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NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

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2005 Annual Conference

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Russ Pimmel

subsequent sections of the paper. Additional information about all DUEprograms can be found on our website. 2 Page 10.542.1∗ This paper represents the opinion of the author and not an official NSF policy. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education”The Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Program, 3 which is jointly managed byDUE and the Division of Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education (ESIE),provides grants to strengthen the education of technicians for careers in biotechnology

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tom Gally; Steve Chadwick; Randy Shaffer; Milton Cone; Jim Helbling

students will recognize their ability to specialize in disciplines likeelectrical engineering or computer science, to which they may have a greater affinity, and stillfind a rewarding career in aerospace.The primary goal of this course is to teach basic design skills within the various disciplines,while allowing the students to have fun in the process. This goal is aimed at retaining studentswithin the engineering field by exposing them to some of the more enjoyable aspects of theprofession. In order to foster this environment, the course was focused on hands-on creativedesign projects culminating in competitions between teams, with final grades depending uponteam performance. Developing team skills, therefore, was an important goal, as was

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Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

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Russel Jones

University of Rio de Janeiro.He chaired the initial meetimng in Brazil where the Engineer of the Americas concept was developed.LUENY MORELL is a member of the University Relations staff of the Hewlett Packard Company. She isresponsible for relations with universities throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.RUSSEL C. JONES is a private consultant, working through World Expertise LLC to offer services inengineering education in the international arena. Prior to that, he had a long career in education: facultymember at MIT, department chair in civil engineering at Ohio State University, dean of engineering atUniversity of Massachusetts, academic vice president at Boston University, and President at University ofDelaware

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Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

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Russel Jones

, Dean at Southwest Missouri State University, Assistant to the President of the University ofDelaware, and Chair at Cleveland State University. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education 7RUSSEL C. JONES is a private consultant, working through World Expertise LLC to offer services in engineering educationin the international arena. Prior to that, he had a long career in education: faculty member at MIT, department chair in civilengineering at Ohio State

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ET Curriculum & Design Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Blanton

magnetism.ConclusionsThe success and future of academic programs in engineering technology are related to theemployability of its graduates.7 At no time has the growth of technological knowledge been soprofound. The reward for being technologically literate is strong career fields that typically Page 10.521.8 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering Educationprovide steady employment, training opportunities, fringe benefits, and promotionalopportunities.8 With each new advance in technological knowledge, there is a

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Virtual Instrumentation in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Terrance Lovell; Dale Litwhiler

Reading, PA. He receivedhis B.S. from Penn State University (1984), his M.S. from Syracuse University (1989) and his Ph.D. from LehighUniversity (2000) all in electrical engineering. Prior to beginning his academic career in 2002, he worked with IBMFederal Systems and Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems as a hardware and software design engineer.TERRANCE D. LOVELLTerrance D. Lovell is an electrical engineering student at Penn State Berks-Lehigh Valley College in Reading, PAwhere he is also completing his associate degree in electrical engineering technology. He serves as president of thestudent chapter of SAE and is also a laboratory assistant in the EET department. Prior to his academic pursuits hewas an electronics countermeasures

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Interdisciplinary Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Harry Fox

multidisciplinary subject, and preparation for a career asan engineering technologist builds on an understanding of this inherently cross-disciplinarynature of systems and control principles. For example, certain controls concepts, such asdynamics and modeling, frequency response, feedback, and stability, are of fundamentalimportance and usefulness in both engineering technology disciplines. The new course development effort then shifted to preparing an interdisciplinary course incontrol systems designed to be jointly taken by MET and EET students. The balance of thispaper describes this effort, including the research done in preparing a final course outline and thework done to couple meaningful hands-on laboratory exercises with the theory topics

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Attracting Young MINDs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Amy Freeman; Anita Persaud

implementing it forall engineering students can only secure their future academic and career success.In conclusion, of the 896 underrepresented engineering alumni who have graduated in PennState’s College of Engineering 110 year history, 725 or 81% of these engineers graduated in thelast 20 years, after the establishment of The Multicultural Engineering Program. This is clearevidence of the significant effectiveness and success of the continued need for MulticulturalEngineering Programs and Women in Engineering Programs on university campuses nationwide.Bibliography[1] National Institute of Education. Involvement in Leaning: Realizing the Potential of American Higher Education. Washington, D. C.: U. S. Department of Education, 1984.[2] Pascarella

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Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yong-Kyu Jung

©2005, American Society for Engineering Educationsubjects that are necessary from an educational point of view. Many of those topics, however,may not often, or ever, be used for the post-academic engineering career. To leverage classroompractices, rapid design approaches using FPGA-based synthesizable register-transfer level (RTL)implementations must be added to the current curricula.Since classroom projects are generally of smaller scale and lower quality than industrial projects,functional simulation followed by FPGA-based verification may be enough. However, industrialprojects usually require accurate functionality and timing as well. Because of that requirement,both functional and timing simulations with logic synthesis and optimization are

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Curriculum Topics: Industrial ET/Industrial Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Mativo

chair of department ofTechnology at the University of Eastern Africa, Baraton. He holds a BA, BIT (Andrews, MI), BME(Auburn, AL), MED and Ed. D (Georgia) in Career and Technical Education. He is a member of Sigma Xi. Page 10.384.10 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Radha Balamuralikrishna; Clifford Mirman

students can transfer courses. While the typical transferstudent tends to remain within their geographic region, that area may be served by at least twodifferent four-year institutions. Thus, the transfer of course work is dependent on the agreementsin place between the 2-year and the 4-year institutions. In many cases, the course equivalentsaccepted in transfer vary by school. Thus, it is becoming more important for the transfer studentsto know where they would be transferring to at the start of their community college career. Itshould be noted at the start that within the State of Illinois, transfer into to the engineeringprograms provides the simplest paths toward transfer from the community college 7. The State ofIllinois has developed a

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Curriculum Development in Computer/Communications ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Warren Koontz

faculty of RIT after completing a 32-year career with Bell Laboratories. Page 10.1316.12 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Igor Verner

middleschool pupils in our laboratory of technology.Robotics has been risen an especially effective medium for engineering education6. Itinvolves students in self-directed learning, interdisciplinary design, teamwork, professionalcommunication, technical invention, and research. We believe that robotics as part of ateacher training program can help engineering students to develop professional andpedagogical skills needed for their careers.3. Instructional robots and experimentsMany prototypes of computer-controlled mechanisms in the course are built using the Robixkit7. This robot construction set implements the concept of digital manipulatives. It containsessentially all components required for desktop robot construction. Its mechanicals

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Industrial Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

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Todd Dunn

F., “Tripping Hazards in Schedules,” Presentation given at the 2002 annual meeting of the American Association of Cost Engineers, Portland, OR. 2002. Biographical Information:Todd Dunn, P.E., is an Associate Professor in the Civil Engineering Technology program at the Rochester Instituteof Technology. Prior to beginning his teaching career in 1992, he worked for three commercial constructioncontractors spanning eleven years. He worked in Asia for 2½ years on highway projects. He has extensiveexperience with CPM scheduling, and continues to consult. Page 10.1142.10 “Proceedings

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Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas H. Miller; Susan Frey

in many areasoutside the class topics. In addition, the instructor shares life experiences, including combiningfamily and career needs.The graduate students are assigned more theory, as well as additional design problems mostweeks. They are highly motivated and have a more in-depth interest in both the theory and thedesign components. They frequently stay after class to discuss the course content informally, andto seek advice on finding employment, continuing in academia, or working abroad.The working professional engineers (PEs) make up the most interesting set of students. Thisclass allows the PEs to receive close to 30 professional development hours, stay current inbuilding codes, have access to the opinion of another professional

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Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Joseph Musto; William Howard

. Page 10.331.8 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education 5. I believe that this course contributed toward my career objectives. Average = 5.9 (average of all MET classes = 5.7) Most MET students are working adults who clearly understand the importance of computing skills in the workplace. 6. My interest in this subject area was sustained or enhanced by taking this course. (Possible responses are Yes and No only) All seven students answered Yes (average of all MET classes = 85% Yes)Overall, student impressions of the new course have been positive. In the next

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Troy McBride

creditcourse at the College) and meets four hours each week for the Fall and Spring fourteen weeksemesters. The Fall semester course covers the topics of history of engineering, engineeringmajors and career paths, problem solving, design, project management, teamwork, oralpresentation skills, technical writing, and some basic computing skills using a spreadsheet(statistics, solution of equations, and optimization). A community-based project is assigned inthe Fall semester to connect and apply these subjects.1 In the Spring semester, the course coversfour topics, as well as the major project – sketching and graphics, Solid Edge 3-D modelingsoftware, Matlab software (including 3-D plotting, solution of simultaneous equations and

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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

group supports the idea of havinganother workshop next year with the same participants, specifically to discuss recentaccomplishments and next steps.Objective 2: Exploring the Challenges and Benefits Associated With Incorporating Service-Learning Into Engineering CoursesAccording to Dean Robert H. Davis, of the CU-Boulder College of Engineering and AppliedScience, service-learning (or in more general terms, experiential education) is important becauseit helps students to nurture a lifelong desire to consider the social and economic importance oftheir work. It also offers personal gratification in helping others. The exact details of howservice-learning and experiential education are integrated into a student's college career are notas important

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Tricks of the Trade for Teaching I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kemi Ladeji-Osias

teaching your course. There aremany things to consider, and you have a long career over which to try them. The first step is todownload Teaching Engineering, a free publication that provides an excellent background onmost of the topics discussed [Wankat, 2000]. It was the first book I used to improve my teachingand I believe it continues to serve me well. Next, visit Richard Felder’s website [Felder, 2005]which includes extensive articles and resources on active and cooperative learning and learningstyles. Between these two resources, you should be ready to start planning your course.If you have inherited an existing course, some of the work may have been started – syllabus,textbook, course notes and old tests. You can then focus on fine-tuning

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Nanomaterials for Learners of All Ages!

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2005 Annual Conference

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Aura Gimm

Education (ICE), has created a number of student-centered, nanotechnology-focused educational kits. In addition, several video laboratorymodules have been developed by IEG including the new module on the synthesis of nickelnanowires using a nanoporous template. Through these efforts, we have provided a numberways to teach and learn about nanoscale science and engineering concepts in and out ofclassrooms.AcknowledgementsWe are grateful to the National Science Foundation though the Materials Research Science andEngineering Center (MRSEC) on Nanostructured Materials and Interfaces (award # DMR-0079983), and a CAREER Award to W. C. Crone (award # CMS-0134385).References1. Bentley, A.K., Farhoud, M., Ellis, A. B., Lisensky, G. C., Nickel, A-M. L., Crone

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TC2K Issues and Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Hartin; Henry Kraebber; Nancy Denton

measures typically consist of, but are not limitedto, student portfolios, student performance in project work and activity-based learning; results ofintegrated curricular experiences; relevant nationally-normed examinations; results of surveys toassess graduate and employer satisfaction with employment, career development, careermobility, and job title; and preparation for continuing education.”6 The faculty identified two or more assessment points for each program outcome.Assessment points identify the course or other activity where performance-indicating data arecollected. Multiple assessment measures in a process that produces documented results providesthe best evidence on the performance to the stated outcomes and objectives. Faculty

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Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steven Reyer; Stephen Williams; Owe Petersen

’ transition from academia to the professionalworld of electrical engineering.Incorporating the beyond-design topics that focus on professional skills is important for variousreasons. Not all students will be, or want to be, designers. The broader exposure serves all thestudents regardless of their future career paths. Our survey taken at the beginning of each Fallquarter shows that many want to be in other engineering roles, from research to sales andmanagement. The additional topics will help them. Further, the added professional skills are ofmuch greater significance for the success of our graduates than the learning of a few moretechnical facts.Over the years we have noted that it is not always the high-GPA students who do well in SeniorDesign

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Johnson; Shannon Sweeney; Richard Englund

State, Mr. Sweeney spenteleven years at Lord Corporation as a designer of vibration isolators.David Johnson is the Program Chair of the MET department at Behrend College. He received the Bachelor ofScience degree and Masters of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University.He worked for five years as a development engineer for Airco Carbon, St. Marys, Pennsylvania. Then, for sevenyears, he worked as a customer support engineer for Swanson Analysis Systems, Inc., Houston, Pennsylvania (now,ANSYS Inc.). Throughout his career, Dave has focused on applied finite element analysis (FEA) and has been usingthe ANSYS FEA software as an engineer since 1981, and as an educator since 1992

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Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Ficken; Subha Kumpaty

courses mainly in thethermal area along with courses such as numerical modeling, vibrations, finite element analysis. He is the principalinvestigator of NSF sponsored Research Experiences for Undergraduates Grant. He has been active in researchinvolving undergraduates for over 13 years of teaching career. He obtained his doctoral degree at the University ofMississippi in August 1991.JOHN L. FICKEN, P.E., is an associate professor of mechanical engineering. He received a B.S. in mechanicalengineering from Iowa State University and an M.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin- Page 10.878.10Madison. He teaches

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Ethics Classes: Creative or Inefficient

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2005 Annual Conference

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Norma Mattei

7 5Table 2: Employment history of student respondentsThe results from the career aspiration question, Table 3, curiously show that most of the studentswanted to become structural engineers upon graduation. Upon graduation, First survey Second survey I will seek employment as a: (Pre) (Post) Structural engineer 17 17 Water resources engineer 4 2 Environmental engineer 4 3 Geotechnical engineer

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Murat Tanyel

; 3) TheEngineering Profession & Engineering Careers; 4) What is a Christian Engineer?; 5) TheEngineering Design Process; 6) Needs Assessment; 7) Structuring the Search for the Problem;8) KT Situation and Problem Analysis; 9) Acquiring and Applying Technical Knowledge;10) Abstraction and Modeling; 11) Design Analysis; 12) Intellectual Property and TechnicalInformation; 13) Basic Engineering Economics – Time Value of Money; 14) Ethics and ProductLiability; 15) Hazards Analysis, Failure Analysis; 16) Engineering and Society.III. Blackboard Learning SystemAlthough the Blackboard Learning System is most effective in distance-education classes, Iappreciate the organization and ease of communication the system brings to traditional classes

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Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Paul Lane; John Farris

work at higher levels on Bloom’s taxonomy. Not only does this increase thelikelihood of the students being able to apply the learning to new situations, it also changes theformat of the class from the traditional lecture model to a more interactive model.ConclusionCreating and delivering reality learning experiences takes time and effort. A realistic situationmust be created, preparatory assignments must be compiled, class time must be carefully plannedand Bloom’s taxonomy must be consulted. Even with detailed planning, some trial and errorrefinement should be expected. Fortunately the benefits outweigh the increased resourcesrequired. The ability to operate on higher levels of Bloom’s taxonomy is required for asuccessful career in today’s

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Service Learning Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Limbrunner; Charline Han; Chris Swan

Page 10.1109.5 filtration and incubation in the field, without electricity, gave us practice in creative Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education thinking that will hopefully be typical of our future careers. We hope to share our method with students at the college in Siuna, by inviting them to join us during sampling and analysis activities, and by discussing our findings with them, both for their benefit and for ours. As foreigners, it is difficult for us to truly understand the needs and desires of Siuna’s residents, but we might help by suggesting tools that may be useful to them

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Tricks of the Trade

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ramesh Chawla

3651 Use of News Stories as Case Studies for Teaching Engineering Analysis Ramesh C. Chawla Department of Chemical Engineering, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059 Chawla@scs.howard.eduAbstractFreshman engineering students take a two-course sequence of Introduction to Engineeringcourses in their first two semesters. The first course is a general course common to all disciplinesand the second course is discipline-specific.In the first course, the students are introduced to various topics including career options invarious engineering fields, communication skills, ethics, intellectual property

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kevin Scoles; Harriet Millan

of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationcourse in the student’s career, and the first within the ECE Department. The course goals areshown in Table 1, and revolve around learning computer tools that will be valuable in the upper-level curriculum. More detail on the course can be seen on the course web site7. Table 1. ECEL 301 Course Goals • Introduce students to MATLAB and PSpice, industry standard CAD software for electronics (analog and digital) and systems engineers. Use of this software will continue in ECE Labs II-IV as well as other ECE courses • Solve dc bias, dc sweep, ac sweep, and