INTEGRATING TECHNICAL INNOVATION AND DESIGN INTO THE ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY CURRICULUM

Abstract

Examples are presented here on how severalschools are meeting the challenges of integrating technicalinnovation and design into the engineering and engineeringtechnology curriculum. Georgia Southern University isdeveloping a compact instrument (permeameter) that willmeasure the coefficient of permeability of soil based on thewater content and dry-unit weight of the soil. At WentworthInstitute of Technology an application has been developedwhere multiple Melexis MLX90614 infrared temperaturesensors are transformed into wireless sensors via a hybridconnectionto a Texas Instrument ezMSP430-rf2500microprocessor. And at Yeditepe University in Turkey andTexas A&M University in the United States the authorsexplore the issues of design of business process managementsystems from a cognitive systems perspective.Index Terms  ⎯ clay liners, dry unit weight, hydraulicconductivity, permeability, water content, wireless,curriculum, microprocessor, serial communication, SMBus,sensors, smart sensors, cognitive system design, businessprocess management.