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Virtual and Augmented Reality Application in Manufacturing Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Chiou, Drexel University; Tzu-liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas at El Paso; Md Fashiar Rahman, The University of Texas at El Paso

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Diversity

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Manufacturing Division (MFG)

Systems Engineering (IMSE) Department at The University of Texas at El Paso. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Computational Science Program. He has years of research experience in different projects in the field of image data mining, machine learning, deep learning, and computer simulation for industrial and healthcare applications. In addition, Dr. Rahman has taught various engineering courses in industrial and manufacturing engineering. His research area covers advanced quality technology, AI application in smart manufacturing, health care applications, computational intelligence/data analytics, and decision support systems. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Virtual Reality

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Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Danielle N. Wagner, Purdue University; Sukrati Gautam, Purdue University; Peyman Yousefi, Merck Group; Nuela Chidubem Enebechi, Purdue University; Andrew Pierce, Purdue University; William C. Oakes, Purdue University

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

, and has been honored practice advising undergraduate EPICS service-learning teams. Having community-oriented discussions at Purdue, working with human-centered design in her own research, and mentoring student teams inspirited her drive to center community member and partner voices within academic discussions. She is excited to continue learning from leaders in EPICS and partnering institutions while applying to industry and academic positions.Sukrati Gautam, Purdue University I am currently pursuing my Ph.D. in Computational Environmental Technology at Purdue University. I am experienced Teaching Assistant at Engineering Projects in Community Services (EPICS). I am exploring human decision making behavior using ML

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division (IND) Technical Session 4

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric John Estadt, Pennsylvania State University; Khoa Nguyen, Pennsylvania State University; Kevin Skinner, Pennsylvania State University; Ashkan Negahban, Pennsylvania State University; Omar Ashour, Pennsylvania State University; Sabahattin Gokhan Ozden, Pennsylvania State University

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Industrial Engineering Division (IND)

Paper ID #41504Warehouse Augmented Reality Program (WARP): A Web Tool for WarehouseDesign and Operation EducationEric John Estadt, Pennsylvania State University Eric J. Estadt is a senior at The Pennsylvania State University - Abington Campus. He will be graduating in the Spring of 2024 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. His responsibilities in this project was leadership, development, and statistics. He worked on development since February 2022. In the Spring and Summer of 2023 he worked on the methodology and statistical results of the experiments seen in this paper. Continuing in the Summer of 2023 he took

Conference Session

Recruitment & Retention of Women II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Armando A. Rodriguez, Arizona State University; Anita Grierson, Arizona State University

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Women in Engineering

tomake contact with a community college student. For these non- metropolitan communitycolleges, representatives from a university had not visited their campus previously. Although thetravel time to four of the five schools is over three hours each way, the PI, co-PI, and ProgramDirector on the METSTEP project feel that the time is well spent. We learned early that justhaving a meeting and expecting students or students and their parents to come, does not workwell. The most effective and efficient use of time is to talk to the captive audience in aclassroom.There are two aspects of these visits. First, administrators at the community college need to getthe permission of instructors to give up class time and to make a schedule that is efficient

Conference Session

Learning Outside the Classroom

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian A. Burt, University of Michigan; Donald D. Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan; Trevor Scott Harding, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Janel A. Sutkus, Carnegie Mellon University; Matthew Holsapple, University of Michigan; Robert M. Bielby, University of Michigan; Eunjong Ra, University of Michigan

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Educational Research and Methods

the Center of Teaching & Learning at Lawrence Tech where he was responsible for conducting faculty development programs. In addition, Dr. Carpenter actively conducts educational and pedagogical research on teamwork, leadership, and ethical development and is Kern Fellow for En- trepreneurial Education.Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan Dr. Cynthia Finelli, Ph.D., is Director of the Center for Research and Learning in Engineering and re- search associate professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. In addition, she actively pursues research in engineering education and assists other faculty in their scholarly projects. She is past Chair of the Educational Research and Methods

Conference Session

IE Technical Session II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phillip R. Rosenkrantz, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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Industrial Engineering

project preparation course, and a capstone course in quality. The results also havemajor implications for lifelong learning for engineers and are compatible with the teachings ofothers such as Taylor, Deming, Senge, and a study by Ernst & Young.The objectives of this paper are to:1. Share executive survey results and findings2. Demonstrate that the spectrum of leadership can be modeled by Hayes’ ―Six Stages of Quality System Implementation‖ and parallel versions of it3. Demonstrate how the Six Stages of Quality System Implementation were used to redesign courses in the industrial and manufacturing engineering curriculum to strategically integrate lean, six sigma, statistical quality control, and quality tools.4. Show that there is

Conference Session

Design Education II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald J. Bennett, Univeristy of Saint Thomas; Elaine R. Millam, Univeristy of Saint Thomas

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Manufacturing

traditionalmanufacturing people when they entered the graduate program. As they learned about theimportance of people in the manufacturing organization, they have grown into leaders who arechanging the way manufacturing is viewed. Several examples stand out. [Note: interviews weredone under a research project covered by the University of St. Thomas Institutional ReviewBoard. In accordance with the agreement, anonymity has been maintained by using pseudonymsfor alumni. The industries represented and stories are factual.]As a student in our Master of Manufacturing Systems Engineering program, Alumnus NateKeyes was then an engineer at a company that manufactured ammunition. He is now Presidentof a company that manufactures high end machine tools and is changing the

Conference Session

Information Literacy Programs for First-Year Engineering Students

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melissa Bowles-Terry, University of Wyoming; Larry Schmidt, University of Wyoming

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Engineering Libraries

, conduct a search on literature . . .present a written evaluation of your sources’ validity . . . , prepare a written report on yourfindings.”8 For the past five years we have held sessions for engineering freshmen taking the ES1000 class. Library instruction sessions began as simple introductions to the library resourcesand initially were presentation-oriented. As the ES 1000 class developed and the researchquestions and projects became more involved, we began to develop more “hands-on” classsessions. The library classroom also had technology upgrades, making it easier to conduct thesesessions. For the past two years we (the engineering librarian and the instruction coordinator)have worked together to create more meaningful library exercises and

Conference Session

Expanding the Borders of Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paige Davis, Louisiana State University; Summer Dann Johnson, Louisiana State University; Emma M. Allain, Louisiana State University; Harald Thomas Leder, Louisiana State University; Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

AC 2011-694: ENCOUNTER ENGINEERING IN EUROPE, EQUIPPINGSTUDENTS TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE GLOBAL MARKET PLACEPaige Davis, Louisiana State University Paige Davis has 20 years experience as an Instructor in the College of Engineering at Louisiana State University. In addition to teaching she assists with the STEP program. She received her baccalaureate degree in Engineering Technology and her master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Louisiana State University.Summer Dann Johnson, Louisiana State University Ms Dann is the Project Manager for the College of Engineering’s STEP program. She has her Master’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering and worked for industry for 9 years prior to returning to academia.Emma M

Conference Session

Issues Affecting Engineering Program Development

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Miguel Angel Ramos, University of Houston; Lauren Chapman, Boston College; Mac Cannady, Boston College; Enrique Barbieri, University of Houston

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Engineering Technology

engineering profession to lead a fulfilling and rewarding career.In terms of evaluating the impact of the forum, the motivating factors raise several relevantquestions including:  Did proposed curricular models present a viable option for addressing any of the concerns raised by the forum participants?  If the models were considered viable, was there any indication that participants would be willing to pilot test the ideas?  Was there any indication of the long-term impact of the forum as described by forum participants?These factors and questions provide the framework for the evaluation activities and interpretationof results.Forum Evaluation ResultsPost-forum surveyThe external evaluators for the project

Conference Session

FPD IV: Improving Student Success: Mentoring, Intervening, and Supplementing

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frederick L. Smyth, University of Virginia; William H Guilford, University of Virginia; Brian A. Nosek, University of Virginia

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First-Year Programs

Page 22.718.2along with them performance and retention, through high-impact educational activities. Forexample, if a young woman’s affinity for engineering is boosted as a result of feeling engaged,connected and successful working on a design/build project, we would expect that any stereotypeshe might hold about women as engineers would be attenuated and her implicit self-concept asan engineer strengthened. Nosek and colleagues 10 found precisely this pattern for the implicitmath attitudes, gender stereotypes, and self-concepts of Yale undergraduates and for a morediverse sample of Internet volunteers 10,11.To better understand the biases inherent to freshman engineering students and whether they canbe changed in a classroom setting, we used

Conference Session

Engaging Families and Exciting Girls with Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynn Albers, North Carolina State University; Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University; Elizabeth A. Parry, North Carolina State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

has over twenty five years of experience in industry and STEM education. Prior to her current position, Ms. Parry was the project director of RAMP-UP, an NSF and GE funded project focused on increasing math achievement in K-12 through the use of collaboration between undergraduate and graduate STEM students and classroom teachers. She is an active member of ASEE, NCTM, NSTA and ITEEA. Ms. Parry is currently the chair elect of the ASEE K-12 and Precollege Division and a member of the Triangle Coalition Board of Directors. Page 22.246.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011

Conference Session

Preparing Engineering Students for the Global Workplace, Competency, and a Successful Career

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melany M. Ciampi, Safety, Health and Environment Research Organization; Claudio da Rocha Brito, Science and Education Research Council

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International

this “brave new world” and it is in fact crucialfor the development of science and technology and more important it is responsible for thedelivery of such technologies on the service of the betterment of humanity. This aspect may leadto the notion that engineers should be aware of the responsibility to society as they contribute toits development. It is to be aware of the impacts not only environmental but also social of theoutcomes of projects. Looking closer to the formation of engineers, there is still a prevalence ofgood technical formation without thinking of a broader knowledge achievement. This broaderachievement is not a recent idea; the French School of Engineering implemented under Napoleongovernance formed the “Mr. Engineer” that

Conference Session

To Boldly Go... Engineering Librarians Explore New Connections with Users

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Mark Chrimes, Institution of Civil Engineers

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Engineering Libraries

Civil Engineers as Audio-Visual Librarian. In 1978, following the retirement of H C Richardson, the Librarian, Mike became Deputy Librarian and for the best part of a decade worked with Doreen Bayley, the Librarian, in improving services, notably retrospectively converting the Library Catalogues to one online catalogue (the first unified catalogue since 1895). This project was continued after Doreen’s retirement in 1987 with a single computerised index of all ICE publications, and the digitisation of all ICE journals the first engineering institution in the world to carry out such a project. When the ICE building was refurbished c.1990 he planned the Library accommodation. Early in his career at ICE Mike became

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

(Ruth) Jill Urbanic, University of Windsor; Susan S. Sawyer-Beaulieu, University of Windsor

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Design in Engineering Education

Industrial Engineering Students1 Introduction1.1 Introduction to capstone design project workshopsThe classical senior capstone design course consists of establishing an environment wherestudents are given the experience in solving a substantial problem while working in a teamenvironment. The engineering design problems to which Canadian engineering students areexposed must be open-ended, and require the integration of curriculum elements1. In theIndustrial Engineering (IE) program at the University of Windsor, industrial sponsors from avariety of sectors (automotive, food, recycling, hospitals, and so forth) are engaged to providereal open ended projects to the industrial engineering students over a two term period. Withrealistic ill defined opened

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Don Lewis Millard

thosecompeting in an increasingly technical and global market.In 1994, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute received approval from NSF for a three-year project todevelop Interactive Learning Modules (ILMs) for education and training in manufacturingengineering. The project was part of the Technology Reinvestment Project Manufacturing Educationand Training Program (TRP/MET) which was funded by the NSF, the Defense Advanced ResearchProjects Agency, and Rensselaer’s corporate sponsors. The project generated materials that pick upwhere most textbooks leave off – to additionally allow the user to explore and understand the dynamicnature of how electronics are designed, manufactured and utilized. These materials provideapplication-based motivation for learning

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Debi Switzer; Siegfried M. Holzer; Richard M. Felder; Douglas E. Hirt

groups of faculty members engaged in revisingcourses or curricula, developing multidisciplinary projects, developing or adapting instructionaltechnology, preparing distance course offerings, carrying out systematic program assessment andevaluation, or conducting classroom research. Funding might be provided for faculty members Page 4.21.4to attend national and regional conferences and workshops such as the ASEE AnnualConference, Frontiers in Education, or the National Effective Teaching Institute. Specialprograms might be instituted to identify campus teaching leaders in engineering, perhaps pastwinners of outstanding teaching awards or faculty

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Arleen Anderson; Gwen Lee-Thomas

great use on this venture.” (MechanicalEngineering/Economics)“The classes that helped me out the most were Engineering Statistics and my previousmathematics classes. I used a lot of different formulas to aid in calculations for variousprojects. I learned how the things in the classroom apply in the real world and although Ididn’t use everything, I was able to better understand the concepts taught in theclassroom.” (Mechanical Engineering/Economics)“[The] project . . . enabled me to see the interdisciplinary requirements of such a project:from Chemical engineering to electrical engineering to computer engineering to computerscience. (I credit this appreciation to the extensive application of the teamwork orientedenvironment in the IFYCSEM

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Faye; N.W. Scott; B.J. Stone

C ING EDUoperating costs. Start-up costs are incurred only once over the systems but is usually regarded as a hidden cost as academiclife of the project while operating costs are continuously tutors are not officially paid for this work. However, costs areincurred over the life of the project. The list of opportunity incurred because the time spent with the students representscosts identified are described below. time that might have been spent completing chargeable work3.1 Start-up costs

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Gender and Minority Issues in K-12 Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Winn, Virginia Military Institute; Gary Winn, West Virginia University; Robin Hensel, West Virginia University; Reagan Curtis, West Virginia University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

] women have the ability and drive to succeed in science and engineering, women who are interested in science and engineering careers are lost at every transition.2As part of a National Science Foundation* funded project, West Virginia University seeks toattract Appalachian-region high school students to science, technology, engineering and math(STEM) careers, with particular emphasis on recruiting females and underrepresented minoritiesin an effort to begin to offset regional STEM numbers that are typically half that of neighboringstates. The objective of this study was to better understand how to effectively recruit and retainqualified girls from Appalachian high schools into STEM educational paths. The lessons learnedfrom this

Conference Session

College-Industry Partnerships: Bringing Industry into the Curriculum Development and Design Cycle

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Osman Cekic, Purdue University; Monica Cox, Purdue University; Jiabin Zhu, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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College-Industry Partnerships

University. She obtained a B.S. in mathematics from Spelman College, a M.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Alabama, and a Ph.D. in Leadership and Policy Studies from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. Teaching interests relate to the professional development of graduate engineering students and to leadership, policy, and change in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. Primary research projects explore the preparation of engineering doctoral students for careers in academia and industry and the development of engineering education assessment tools. She is a NSF Faculty Early Career (CAREER) award winner and is a recipient of a Presidential Early Career

Conference Session

Issues and Directions in Engineering Technology Education & Administration: Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

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Engineering Technology

providers, has put society another step closer to ubiquitous high-speed Internet access.Recently, with a new administration in place, initiatives in clean and renewable energy andefforts to improve the efficiency of our aging infrastructure have rapidly gained traction on botha federal and state level. Under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA),funding through the Department of Energy (DOE) for $36.7 billion dollars has been allocated tovarious energy related initiatives. The Office of Electricity Delivery & Energy Reliability (OE)has $4.5 billion dollars for Smart Grid and efficient energy transmission projects. Sensornetwork technology is the primary enabling technology for the Smart Grid and applications thatit will

Conference Session

International Study Abroad Programs & Student Engagements

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Evans, Bucknell University; Jablonski Erin, Bucknell University; Buffinton Keith, Bucknell University; Richard McGinnis, Bucknell University

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International

faculty leading the course. For example, in the most recentversion of the course taught in Norway and Sweden, the objectives were: 1. Develop an understanding of how sustainable engineering can be applied to solve modern problems related to energy supply, residential construction, and transportation. 2. Understand the limitations of technology and how today’s engineering solutions can become tomorrow’s societal problems; 3. Develop an historic perspective on the development of Scandinavia; 4. Understand how traditions, customs, and culture impact engineering projects; 5. Understand how projects in one country can be affected by policies, laws, and customs of other countries

Conference Session

Design Across Disciplines

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Besser, University of Saint Thomas; AnnMarie Thomas, University of Saint Thomas

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Design in Engineering Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA, and the University ofAuckland in Auckland, New Zealand. Northwestern infuses mechanical engineering andindustrial design by having professional designers visit their first-year student design classes14.The design professionals share their personal experiences from the industry with students, butthey also work on and critique industry projects in the class 14. MIT is similar to Northwesternin that they offer classes within the mechanical engineering curriculum that are focused onteaching industrial design methodologies, such as “Toy Product Design”, “The ProductEngineering Process”, “D-Lab: Design”, “Invention” and “Product Design and Development”,through the use of open-ended design projects

Conference Session

Computational Tools

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joel Esposito, U.S. Naval Academy; Carl E. Wick, U.S. Naval Academy; Kenneth A. Knowles, U.S. Naval Academy

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Computers in Education

, but requires a proprietary softwareenvironment (ScorBase) to control the robot.This paper describes the development and use of a MATLAB Toolbox for the Intelitek Scorbot(MTIS). This Toolbox provides a series of seamless, high level MATLAB functions that can beused to control the Scorbot-ER 4u directly.The remainder of the paper is organized as follows. Section 2 details our detective work forreverse engineering the required DLL files. Section 3 provides an over view of the MATLABfunctions in the toolbox. Section 4 provides example code and projects from our undergraduaterobotics laboratory at the U.S. Naval Academy. Section 5 presents some benchmark tests, toconfirm the performance superiority of the USB interface to our previous RS232

Conference Session

Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy Brett Ross, East Tennessee State University; Keith V. Johnson, East Tennessee State University; Kevin Wade Varney, East Tennessee State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2011-1359: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO STUDY ABROADJeremy Brett Ross, East Tennessee State University Jeremy B. Ross is a Associate Vice President of University Advancement and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology, Surveying and Digital Media. He holds a degree in Architecture from the University of Tennessee and a Master of Science in Technology from East Tennessee State University. He has experience in design and development of numerous architecture projects in academic and commercial applications in the Southeast.Dr. Keith V. Johnson, East Tennessee State University Keith V. Johnson is a Tenured Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology, Surveying and Digital

Conference Session

BME Courses and Learning Activities

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Vernengo, Rowan University

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Biomedical

 fiber‐reinforced or laminar ceramic‐polymer composites for bone replacement (Figure 1) and characterize the mechanical properties.    In this activity, the materials typically used for bone replacement were substituted with cost‐effect equivalents.  For instance, the ceramic phase employed in this activity is calcium sulfate hemihydrate (plaster of Paris), which substitutes for the more commonly used hydroxyapatite cements.  In the fiber‐reinforced composites, nylon and polyester string of varying diameters was used instead of sutures (9) or silk fibers (10).  For layered composites, a sheet of flexible nylon mesh fabric can substitute for the costly resorbable meshes that have been studied (11, 12).  The project, spanning two

Conference Session

Technological Literacy for Undergraduate Students

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak, Hope College; Kate A. Disney, Mission College

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

artifacts is alsoconsidered part of technology.Other parallel efforts have also developed educational standards and benchmarks to define whatK-12 students need to know and be able to do regarding engineering and technology. In 1993,the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) published, Project 2061:Benchmarks for Science Literacy6 and in 1996 the National Science Education Standards werepublished by the National Academies Press7, both of these documents included sections devotedto technology. In 2000 the International Technology Education Association (ITEA) publishedStandards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology8 of the goal ofwhich was to encourage educational curricula that would provide technological

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering - Part II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Harris, Northeastern University; Carrie Boykin, Northeastern University; Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University

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Minorities in Engineering

first demand was a demand for 50 new academic scholarships for Black Students bySeptember of 1968; and by 1971, a demand that at least 10 percent of the incoming freshmanclass be black and to establish a Program such as Project Ujima to aid in the recruitment,retention, support, and academic/career/personal/cultural development of Black students.Shortly thereafter, in February 1969, the Black students submitted a proposal for an Afro-American Institute (AAI) and a Black Studies Department, which the Board of Trustees grantedpermission for the use of a building referred to as the Forsyth Annex to serve as the first AAIhome.The Ujima Scholars Program, formerly known as Project Ujima, grew out of the establishment ofthe African-American Institute

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College-Industry Partnerships: Bringing Industry into the Curriculum Development and Design Cycle

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tammy Baldwin, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.; Marisa Hemingway, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc

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College-Industry Partnerships

assistantprofessor power faculty also declined to only 12 percent in 2006.Developing the power engineering and energy workforce for the next millennium has become anational and global challenge. Not only is the industry workforce approaching retirement, so isthe educational backbone of electric power engineering2. It is estimated that approximately 30 to40 percent of the national electric power workforce will reach retirement or move into otherindustries by 20133. Universities need to revamp and invigorate their electrical engineeringprograms to entice new faculty as well as new students. The projection for the 2013 workforcelooks somewhat bleak.In order for the United States to provide an adequately skilled labor force for the electric utilityindustry