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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Craddock; Lizette Chevalier

” Figure 4. Icons Used Throughout Web Site.Assessment Assessment of this project is being conducted on several levels. Student assessment is oneof the primary tools being used. A survey based on a six point Likert scale is being used with fiveor six questions on the Educational Objectives, the Web Site Quality, the Web Site Content, andthe overall Concept. Additionally, off-site review by faculty and students is being planned. A widerange of institutions has agreed to participate. These include public and private universities, atwo-year community college, an engineering technology program, and institutions in smallmedium, and large cities. This should provide a wide range of input, which will shape the finalproduct.ConclusionsThis project

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Assessment of Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jack McGourty

were revised to fit the language and task required forthe course. Using the web-based version of the Team Developer‘ [8 9, 10,11] software studentsrated themselves and their teammates on twenty items covering four innovation areas as well asseveral other items related to effective product teamwork. Each student was required to accessthe Team Developer‘ on-line and asked to give honest, critical answers about themselves andtheir teammates. Average team members’ (peers) ratings for each individual were thencompared to the individual’s own responses. Students were encouraged to review thesecomparisons and develop a plan for addressing those skills where improvement was indicated.Additionally, student teams were encouraged to discuss the results

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Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Daniel Davis

) architects. In additions,new buildings are being planned by Robert A.M. Stern and Frank Gehry.The University of Hartford’s adjacency to the state’s capital and legislative bodies provides opportunities for contact Page 8.733.1and interaction with legislators and others concerned with the issues facing the design and construction industry.For example the State of Connecticut Licensing Board is located in Hartford.Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition  2003 American Society for Engineering Education

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Web Systems and Web Services

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2003 Annual Conference

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Melissa Lin

. Through the available built-in softwarefunctionalities, a CRM system can help a company understand key customer behaviors,plan effective marketing campaigns/strategies, and increase the business growth rate.Mainstream vendors recognize that information technology and business functionsincluding marketing, sales, customer services and support must work together to build asuccessful CRM that can support a typical Customer-Life Cycle in daily businessoperations. A CRM hierarchy is in shown Figure 1. Increased Profits & Customer Loyalty

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Assessment of Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Harvey Wolfe

sets.The course requires teams to develop a product and move through all of the steps towardslaunching a company culminating in a prototype, a business plan, an executive summary,and a presentation suitable for obtaining venture capital. Evaluation comments by thestudents identified a number of significant issues. These include:1. The heterogeneity of students: Students included full time undergraduate students,full time U.S. educated graduate students, full time foreign educated graduate students,and part time graduate students working full time. This mix is exacerbated by the differentacademic backgrounds, time constraints of the student groups, and diversity. Thechallenge is how to put together teams that get along, have different talents, and

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Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jeffrey Giesey

development, in-service training and tutorials.activities planned for the term, and Conduct research in area of specialization.how the experience will incorporate Location · Polytechnic of Namibia, Windhoekinto the applicant’s work when they Length of Grant · 11 monthsreturn home. Also needed are Starting Date · January 2002references including a teaching reportand sample syllabi of courses relevantto the proposed activity. Applicationsare due August 1. Figure 2: Typical Description of Award.I had begun corresponding with the Polytechnic and was able to include a letter of invitation thatspecifically supported my application. I also found that the program officer at

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Value Added Collection Management

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2003 Annual Conference

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Virginia Baldwin

Library of CongressSubject Heading letters in between (all letters of the alphabet except I, O, W and X). The Q's,(General Science), for example, were records numbered 5022 through 5094 and the T throughTX's were records numbered 8162-9160. Librarians "signed-up for" record number ranges,for the most part those that represented their subject areas. Each librarian was given access tothe database and the ability to add information to each record. Some of this information wasmandatory, (price for each format purchased, whether the subscription was part of a PackagePlan, a Membership, or other plan, and whether or not it was available electronically, withspecific designation as to whether or not the electronic version was part of a package plan

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Jewell

to 1996Union’s engineering curricula were not set up with terms abroad in mind. Since theprograms are relatively small, most required and elective courses in the major are onlyoffered once a year. Therefore, it took very careful planning and advisement to allowstudents to go abroad without seriously jeopardizing their chances of finishing in fouryears. Union also bucks the national trend in that most of our students actually graduatein four years.Students who were successful in juggling their schedules invariably came back from theirforeign study saying it was well worth the effort, and many said that it was a lifechanging experience. However, it took the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET) Engineering Criteria 2000

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Mathematics in the Transition

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2003 Annual Conference

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Kyria Alfaro; Michael Mooney

CurriculaVolcano Engineering is a 6-8 day curricular unit composed of seven obstacles described inTable 1. In Volcano Engineering, 8th grade students assemble into engineering teams anddesign a rover to obtain information from inside a volcano. Student teams are launchedinto the curricula by reading the following scenario: Several engineers at Volcano Engineering Inc. have been injured in recent years attempting to investigate volcanoes. They have been attempting to develop technologies that can predict the exact time of eruption and the severity of eruption so that nearby towns can plan accordingly. You are now given the responsibility of designing an automated rover to go into the volcano and do the work of a human

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2001 Annual Conference

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Vinay Dayal; Jerald Vogel; Rebecca Sidler Kellogg

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education • The result should be a consistent, standard, simple, quality-centered approach to on-line delivery of engineering courses. • The modules should include learner-centered materials that follow pedagogically accepted instructional design. • Meaningful representations of engineering concepts and theories will be explored and tested. • The process will avoid the trappings of an ad hoc development effort that cannot be easily captured or repeated due to lack of planning and documentation.At every step in the development process the instructors were

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2001 Annual Conference

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Michael McGeen; James Friauf

community. The instructors could draw from AE/BC graduates working in the Milwaukee area. This larger audience allows for professional feedback to the students and forces the teams to plan for a more diverse audience. G Plan additional collaborative teaching activities. Right now, the two instructors work fairly independently of each other as far as actual classroom teaching. Both instructors introduce the class at the beginning of the quarter and they join as “client” for presentations. Otherwise, they do not teach class sessions together. G Increase the number of impromptu presentation opportunities. This should be a “hands-on” course with more of a workshop approach. Impromptu exercises such as

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2001 Annual Conference

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Douglas H. Baxter

the limited usage of PDM/Works last semester, students seemed very pleased thatthey could submit data for grading in a secure system. They also liked how the instructorcould read their data, make modifications or suggestions which would then be stored as anew data file. The two-way communication of the database allowed for students to seekhelp outside of class time. At present, PDM/Works has been implemented in EG&CADand the sophomore design course, Introduction to Engineering Design (IED). Otherdesign courses plan to start using PDM/Works in the coming semesters.EvaluationTo help evaluate the effectiveness of the new course format, several techniques are used.To examine the effectiveness of the lectures, laboratory quizzes have been

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2000 Annual Conference

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David M. Beams

material on phase-sensitive demodulation and design of constant phase-difference (quadrature) networks. Theprototype has since been used as a laboratory instrument in other courses and construction ofpermanent copies is planned. This paper describes the Project TUNA instrument and theintegration of its development into EENG 4409, including lessons learned along the way.I. IntroductionMeasurement of the sinusoidal steady-state frequency response of active and passive networks isperformed in several electrical engineering laboratory courses at the University of Texas atTyler. Voltage gain and input-to-output phase shift were computed from measurements ofoscilloscope traces of the input and output signals. This was tedious and repetitive

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2000 Annual Conference

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Marehalli G. Prasad; Consantin Chassapis; Sven Esche

reviewers of the original NSF proposal that led topartial funding of this activity by the NSF-ILI program as well as by other individuals involvedin the planning and implementation of the laboratory. One of the main disadvantages comparedwith traditional laboratory setups is the significant investment in the up-front development effortand time required. This is caused by the tremendous logistical problems that need to be solved inorder for the system to be capable of properly handling task scheduling, request conflictresolution, and equipment and network failures. In contrast to the original plans outlining alaboratory to be accessed exclusively in a remote fashion, the development team changed to thehybrid on-site / remote approach described here

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2000 Annual Conference

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Sharon A. Driscoll

by a brief discussion of teachingand learning. One suggestion related to both topics is to profile student learning preferencesusing VARK catalyst. This inventory will be briefly discussed along with the implications andresults obtained from classes in chemical engineering.II. First Week of ClassTake control of the class during the first week, but include some activities that are not directlyrelated to the course material. Before the first class, have the final syllabus prepared. Take timeto discuss the syllabus and the different requirements for the course. Talk about your teachingphilosophy. If you plan to use group activities, explain how interaction is of benefit to thestudents. If you want them to use their calculator and book in class

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2000 Annual Conference

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Karl Smith

skills neededto help a group of people work together to accomplish a task (Lewis, 1998; Smith, 2000). BarryPosner (1987) conducted a survey of project managers, asking them “what it takes to be a goodproject manager.” He got the following results:1. Communications (84% of the 2. Organizational skills (75%) respondents listed it) • Planning • Listening • Goal-setting Page 5.555.4 • Persuading • Analyzing3. Team Building Skills (72%) 5. Coping Skills (59%) • Empathy

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2000 Annual Conference

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Jr. , John A. Hamilton; Jeanne L. Murtagh

). Page 5.577.2 4) Students shall develop a test plan for each project. The test plan shall demonstratehow all software requirements are to be tested. The test plan shall also include a schedule forsoftware testing. 5) Students shall develop documentation showing how their software designs and testplan conform to the requirements appearing in IEEE/EIA 12207.Note that it was critical for the students to implement and test their projects, even though thefocus of this class was primarily on software design and the use of advanced object-orientedfeatures. This is because some design flaws do not become obvious until one attempts todevelop code based on the flawed design.IV. Solid RequirementsIn order to give the students a solid design

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Louis Rivest

the course is for students to be able to use a MachinedParts Modeling Methodology and a Sheet Metal Part Modeling Methodology.Third, design tools are constantly evolving and many a practicing engineer is bound to decidewhich ones deserve being implemented to bring benefits in term of cycle time, productivity,quality and cost of product and design processes. It is therefore necessary to be able to evaluate ina structured and rigorous manner the benefits that can be brought to a design organization by thepotential introduction of a new design tool. Students are thus expected, as a third specificobjective, to be able to design and execute such a systematic evaluation plan. They must also beable to design a complete implementation plan taking

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Teaching Green Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Tamara Knott; Jean Kampe

College of Engineering at Virginia Tech; the green modifications, currently inprogress, will facilitate meeting the College's goal that every engineering graduate is exposed toenvironmental issues and is made aware that engineering systems have environmentalconsequences. The paper includes the plan, a sample problem, and a discussion of theimplementation of the plan. This work was first presented at the Virginia Tech GreenEngineering Conference in July 2001.IntroductionFirst-year students often enter university education without a clear idea of where they areheaded. Many enter engineering colleges because they excel in math and science classes andhave always been told that “engineering” is the right place for them to be. The Division

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New Programs and Success Stories

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mark Smith; Denny Mahoney

remains strong within CIPD and PD21 partner institutions, but the time has come for PD21 to develop a funding model and operational plan for the future. Dedicated leadership is an essential ingredient. · As each university examines its priorities, given limited resources, the benefits associated with any substantial investment must be clear, especially as it may impact scarce faculty resources. With completion of the pilot phase, other priorities at partner institutions have superseded those associated with PD21, and PD21 has not effectively articulated a plan for the future. As each university gains experience with its own product development program, additional benefits associated with collaboration

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Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Larry Dunn; Jessica Matson; Kenneth Hunter

program exercises. 3. Framing the exercises. 4. Debriefing participants with emphasis on application.The goal of the workshop was team building, i.e., helping teams to quickly progress through theforming and storming stages of team growth and into the performing stage. The authors’experience with freshmen design project teams indicated that the workshop should address issuesof socialization, development of team norms, communications, decision making, planning, andproblem solving.To address these issues, three exercises were selected: a socialization activity, a team charteractivity, and a team initiative. Table 1 provides a summary of the workshop content andschedule.Table 1. Workshop Content and Schedule. Exercise

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Women in Engineering: A Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

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Francis Hopcroft

conceptual plan of study was defined. The plan of study fundamentally involved observing menand women responding to presentations at technical conferences and recording thoseobservations in a standardized format. This paper addresses the communication and proceduraldifficulties that arose as the two professionals, each competent in their own area of expertise,tried to meld two very different approaches to research into a successful research effort.I. IntroductionTeaching engineering students on a campus that encourages collaboration across departmentsopened a door to understanding the different ways engineers and psychologists think and behave.Working with professors across disciplines and with industry consultants expanded thatunderstanding further

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Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Halvard Nystrom

, they have providedan alternative means to gain this educational combination.Another reason for the slow growth might be the difficulty for universities to start up orgrow EM programs. Since the scope of the discipline is so broad, it takes considerableresources to start a new program. A viable program would want to have a variety ofcourses that could include technology management, project management, e-commerce,marketing, finance, information systems, leadership and management, quality, operationsresearch, strategic planning, manufacturing, organizational behavior, entrepreneurshipand business law. This diversity requires that the organization have appropriateresources available from other organizations, such as a local business school, or

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin Flores; Jose Fierro; Daniel Grajeda; Steve Stafford; Rosa Gomez

Page 7.1121.4ACES, such as dealing with diverse groups of people with different backgrounds. Such skills Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyrightã2002, American Society for Engineering Educationalso included, but were not limited to, interacting with and handling large groups of students,solving problems when things did not go according to plan, and treating students with care andrespect while trying to guide them to the answers to the questions that they had.Daniel and Jose have always been motivated individuals who sought challenges and saw ACESas an opportunity to improve their interpersonal skills. Working at ACES has helped themdevelop their

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Teaching Green Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Charles Turner

architecture inAmerica. Steven Litt, architecture critic for the Plain Dealer, says that the Center"could be one of the most revolutionary structures of this century, or the next. It'snot so much a building as it is a manifesto in bricks and mortar." President NancyDye calls the Center "the newest and quite possibly the most ambitious buildingproject in Oberlin's 165-year history is a testament to the College's mission ofeducating students to make the world a better place.""Many Oberlin students have already been involved in the planning and design ofthis building, and many more will be involved in future generations, modifyingthe technologies and design strategies they find here," says Dye. "All of themhave and will take pride in the work of creating

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Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Felder; David Ollis

discipline and faculty members cannothope to become experts in everything.When planning a week-long orientation workshop for new engineering and science faculty atNorth Carolina State University, we felt a responsibility to acquaint the participants with thisreality of academic research and to help prepare them to engage in collaborative efforts that gowell beyond their familiar academic turf. To this end we organized the workshop participantsinto bi-disciplinary pairs and gave them about 90 minutes to formulate a research projectinvolving each of their areas of expertise. Most of their project outlines (including some fromthe most unlikely pairings) were coherent, feasible, exciting, and in the opinion of the workshopleaders, likely to be fundable

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ET Student Design Teams

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Edwards; David Forsman

simple, economic changes. Thispaper reports on these issues, and how they were resolved.I. Introduction:At Penn State Erie, Mechanical Engineering Technology Students are required to complete aproject during their senior year. This project is typically sponsored by a local industry, and isdesigned to teach the students how the design and development process works. Typically, thestudents are required to manage the entire project from the planning and scheduling stagethrough design, analysis, and final report.Occasionally, a project comes along which is not sponsored by a local industry, but by anindividual who has an interest in helping the school and the students. One such project wasproposed by a former student who races late model dirt track

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

incentives that may be reached if a successfulcooperation is forged between industry and academia.VII. RESULTSAs the new engineering programs in electrical and mechanical engineering at AAMU build-uppartnerships for collaboration with industry, some results have evolved from such efforts. Someof which are listed below:Collaborative Activities in the Department of Electrical EngineeringThere are several examples of collaborative relationships in the Department of ElectricalEngineering. First, representatives of local companies and organizations were invited to join theadvisory board for the Department. For a new program, the Board provides not only anopportunity to comment on actions taken and plans for the future, but they also have anopportunity to

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2001 Annual Conference

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Rachel Shinn; Ron Madler

our engineering faculty serve asguest lecturers and as resources for our students. Another factor that enabled our students tosucceed in their designs of communications and power subsystems was the addition of anelectrical engineering student to our class. The team with the electrical engineering student wasvery effective, and illustrated that mingling the two disciplines (AE and EE) when doingspacecraft design is extremely helpful. We plan to incorporate more EE students into our designcourses in the future and are currently recruiting for next year.We have also developed a Spacecraft Detail Design course in which the students are required todesign, build and test a project related to spacecraft. The actual design project will change

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Betit; William Swart; Sushil Chaturvedi; Gary Crossman

and the western world headquarters ofthe North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The excellent port facilities also attract manyinternational vessels, making the area a major center for world trade, and there are also located inthis region a large number of international manufacturing facilities. The University therefore hasnatural strengths in activities with international scope.In recognition of these strengths, the University’s strategic plan for 2000-2005 1 includes as oneof its ten initiatives a call for Old Dominion University to be recognized as the premierinternational university of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Amplifying that initiative, the plangoes on to say that “Old Dominion University recognizes its mission to serve as ‘the