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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Daniel Maggio; Sandra Yost

Session 1692 The Mechatronics Road Show: Building on Success in Mechatronics Curriculum Development Sandra A. Yost, Daniel D. Maggio Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering/ College of Engineering and Science University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MichiganAbstract:This paper describes a progression of successful pre-college programs that have grown from acomprehensive mechatronics curriculum development project sponsored by the National ScienceFoundation’s Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI

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NEE Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Loendorf

Session 3575 Transitioning from Industry to Education: The First Year William R. Loendorf Eastern Washington University School of Computing and Engineering Sciences Department of Engineering Technology and Multimedia DesignAbstractAfter years as an engineering professional in industry, a career transition into a related field wason the horizon. The events at the beginning of the 21st century lead to the downsizing ofnumerous companies and the eventual elimination of countless jobs. As the economy weakened,it became increasingly difficult to

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State of the Art in Freshman Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Steven Brandt; David Hansen; Steven Kuennen; Pamela Neal; Cary Fisher

GET ‘EM WHILE THEY’RE YOUNG! Integrated Engineering for Freshmen Dr. Steven A. Brandt1, Col. Cary A. Fisher2, LtCol. David S. Hansen3, LtCol. Steven T. Kuennen4, Maj. Pamela J. Neal5 United States Air Force Academy Engineering Division 2354 Fairchild Drive, Suite 6L-155 USAF Academy, CO 80840-6240AbstractNothing captures the imagination more than a hands-on, highly-relevant and interactive experience. Thispaper will describe Engineering 100 at the US Air Force Academy, a new freshman core course

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Bahman Motlagh; Walter Buchanan; Alireza Rahrooh

Session 1379 Innovative Technologies in the ET Curriculum Alireza Rahrooh, Farhad Kaffashi, Bahman Motlagh, Walter Buchanan Univ. of Central Florida/Case Western Reserve Univ./ Univ. of Central Florida/ Northeastern UniversityAbstract Closed-loop feedback control system is an important component of a well-roundedengineering technology program. However, since feedback control systems tends to be a rathercomplex topic, students react positively to hands-on experiments that assist them visualizecontrol systems in practical situations, and, in

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Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jerry O'Connor; Dan Dimitriu

Session 2004-676 FORGING STRONGER TIES BETWEEN COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND FOUR YEAR UNIVERSITIES Dan G. Dimitriu, Jerry O’Connor Physics, Engineering, and Architecture Department, San Antonio College This paper is based on a work in progress funded by the National Science Foundation,initiated to address common problems faced by Engineering Programs in Community Colleges. In order for the U.S. to remain competitive in a global, technology-based economy, there is apressing need for more students to prepare for careers in engineering and technology. It iswidely known that engineers are essential to both the private and public sectors, and

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TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

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Paul Burt; Shih-Liang (Sid) Wang

University-Industry Partnership to Enhance Senior Capstone Design Shih-Liang (Sid) Wang Department of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering North Carolina A&T State University Greensboro, NC 27411, USA Paul Burt The Gillette Company Global Business Management Grooming Products Boston, MA 02127, USAMechanical Engineering Capstone DesignThe mechanical engineering senior capstone design course at North Carolina A&T StateUniversity (NC A

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DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Stephan Hussmann; Nitish Patel; Julainne Sumich; Bruce MacDonald; Abbas Bigdeli

Session 1725 Engineering Design in Computer Systems: An Interdisciplinary approach in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Auckland Stephan Hussmanna, Nitish Patela, Bruce MacDonalda, Abbas Bigdelia and Julainne Sumichb a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering / bElam School of Fine Arts University of Auckland Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New ZealandAbstractThis paper reports our recent

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Multidisciplinary Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Bannerot

Session 3125 Adapting the Studio Critique to Large Capstone Design Courses Paul Ruchhoeft Department of Electrical Engineering Richard Bannerot Ross Kastor Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Houston AbstractIn this paper we describe the successful adaptation and application of two techniquesused primarily in teaching the visual arts, the studio and the critique, to a large capstonedesign environment. This new

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ET Capstone Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Chong Chen

Session 3447 Radio-Controlled Robot Lawnmower Chong Chen and Jonathan Derr Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro, TN 37132Abstract This paper presents an engineering technology senior project: radio-controlled robotlawnmower. The lawnmower can go forward and reverse. It can also turn around. The speed ofthe lawnmower is comparable to a push lawnmower. This project involved use of the student’s knowledge acquired from many major courses,which included

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TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

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Wei Zheng; Dong Young Jang; Donald Harby; Yuyi Lin

Teaching Capstone Design in Globalization Environment Yuyi Lin, Donald Harby University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 LinY@missouri.edu Dong Jang, Seoul National University of Technology, Korea Wei Zhen, Xiamen University, China AbstractIn an effort to improve the mutual understanding and communication among future engineers in aglobalization environment, the authors have started to establish a set of common course material anddesign tools for capstone design education. Internationalized course material will be web

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

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Nathan Blackham; Charles Higby; Michael Bailey

Re-Imaging Computers for Multipurpose Labs Charles F. Higby, Nathan Blackham, Brandon Rogers, Michael G. Bailey Brigham Young UniversityAbstractIn lab environments, where multiple computers are used, a method called imaging can be used tohandle the challenge of installing and configuring multiple machines. Imaging is a method thatuses a client server relationship that allows the client to download and install the necessarysoftware, virus updates, and security patches by selecting an image file that resides on a server.Several software components and services are necessary to successfully image a client. First, aDHCP server provides a connection between the client and the image

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Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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Matthew Ohland

Session 1325 Clemson-FujiFilm Partnership for Introducing Design to Freshmen Matthew W. Ohland General Engineering, Clemson UniversityAbstractDetails of a partnership between Clemson University’s General Engineering program andFujiFilm’s Greenwood facility provide an excellent example of an industry-sponsored designproject. Two years of experience with students engaged in design projects based on makingmodifications to Fuji QuickSnap cameras have yielded creative results, and descriptions andphotos of the more interesting designs are available. The grading criteria for both the

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Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Kukulka

Session 3133 Development of Energy Design Projects at Buffalo State College to meet TAC/ABET Outcomes David J. Kukulka Buffalo State College, Mechanical Engineering Technology Program, 1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York 14222Students completing their studies in the Mechanical Engineering Technology Program at BuffaloState College (BSC) are required to complete a senior design project. The Accreditation Boardfor Engineering and Technology (ABET) has developed a set of learning outcomes used to guidefaculty in assessing the effectiveness of

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Z. Carpenter; J. C. Diaz; G. R. Kane

Small Autonomous Mobile Robots for Teaching Introductory Programming to Engineering Students Z. Carpenter, J. C. Diaz, Ph.D., G. R. Kane, Ph.D., P.E. EE-U Tulsa, CS-U Tulsa, EE-U TulsaAbstract:Spirit and Opportunity, the mobile robots or rovers on the surface of Mars, motivated theconstruction of a fleet of rovers with various capabilities and sensors to be used to teachintroductory programming. The rovers were designed and built by the students in our EEsenior level robotics class using mostly off-the-shelf components. The rovers weredesigned to be programmed to achieve a series of predefined tasks autonomously such asline following, wall hugging, and pick and place. The

Conference Session

Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

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2004 Annual Conference

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J. Mark Pullen

Low-Cost Internet Synchronous Distance Education Using Open-Source Software J. Mark Pullen, Priscilla M. McAndrews School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason UniversityAbstractIn the School of Information Technology and Engineering at George Mason University, we haveintegrated a suite of open-source software for teaching simultaneously in the classroom and overthe Internet. The system uses five open-source components from other groups plus a masterclient, live server, and playback server that we have developed. All software is available at nocost to educational users and runs on low-cost Windows or Linux systems. We have presentedabout thirty

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Industry-Based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Rothaupt

the capstone courses in the Manufacturing Engineering (MfE) program at Universityof Wisconsin-Stout has focused almost exclusively upon industrial sponsored projects. Thecapstone course is a two semester sequence where the first semester course focuses uponresearch and design of a product and the building of a mock-up. The second semester is todesign and build a functional automated machine to produce a product. Projects are managed byteams of students, industry contacts and faculty advisors. Projects completed in the past havevaried from food production to robotic welding cells. In order for the students to complete theseextensive projects the curriculum at UW-Stout has been designed to provide the students with a‘technical toolbox’ which

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Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Rachel Shinn

Session 1123 Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics for Undergraduates Dr. Rachel Shinn Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZAbstractTeaching spacecraft attitude dynamics to undergraduate students is a challenging proposition.The subject has a hefty mathematical base that poses a significant challenge to many aerospaceengineering undergraduate students. The challenge for the instructor is to provide a coursewhere students can begin to build their intuition and give them tools to predict how spacecraftbehave in space, without the force of gravity. Building this

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Whalen; Chris Fernandes

Session 1520 Data Warehousing from the Web Chris Fernandes and Michael Whalen Department of Computer Science Union College Schenectady, NY 12308AbstractData warehousing is the ability to collect information from various data repositories and combinethem into a single structured repository that can be queried for new information such asperformance trends, decision modeling, predictions, and association rules. Internet web sites aredata repositories containing useful but unstructured data. In this paper, we

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Entrepreneurship Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mark Barker; David Hall

Teaching Innovative Product Development Skills to Freshmen Engineering Students J. Mark Barker and David Hall Mechanical Engineering Program College of Engineering and Science Louisiana Tech UniversityIntroductionA new course of instruction has been developed and delivered on a pilot basis at Louisiana TechUniversity. The goal of this course sequence is to provide freshman engineering studentsselected tools essential to innovative product development and to provide them the opportunityto use these skills in a product development project.The development of this course of

Conference Session

Design And Manufacturing Experiences I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Timothy Hunt; Eduardo Ortega; David Miller; Alfred Striz

. It is propelled by a N-size solidrocket engine and is expected to climb to about 22,000 ft with a maximum speed of Mach 1.5.The instrumentation includes an accelerometer, temperature and pressure sensors to measure thelocation and behavior of the shock wave during the supersonic flight phase, and strain gauges forthe determination of the structural behavior of the rocket. This rocket was finally launched inNovember of 2003.At various times during the planning, assembly, and instrumentation phases of the project,participants included local high school students, college students from sophomores to graduates,and an OU alumnus with high-power rocketry experience. Students participated in various ways:on a voluntary basis, by signing up for a

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Pat Ackerman; Kathy Brockway; Raju Dandu; Pedro Leite; Jimmy Splichal

Tapping in to the Power of ‘The Community Classroom’ Pat Ackerman, Kathy Brockway, Raju Dandu, Pedro Leite, Jimmy Splichal Kansas State University - SalinaAll too often, the college educational experience exists exclusively within the confines oftraditional classrooms. Consider the possibilities of expanding the college educationalexperience from the college classroom into the larger community classroom.Faculty members at Kansas State University-Salina accepted the challenge to transform thetraditional educational setting to enhance student learning. A new method of enrichment,service-learning, has been incorporated into the educational

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Understanding Students: Cognition

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2004 Annual Conference

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Lawrence Genalo

Session 1330 Piaget and Engineering Education Lawrence J. Genalo, Denise A. Schmidt, Melanie Schiltz Iowa State UniversityAbstractThomas Edison was a noted engineer while Jean Piaget made his fame in children’s educationalpsychology. Piaget’s “cognitive constructivism” has been adopted in many early childhoodprograms, but it also applies to engineering education and its “hands-on” approach, especially inlaboratories and project-based courses. The direction of education dramatically shifted whenJean Piaget developed a child-centered developmental learning theory. According to his

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sue Ellen Haupt; Jessica Gregory

Planning Approach for the Society of Women Engineers Mentoring Girl Scouts Sue Ellen Haupt, Jessica D. Gregory Utah State University/ Pennsylvania State University Abstract Utah State University College of Engineering is actively working on recruiting and retaining women in engineering. This project is one that combines the two toward affecting both goals at once. The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) section at USU has organized a mentoring system with the local Girl Scout council. The primary idea is a top-down mentoring approach where activities are designed and run by women and girls that are a step ahead of the participants. In

Conference Session

Technological Literacy II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Steven VanderLeest

line of thought. Starting with Kranzberg’sassertion that “technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral” I explore the culturalappropriateness of technology as a sign of inherent bias. This leads to a brief examination ofmental models of technology as an approach to understanding how the unintended consequencesof a technology may not be as haphazard as first appears. With these concepts as background, Ianalyze the means by which bias is built into each stage of the design process. Carl Mitcham hassuggested that a fruitful area of further investigation would be to examine how this bias can beidentified in the structures of the technological products themselves. I conclude with some initialideas on approaches to such an analysis, e.g

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Teaching Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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Russell Frame

Session 2125 Integrating PLM Methods into the Undergraduate Curriculum Russell T. Frame, Charles Pezeshki, M. Grant Norton School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164Abstract The methodology used to design new products is changing as computertechnology advances. Companies worldwide are adopting Product Lifecycle Management(PLM) solutions to stay competitive. This technology allows control of all aspects of thedesign process from initial concept to obsolescence and disposal. A database manages allinformation, controls access to data, and lets

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Goff

2004-486 Engineering Faculty Sabbatical – It could be the time of your life! Richard M. Goff, Ph.D., Associate Professor College of Engineering, Virginia TechAn emerging trend - follow your dream to bring joy and passion to your students.AbstractIn the fall of 2002, after serving seven years on the faculty of the Division of EngineeringFundamentals at Virginia Tech teaching primarily first year engineering students and sitting onnumerous committees, I decided to make a move to be more involved in industry to see what“real engineers” actually do these days. I didn’t choose just any

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TYCD 2004 Lower Division Initatives

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2004 Annual Conference

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Eric Granlund

SESSION 2586ENGINEERING DESIGN, INVENTION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP FORBACCALAUREATE AND ASSOCIATE DEGREE ENGINEERING STUDENTSAT PENN STATE ALTOONA COLLEGE Eric Granlund, Sohail Anwar The Pennsylvania State University, Altoona CollegeAbstractThis paper describes some of the methods used in teaching engineering design and theinventing process to freshman baccalaureate engineering students in their introductoryengineering design course ED&G 100. In this course students were asked to invent a newproduct, material, or process that would be marketable. The students could also choose todevelop a modification of an

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Ethics & HSS in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ethan Brue

Session No: 3261 An Integral Approach to Teaching History across the Engineering Curriculum Ethan Brue Dordt CollegeThe debate is as old as the profession and the sought after answer remains almost as elusive andambiguous today as it did a century ago. What is the role of humanities courses in engineeringeducation? How many liberal arts courses requirements should an engineering student take?What do these courses accomplish? Even in the brief history of the engineering profession andthe subsequent accreditation movement in engineering education, a consensus has never

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Murphy

Session 1648 Building Safety Education into Engineering Curriculum David L. Murphy The University of North Carolina at Charlotte “The chapter of accidents is the longest chapter in the book” – John Wilkes Workplace injury and the associated costs significantly erode employer profit margins. Anestimated seven percent of profits are spent, directly or indirectly, as a result of a workplaceinjury. An effective illustration is that of an iceberg. The tip of the iceberg (the smallest yetmost visible part) represents the actual cost of the injury, such as medical

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Will Kim; Jeffrey Tisa; Peter Jansson

2308 Undergraduate Research and Innovation: Inexpensive Remote Campus Power Monitoring via Student Designed and Manufactured System Peter Mark Jansson, Jeffrey Tisa, William Kim Rowan UniversityAbstract Rowan University consists of nearly forty buildings spread out over a large suburban campus.While some of the perimeter buildings are served directly from the local power company, manyof the core buildings receive their electrical power from the University's 4kV grid. This grid isfed by both the local utility and an on-site cogeneration system. A recent energy study of