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ENT Division Technical Session: EM Across the Curriculum I

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; Scott Duplicate Streiner, Rowan University; Cheryl A. Bodnar, Rowan University; Kaitlin Mallouk, Rowan University; Bruce Oestreich, Rowan University; Ted Howell, Rowan University; Jennifer Tole, Rowan University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

sophomore level two-coursesequence (required for engineering students in all disciplines) in which the primary learningoutcomes are engineering design and technical communication. These courses are team-taughtby faculty from Engineering and from Communications; specifically, Writing Arts in the fall andPublic Speaking in the spring. Historically, the fall course has featured three major coursedeliverables: (1) a “research sequence” consisting of a rhetorical analysis, an annotatedbibliography, and a literature review, (2) a humanities assignment in which students explore theimpact of technology on societal needs, and (3) laboratory and design reports stemming fromhands-on engineering projects completed in lab.During the summer of 2019, the faculty

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Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Henriette Bier, TU Delft; Dave Hoffers, TU Delft; Matthijs Frederiks, TU Delft; Sander Korebritz, TU Delft

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Architectural

AC 2007-934: BR: AN INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE-PROTOTYPE FOR 3DLAYOUTHenriette Bier, TU Delft After graduating in architecture [1998] from the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, H. Bier has worked with Morphosis [1999-2001] on internationally relevant projects in the US and Europe. She has taught computer-based architectural design [2002-2003] at Universities in Austria, Germany and the Netherlands and started a doctoral research at TU Delft [2004]. Her research focuses not only on analysis and critical assessment of digital technologies in architecture, but also reflects evaluation and classification of digitally-driven architectures through procedural- and object-oriented studies. It

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Curriculum Development and Applications

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jana Whittington, Purdue University Calumet; Kim Nankivell, Purdue University Calumet; Joy Colwell, Purdue University Calumet

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Engineering Design Graphics

learning (EL) components in the CGcurriculum. Faculty within a CG degree program would benefit from an understanding of theexperiential learning instructional methodologies to pedagogically develop curriculum for an ELcourse in computer graphics.Generally, employers who hire CG graduates want proof of “real-world” experience and oftenask for a minimum of three years experience in the field. Real world experience, to employers,often includes not only the technical skills but also the “soft skills” of teamwork, appreciation fordiversity, and communication. Traditional classroom learning, as well as traditional classroomsimulations of real-world portfolio projects, may not always fully prepare the learner for the CGwork environment. Conversely

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University; Richard Newman, Arizona State University; Arunachala Nadar Mada Kannan; Slobodan Petrovic, Arizona State University; Govindasamy Tamihzmani, Arizona State university

meet the workforce needs of our national energy,transportation, and electronic industries. The project intends to establish an educationalconsortium through collaboration between high schools and community colleges inArizona and Texas along with Arizona State University at the Polytechnic campus. Thiswill be accomplished by leveraging existing teaching and research expertise and facilitiesin the field of alternative and renewable energy. The strategy of the project is to meet the workforce needs by increasing thenumber of graduates, including underprivileged groups, with Associate of AppliedScience degrees (AAS), certificate programs, and Bachelor of Science (BS) degrees bypreparing them using world-class facilities. Furthermore, the

Conference Session

Software Engineering Curriculum Components

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Bagert, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

domain tracks to the coordinators of those programs (see Appendix A); five werefilled out and returned. The responding schools and their application domains are listed in Table1. Page 11.1325.3 Institution Application Domains Auburn University Senior Project domain area, including • Artificial Intelligence • Compiler Front-ends • Database Systems • Software

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Minorities in Engineering Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zheng, Jackson State University; Jianjun Yin, Jackson State University

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Minorities in Engineering

Solving (CPS); and to communicate the potential impact of thisscaffolding on underserved minority students’ higher-order skill development through Project-Based Service Learning (PBSL). It contends that adoption of engineering design process inexperiential learning could promote students’ demands for cognitive and metacognitive strategiesof Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) and Creative Problem Solving (CPS), and scaffolding withquestion prompts based on cognitive research findings could better facilitate SRL and CPSprocess of underserved minority students, and lead to their enriched metacognitive experience,meaningful accomplishment, and improvement of self-efficacy and higher-order skills. Theoverall goal of the presented scaffolding instruction is

Conference Session

Research in Assessment

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Chong, University of Toronto; Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto

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Educational Research and Methods

these areas at graduation.However, the variability of these projects presents significant challenges for common rubricdevelopment and by implication, our ability to retrieve reliable data on student performance inthese categories/attributes. This variability also brings unique challenges to the development of asingle rubric that is 1) flexible enough to apply to a variety of engineering thesis projects, 2)reflective of the learning objectives of the thesis course, and also 3) appropriate for use ingathering reliable data about students’ graduate attributes.This paper describes the development of the rubric, and the inherent challenges in designing avalid and reliable tool that provides flexibility to a diverse group of projects and supervisors

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Structure and Form in Architectural Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Dermody, Roger Williams University

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Architectural

architecturaldesign studio focused on the design of efficient, elegant, expressive long-span structures.Examples of student design solutions for various projects are shown and explained. Anassessment of the benefits of teaching structures in a studio is presented. The studio projectsdemonstrate that structure is an important determinant of architectural form. Form should followforce, and not merely function.IntroductionTechnology is design. Technical concepts, especially in architecture curricula, should be taughtas design. However, structures courses in most architecture programs have long relied oncalculation based problem sets as their primary pedagogy. This approach is unrealistic and doesa disservice to students. It does not accurately represent the

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Social Responsibility & Professionalism

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christi Luks

Focus on Tar Creek Christi L. Patton University of TulsaAbstract Tar Creek is #1 on the EPA cleanup list and it is located about 90 miles from theUniversity of Tulsa campus. While the legislators and residents debate what should bedone to clean up the area, freshman Chemical Engineering students research the historyof Tar Creek and use this as a starting point for lectures and discussion on safety, ethicsand the environment. Throughout the course students perform practice calculations thatare based on the information gleaned through their readings. The last weeks of thesemester are spent in a research project that takes them to

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Faculty & Program Exchanges: Internationalizing, Collaborations, Interactions

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ilka Balk, University of Kentucky; John Balk, University of Kentucky

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International

studentsarrive in Karlsruhe between January and March, and start with a research project that has beenformulated by faculty at both institutions. Whenever possible, the US student is paired with aGerman student who will participate in the reciprocal phase of the exchange program. When thesemester begins in Karlsruhe in April, students transition to coursework and either finish theirresearch or decrease their laboratory workload.The engineering students from Karlsruhe, Germany, come to the University of Kentucky inAugust to take regular classes in the fall semester. Karlsruhe’s engineering students, who arerequired to complete a 500-hour research project for their degree, perform some of this researchin the fall semester, while also taking classes, and

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Software and Hardware for Educators II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Richardson, Purdue University; James Jacob, Purdue University; Brant Price, Purdue University; Jeremiah Dole, Purdue University

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Computers in Education

AC 2010-1527: PERSONAL LAB HARDWARE: A SINE WAVE GENERATOR,LOGIC PULSE SIGNAL, AND PROGRAMMABLE SYNCHRONOUS SERIALINTERFACE FOR ENHANCING EDUCATIONJeffrey Richardson, Purdue UniversityJames Jacob, Purdue UniversityBrant Price, Purdue UniversityJeremiah Dole, Purdue University Page 15.951.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Personal Lab Hardware: A Sine Wave Generator, Logic Pulse Signal, and Programmable Synchronous Serial Interface for Enhancing EducationAbstract:This project developed a low cost solution to provide personally owned electronic test equipmentto students in an advanced analog electronics course to enhance their learning associated withelectronic

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Assessment and Evaluation in Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Lockwood, University of Calgary; Daryl Caswell, University of Calgary; Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary

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Design in Engineering Education

students and 30 Teaching Assistants, planningfive new and unique projects for each academic year and integrating community groupsinto real-world scenarios, the largest challenge facing the team is that of consistency ofassignment design and evaluation.This paper will describe a methodology for maintaining instructional and gradingconsistency across the many layers of student/tutorial assistant/instructor interaction.Due to the scope of the course, each of the five projects is developed by one or moreinstructors, with each of the 9 instructors contributing to at least one project. As theinstructors come from a variety of backgrounds, consistency has been problematic – whatone instructor considers complete assignment information, another considers

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Serving the Information Needs of Engineering Technology Educators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elaine Craft

, or purchase. These resources include pre-engineering technology and first-year engineering technology curricula, faculty development,research results related to student retention, peer mentoring, and assistance with grant-fundedproject development and evaluation. The Center also serves as a link to assist educators inidentifying useful products and services from other projects funded through the NSF's AdvancedTechnological Education (NSF/ATE) program. A cost-effective way for two-year collegeengineering technology faculty to move their programs forward is to learn about and leveragethese resources.IntroductionThe National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program has anemphasis on two-year colleges and on the

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Will; Wesley Stone

college, the senior design course was evaluated by students atthe end of each semester. The numerical scores, and especially the comments, from theevaluations were used to begin the framework for a course restructure. Additionally, abrainstorming session was held at the conclusion of the 2002-03 academic year, including eightof the faculty members involved in the course. The combination of this student and facultyfeedback led to the Summer 2003 curriculum restructure efforts. The projects themselves did not change with the restructure. Each project continues tohold significant electrical, computer, and mechanical components. Sample projects for the 2003-2004 academic years include: • A 3-D scanner that uses a laser scan to generate a

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Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Kozak

. Page 9.354.2 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”Workbook Navigation Each worksheet would perform one step of the lab solution. Navigation between theworksheets would be accomplished by the use of hyperlinks imbedded in each worksheet. Thesoftware creation exercise consisted of one lab period at which all eight students weresimultaneously in attendance. Due to the short time period, all students would be working at thesame time to complete the project. Each student was given a portion of the workbook tocomplete. One student was assigned to be the coordinator of the hyperlink aspect of

Conference Session

Innovation in Continuing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Martin Cala; Jaymin Patel; Ganesh Kudav; Burke Davis

roundly. Learning outcomes of curricular innovation stemming from this partnerships includeincreased exposure to emerging technologies, multi-disciplined activities, team learning,communications, and project management [1]. There also exist many beneficial institutionaloutcomes including faculty development in research interests, improved industrial partnerships, Page 9.730.1Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationimproved aesthetic to curriculum throughout the four years, and graduate placement amongindustrial

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New Program/Course Success Stories

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Daughton

management assignments. Local high technology companies wereconcerned that many engineers were entering management positions responsible for project ordevelopment teams or promoted to managers of small departments or work groups with littlepreparation. Ironically, these opportunities sometimes came as a reward for a job well done forengineering contributions but placed the individual in an awkward position. As Matson1 andLancaster2 have reported, and this author observed while working in industry, engineers usuallyfind themselves very poorly equipped to take on their management assignments.As the program evolved over the next 16 years, the enrollment grew to include students fromColorado, from across the United States, and from around the world. As

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Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Krahe; David Loker

increasing levels of difficulty to aid in learningthe language. The first project is the creation of a virtual calculator. The objective of this project is tointroduce Windows programming. A second project is used to introduce the programming of a PCdata acquisition (DAQ) board. This experiment emphasizes acquiring analog input data and displayingthe mean and AC RMS values of the resulting data.There are several objectives for the presentation of these applications within this paper. It provides aresource to aid instructors in the development of a Visual C++ programming course within their EETcurriculums. It presents several practical experiments that can be utilized to help shorten the learningcurve required for this programming language. It

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

John Olson; Georgia Ehlers; David Lovelock; Ali Mehrabian

to study SMET. The result of their efforts is Program ACCESS (Accessing CareerChoices in Engineering and ScienceS).Program ACCESS is a three-year project sponsored by the National Science Foundation and TheUniversity of Arizona, and is housed in the Department of Mathematics. It is a multi-disciplinary program involving faculty, staff, and graduate and undergraduate students withphysical disabilities from the College of Science, the College of Engineering and Mines, theGraduate College, the University Teaching Center, the Disability Resource Center, and theDepartment of Career Services.The program’s goal is to promote a high level of academic and professional success in SMETfields among students with physical disabilities by encouraging the

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2000 Annual Conference

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Stephanie Weitemeyer; Stephanie Draeger; Rebecca Morrison; Lehang Huynh; Ashok K. Goel; Sarah Bergstrom; Jami Meteer; Aleli Mojica-Campbell; Martha Sloan

Session 3592 Research Experiences for Women Undergraduate Students in High-Speed Integrated Circuits Ashok Goel, Martha Sloan, Sarah Bergstrom, Aleli Mojica-Campbell, Stephanie Draeger, Lehang Huynh, Jami Meteer, Rebecca Morrison and Stephanie Weitemeyer Department of Electrical Engineering Michigan Technological UniversityAbstractIn this paper, the research projects carried out by the women undergraduate students selectedfor the NSF funded undergraduate summer research sites established at the department ofElectrical Engineering at Michigan Technological University

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Gouranga Banik

Marietta, GA 30060 Introduction Implementation of safety and health programs on construction projects requires a well-educated workforce that is knowledgeable in safety requirements and procedures. Suckarieh andDiamantes (1995) indicated that time dedicated to construction safety training is not adequate.He mentioned that formal training could have a significant impact on students’ performance assoon as they graduate. Coble et al. (1998) mentioned that safety education for the BuildingConstruction Management students has not often been a high priority in US universities. J.Christian (1999) observed that teaching a class like safety is sometimes difficult as the studentsregard its regulatory nature as is "boring". The need for

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett; Elizabeth Orwin

major. The hands-on engineering design course that was developed wasoffered in addition to the introductory engineering course, which had focused on giving thestudents a feel for engineering through a series of guest speakers and other activities. The revisedsecond semester course had a team-based approach to learning about engineering. Mini-lectureswere given on the engineering design experience and students were given hands-on tasks as wellas an overall design project. The course culminated in a team design competition. We found thatstudent attitude had a significant impact on the course outcome. Students were resistant to thenew approach to varying degrees and indicated that they felt overworked. This paper describes

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Engineering Economy Education Research

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Amber Lehrman; Heather Nachtmann

engineering students about theeffects of uncertainty and how to handle uncertain data. The research plan is presented alongwith a literature review in this area.IntroductionSeveral panel reports in the early 1990s claimed that undergraduate engineers lacked the abilityto succeed in the real world (Bordogna, et al., 1993; ASEE, 1994; National Science Foundation,1995; National Research Council, 1995). Around the same time, Condoor, et al. (1992) reportedthat students tended to primarily use subjective judgment in decision making as opposed toanalytical techniques. The research project discussed in this paper addresses both of theseconcerns. The objectives of this research are twofold: 1) to assess the current state ofengineering student abilities to

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Beatrice Isaacs; Donald Leone; Mohammad Saleh Keshawarz; David Pines

Page 6.629.3 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationtest their knowledge of GIS principles, the students, in a final project, were asked to find asuitable site for a commuter station along a proposed light rail right-of-way. Since there is no“canned” data, as is present in their lab exercises, students learned to download data fromdifferent sources, and perform GIS exercises that lead to potential solutions based on sitingcriteria. Formal maps and a written report were the final product. At the end of the course,students were expected to be able to perform standard GIS analyses using the ArcView

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Hal Nystrom

students. Four captured the streaming videosignal through the web and participated in a telephone conference call during each of theclasses. The other three received videotapes of the classes with a delay of approximatelyone week. In this class each team was responsible to prepare one current eventpresentation, and a final project that required financial analysis based on real-worldinformation that was obtained and analyzed by the team. The projects were relativelyunstructured since the team had a significant freedom to choose the topic, the scope, themethods, the form of analysis and the presentation form. This added difficulty to theproject since they needed to reach consensus about these decisions, without face-to-facemeetings.Because of the

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yongpeng Zhang, Prairie View A&M University; Lin Li, Prairie View A&M University; Xuemin Chen, Texas Southern University

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NSF Grantees

remote laboratory allows students toremotely control the real components or instruments through internet access. Simplified as VR-Lab (Virtual and Remote Laboratories), online laboratories can drastically reduce the cost ofexperimental facilities, and increase the availability of diversified setups. Also, VR-lab can bevisited by students 7/24 via the internet, avoiding complex logistics like staff, scheduling, as wellas commute. In response to the technology trend moving forward to online education, twofaculty members in neighboring institutions are collaborating on the development of virtual andremote functionalities for Engineering Technology laboratories. This paper presents the currentprogress and implementation strategies of the projects

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International Division Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Oxana S. Pantchenko, University of California, Santa Cruz; Philip Jackson; Michael S. Isaacson, University of California, Santa Cruz; Ali DUPE Shakouri, Purdue University

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International

, and several countries. In addition, the students participated in touring a variety ofcompanies in the Bay area, such as, Solyndra, Makani Power, Tesla Motors, and SustainabilityBase at NASA Ames in Mountain View. Additionally, the students attended lectures given byparticipating faculty and guest speakers, and participated in hands-on activities. In the beginningof the program, the students were assigned to work on a project of proposing a 100% SustainableEnergy Community. The choice of size and type of community was left to the students to decide.In groups of five, the students delivered proposals and made final presentations. At the end ofthe program, all the students were asked to answer a questionnaire and provide us with feedback.More

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Culbreth

integrating sensors with microcontrollers used to controlmicrogravity experiments. A biomedical company in Las Vegas also indicated the need forgraduates trained in the use of this same microcontroller. The microcontroller employed by bothcompanies was also used on a research project at the university in assessing radionuclideconcentrations in pipes. This system is shown in figure 1.Although mechanical engineering students have coursework in measurements, controls, andFortran or C programming, they have little familiarity with microcontrollers. In response to theneeds of our research program and local industry in Las Vegas, the mechanical engineeringdepartment developed a microcontrollercourse based on the BASIC Stamp IImanufactured by Parallax, Inc

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

George Homsy

Session 2793 Multi-Media Fluid Mechanics G. M. Homsy Stanford University (Current affiliation: University of California at Santa Barbara)AbstractThis paper summarizes the results of a two-year project sponsored by the National ScienceFoundation (NSF Project “Hypermedia Fluid Mechanics: Teaching Modules for the NextCentury”, NSF/DUE 9752199). This project was a multi-investigator effort to develop a CD-ROM, compatible with a wide range of platforms, processors, and operating systems, containingmultimedia materials for

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Fogler; John T. Bell

procedures that they have been taught.On the other hand, anyone who has ever experienced an accident is likely to remember thatexperience far longer than any set of written safety rules. Obviously we can’t deliberatelyinvolve our students in real accidents just to emphasize the importance of safety, but we can letthem experience virtual accidents, through the use of virtual reality, ( VR )[1-7]. These virtualaccidents will not have the same impact as real accidents, but they will have a more long lastingeffect than written rules on paper.One of the major goals of this project is to create a series of virtual accidents that will have asbroad an impact as possible on a world-wide scale. This goal implies delivering the simulationsvia the world wide