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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ilan Grave

the classroom. Educators nowadays mostly consider the learning process as a shareddiscovery and triggering of knowledge involving teachers and students in complementary roles.This is in contrast to previous models which envisioned knowledge being “given” to students bylearned (and autocratic) professors.The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET,) has, by its standards,encouraged professional maturity upon graduation. In the accreditation process, an institutionmust critically expose its curriculum and convince the accreditation team that professionalrequirements are met. The accreditation process invites a cross-referenced analysis of all coursesand activities, including details of each course’s contribution to the various

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Documenting Success

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steven Mickelson

Session 2508 Measuring the Success of Learning Communities Dr. Steven K. Mickelson and Dr. Thomas J. Brumm estaben@iastate.edu and tjbrumm@iastate.edu Iowa State UniversityAbstractIn 1998, our department turned to the pedagogical innovation termed “learningcommunities” in an effort to enhance student retention and to bring coherence andmeaning to our first-year student curriculum. We have found that our learningcommunity has provided an opportunity for agricultural engineering students to becomeinvolved in the Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (ABE) department from

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

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Richard Goff; Janis Terpenny

design is an interdisciplinary field of great breadth. It is core to all engineering disciplines. Exposure of students to design from a broad perspective and contact with practicing designers enhances their understanding of the importance of cross-discipline integration11. This understanding is critical for today’s engineers to face the challenges of the 21st century and provide better service to the society at large12.3) Integration of Research and Education This course is one of the core courses for the recently established Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Taking full advantage of the advances in design education and practice requires close integration of research and education.The sections that follow

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Engaging Upper Level Classes

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sue McNeil; Adjo Amekudzi; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

Engineering; however, one or twostudents typically enroll from the City Planning Program in the School of Architecture. Thecourse has been offered once a year since 2000 with enrollments ranging from 4-18 students. Itpresents an integrated treatment of methodologies, models, tools, funding mechanisms, rules andregulations that assist with managing civil infrastructure deterioration. The course also includeslectures on sustainable development and the built environment. Concepts are introduced toencourage students to think more seriously about the broader social and environmentalimplications of infrastructure decision making and to encourage students to explore projectopportunities for incorporating sustainability into built systems decision making

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hata

from low-cost experiments based on NE-2neon bulbs to more sophisticated studies using fiberoptic spectrometers and Langmuirprobes. This paper will describe experimental activities in plasma physics and describehow these activities are integrated into a technician-level course in RF Plasma Systems.IntroductionFor the purpose of this paper, “plasma” refers to an ionized gas. It is often referred to asthe “fourth state of matter.” In this state of matter, plasmas exist when enough energy issupplied to a gas to sustain the continuous creation of positively charged and freeelectrons. It is the creation of charged particles that makes the plasma useful inmanufacturing processes, e.g. etching, sputtering, and deposition.Plasma technology is one of

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Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tadeusz Majewski; Hector Cervantes; K. V. Sudhakar

context of the classroom, "active learning" may be defined as anything that "involvesstudents in doing things and thinking about the things they are doing". 8 When active learningactivities include the use of technology (e.g., multimedia applications), it is advisable to keep inmind that technology "tools" must be used in the framework of knowledge of learning andteaching for a particular application.9 Active learning approach consists of integrating innovativelaboratory techniques with computer modeling and visualization tools to create an interactive anda collaborative team-oriented environment for students to dynamically participate in their ownlearning. The goal of the "active learning" curriculum is to create an effective learningenvironment

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Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Kramer

lives. Finally, I suggest some individual faculty characteristics that helpexplain the variation in outlook and behaviors among colleagues in the same departments andinstitutions. The literature suggests that the behavior and attitudes of faculty have an impact on theeducational success and even the retention of their students. Although engineering facultymembers are important actors, through their teaching, advising, and designing of curriculum,their professional lives tend to be described at the methodological extremes of either multi-disciplinary, national faculty attitude surveys or participant observation accounts centered onstudents’ lives34, 10. There is little available that focuses on the culture of U.S. engineeringeducators and

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Issues in Computer Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gabe Garcia; Ian Leslie

Improving Student Performance in Programming Courses Through Unlimited Access to Computer and Software Resources I. H. Leslie and G. Garcia New Mexico State UniversityIntroductionComputer programming is an integral part of the curriculum in Mechanical EngineeringDepartment at New Mexico State University. Students in Mechanical Engineering arerequired to take two courses, a programming fundamentals course and a numerical methodscourse. The programming fundamentals course utilizes MATHCAD and MATLAB. Thefollow-on course covers basic numerical methods with MATLAB as the sole programmingtool. Typically, students only have

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Student Learning and Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Saleh Sbenaty

of Mind Mapping proponents who say that:“this concept will improve learning and enhance performance.”IntroductionThe Mind Map is an expression of “Radiant Thinking” and is therefore, a natural function of thehuman mind. It is claimed to be “a powerful graphic technique, which provides a universal keyto unlocking the potential of the brain” [1, 2, 3]. According to Tony Busan who originated theconcept of Mind Maps in the late 1960’s: “A Mind Map is a powerful graphic technique, whichprovides a universal key to unlock the potential of the brain. It harnesses the full range of corticalskills – word, image, number, logic, rhythm, color and spatial awareness – in a single, uniquelypowerful manner. In so doing, it gives you the freedom to roam the

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International Developments & Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Harby; Yuyi Lin

chipbased logic controller, PLC and general purpose CNC controllers with application examples arepresented.Students who have taken this course welcome such a totally different approach. In a typicalmechanical engineering curriculum in Asian countries, teachers and students spend much longertime in studying sub system design. For example, Machine Element Design course will contain aweek long project to design a speed reducer in great detail. A jig design project will be includedin a Manufacturing technology course which not only teaches detailed step by step processplanning but also special tool design for the established process. When the students and facultycome to the capstone design, it is more an integration process to pull together and

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Ethical Roles: Admins, Government, Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

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June Marshall; John Marshall

Facilitating the Development of Student’s Personal Ethics in Cultivating Professional Ethics in Engineering Classrooms Dr. June Marshall, Dr. John Marshall Saint Joseph’s College/ University of Southern MaineThis document focuses on how ethics education, more globally referred to as charactereducation, is being implemented into an undergraduate college program. Very successfultechniques are discussed that have been proven useful in providing instruction to futureprofessionals in national character education curriculums involving morals, values andethics. Suggestions for integrating character education into the engineering ethicsrequirement are highlighted.Engineering programs across the

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New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Azzedine Lansari; Akram Al-Rawi, McKendree University; Faouzi Bouslama, Université Laval

programming courses4. A master coursesyllabus that shows the integration of IT certification objectives into a programming and problemsolving course is developed. It is shown how the Microsoft Certified Application Developer(MCAD) certification objectives are integrated into the Visual Basic .NET programming course.The rest of the paper is organized as follows: Section 2 presents the IS curriculum adopted byZayed University (ZU)5, an academic institution located in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).The problem solving and programming sequence of courses is then identified. Section 3introduces the IT certifications and focuses on Microsoft MCAD certificate and its importance.Section 4 shows how to integrate the MCAD certificate into the sequence of

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Sustainability Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

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Patricia Mosto; Gina Tang; Courtney Richmond; Joseph Orlins; Catherine Yang; Demond Miller; Beena Sukumaran; Kauser Jahan; Anthony Marchese; Mariano Savelski; Paris von Lockette; Stephanie Farrell; Yusuf Mehta; William Riddell

exercises arealso an integral part of this REU experience. Environmental ethics, diversity and communityimpact of engineering activities are the topics of mini workshops. All these topics havetremendous relevance to pollution prevention and sustainability but can be absent from atraditional engineering curriculum. It is anticipated that the undergraduate research experiencepromotes interest in pursuing graduate school and strengthens leadership skills and self esteem.IntroductionMany engineering programs worldwide are integrating pollution prevention, green engineeringand sustainability modules in their traditional curriculum. The College of Engineering at RowanUniversity is taking numerous innovative measures to integrate environmental education

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Engineers & Mathematicians Communicating

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Avitabile; Tracy Van Zandt

foundation courses can too easily become a “blur” to the students—nothing more than a “bunch of words” intermingled with sines, cosines, integrals, Taylor seriesexpansion, etc., with no particular reason or intent.In the UMASS Lowell Mechanical Engineering curriculum, an effort is being made to try torectify this by interweaving some of the fundamental STEM material between multiple coursesso that students obtain a deeper understanding of important concepts. In particular, it is helpfulto integrate the well-defined, theoretical material of foundation classes with the hands-onenvironment of later laboratory classes. Laboratory can be effectively used to reinforce lecturematerial that is presented in related courses [2]. It can also be the perfect

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Xiannong Meng; Luiz Perrone; Maurice Aburdene

is fair to say that, exceptfor DS, all of the identified core areas have an intersection with some topic in computer security,information assurance, and/or privacy. (In fact, CC2001 documents that CC1991 [6] identifiessecurity as a recurring concept that is pervasive and persistent throughout Computer Science.)Close inspection of CC2001 reveals recommendations that instruction in security be presentedacross the core undergraduate curriculum in Computer Science and Engineering. Thedescriptions of several core units have direct relationships with topics in security. The list belowillustrates the most salient of these core units presented in the CC2001 document. Along witheach unit’s code and title, we indicate in parenthesis the minimum number

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Implementing the BOK - Can it Be Done?

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2005 Annual Conference

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Doug Schmucker, Trine University; Shane Palmquist, Western Kentucky University

AC 2005-185: REAL ENGINEERING PRACTICE IN THE CLASSROOM: CANASCE’S BOK BE DONE IN 4 YEARS?Doug Schmucker, Trine UniversityShane Palmquist, Western Kentucky University Page 10.1057.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2005 Real Engineering Practice in the Classroom: Can ASCE’s BOK be done in 4-years? Douglas G. Schmucker and Shane M. Palmquist Western Kentucky UniversitySummaryThe baccalaureate civil engineering program at Western Kentucky University (WKU) is uniquein how it integrates practice into the curriculum while also being a joint program with theUniversity of

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Improving Statics and Dynamics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip Cornwell; Richard Layton

cooperative learning, simulation software such as Working Model, computeralgebra systems such as Maple or MathCad, looking at a full range of motion rather than “staticdynamics”, concept questions, etc. All of these have been used at Rose-Hulman, and in theauthors’ opinion are beneficial for enhancing student learning. However, the only quantifiedimprovement in student learning took place when an entirely new curriculum was implementedin 199512-13. Rose-Hulman, as part of the NSF sponsored Foundation Coalition, implemented anew sophomore curriculum starting in the 1995-96 academic year. The sophomore yearcurriculum primarily concentrates on engineering science material that is traditionally covered incourses such as Dynamics, Thermodynamics I, Fluid

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven VanderLeest

T.M.Anderson (Eds.), Integrated and Holistic Perspectives on Learning, Instruction and Technology: UnderstandingComplexity, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press, 2000, pp.129-158.11 Buechner, Frederick, Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC, New York, Harper & Row, 1973, p. 95.STEVEN H. VANDERLEEST is a Professor of Engineering at Calvin College. He has an M.S.E.E. from MichiganTech. U. (1992) and Ph.D. from the U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1995). He received a “Who’s Who AmongAmerica’s Teachers” Award in 2004 and 2005 and was director of a FIPSE grant “Building IT Fluency into aLiberal Arts Core Curriculum.” His research includes responsible technology and software partitioned OS

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New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gary Fischer; Richard Jerz

Experiences in Designing a Design for Manufacturing (DFM) Course Dr. Richard Jerz, Dr. Gary Fischer St. Ambrose University / The University of IowaAbstractMechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering faculty at The University of Iowa agreed toimplement a required undergraduate course for each curriculum that will give students anunderstanding of basic design principles and manufacturing processes. The new course is called,Design for Manufacturing (DFM). The course goals include giving students the opportunity todevelop an understanding of the fundamentals of design, engineering graphics, andmanufacturing processes. Topics covered

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College Engineering K-12 Outreach III

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2005 Annual Conference

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Judith Miller; Paula Quinn; Jill Rulfs; John Orr

Society for Engineering Education 2. To implement the technology/engineering portion of the Massachusetts Science and Technology/Engineering Curriculum Frameworks (MSTECF)[1] in grades K-6; and 3. To develop curricular materials and prepare teachers so that the project is self-sustaining after the NSF grant expires.Massachusetts is one of the few states to have mandatory curriculum standards in engineeringand technology at the K-12 levels and appears to be the only state with such standards in the K-6grades) which specifically incorporate engineering and technology topics. Hence, Massachusettsis an ideal venue for the extension of NSF’s previous science and mathematics initiatives to theengineering disciplines.More details on

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Assessing with Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

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T.M. Wildman; M. L. Wolfe; Jr., O.Hayden Griffin, O.Hayden Griffin,; J. Muffo; G.T. Adel; G.V. Loganathan; Kumar Mallikarjunan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Tamara Knott, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

to enhance student learning and provide a tool forprogram assessment.27The BEEVT grant led to a successful proposal for an NSF Department Level Reform (DLR)grant awarded to Virginia Tech faculty of the Engineering Education (EngE) and Biological Page 10.1407.3 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationSystems Engineering (BSE) departments and the School of Education in September 2004. Theoverarching objective of this DLR proposal is to redesign the curriculum of the BioprocessEngineering option

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Measuring Perceptions of Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

perceptions are problematic becausein the lower grades, students do not see the connection of science and math to engineering anddo not develop these skills. In the middle grade, students find math and science difficult andstop taking these classes. In the upper grades, they desire to be an engineer but see it as animpossible task. These perceptions were reinforced when the students were asked to describeengineering students. While the answers were diverse, they seperated into too broad categories,the study of engineering and personality. Comments related to the study of engineeringincluded: “curriculum is hard”, “too many math classes”, “always glued to computers”, “verystructured – no room to accommodate other interests”. Comments related to

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Embedded Computing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eduardo Montanez; Andrew Mastronardi

many appliances that simplify our dailytasks. To the consumer, MCUs typically go unnoticed, but in industry they are very important.This paper stresses the importance of establishing a strong curriculum surrounding MCUs atvarious levels of engineering education. Most importantly, we must spark the student’s interestin MCUs in introductory engineering courses by introducing the subject in a very simple form.Students can be easily discouraged by the subject if they are initially drowned by complex MCUarchitectures and robust programming languages. Though these two topics are necessary tohave a full understanding of MCUs, students gain more interest in MCUs if they were first givena glimpse of an end application. This gives students a better

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Khaled Mansy

, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement-Adaptation and Implementation. This newlaboratory will help integrate the engineering of daylighting systems into the school’scurriculum, with the anticipation that this will nurture the scientific background and design skillsof undergraduate students. The secondary mission of the laboratory is to disseminate the sameknowledge and/or skills between graduate students, faculty, and practicing professionals. Thelaboratory will also be an effective venue to integrate teaching and research.1. Design of Daylighting Systems in BuildingsIntegration between daylighting and electric lighting systems in commercial buildings may resultin a significant reduction in the annual energy consumption and operating cost. Indeed

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New Trends in Graduate Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Preston McCrary; Chip Ferguson; Aaron Ball; Wesley Stone

methods, models and research to enhance professional and technical backgrounds andto develop technical management skills by combining qualitative approaches and quantitativetechniques in a balanced curriculum.Project management, telecommunications, and automatic data capture courses were added to thecore curriculum. Similarly, financial and managerial economics were added as an option for thesupporting management area. Students are required to conduct research in all graduate courses.Specific research methods are covered in ET 603, Applied Research and Design. For the ET 603course, students are required to complete a research study using accepted methods and statisticalanalysis. Additionally, all students have the option to take ET 648, Research

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ram Mohan; Narayan Radhakrishnan; Guoqing Tang; Kenneth Murray; Ajit Kelkar

INNOVATIVE GRADUATE PROGRAM IN COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Ajit D. Kelkar, Ram Mohan, Guoqing Tang, N. Radhakrishnan and Kenneth Murray Computational Science and Engineering Program North Carolina A&T State University Greensboro, NC 27411 North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCA&T) has established a master'sdegree program in Computational Science and Engineering (CSE). The program will be highlyinterdisciplinary, drawing expertise and resources from various disciplines across the University,and operating outside a department. It will offer an interdisciplinary curriculum combiningapplied

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Implementing the BOK - Can it Be Done?

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Houghtalen

, American Society for Engineering Education”The primary interest in this paper is that part of the BOK fulfilled through the educationalcomponent of an engineer’s training. The curriculum subcommittee of CAP3 is working on thesegregation of responsibilities in the educational component of the BOK; that is, whichcomponents will be fulfilled by a traditional bachelor’s program and which will be acquired bythe civil engineer beyond the bachelor’s degree (i.e., B + M/30). Preliminary discussions withinthat committee indicate that the only addition to the BOK expected of the master’s degree orequivalent is outcome 12: “specialized area of civil engineering.” This outcome requiressignificant depth in one area of civil engineering to the ability level

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa Anneberg; Ece Yaprak

data from the Internet, while also complementingexisting laboratory set-ups. Even though free networking software is readily available, itis not typically incorporated into undergraduate computer engineering/technology orcomputer science teaching curricula as comprehensively as one would like [1-4].Networking courses typically focus on theory, simulation and hardware applications, orsome combinations of these to impart knowledge. However, Internet-available freeware,typically used by networking professionals, can be used as a valuable resource tosupplant the use of theory, simulation and/or hardware applications in developing, andteaching through, an integrated networking curricula. The purpose in this approach is todo just that; that is, to

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Education Ideas in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lonnie Welch; Karin Sandell; Chang Liu

Engineering Education”matter of a software engineering course. Providing an experience that replicates thewhole software design process becomes the challenge. The importance of embeddingcommunication across the curriculum in this way and building upon basic skills taught indedicated communication courses has been endorsed by a growing number of institutionsof higher learning that have formalized such programs (see for example, University ofPittsburgh, and their Oral Communication Center http://www.cxc.pitt.edu/).To address the goals of embedding oral communication toward the end of improvingstudent skills and understanding along with their recognition of the need to studycommunication topics, we attempted to explicitly teach communication skills

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Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Scherr; Bevlee Watford

, all who share WEPAN’s commitment to enhancing the diversity of theengineering workforce.In 2002, WEPAN unveiled a new strategic plan centered on three keystone statements. (1) Toincrease the visibility and inclusiveness of Engineering to engage all talent; (2) to catalyzechange to create a critical mass; and (3) to make strategic choices that impact systemic change.The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of WEPAN and its operations. This isfollowed by a discussion of how WEPAN can affect women faculty in engineering and areas inwhich both WEPAN and women faculty could benefit from increased interactions.IntroductionEngineering education has long recognized the lack of diversity in their students. The numbersof students of color