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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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John Mirth; David Kunz

Asking Better Questions – Making Connections Through Developing Inquisitiveness John Mirth, Ph.D. David Kunz, Ph.D. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering University of Wisconsin – Platteville Platteville, WI 53818 “Could it be the questions tell us more than the answers ever do?” – Michael CardAbstract: The nature of engineering education tends to put students in a problem-solvingenvironment. Given a particular challenge, the student becomes focused on obtaining asolution to some homework problem, exam question, lab experiment, design project or othertask. Such exercises provide

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Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

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2004 Annual Conference

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Cedric Walker; Carol Mullenax

groups (2-3 students per session), (2) promote interaction with the graduate studentpopulation, and (3) enthuse the students about research and engineering. Although limited paywas available, the major plus for the instructors was the opportunity to create, lead, and modify(based on experience) a small teaching module. Students rated the lab sessions and could postcomments visible both to the instructors and other students. Students used these ratings to helpdecide which labs in which to enroll.Several aspects of this program differed from standard lab courses. Through an innovativecourse management website, instructors and students both had unprecedented schedulingflexibility both in the selection and attendance of lab sessions. There was

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Leadership in the Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

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Anna Phillips-Lambert; Charles Camp; Paul Palazolo

2004-824 Changing the paradigm of power in the classroom to teach, promote, and evaluate leadership training within an existing Civil Engineering curriculum Authors: P. Palazolo, C. Camp, A. Lambert, E. Lambert, N. Dennis University of Memphis/University of Memphis/University of Memphis/ University of Memphis/ University of ArkansasAbstract:This project evolved out of three years’ worth of data from junior/senior-level engineeringmajors who completed both pre and post-semester surveys asking them to rate their perceptionsof preparation and training in a variety of areas. Not surprisingly, the majority of

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International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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Harry Koehnemann; Barbara Gannod

Session 3661 Experiences Using Student Project to Create University Business Applications Harry Koehnemann and Barbara D. Gannod Arizona State University EastAbstractEngineers (both hardware and software) are continually developing and testing processesto create systems “better, faster, and cheaper.” A variety of software processes have beendeveloped by the software enginnering community toward this end. Among theseprocesses are eXtreme Programming (XP), Crystal, Feature Driven Development, and theRational Unified Process (RUP).1 To be attractive to potential employers

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Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ligia Carvallo; David Mikolaitis; Norman Fitz-Coy; Raluca Rosca

Session 3120 Developing Innovative Multimedia Instructional Modules for Control Flow Theory Raluca I. Rosca, David Mikolaitis, Norman Fitz-Coy, Ligia Carvallo Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Florida/ School of Art and Art History, University of FloridaAbstractIn this paper the development of prototype instructional modules for teaching Control FlowTheory is discussed. The modules are intended for use by practicing engineers as a self-paced,asynchronous, personalized learning material, either on-line or off-line. First, the motivation

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New Electrical ET Course Development

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2004 Annual Conference

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Glenn Blackwell

Session 2548 Sophomore Project/Capstone Course Glenn R. Blackwell ECET - Purdue University West Lafayette, IN blackwell@purdue.eduabstract:This paper describes a new project course in ECET at Purdue University. It is a course taken bystudents in their 4th semester of the 2+2 ECET program, and may be considered a capstonecourse for the AS degree. In it the students must work with a time plan, and must follow adesign guide that has them combine both analog and digital

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Life Sciences and ChE

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2004 Annual Conference

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Vyas Harinath; Pfumai Kuzviwanza; Jianzhong Lou; Leonard Uitenham; Keith Schimmel

Session #3613 Biodegradable Polymer Characterization Laboratory Unit Keith A. Schimmel, Jianzhong Lou, Pfumai Kuzviwanza, Arvind Vyas Harinath, Leonard Uitenham North Carolina A&T State UniversityAbstractA current research area of significant environmental, economic, and scientific importance isbiodegradable polymers.1-4 Biodegradable polymers is also an area that has great promise forbeing used to integrate life science into the chemical engineering curriculum. To this point,however, high quality laboratory manuals on biodegradable polymers have not been developed.Therefore

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Curriculum Development in Information Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

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C. Richard Helps; Michael Bailey

Session 1450 Assessing Information Validity in an Internet Age C. Richard G. Helps, Michael G. Bailey Brigham Young UniversityAbstractStudents and technical professionals have come to rely heavily on the Internet as a technicalreference resource. They need to be aware of the validity issues of these resources and how toassess validity.Historically technical professionals have obtained information from a variety of printedresources. The validity of the printed information was assured through a combination of internaland external mechanisms, the most prominent of which was

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Tricks of the Trade: Outside Class

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2004 Annual Conference

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Marybeth Lima

publishing papers and pursuing grants early in their careers; networkthree to four hours a week with mentors and colleagues; and spend time on things outsideof work other than their jobs. This is an excellent approach!I compiled this list of tips when I was asked to speak to new faculty at LSU about how tosucceed on the tenure track. I have expanded and evolved these tips with the help ofmany wise people and with the sometimes harsh reality of experience. Though they aregeared primarily toward engineering faculty at Research I institutions, I have includedinformation useful for everyone teaching at the college level.1. Don’t be a perfectionist!!!! The academic career ladder is strewn with the wrecked careers of perfectionists!!! (see #2 for

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Design for Community

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2004 Annual Conference

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Timothy Prestero; Neil Cantor

Session 2625 Design that Matters: Connecting Engineering Students with Underserved Communities Timothy Prestero, Neil Cantor Design that Matters1. IntroductionIn this paper, we give an overview of the collaborative design process that we have built toaddress unmet needs in underserved communities while at the same time educating engineeringstudents about their capacity to create positive social change. The process description ismotivated by a specific example—the design of a tool for adult literacy education in developingcountries. We

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Technology and Tools for IE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Chris Dilorenzo; Kurt Gramoll

Session 3157 Web-based Information Management of Demilitarization Technology Trees at the Defense Ammunition Center Christopher Dilorenzo and Kurt Gramoll School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering The University of OklahomaAbstractVisualization of information is a useful method of education in industry and interactiveapplications are beneficial to many institutions. Vast amounts of information need to bestructured in a manor which will promote access and manipulation of the content for training andeducation in industry and at learning

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Recruiting and Building Diversity

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2004 Annual Conference

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Paul Johnson; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Session 2492 Encouraging Underrepresented Minority and Women Students to Become Interested in Research and to Attain Graduate Degrees Mary R. Anderson-Rowland Paul C. Johnson Arizona State UniversityAbstractAlthough the numbers of underrepresented minority and women students have been slowlyincreasing during the last decade at the undergraduate level, a similar increase has not occurredat the graduate level for minority students. The percentage of women pursuing an advanceddegree in engineering (20%) is slightly higher than women

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Materials Science for Nonmajors

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jamie Workman

introductory Materials Science course their very first semester. Lacking the basicchemistry and engineering mechanics fundamentals, most of the concepts presented inthis course are completely foreign to the students. The absence of the fundamentalscoupled with the students’ naiveté about materials, products, and processes requires aslightly different approach in the classroom.The MET program is a manufacturing based curriculum that emphasizes mechanicaldesign, processing, and analysis. The information the students receive in the materialscourse will be encountered again in several of their major classes, but more from a designor manufacturing standpoint. The students need something they can relate to nowbecause it is uncommon to have the foresight and

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Nontraditional Ways to Engage Students

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2004 Annual Conference

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Thomas O'Neal; Thomas Jacobius; Joseph Steig; Arnold Heggestad; Abigail Barrow; Phil Weilerstein; David Barbe

Session 1354 Invention to Venture: Inspiring Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Phil Weilerstein* and Joseph Steig, David Barbe, Abigail Barrow, Thomas O’Neal, Arnold A. Heggestad, Thomas M. Jacobius National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance/University of Maryland/University of California, San Diego/University of Central Florida/University of Florida/Illinois Institute of TechnologyAbstractUnited States colleges and universities have a tremendous untapped entrepreneurial resource intheir students and faculty. Despite the emergence of substantial and

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Veeramuthu Rajaravivarma

Session 1793 Practical Network Tools V. Rajaravivarma Computer Electronics, School of Technology Central Connecticut State University New Britain, CT 06050, USA RajaravivarmaV@ccsu.eduAbstractThis paper discusses ten practical commands useful in troubleshooting and solvingnetwork problems. These commands will be helpful for students in networking curriculaand for entry-level network administrators. Troubleshooting is often a process ofelimination. While troubleshooting problems, network

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Virtual Instrumentation

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2004 Annual Conference

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Narciso Macia

Session 3559 AUTOMATIC LIQUID LEVEL CONTROLLER USING A LABVIEW BASED PC James D. Wagoner, N. F. Macia Department of Electronics & Computer Technology Arizona State University EastAbstractA liquid level control system was designed and fabricated to control the level of a liquid in awater tank that had a randomly varying inlet. Control of the water level

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Matthew Metzger; Polly Piergiovanni; S. Scott Moor

Session 1526 Learning Process Control with LEGOs® S. Scott Moor, Polly R. Piergiovanni and Matthew Metzger Lafayette CollegeIntroduction One of the key challenges of undergraduate engineering education is providing studentsan experience that includes both solid theoretical underpinnings and a clear connection toindustrial practice. This is especially important for process control, where students often find itdifficult to connect the mathematical analysis with a practical application. Over the last 18 months, we have developed inexpensive and flexible

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Curriculum Development in MFG ET

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2004 Annual Conference

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Shawn Strong; Scott Amos; Richard Callahan

Session 3247 Developing Practical Skills for Quality Assurance and Metrology Applications in Manufacturing Richard N. Callahan, Scott J. Amos, Shawn D. Strong Southwest Missouri State UniversityIntroductionSound quality control practices can be critical to the success of a company in the highlycompetitive global environment. Implementing product changes quickly to meet acceleratingcustomer demands and expectations can challenge both the quality system and the associatedpersonnel. Companies strive to establish a strong quality management team and effective

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jay Porter

Session 3449 Teaching Applied Electromagnetics to Engineering Technology Students J. R. Porter Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843Abstract In a world where computer bus speeds have increased beyond 1 GHz and wirelesscommunications/connectivity are common place, electronics and telecommunication engineeringtechnology (ET) graduates require an understanding of basic applied electromagnetic concepts.To address this issue, many ET programs now offer

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Colleen Duran; John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

buffer overflow error in the finger command of the UNIX-based computer system.By not specifying a maximum buffer length, programmers had allowed this worm to fill the readbuffer and overflow into memory until it had overwritten the return address in the stack buffer.But that was 1988, ancient history in the computer age, surely this could not happen today!Unfortunately, this is not the case. Recently, a buffer overflow was found to be the culprit in theCode Red II Worm; a buffer overflow in the indexing service used by specific Microsoft versionsrunning on particular Windows platforms allowed remote trespassers to execute code oncompromised machines.Buffer overflow can be used by malicious intruders, but it can also cause errors without

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ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Gabriele

Product Design and Innovation: Combining the Social Sciences, Design, and Engineering Gary A. Gabriele1, Frances Bronet 2, Larry Kagan3, Ron Eglash4, David Hess5, and Barbara Seruya6 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 12180IntroductionIt is increasingly evident that new products and services must be regarded not only ascommodities in a marketplace, but also as social actors that can constrain or enable the quality ofour life. In recognition of these two perspectives, Product Design and Innovation (PDI) is a newundergraduate dual degree program at Rensselaer that seeks to

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Orr; Richard Vaz

Session xxxx Experiences in the Transition from an EE major to an ECE Major John A. Orr, Richard F. Vaz Worcester Polytechnic Institute1. IntroductionWith receipt of program accreditation by ABET, retroactively effective to graduates of the classof 2001-02, the transition from WPI’s 100-year old Electrical Engineering major to a new degreeprogram in Electrical and Computer Engineering is almost complete. For some time there hadbeen recognition on the part of both students and faculty at WPI of the growing importance ofcomputer engineering to the profession

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ECE Laboratory Development & Innovations

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2004 Annual Conference

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Luke Niiler; David Beams

" inengineering education, including written communication skills. Written reports in laboratoryclasses in electrical engineering at the University of Texas at Tyler have been required since theinception of the engineering program in 1997, but the low quality of written reports producedearly in the history of the program made it apparent that engineering students lacked the abilityto construct coherent reports. The response to this problem was the development of a publishedLaboratory Report Style Guide to which written laboratory reports are now required to conform.This paper traces the development of the Style Guide, describes its use in the curriculum, anddocuments the improvements in student writing realized through its use.Why a Style Guide was

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmet Zeytinci; Philip Brach

2004-1793 EXPERIENCES IN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPOSING CIVIL ENGINEERING STUDENTS TO RESEARCH AT AN INSTITUTION WITH NO ENGINEERING GRADUATE PROGRAMS Philip L. Brach, Ph.D., P.E., F-NSPE, Ahmet Zeytinci, Ph.D., P.E. Distinguished Professor / Professor and Chairman Engineering University of the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C. AbstractThe Engineering Programs at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) solicitedsupport from the Xerox Corporation to initiate a research experience for undergraduate studentssimilar to Graduate Research Fellowships (GRF). For over 20 years

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Entrepreneurship Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Gibson; Dorene Perez; Rose Marie Lynch

Making Industry Meaningful in College Dorene Perez, Jim Gibson, Rose Marie Lynch Illinois Valley Community CollegeMaking Industry Meaningful in College (MIMIC) is an innovative, multidisciplinarycurriculum project that places students from engineering design, electronics, and business intoentrepreneurial teams to select, design, prototype, manufacture, and market a product. Itspurpose is to provide students with opportunities to implement and sharpen their technical andother critical workplace skills in a simulated industrial setting. Pioneered at a comprehensivecommunity college, MIMIC is adaptable to a variety of disciplines and to a variety of schoolsettings from

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Service Learning in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Chandler; dean fontenot

Session 3161 Integrating Service Learning Into Engineering Communications Courses A. Dean Fontenot, Ph. D. and John R. Chandler, Ph. D. College of Engineering, Texas Tech UniversityAbstractAs one of the 840 participants in the National Campus Compact program, Texas TechUniversity (TTU) is adopting service learning as a viable learning tool for students. TheCollege of Engineering (COE) is integrating service learning into the IndustrialEngineering (IE) Communications course, helping students to develop an understandingof civic participation and how that participation augments

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Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ilya Grinberg

Session 1133 Experiments with Electrical Motors in Distance Learning Environment: Operating Lab-Volt Electro-Mechanical System Using Web-Based Tools From National Instruments Ilya Grinberg, Ronald C. Matusiak Buffalo State CollegeAbstractRecent years gave a significant boost to distance learning (on-line) educational delivery.However, laboratory component was represented by simulation or remote operation of eitherstatic or small-size dynamic devices1, 2. Few advances have been made in remote control

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Trends in Mechanics Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sean St.Clair; Nelson Baker

Session 1168 Formative Evaluation of Assessment Instruments for Statics Sean St.Clair and Nelson Baker Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstractThis paper describes a formative study that took place within the context of a larger projectinvestigating the effects of technology on knowledge retention. In the larger project, studentswere evaluated at various points in time to assess their levels of learning and retention. Thepurpose of the formative study was not to assess students, but to evaluate the pretests, posttests,and examination questions that were later used to assess students

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Integrating Math into Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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ed conley

Session 1465 Measuring true strain - an application of the logarithm Edgar Conley Mechanical Engineering Department New Mexico State University Las Cruces, NM 88003Capitalizing on their increasing control of the material world, design engineers will soonincorporate high-strain elastomers and biology-mimicking materials into critically stressedstructural components [1]. ‘High-strain is described by a simple and essential mathematicalconcept to which engineering students are uniformly exposed

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sean Holleran; Elaine Chan; Chad Rasmussen; Alan McGaughey

Session 3555 ASEE Student Chapters: Avenues for Promoting Future Engineering Educators Elaine R. Chan, Sean P. Holleran, Alan J. H. McGaughey, Chadwick C. Rasmussen University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MIAbstractThe University of Michigan (UM) ASEE Student Chapter continues to thrive as an activegraduate student organization dedicated to providing a forum for furthering excellence inengineering education. The organization sponsors numerous events to help graduate studentsprepare for careers in academia, to help undergraduate