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Teaching Team Skills Through Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Harris; M. Bramhall; Ian Robinson; David Hick

, Bramhall, MD, Robinson, IM “Product Development: An Integrating Curriculum”, Keynote Paper and Address, 2nd Global Congress on Engineering Education, Conference proceedings pp 49-52, Wismar, Germany (2000).Biographical informationPROFESSOR MIKE BRAMHALLProfessor Mike Bramhall holds a Chair in Engineering Education in the Faculty of Arts, Computing, Engineeringand Sciences at Sheffield Hallam University and is the Faculty Head of Learning, Teaching & Assessment. He isalso the Associate Director of the UK Centre for Materials Education at Liverpool University. Mike is the Editor ofthe British Journal of Engineering Education.PROFESSOR IAN ROBINSONProfessor Ian Robinson is the Head of Undergraduate Studies in the Faculty of Arts

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Crimaldi; Daniel Knight

turbulence.These results add to the growing body of evidence supporting alternative instructional techniquesas effective methods for teaching engineering. Future research will expand upon the findings of this pilot study. This study will berepeated with a larger group of engineering undergraduates. In addition, the order of instructionaltechniques will be switched with the lab demonstration presented prior to the lecture.AcknowledgementsFinancial support for this project has been provided by grant # 0126842 from the NationalScience Foundation’s Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program.Bibliography1. Reynolds, O. (1883) An Experimental Investigation of the Circumstances which Determine Whether the Motionof Water in Parallel

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kevin Dahm

Economics,” Journal of SMET Education, 4, 3&4 (2003).Biographical InformationKevin Dahm in an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He received his B.S. fromWorcester Polytechnic Institute in 1992 and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998. Hiscurrent primary teaching interest is integrating process simulation throughout the chemical engineering curriculum,and he received the 2003 Joseph J. Martin Award for work in this area.Ravi P. Ramachandran is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering atRowan University. He received his Ph.D. from McGill University in 1990 and has worked at AT&T BellLaboratories and Rutgers University prior to joining Rowan

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ELD Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Barbara MacAlpine

Engineering + Information Literacy = One Grand Design Barbara MacAlpine Trinity University, San Antonio, TXAbstractUndergraduate engineering students in small institutions, like their colleagues in largeruniversities, need to be information literate, yet this is a skill that is not necessarily built intotheir curriculum. This paper will discuss a program that has been developed at TrinityUniversity to address first year engineering students in their initial design course. It will coverthe transition from largely lecture/demonstration-based instruction to a presentation that includesactive learning components. An emphasis on the importance of written

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Implementing the BOK - Can it Be Done?

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2005 Annual Conference

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Karl Meyer; Allen Estes; Ronald Welch

Committee is to define the expected relative contributions of theundergraduate and masters degree educations and to design curricula that support this.III. Why Get Involved NowThe United States Military Academy at West Point is a public university with a studentpopulation of approximately 4,000 undergraduates. Upon graduation, every student iscommissioned as an officer in the U.S. Army. USMA offers majors in 32 disciplines, six ofwhich are ABET accredited engineering majors. West Point confers only a bachelor’s degree andhas neither the ability nor the desire to start a masters program in engineering. The decision bythe West Point civil engineering program to join the curriculum design partnership effort wasbased on the following

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Programming for Engineering Students

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2005 Annual Conference

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Eric Hamilton

. The innovation we are prototyping in this projectcreates an applet-rich shared space whereby a pedagogical agent at each learner’s stationfunctions as an instructional assistant to the teacher or professor and tutor to the student. Theplatform is intended to open a series of new -- and instructionally potent -- interactive pathways.IntroductionThree different learning technologies and an intriguing opportunity to integrate them are at theheart of an educational research effort funded by the US National Science Foundation [1]. Eachin its own right is at the forefront of a particular research domain. Each has emerged andmatured over the past decade; and each has presented compelling and oftentimes movingopportunities to alter educational

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New! Improved! CE Accreditation Criteria

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jeffrey Russell

education needs facing the next generation of civil engineerscannot be satisfied with a four-year baccalaureate degree. The necessary professional Page 10.529.2skills must be integrated in various courses throughout the curriculum, and must extendbeyond the traditional bachelor’s degree.Civil Engineering Education Reform – and the Body of KnowledgeToday’s world is fundamentally challenging the way civil engineering is practiced.Complexity arises in every aspect of projects, from pre-project planning with variedstakeholders to building with minimum environmental and community disturbance.Addressing this increased complexity will require understanding and

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Problem-Solving & Project-Based Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

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Karen High; Ben Lawrence; Cynthia Mann

a creative field of study. Students seeengineering as very mathematical and rigorous. Freshmen often look at the daunting curriculumand see an abundance of work with little or no reward. What is not apparent in the underclass-engineering curriculum is the amount of creativity that is necessary to solve industrial problems1.This becomes more apparent in advanced courses, such as senior design, but we must be able toretain students until that level. Additionally students feel that they will be attacking projects onan individual basis, as was the case for much of their high school experience. Once the studentsreach later classes, they realize that the norm is to solve problems in student teams.Students retained until graduation sometimes also

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mohamed Chouikha; Don Millard

. "Learning Styles and Teaching Styles in Engineering Education." Engr. Education, 78 (7), 674-681, 1988.18. Millard, D., Burnham, G., “SMET Learning Modules for an Electronics Curriculum” (DUE – 9950356) Final Report, National Science Foundation, June 2002.DON LEWIS MILLARDDr. Millard directs the Academy of Electronic Media at Rensselaer (2003 Premiere Award Recipient) and hasauthored numerous university and K-12 educational materials for mathematics, science, engineering and arts coursesthat are regularly accessed by a global population. He has participated and served as the PI on many research efforts,including NSF, DARPA, DoD and corporate-sponsored projects

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A through K and Beyond

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2005 Annual Conference

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Norman Dennis

will require a diversion from many universities’ current definition ofscholarship. The end result of all these alternatives is that university administrators must buy-into this process of integrating practitioners, development of cross campus curriculums andredefining scholarship to insure the necessary faculty and programs are in place to insure successin delivering the BOK.The Ideal Faculty Member The heart of any institution and indeed any effort to implement the BOK is the faculty. Asa result, the CAP3 also saw a need to define the attributes of the teacher of the BOK. The whosection of the BOK, which is the real subject of this article attempted to define the principalcharacteristics of the ideal educator. The focus of CAP3 was on

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Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stanislaw Maj; Anuradha Sutharshan; D Veal

Technology (IT) profession [15]. The alignment of an organisation’sinformation technology to its business strategies is a recurrent theme in IS research[6]. The increasing complexity of today’s business and IT environments makes itmore difficult for organisations to design an Enterprise architecture that supports thecompany’s business objectives and enables the IT staff to deliver applications thatalign with business goals.Enterprise Architecture is about understanding all of the different elements that go tomake up the Enterprise and how those elements interrelate. The InformationTechnology Management Reform Act of 1996, better known as the Clinger-CohenAct, refers to Enterprise architecture as "an integrated framework for evolving ormaintaining

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Best Zone Papers

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Powell; Michael Kwinn

-based learning,2) work-based learning, and 3) connecting activities.This paper explores the uniqueness and nature of the Academy’s work-based education program,its’ purpose, the process for matching cadets with a participating agency, and follow-up feedbackfrom students. The feedback is used to assess the viability of the program for future students andincrease the value gained from the program for participating organizations. This paper providespractical guidelines for implementing such a program in any engineering curriculum to enhancea student’s engineering education and learning.An Integrating ExperienceThe academic program at West Point has evolved in response to the needs of the Army andtrends in higher education. The balanced offering of

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Computed Simulation and Animation

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2005 Annual Conference

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Bugra Koku; Ali Sekmen

teaching an introductorycourse on Mechatronics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Middle East TechnicalUniversity. This course attracts students from multiple disciplines. Being offered at the thirdsemester, rather than focusing on theoretical aspects of different disciplines, this course focuseson the system integration aspect of Mechatronics systems and emphasizes this with hands-onlaboratory exercises and a semester project. The semester project requires the design andconstruction of a simple closed loop system. To make the programming aspect of these projectseasier, it is intended to develop the necessary software on a PC rather than an embeddedplatform. To facilitate this, a software package is developed. With the help of this

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Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Shyi-Jeng Tsai; Pei-Fen Chang; Jiunn-Chi Wu

acquisition of outcome E and K, from theirviewpoint, is weaker. This means that we must change the contents of the after-class activity, andemphasize the logical control through LLWin® in an integral exercise unit.From the teaching actions, lecture and homework, most of the students have confidence inacquisition of the core competences A and G, as indicated in Fig. 11b. This means more than thehalf students by the survey considered good or very good in acquisition of competency tovisualize and analyze the kinematic problems graphically, as the results of question 4 and 7 of Page 10.475.12the questionnaire indicating. The reason may be explained

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Bradley Burchett

ASEE Annual Meeting 2005 Session # 3568 A Control Systems Lab Sequence Designed to Foster Understanding1 Bradley T. Burchett Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN 47803AbstractRose-Hulman Institute of Technology has a unique sophomore curriculum that culminates in amulti-disciplinary system dynamics course. Because of this curriculum, seniors entering theironly required control systems course in the mechanical engineering curriculum have

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Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Julie Petlick; Alice Scales; Aaron Clark

with other topics.Analysis of the data found that participants’ institutions offer an average of 6.29 courses inengineering and technical graphics in a regular academic year. The combined total of courseslisted by the 48 participants who responded to this part of the survey was 302.When asked if they taught GD&T in their program, 68 % (or 35 participants out of the 51respondents) stated they did. Of these 35, 32% offered a separate course in GD&T and 65%integrated it into other courses. Three percent both integrated it into other courses as well astaught it as a separate course. The data revealed that these respondents offered an average of1.96 courses that included GD&T, with a range from one to five. The survey in 1998 survey,by

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MIND Education Trends

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2005 Annual Conference

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Dana Newell

homework and take finals for physics, chemistry, calculus and computer courses Page 10.271.3 Session 3170The curriculum was designed in collaboration with Intel Corporation and the Director ofCEDAR. The curriculum team was comprised of Dana. C. Newell, M.A., graduate andundergraduate engineering students (including former Summer Bridge participants), andthe program coordinator. Each student-instructor was responsible for the developmentand delivery of an assigned portion of the curriculum. The curriculum began withfundamental elements of team building, introduction to e-mail

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Scott Danielson; Robert Hinks; Mark Henderson; Chen-Yaun Kuo; Chell Roberts; Darryl Morrell; Robert Grondin

presented.IntroductionIn July of 2003, a feasibility assessment and preliminary planning process was initiated forcreation of an engineering program at ASU East Campus. This process resulted in a plan todevelop a new engineering program at ASU’s East Campus. The need for this program is drivenby the rapid population growth of the Phoenix metropolitan area, capacity restrictions at ASU’sTempe campus and at other state universities, forecasts of engineering student and industrydemand, and a desire to develop a polytechnic campus at ASU.Unlike many curriculum development or reform efforts, the development of this new programbegan with a blank slate. This has given the founding faculty team unprecedented freedom andflexibility in the design of this program, resulting

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Distance & Service Learning, K-12, Web & Work-Based Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

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Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

chosen by her/him.At the end of the period they bring a report to the council compounded of a psychologist, apedagogue, an engineer professor and the coordinator of the program, who discuss it and give thestudent the approval or not. The assessment has not the goal to retain the student just to provideher/him a self evaluation about their performance in other area.The program is a five years program, under graduation, morning or afternoon classes. Thestudents have the basic science courses, basic engineering courses and specific engineeringcourses besides the courses they choose to attend during the "free period" [6].The curriculum was elaborated in according to the curricula directress established by the FederalLaw No. 9.394 known as LDB

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International Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Teresa Larkin; Dan Budny

lack of critical mass, would not have been offered by the units acting alone. • The program has been adopted by the University of Pittsburgh as a model for Integrated Field Trip Abroads (IFTA) across the entire university. In IFTAs, a regular course in the curriculum, typically taught in the spring term, has an optional faculty-led international add-on component. • The highly effective Plus3 program has already produced lasting results as students with little or no international experience before the trip have been inspired to continue their study abroad experiences through additional programs. Because of this success, the National Institute of International Education (IIE

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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

program has always been the strong co-operative education component. The ComputerEngineering Technology curriculum committee created this opportunity for students to report ontheir co-op experience with a poster session and oral presentation in order to accomplish severalgoals: • Provide returning co-op students with additional oral presentation experience requirement dealing with a topic in which they are the expert: Their own co-op employment experience. • Get students thinking about the larger picture of their co-op experience: Life- Long Learning, diversity, successes and failures. • Give students who have not yet participated in co-op an opportunity to learn about

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

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Glenda Scales; Bryan Hey; Jason Lockhart

thenallowed to access the materials via the internet on their laptops for further remediation. Studentscan review the topics being illustrated in the multimedia materials via a web browser and theFlash plug-in. Review can be for class assignments, tests, or work beyond the class they arecurrently taking.ConclusionIn conclusion, to accommodate both the visual and physical learners, two features are needed,namely, a diagram-like presentation and an interactive element. The signal filtering modulessatisfy both of those requirements and have the added benefit of being an internet savvy formatthat can be integrated into the classroom environment as well as used as a study aid andremediation tool for distance learning students

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International Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stacie Edington; Melissa Eljamal; Stella Pang

will engage both itsundergraduate and graduate student populations to develop global skills. Programs rangein duration from a few hours to the length of an academic career and include languagelearning and cross-cultural training. These programs are accompanied by a strategicmarketing plan that has resulted in a steady increase in participation, with more graduateswho are well-equipped to deal with the challenges posed by working in multi-nationalcorporations.I. IntroductionEngineers are increasingly asked to work with international suppliers, co-workers, and clients.Global assignments for companies in industries such as communications, informationtechnology, and automotive manufacturing, require engineers to integrate technical knowledgewith

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K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

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Glenn Ellis; Catherine Lewis; Susan Etheredge; Thomas Gralinski

to begin to integrateengineering education in their classrooms.The Context for the Professional Development Institute: Background and IntroductionThe Smith College Picker Engineering Program, the Department of Education and Child Study,and the Office of Educational Outreach at Smith College have formed the Engineering EducationPartnership (EEP). This innovative partnership seeks to enhance the quality and expand thereach of engineering education for preK-16. The EEP’s goals are to 1.) support the integration ofengineering education into the preK-12 curriculum; 2.) respond to the call for engineeringeducation reform at the college and university level; and, 3.) address the need to recruit andretain women and underrepresented minorities in

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Real World Applications

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2005 Annual Conference

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Youakim Kalaani

able to download information for further investigation and study. Page 10.88.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThe objectives of this project will include:Course Curricula: The project investigator will work to develop curricula and integration intoclassroom activities. He will study the current literature and best practices of renewable energyas he develop the curriculum and will focus on integrating applied projects that can engagestudents in creative ways. The following courses

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Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

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Edward Evans; Francis Broadway; Sandra Spickard Prettyman; Helen Qammar

remained stagnant or declined(Clewell & Campbell, 2002). Given these numbers, it seems imperative that universityengineering programs focus efforts on the recruitment and retention of women. Tonso (1996)argues that "engineering education must change before inclusion of women is realized" (p. 217),and that this change must represent substantive changes not only to the curriculum, but also tothe very culture of engineering education.One response to this problem is to develop and implement curricular and instructional strategiesthat move to restructure the cultural norms in engineering education in ways that are moreinclusive of and effective with girls and women. We argue that an innovative new program inChemical Engineering at the University of

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Web-Based Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Heather Cooper

remote labexperiments, yet survey responses indicated increased student recognition of the capability foraccessing equipment remotely rather than through hands-on experiments. Further analysis ofSpring 2005 data is in progress.AcknowledgmentThis project was developed with support from the National Science Foundation's Course,Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement Program under grant DUE-0311052.References1. Chou, Chien. Interactivity and Interactive Functions in Web-based Learning Systems: a Technical Framework for Designers. British Journal of Educational Technology, 2003.2. Liaw, Shu-Sheng. Considerations for Developing Constructivist Web-based Learning. International Journal of Instructional Media, 2004.3. Paine, Pamela F. An

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Systems Approach to Teaching ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gary Mullett

skill sets of tomorrow’s graduates will becomes even more disconnected fromthe world of work than they are today. This change needs to embrace and emphasis a systems level approach to theteaching of electronics technology along with an infusion of the Scan’s report soft skills into the curriculum. Severalsuggestions of how this may be accomplished are presented here.I. OverviewApproximately forty years have past since the implementation of the first governmentrecommended two-year college electronics curricula. Although tremendous technologic changehas occurred in the electronics field and its manufacturing industry, little change has occurred inthe typical curriculum leading to an associate degree in this area. Except for the continuous

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ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Milton Bryant; Paul Biney

-step comprehensive process for developing and assessing program objectives andprogram outcomes. The eight-step process is in accord with the requirements of the new ABET2000 criteria for accrediting Engineering and Technology programs. The process involves 1. Program objectives definition. 2. Primary assessment of Program objectives every two to three years. 3. Program outcomes definition and their relationship with program objectives. 4. Mapping program outcomes into the curriculum (courses). 5. Implementation of outcome competencies in courses and direct outcome assessment at course level each semester using direct measurement of student performance in each outcome measured in the course. 6. Direct semester program

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Richard Gilbert; Andrew Hoff, University of South Florida; Eric Roe, Hillsborough Community College; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

) materials are Workshops and Short Courses. The MUG Workshop isdesigned to familiarize the teacher with the structure of the HSTI modules and offer suggestionsfor classroom integration. The Short Courses are the professional development portion of theMUG. They are classroom-based, in-depth training on the technologies associated with thescience presented in the respective module. In the past two years, 180 teachers have acceptedHSTI modules impacting nearly 20,000 students.During the HSTI project, we have used mixed methods of data collection, including onlineteacher surveys regarding the modules, post professional development surveys, student impactprereporting by the teachers, and direct observations. The purpose of our sampling was to createan