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2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

Authors

Katherine Mavrommati, California Polytechnic State University; Eileen W. Rossman, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Jay Tyler Davis II

Paper ID #241582018 ASEE Zone IV Conference: Boulder, Colorado Mar 25Incorporating Motion Capture Technology in Undergraduate EngineeringDynamicsMs. Katherine Mavrommati, California Polytechnic State University I am a senior Biomedical Engineering major and have been working at the Human Motion Biomechanics Lab at Cal Poly for the past two years. As a research assistant I work on several projects including calculating knee contact forces during different types of exercise and creating educational modules that incorporate our motion tracking technology in various classes. The classes range from kinesiology to dynamics to

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Entrepreneurship Education: Assessment and Integrating Entrepreneurship into the Curriculum

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Johnson, Valparaiso University; Mark Budnik, Valparaiso University; Doug Tougaw, Valparaiso University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

graduates to become entrepreneurs. Even for those with a more conventionalcareer path, entrepreneurial skills and an entrepreneurial way of looking at problems will helpthem to maximize their professional success.Of course, practically all engineering programs are already overloaded with critical learningobjectives ranging from highly technical skills to highly interpersonal and communication skills.As a result, it can be a great challenge to find an opportunity to incorporate even a small amountof entrepreneurship into an existing engineering curriculum.The authors present an ongoing effort at their university to integrate entrepreneurial projects andmodules directly into required ECE courses in all four years of the curriculum. The effort

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Signal Processing Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Birmingham, Grove City College

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Computers in Education

AC 2009-2169: MULTIDISCIPLINARY SENIOR DESIGN USINGSOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIOWilliam Birmingham, Grove City College Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Chair of Computer Science Department, Grove City College Page 14.895.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Multidisciplinary Senior Design Using Software-Defined RadioAbstractMultidisciplinary projects involving electrical engineering (EE) and computer science (CS)students are both exciting and difficult to create. We have created a year-long project based onsoftware-defined radio (SDR). The combination of software and hardware makes SDR

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Exemplary Outreach Programs in Engineering Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

L. Diane Hurtado, Texas A&M University; Andrew Conkey, Texas A&M University, Qatar; Thomas Blasingame, Texas A&M University; Christi Madsen, Texas A&M University; Cesar Malave, Texas A&M University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

a career choice, and 2) encouraging them to pursue a baccalaureatedegree in engineering at our university. In summer 2008, an evaluation was collected at the endof each of three camps. This paper will discuss the general strategy of the camp, provide anoverview of the experiential learning projects, and report evaluation results from admissions dataand surveys collected from summer 2008 camps.In all of the recruitment programs for the college, great effort is made to attract traditionallyunderrepresented groups, including African Americans, Hispanics, and women. A large part ofour recruitment plan involves the use of targeted high-achieving majority-minority schools.These schools were heavily recruited for participants in the camps. A total

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Innovation in Teaching Engineering Economics

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen Bursic, University of Pittsburgh

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Engineering Economy

University of Pittsburgh) and at The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Bursic has done research and published work in the areas Engineering and Project Management and Engineering Education. She is a member of IIE and ASEE and is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Pennsylvania. Page 11.222.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Applying Engineering Economic Analysis to Contemporary Problems with Global and Societal ImplicationsAbstractThis paper describes the use of contemporary issues to teach students to solve problems in aglobal and societal context in an introductory

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Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 3

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Billy Gray, Tarleton State University; Daren Davis, Tarleton State University; Erick C Jones P.E., University of Texas, Arlington

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

and unconscious assumptions throughout his career. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Integrating Costing into an Engineering Economics CourseIntroductionThe Engineering Technology department at Tarleton State University has been working with itsindustrial partners for over 20 years to allow students the opportunity to engage in real worldprojects during their senior capstone projects. Over the past few years, the projects haveincreased in complexity and have shifted from facility layout and safety based projects to nowinclude tool and process design, with the added benefit that many of the companies are taking theprojects and implementing them at some point after students have

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Design throughout the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin Edin Grimheden, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

to integrating academic and professionalskills in European higher engineering programs in light of the relatively recent conversion tothe three cycle system. The study has been performed in a Mechanical Engineering programat KTH, in Stockholm, Sweden, where one of the main issues has been the addition of newlearning goals relating to scientific methods and research.The author presents three models for how research and scientific methods can be integratedwith engineering work in a thesis project context. We show that it is indeed possible toperform the integration synergistically, providing the various sets of requirements are clearlycommunicated particularly to any industrial representatives.Introduction: professional and academic

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division Technical Session 3

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Byul Hur, Texas A&M University

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

Fall and Spring semestersince Fall of 2016 and 2017, respectively. These two courses have been revised for moreconcentration on an ARM architecture and its applications to equip students to create variousARM applications. The microcontroller architecture course covers Verilog HDL, MIPSarchitecture, and ARM architecture. Next, students take the following embedded system softwarecourse. In this course, a MSP430 architecture is covered, and the ARM Cortex M4F processorand its high level C programming techniques using Tivaware and TI RTOS (Real-time OperatingSystem) are covered. For the term project, students have a chance to build their own embeddedsystem applications using an ARM Cortex M4F processor or MSP430x5 series microcontrollers.In order

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2018 ASEE Conferences - Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration / San Antonio proceedings

Authors

Ali Ansari; Nasser Ghariban; Pamela Leigh-Mack

) under the Louis Stokes Alliance for MinorityParticipation (LS-AMP) project. These students had completed their second year at thecommunity college, and plan on pursuing a bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline. Thecourse started with project-based teaching of fundamentals of electrical circuits, electronics, andinstrumentation followed by introduction to mechanical design. It concluded with design projectsusing the skills that students learned from the aforementioned subjects. The projects aimed atpromoting active learning, research, problem solving, and understanding the design process. Thepilot course was used to evaluate the instructional materials to be utilized later in developing anew junior level course in the computer

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Potpourri

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Heather E. Dillon, University of Portland; Jeffrey Matthew Welch, University of Portland; Nicole Ralston, University of Portland; Rebecca D. Levison, University of Portland

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Mechanical Engineering

applied research in partnership.Rebecca D Levison, University of Portland Rebecca Levison is a graduate research fellow working on her doctorate in education at the University of Portland. As a research fellow, Rebecca works on a KEEN assessment project and partnership between the School of Education and the School of Engineering to improve engineering education. When not working on the KEEN project, she works full time for Portland Public Schools as an ESL Teacher on Special Assignment. In that role, Rebecca writes science curriculum accessible to language learners that aligns with the Next Generation Science Standards and trains teachers how to implement new strategies for all learners

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 2 - Development, Assessment, and Impact of Experiential Education

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Philip Appiah-Kubi, University of Dayton; Jennifer Nichwitz, University of Dayton

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Cooperative and Experiential Education

management.Ms. Jennifer Nichwitz, University of Dayton I am currently an Industrial Engineering Technology student at the University of Dayton. I have com- pleted coursework in topics such as project management, engineering analysis, and human factors in manufacturing. My past professional experiences have included a cooperative education at an automo- tive manufacturing facility and an internship at a sustainable technology start-up in South Africa. During my time at the University of Dayton, I’ve participated in collaborative online learning classes with inter- national universities and had the privilege of working with Professor Appiah-Kubi on his research into online collaborative learning techniques

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College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 3

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Hooper Sanders, East Carolina University; Mark Angolia, East Carolina University

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College Industry Partnerships

200 hours per year of industrial training and consulting for topics including forecasting, inventory management, production planning, project management, and supply chain management. His research interests are in improving supply chain efficiency through the application of technology and best practices for warehousing, logistics, and inventory management. He holds a B.S. and Master of Engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a Ph.D. in Technology Management from Indiana State University. He also holds professional certifications of CPIM and CSCP from APICS, The Association for Operations Management, and a PMP from the Project Management Institute

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jianyu Dong, California State University, Los Angeles; Pearl Chen, California State University, Los Angeles

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

sponsoredinterdisciplinary research project that studies how collaborative PBL affects the self-efficacy ofminority students in engineering. To achieve the project objectives, research activities areconducted collaboratively between an experienced engineering faculty and a learning scientistwith substantial expertise on knowledge building communities and instructional system design.The first stage of the research is an empirical study performed in a pilot course (EE440) thatemployed CPBL to analyze its impact and develop a better understanding of the learningcharacteristic of minority students. This paper focuses on describing the research method anddata analysis during the first stage. Preliminary findings identified critical factors in CPBL modelthat positively

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Campbell

at Austin Austin, TX 78712 christym@mail.utexas.edu1 IntroductionIncreasingly, engineering educators recognize the pedagogical value of student projects.Although exams, class exercises, and homework can effectively measure a student’s mastery offacts and formulas, these sorts of assessment tools do not encourage students to develop theiranalytical capabilities, nor do they measure a student’s ability to understand and apply what heor she has learned. Projects, in contrast, allow educators to emphasize, “the important role thatexperience plays in the learning process” (Kolb1). In an endeavor to foster projects in ourclasses, the Mechanical Engineering Department at UT

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Lessons learned

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibrahim F. Zeid, Northeastern University; Ramiro g Gonzalez, Boston Arts Academy High School; Cassandra Wallace, Boston Arts Academy High School

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

teacher at Boston Arts Academy High School. He has been teaching chemistry courses for the past 35 years. He attended the CAPSULE professional development for teachers in sum- mer 2010. He implemented capstone projects in his chemistry class by getting his students to design solar-powered filter and lava lamp wall.Ms. Cassandra Wallace, Boston Arts Academy High School Cassandra Wallace is teacher at Boston Arts Academy High School. She teaches mathematics courses. She attended the CAPSULE professional development for teachers in summer 2011. She implemented capstone projects in her mathematics class by getting her students to design a rocket launcher

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hui Shen, Ohio Northern University; Richard F. Miller, Ohio Northern University; David Sawyers, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

. This paper describes research activities conducted primarily in the mechanicalengineering department by undergraduate students. Projects in biomechanics and biomaterialsintegrate engineering mechanics and materials science with the life sciences to enableundergraduate engineering students to participate in cutting-edge research. These activities areexpected to attract more students, especially female students, to engineering and to expand thefuture career options of mechanical engineering students.There are a number of special circumstances that must be considered when developing researchprojects that are appropriate for undergraduate students. The undergraduate research activitiesare carefully designed to recruit suitable students and to

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College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Bottomley

Teacher QuestionnairePrior to the beginning of the 2004 Fall semester, teachers, university fellows, administrators, andproject staff met for a project meeting during which the goals of the project were described,surveys were administered, and inquiry-based mathematics lessons were presented anddiscussed. One of the surveys that was administered was a mathematics teacher questionnairethat was modified from the 2000 National Survey of Science and Mathematics Educationmathematics teacher instrument1 developed and administered by Horizons Research,Incorporated (http://2000survey.horizon-research.com/). The survey focused on teachers’preparation in mathematics content and pedagogy, their goals for mathematics instruction andthe activities they

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Watkins

by hand.In the following sections, each numerical method topic is summarized along with thecorresponding project assignments. Screen shots of output from selected projects are included inthe appendix. The project handouts are freely available in PDF format on the course website atwww.coe.uncc.edu/~gkwatkin/ETGR3272/. They are also available in Word™ format by emailrequest to gkwatkin@uncc.edu. i. Modeling, Computers, and Error Analysis The course begins with an introduction to common methods used in posing engineering problems for computer solution. Computer basics, such as bits, bytes, binary representation of numbers, and error analysis are introduced. Programming concepts, such as code structure

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Design and the Community

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Haden; John Tester; Jerry Hatfield

-person design teams that design, build and test weekly projects involvingLEGO® parts, sensors, and the Robotic Command eXplorer (RCX). Control of the automatedsystems requires programming in both RoboLab (a LabViewTM derivative) and in the “Not Quite C”(NQC) environments. The course develops in the semester to finally encompass larger design teamsof fourteen students, with each team designing a complex, autonomous, robotic-styled system. Animportant part of this course development is the integration of assessment procedures that record thestudents’ perception of learning and enthusiasm. We present an overview of the courseenhancements and objectives. Assessment categories include the students’ self-efficacy in theirability to design/build/test

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Potpourri Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Walter

Session 2003-1393 Teaching Engineering Design – One University’s Program Patrick L. Walter, Ph. D. Engineering Department, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TXabstractThis paper describes the design process as taught at Texas Christian University (TCU). Theintent of the design course is to develop student engineers capable of a seamless transition toindustry. Success in industry is primarily based on three criteria: (1) schedule – did the projectget completed on time, (2) cost – did the project get completed within budget, and (3)performance – did the delivered product(s) satisfy the customer? The

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Martin Morris; Fred Fry

Session 1552 Coupling Engineering and Entrepreneurship Education through Formula SAE Martin Morris, Fred Fry Bradley UniversityAbstractTeams of mechanical engineering students design, build, and race a Formula SAE car as theirsenior project assignment. Upon completion, the car is entered in a national competition. Theoverall task is to create a prototype racecar and to develop a business strategy capable of buildingfour production cars per day. A team of entrepreneurship students simultaneously had theassignment to create a

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas H. Ortmeyer; M. Sathyamoorthy; Karl Cunningham

Poster Session 93 A Manufacturing Engineering Experiential Learning Program Thomas H. Ortmeyer@, Karl Cunningham& and M. Sathyamoorthy@ @ Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York & Alcoa-Massena Operations, Massena, New YorkAbstractThe current paper describes the development and implementation of anindustry/university collaboration in experiential learning. Each individual project inthis program consists of the participating student, an industrial mentor, and a facultymentor. The year long program is designed to offer the participating student theopportunity to participate in a design

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Yokomoto; Maher Rizkalla

an ability to engage in life-long learningj. a knowledge of contemporary issuesk. an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice. Page 6.842.1 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education”II. Our Capstone Design CourseOur capstone design course is a one-semester, three-credit design course where students work inteams on hardware, software, and research-oriented design projects. In addition to the designexperiences

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Vincent R. Canino; Lisa Milkowski

sink time, students absorb and learn about the projectobjective, practice developing different solutions, and practice working in teams.Working on the same project throughout the design sequence, the students are learning tofunction as part of a design team and to be tolerant and respectful of individual teammember differences. Additionally through this process student teams advance theirdesign to final product levels. The teams prepare for and experience a series of designreviews, develop appropriate documentation, and apply techniques common in industry.The four year design experience relates directly to ABET outcomes such as: recognizingthe need for life-long learning, developing professional skills, working productively in anengineering

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

T.R. Kurfess; M.L. Nagurka

Sesssion 0575 Session 0575 Fostering Strong Interactions Between Industry and Academia T.R. Kurfess, M.L. Nagurka Georgia Institute of Technology / Marquette UniversityABSTRACT This paper highlights a number of key issues in the development and execution of jointuniversity-industry engineering projects. Government funding reductions have lead to decreasedsupport of university research and economic forces have driven corporations to reduce or elimi-nate internal R&D centers. These are two driving factors

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Techniques to Enhance Environmental Engineering Courses

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Isaac W. Wait, Marshall University; Richard F. McCormick, Marshall University; Sydney M. Wait, Marshall University

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Environmental Engineering

process. Feedback gathered from students indicatedenthusiasm with the project and enhanced understanding of reaction kinetics. Gainingindependent, self-directed experience in the lab provided students with important opportunities topractice critical thinking and experience the independent reasoning that is required for successbeyond graduation.IntroductionReaction kinetics is often taught at the beginning of undergraduate environmental engineeringcourses in order to help students understand temporal relationships in processes such as drinkingwater disinfection, secondary treatment of wastewater, and remediation of contaminated soil.Although some students intuitively understand concepts without physical examples, others findreaction kinetics

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

W. J. Wiseman; S. M. Scoggins; R. D. Michelli; J. A. Janet; A. L. Walker

Session 2220 Component Oriented Development of Autonomous Mobile Robots Facilitates Interdisciplinary Design R.D. Michelli, S.M. Scoggins, W.J. Wiseman, J.A. Janet, A.L. Walker TMI Robotics, Inc.AbstractOur experience developing mobile robots with groups of undergraduates has shown thatwhile many teams consider their design to be interdisciplinary in nature, the design is infact fragmented across engineering disciplines. The end result is a project thataggregates various engineering disciplines instead of integrating them into a truemultidisciplinary design.We propose a component-oriented design approach

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul S. Chinowsky

Session 3215 The Civil Engineering Resource Library: Developing A Multimedia Education Resource Paul S. Chinowsky Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe delivery of civil engineering projects requires civil engineers to address a broad spectrum ofissues generated by both project participants and regulatory agencies. Providing tools that assistteam members in addressing these issues through the use of information and knowledge fromprevious projects may reduce project errors by creating informed decision-makers. Recentadvances in communications

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Understanding and Measuring the Impact of Multidisciplinarity

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Schaffer, Purdue University; Daniel Gandara, Illinois Institute of Technology; Xiaojun Chen, Purdue University; Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology; Jill May, Illinois Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

, evaluation, process analysis, and instructional design.Daniel Gandara, Illinois Institute of TechnologyXiaojun Chen, Purdue UniversityMargaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of TechnologyJill May, Illinois Institute of Technology Page 15.1370.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 What makes a Team “Cross-disciplinary”? Development and Validation of Cross-disciplinary Learning MeasuresAbstractThis a progress report on a research project funded by the National Science Foundation toidentify or develop, and validate measures of cross-disciplinary team functioning, in order toassess the best practices for

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Enhancing Environmental Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Roper, George Mason University

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Environmental Engineering

Research and Development Program. He has published over 150 technical papers and made numerous presentations at national and international forums. Page 15.1356.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 WATERSHED IMPERVIOUS SURFACE STORM WATER ASSESSMENTAbstract:The Sustainable Development and Next Generation Buildings class worked with ArlingtonCounty Virginia to assess impacts and alternatives for a sensitive storm water project in thecounty. This was a real world application of the subjects and technologies used in the class roomfor storm water management and planning. Within Arlington