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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

-Northwestern-Texas-Harvard/MIT Engineering Research Center forBioengineering Educational Technologies (VaNTH)- Annual Report- Volume II: ProjectDescriptions and Curriculum Vitae. Website URL[http://www.vanth.org/docs/2004_Annual_Report_Vol_II.pdf], site visited 12/29/04.6. Bransford, J.D., Brown, A.L., & Cocking, R.R. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience,and School. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1999.7. Olds, S.A., Kanter, D.E., Knudson, A., and Mehta, S.B. “Designing an Outreach Project thatTrains Both Future Faculty and Future Engineers.” Proceedings of the American Society forEngineering Education. (CD-ROM DEStech Publications) Session 1609: 5 pages, 2003.8. Harris, AH and Klein, S. “Educational Outreach Using Learning-Theory

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Research On Student Teams

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jason Immekus; Susan Maller; P.K. Imbrie

potency (i.e., does the team think it can besuccessful) are attributes of effective teams. Campion et al. [11] have tested the above model inan empirical study and found that almost all of the characteristics of work groups (e.g.,interdependence, potency) related to the three criteria of effectiveness (e.g., customersatisfaction). Potency was found to be the strongest predictor of all characteristics and related toall three effectiveness criteria, thus supporting those who assert that it is one of the mostimportant characteristics of a work team [12]. Campion et al.’s [11] ideas can be traced to Richard Hackman [13], who definedeffectiveness in terms of three dimensions: the group’s output meeting quality standards, thegroup’s ability to work

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Abul Azad

platform for control system design, simulation, and implementation, IEEE Control System Magazine, June 2000, 12-20.Mathworks (2001). Creating Graphical User Interface, MathWorks Incorporated, MA, USA.Marchand, R. and Holland, O. T. (2003). Graphics and GUIs with MATLAB, Chapman and Hall/CRC.Miller, G. M. and Beasley, J. S. (2002). Modern Electronic Communication, 7th Edition, Prentice Hall, New Jersey.Penfield, P. and Larson, R. C. (1996). Education via advanced technologies, IEEE Transactions on Education, 39(3), 436-443.Tokhi, M.O., Azad, A.K.M. and Powrwanto, H. (1999). SCEFMAS: A simulink environment for dynamic characterization and control of flexible manipulators, International Journal of Engineering Education

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Jackson; Mani Mina

indication that they perceive it as a valuable experience. Page 10.418.4 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education1. E. Seymour, “Tracking the Processes of Change in US Undergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics,Engineering, and Technology”, Issues and Trends, Stephen Norris editor, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. pp 79-105, 20012. S. T. Fleischmann “Needed: A few good knights for the information age-competence, courage, and compassionin the engineering curriculum,” IEEE Frontiers in Education

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Pat Leelani; Hector Estrada

Cumulative DistributionMS-Excel to determine if postedspeed limits are obeyed. Each 120.00%group produces a cumulative 100.00% Cumulative Frequencyspeed distribution curve(so-called S-curve2), see figure. 80.00%With this curve, the students areasked to identify the average 60.00%speed and the 85-percentile 40.00%speed. The results shouldindicate if traffic moves at the 20.00%posted speed limit. This activitywas also a competition, and

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Web-Based Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Heather Cooper

Outline for Designing a Hybrid First Year Language Course with WebCT. Alabama: Auburn University, 2003.4. Salzmann, C., et al. Requirements for Real-Time Laboratory Experimentation over the Internet. Accessed 12/2004. http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2/content_storage_01/0000000b/80/10/f6/e9.pdf.5. Spires, Michele S., Janet Jaeger. A Survey of the Literature on Ways to Use Web-based and Internet Instruction Most Effectively: Curriculum and Program Planning. Virginia: Old Dominion University, 2002.BiographyHEATHER L. COOPER, P.E.Heather L. Cooper is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology at Purdue University, where shehas taught for four years in thermal science and machinery diagnostics. Her areas

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Improving Mechanics of Materials

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mitch Keil; Pavel Ikonomov; Sam Ramrattan; Jorge Rodriguez; Alamgir Choudhury

. Combined use of the computer-aidedsolution and the laboratory experimentation will maximize the students’ learning of thesubject taught in a lecture class. The web based tool may also be used for distanceeducation and for promotion of engineering education to potential future students. Page 10.974.6Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education7. Bibliography1. Gere, James, M.; Mechanics of Materials, Thompson Learning, 2001.2. Mott; Robert L., Applied Strength of Materials, Prentice Hall Inc., 1996.3. Esche, S

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Retention Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Baurin; Annita Alting; Ardie Walser

students who have insufficient Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationrequisites for one or more courses. To avoid problems during registration, students, inincreasing numbers, are visiting advisors first to make sure they have the proper requisitesand to receive advisement on courses to take. In Fig. 3, the black squares indicate the totalpercentage of registrations in all courses of the respective program appearing to violaterequisite(s). 25 21.1 20

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International Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Howell

and industry partners, LTU administrationdecided to expand its global engineering program in early 2003 to include Chineseinstitutions. LTU’s President and Provost visited various Chinese universities in late 2002and early 2003 resulting in a Memorandum of Agreement with the Shanghai Universityof Engineering and Sciences (SUES) in 2003.LTU’s Global Engineering partnership in ChinaBeginning in the 1980’s China initiated a multitude of internal and external reformsdesigned to align its economic and educational infrastructure with Western standards.According to Li Deshui, head of the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), China'seconomic growth reached a seven-year high at 9.1 percent in 2003. Official statisticsshow China's automobile

Conference Session

Ethics Classes: Creative or Inefficient

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2005 Annual Conference

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Paul Griffin; Julie Swann; Robert Kirkman; Matthew Drake

Reasoning Skills," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 87, no. 1, 1998, pp. 29-34.[3] Drake, M., Griffin, P., Kirkman, R., and Swann, J., “Engineering Ethical Curricula:Assessment and Comparison of Two Approaches,” Journal of Engineering Education, toappear.[4] Rest, J., Development in judging moral issues, University of Minnesota Press,Minneapolis, 1979.[5] Thoma, S.J., "Do moral education programs facilitate moral judgment? A meta-anaylsisof studies using the Defining Issues Test," Moral Education Forum, vol. 9, no. 4, 1984, pp.20-25.[6] Schaefli, A., J. Rest, and S. Thoma, "Does moral education improve moral judgment? Ameta-analysis of intervention studies using the Defining Issues Test," Review of EducationalResearch, vol. 55, no. 3, 1985

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Faculty Reward System Reform

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gary Bertoline; Dennis Depew

Session 2155 Revisiting the Urgency for Reform of Faculty Reward Systems to Advance Professional Graduate Education for Engineering Practice and Technology Leadership D. R. Depew, 1 G. R. Bertoline, 1 M. J. Dyrenfurth, 1 A. L. McHenry, 2 E. M. DeLoatch, 3 P. Y. Lee, 4 H. J. Palmer, 5 J. W. Bardo, 6 D. D. Dunlap, 6 S. J. Tricamo, 7 D. A. Keating, 8 T. G. Stanford 8 Purdue University 1/ Arizona State University East 2/ Morgan State University 3 California Polytechnic State University 4 / Rochester Institute of Technology 5 Western Carolina University 6/ New Jersey Institute

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Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Roy Henk

ideal performance of your neighbor's diesel generator, assuming that the engine undergoes an air-standard Diesel cycle with a compression ratio of 26.0. The air in the piston-cylinder is at 105. [kPa] and 15.0 [C] just prior to the isentropic compression process. The maximum temperature in the cycle is not to exceed 2200 [K]. For cold air-standard we assume constant specific heats at 300 [K]. Draw the P v and T s diagrams for the cycle. The highest pressure in the cycle is: Answer: [0/5 tries] The amount of heat transferred into one cycle is: Answer: [0/5 tries] The work out of the isentropic expansion process for one cycle is: Answer: [0/5 tries] The thermal

Conference Session

BME Research and Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gassert; Lisa Milkowski

us havebeen dragged into the assessment process by accrediting agencies, it must be a servant forimprovement not a process for its own sake or for the sake of accreditation. EleanorRoosevelt once said “Learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to makethem all yourself.” Engineering faculty must learn from the mistakes of others, deal with thedifferences among evaluators, and share what is learned to improve our lot in assessment.References[1] Blanchard, S. M., et. al., Rubrics Cubed: Tying Grades to Assessment to Reduce FacultyWorkloads, session 1609, Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for EngineeringEducation Annual Conference & Exposition.[2] Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, Effective for

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Carroll

Society for Engineering EducationBackgroundEngineering programs at UMD are relatively new, originating in the mid 1980’s with threeprograms that were prescribed to be different from those existing on the Twin Cities campus of theUniversity of Minnesota. Our original mix of programs, consequently, was an interestingcollection of Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Materials ProcessingEngineering, in order to avoid the “traditional” programs that existed in the Twin Cities. As ourprograms have matured, the restrictions imposed by the Twin Cities campus have relaxed, and thethree original programs evolved into Electrical and Computer, Industrial, and ChemicalEngineering programs, respectively. Two years ago we added a Mechanical

Conference Session

Documenting Success

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2005 Annual Conference

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Patricia White; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

, 1997, p viii.6. Brumm, T. J., S. K. Mickelson, B. L. Steward and A. L. Kaleita-Forbes, “Competency-based outcomes assessment for agricultural engineering programs,” International Journal of Engineering Education, 2004, in press.7. Brumm, T.J., A. Ellertson and S.K. Mickelson, “Using ePortfolios to Develop and Assess ABET-Aligned Competencies,” Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education, American Society for Engineering Education, Nashville, TN, June 2003.8. Mickelson, S.K., T.J. Brumm, and B.L. Steward, “Using Competency Feedback to Assess Agricultural Engineering Curriculum,” Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education, American Society for

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Internet Computing and Networking

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonid Preiser

effectiveness of the proposed model. One of the options might be theGlobalSpec2 web site with such categories as “Sensors, Transducers and Detectors”, “LaboratoryEquipment and Scientific Instruments”, “Networking and Communication Equipment”, “IndustrialMaintenance”, etc.In the wide variety of technology, communications, information systems, and engineeringprofessions, keeping students and professionals current in their field(s) of expertise becomes anissue of competitiveness and employability. That is why a cycling approach in maintaining a goodknowledge management system is so important: knowledge must be periodically updated to reflectchanges in the relevant engineering and technology fields.To this extent, a technology and engineering knowledge

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International Developments & Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

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Fazil Najafi

Introducing Practical County and City Management to Undergraduate Students through the Course “Public Works Engineering and Management Practices” Dr. Fazil T. Najafi and Hammad S. ChaudhryProfessor, Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering, University of Florida/ Ph.D. Student, Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering, University of FloridaIn every country, healthy infrastructure is essential to economic and social developmentof communities, regions, and nations. A public works department focuses on all criticalissues related to city and county infrastructure management and operations. A publicworks engineering and management course has been developed within the

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

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LOKESH JOSHI; James Sweeney; Edward Hall; Alyssa Panitch

. Page 10.112.3 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering EducationIt is our conclusion that this short course has been highly successful for those faculty memberswho dedicated themselves to regular participation. Long-term tracking of course participantproductivity in biological or biomedical research areas and/or involving new collaboration(s)with life scientists (in comparison to the Fulton School faculty overall) has been initiated withthe expectation that participants will in the long-term be better positioned for success in suchefforts.References1. For on-line information on this transdisciplinary

Conference Session

New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Anderson

capstone course, and for this course projects are selected to build,or perform significant upgrades on a production machine. The end use of these machines is theeducation laboratory. This simplifies the task for students to define the scope of the project, as they havesome experience in the application.Since the focus of the course is plastic manufacturing systems, projects are machines that incorporatesome manufacturing process, such as injection molding, blow molding, extrusion, or bow molding.Figure 3 illustrates a typical project. The basis for this project was a small injection moldermanufactured by Arburg in the 1970’s. Students were charged with renovating the machine to includeadding modern controls, rebuilding the hydraulic system, adding

Conference Session

Pedagogy

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed El-Sayed

environment and communications.References Page 10.871.7 1. James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones “ Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and create wealth in Your Corporation ” Lean Enterprise Institute, 2004. 2. A. W. Astin “What Matters in College?: Four Critical years Revised,” Jossey- Bass publishers, San Francisco, 1993. 3. PUGH, S., “ An Engineering student Retention: National and International Perspectives” Proceedings of Engineering Education Conference, pp. 843-851, 1988. 4. C. Moller-Wong and A. Eide “ An Engineering student Retention Study” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 86, No.1, January 1997.Biographical

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Developments in Chem Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christi Patton; Daniel Crunkleton

established to make the formal application to Challenge X. This groupconsisted of 2 faculty members from Chemical Engineering (the authors of this paper), 2from Mechanical Engineering, 1 from Electrical Engineering, and 1 from ComputerScience. On May 11, 2004, the University of Tulsa was selected to be one of 17participants in the Challenge X competition. Most importantly, we were told specificallyby the competition sponsors, General Motors and the U. S. Department of Energy, thatour application was successful because we involved several disciplines not traditionallyinvolved in automotive competitions – particularly Chemical Engineering.ChE Student ParticipationThe Challenge X competition is a three-year competition with a major milestone eachyear

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christine Kelly

(Figure 1) was provided to Walter S. Pebley, Vice President, Business &Technical Development, at Oregon Freeze Dry, Inc., an FDA registered manufacturing site withexperience in lyophilizing chemicals, biotechnology products, medical devices, pharmaceuticals,and nutraceuticals. In response, Mr. Pebley stated “You have hit the nail on the head"concerning the topics presented in the course. “I have long been an advocate of inclusion of thecontents you have proposed.” Page 10.157.5 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for

Conference Session

BME Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sarah Henrickson; Heather Gunter; Joseph Bonventre

simulation, and to Professor RobertLinsenmeier of Northwestern University for his valuable insights on module design.References1. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. Eds: Bransford, J.D., Brown, A.L., Cocking, R.R..National Academy Press (Washington; 1999).2. Gunter, H.E., Bonventre, J.V., D’Avila, M.A., Sadeghpour, S., Vijaykumar, R. (2003), “Education Innovation inPhysiology” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Nashville, TN,June 22-25, 2003BiographiesHEATHER E. GUNTER received her Ph.D. in Medical Engineering from the Harvard Division of Engineering andApplied Sciences and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology in 2003 and expects to receiveher M.D. from Harvard

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Outreach and Recruitment

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lee Young; Sanjiv Sarin; Xiaochun Jiang

Sophoremore Freshmen First year Graduate 36% Figure 5. Student Distribution by Five Cohorts Activitie s Research Mentoring 35 30 Tutoring 25 scholarship 20 Supplemental 15

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Recruitment and Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

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Deborah Sharer; David Murphy; Stephen Kuyath

Science and Math, ERIC Clearinghouse for Science Mathematics and Environmental Education, ED433216, May, 1999[3]. Milbourne, L. A., Encouraging Girls in Science and Math, The ERIC Review, Vol 6, Iss. 2[4]. Takahira, S., Goodings, D., and Byrnes, J., Retention and Performance of Male and Female Engineering Page 10.1179.10 Students: An Examination of Academic and Environmental Variables, Journal of Engineering Education, 87(3), 1998, pp. 297-304 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for

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Capstone and Senior Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Shull

two steps. The first step wasto decide which part of the pultrusion machine code would demonstrate the greatest contrastbetween the two software platforms. And the second step was the actual implementation of thenew programming language.Learning the RSLogix5000 SystemThe first step took considerable thought due to the vast possibilities of RSLogix5000’s fourprogramming languages that are available. Each language is best suited, but not limited to,specific electro-mechanical functionality. For example, ladder logic, which was the soleprogramming option with the RSLogix500 software, is bested suited for2: • Execution of continuous or parallel operations • Binary operations • Logical operations that are complex • Processing of

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K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Kahn; Marina Bers

Education (2001). Science and Technology/EngineeringFramework. Retrieved Jan 4, 2005, http://www.doe.mass.edu/frameworks/scitech/2001/2 Papert, S. (1980) Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas, New York, NY: Basic Books.3 Bers, M, Ponte, I, Juelich, K, Viera, A, Schenker, J. (2002) Teachers as Designers: Integrating Robotics in Early Childhood Education. Information Technology in Childhood Education. AACE 123-1454 Bers, M, New, B. & Boudreau, L. (2004) Teaching and learning when no one is expert: Children and parents explore technology. Journal of Early Childhood Research and Practice.5 Scarlett, W.G., Naudeau, S., Salonius-Pasternak, D. and Ponte, I. (2004). Children’s Play. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.6

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kedmon Hungwe; Seyed Zekavat; Sheryl Sorby

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Deepak Gupta; Robert Creese

(VisualBasic for Application). A copy of the program was e-mailed to all the students and they couldeither modify the program for their additional shapes or use any other program to solve theshape(s) which were not initially included in the program. The load and support modulesdetermine the force and moment relationships and the shape module determines the centroid andmoment of inertia expressions. Expressions for moment and deflection (Appendix 1) fordifferent shapes were built into the computer model4. The parameter selection module requiresthat certain parameters be fixed so that only one variable is determined. The parameters may bespecified as a specific value or as a ratio. For example in the evaluation of a rectangular shapethe width or height

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ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jiunn-Chi Wu

C unambiguous needs statement while designing the mechanism for the specified task.2. Students will demonstrate their abilities to perform documents while in process of designing mechanism.Students will outline the basic steps of mechanism design and choose Cthe suitable methods.Students will learn collaboration through teamwork during the Dpreparation of contest.Acknowledgement This research has been sponsored by the National Science Council of Taiwan, ROC undergrant # NSC92-274511-S-008-002 and NSC93-2522-S-008-003. The authors also want tothank all the participated students who have taken the pilot courses and provide theirfeedback