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Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Houdeshell

Using a Structuredness Instrument to Characterize End of Course Projects James Jay Houdeshell National Center for Manufacturing Education at Sinclair Community CollegeAbstract A course culminating project, a popular instructional activity in engineering andengineering technology courses, typically provides students with either a rewarding or afrustrating experience. Many times professors, in order to bring real industry practice into theclassroom, ask students to solve problems based on complex cases. Depending on the student'sfamiliarity with the project context, a student’s problem solving skills, and the nature of theproblem, student

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gregory Watkins; Ambrose Barry; Nan Byars

Teaching Computer Competencies to Today’s Computer Age Students Gregory K. Watkins, Nan A. Byars, Ambrose G. Barry William States Lee College of Engineering The University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, NC 28223AbstractThe Engineering Technology (ET) department at UNC Charlotte began offering the first twoyears of its BSET curriculum in the fall semester 2004, having previously been exclusively a“two plus two” program. Although much of the first two years includes basic studies in English,math, and physics, the department has chosen to teach its own freshman level class in computercompetency.The goal of ETGR 1100

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Kelly; Theodore A. Bickart; Pamela Suett

accomplished? Based on information from the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology (MIT) library web site, mechanical engineering students are firstdirected to search the national standards network to determine if there is an AmericanNational Standard (ANS). However, a standard becomes an ANS only if the standardsdeveloping organization (SDO) is accredited by the American National StandardsInstitute (ANSI) and subsequently submits the standard to ANSI for approval.Consequently, not all standards students could be working with are ANS's. In fact, MITmaintains a collection of all ANSI approved standards in its library, along with those ofASTM International (ASTM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(IEEE) (electronic access). It also

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Erdinc Acar; Faruk Taban; Ismail Fidan

Teaching Basic Engineering Concepts in a K-12 Environment Using LEGO® Bricks and Robotics Faruk Taban1, Erdinc Acar2, Ismail Fidan3, Ayhan Zora4 1 University of Nevada, Reno / 2Coral Academy of Science / 3 Tennessee Technological University / 4Technology Center, Deere & CompanyAbstractThis paper explores the impacts of basic engineering concepts of LEGO® Bricks and Robotics inCoral Academy of Science in Reno, Nevada - a Science, Math and Technology Middle and HighSchool - collaborated with the Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Nevada, Reno(UNR). A team from middle school students designed and developed a LEGO® Robot and

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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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NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

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2005 Annual Conference

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Russ Pimmel

Programs for Engineering Education in the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education ∗ Russell Pimmel Program Director Division of Undergraduate Education National Science FoundationAbstractThe programs of the Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) serve as the focal pointfor the National Science Foundation’s efforts in undergraduate education. Theseprograms are directed at strengthening the vitality of undergraduate science, technology,engineering and mathematics (STEM) education for all students. DUE has a number ofdifferent programs, each with a

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sean Falkowski

Bringing Members of Industry into the Teaching Profession Sean A. Falkowski University of DaytonWhen coming from industry a new faculty member of engineering technology has manychallenges. The learning environment is enhanced by the faculty member’s experience gained inthe engineering field. Examples from industry can be used in the classroom to bring about a feelfor the applications necessary in engineering and technology. Also brought by this new facultymember are techniques used in professional practice as well as skills needed to survive in theworkplace. But this change of careers can bring new

Conference Session

College Engineering K-12 Outreach III

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2005 Annual Conference

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Neha Goel; Johnathan King; Ellen Chen; Danny Le; Alene Harris; Ragu Vijaykumar; Cordelia Brown, Purdue University; Monica Cox, Purdue University

, Peabody College at Vanderbilt University/ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern UniversityIntroduction In 1999, the VaNTH Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Bioengineering EducationalTechnologies became the first National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Center solely devotedto bioengineering education research. Comprised of researchers from Vanderbilt University,Northwestern University, the University of Texas at Austin, and the Health Sciences &Technology of Harvard/ the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (HST/MIT), the VaNTHERC was created to “unite educators and engineers, in industry and academia, to developcurricula and technologies that will educate future generations of

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Anthony; C. Richard Helps; Barry Lunt

science, along with a setof course descriptions ….”3 (Ch 2, p. 1) This was later superseded by Curriculum ’78, thenComputing Curricula 1991, then Computing Curricula 2001 (CC2001)3. The 2001 versionsignificantly expands the scope of the document, openly embracing the new computingdisciplines of computer engineering (CE) and software engineering (SE), and incorporating thediscipline of information systems (IS), traditionally housed in schools of business. Both of thenew computing disciplines (CE and SE) were invited to submit a volume similar to CC2001, as asubset of the entire field of computing curricula. With the emergence in 2003 of a society forinformation technology (IT) education (SIGITE, the Special Interest Group for InformationTechnology

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ME Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Matthew Panhans; Joseph Musto; William Howard

Session 1566 The Impact of Emerging Trends in Mechanical Engineering on a Small Undergraduate Institution Joseph C. Musto, Matthew A. Panhans, William E. Howard Milwaukee School of EngineeringAbstractThere is a wealth of published information offering opinions on the future of undergraduateengineering education, and proposing curricular and institutional reforms. These proposedreforms are motivated by three distinct sets of considerations: • emerging technological change, • student/population demographics, and • global sociological conditions.In this paper

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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Daniel Davis

IMPROVING STUDENT LEARNING WITH A MORE EFFECTIVE TEACHING ENVIRONMENT Daniel Davis Associate Professor Department of Architecture College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture University of Hartford Phone: 860.768.4094 / Fax 860.768.5074 ddavis@hartford.eduAbstractThis paper attempted to consider how a quality school environment enhances, even improves,attitudes and achievements, and how a well-designed university facility is one that carefullyintegrates the curriculum and the

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Frank Pietryga

Session Number ______ Solving Differential Equations Using MATLAB/Simulink Frank W. Pietryga, P.E. University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractDuring the sophomore year, the mechanical and civil engineering technology students arerequired to complete a course in computer systems, programming and applications. The selectedsoftware package for this course was MATLAB designed and developed by the Mathworks 1.Each student was provided with a student version of the programming software. After theintroductory material had been covered, the latter part of the course was used to solve

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Abul Haque; Afsaneh Minaie

, M. M., S. Rahman, A. N. M. E. Rafiq, and M. M. Islam, “On-line Handwritten Bangla Numeral Recognition by Grid Method”, Proceedings of Second International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE 2002), Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp 269-272, 2002[7] Rahman, A. K. M. A., and C. M. Rahman. “Image Compression With a Counter Propagation Network”, Proceedings of International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT2000), Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp 215-220, 2001[8] Moshad, M. A. A., and M. M. Ali, “Recognition of Handwritten Bangla Digits by Intelligent Regional Search Method”, Proceedings of International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT 2001), Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ali Setoodehnia; Ali Kashef; Mark Rajai; Akbar Eslami

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationALI E. KASHEFAli E. Kashef is a Professor of Industrial Technology at the University of Northern Iowa. He also serves as acoordinator for the cooperative program. He is on the review board for the Journal of Industrial Technology. Hereceived his B.S. in building Engineering and Design from Lincoln University, Missouri in 1980, M.S. inIndustrial Management from Central Missouri State University, Missouri in 1981, and Ph.D. in Vocational Studiesfrom the Southern Illinois University, Illinois in 1990.MARK RAJAIDr. Rajai is currently a graduate faculty and researcher in College of Professional studies

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jing Pang

education exist on market, they usually have multiple functionalitiesand they are expensive for many engineering students. In order to offer students moreopportunities to use new technologies in the digital labs or at home, the author designed twolow cost CPLD boards during the summer of 2004. The author taught computer engineeringand electrical engineering students the art of the logic design using the FPLD technology atthe California State University, Sacramento (CSUS). This paper describes the issues relatedto the integration of the CPLD boards with the Introduction to Digital Logic Design course.IntroductionIntroduction to Logic Design is a common engineering course that is offered at manyuniversities. In the past, students studied digital

Conference Session

Developments in Chem Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Christi Patton; Daniel Crunkleton

underclassmen into the design competition process would provide a sense ofaccomplishment earlier in their academic careers, which could improve retention. Acompetition requiring the newest technologies would attract the best and the brighteststudents to the team. A socially significant competition would provide better outreachopportunities, and could provide recruitment benefits.Getting Involved: Fuel cell researchEventually, it was decided to involve chemical engineers in automotive designcompetitions. This involvement arose from a combination of two factors: (1) a desire toparticipate in design competitions relevant to underclassmen and the general public; and(2) continuing research in alternate fuel technologies, especially fuel cells

Conference Session

NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

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2005 Annual Conference

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Patrick Carriere

diverse population. The following provides an overview of active andcrosscutting programs that strongly emphasize integration of engineering research andeducation in several divisions at NSF that would be of interest to engineering researchers andeducators. A list of contacts and proposal target month for the following programs is providedin Table 1.Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC/ENG)1. Engineering Research Centers (ERC) - focus on the definition, fundamentalunderstanding, development, and validation of the technologies needed to realize a well-defined class of engineered systems with the potential to spawn whole new industries orradically transform the product lines, processing technologies, or service deliverymethodologies

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kamal Shahrabi; Feng Huang; Ali Setoodehnia; Hong Li

,” IEEE Phot. Tech. Lett. pp.1665-1667, Vol. 11, No. 12, (1999). C. X. Yu, M. Margalit, E.P. Ippen, and H.A. Haus, “Direct measurement of self-phase shift due to fiber nonlinearity,” Optics letters, Vol 23, 9, pp 679- 681 (1998) Page 10.396.9“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @2005 American Society for Engineering Education”10. R. Chang and R. Gibby, “A theoretical study of performance of an orthogonal multiplexing data transmission scheme” IEEE transactions on communication technology, Vol. Com-16, No. 4, August 1968.11. J.X

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College Engineering K-12 Outreach III

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Carlsen; Robin Tallon; Phil Henning; Nicola Ferralis; Leanne Avery; Daniel Haworth; Elana Chapman

/Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractPenn State University has hosted a NSF sponsored GK-12 Outreach project for the pastfive years, and has just begun the second phase of the project. The Penn State projectutilizes the talents of many science and engineering graduate students as teachers,mentors and role models for the K-12 classrooms. The project focuses on developingskills of students in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematicsthrough the use of Advanced Transportation Technologies. The GK-12 students areinvited to participate in research in various ways in support of Advanced TransportationTechnology such as undergraduate/graduate student competitions like Future Truck andChallenge X. The quantitative assessment planned at the

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering III

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2005 Annual Conference

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Yuko Hoshino; Wayne Sanders

Session 3661 Harmonious Combination of Tradition and Innovation – Making a Connection between Liberal Arts and Technical Courses, and East and West– Yuko Hoshino, L. Wayne Sanders Kanazawa Institute of Technology/Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractThis paper is the result of collaboration between a foreign language and cultural studiesprofessor in Japan and an engineering professor in the United States. It discusses a casestudy of the similarities between foreign language study and engineering courses at a privateengineering college in Japan. Project study in a Chinese language

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Interdisciplinary Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Harry Fox

An Interdisciplinary Control Systems Course for Engineering Technologists: Description of Lecture Topics and Laboratory Experiments Harry W. Fox Cleveland State UniversityAbstract For the past two years we have offered a required senior-level control systems course withlaboratory designed to be taken jointly by mechanical engineering technology (MET) andelectronics engineering technology (EET) students. This course focuses on the interdisciplinarynature of control systems and represents a departure from the traditional approach of teaching aseparate control systems course to each engineering technology discipline. Certain controlsconcepts, such as

Conference Session

College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

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Brecca Berman; Gordon Kingsley; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

achievement, particularly in the fields of science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM). After a number of years of involving higher education invarious ways in targeted and systemic K-12 reform, NSF and the DoE began to promoteuniversity-K-12 “partnerships” as the means to most effectively involve higher education in theprocess. However what this exactly meant in the STEM educational world, or how effectivepartnerships should be created and evaluated, was mostly left undefined, generating confusionamong both educators and evaluators.As part of an NSF-sponsored Research, Evaluation, and Technological Assistance projectdesigned to help clarify the evaluative issues involved with partnerships, we are currentlyexamining how the

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gregory Watkins

Engineering Graphics: The Fate of Pencil, Paper, and the 2-D Drawing Gregory K. Watkins William States Lee College of Engineering The University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, NC 28223AbstractThe Engineering Technology (ET) department at UNC Charlotte began offering the first twoyears of its BSET curriculum in the fall semester 2004, having previously been exclusively a“two plus two” program. Although much of the first two years includes basic studies outside thedepartment, a major portion of the new curriculum delivered by the department is the study

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering III

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2005 Annual Conference

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Rosalyn Berne

Conversations with Nanotechnology Researchers Rosalyn W. Berne Department of Science, Technology and Society School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of VirginiaWhat do individual researcher scientists and engineers believe about nanotechnology,their own research, and their role in the future which nanotechnology may bring? Howmight those beliefs and understandings, their unique perspectives and perceptions beembedded inside of the research itself? What types of beliefs are at work in theirperceptions? In my research, these types of questions are considered, in the hopes ofbringing into the public domain, the personal commitments and

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Martinazzi

these choices affect the leadership issues demonstrated in thefilm. The need exists to go beyond the literal meaning of the film into questions of whatthe film itself intends to communicate to its audience.This approach also has a direct impact on developing leaders, and especially leaders inthe engineering and engineering technology field. By requiring students to become moreaware of the medium, the authors, by default, require them to become more observantand more critically aware of the context in which the message is delivered. Enhanced Page 10.1214.1 Proceedings of the 2005American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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A Renaissance in NRE Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Christopher Turner; Lisa Marshall

external partners played in expanding the understanding of the field? We willpresent results of initiatives that have grown interest, increased enrolment and improvedretention. This session examines strategies employed to broaden the perception of nuclearscience from K-12 through graduate studies. NC State’s Nuclear Engineering program is part ofa Department of Energy Nuclear Engineering and Technology pilot project examining thecreation and maintenance of this momentum.Keywords Nuclear engineering; K12 outreach; undergraduate recruitment; graduate recruitment Strategic Enrolment Management (SEM) must be articulated at the departmental level foroptimum success. In this paper, we will elaborate on SEM and tactics employed by

Conference Session

Assessing Where We Stand

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steve Eisenbarth; Kenneth Van Treuren

Session 3461 An Evaluation of Humanities and Social Science Requirements in an Undergraduate Engineering Curriculum Ken Van Treuren and Steve Eisenbarth Baylor UniversityAbstractEngineering design is a structured, creative process, where engineers strive to develop solutionsto perceived problems or needs by the application of theoretical and practical knowledge. Thedesign process is a quest for technological objects, wherein the solution to the posed problem isintrinsic or inherent in the resultant object. However, the design solution [object] must exist in areal

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mark Tekippe; Krishna Atherya; Mani Mina; Ryan Legg

a profession exists to benefit humanity through technological innovation.Engineers are thus implicated in a responsibility to develop solutions and innovations in amanner that avoids introducing new problems to the world. Today, advances in informationtechnology, transportation, and supply chain management are supporting an increasinglyinterconnected global community. In order to continue to create optimal solutions, engineersmust, from the very beginning, recognize the global community and incorporate a globalperspective in design. A socially responsible engineer in the world today must operate with aglobal perspective and leverage innovative ideas that cross disciplinary boundaries.A new perspective is required to educate the engineering

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sally Blake; Eric MacDonald; Scott Starks

25% of the U.S. population. This proportionis projected to continue upward. From more than one-fourth of the total population,underrepresented minorities compromised only 12% of the baccalaureates awarded inengineering in 2000. Additionally, females of all ethnic backgrounds remain underrepresented inthe engineering and technological workplace. Over the past several decades, the need to increase Page 10.1137.1minority and female participation in engineering has taken center stage. An increase in minorityand female participation in engineering is needed in order to help fill the numerous positions in Proceedings of the 2005 American

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Wanasanan Thongsongkrit; Trasapong Thaiupathump; Rungchat Chompu-inwai

Simulation, Onword Press.BiographyTRASAPONG THAIUPATHUMP is a lecturer in the Computer Engineering Department at Chiang Mai University,Thailand. He received his B.Eng. in computer engineering from the King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology,Ladkrabang (KMITL), Thailand in 1993. He received his M.S. in computer engineering from the University ofSouthern California in 1996. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University ofPennsylvania in 1998 and 2002, respectively. His research interests are signal processing and computercommunications.WANASANAN THONGSONGKRIT is a lecturer in the Computer Engineering Department at Chiang MaiUniversity, Thailand. She received her bachelor degree in Computer Engineering from Chiang Mai