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Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2003 Annual Conference

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Muthukrishnan Sathyamoorthy

, 1996.3. Smith, D. A., Jacquot, R. G., and Whitman, D. L., A Software Package to Enhance the Page 8.739.9 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationTeaching of Engineering Dynamics, Computer Applications in Engineering Education,Vol. 3, No. 7, (1995), pp. 21-28.4. Jacquot, R. G., and Dewey, B. R., Solution of Static and Dynamic Beam Bending andBuckling Problems Using Finite Differences and MATLAB, 2001 ASEE AnnualConference, Session 2220, June 2001.5. Watkins, J., Piper, G., Wedward, K., and Mitchell, E. E

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Industry Initiatives for Graduate Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Elaine Laws

. Page 8.829.24 National Science Foundation, Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science andEngineering: 2000, (NSF, 2000) NSF 00-237, Appendix B, Table 4-12."Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education"In the fall, the students went on to graduate school but maintained a relationship withtheir mentors who helped them navigate through their Ph.D. programs, acting assounding boards and champions for the students as well as ensuring that they weremaking satisfactory progress towards their degrees. Bell Labs also provided financialsupport for graduate study. Since students had their own funds to pay for school and

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steven Braddom; Charles Campbell; Shad Reed; Robert Floersheim

Session 1520 Course Websites: Are You Giving Your Students What They Want? Steven Braddom, Charles Campbell, Bruce Floersheim, Shad Reed Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering United States Military Academy A year-long study of students and faculty members in the engineering program at theUnited States Military Academy in the 2002 spring and fall academic terms revealed a surprisinggap between what the creators of course web content perceived as most useful for students andwhat the students actually desired or used from various

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Issues for ET Administrators

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2003 Annual Conference

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Abi Aghayere

across disciplines and institutions; this will lead to cross-pollination of ideas that would benefit and strengthen the ET community.9. Scholarly activities can lead to grants and contracts, patents and new products that ultimately will lead to a) improved quality of life for the general public, b) increased revenue for ET programs, and c) to continuously improving ET curriculum, instruction and facilities.10. It helps the professional development of ET faculty. Currently, some 20 states require continuing education as a requirement for licensure.20 The West Virginia State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers, one of the first states to require continuing professional development of its registered engineers, has

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Web Systems and Web Services

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2003 Annual Conference

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Leonid Preiser

Technology and Information Systems, La Jolla, CA-based NationalUniversity through coordination and analysis of more than fifty capstone Master’s Researchprojects in E-Business.All the projects have been divided into the four major categories lining up with four respectiveInteracting Project Layers: Business IPL, Applications IPL, Networking IPL, and EngineeringIPL. It should be noted that, in general, any E-Business project would include elements from allIPL domains; however, within each of those major categories their respective features woulddominate the project scope in comparison with the ones from three other IPLs.For each category of E-Business projects, validation assessment included: a) proposed project-specific outcomes, b) proposed

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Leonhard Bernold; Joni Spurlin; Cathy Crossland; Chris Anson

their behavior changesduring the first year. This new research effort, lead by the authors at North Carolina StateUniversity, is presently surveying 930 freshmen engineering students who started their collegecareer in August 2002. The main data collection tools include: a) Pittsburgh FreshmanEngineering Attitude Survey, b) Learning and Study Skills Inventory (LASSI), c) Learning TypeMeasure (LTM), and d) bi-weekly questions developed by the authors which students answeredthroughout their first semester. The Pittsburgh Freshman Engineering Attitude Survey isdesigned to assess their opinions, feelings, and confidence about engineering and learningengineering. The survey was given again at the end of the first semester to assess any changes.The

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Gordon Guffner

Session 1566 HOMEMADE LAB EQUIPMENT FOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERING COURSES By Gordon E. Guffner, Professor Emeritus Industrial Technology and Engineering Technology, Buffalo State CollegeTraditionally, engineering programs have been considered expensive because of theabundance of courses containing a laboratory component which usually requires costlyequipment. While this will probably always be true, this author has come up with at leasta partial remedy for the high cost of laboratory equipment. By developing some lab pieceswhich can be made by an instructor (or lab technician), expensive items which wouldnormally

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Student Learning and Research

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2003 Annual Conference

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Paul Lin; Harold Broberg

Session 2150 Relationships between Student Learning Styles and Methods of Presentation for Engineering Technology Students Harold L. Broberg, Paul I-Hai Lin ECET Department, Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, INI. IntroductionMany studies of student learning styles and personality types have been conducted thatapply to engineering students. These studies were validated using large numbers ofstudents and are used to empirically formulate a hypothesis concerning the principallearning styles1 and personality types of engineering technology students. As an educator,you probably have an opinion of the learning

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Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Taylor

Session 1654 Mississippi State University Engineering Entrepreneurship Program Gerald Nelson and Robert P. Taylor Mississippi State University The James Worth Bagley College of EngineeringAbstract A successful engineering entrepreneurship program has been established in the JamesWorth Bagley College of Engineering at Mississippi State University. The

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Innovation in Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Patsy Brackin; Clark Merkel

Session 2325 35 Design Activities to Try in an Engineering Design Class. Clark Merkel, Patsy Brackin Department of Mechanical Engineering Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.Abstract:Fresh New Ideas! Are you looking for new design activities to try out in yourengineering design course? This paper provides a description of 35 different ideas for in-class activities that you might find appropriate for use. While our target was for use in amechanical engineering freshman design course, many of these ideas may be applied just aseasily for other disciplines. Each of these

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Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2003 Annual Conference

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Frank Wicks

ASEE 2003-1703 for Energy Conversion and Conservation Division “Twenty Years of Experiences in Computer Modeling of Thermodynamic Cycles” Professor Frank Wicks Mechanical Engineering Department, Union College Abstract What we are told we easily forget, but the things we do we understand! Engineeringeducation works best when the students are not overly subjected to listening, but haveample opportunity to do. Computer use in education provides a more subtle example ofthis principle. Students, like current engineers in industry, now run a variety of commercialapplication software to perform various calculations and simulations. The danger

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Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

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Maher Murad; Jerry Samples

Session 2375 Challenges and Opportunities in Visiting and Tenure Track Positions Maher M. Murad, Jerry Samples University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractThere are challenges and opportunities in both visiting and tenure track positions. Many facultymembers start their teaching career in visiting positions and end up in the tenure stream. In thatcase the faculty member would be faced with somewhat different set of challenges andopportunities, the subject of this paper. The transition from a visiting position to tenure-trackposition is a process. For this process to succeed, it

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Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steven O'Hara; John Phillips

Session 1606 “Incorporating Structural Concepts into Beginning Architectural Design” John J. Phillips, PE Steven E. O’Hara, PE Oklahoma State UniversityAbstract :Architecture involves multiple disciplines that must coherently exist within a design. Thestructural aspects of buildings have significant impacts on the design process, and students mustbe able to incorporate structures in their design to be successful. It is crucial to a studentseducation that structures be introduced early in the curriculum to expose the students to theireffects on the design

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Internet Programming and Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ronald Glotzbach; Carlos Morales

Session 2198 Web-Enabling Software for Real-Time Online Automated Services Ronald J. Glotzbach, Carlos Morales Purdue UniversityAbstractThe Web has seen its share of trends come and go, but now it is evolving into a centrally locatedcollaboration tool for all professions. The focus is shifting to harnessing the Web’s usefulness togain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. This paper assesses the purposes, usefulness,advantages, and disadvantages of web-enabling desktop application-based software packages.Web-enabling software packages allows users from around the world

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Innovative Teaching Methods in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Dennis Kroll

Session 2357 EVERYTHING YOUR MOTHER NEVER TOLD YOU ABOUT RUNNING AN ON-LINE COURSE-OR AT LEAST MOST OF IT1 Dennis E. Kroll, Ph.D. Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering & Technology Bradley University Peoria, IllinoisAbstract - You have spent years learning to teach in a classroom. Feedback is usually quick andyou can adjust as you go. Your students have spent years learning how to survive a classroomenvironment and, being engineering students, should be doing fairly well

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Gerald Burnham; Don Millard

Session 2793 Electronic Media to Enhance Electrical Engineering Education Don Millard, Gerald Burnham Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute/University of Texas-DallasMotivation Electrical Engineering (EE) students play computer games watch television, surf the web,instant message and use search engines - all allowing them to switch content at will - rather thanfocusing on a singular offering. This results in a shortened attention span, lower tolerance forrepetition and static media. This clearly challenges educators to provide information in moredynamic

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Reid Vander Schaaf, US Army MICOM-AMCPM-UG (Redstone Arsenal); James Ledlie Klosky, United States Military Academy

is being discussed in introductorycourses in mechanics. For some students, especially those who are struggling, physical realitybecomes mired in seemingly endless equations and the apparent mish-mash of theory andpractical application. This should be prevented if at all possible, as mechanics is the first coursein which students can participate in designs that include material type and geometry in a realisticway. One essential method for convincing students of the importance and truth of what you areteaching is to actually show them that truth up close. Students crave reality when confrontingengineering topics for the first time. In a sense, students say “Show me the money!”, or “Don’tTELL me, SHOW me…”.This paper presents a number of simple

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Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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D.J. Marshall

Session 3260 Transformation by Design: An Indiana Sophomore’s exposure to Rome D.J. Marshall II, AIA Assistant Professor of Architectural Engineering Technology Indiana Purdue Fort WayneAbstract – Each summer a group of approximately thirty students from the Indiana Purdue FortWayne (IPFW) campus enroll for credit in a continuing education course offered in Rome, Italy.The course is advertised throughout the campus and by word ofmouth as meeting the IPFW General Education requirement aswell as an

Conference Session

Practice/Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

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Joseph Betz

Session 2146 Epistemology, Technology and Organization: the affects of change in architectural design Joseph A. Betz State University of New York at FarmingdaleAbstractThis paper investigates a number of changes occurring in the way we think about and producedesign for the built environment. There are three major factors affecting change that will beexamined: epistemology and the type of knowledge; technology and the method or process used;and organization in the division of labor. The interrelationship of each of these produces acomplex

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Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

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Govind Puttaiah

2268 AN INTERACTIVE DISTANCE LEARNING COURSE ON DYNAMICS Govind Puttaiah(1) West Virginia University Institute of Technology Montgomery, WV 25136Abstract An interactive distance learning course on Dynamics was developed and offeredto groups of on- and off-campus undergraduate engineering students using a multi-mediaapproach and a combination of teaching tools. The course was presented to a liveaudience on campus in a specially designed class room and transmitted to off-campus sitesin real time using modern information transfer equipment. The paper

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Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Heinz Luegenbiehl

Teaching Engineering Ethics Across National Borders Heinz C. Luegenbiehl (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Kanazawa Institute of Technology) Over the last several decades, during which courses in engineering ethics have become amore common feature of engineering curricula in the U.S., a standard model for teaching it hasemerged, primarily due to the publication of a number of textbooks with a similar focus.1 The mainfeatures of this model are an emphasis on professional autonomy, use of codes of ethics and moraltheory as the basis for decision-making, and the centrality of the case study approach. In more recent times, a focus on issues in engineering ethics

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Ralph I. Stephens

ENHANCEMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGSTUDENT MOTIVATION, LEARNING, AND LEADERSHIP THROUGH AUTO RACING INTERESTS INVOLVING MULTIPLE COURSES Ralph I. Stephens PhD, PE Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52240 ralph-stephens@uiowa.eduAbstractDue to student interest in auto racing, projects with racing were incorporated into fivemechanical engineering courses involving five faculty members, nine student projects and abouttwenty students. The racing projects provided outstanding student achievements along withhaving fun.IntroductionWhile teaching a senior 58:055 Mechanical Systems Design class

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Schemmel

Session 2530 Development of Engineering Focused Lesson Plans for K8 Teachers and Students John J. Schemmel University of Arkansas, College of EngineeringIntroductionWhile the entire population continually benefits from the work of engineering professionals,there are still relatively few graduating high school seniors electing to pursue a bachelor's degreein engineering. The fact that an engineering degree is not widely considered by enteringfreshmen is not a new development. However, it is becoming a more serious problem as thenumber of

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Effective Teaching to Motivate & Retain

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2003 Annual Conference

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Zia Razzaq

Session 1046 An Effective Teaching Strategy for Motivation and Retention of Engineering and Technology Freshmen Zia Razzaq Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529AbstractThe introduction of a pair of new courses titled ”Explore Engineering and Technology I and II” atOld Dominion University has yielded dramatic results in both motivating and retaining freshmen.Each course is of two credit hours and is divided into three five-week modules. Each five-weekmodule is

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Teaching Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Erik De Graaff; Gillian Saunders-Smits

repeatedly stated they prefer candidates who are competent in communication skills on topof their specific engineering abilities1. Hence the educational objectives of engineeringuniversities must be adapted to account for this new demand, which is put upon them.Until 1995 the competencies listed above2 were not mentioned explicitly in the objectives of theFaculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology. The curriculum focussed oncore engineering skills only. During a programme review in 1995 when the faculty moved to a 5year combined Bachelor and Master of Science degree new objectives were formulated which agraduate would have to meet.Those new objectives emphasized that graduates meet the changing requirements society puts

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Advisory Boards & Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

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Shamsuddin Ilias; Franklin King; Keith Schimmel

Session #3413 Using Standardized Examinations to Assess Engineering Programs Keith A. Schimmel, Franklin G. King, Shamsuddin Ilias, North Carolina A&T State UniversityAbstractThe ABET EC2000 criteria require programs to have quality improvement processes in place tomake decisions based on assessment data from student performance and program constituencies.Within this context, there is a need for development of additional quantitative measures that willbe consistent over time and between instructors of whether students have mastered courselearning objectives. This paper will discuss

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Web Systems and Web Services

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2003 Annual Conference

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Xiannong Meng

Session 1658 Putting Information Retrieval Theory into Practice – A Web Search Engine Project for an Undergraduate Computer Science Elective Course Xiannong Meng Computer Science Department Bucknell University Lewisburg, PA 17837 Abstract This paper describes a semester project for an undergraduate computer science senior elective course, CSCI 379 Computer Science Topics – Information Retrieval and Web Search, taught at Bucknell

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Glotzbach

Session 2178 The Database Imperative in Computer Graphics Projects Ronald J. Glotzbach Purdue UniversityAbstractApplications of ideas and projects in Computer Graphics Technology have developed more andmore into requiring a database to drive some or all of it on the back-end. Is an imperativedeveloping where universities are more in need of producing students with database developmentor administration capabilities? This paper focuses on engineering projects with databaseinvolvement, attempting to determine the level of knowledge students should have and in

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Understanding Students: Cognition

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2003 Annual Conference

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Alene Harris; Monica Cox, Purdue University

/ Department of Teaching and Learning, Peabody College at Vanderbilt University Abstract This paper explores both the significance and the lim itations of the VaNTH Observation System (VOS). The VOS was originally developed for use at the VaNTH Engineering Research Center in bioengineering classrooms at Vanderbilt University, Northwestern University, the University of Texas at Austin, and the Harvard/Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Science and Technology. This instrument is designed to capture (1) the number and dura tion of faculty-student interactions in a classroom, (2) the engagement of students

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Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tim Meyers; Robert Weissbach

Session 2433 Honors Thesis Work in Renewable Energy for an Undergraduate Student Robert S. Weissbach, Timothy S. Meyers Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeAbstractRenewable energy has become an important area of research and development for bothenvironmental as well as economic reasons. At the academic level, it is possible to introducestudents to issues related to renewable energy. This paper discusses the effort one student has putin, as part of a thesis, to develop an economically feasible, self-sufficient, renewable energysystem for a