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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Use of Technology in Design Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Massi, University of Central Florida; Salih Safa Bacanli, University of Central Florida; Pamela J. Wisniewski, Vanderbilt University; Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

CAREER Award, and her research has been featured by popular news media outlets, including Scientific American, ABC News, NPR, Psychology Today, and U.S. News and World Report.Dr. Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida Damla Turgut is Charles Millican Professor of Computer Science at University of Central Florida. She has secondary joint appointments in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the UCF Resilient, Intelligent and Sustainable Energy Systems (RISES) Cluster. She is the co-director of the AI Things Laboratory. She received her PhD from the Computer Science and Engineering Department of University of Texas at Arlington. She held visiting researcher positions at University of Rome “La

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division (IND) Technical Session 4

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Israa Azzam, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Farid Breidi, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Faisal Aqlan, University of Louisville; Jose M Garcia, Purdue University; Paul Asunda, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Industrial Engineering Division (IND)

disciplines has summoned researchersand educators to adopt interactive teaching techniques for reinforcing students’ spatial skills.Educators across different engineering fields have been exploring digital technologies, fromweb-based to immersive applications, to serve as spatial learning platforms, keeping pace withrapid technological advancements in education [16], [17].2.1 Web-Based Applications for Improving Spatial VisualizationSome researchers have been developing and incorporating digital interactive web-basedapplications into engineering laboratories to reinforce the students’ spatial abilities. For instance,a group of researchers developed an Interactive Learning Management System (ILMS) to beemployed as a web-based launch assistant learning

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15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE)

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Joshua Eron Stone, University of Maryland College Park; Forrest Milner, University of Maryland College Park; Abigail Guicheteau, University of Maryland College Park

Paper ID #45101Full Paper: A Cloud-Based Approach to Introducing Machine Learning inProject-Based Learning EnvironmentsJoshua Eron Stone, University of Maryland College Park Laboratory Teaching Assistant for the University of Maryland’s flagship introduction to engineering course, and undergraduate Computer Engineering student.Forrest Milner, University of Maryland College Park Undergraduate Engineering Student at the University of Maryland, College Park. A. James Clark School of Engineering. Interested in projects relating to electronics and batteries, which you can check out on my website, forrestfire0.github.io. I

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2023 CIEC

Authors

Hiren Gami

accessible optimizedlibraries to implement standard embedded systems protocols to configure sensors and actuators.More recently, it is a tradition in embedded software/firmware design.This course is intended for college-level students who possess the basics of programming andsome level of insight into microcomputer architecture. They should have introductory commandover basic computer programming and logic design. Although a C programming background ishighly effective, it is not exclusively required though. There are a few modules dedicated tobrush-up C programming skills.Course ObjectivesStudents are independently performing laboratory exercises on their own purchased embeddedsystems board. An educational goal of this course is built on fundamental

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2023 CIEC

Authors

Benjamin Gaston; Ramy Harik; Kuis Alva; Jesse Warren

Prototyping Laboratory. The students use the caliper tomeasure the variable of interest, then the reading is saved in the computer and immediatelyplotted in the monitor. FSWorks™ has been programmed to plot the data in real time and to showdeviations respect to the preset upper and lower limits. The software calculates the differentstatistical parameters such as average, media, standard deviation and creates histograms, bargraphs, linear graphs, etc., for the student to visualize and learn about product data trends. TwoDell 65-in 4K Interactive Touch Monitors are used to display the graphs in the classroom. Figure1 shows the Data Acquisition Station in the classroom. Figure 2 shows the process of taking a Proceedings of the 2023

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2023 CIEC

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Maged Mikhail; Hassan Hayajneh

in engineering technology laboratories and to enhance students’ hands-on skills usinginnovative technology. The steps of the design are discussed and explained. As mentioned, thehardware and software were donated by the LinMot USA, and the project marks a collaborationbetween PNW and the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI).IntroductionManufacturing processes use different types of linear actuators such as hydraulic, pneumatic, andelectromechanical. Electromagnetic actuators are another type of linear actuator/motor (LinMot)that uses the electromagnetic-mechanical principle to convert electrical and mechanical energyinto one another [1]. Without the need of mechanical gearboxes, spindles, or belts asintermediaries, the linear

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2023 CIEC

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Maged Mikhail; Hassan Hayajneh

), driven bysupport from the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI) Foundation and the“PMMI U Skills Fund” exemplifies that unity. Using industry-standard software, equipment, andresources, like that provided by LinMot Inc. USA, allows students and workforce trainees tolearn using the newest equipment, learn about emerging technologies in packaging andprocessing, and provide a pipeline of workforce-ready talent. In this paper, the authors explainthe steps to design, fabricate, and build a testbed trainer to be used with the existing trainers inthe hands-on activity laboratories, student/industry projects, and capstone design. This project isa good tool for students to practice utilizing innovative technology and hands-on skills using

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2024 CIEC

Authors

Maged Mikhail; Peter Zafiro

bysupport from the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI) Foundation and the“PMMI U Skills Fund” exemplifies that unity. Using industry-standard software, equipment,and resources, like that provided by LinMot USA, allows students and workforce trainees tolearn about the newest equipment, learn about emerging technologies in packaging andprocessing, and provides a pipeline of workforce-ready talent. In this paper, the author explainsthe steps to design, fabricate, and build a testbed trainer to be used with the existing trainers inthe hands-on activity laboratories, student/industry projects, and capstone design. This project isa good tool for students to practice innovative technology hands-on skills using anelectromagnetic linear

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Vojin Nikolic

A HANDS-ON APPROACH TO TEACHING FRESHMEN DESIGN Vojin Nikolic Minnesota State University Mankato 2002 North Midwest Section Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education Technology-Enhanced Learning October 10-12, 2002, Madison, Wisconsin Abstract The structure of a freshmen engineering design course is presented. The courserepresents a well-balanced blend of lectures, laboratories, and practical design work, aswell as factory tours and field trips and other contacts with practicing engineers. It

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Murat Tanyel

Aesthetics of Computer Aided Tools for Signal Processing”, in preparation for Proceedings of 64t h Annual ASEE North Midwest Section Meeting, Madison, WI, Oct. 2002.8. Gorter, H., Matherly, B., MPSK Demo Project Report, EGR 363 Project Report, Dordt College, Sioux Center, IA, May 2002.MURAT TANYELMurat Tanyel is a professor of engineering at Dordt College. He teaches upper level electrical engineering courses.Prior to teaching at Dordt College, Dr. Tanyel taught at Drexel University where he worked for the EnhancedEducational Experience for Engineering Students (E4) project, setting up and teaching laboratory and hands-oncomputer experiments for engineering freshmen and sophomores. For one semester, he was also a visiting professorat the

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2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Mel I. Mendelson

. Booker and E. Boysen, Nanotechnology for Dummies, Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.6. I.E. Alcoma, DNA Technology: The Awesome Skill, 2nd ed., Harcourt Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 2001.7. Mosquito’s eye, http://www.mos.org/sln/sem/intro.html.8. J.J. Brophy, Basic Electronics for Scientists, 3rd edition, p. 148, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1977.9. M. Mendelson, “Molecular Bio-Nanotechnology Experiment in the Classroom,” 87th Annual Meeting of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Pacific Division, Proceedings Vol. 25, pp. 44, 80,University of San Diego, CA, June 18-22, 2006.10. Sandia National Laboratories, http://www.mems.sandia.gov.11. T.A. McMahon, J.T. Bonner, On Size and Life, p. 39, Scientific American Books

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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Kyu-Jung Kim; Amir Rezaei

many years through continuous revision of the existing modules and addition ofnew modules for fully interactive computer-aided instruction of machine design lecture and labclasses at Cal Poly Pomona in an attempt to alleviate the burden of many trivial and time-consuming calculations but to solve complex open-ended computer assignment problems andterm projects for improved understanding on machine design. A realistic design analysis andsynthesis project is presented to demonstrate efficacy of the mechanical design toolbox inclassroom and laboratory settings.Introduction Machine design is a required course for junior/senior level students in most mechanicalengineering curricula nationwide. This advanced course is taken at the end of the

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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Peg Pankowski

included.IntroductionApplications for accreditation, along with accreditation visits, are stressful times for all collegesand universities. The previous NWCCU accreditation visit to the college yielded arecommendation that student learning outcomes be defined and consistently assessed for allprograms of the college and that the assessments clearly inform the planning process of thecollege to drive improvement. At that time, the college adopted a framework for assessment thatattempted to link programs to the college mission. Engineering technology faculty had listedspecific student outcomes such as “construct, test and verify the operation of various digitalcircuits” and indicated that tests and laboratory reports would be used as measurement devices.Unfortunately

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Taufik Taufik; Dale Dolan

Work-In-Progress: Enhancing Students’ Learning in Introductory Power Electronic Course Using an LED Driver Project Taufik, Dale Dolan California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoAbstractThis paper presents a new hardware project assignment introduced in the first course of powerelectronics at Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo. The new project is a culmination ofseries of experiments in the laboratory portion of the course. There are several objectives forassigning the project. First, the project is aimed to enhance students’ learning by exposingstudents to practical issues in dc-dc converter designs. Secondly

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Fabricio Braga Soares de Carvalho; Orlando Rocha Baiocchi; Robert Friedman

relevant achievement of the conjoint research is the possibility to apply for external fundingboth in Brazil and the US. There is great potential for external funding from agencies such as theDepartments of Agriculture, Energy, Defense, Homeland Security, as well as by the NationalScience Foundation, PNNL, NIST, NOA and Nature Conservancy. In Brazil, CAPES13 andCNPq14 are the main public agencies supporting finance and logistical needs to help expand thelevel of scientific research in the country.Preliminary results of the cooperation allow the expansion of the research scope to includeadvanced centers in wireless communications field. Cooperation has been established with theNorthwest Laboratory for Electromagnetics and Acoustic Research (NEAR)15

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2013 GSW

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Eric Haney; Lex Gonzalez; Amen Omoragbon; Thomas McCall; Xiao Peng; Vincent Ricketts; Jon Crosley; Bernd Chudoba

Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright 2013, American Society for Engineering Educationthe modern engineer is the overabundance of information, and the lack of time and emphasis bymost engineering environments to utilize historic documents, thus lessons learned. It is theintention of the Aerospace Vehicle Design (AVD) Laboratory at the University of Texas atArlington to demonstrate with an example best-practice design re-engineering case study, howtoday’s engineers can leverage a historic project like Project Mercury to gain insight andincrease systems-level design proficiency.Project Mercury IntroductionProject Mercury was a

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2013 GSW

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Nripendra N. Sarker; Mohan A. Ketkar

connecting wires leading to power and ground connections of the board. When inputsand outputs are connected together with the chips themselves being connected to implement acircuit, it becomes a nightmare to debug any single bug in the circuit. The bugs could beanywhere, from wrong circuit design, to wrong connections, loose pins or the board itself being aproblem. It does not need to wait long to see students getting frustrated with the lab.Considering all these practical problems faced in the laboratory, we decided to upgrade the labwith three objectives 1. Make the lab hour an enthusiastic period of learning by removing all unnecessary hurdles in completing each lab with satisfaction 2. Complete the lab syllabus on time

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

William W. Ryan; Tiffany Wiederstein; Danny King; Malcolm Fowler

, and the universitycommunity. This board helps the Academy’s leadership to build and improve the academicprogram. Secondly, the university component has been used to advise the Board primarily onthe academic standards that are required by the university community. Some of the standardsinputs have been the amount of homework required, prescribed study habits, communicationstandards for laboratory report writing and oral presentation of material, and social lifeinvolvement. "Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Christi L. Patton; Daniel W. Crunkleton; John M. Henshaw; Douglas Jussaume; Robert L. Strattan

at Argonne National Laboratory inpartnership with GM with the cooperation of many industrial sponsors. The target vehicleis the 2005 Chevrolet Equinox.The three-year program plan follows a vehicle development process similar to that usedin the automotive industry to develop new products. During the first year, the team’sfocus was on simulation and design studies with limited hardware testing. This optimizesthe design before investing in major hardware assembly and testing. An Equinox wasawarded to each team at the end of the first year. During the next year, the designinnovations developed during the first year studies will be installed and tested. The thirdyear provides for refinement of the design and enabling all of the vehicle’s original

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Roger G. Harrison; Matthias U. Nollert; David W. Schmidtke; Vassilios I. Sikavitsas

where technology isadvancing rapidly.Bibliography1. Williams, E.T. and Bramwell, F.G. 1989. Introduction to research, Journal of Chemical Education, 66, 565- 567.2. Schildcrout, S.M. 2002. Learning chemistry research outside the laboratory: Novel graduate and undergraduate courses in research methodology, Journal of Chemical Education, 79, 1340-1343.ROGER G. HARRISON is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemical, Biological, and MaterialsEngineering at the University of Oklahoma. He is a member of ASEE, AIChE, and ACS. He received his B.S. inchemical engineering from the University of Oklahoma and his M.S. and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison.MATTHIAS U. NOLLERT is an Associate Professor in

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2011 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Sohum Sohoni; David Fritz; Wira Mulia

Transforming a Microprocessors Course through the Progressive Learning Platform Sohum Sohoni, David Fritz, Wira Mulia Oklahoma State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes an innovative learning platform called the Progressive Learning Platform(PLP), and its use in an introductory microprocessors course. The discussion covers the overalltransformation of the course from the examination and modification of existing course objectivesor Be-Able-To‟s (BATS), to the development of laboratories and other curricular materials for ahighly collaborative active-learning approach. Decisions made by the instructors during thisprocess, and the reasons behind

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Yanwu Ding

with some measurement noise in the speaker’s signal. Students will identify the frequency components of the noise and try to remove them by filtering. Each student is given a distinct pair of speaker and listener signals in the project.  Data set 3: Measurement signals in the gearbox of a wind turbine from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The data is recorded by a number of sensors at the gearbox, as shown in Figure 3, to monitor the operation of the turbine and to detect signs of possible failure (especially if a turbine is more than 20 years old). The data was provided by WSU faculty in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Although a

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2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Robert M. O'Connell

to compareand discuss their responses to the question and re-answer it. This opportunity for in-class peerinstruction usually results in improved student learning.Summative assessment in lecture-based modules is usually associated with “points” or “marks”that accumulate and are used to determine a student’s final “grade” in the course. In engineering,the most common summative assessment task is an ILO-associated question or problem on anexamination, given either at the end of the course or at a point in the semester after which theILO in question will no longer be revisited. Other summative assessment tasks include writtenlaboratory reports (if the module includes a laboratory component) and written papers, perhapson ILOs covered

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

James A. Ejiwale

beforegraduation, the integration of service learning and learning communities have been of immensebenefit. While service learning has provided the avenue for students to put into practice theknowledge gained in the classroom and laboratory, the learning communities have functioned inthe capacity of facilitators and mentors by giving constant feedback on students’ performancewhile engaged in service learning to enhance their leadership skills. Student’s leadership skillsdevelopment is assessed in ITC 400 – Technical Communication based on the following criteria: Daily Journal of Activities: 25% Weekly presentation to faculty and students: 20

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Parameswar Hari

toAm. J. Phys 69(7): S12-S23, (2001)3. Pelligrino, J.W., N. Chudowsky, R. Glaser, eds. Knowing What Students Know: TheScience and Design of Educational Assessment, National Academy Press, (2001)4. College Physics by Serway and Faughn, 5th Edition (Saunders College Publishing), (1998), Problem 6.26Biographical InformationDr. Hari is an assistant professor of physics and engineering physics at the University of Tulsa. Dr. Hari earned aPh.D. from the University of Utah . After Ph.D., Dr. Hari received post-doctoral training at The NHMFL (NationalHigh Magnetic Field Laboratory), Texas A& M University and Vanderbilt University. Dr. Hari has published over35 peer-reviewed articles and is represented in the 2006-07 edition of who’s who among

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Ryan Eckl; Christopher Johnson; Shawn Shields; Brad Cullipher; Wayne Helmer

of the 2008 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 2 Figure 1. Typical Engine Head Flow Test Data .[2].The primary focus of this project was to design, build and test a flow-bench for use in amechanical engineering laboratory while keeping the system within reasonable financial limitswithout sacrificing experimental performance. Standard components of a flow-bench are: testpiece, air-flow measuring device, air temperature measuring device, flow control mechanismand a device to measure the pressure drop across the test piece [3]. The unit should also be safefor the experimenters and the

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Rebeca G. Book

inputs. Each subgroup records the issues they think need to beworked on and names are assigned. The equipment group even takes a tour of the laboratory tolook at equipment and materials to see what is needed for students. Sometimes in order to beorganized and talk about what needs are, the advisory council will meet the day before the mainmeeting with just the committee chairpersons to guide the discussions the following day in thesubgroups.Balance on the advisory council is important to get good representation from the following areasof sales/marketing, manufacturing, equipment, processing, materials, and research anddevelopment. This is something that is difficult to achieve with fluctuating membership andneeds to be addressed. With so many

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Day W. Radebaugh

and ReliabilityTesting and reliability present some unusual uncertainties in the product life cycle. In thefirst case, one must decide how to test a design: in software, at small scale, or full-scalelive testing. The problems of software modeling and differences of scale have beendiscussed above. If we test in the lab, we must realize that laboratory testing is an idealcondition. In testing for failure, the engineer is entitled to regard the failure of acomponent as, in some sense, a success; at least he has determined the failure point of thecomponent. The more interesting question is when to stop testing if failure does notoccur. Can we accurately estimate the duty cycle of a product? Quite often the decisionsabout how much to test, and

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

R.E. Babcock; Mark E. Arnold

Edition, 1998. 4. Moore, Holly, MATLAB for Engineers, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2007. R. E. BABCOCK Dr. Babcock, professor of Chemical Engineering, received his Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma. He currently teaches thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and unit operations laboratories at the University of Arkansas MARK E. ARNOLD Dr. Arnold, associate professor and vice-chair of Mathematical Sciences received his Ph.D. from Northern Illinois with a specialty in computational mathematics. He teaches linear algebra and numerical linear algebra at the University of Arkansas and is active in computational research.Proceedings of the 2008 Midwest Section Conference of

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Surendra Singh

to a B.S. degree, students have to takealmost two years of math, physics, humanities and other required courses, thereby, leaving thejunior and senior years for courses in their major. Some programs include a two-semestersequence of senior design course [1], which allows the students to design and build circuits orsystems. There is hardly a component in the education process where the students are able to getpractical work experience. Of course, some students find summer employment in theirhometown or get an internship in one of the national laboratories. But for the most part, there isno formal work experience built in the educational process. To quote Zdunek [2], “Formalcourse work is only part of an engineer’s education; training for