Advisors in Biomedical Engineering Design Projects Monica A. Schmidt, Richard Jendrucko, and Anthony E. English Biomedical Engineering Program, The University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleIntroductionA new two-semester senior design course sequence has been developed as part of the under-graduate Biomedical Engineering (BME) degree program begun in 2000. These design coursessatisfy much of the ABET 2000 Criterion 4 for the Professional Component—specifically themajor design experience. The course format involves multiple student teams

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Design in the CHE Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Turton; Joseph Shaeiwitz

Session 1413 Life-long Learning Experiences and Simulating Multi-disciplinary Teamwork Experiences through Unusual Capstone Design Projects Joseph A. Shaeiwitz Richard Turton West Virginia UniversityIntroductionThere is significant consternation among engineering educators regarding the teaching of and theassessment of “an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams,” and “a recognition of the needfor, and an ability to engage in life-long learning.” 1 Questions commonly heard are: “Are werequired to have a multi

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What's New in Engineering Economy

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2003 Annual Conference

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Joseph Bartus; Snehamay Khasnabis

Session 2139 The Choice of An Analytical Technique for Economic Evaluation of Highway Safety Projects Snehamay Khasnabis and Joseph Bartus Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48202AbstractThe purpose of evaluation of public projects is to make efficient allocations of society’sresources in aiding social decision making. Such economic evaluation is based upon thepremise that in order for a project to be viable, its benefits to whomsoever they mayaccrue, must exceed the estimated costs. Within this conceptual framework, a number ofanalytical tools have been used in

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Trends in Construction Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sven Hvid Nielsen

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Joseph Arumala; Ibibia Dabipi

Session 1532 USING SUMMER INTERNSHIPS TO ENHANCE SENIOR DESIGN PROJECTS FOR UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING STUDENTS I. K. Dabipi and J. O. Arumala University of Maryland Eastern Shore Princess Anne, MarylandA summer internship program supported by NASA was designed to give some undergraduateEngineering and Engineering Technology majors very unique professional experiences by matchingthem with mentors in the NASA Wallops Facilities. Six undergraduate students worked on severalprojects during a 10-week summer internship program at the Wallops

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Innovations in the CHE Laboratory

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2003 Annual Conference

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R. Russell Rhinehart; Benjamin Lawrence; Sundararajan Madihally

Session #2313 A Unit Operations Lab Project that Combines the Concepts of Reactor Design and Transport Phenomena Benjamin J. Lawrence, Sundararajan V. Madihally, R. Russell Rhinehart School of Chemical Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OKIntroduction A laboratory course on Unit Operations is a critical component in the chemical engineeringundergraduate curriculum, because it provides hands-on experience on the application oftheoretical concepts learned in core classes such as chemical kinetics and reactor design, transportphenomena, and mass transfer operations. Typically, students

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mohamed El-sharkawy; Charles Yokomoto; Maher Rizkalla

A Process for Screening Capstone Senior Design Projects for Compatibility with Department ABET Program Outcomes Maher E. Rizkalla, Mohamed El-Sharkawy, and Paul Salama Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis 1. Introduction:The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) uses its senior capstonedesign course as a major source of data for its outcomes assessment process for ABETaccreditation. Thus, we must insure that the projects we assign address our ProgramOutcomes (PO), which are our version of Criterion 3 in EC2000, to the extent possible.In this paper, this paper presents a description to the process that we have developed toscreen projects before they are assigned to

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ron Earley; Dave Lennig; Dave Campbell; Suguna Bommaraju

Session 2020 'Early Immersion': High school students participating in Engineering technology's Senior Design projects at Miami University Suguna Bommaraju, Ron Earley, Dave Campbell, Dave Lennig Miami University, OHIOI. INTRODUCTIONGrounded in liberal education concepts 1,2, senior design course pulls together various engineeringconcepts and skills towards a real-world problem. Emphasis is placed on teamwork,communication, economic and safety considerations and developing liasion with industrialpartners. Students are encouraged to think critically, engage with others, understnad the

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

Session 1526 Developing and Implementing Hands-on Laboratory Exercises and Design Projects for First Year Engineering Students Richard J. Freuler, Audeen W. Fentiman, John T. Demel, Robert J. Gustafson, John A. Merrill The Ohio State UniversityAbstractDuring the past ten years, The Ohio State University’s College of Engineering has moved from aseries of separate freshman courses for engineering orientation, engineering graphics, andengineering problem solving with computer programming to a dual offering of course sequencesin the Introduction to

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Thomas Harmon; Glenn Burks; Eva Baker; Gregory Chung

Session 3530 Evaluation of a Simulation and Problem-Based Learning Design Project Using Constructed Knowledge Mapping Thomas C. Harmon, Glenn A. Burks Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, UCLA Greg K.W.K. Chung, Eva L. Baker Graduate School of Education and Information Studies National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, Student Testing (CRESST) UCLA.AbstractThis work describes results from an educational evaluation of an environmental

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2000 Annual Conference

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Michael Keinath; Jr., Walter J. Weber; Hildegarde Selig

Session 2451 A Modular Ammonia Stripping Tower Design Project for an Environmental Process Dynamics Course Michael Keinath, Hildegarde Selig and Walter J. Weber, Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Michigan, Ann ArborAbstractAs a requirement of a senior-level environmental process dynamics course, we developed amodular ammonia stripping tower design project. This course introduces fundamental principlesof process dynamics in environmental systems, focusing on their modeling and designapplications. The modular design project is intended to complement

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2000 Annual Conference

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Deborah Hwang; D. Blandford

Session 2553 A Multidisciplinary Team Project for Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Computer Science Majors Deborah J. Hwang, Dick K. Blandford University of EvansvilleAbstractThis paper describes an interdisciplinary project for a freshman course designed for electricalengineering, computer engineering, and computer science majors. The project uses LEGObuilding sets and a microcontroller in the design, implementation, and documentation of asequence of increasingly complex tasks. Students learn interdisciplinary team skills, and areintroduced to computer hardware

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Winston Conway Link

Session 3565 Student Project Groups in Statistics Classes at LSU-Shreveport -- A Four Year Review W. Conway Link Louisiana State University -- ShreveportAbstractStatistics courses have achieved among some students, the reputation of being difficult, useless, andboring, much like mathematics courses. Academic departments have attempted to eliminate the boringfactor by using texts with terminology and applications specific to the needs of their students. Thus, inaddition to those general statistics courses traditionally offered by mathematics

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2002 Annual Conference

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Timothy Harrah; Martha Cyr; Brad George

Session Number 2530 Timelines and Student Project Planning in Middle School Technology /Engineering Education Exercises Timothy Harrah1, Bradford George2 and Martha Cyr1 1 Tufts University Center for Engineering Education Outreach Tufts University, Medford, MA 02460 / 2 Hale Middle School Nashoba Regional School District, Stow, MA 01775AbstractIn the practice of professional engineering design, nearly all work is ultimatelycompleted in a team format and under a deadline. It is therefore relevant to reflect, onsome level, the demands of these real world

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Samir Moujaes

2002-147 - ALTERNATIVE WAYS TO TEACH HVAC AND RELATED SUBJECTS THROUGH ACTUAL PROJECT INVOLVEMENT -THREE CASE STUDIES Samir F. Moujaes, Ph.D., P.E. ME Dept. University of Nevada Las VegasAt UNLV two courses in HVAC design are taught on a regular basis. These courses alsoattract students who are interested in the subject and in some cases may have someprevious experience to continue in that general area by taking these two courses as anelective which can count towards their undergraduate degree or as part of their coursefulfillment towards a Masters Degree. When the student has had some exposure to thesubject

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Capstone Mechanical Engineering Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Darrell Gibson; Patricia Brackin

Session 3566 Methods of Assessing Student Learning in Capstone Design Projects with Industry: A Five Year Review M. Patricia Brackin, J. Darrell Gibson Department of Mechanical Engineering Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe benefits of company sponsored student design projects, both to academia and to industry, havebeen well established recently in symposia and in publications. However, assessing these benefits inorder to improve the students’ experiences can be difficult. This paper discusses techniques ofassessment used

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Multi-disciplinary Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Suzanne Scott; Robert Knecht

Session XXXX RECYCLED TIRE BALES FOR WALL CONSTRUCTION: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROJECT FOR ENGINEERING DESIGN EDUCATION Dr. Robert Knecht, Dr. Suzanne Scott Colorado School of MinesIntroduction The Design Engineering Practices Introductory Course Sequence (EPICS) program is a twosemester, six credit-hour sequence that is required of all first and second-year students at theColorado School of Mines (CSM). During the Design (EPICS) sequence, students working inteams are guided through a hands-on experience of basic, sound engineering practices thatincorporate

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Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kathryn Jablokow

Session 2642 Characterization of Project Team Dynamics for Engineering and Management Students Based on Cognitive Style Keith W. Buffinton and Kathryn W. Jablokow Bucknell University / Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractThe problem-solving styles and interpersonal dynamics of project teams are often criticaldimensions of the ability of a team to function effectively. In order to study the problem-solvingstyles of engineering and management students and to track intra-team interactions, the KirtonAdaption-Innovation Inventory (KAI) was used to determine the cognitive styles of

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Steve Watkins; Richard Hall; K. Chandrashekhara; Vicki Eller

Session 1526 WWW Site Design for Internal and External Audiences: The Smart Engineering Project Steve E. Watkins, Richard H. Hall, Vicki M. Eller, K. Chandrashekhara University of Missouri-RollaAbstract The Smart Engineering project seeks to develop a model for training engineers withinterdisciplinary skills and experiences. It involves an interdisciplinary course and a demonstrationhighway bridge. An associated WWW site provides course resources including tutorials in topicalareas, exercises promoting team interaction, and guidance for collaborative activities and

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Shad Reed; Donna Dorminey

Session 1566 Designing Experimental Procedures: A Low Cost, Hands On Project that Students Actually Enjoy Capt Shad Reed, MAJ Donna Dorminey United States Military Academy, West PointAbstract Because many students are unfamiliar with the development of experimental procedures,a project was sought that would allow students to use the design process to generate an optimalexperimental procedure. An experiment that required students to determine the coefficient ofdrag for a small, dollar-store parachute figurine was selected. After a brief introduction to thepertinent theory