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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Heenan; Hector Estrada

Engineering Department) has averaged 270 admissions applications per year over thelast two years. Freshman admission into the program is limited to an average of 78 students or29% of the applicants according to Dr. Edward Gibson2, former Associate Chairman forArchitectural Engineering. The main reason for limiting enrollment of freshman students Page 10.455.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationaccording to Dr. Gibson is limited space, including laboratory and studio facilities. The studentswho are not

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Andrew Gerhart

theSummer Science Institute, is for high school juniors and seniors. The other program, calledSummer Odyssey, is for middle school students. Both programs explain what engineers are,explain what engineers do, and promote problem solving skills. The students also experiencevarious disciplines (or sub-disciplines) of engineering through a combination of presentations,laboratory experiences, and design work. In other words, much of the same material andactivities are used for both programs. Although neither of these programs are specifically forminorities or women, a large portion of the students are female and approximately half areminorities. A review of the material/activities for the summer of 2004 is presented. In addition,in the summer of 2004

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Nanomaterials for Learners of All Ages!

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2005 Annual Conference

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Amanda Runciman; Lisa Christensen; Katherine Chen

very simplePowerPoint slides with lots of pictures and very little words. Naturally, not all the activities arepossible when visiting other locations.Pedagogy and TipsNot surprisingly, the strategies for successful outreach activities are the same approaches that areeffective to the learning of college students. Our experiences in presenting difficult concepts(e.g., shape memory effects) to younger students have actually helped with our own teaching atthe college level.Relating to the audienceOur approach is basically to make things as simple and as fun as possible. We take the conceptsand explain them on a simple level, and we try to relate them to activities and examples that theaudience are familiar with. We spend a lot of time making sure

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Walker; Hayden Griffin

universities began requiring students, particularly engineeringand computer science students, to purchase their own computers by the mid-1980s. Limitationsfor teaching were immediately noticed, and faculty began to imagine what could beaccomplished if the students were able to bring their own computers to class. “Portable”computers such as the Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 [1] were not portable enough tobe brought to the classroom.There is considerable argument over when the first “laptop” computer appeared. Some of theearly “portable” computers were definitely not laptop-sized or laptop weight. One of the first“notebook” computers may have been the NEC UltraLite [1, 2], which was introduced in 1989.These computers were still not sturdy enough to

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Architectural Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Joseph Betz

students develop complex theory papers starting with "low-stakes" writing activities that leads to "high-stakes" formal papers. This process incorporates acontinuous improvement plan that uses several types of peer review. A campus-wide committee,referred to as the Writing in the Discipline Committee, also reviews and approves thepedagogical writing process used in the course. Student survey data is presented to measurestudent attitudes and perceptions. Sample grades are presented to show trends. Analysis,recommendations and conclusions are given. The goal here is to present a useful case study forfaculty interested in teaching a writing intensive or WID course.BackgroundThere are two important background points that should be made. One, what type

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TC2K Issues and Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Cottrell

Planning Program Course Course Evaluation Collective Evaluation Assessment Course Course Quality Quality Course Course Teaching Teaching Assessment Assessment Evaluate/Review Outcomes & Objectives Faculty

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Retention Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

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Walter Fisher

into the Upper Division of degree programs utilizing Basic Engineering. • Strategy II: Leading an Active Learning Mentoring Practicum For Female Engineering Students. This involves Proactive Learning Experiences, a Professional Women in Engineering Senior Seminar, and active participation in professional societies. • Strategy III: Improving the Support of Teaching By Students for Students In a Critical Gateway Course, Thermo-Fluids Engineering [BE 2375].This triad of initiatives combines to provide a solid basis for achieving improvements ingraduation success6.Implementation and TestingIn the first phase of the project, students beginning the BE course sequence and studentscompleting the

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MIND Education Trends

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2005 Annual Conference

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Maria M. Larrondo Petrie

Outreach is available3. The ASEE Engineering K-12 Centeroffers portals for students and educators. The MAA has many resource materials for motivatingMathematics at the K-12 level4. Cornell University sponsors an award winning website5 withlinks to educators and students in grades 9-12. ITEA is a professional association for technologyeducation teachers who teach a problem-based learning approach utilizing math, science andtechnology principles, their web site includes teacher resources, and they publish the Journal ofTechnology Education6. NASA provides many activities for K-12 education7. The AAASprovides a ScienceNetLink8 web site that provides lessons, tools, resources, benchmarks. MCIFoundation supports the MarcoPolo9 website that focuses on K

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Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Joan Gosink; Catherine Skokan

Engineering, Physics multidisciplinary project) 28% • Specialties within related disciplines (for example Molecular Biology, Cellular Biology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics in a combined project; or a program of Computer Science with Computer Information Systems and Computer) 28% • Science and/or Engineering and School of Education (for example Nanotechnology, Industrial Engineering, and K12 Teacher Preparation) 20% • Sensors and a science or engineering application (numerous biomedical projects partnering with electrical engineering through sensor technology; also many multidisciplinary engineering undergraduate laboratories with sensors) 7% • Engineering or science in

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TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

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2005 Annual Conference

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Satyajit Verma

student. Itcan also be considered as a contract between a student and the course instructor.Assessment ActivitiesTypical classroom assessment activities include mid-term and final examinations, quizzes,homework assignments, laboratory exercises and reports, project work and reports, oralpresentations etc. However, assessment activities need not be confined to the classrooms. Thecourse instructor usually assigns % weights to each of these assessment activities (e.g. 15% each Page 10.923.2for each exam, 10% for laboratory reports etc.). Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Xianfgu Zong; Marcia Fischer; Malgorzata Chranowska-Jeske; James Morris; Fu Li; Cynthia Brown; Agnes Hoffman

. Facilities include classrooms, computer laboratories, faculty and staff offices,and dormitory facilities for students. ECE laboratory facilities are provided by FudanUniversity. IIIST currently enrolls about 200 freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors inComputer Science (CS) and about 70 ECE freshmen, sophomores, and juniors. Theundergraduate students at IIIST are primarily full-time students, who are recruited directlyfrom high school.PSUPortland State University has its roots in the G.I. Bill, and has since developed into avibrant urban university, with a mission of service to the city. In recent years PSU hasbecome the largest university in Oregon. The University has been nationally recognizedfor its innovative undergraduate curriculum

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Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

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Terry Wildman; Kumar Mallikarjunan; Mark Sanders; Jeffrey Connor; Vinod Lohani

From BEEVT to DLR – NSF Supported Engineering Education Projects at Virginia TechVinod K. Lohani1, Mark Sanders2, Terry Wildman3, Jeff Connor1, Kumar Mallikarjunan4,Theo Dillaha4, John Muffo5, Tamara W. Knott1, Jenny Lo1, G. V. Loganathan6, GregAdel7, M. L. Wolfe4, Richard Goff1, Mike Gregg1, Mike Chang4, Foster Agblevor4,DavidVaughan4, John Cundiff4, Ed Fox8, Hayden Griffin1, Sue Magliaro9 1 Department of Engineering Education/ 2Professor and Program Leader, Technology Education/ 3Center for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching/4Biological Systems Engineering/5Academic Assessment Unit/6Civil and Environmental Engineering/7Mining and Minerals Engineering/8Computer Science/9Director, School of

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Computing Tools for Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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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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Philosophical Foundations, Frameworks, and Testing in K-12 Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Skylar Stewart; Linda Ramsey; Julie DuBois; Jorge Roldan; David Mills

next time we held thecourse we should do only one session per week. On the other hand, the students felt that thesession length of 1 ½ to 2 hours was appropriate.Impact on Teaching FellowsIn reflecting upon the impact of this course, it is clear that we learned as much from thisexperience as did the students who participated. Foremost, educational research of this typevastly differs from the typical laboratory research we as graduate engineering students havebecome accustomed to. For example, when conducting educational research investigators mustunderstand that working in a K-12 environment requires a higher degree of flexibility, patience,and tolerance of unexpected chaos. An important outcome derived through the implementationof this

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TC2K Issues and Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ronald Land

“standard course outlines.” In their role as curriculum overseers, curriculum committees assign experienced facultymembers from across the system to be “course chairs” for one or more of the courses that theyteach. Each course in the curriculum has a course chair, and the course chair’s duty is to developand maintain a standard course outline for that course, which is then made available to all facultyin the system who teach that course. Historically, these outlines have been representative syllabithat suggest suitable texts, establish minimum topical coverage, suggest suitable laboratoryactivities, and identify minimum equipment and resources required to teach a course. However

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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G Murphy; G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

to change the level of participation of students byincreasing expectation and so making students more responsible for their ownlearning 10, 11.A possible approach to teaching computer networks topics is to allow students tolearn using real networks. Traditionally, computer networks courses have notprovided students with hands-on access to networking equipment and software; costand implementations factors have made it difficult 12,13. However, due to increasingpopularity of vendor-based courses as components of undergraduate curricula,students now have the opportunity to study a more practical approach and henceprogram networking devices (switches, routers). Furthermore, relatively inexpensiveequipment, such as switches and routers, and

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Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

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2005 Annual Conference

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Fengfeng Zhou

-12education and cope with the rapid advancement in science and technology, the National ScienceFoundation has funded a number of research projects at dozens of universities nationwide. Oneof these projects is the Science and Technology Enhancement Program (STEP) currently beingconducted at the University of Cincinnati. Graduate and undergraduate fellows of Project STEPare placed in different secondary schools to work with math and science teachers. The mainresponsibility of a fellow is to develop and implement hands-on activities that are creative,engineering-focused, and technology-driven. Activities are incorporated into lessons,demonstrations, laboratory exercises, and field experiences. By doing these activities, studentswill experience authentic

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Nirmal Khandan

INFORMATIONDr Nirmala Khandan holds the John Clark Professorship in the Civil Engineering Department at New Mexico StateUniversity. He received his MS and PhD degrees from Drexel University in Environmental Engineering. He hasreceived several awards for teaching and research. His current research is focused o n educational materialsdevelopment, teaching, and learning.ACKNOWLDGEMENT Page 10.330.5This work was supported in part by a grant from the Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement program ofNational Science Foundation. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Walter Banzhaf

120 volt AC power cord Figure 2 - Prototype of Transmission Line Demonstrator Board Page 10.692.3 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationQuantitative ResultsSimple measurements of voltage and current, done with standard laboratory instruments, allowstudents to see the vast increase in efficiency (power out/power in) that using high voltageprovides. The table in Figure 3 provides quantitative evidence of

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New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Anderson

integrate those courses thatsupport design of machinery with a challenging project and with supporting lectures. LECTURE SERIESThe lecture series in this course is divided into the following areas. • Safety • Project management • Process analysis • Introduction to plastics • Applications of heat transfer • Industrial Controls Basic relay circuits Motor starters Motor speed control Programmable logic controllers Wiring practiceThe first lecture session and part of the first laboratory session is dedicated to safety. Since students willbe expected to work with voltages as high as 220 volts and with pressurized, molten

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International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gary Kardys; Abraham Michelen

, design, specifications,materials, application notes, and many other important activities in the daily life of andengineer. Without Globalspec, or a tool similar to it, the essential task of locating a specificcomponent for a design would take many hours of browsing in manufacturer’s catalogs. Page 10.1409.1All these tasks are accomplished by just linking to the Globalspec site. This is the reasonwhy many engineers at important industrial manufacturers as well as research laboratories “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for

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Real World Applications

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2005 Annual Conference

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Youakim Kalaani

publicawareness of the requirement to protect the environment by promoting the use of green energy.The project will also provide a platform to help teach about renewable energy by developingcurriculum material with applied projects to boost creativity in students at all levels.I. IntroductionThe use of renewable energy is increasing with applications including green power generationfor homes, cottage industries, health clinics, and community centers. Illinois has abundant solarand wind resources and students will soon be asking for more curricular support in this area. Asissues such as climate change, global warming, increased blackouts, and oil price fluctuationcontinue to pepper the news 1-3, it is likely that the use of renewable energy will become

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Experiences with Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

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Walter Bankes; Michael Eastman; Anthony Trippe; Jeffrey Lillie; George Zion

their ownpersonal desires. The course and laboratory work is rigorous, consisting of 192 quarter-creditsover a 5 year period. Additionally the students are required to participate in a co-operativeeducation experience that totals a minimum of 50 weeks over the last three years of the program.The co-operative education requirement normally consists of two 6-month blocks and one 3-month block, but the exact configuration may vary from student to student. While on co-op,students are not required to pay tuition, and often make reasonable salaries. Recent salaryfigures have been in the range of $7.50 – $23.00 per hour with an average of $13.34 per hour.Typically students with one or two co-op experience under their belts command a higher salarythan

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Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Voigt; Nathan Shenck; Delores Etter; Thomas Salem; Samara Firebaugh

challenging todistill into a few hours. This paper describes a four-hour electrical engineering module thatexamines the role of electrical engineering in the manipulation of audio signals, developed for anew introductory engineering course at the United States Naval Academy.In the first hour, students were given a short presentation on biometrics (signals that can be usedto identify a person) and participated in demonstrations of iris, face, and fingerprint recognitionsystems. They then completed a laboratory experiment in which they analyzed plots of speech(audio) signals, measured pitch frequencies, and identified male and female voices using thatinformation. During the following hour, after a brief overview of A/D and D/A conversion, thestudents

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Innovation for ChE Student Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Newell

Press, 1993.[11] J. S. Byrd and J. L. Hudgkins, "Teaming in the design laboratory," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 84, pp. 335, 1995.[12] E. Seat and S. M. Lord, "Enabling effective engineering teams: a program for teaching interaction skills," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 88, pp. 385, 1999.[13] P. Lewis, D. Aldridge, and P. Swamidass, "Assessing teaming skills acquisition on undergraduate project teams," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 87, pp. 149, 1998.[14] C. Weinstein and R. Mayer, The teaching of learning strategies. New York: MacMillan, 1986.[15] C. Johnston and G. Dainton, "Learning Combination Inventory Users Manual,",, unpublished manuscript 1997.[16] C. F. Yokomoto

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Innovative ET Leadership

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2005 Annual Conference

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Scott Danielson; John Hansen; Thomas Hall

leadership and management are needed for a goodeducational enterprise and workplace. While, in general, people want a well-managed place towork (fair and well-organized class schedules, teaching or office supplies provided in a timelyway, fair division of resources between people and programs, good advising support andsystems, etc.), they want to be led, not managed. Who ever heard of a “world manager” or a“boy scout manager?” So, it is important to manage departmental functions but lead the facultyand staff in the unit.As a departmental or educational unit leader, it is important to “manage yourself but leadothers.” To be effective as both a manager, it is necessary to remain focused and organized sothat the myriad of tasks facing you can be

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Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

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Yong Yang; Andrew Bennett; Steve Warren

Analysis," IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 39, Aug 1996, pp. 287-296.[9] Lu, Han-Pang Huang and Chiou-Hwa. "Java-Based Distance Learning Environment for Electronic Instruments," IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 46, Feb 2003, pp. 88- 94.[10] Titcomb, S.L. "Computer-Based Interactive Tutorials for Electrical Engineering Laboratory Instruction," presented at 27th Annual Conference Frontiers in Education Conference, 1997. Proceedings ’Teaching and Learning in an Era of Change’. 1997.[11] Gronhovd, Sudhir Ι. Mehta and Sandy M. "Instrumentation and Communication Modules on CD-ROM’s for Enriching Engineering Education," IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 39, Aug. 1996, pp. 304-308.[12

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

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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

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Writing and Communication II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Alley; Kathryn Neeley

accepted into theprofessional engineering community, and being different puts that acceptance at risk. For a newidea to be accepted into an isolated community, the idea needs to have merit. The idea alsoneeds to have a “critical mass” of supporters who make the others willing and perhaps slightlypressured to try the new idea. Our experience suggests that, at least in an academic context, oneof the best ways to create a critical mass and apply slight pressure is to teach the methodexplicitly and require it as part of graded presentation assignments. Experience at Virginia Tech. In the past four years, undergraduates in the MechanicalEngineering Department at Virginia Tech have used the alternative design in a laboratory coursesequence that

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Carol Lynn Alpert; Jacqueline Isaacs

”developing ethics workshops for nanotech students as well as mid-career industry professionals.The goals of the workshops are to introduce the AIR (awareness, investigation and response)model18 of ethical inquiry to participants. This model will be presented both as a proven tool toassist them in processing the ethical issues that may arise during their own laboratory research,and as a teaching tool for use with the students, graduate assistants, technicians under theirsupervision.CHN-affiliated faculty at the University of Massachusetts Lowell are designing curricula that usenanotechnology as a framework for examining the entire range of societal issues associated withemerging technologies. For example: faculty in the Department of Work Environment