Acoustic Engineering Workstation at the College of the Ozarks Geoffrey A. Akers Nicolas C. White James P. Keeter School of Engineering James P. Keeter School of Engineering College of the Ozarks College of the Ozarks Point Lookout, MO USA Point Lookout, MO USA
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[email protected] Abstract— The College of the Ozarks is developing the ability to More important than generating income for the College, the provide acoustic engineering services to customers on and off- mentored experience gained by undergraduate engineering campus. The College is the only federally recognized work college students providing those services is designed to complement with an undergraduate engineering program, which means their academic program. students do not pay tuition and are assigned workstations on This paper first discusses the unique aspects of the campus to help defray expenses and to generate income for the Engineering Services workstation and its objectives. The College. This paper addresses the purpose and administration of approach to providing practical engineering and project the workstation and how it is unique from other service-learning management experiences is then presented. Initial experiences programs, the perceived benefits to the student workers and the on the first two projects of the workstation are discussed next. engineering program, recent workstation accomplishments, Lessons learned and future plans for the workstation and the lessons learned, and future plans. conclusions section complete the paper. Keywords—acoustics, engineering services, work college II. ENGINEERING SERVICES WORKSTATION I. INTRODUCTION Workstations at C of O help students develop strong work The undergraduate, multidisciplinary engineering program ethics, as well as effective communication teamwork skills.