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Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Zecher

Session 1348 Development of Multimedia Instructional Tools for Strength of Materials Jack Zecher, Justin Davis, Heather Deaton and Deric Pawlaczyk Mechanical Engineering Technology Department Indiana University-Purdue University IndianapolisAbstractThis paper describes a series of multimedia based instructional lessons that are being developedto enhance a Strength of Materials course. Use of these lessons will help students to morerapidly understand many concepts that are difficult to describe on the printed

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What's New in Engineering Economy

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ahmad R. Sarfaraz; Tarek Shraibati

Session 2639 The use of Common Sense Applications in Teaching Engineering Economic Analysis Tarek A. Shraibati and Ahmad R. Sarfaraz Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Management Department California State University, NorthridgeAbstractEngineering economic analysis plays a vital role in nearly all decisions made by engineers. Thecourse is very important because most topics covered in it are used everyday in both our personaland professional lives. Unfortunately, the importance of this course is greatly undermined whenstudents have difficulties in understanding the

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Denice Denton; Sheila Edwards Lange; Eve Riskin; Kate Quinn; Joyce Yen

ADVANCE Mentoring Programs for Women Faculty in SEM at the University of Washington Joyce W. Yen1, Kate Quinn1, Sheila Edwards Lange2, Eve A. Riskin1, and Denice D. Denton1 1 University of Washington ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change / 2 University of Washington Center for Workforce Development Abstract: The mentoring literature has shown that faculty can benefit from multiple mentors and networking opportunities. As a result, the University of Washington's ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change has designed a series of group mentoring programs for women faculty in science, engineering

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Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Wollin; Ronald Bennett; Melanie Steinborn; Al Dombrowski

2005-1491 Live Cases in Technology TransferRonald J. Bennett, PhD, Al Dombrowski, Melanie Steinborn, Thomas Wollin School of Engineering University of St. ThomasAbstractCase study methods can be an effective way to learn about complex situations andanalyze topics using a systems approach. This is particularly important in ourapplied curriculum. In the topic area of technology transfer, there are few casesthat are relevant and appropriate for our graduate students who are workingprofessionals in the technology-based industries located in the Minneapolis-St.Paul metropolitan

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Terrance Lovell; Dale Litwhiler

USB Data Acquisition Units Provide New Measurement and Control Options for Engineering Technology Students Dale H. Litwhiler, Terrance D. Lovell Penn State Berks-LehighValley CollegeAbstractThe Universal Serial Bus (USB) has become a ubiquitous technology for computer peripherals.It is available on virtually every new computer and in most cases provides a seamless connectionmethod for a variety of consumer electronics devices such as digital cameras, scanners andprinters. This ease of connection together with the inherent high data rate of USB also makesthis technology very useful for data acquisition and control units. This paper presents the use

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Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Wierman; Lawrence Aronhime

IntroductionInnovation and entrepreneurship drive the capitalist process, which in turn depends uponindividuals willing to take a chance.1 As Howard Stevenson wrote, entrepreneurs are promoters,focused on opportunity, regardless of the resources controlled.2 Innovation can be an uncertain,even irrational act, where entrepreneurs endeavor to enter markets that may not exist withproducts that may not answer market needs, where traditional analytical tools are not likely to beuseful, and where the odds of success are dim. The willingness to take a chance, to innovate andbe an entrepreneur, requires two factors: “motivation, defined as market incentives to innovate;and ability, defined as the capability to obtain resources, craft them into

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Ed Clausen; Carolyne Garcia

Communication in the Chemical Engineering CurriculumEd Clausen and Carolyne GarciaUniversity of ArkansasModifications to the approach to teaching some courses have added a crucialcommunication component to the chemical engineering curriculum at theUniversity of Arkansas. This paper traces the history of adding communication tothe Chemical Engineering curriculum.

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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W. R. Penney; G. J. Thoma; R. R. Beitle

one another in solving real environmental problems. Typical projects include thethinning of forests to minimize the potential for fire damage, the prevention of foodborneillnesses due to bacterial contamination of tomatoes, and the design of a mobile treatmentfacility to treat mixed transuranic wastes. The students must select the “best” technologyfrom a number of alternatives, run the necessary experiments to prove the concept,construct a scale model of their design, prepare a market analysis and business plan whileaddressing community relations and environmental regulations, and make oral and posterpresentations at the competition. This paper compares and contrasts the WERCexperience with the traditional classroom capstone design experience.

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Ashok Saxena

, India, Australia, New Zealand,Singapore, to name a few, have invested heavily into their technical educationinfrastructure and are producing quality talent that is now not only serving the needs intheir own countries but also a portion of the global needs. Outsourcing of engineeringfunctions overseas for American corporations is now a common occurrence because ofthe availability of quality talent at lower costs. Further, the investment in educationalinfrastructure is not limited to just increasing the undergraduate degrees awarded; it isalso in developing a research infrastructure to potentially become leaders in hightechnology business opportunities. This paper will review the trends in engineering enrollments in these emergingcountries

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship, Design, and PBL

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ken Ports

Structuring Senior Design for Entrepreneurs Ken Ports Florida Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe Senior Design course taken near the end of an engineer’s undergraduate tenure isincreasingly recognized as a “capstone” activity, enabling these future professionals to applytheir collegiate education and experience in a team environment to solving real world problemsor to creating new capabilities. Ideally, Senior Design teams are also cross-functional, tobroaden the projects and better replicate the professional world. In addition, there is a growinginterest in linking Senior Design with entrepreneurial activities, even to the point ofcommercializing

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Goedert; E. Terence Foster

Construction Engineering: an Integrative Branch of Engineering E. Terence Foster, Ph.D., P.E., C.P.C., James D. Goedert, Ph.D., P.E. University of Nebraska, Department of Construction SystemsAbstractConstruction engineering is a separate and distinct branch of engineering recognized bythe Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineeringand Technology (EAC-ABET). The specific case of the developing constructionengineering program at the University of Nebraska provides examples supporting thegeneral conclusions of this discussion.Construction engineering is an integrative branch of engineering that draws upon thebasic branches, such as civil, mechanical, and electrical. The relationship

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Innovations in CE Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kristine Martin; Kenneth Leitch; Jeffrey Will

Session 1515 3-D Visualization for Civil Engineering Undergraduate Learning Kenneth R. Leitch, Kristine E. Martin, and Jeffrey D. Will College of Engineering, Valparaiso UniversityIntroduction Civil engineering analysis and modeling frequently reduces 3-D land features andstructures to 2-D representations on such media as paper and overhead projectionsystems. Students often have trouble understanding the 3-D aspect of civil engineeringproblems because of the limitations of conventional 2-D representations. Many studentsfind it difficult to understand how landforms from a topographic survey will impact aconstruction project

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Tricks of the Trade for Teaching I

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Miller

Two Quick Ways to Improve Teaching: Learning Objectives and Plus/Delta Forms David C. Miller Department of Chemical Engineering Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyIntroductionA new engineering educator seeking to become a better teacher and to improve classroominteraction can easily become overwhelmed by the large number of approaches that have beendescribed in the literature. Although some of these, such as problem-based learning and activelearning, have been shown to significantly enhance student learning and retention, they areperhaps not the best approaches to adopt during the first few years as a

Conference Session

State of the Art in 1st-Year Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tom Walker; Hayden Griffin; Tamara Knott; Richard Goff; Vinod Lohani; Jenny Lo

New Paradigm for Foundational Engineering Education Jenny L. Lo, Richard M. Goff, Vinod K. Lohani, Thomas D.L. Walker, Tamara W. Knott, and O. Hayden Griffin, Jr. Department of Engineering Education Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityAbstractIn fall 2004, implementation of a significant redesign of the first semester introductoryengineering course (EngE1024) required for all first-year engineering students at Virginia Tech,has occurred in support of a shift in paradigm: 1) the enhanced research mission of the newDepartment of Engineering Education and 2) administrative restructuring that led to inclusion ofComputer Science students in

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Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kathy Brockway; Gregory Spaulding

The Journey Toward Reliability Greg Spaulding, PE, Kathy Vratil Brockway, CPA (inactive) Kansas State University-SalinaAbstractKansas State University faculty members have partnered with industry to assist in theimplementation of a reliability centered manufacturing (RCM) program. This paper highlightsfaculty members’ experiences, benefits to industry of implementing a reliability centeredmanufacturing program, and faculty members’ roles in the RCM program implementation. Thepaper includes lessons learned by faculty members, short-term extensions of the faculty-industrypartnership, and a long-term vision for a RCM institute at the university level.University Faculty

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Constance Kampf; Dave Kmiec

Coordinating Concepts in Engineering Communication and Project Management Dave Kmiec, Constance Kampf University of MinnesotaCE 4101 Project Management and Economics is a writing-intensive1 course offered by the CivilEngineering Department at the University of Minnesota to approximately 150 students eachsemester. Students who take the course are introduced to project management concepts,heuristics, and algorithms and are asked to rehearse and apply them both individually and inteams. At the same time, these students are asked to seek out encounters with workplaceprofessionals in an interview assignment and to prepare two

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Francis Di Bella

Session 2247 2005 ASEE ANNUAL CONFERENCE Engineering Technology Division Curriculum Development in Mechanical Engineering Technology See You in the Funny Pages: Attempting to Rectify Student’s Long-Standing False Intuitions of Engineering Science Francis A. Di Bella, P.Eng.ABSTRACTPresent and future engineering technology students have been in a long standing,subliminal educational environment that is effecting their intuition as regards the physicallaws of science and engineering. That environment consists of

Conference Session

Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sunil Sinha

.ABSTRACTConstruction courses in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at thePennsylvania State University focus on the subjects of planning, organization, monitoring andcontrol of the construction projects. There is currently a scarcity of information relating to ethicalconduct in these courses. Government regulations, environmental permits, and other bureaucraticcontrols continue to grow. Projects also continue to get larger and more technical, requiring morespecialized people, high-tech equipment, and better project control systems. This trend requiresthat project managers have technical, business, organizational, ethical, and leadership savvy.Many new regulations and specifications (for example, those of OSHA and ACI) requireconstruction

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Problem-Solving & Project-Based Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

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Karen High; Ben Lawrence; Cynthia Mann

Problem Solving and Creativity Experiences for Freshman Engineers Karen A. High, Cynthia Mann, Ben Lawrence School of Chemical Engineering Oklahoma State University Stillwater, OK 74078AbstractAn engineering orientation class at Oklahoma State University has provided an opportunity todevelop and enhance problem solving and creativity skills for freshman. For two semesters,classes have been led through experiences that include making candy airplanes, making betterpizzas, and devising ways to keep ice cream from melting. These three projects have served as avehicle for introducing students to the

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

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Roya Javadpour

Creative Approach to Teaching Project Management Service Learning Roya Javadpour California Polytechnic State UniversityIntroductionA project is a complex, non-routine, one-time effort limited by time, budget, resources,and performance specifications designed to meet customer needs[1]. Therefore, theyrequire a unique approach to management and administration. A creative approach istaken in designing and teaching the graduate level Technological Project Managementcourse offered as part of the Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering department’sprogram at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. The coursecovers the basic

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Bryan Laffitte; David Ollis

Cross-College Collaboration of Engineering and Industrial Design Brian Laffitte, David F. Ollis, and Rebecca BrentIndustrial Design, NCSU, Raleigh, NC/ Chemical Engineering, NCSU, Raleigh, NC / Education Design, Inc., Cary, NCAbstract We report the piloting and initial assessment of a novel cross-collegecollaboration in which exploration of modern consumer and household devices in anengineering ”device dissection” laboratory is utilized to enhance student learningobjectives and achievement in a junior-senior Studio course in Industrial Design (ID).The electric guitar and the compact disc (CD) player were chosen as first round devices.The ID students first explored these devices in teams of

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Rassa Rassai; Mensah Patrick; Jean-Pierre Bayard; Valerie Young; Joseph Tront; Edward Perry

Making Use of the MERLOT Database Valerie Young, Edward Perry, Patrick Mensah, Jean-Pierre Bayard, Rassa Rassai, and Joseph Tront Ohio University / University of Memphis / Southern University and A&M College / California State University – Sacramento / Northern Virginia Community College – Alexandria / Virginia TechAbstractThe Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) databaseallows engineering educators to use online, interactive instructional modules in their courseswithout investing excessive time to develop them, search for them, or screen them for suitability.MERLOT provides two categories of

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Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Anthony; C. Richard Helps; Barry Lunt

Outcomes-Oriented ABET Accreditation: Mechanisms for Review and Feedback C. Richard G. Helps, David K. Anthony, Barry M. Lunt Brigham Young UniversityAbstractOver the last few years EAC and TAC ABET-accredited programs have converted theiraccreditation requirements to an outcomes-oriented approach rather than a topic-hours approach.CAC-ABET is now following suit for computer-oriented programs.Information Technology programs seeking to accredit through CAC have a few specialchallenges relating to several factors changing in recent years as the Computer-ScienceAccreditation Board (CSAB) has evolved into CAC and IT has been created. This paperdescribes

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International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sarah Smith

encourage placement of graduating engineers in a global environment?Objectives: • Profile engineering/technology academicians from China, India, South America and the Middle East to enhance understanding of country differences • Share Fortune 500 transnational engineering recruitment preferences • Explore marketing techniques to successfully attract international students • Create an environment for retention of all studentsProfile 1: ChinaHigher education opportunities in China are very limited as compared to the United States (US).1The Chinese government heavily funds economic growth, yet this is not the case for education.The government of China invests merely 2.3% of its GNP 2 into the educational system, ascompared to an

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Jim Gattis; Bryan Hill

. One of the keyelements of a successful recruiting plan is the management of information. The Collegedecided to implement a Customer (potential student) Relations Management system thatcould be used simultaneously by every member of the recruitment team. The well knownPC based systems, ACT! and Gold are not designed to handle many users working onvarious parts of the system simultaneously. Nor are they able to handle the number ofstudents that are being tracked by the College. Instead of creating an in-house CRMprogram or investing in a vender based multi-user program (Siebel), the College decidedto contract for web based CRM services from a new company called SalesForce.com.SalesForce.com currently has 15,500 customers (companies) and 267,999

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Carter; Catherine Brawner; Miriam Ferzli; Eric Wiebe

Session 1526 The LabWrite Project: Experiences reforming lab report writing practice in undergraduate lab courses Eric N. Wiebe Catherine E. Brawner Michael Carter Miriam G. Ferzli North Carolina State UniversityAbstractLaboratory reports have always been a part of the modern science and engineering curricula.However, it has also often been the least liked part of a students' (and instructors') laboratoryexperience. Despite research

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Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Maxwell; Frank Pietryga; John Stratton; Ilya Grinberg

Session 3533 Improvements in Electric Power Systems Curricula: Developing Continuous Improvement Plan Ilya Grinberg, John A. Stratton, Frank Pietryga, and James Maxwell Buffalo State College/ Rochester Institute of Technology/ University of Pittsburgh – Johnstown/ Buffalo State CollegeFaculty at three universities in the New York / Pennsylvania region offer their engineering technology studentsrequired or elective sequences in electric power systems. The three institutions were each looking at possiblechanges to their respective courses to make them more relevant to the

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Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Paul Lane; John Farris

enter theclassroom and find themselves confronted by real current situations. They are expected to taketheir knowledge and comprehension and synthesize it with all the information they can compileto formulate a solution or practical next steps.Reality learning is current. It is exciting as students are encouraged to use the resources at theirfingertips (search the web) or in vibrating in their pockets (cell phones, Blackberries etc.) Theyare encouraged to think about how the engineering problem they are confronting might beaddressed around the world. If they know an expert, they can call. If they want information theyshould get it. The competitive genes take over and the classroom experience becomes rich withstudent led and appreciated

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tony Keller; Jeff Frolik

Session 1793Wireless Sensor Networks: An Interdisciplinary Topic for Freshman Design Jeff Frolik and Tony Keller University of VermontIntroduction Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are a nascent technology that builds upon the recentdecade’s advances in electrical and mechanical engineering including wireless communications,low-power embedded systems, MEMS-sensor design, network architectures and instrumentationapplications. These networks promise a means by which to better monitor and understand ourindustrial, military and natural environments. Wireless sensors have

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Chris Ramseyer; Beth Brueggen

“Camp Concrete” – An Experiment in Undergraduate Research Chris Ramseyer, Beth Brueggen University of Oklahoma, Norman OklahomaAbstract:The summer experience of a faculty member, two graduate research assistants and tenundergraduate research assistants is discussed. The students who participated in the inaugural2004 program coined the name "Camp Concrete" after they cast and tested more than 50,000pounds of concrete specimens at Fears Structural Engineering Lab, University of Oklahoma.The goal of Camp Concrete is to involve undergraduate students in high-quality research.Research projects are selected to address immediate needs of local businesses and agencies, suchas the