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Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2005 Annual Conference

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S. C. York; Tamara Knott

to the freshman engineering level. Thisevent provides universities an opportunity to involve their students in a national competition thatboth provides a significant challenge and showcases student skills and accomplishments. Thiseducational opportunity is currently under utilized by our sister universities and it is hoped thatthis paper will increase the visibility and participation in the ASEE National DesignCompetition.This paper highlights the use of the ASEE EDGD design competition in the freshmanengineering curriculum at Virginia Tech and presents our approach to enabling students to meetthe project requirements.The approach used at Virginia TechAt Virginia Tech, approximately 1250 freshmen are admitted to the College of Engineering

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Laura Lucas; Chul Kim

platform for wider applications. The primary objective of this project is to develop a database framework of a system thatcan provide continuous and immediate feedback by adapting wireless classroom technology andimplement it into more of the construction classrooms. By utilizing wireless classroomtechnologies, more interaction among the students and the instructor will be based on real-timeassessment of the students in an otherwise lecture-based classroom.Development of Wireless Classroom Framework Various wireless classroom technologies are integrated and adapted to the course for theinitial setup of the wireless construction classroom. This project requires two areas ofdevelopment on the software side: a database system and an

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Innovations in ChE Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Milo Koretsky

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationin the chemical engineering community. For example, several recent articles in ChemicalEngineering Progress have focused on applied statistics.1-5 Many chemical engineeringprograms have incorporated statistics into their curriculum.6 Several ChE specific courses inapplied statistics have been recently reported.7-10 The example presented here provides a hands-on example of how to quantify the variation associated with a measurement gauge. This materialcan either be integrated directly into an introductory statistics class or, alternatively, taught as a“module” in a core ChE class, as is done at Oregon State University.Experimental or process data are obtained through a measurement system

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New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Anderson

A Manufacturing Systems Capstone Course John C. Anderson Oregon Institute of Technology INTRODUCTIONCapstone courses serve a valuable function in Engineering and Engineering Technology curricula.Typically these courses offer the student an opportunity to integrate the lessons learned in engineeringscience classes, as well as transition from the textbook problems with a limited scope to more openended problems.A capstone course also offers the opportunity to fill in some gaps in the student’s academic backgroundprior to entering the professional ranks.The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Weber; Nathan VanderHorn; Rashmi Bahuguna; Arun K. Somani; Mani Mina

aspects, methodologies, and knowledge bases inNetworking, Communication, RF, Microwave, VLSI, Electromagnetic, Optics, and OpticalCommunication/Networking into a series of classes to be added to a regular/traditional EEprogram. We will introduce our plans and current implementations of HSSE at the department ofelectrical and computer engineering at Iowa state University. Our recent work is presented thatshows very promising trends in utilizing High Speed Systems Engineering as integratingpedagogical and research platforms to train modern engineers and future researchers. The newlydeveloped classes and changes in the curriculum will be introduced and discussed. We will showhow the new HSSE laboratory (with an electronically controlled optical

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Innovation in ChE Teaching

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Elly; Mordechai Shacham; Michael Cutlip

Education”Bibliography 1. Edgar, T. F. “Computing Through the Curriculum: An Integrated Approach for Chemical Engineering,” Technical Report, CACHE Corporation, 2003. 2. Henley, E. J.; Rosen, E. M. Material and Energy Balance Computations, Wiley: New York, 1969. 3. Ingham, J., Dunn, I. J., Heinzle, E. and J. E. Prenosil, Chemical Engineering Dynamics, VCH, Weinheim, 1994 4. Kneale, M. and G. M. Forster, “An Emergency Condensing System for a Large Propylene Oxide Polymerization Reactor”, I. Chem. E. Symp. Series No. 25, 98 (1968)Biography of the AuthorsMORDECHAI SHACHAM is professor and a former chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in

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Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

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George Morgan; Gene Gloeckner; Ahmed Khan

financial resources for faculty development activities.Role/Importance of Faculty Technical Currency in New Internet EconomyDuring the past decade, the phenomenal growth of the personal computer (PC) industry has ledto emergence of a new form of economy called the “Internet economy,” which is rapidlybecoming an integral part of the overall U.S. economy. The magnitude of the growth in theInternet economy is evident by the following indicators released by the Center for ElectronicsCommerce, Graduate School of Business, University of Texas at Austin (Center for ElectronicsCommerce, http://www.internetindicators.com/ overview.html, 2004).13 1. The Internet economy now directly supports more than 3 million workers. 2. Employment in the

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Turner; Joseph Hoffbeck

, 2000, p 1939-1951. 9. Plett, Gregory L.; Schmidt, David K., Multidisciplinary lab-based controls curriculum, ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Jun 24-27, 2001, p 7341-7352. 10. Garcia, R. Murillo; Wornle, F.; Stewart, B.G.; Harrison, D.K., Real-time remote network control of an Page 10.1046.7 inverted pendulum using ST-RTL, Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, v 1, Nov 6-9, 2002, p T2E/18-T2E/23.Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education 11. Klegka

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Mobile Robotics in Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Carl Wick; Bradley Bishop

while avoiding obstacles. The primary outcome of this exercise is a deeperunderstanding of computation for mobile robots, and a clearer view of possible alternatives toembedded processors for low-cost applications.BackgroundMobile robotics is a well-recognized motivational vehicle for engineering education. Not only isit an enjoyable topic for many students, but it has a broad appeal due to its wide scope, includingaspects of electrical, mechanical and computer engineering. Further, the design of such systemsis an excellent tool for reinforcing fundamental engineering concepts. It is important forinstructors in robotics to understand, however, that robotics is not just a tool to teach otheraspects of engineering. Rather, it is a robust and

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Mobile Robotics in Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Peter Wild; Kevin Firth; Brian Surgenor

Lessons Learned from a Mobile Robot Based Mechatronics Course Brian Surgenor*, Kevin Firth* and Peter Wild** * Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Queen’s University ** Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of VictoriaAbstractExperience with an elective course in mechatronics is discussed. The course is structuredaround a series of laboratories involving a mobile robot. The course introduces students toselected sensor and actuator technologies and sensitizes them to mechatronic systems designissues. The course is organized to promote a high level of active learning. The course has beenvery well received by students to date

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

KaMing Lai; James Webb; Robert Hendricks

this subject is covered in a single-semester course, while in theother half it is presented in a two-semester course. Regardless of duration, in only a few schoolsis there an accompanying laboratory course. This is, no doubt, a result of the trend forcompression of the curriculum, the large number of students, and the very high cost of equippingand staffing the requisite laboratories.Apart from the debate about the duration of the introductory circuits course, there is also a greatdivergence of opinion concerning the proper time to introduce modeling languages and programssuch as PSpice and MatLab into an EE/CpE curriculum. Under the auspices of an NSF-sponsored department-level review (DLR) grant1, our department has recently given a great

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Schinnel Small; Alicia Davis; Solomon Alao; Craig Scott; Yacob Astatke; Pamela Leigh-Mack

students construct meaning. An important aspect ofacquiring and integrating declarative knowledge is constructing meaning. Students draw uponprior knowledge and then link it to new knowledge during the declarative knowledge integrationprocess. Most note taking research has been directed at understanding the roles of encoding andexternal storage. Encoding serves to increase the learner’s attention and external storage servesto improve memory retention4. We use the Tablet PC and specialized note taking software tofacilitate the three minute pause technique and summarizing5. This allows the student to shiftfrom listening to reflecting and talking. The pause exercise is done in an active learningenvironment and serves as a formative assessment for the

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Virtual Instrumentation in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tom Eppes; Tanuj Oruganti; Peter Schuyler

ELVIS Lab StationsALTE can accommodate a variety of test equipment in the underlying lab stations. For the pilottest, two lab stations were equipped with NI ELVIS units. NI ELVIS comes with internalinstruments, an interface to LabVIEW and a circuit breadboarding area. The pilot test used theNI ELVIS oscilloscope, function generator, digital bus reader and digital bus writer.Setting up an ALTE lab station to support a distance lab is a relatively easy process. First, theinstructor must write a lab procedure and upload it to ALTE as a Word or PDF document. Thelab procedure is very similar to those handed out to students when they come to onsite labs.However, it should also contain a section that describes how to collect data using the

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A Renaissance in NRE Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Christopher Turner; Lisa Marshall

policy development, recruitment andretention policies and procedures, to name a few variables. A clear understanding of students’ needs is paramount. Surveys of program participantsand educators must occur for all activities, focus groups must become commonplace anddesignated contacts within the department must be available for suggestions and complaints withauthority to integrate feedback into the overall strategic plan. Another crucial component of SEMrequires an analysis of scores (e.g. PSAT, SAT, GRE), industry locations/needs, and of otherprograms (internally & at other institutions) with a geo-spatial breakdown. To this goal,geographic information systems (GIS) can play an essential part in geo-demographic analysis

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Issues in Computer Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Leo Benegas; Rick Covington

A Cognitive-Based Approach for Teaching Programming to Computer Science and Engineering Students Covington, R. and Benegas, L. California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA, 913301. IntroductionAn issue receiving attention in the undergraduate Computer Science curriculum over the pastfew years has been the high failure rate in the freshman programming course. This coursegenerally corresponds to the ACM/IEEE course designation CS1. It is normally an introductorybut fast-paced and challenging course for students who have not previously studied computerprogramming (programming novices), but who do have a minimum level of mathematicalmaturity (students who are

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New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Beverly Davis; Hugh Jack

, and EGR 401 - Advanced Product Design inthe winter of 2006. The first graduates of the new program are expected in the summer of2006. These courses replace three previous courses, EGR 371 - ManufacturingSimulation, EGR 373 - Production Scheduling and Control, and EGR 470 - Product andProcess Design. The old and new curriculum examples are shown in Figure 1. EGR 301 Analytical Product Design - An introductory course that addresses product design early in the curriculum to keep the students engaged. Topics include; rapid prototyping, patents, mathematical tolerance analysis, GD&T, customers and their needs, material and process selection. EGR 401

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Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Rose Marra; Charu Sharma; Mieke Schuurman; Barbara Bogue

remain part of a pioneering group. A conclusion in a literature review of assessment inengineering education reinforces the need for better data collection: “college and universitiesshould pay more attention to retention and graduation data” as well as gather more evaluationand research on effectiveness of programming. (8)Moreover, while the need for better assessment is generally recognized, the integration ofassessment into activities from conception of an activity or course and continuing well beyondthe end is still rare. Major barriers to better assessment practices are the expense of mountinggood assessments and analysis and the need for assessment expertise. More complex questions,post-survey instruments, qualitative studies and tracking

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Engineering in High School

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jessica Harwood; Al Rudnitsky

Learning about Scientific Inquiry Through Engineering Jessica Harwood, Al Rudnitsky Smith CollegeThe broad question addressed by this study is "how should ideas from engineering be integratedinto the school curriculum?" Efforts to include engineering in the K - 12 curriculum haveincreased considerably in recent years. Many of engineering's educational advocates hold theposition that engineering should not be a "stand-alone" school subject or, at the very least, not beexclusively so. This paper is a case study of integrating engineering into the existingcurriculum. The more focused questions addressed here include "what does engineering bringto

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Communication Skills in Aerospace Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Crossley; Melanie Thom; James Thom

broad andvague nature of the requests to improve these skills as part of an undergraduate curriculum. Aresearch study conducted over five years by the first author compared the specific skillsrequirements provided by industry practitioners to the published perceptions of engineeringeducators regarding the desires of industry practitioners.1 The resulting lists of skills from thetwo cohort groups (industry practitioners and engineering educators) were then compared to theobserved behaviors of nine different semesters of a senior engineering design course.Summary of the ResearchPurpose. At the onset of the study, the researcher observed that educators and practitioners wereengaged in activities to improve the skills with which engineering

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Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Philip Dunn

developed that utilized major componentsneeded in modern construction practice. Student teams were assigned to develop capstoneprojects based on actual plans and specifications that were either actively being bid orconstructed in the public sector. Plans represented various project types and included amunicipal wastewater treatment plant, an interstate bridge, and a highway embankmentStudents formed groups who took the identity of various active contractors. The capstoneconsisted of these individual teams choosing a set of plans and specifications from the varied setof available plans and preparing for four project phases: a business plan, project bid,construction schedule, and after construction litigation. Because of the size of these projects

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Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stephen Lancaster; Susan Walden; Teri Murphy; Deborah Trytten

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationhours. Interactions that occur when faculty mentor student groups, such as technical societies, orthat occur away from campus, such as when students and faculty interact at a restaurant, are notincluded in this category.BackgroundThere are many reasons that a school within any university should emphasize and scrutinizeoffice hours. Office hours have long been recognized as an important part of the educationalprocess with articles and books offering suggestions to faculty for better office hours efficacy.4,5There are also references to office hours as an integral part of successful

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New Trends in Graduate Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Stiegler; Ernest McDuffie; Robert Kavetsky; Eugene Brown

leadership skills through their involvementin developing curriculum, providing staff development, and interacting with other professionals.For the science and mathematics enrichment portion of the program, six teams consisting of twoscience and math teachers for each team will be selected representing all middle schools inStafford County, along with all of the seventh-grade students in their classes. From this group 72students and eight teachers will be selected to participate in the summer academic camp.Attention will be given to the selection of students for the summer camp to assure that studentsnot yet demonstrating an interest in science and mathematics are included as well as studentswho represent an appropriate level of intellectual, cultural

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Innovations in ChE Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Brian Lefebvre; Stephanie Farrell

anion exchange chromatography using a set ofcolorful proteins have been described. These educational materials will allow instructors tointroduce important biochemical engineering and physical biochemistry principles into thechemical engineering curriculum. The visual appeal and low cost of supplies will make thedemonstrations an effective teaching tool in core courses focused on separation processes. Thevariety of possible behavior will make the full-scale experiments a robust addition to unitoperations laboratories or biochemical engineering electives. Further developments will makethe modules available for dissemination to other universities.AcknowledgementThe authors thank Elizabeth N. DiPaolo, Richard S. Dominiak, and Amanda E. Rohs

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Issues in Digital Signal Processing

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2005 Annual Conference

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G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

Professor S. P. MAJ is a recognized authority in the field of industrial and scientificinformation systems integration and management. He is the author of a text book, 'The Use ofComputers in Laboratory Automation', which was commissioned by the Royal Society of Chemistry(UK). His first book, 'Language Independent Design Methodology - an introduction', wascommissioned by the National Computing Centre (NCC). Dr Maj has organized, chaired and beeninvited to speak at many international conferences at the highest level. He has also served on manynational and international committees and was on the editorial board of two international journalsconcerned with the advancement of science and technology. As Deputy Chairman and Treasurer of theInstitute of

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Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

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2005 Annual Conference

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Daniel Raviv

On Teaching and Assessing Engineering Innovation* Daniel Raviv+, Melissa Morris+, Karen Ginsberg++ + Department of Electrical Engineering ++ Department of Computer Science and Engineering Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431 E-mail: ravivd@fau.edu (561) 297 2773AbstractThis paper details data, analysis, and evaluation of one facet of innovation: ideation.Over the past six years college and high school students were exposed to several idea generationmethods in an

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Walker; Hayden Griffin

Virginia Tech have entered as generalengineering students, transferring to degree-granting departments after completing a prescribedset of courses. Beginning in 1984, entering engineering freshmen were required to purchasepersonal computers and selected software, which have been used as an integral part of freshmancourses and in appropriate courses throughout the curriculum. A side effect of this requirementwas that the College no longer maintains computer labs for undergraduates, since they owncomputers of sufficient capability for all of their course work. As the years passed, and thecapabilities of personal computers increased, so did the minimum hardware requirement. Onesignificant change was in 1994 when students were required to purchase

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Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Baxter

tocontain the course to three hours each week.In previous semesters, students created parts, assemblies and drawings that were selectedto reinforce the lecture material. The course text book contains assignments specificallydesigned for each lecture. Each problem, whether it is a part, assembly or engineeringdrawing has 5 grading criteria that are used to evaluate the student’s work.[1] Thesecriteria were added to help students focus on the key points of the assignment and toensure uniform grading across the multiple sections. An example of a text book part usedto demonstrate a sweep (cross section following a guide curve) is shown in Figure 1.These examples were used for the majority of the laboratory sessions. Of the 22 problemsassigned during

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Moeller; Margaret Pinnell; Bernard Amadei; Angela Bielefeldt; Robyn Sandekian

Education:What we are doing at MJCET.” Undated. Integrating Appropriate-Sustainable Technology and Service-Learning inEngineering Education Workshop: State of the Art Panel, An International Perspective. [http://www.edc-cu.org/workshop/ansari.ppt] (September 28, 2004)10 Vaz, Richard. “Putting Service Learning and Sustainable Technology at the Core of the Engineering Curriculum.”Undated. Integrating Appropriate-Sustainable Technology and Service-Learning in Engineering EducationWorkshop: State of the Art Panel. [http://www.edc-cu.org/workshop/vaz.ppt] (September 28, 2004)11 Cortese, Anthony. Integrating Appropriate-Sustainable Technology and Service-Learning in EngineeringEducation Workshop: Keynote lecture, Making Sustainability Second Nature in all

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IE/EM Skills in Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jessica Matson; David Elizandro; Jane Fraser

prescribing a curriculum toarticulating characteristics of strategic management processes to administer programs and aminimum set of Program Outcomes for accredited programs. As with the ABET 2000 Criteria,the recently approved ABET 2005-06 Criteria1 require that a program is administered using welldefined processes for each criterion and that constituents are an integral part of the planningprocess. In the Self-Study Questionnaire2, the ABET definition of well-defined processesnecessary to administer engineering programs is: Processes for all elements of criteria are quantitatively understood and controlled; clearly tied to mission, program objectives, and constituent needs; seen as benchmarks by other institutions.Participants in

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IE/EM Skills in Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

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Karen Palmer; Terri Lynch-Caris; Laura Sullivan

scientific advances are being made atthe interfaces of traditional disciplines and approaches to science are becoming more integrative.(2003, p. 2) As such, an interdisciplinary engineering education is a realistic model for trainingfuture leaders in the engineering sciences for the purpose of advancing the research abilities ofengineering graduates. The National Science Foundation funded Project Kaleidoscope in 1990, a study toidentify best practices in the teaching of undergraduate math and science. In “The Women’sCollege Difference,” Sebrechts (1999, p. 47) discusses the report generated at the conclusion ofthis project. This report recommended that “mathematics and science education be driven bycollaboration among students and faculty