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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Loendorf

individuals pursuing an education, and provides a model that can be replicated in other universities.Experience-Based Learning as a Best Practices ApproachTo retain and engage students, teachers must provide an avenue for innovation and creativity.Traditional lectures in science and engineering education results in a passive form of learningand may not be the most efficient for student education [3, 4]. Constructivists, however, assertthat learning is “constructed” in the learner’s mind through experiences [6]. Practical/industrialprojects elevate student interest. Thus, focusing less on lectures and more on increasing activestudent involvement through teamwork, cooperative learning, and use of current practical

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Technology and Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

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Joseph Tront

Using Tablet PCs in Engineering Education Joseph G. Tront Bradley Department of Electrical & Engineering Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0111 jgtront@vt.eduAbstractThis paper describes the experiences of using Tablet PCs along with associated software, such asClassroom Presenter and OneNote, in a course entitled Introduction to Computer Engineering.Twenty tablet PCs were distributed in a classroom of 40 students. Students used the tablets on adaily basis throughout the semester to take notes, to respond to in-class exercises, and to performwork

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Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

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2005 Annual Conference

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Matthew Carroll; Nael Barakat

Globalization of Engineering Ethics Education Nael Barakat, Ph.D., P.Eng., Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Matthew C. Carroll, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, Lake Superior State University 650 W. Easterday Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, MI. 49783 Voice: 906.635.2031 – Email: nbarakat@lssu.eduAbstract Borderless ethics and the attempt to develop a global engineering code of ethicshave formulated significant driving forces behind trends in engineering ethics education.This is because engineering is no longer limited by borders and therefore the differencesin culture and values from one country to another become

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lawrence Genalo

). How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School. Washington DC: National Academy Press. 18. Genalo, L.J. and Gallagher, M., “Practicing Teachers in a Graduate Engineering Course,” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, June, 2002. 19. Genalo, L.J., Gallagher, M., Golder, J. “An Engineering Linkage to K-12 Teachers,” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, June, 2001. 20. Genalo, L. J., Wright C. T., Wright K. B., “Toying with Technology in Elementary Education,” Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Annual Conference, on CD - Session # S4H, November, 1998. 21. Genalo, L. J., Wright C. T., Jr., Wright K. B., Collier, C. L., “Toying with Technology: Mobile Robots and High School

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Recruitment and Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

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Deborah Sharer; David Murphy; Stephen Kuyath

Session 1149 Summer Camps in Engineering Technology Stephen J. Kuyath, David L. Murphy, Deborah L. Sharer UNC Charlotte, Department of Engineering TechnologyAbstractThere is mounting evidence that a nationwide shortage of qualified high-tech workers willjeopardize the country’s economic future. It is also well established that a more proactiveapproach must be taken to nurture the intellectual development of underrepresented groups sothat the pool of scientists and engineers expands to include more women, minorities, and personswith disabilities. This paper will provide a description of

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jeannie Brown Leonard; Taryn Bayles; Anne Spence

the past through the exhibition and interpretation of historical significant artifactsand documents related to electronics technology1. The education goal of the museum is toprovide visitors with an understanding of the basic concept of electronics and an appreciation ofevolutionary milestones of sophisticated electronics systems. In support of these objectives, themuseum’s priority is to provide a motivational environment for students of all ages to gain anunderstanding of basic engineering and the career opportunities available through highereducation. With this priority in mind, the Historical Electronic Museum started the YoungEngineers and Scientist Seminars (YESS) program in the fall of 2002, for highly gifted highschool students from

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Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

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Russel Jones

Session # 2560 Engineering and the Millennium Development Goals Dato’ Ir Lee Yee-Cheong, President World Federation of Engineering Organizations Russel C. Jones, Chairman WFEO Committee on Capacity BuildingAbstractThis paper outlines elements of a global action program to apply science, technology andinnovation (STI) to meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). For purposesof the report, STI is used to mean the generation, use and diffusion of all forms of usefulknowledge as well as the evolution of associated institutional arrangements. The MDGsinclude

Conference Session

Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ann Marie Flynn

semester helped students to learn a new method ofthinking. In the past many students assumed that operating with concern for the environmentmeant sacrificing profit and eating a lot of granola. The problems helped show students thatoperating with environmental issues in mind can be beneficial in many ways, not just for trees.”Nicole A.“I learned to not always think with my wallet but rather the health of myself, others, and theenvironment. Overall, I no longer see these assignments as a waste of time or busy work,because of the impact it had on my sense of ethics in the engineering world”Alex S.“The purpose of this particular problem was to show that there are situations where the bestapproach economically is not the best approach environmentally

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Dantzler; James Richardson; Tan-Yu Lee; Robert Leland

Session 1526 Mathematical Problem Solving for Engineering Students Robert Leland1, James Richardson2, Tan-Yu Lee3, John Dantzler4 1 Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. /2Civil and Environmental Engineering Dept./3Mathematics Dept., University of Alabama/4Censeo Research, Inc.1. IntroductionAt the time of the Second World War, Sir Lawrence Holt recognized that younger sailors in theBritish merchant marine were unable to perform their duties, especially in emergency situations,often leading to loss of life. He called on educator Kurt Hahn for help. In 1941

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Engineering in High School

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jessica Harwood; Al Rudnitsky

Learning about Scientific Inquiry Through Engineering Jessica Harwood, Al Rudnitsky Smith CollegeThe broad question addressed by this study is "how should ideas from engineering be integratedinto the school curriculum?" Efforts to include engineering in the K - 12 curriculum haveincreased considerably in recent years. Many of engineering's educational advocates hold theposition that engineering should not be a "stand-alone" school subject or, at the very least, not beexclusively so. This paper is a case study of integrating engineering into the existingcurriculum. The more focused questions addressed here include "what does engineering bringto

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jessica Harwood; Al Rudnitsky

Learning about Scientific Inquiry Through Engineering Jessica Harwood, Al Rudnitsky Smith CollegeThe broad question addressed by this study is "how should ideas from engineering be integratedinto the school curriculum?" Efforts to include engineering in the K - 12 curriculum haveincreased considerably in recent years. Many of engineering's educational advocates hold theposition that engineering should not be a "stand-alone" school subject or, at the very least, not beexclusively so. This paper is a case study of integrating engineering into the existingcurriculum. The more focused questions addressed here include "what does engineering bringto

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Engineers & Mathematicians Communicating

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2005 Annual Conference

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Peter Avitabile; Tracy Van Zandt

EducationDivision Grant EEC-0314875 entitled “Multi-Semester Interwoven Project for Teaching BasicCore STEM Material Critical for Solving Dynamic Systems Problems”. Any opinions, findings,and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and donot necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation The authors are gratefulfor the support obtained from NSF to further engineering education.VII References1 Davis,B.G., “Tools for Teaching”, Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, 1993, p100.2 Piaget,J., “To Understand is to Invent”, Grossman, New York, 1973.3 Vygotsky,L., “Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes”, Harvard University Press, MA, 1978.4 Avitabile,P., Hodgkins,J

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Understanding Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Durward Sobek

Transitions: From Conceptual Ideas to Detail Design Durward K. Sobek, II Montana State UniversityAbstractIn previous meetings, we presented preliminary work on coding student design journals as part ofan effort to better understand how design processes affect design outcomes. We have alsoconducted a number modeling efforts on a dozen student mechanical engineering projects thatcorrelate key process variables to design quality, client satisfaction, and designer productivitymeasures. One of the main patterns across the different analyses is that system-level design,which falls between concept design and detail design, consistently appears as a

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Frontiers

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ahmet Zeytinci; Philip Brach

event of a power failure, while inadequate to solve the problem, would address smallerexcessive rainfall.In the incremental benefit/cost analysis the following data were used: 1- The cost of the sump pump installation = $5,500 2- The benefit is the reduction in apprehension over potential flooding and peace of mind established by the presence of the pump (security blanket). Page 10.203.8 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”The benefit of the sump pump is virtually all derived from the

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Understanding Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Penny Hirsch; Ann McKenna

, J. D., Brown, A. L., and Cocking, R. R. (Eds.) (2000). How people learn: Brain, mind, experience,and school. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.2. Hynd, Cynthia, Holschuh, Jodi, and Nist, Sherrir (2000). Learning Complex Scientific Information: MotivationTheory And its Relation to Student Perceptions, Reading &Writing Quarterly, 16: 23–57.3. Keller, John, M. (1987). Development and use of the ARCS model of instructional design, Journal ofInstructional Development, vol. 10, no. 3.4. Hirsch, P., Anderson, J., Colgate, J.E., Lake, J., Shwom, B., and Yarnoff C. “Enriching Freshman DesignThrough Collaboration with Professional Designers.” Proceedings, American Society of Engineering Educationnational meeting, June 2002.5. Atman, Cynthia

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Understanding Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gul Okudan Kremer; Madara Ogot

, Learning, Personality, Social, 14, 179-199.45. Kruglanski, A. W. and Webster, D. M. (1996). Motivated closing of the mind: “seizing” and “freezing.” Psychological Review, 103, 263-283.46. McLain, D. L. (1993). The MSTAT-I: A new measure of an individual’s tolerance for ambiguity.Educational and Psychological Measurement, 53, 183-189.Gül E. OKUDAN is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Design and an Affiliate Faculty of IndustrialEngineering at Penn State. She has a doctorate in Engineering Management (UM-Rolla). Her research interestsinclude manufacturing strategy modeling and measurement, design cognition, solid modeling and productdesign teams. She is a member of ASEE and ASME.Susan MOHAMMED is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Penn

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Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

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Richard Smith; Kevin Craig; Pamela Theroux

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”off and into other fields of study. Other students, who make it across the bridge, struggle to seethe links among all the areas of science, mathematics, and social science they have been requiredto study and the links to the practice of engineering. Once students cross this bridge, they havemany roads to choose from to the various engineering disciplines. Are they prepared to decide?What then should this bridge be like? What should happen as students cross this bridge? Wehave attempted to identify the essential requirements for a common integrated and connectedfirst-year engineering curriculum:• Experience Engineering Students need a hands-on, minds-on exciting set of experiences that

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Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

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Zbigniew Pasek

BEYOND EQUATIONS: TEACHING ORGANIZATION THEORY TO PRACTICING ENGINEERS Zbigniew J. Pasek University of MichiganINTRODUCTION AND MOTIVATIONIt has been long recognized that skills needed by the engineers in the technical workplacecomprise not only of the technical competence and familiarity with various types of technology,but also have to encompass communication, teamwork, ethics, and many other issues.Interestingly, many of these skills are activated only in the work-setting and universities ingeneral some of these skills are hard to acquire during an academic training. The alumni surveycarried out annually by the College of

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Diversity: Women & Minorities in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stephen Kuyath

Session 3148 Applying the Theory of Planned Behavior: Recruiting Underrepresented Minorities to Engineering and Engineering Technology Stephen J. Kuyath UNC Charlotte, Department of Engineering TechnologyAbstractThere is mounting evidence that the United Sates will soon experience a shortage of qualifiedhigh-tech workers that will jeopardize the country’s economic future. It is imperative that werecruit more women and minorities into engineering to prevent the anticipated shortage. Clearly,past recruiting strategies have had only

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Energy Program and Software Tools

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2005 Annual Conference

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Keshav Varde

programhave motivated them to pursue advanced degree or a career in research and development field.The research project of one of the teams resulted in a technical publication; more can beexpected in future.ConclusionsThe undergraduate research program in combustion engines and related areas at the University ofMichigan-Dearborn has provided excellent research experience to undergraduates, both fromresearch universities and 4-year colleges. Working closely with the supervising faculty andgraduate research assistants the participants have excelled in acquiring knowledge, techniques,skills and inquisitive mind needed to be good researchers. The research program has resulted in Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual

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Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

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Constantin Chassapis; Hamid Hadim; Kishore Pochiraju; George Korfiatis; Keith Sheppard; David Vaccari

Mechanical Engineering Program Assessment in the Schaefer School of Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology Hamid Hadim, Kishore Pochiraju, Costas Chassapis, David Vaccari, Keith Sheppard, George Korfiatis Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, New JerseyAbstractThe Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology hasrecently completed successfully its first ABET visit based on EC2000 criteria. The assessmentsystem developed for the Mechanical Engineering Program within the School are presented

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Assessment Issues in 1st-Yr Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Heidi Diefes-Dux; P.K. Imbrie; Tamara Moore

in the area of nanotechnology? If you do not know, simply type “UNKNOWN.” f. What are some of the potential societal impacts of nanotechnology? If you do not know, simply type “UNKNOWN.”4. When you hear the term nanotechnology, what length-scale “typically” comes to your mind? a. 109 meters b. 106 meters c. 103 meters d. 101 meters e. 10-1 meters f. 10-3 meters g. 10-6 meters h. 10-9 meters5. What is your awareness regarding the interrelationships that exist between various disciplines of engineering (i.e., what they have in common and/or how they mutually support one another)? 5-point strongly agree to strong disagree Likert scale

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lason Watai; Arthur Brodersen; Sean Brophy

Designing Effective Electrical Engineering Laboratories Using Challenge- based instruction that Reflect Engineering Process Lason L. Watai, Arthur J. Brodersen, Sean P. Brophy Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Nashville, TNI. IntroductionIn electrical engineering, physical lab courses should provide a multi-facet environment thatenables students to apply concepts and principles to design, synthesize and analyze electricalcircuits and systems, and gain practical “hands-on” experience, knowledge, and skills and givestudents “a feel” for problem solving. However, students are often ill prepared to perform thelabs and few resources are available for students to learn how to

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Rasha Morsi

minoritygirls in our local school systems. Young minority females are often discouraged from joiningSTEM fields. It is believed that uncertainties in student’s minds about the suitability of women tobe Engineers and that the lack of female role models in Engineering schools plays a large role inthese uncertainties. Hence the premise of our club is ‘SEEING IS BELIEVING’. If these school Page 10.667.5girls ‘SEE’ females explaining to them that SET careers are possible and accessible to them then “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

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Erik Peterson; Ian Papautsky

sensors and biosensors 9 Biocompatibility Microsystems for cell engineering Page 10.823.2 10 Packaging of biomedical microsystems Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationTopics and their sequence were selected with three criteria in mind. The first was to introducestudents to MEMS fabrication. For many, this course was the first exposure to microfabricationand MEMS. Thus, the first two weeks of the course

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Potpourri Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Bryan Laffitte; David Ollis

, even on some of themost radical ideas, and that they had become key players in shaping the details that wouldmake a project work.The Selection of the Teaching Assistants We were quite fortunate in the engineering teaching assistants who were selectedfor the pilot test of the course, in that they both possessed qualities that we now recognizeas essential to the success of the course in the College of Design. These were graduate Page 10.373.5students quite knowledgeable in their own field, and also open-minded and interested inProceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Radian Belu

Session Teaching Electrical Engineering by using Computer Algebra Systems. by Radian G. Belu¹, and Alexandru-Catalin Belu² 1) College of Engineering 2) Department of Mathematics Wayne State University. Detroit, Michigan, USA.AbstractIn the past 40 years Computer Algebra Systems (CAS) has been used extensively in research andindustrial applications. This growing use of “computer algebra” or “symbolic computation

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Building New Communities

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2005 Annual Conference

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Yifat Kolikant; Bugrahan Yalvac; Ann McKenna

. Page 10.379.7 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationAcknowledgmentThis work is supported primarily by the Engineering Research Centers, Program of the NationalScience Foundation under Award Number EEC-9876363.References1. Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., and Cocking, R. R. (Eds.) (2000). How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.2. Lave, J., & Wenger, E. (1991) Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.3. Wenger, E. (1998). Communities of Practice – Learning, Meaning and

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Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ronald Krahe

2005-2548-1119 Software Engineering Standards in the ECET curriculum Ron Krahe Penn State Erie, Behrend CollegeAbstractThis paper introduces the need for including software engineering standards in the ECET(Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology) curriculum today, and discusses the desireddepth of coverage. ECET comprises a broad array of topics, including both hardware andsoftware design and development. Many current electrical and computer systems containembedded controls of one sort or another, and in nearly all of them, the control affects the safetyof the

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Kicher; Frank Adamo; Dale Flowers

technology entrepreneurship track.In 2002 we introduced a concentration in biomedical entrepreneurship within the MEM program.The educational objective of both tracks is to provide engineers with the business andmanagement context required to enable them to drive innovation within their companies whileserving in a technical capacity. In interactions with our corporate partners, we refer to graduatesof this program as “business minded engineers.”The program includes the academic coursework as well as an experience component (e.g., aninternship). Students may enter the program as undergraduates with senior status, typically inthe summer between the junior and senior years, and the program does not interfere withcompleting the undergraduate degree