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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Richard Miller; Joyce Pittman; Virginia Elkins; Max Rabiee; Eugene Rutz

Technology-Enabled Content in Engineering Science Curriculum Eugene Rutz, Virginia Elkins, Joyce Pittman, Max Rabiee, and Richard Miller University of CincinnatiAbstractEngineering technology technical courses often have both lecture and accompanying laboratorysessions. The laboratory assignments reinforce the understanding of the topics studied during thelecture sessions. A planning grant was awarded from the National Science Foundation throughtheir Bridges for Engineering Education Program to develop technology-enabled content inengineering science courses. Content was developed to appeal to a variety of learning styles andto support student-centered learning. This paper will describe the

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ismail Orabi

Engineering Analysis, andundergraduate level thermodynamics, Measurement Systems, Engineering Mechanics and Introduction toEngineering. One of Professor Orabi's most recent projects involves the development of Learning Modules on theweb. These modules provide information, not only about particular course material, but also about more generaltopics relevant to engineering. He is also working on Computer-Aided Experimentations using LABVIEW.Professor Orabi has received a number of research awards from the State of Connecticut and Untied Technologies.He has established two Laboratories: the Materials Testing laboratory sponsored by the National ScienceFoundation, and the Engineering Multimedia Laboratory funded by AT&T. He is a member of ASME and

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TYCD 2005 Lower Division Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

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Edward Tackett; Cheng-Hsin Liu; Ken Patton

populated the rest of the workshop. The main target audience of thisworkshop was participants from two- and four-year institutions that are either considering orcurrently using Rapid Prototyping technologies. They were all impressed with the practicalhands-on activities in the laboratory and vendors' showcase. There were four Rapid Prototypingtechnologies present at the workshop: 3D Systems' ThermoJet, Stratasys' Prodigy andDimension, Z-Corp's Z310, Helisys' Laminated Object Manufacturing (LOM) 2030.Solidworks, the design software, and Materialise, the RP file enhancement software (Magic),also introduced their products in the workshop. Sony demonstrated its capability using the highend RP machine. BJB Enterprises showed how to make rubber silicon

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K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

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Malinda Zarske; Rene Reitsma; Martha Cyr; Nancy Shaw; Michael Mooney; Jacquelyn Sullivan; Paul Klenk

, critical thinking, constructing new knowledge based on these answers, and problemsolving.5, 6 Studies conducted with science students found that inquiry-based science activitieshave positive effects on students’ science achievement, cognitive development, laboratory skillsand understanding of science content as a whole when compared with more traditional teachingapproaches.7, 8 Students participatingin hands-on activities, performingtheir own science experiments learnmore than those who do not.9, 10 Ahands-on inquiry-based approach isparticularly appealing to studentswith disabilities (special education),teaching them to use kinestheticmodalities, verbal modalities,pictorial representations andcreativity.11 Other studies have shownthat students in

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fred Fontaine

objectives, forexample, the curriculum has long had no engineering laboratory courses- only project courses inwhich students work in teams on open-ended design problems, not rote experiments. Theseprojects course start in the freshman year and culminate in a year-long senior design project.Faculty work closely with the students, and encourage independent thinking and challengestudents to push themselves, to reach their full potential. The result is the professionaldevelopment of young project engineers who can both design and direct small groups ofdedicated professionals. The theory covered in courses is also rigorous, and students areprepared for and introduced to graduate level work while still in undergraduate school.The small size of the school

Conference Session

Faculty Development II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Keith; Adrienne Minerick

, collaborative camaraderie as well asequipment and laboratory conduct policies may be foreign. Just locating simpleresources can be challenging. Overall, the new faculty member must acclimate quickly inorder to effectively communicate with fellow faculty and administrators on a daily basis.In this paper, the authors will discuss some of the unexpected experiences encountered attheir institutions with regard to teaching and research, then provide suggested courses ofaction on how to prevail.IntroductionThe common challenge facing almost every new faculty member is to get tenure. A newfaculty member is expected to teach at or above their institution’s average, do researchabove their institution’s average, and perform some level of service. Although

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Architectural Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Don Bury; Bruce Mutter

, faculty Page 10.720.2professional development, experiential learning, or laboratory activities are integrated Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering Educationinto the BSC Center for Applied Research and Technology (CART) mission and visionand the overall goals of the college. Plans for evaluation of the project will be developedthrough the BSC assessment office and will be designed for the size and scope of theundertaking. The resulting assessment of our work would likely be useful to similarinstitutions. Based on our

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kimberly Whelan; Sharon Jones

Scienceengineering electives, 33 eng. coursesdesign/conduct experiments, all laboratory science and all laboratory science andanalyze/interpret data engineering courses engineering coursesdesign a system/component/ Freshman Design, Senior Sophomore Design, Senior Design,process to meet needs Design, 31 other eng. courses 18 other engineering coursesfunction on multi- Freshman Design, Senior Sophomore Design, Senior Design bdisciplinary teams Designidentify, formulate, and solve Freshman Design, Senior Sophomore Design, Senior Design,engineering problems Design, 31

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ERM Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

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Erastus Njage; Alicia Davis; Solomon Alao; Craig Scott; Yacob Astatke; Bert Davy; Pamela Leigh-Mack; Masud Salimian

2004, a well-developed set of performance tasks were added to the coursewhich necessitated a format change. A mathematics faculty continued to teach the lecture part ofthe course, and an engineering faculty taught the added laboratory component, where theperformance tasks were implemented. No additional course credit was given for the added two-hour laboratory component, which met once a week. The fifty-two engineering freshmenenrolled in the course were selected based on their placement exam results. Basic Algebra, Pre-Calculus I, Comprehensive Pre-Calculus and Calculus I are the possible entry courses for newfreshmen. The innovative Pre-Calculus course content was most closely aligned with theUniversity’s Comprehensive Pre-Calculus course

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Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Schultz; Arnold Johnson

ElectricalEngineering students. (Top photos courtesy ). Page 10.1007.12 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationCubeSat10, 11Effective Dates: Spring 2002 – Spring 2004Mission: Successfully build and launch a CubeSat, transmitting at least one digital image from space and reconstructing it on Earth. This program, started by Professor Robert Twiggs, Director of the Stanford Space Systems Development Laboratory, was designed to

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Writing and Communication II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Alley; Kathryn Neeley

the use of phrase headlines that leave unclear the purposes of the slides. Since the1980s, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has eschewed phrase headlines and, instead,has advocated a short sentence headline that states the main assertion of the slide. The slidedesign advocated in this paper builds on the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory concept.It also responds to many other criticisms that are likely familiar to anyone who watchessignificant numbers of presentation. Perhaps the most common of these criticisms is that PowerPoint presentations are overlypredictable and generic. John Schwartz (2003) of The New York Times characterized thisphenomenon as “PowerPoint’s tendency to turn any information into a dull recitation of

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Programming for Engineering Students

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2005 Annual Conference

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Andrew Sterian; Bruce Dunne; Andrew Blauch

courses.Mechanical Engineering CoursesTable 4 lists some of the mechanical engineering courses that incorporate programming. InEGR345, students develop C programs as part of the laboratory experience to control anembedded system10. In addition, they write C programs and use MATLAB to implementnumerical algorithms for solving non-linear systems of equations and simulating dynamicsystems. A foundation in structured C programming is essential to the successful and efficient Page 10.1265.3completion of these assignments. Some of the other mechanical engineering courses, such asEGR350, use MATLAB as an analysis tool. Proceedings of the 2005

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State of the Art in 1st-Year Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tom Walker; Hayden Griffin; Tamara Knott; Richard Goff; Vinod Lohani; Jenny Lo

0431779).References[1] Griffin, Jr, O. Hayden, Fox, E. A., Ribbens, C. J., Walker, T. D. L., Davis IV, N. J., Goff, R. M., Lo, J. L., Lohani, V. K., Gregg, M. H., and Barnette, D., “Work in Progress – A Freshman Course for Engineering and Computer Science Students.” Proceedings of the 34th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers In Education Conference, Savannah, GA, October 20-23, 2004.[2] Goff, R.M. and Gregg, M.H., “Redesign of a Freshman Engineering Program for the New Millenium,” ASEE Southeastern Regional Conference, Orlando, FL, April 6-8, 1998.[3] Goff, R.M. and Gregg, M.H. "Why Hands-on Design? A First Year Hands-on Design & Dissection Laboratory", 1998 Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) National Design

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Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Milo Koretsky

Integrating Micro and Nanoscale Materials Processing into the Core ChE Curriculum - Examples in Radiation Heat Transfer Milo D. Koretsky Department of Chemical Engineering Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331-2702IntroductionThe chemical engineering department at Oregon State University (OSU) is committed todeveloping strength in microelectronics processing within a context of the fundamental skills ofthe discipline. In this vein, we are integrating examples from this industry into the classroom andthe laboratory.1 These topics are not only useful towards the

Conference Session

First-Year Design Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Scott Moor

students. This project can becompleted with inexpensive and readily available tools and materials. It provides opportunitiesfor the students to use good engineering analysis in their designs and opportunities for studentsto exercise creativity.Wind chimes have been proposed and used as a project or laboratory in a number of physics andmathematics courses. In this paper I review the approach and results of using a wind chimedesign in a first-year “Introduction to Engineering Design” course. In a portion of this coursestudents are asked to design, construct and test a wind chime. They are provided with anequation to predict the frequency of their chimes that is based on a solution to the fourth-orderwave equation. Students select their desired chime

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stefani A. Bjorklund; Norman Fortenberry

more time students spend on the task of learning, the more students willlearn [4, 15-17]. This concept does not imply, however, that the period of learning must occurcontinuously for several hours. Indeed, while total amount of time on task is important, it is alsohelpful to break up long class periods with activities, breaks, and repetition of material alreadycovered [15, 22]. Very little research has focused specifically on time-on-task for engineeringmajors, yet opportunities to do so are available as engineering students can spend a great deal oftime in classrooms, laboratories, and even study or homework groups.G. Respecting Diverse Talents and Ways of Thinking Though mentioned by Chickering and Gamson [4], discussion about the

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Aminul Karim; Yakov Cherner; Ahmed Khan

current with respect to the fast pace of technological advances in thefield is another challenge for faculty.5College and university professors can address these challenges by using the simulation andvirtual experiments. With the availability of broadband technologies, which offer high data rateconnections, simulation-based e-learning is rapidly becoming a significant and effective elementof the teaching and learning process. The use of virtual systems enables students engaged indistance learning to master practical skills at any time and at any place.II. Active Learning Suite (ALSuite)To address pedagogical and laboratory needs, an advanced simulation-based e-learning software,“Active Learning Suite” (ALSuite) has been developed. It uses real

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Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Hamilton; Gregor Novak; Evelyn Patterson; Brian Self

the idea, but different students willgrasp different aspects of the subject matter. By presenting the answers from different studentsthe instructor can build up an understanding of the complex idea. In this way, students feelgreater ownership of the course, come better prepared to class, and have more productiveinteractions with the professor. Examples of the use JiTT in undergraduate physics will bepresented and a framework for applying the techniques to Mechanics described.IntroductionThe physics educational community has long been at the forefront of innovative pedagogy.Instructors have developed interesting hands-on demonstrations, laboratories, and examples tophelp motivate and teach their students. The Force Concept Inventory(1) has

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Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jameson Wetmore

such belt use makeoccupants safer because of the belts, but it would also make air bag safer because people wouldbe in a safe and predictable position should the bag deploy.Second, engineers continued to experiment with air bags in the laboratory. They continued to tryto replicate a variety of crash scenarios. They ran tests to see the effects of hitting trees, hittingcars at different angles, and side collisions. They also continued to broaden the array of testingdummies that they used. They conducted a number of tests on dummies designed to replicatewomen of different weights and stature, children, and babies in child safety seats.And finally, the auto safety community also carefully tracked the performance of air bags on theroad. NHTSA, the

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Computing Tools for Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Garth Thomas

Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Education ”course, but a new designation as GENE 111 Software Tools for Engineers was provided in theSpring 2003 semester.Course DevelopmentOnce it was agreed that a new course was needed, the next major decision was the content of thecourse. It was decided that Excel® would be used because spreadsheet use is so common andthat particular software was available in all of the computer laboratories. It was also decided thatVisual Basic for Applications (VBA® ) programming would be taught since it extends thecapabilities of Excel® , provides a platform to teach some generally useful programmingconcepts, and Co-op students and new graduates were reporting that they used VBA® in theirwork. Mathcad® was

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Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Norma Mattei

tours of national research laboratories. The workshop started with governmentspeaker presentations from the NSF engineering directorate, the Air Force Office of ScientificResearch (AFOSR), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), NASA, and the NSF Division ofUndergraduate Education. Each speaker summarized the emphasis of their agency's programsand described opportunities available for funding from their organizations. The next threesessions focused on the Dynamic Systems and Controls Program technical areas of: 1) controls,2) vibrations and acoustics, and 3) dynamics diagnostics. These sessions started with a keynotespeaker who presented an overview of prominent research challenges in their emphasis area. Thekeynote speakers were selected because

Conference Session

Faculty Development II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Miller; Maher Murad; Robert Martinazzi; Andrew Rose

together to attend a Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Educationworkshop may also work to the favor of being selected since the workshop organizersmay be more interested in faculty from institutions where a strong interest in theworkshop exists.One example of how cooperation between faculty members in the different disciplineshas helped untenured faculty develop their teaching at UPJ resulted from the staggerednature in which the new faculty were hired. Limited funds are available each year forlaboratory equipment. New faculty members, however, have been able to purchase newequipment for their laboratory through

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Topics of Interest-Nuclear Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Deinert; K. Bingham Cady; Joshua Barratt; Erich Schneider

Visualization of Coupled Spectral and Burnup Calculations: an Intuition-building Tool Erich A. Schneider*, Joshua G. Barratt, K. Bingham Cady and Mark R. Deinert *Los Alamos National Laboratory, P. O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545 / Cornell University, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850AbstractIn this paper, we present a fast, user-friendly computational tool for the calculation andvisualization of coupled neutron spectra and fuel burnup calculations. This tool, V:BUDS(visualize: burnup, depletion, spectrum), was designed to derive scenario-dependent

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Computing Tools for Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahnam Navaee

and to place gridlines and shading on the spreadsheet. Producing a document whichcollectively displays the problem sketch, problem input, numerical output, and the plots in theattractive format as illustrated in Figure 7 is not easily possible using MATLAB. Page 10.209.10 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 7. An EXCEL Workbook Developed for Analyzing a Beam Subjected to a Combined LoadLabVIEW SoftwareLabVIEW, acronym for “Laboratory Virtual Instrument

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Computed Simulation and Animation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bugra Koku; Ali Sekmen

conducted by Piguet et al. have shownthat students are motivated most when they are given the chance to apply theory in practice anddesign a machine (i.e. a robot) [6]. Practical aspects of a course (hands-on labs and projectassignments) generally attract curious students to the course. Studies have shown that up to 90%of what we see and touch is remembered whereas only 10-15% of what we hear remains.Therefore, beyond having the potential to attract curious students, hands-on laboratory practice isvery important in order to facilitate learning of the theoretical information presented inclassroom. Kolb defines learning as a process whereby knowledge is created through thetransformation of experience [7]. Evidently the best way to experience

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Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russel Jones

given way to an increasedlocal innovative policy and entrepreneurial climate that have generated significantcomputer, telecommunications and more recently, pharmaceutical and biotechnologyoutputs.While the it is unclear as to whether it is the local state governments or the privateentrepreneurs who have been more relevant to this process, most people agree that theabove two actors, large and small firms, universities and government laboratories have allhad a part to play.It has been advocated since long ago that government, private sector, universities andresearch institutions are important parts of a larger system of knowledge and interactionsthat allow diverse actors with varied strengths to come together around common broadgoals for

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Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Newcomer

to introduce ergo-nomic programs as a way to increase efficiency and decrease the costs of injuries.Courses on ergonomics are still relatively rare in manufacturing programs, and there does notseem to be agreement as to how and where such a course should be taught. Some programsteach ergonomics at the graduate level,1 while other programs are willing to invest more re-sources into ergonomics so that they can include multiple courses, laboratories, and even minorsin ergonomics and safety.2-4 With the MESH course the ET Department at WWU has taken theapproach that all students in MET should be introduced to ergonomics, but there is also a realiza-tion that resources are very limited, so a course sequence or laboratory is not possible. As a re

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Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Jana Whittington; Joy Colwell

regional campus of Purdue Universitylocated in northwest Indiana. It is primarily a commuter campus, and serves justover 9,000 students. PUC started a program in Computer Graphics Technology(CGT) in the Fall 2000 semester. The course curriculum development wasinfluenced by existing successful course offerings within the Purdue system, bynationally known universities, and by regional job demands, as well asinternational considerations. Figures 1 and 2 show the growth in credit hours andthe increase in students in the CGT program between 2001 and 2004. In the spaceof a few years, laboratories were built, faculty hired, and many new coursesdeveloped to meet this demand. In the face of all this growth, and the number ofchanges that were occurring

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Transitioning to an Academic Career

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Loendorf

) exam. This certification is a valued and attractive electiveaddition to the Computer Engineering Technology (CET) program. The four CCNA courses areoffered in an accelerated format complete with extensive laboratory experience. In order tofacilitate this program, a new computer networking laboratory was created complete withswitches, routers, and a full array of test equipment. In order to start this academy instructors hadto be trained and certified by Cisco. This included completing an extensive set of instructors’courses along with passing Cisco’s instructor exam. Taking charge of this process and beginningthis new academy was a time consuming, demanding and yet very gratifying experience.Planning for a new program in electrical engineering

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Systems Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Widmann

Using Problem Solving Preferences to Promote Teaming in a Mechanical Systems Design Course James M. Widmann California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, CAAbstract At California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, MechanicalEngineering students are required to take a course in Mechanical Systems Design. It is ajunior level course where students learn the fundamentals of machine components (gears,bearings, screws, etc); furthermore, the students gain experience in the integration ofthese components into complex Mechanical Systems during a weekly 3-hr laboratory.During the laboratory portion