Sports and Engineering

Authored by: Lafayette College EGRS 451 student (Anthony Buffolino) Date: Spring 2012 Course Instructor: Professor Cohen Project Links: Memo and website: http://sites.lafayette.edu/egrs451-sp12-sports/ Abstract: [forthcoming] Tags: EGRS 451, Spring 2012, Sports, Curriculum

Assessing Lafayette’s Sustainability Initiatives

Authored by: Lafayette College EGRS 451 group (Ayodeji Odusami and Joelle Neilson) Date: Spring 2012 Course Instructor: Professor Cohen Project Links: Memo Abstract: Sustainability creates and maintains the conditions under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony that permit fulfilling the social, economic and other requirements of present and future generations. The topic of sustainability has …

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Student-Led Sustainability Initiatives

Authored by: Lafayette College EGRS 451 group (Joel Hindelang and Thomas Johnson) Date: Spring 2012 Course Instructor: Professor Cohen Project Links: Memo and website: http://sites.lafayette.edu/slsi/ Abstract: Lafayette College is considered avant-garde in the academic world because of its strong emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration, seamlessly interweaving the liberal arts with the engineering and sciences.  Additionally, Lafayette College considers itself …

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Water Quality: Lafayette and the U.S.

Authored by: Lafayette College EGRS 451 group (Dan Wilkinson) Date: Spring 2012 Course Instructor: Professor Cohen Project Links: Memo and Report (plus Map) Abstract: What are the primary concerns regarding water quality today in the United States and how can experimental testing of water samples at Lafayette be an indicator of overall water treatment effectiveness? Tags: EGRS 451, Spring …

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BIM Proposal (Building Information Management)

Authored by: Lafayette College EGRS 451 group (John Rems) Date: Spring 2012 Course Instructor: Professor Cohen Project Links: Memo and Proposal Abstract: Construction management and civil engineering education is rapidly changing due to the new and extremely useful technology that is Building Information Modeling (BIM). This proposal presents evidence as to why BIM should be implemented into Lafayette’s …

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Dollars and Drones: On the Ethics of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Authored by: Lafayette College EGRS 451 group (Angela Mongelluzzo) Date: Spring 2012 Course Instructor: Professor Cohen Project Links: Memo and Website: https://sites.lafayette.edu/egrs451-sp12-uav/ Abstract: Margaret Singleton had the foresight to push for engineering ethics in engineering education in the early nineties because she recognized that as the technological world we know today emerged, the engineers developing such technologies would need …

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Lafayette Engineering in Historical Context

Authored by: Lafayette College EGRS 451 (Lauren Phillips and Zack Roberts) Date: Spring 2012 Course Instructor: Professor Cohen Project Links: Memo and Prezi Abstract: Since Lafayette’s founding in 1824, the curriculum and majors provided by the school have been constantly evolving to reflect the desired skill set of the students and society. In the spirit of EGRS 451, this …

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Farm Project Feasibility Analysis

Authored by: Lafayette College EGRS 451 Group (Caitlin Mitchell and Shaung Zhao) Date: Spring 2012 Course Instructor: Professor Cohen Project Links: Memo and Poster Abstract: This project posed the question, what is the most effective way to determine whether a project for the Lafayette College Farm/Garden is feasible or not feasible? We used this question …

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Art, Engineering, and Nature

Authored by: Lafayette College EGRS 451 Group (Ann Hollyday) Date: Spring 2012 Course Instructor: Professor Cohen Project Links: Memo and sites.lafayette.edu/egrs451-sp12-art-engineering-nature/ Abstract: This project started with the idea that nature was the first artist and the first engineer. For this reason, art and engineering are eternally connected. From here I considered the ways in which …

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