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Issues for ET Administrators

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jerry Samples

Session 2547 Breaking the Code – How to get your ET Faculty Tenure Jerry W. Samples University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractJust like hiring practices, there are variations in the tenure and promotion practices at everycollege and university. The leaders in Engineering Technology programs must understand the“practices” that apply to tenure and promotion, and be able to guide their faculty such that theyare competitive when it is time for tenure and promotion. The “practices” and the rules thatguide them are often obscure, leaving many tenure stream faculty members to guess

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Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Johnson; Donatus Cobbinah; Ahmed Rubaai

president for Research for HowardUniversity. Dr. Johnson’s research interests include the treatment and disposal of hazardous substances, theevaluation of environmental policy issues in relation to minorities, the development of environmental curricula andstrategies to increase the pool of underrepresented groups in the science, technology, engineering and mathdisciplines.Donatus Cobbinah received the B.Sc. degree with honors in electrical and electronic engineering in 1997 fromKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana. He is currently workingtowards the M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Howard University, Washington, DC. Hisresearch interests include research and development of intelligent

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lisa Anneberg; Ece Yaprak

UTILIZING OPEN-SOURCE TOOLS IN THE NETWORKING LABORATORY Ece Yaprak Wayne State University Division of Engineering Technology Detroit, MI 48202 yaprak@eng.wayne.edu Lisa Anneberg Lawrence Technological University Electrical Engineering Department Southfield, MI anneberg@ltu.eduAbstractHands-on engineering applications bring real world experiences to students as well asreinforce the

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BME Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

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Charla Triplett; Eugene Eckstein

for Engineering EducationThe Alliance provides members a way for coordinators to connect and share unfilled localopportunities, while maintaining close connection with those mentors. For example:“This past year several of my local companies used the database and were able to recruit internsvia that method, when none of my students could fill the position. Each of those expressed theirappreciation of the extended student pool.” Jean Alley, Former Vanderbilt Coordinator.The Alliance began with a technology-heavy approach, assuming that the website andopportunity postings would be the most important resource. Over time, for some programs, it hasbecome clear that contacts among coordinators and training are valued as much, and often morethan the

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Information Integration

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2005 Annual Conference

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Nathan Ekstrom; Joseph Ekstrom

numbers of open-access labworkstations.As the authors have discussed the evolving status of DOGMA over several years, it hasbecome clear that many of the emerging issues are of little interest to the researchers whooriginated the project. However, the issues of evolving systems over time, incrementalscaling, and component monitoring and management are very interesting to manyInformation Technology professionals and managers. As the academic discipline ofInformation Technology has emerged over the last few years[13], many have asked howthe research agenda of IT relates to that of Computer Science, Computer Engineering,and Information Systems. Recent drafts from The Joint IEEE Computer Society/ACMTask Force on the "Model Curricula for Computing

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Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Marshall

Document 2005-744 Programmable Logic Controllers in the High Schools Improves College Enrollments John Allen Marshall, Ph.D. School of Applied Science, Engineering, and Technology University of Southern Maine Gorham, Maine 04038IntroductionToo few high school students understand that a technical career path can genuinely beexciting and neat. Some have the short-term view that good paying jobs are plentiful, sowhy take the really difficult courses. Many sell their own abilities short and convincethemselves that it is too difficult a

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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J. Darrell Gibson; Patricia Brackin

of this paper to discuss methods for the selection of appropriateprojects from industry and then to show how students integrate teaming and project managementskills from previous courses during completion of their capstone projects.IntroductionIndustrial/Academic partnerships are essential for technological development, regardless of thediscipline. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the integration of teaming and projectmanagement skills into capstone design by integrating knowledge from prior courses.The paper discusses student projects with industry which are performed as part of the courserequirements for Engineering Design and Machine Design, the two 4-credit-hour senior coursesthat require these industrial projects at Rose-Hulman

Conference Session

Thermal Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kevin Schmaltz; Robert Choate

, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Baltimore. (http://www.abet.org/criteria.html). 6. Saviz, C. and Schulz, K., “Learning Design in Lab,” Proc. 2003 ASEE Annual Conference, Nashville, TN. 7. Lowman, J., Mastering the Techniques of Teaching, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1995.ROBERT CHOATERobert Choate teaches thermo-fluid and professional component courses in Mechanical Engineering at WKU,including the Sophomore Design, Junior Design and the Senior Project Capstone Design course sequence. Prior toteaching at WKU, he was a principal engineer for CMAC Design Corporation, designing and verifying thermalmanagement solutions for telecommunication, data communication and information technology equipment.KEVIN SCHMALTZKevin

Conference Session

Building New Communities

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2005 Annual Conference

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Alene Harris; Monica Cox, Purdue University

bioengineering classrooms within the VaNTH (VanderbiltUniversity, Northwestern University, the University of Texas at Austin, and theHarvard/Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Science and Technology)Engineering Research Center, the VaNTH Observation System (VOS) is a four-part directobservation instrument that examines faculty and student interactions, students’ academicengagement levels, the lesson content and context of a class, and global ratings of effectiveteaching.1 In addition, the VOS reports information about faculty members’ use of the “HowPeople Learn” (HPL) framework, a framework, that when coupled with traditional teachingtechniques, are expected to optimize student learning. The first part of the VOS, the

Conference Session

Research On Student Teams

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jason Immekus; Susan Maller; P.K. Imbrie

Cronbach’s coefficient alpha, were: .96, .92,.96, and .94 for Interdependency, Learning, Potency, and Goal-Setting, respectively. Cronbach’scoefficient alpha for the entire scale was .98.Backgr ound The NAE National Research Council Board on Engineering Education, NSF EngineeringEducation Coalition Program, and the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology [1]Engineering Criteria 2000 ushered in a movement to reshape the engineering curricula. To buildon these pioneering initiatives, new educational pedagogies must be used to develop graduates assuccessful professional contributors and lifelong learners in global, multi-disciplinary markets;be flexible to support diverse career aspirations; be agile to rapidly transform in response

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Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jacki Stewart; Peter Jansson

Protection - Division of Science, Research and Technology: NewJersey Sustainability Greenhouse Gas Action Plan, Program/Partners http://www.state.nj.us/dep/dsr/gcc/gcc.htmAvailable online: www.state.nj.us/dep/dsv/gcc/COLLEGEG.PDF2 J. L Schmalzel, A. J. Marchese, J. Mariappan and S. A. Mandayam, "The Engineering Clinic: A four-year designsequence," presented at the 2nd An. Conf. of Nat. Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance, Washington, D.C.,1998.3 J. L Schmalzel, A. J. Marchese and R. P. Hesketh, "What's brewing in the Clinic?," HP Engineering Educator,2:1,Winter 1998, pp. 6-7.4 P.M. Jansson, J. Blanck, D. Giordano, D. Johnson, S. Ross "Undergraduate Research on Sustainability: CampusEnergy Analysis and Building Lighting Audits

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Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Brian Resnick

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationStudent CommentsThe following comments are from third and fourth year Electrical Engineering Technology(EET) students and Computer Engineering Technology (CET) students at the University ofCincinnati who took a one-quarter course in Data Structures using C++ taught in the style of thispaper: • “Learning problem solving techniques is a much more valuable experience than learning a language syntax. Learning the syntax of a programming language will not make you a programmer. It is obvious that one must learn the syntax and nuances of a language to make a program work, but without the underlying understanding of how to attack and solve a problem any

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Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2005 Annual Conference

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Athula Kulatunga

Lab Activities for an Interdisciplinary Energy Management Course Athula Kulatunga, Ph.D., CEM Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Page 10.857.1Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education Lab Activities for an Interdisciplinary Energy Management Course Athula Kulatunga, Ph.D., CEM Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Innovative Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

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Shana Smith

dynamic simulation capabilities for assembly evaluation. Prior 3D interface systems required highly specialized and costly equipment. Configuringand using such systems also required a high level of technical skill in VR technology. Most priorapproaches stressed building new VR-enabled CAD systems, while only a few focused onproviding VR interfaces for existing commercial CAD systems. As a result, most modern CADsystems, such as Pro/Engineer, AutoDesk Inventor, Solid Works, etc., still use traditional 2Dkeyboard and mouse interfaces to interact with complex 3D CAD models. Thus, to-date, thedesign community has not widely accepted using VR interfaces; VR use, so far, has been limitedto specialized research applications. This paper describes a

Conference Session

Security

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2005 Annual Conference

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G Murphy; G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

Security ModelState Model as an Aid to Teaching NetworkingThe diagrams were used as the pedagogical foundation of non-vendor based curriculum innetworking technology and the results evaluated 22, 28. Students on two different units were given Page 10.27.720 and 40 hours instruction based on the new models. The results were compared with studentsProceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Educationfrom three other vendor based units who had received 100, 120 and 160 hours of instruction usingthe standard method of

Conference Session

Service Learning Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Pines

Session 2451 NPDES Phase II Stormwater Rule – An Excellent Opportunity to Get Students Involved in a Service Learning Project David Pines College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture University of HartfordAbstractThe National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Phase II Stormwater Rule wasimplemented to improve surface water quality by reducing the pollutant discharges bystormwater. The NPDES Phase II Rule requires the development of a stormwater managementplan for small municipal separate storm sewer systems

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Javier Kypuros; Thomas Connolly

involving and comprehensive for students. Page 10.317.5The TLC offers activities that include training in the use of team-learning techniques in theclassroom, the creation of support groups for the use of educational technology, assistance in the Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationdesign of performance-based, application-oriented measures of learning, and faculty-initiatedproposals. Dr. James Lackey, the director of the TLC, has offered his expertise in helping theco-PIs formulate general

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mahmoud Quweider

proposal for offering an “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education”associate degree in web design and programming. Currently, the department has morethan 300 students with about 90% of them being Hispanics who are gravelyunderrepresented in the Science and Technology areas. To remedy this problem, thefaculty has been looking for different ways to enhance recruitment and retention of thedepartment students as well as reinforce key concepts in many of the CS/CIS criticalcourses. In 2001, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded the CS/CIS Departmentat the University of Texas at

Conference Session

Design and Computation in ChE Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Elly; Mordechai Shacham; Michael Cutlip

director of the university’s Honors Program. He has B. Ch. E. and M. S.degrees from Ohio State and a Ph. D. from the University of Colorado. His current interests include software forengineering problem solving and educational delivery of coursework by the Internet.MORDECHAI SHACHAM is professor and a former chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel where he has been since 1974. He received his BSc and DSc degrees fromthe Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. His research interest includes analysis, modeling and regression ofdata, applied numerical method and prediction and consistency analysis of physical properties.MICHAEL ELLY holds B. Sc. and MBA degrees from the Ben-Gurion

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Engaging Upper Level Classes

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ronald Welch

learning.Assessment will be provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of these pedagogical basics on thestudent learning and professor’s classroom performance.I. IntroductionSo how do you like to learn a new concept? Read a textbook and/or journal article on thesubject? Maybe throw in some type of experiment with technology to simulate the theory? Felderpoints out that in most areas we as faculty learn differently than how students learn best.1 Ourmission is to assist students with varying learning styles to learn new concepts. So how dostudents like to learn? How do they learn best? Considering the 1990 Seymour and Hewitt2 studythat shows 40 percent of engineering undergrads switch from science, mathematics, andengineering disciplines due primarily to poor

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Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Shuhui Li

Laboratory Restructuring and Development for the Course of Electric Machinery Using Software and Hardware IT Tools Shuhui Li Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Texas A&M University – Kingsville Kingsville, TX 78363ABSTRACT The paper presents the laboratory restructuring and development for the course ofElectric Machines, also known as Electric Machinery or Energy Conversion, for an integrativeteaching approach. It shows the restructuring by using modern computer software and hardwareinformation technology (IT) tools, by introducing DSP and digital control technology

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Issues in Computer Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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George Stockman

Session # 3620 Computing Fundamentals for IT and IS Programs George Stockman Computer Science and Engineering Michigan State UniversityAbstractInformation technology impacts the careers of all professionals and thus its concepts areimportant for education. Our Department developed a unique sophomore level course to providefundamentals to students with majors in Business, Telecommunications, or Engineering whowith a Specialization in IT. While the initial course was experimental in nature and theavailability was only guaranteed for

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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William White; George Engel; Cen Karacal; Ai-ping Hu; Jerry Weinberg

to design anentire system.2,8,15 This means that students must learn the team building and communicationskills to work with others outside of their own discipline. The Accreditation Board for Engineer-ing Technology (ABET) recognizes the importance of these abilities in its Criteria for Accredit-ing Engineering Programs: “Engineering programs must demonstrate that their graduates havean ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams”.1,5 The study of robotics provides an excellentinstrument for teaching and learning about working in multidisciplinary teams.The overall goal of this project is the development of a comprehensive undergraduate course inrobotics that emphasizes multidisciplinary teamwork by encompassing many of the diverse

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Donald Richter

traditionally deliveredthe laboratory experience for Engineering Technology at the bachelors level.The following paper describes how Eastern Washington University has chosen to meet thischallenge using a non-traditional paradigm of delivering the laboratory experience in theRobotics and Automation course. The new method of delivery uses self-directed and self-designed experiments by the student to enhance the learning experience. This new framework ofcourse delivery challenges the student to design and implement an experiment that is unique tohim/her. The student is much more engaged in higher order learning since he must first design,understand and then perform the experiment. This is in contrast to the traditional method of thestudent blindly doing

Conference Session

Systems Approach to Teaching ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Adams; Ken Burbank; James Zhang

Session 1649 A Modular Approach to Teaching “Wireless Communications and Systems” for ECET Students James Z. Zhang, Robert Adams, Kenneth Burbank Department of Engineering and Technology Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723 Abstract Recent development in wireless technologies has generated a high demand for wireless com-munications professionals. Rigorous math background is needed for students to fully understandwireless communications system fundamentals. However, Electrical and Computer EngineeringTechnology

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tolga Duman; Cihan Tepedelenlioglu; Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola; Venkatraman Atti; Andreas Spanias

, and texts to transfer key concepts. Even though this process meets most of thetypical Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) objectives, it often fails to instillcritical thinking and does not necessarily motivate students to pursue graduate thesis-oriented research.In fact, the rigid lecture and text book structures in some of the Digital Signal Processing (DSP) classesoften fail to connect the concepts with applications and with application-driven research. Of particularinterest is the impact of the aforementioned education problems in the areas of signal processing forcommunications (SP-COM). A common observation from teaching the typical UG courses in these areasis that, regardless of the innovative teaching strategies

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Curriculum Development in Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Wm Evans

Programmable Logic Controller Teaching Method by Wm. Ted Evans Engineering Technology College of Engineering U of Toledo Toledo, OhioAbstract:Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC's) have been found in industry since the early1970's. The application of PLC's has long been considered a required course for majorsin Electrical Engineering Technology. Course content has traditionally centered onhardware with labs giving some programming experience. It is proposed that theeducation process for teaching PLCs should concentrate on programming from

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nirmal Khandan

- Engineering Criteria 2000, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), Baltimore, MD, 1996.5. Chie, M. T. H., Feltovich, P. J., and Glaser, R., Categorization and representation of physics problems by experts and novices, Cognitive Sci., 5, 121-152, 1981.6. McDermott, L. C., Research on conceptual understanding in mechanics, Physics Today, 37, 24-32, 1984.7. Heller, P., Keith, R., and Anderson, S., Teaching problem solving through cooperative grouping. Part 1: Group versus individual problem solving, Am. J. Phys., 60, 627-636, 1992.8. Heller, P. and Hollabaugh, M., Teaching problem solving through cooperative grouping. Part 2: Designing problems and structuring groups, Am. J. Phys., 60, 637-668, 1992.9. Dufresne, R. J

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EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanton Cort; Gary Wnek

students) projects sponsored by several companiesand covering a broad range of technologies. Projects (companies) for the 2004-05academic year include solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCo), lab-on-a-chip microfluidic devices(Infoscitex), polymer membranes for a novel HVAC energy recovery device (DaisAnalytic), scheduling software for medical doctors and software to teach math to grade-school children (AcmeExpress), and, interestingly, a company being organized and Page 10.1019.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering

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Improving Statics and Dynamics

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2005 Annual Conference

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Phillip Cornwell; Richard Layton

Cognitive Domain,” New York: McKay, 1956.PHILLIP CORNWELLPhillip Cornwell is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He received hisPh.D. from Princeton University in 1989 and his present interests include structural dynamics, structural healthmonitoring, and undergraduate engineering education. Dr. Cornwell has received an SAE Ralph R. TeetorEducational Award in 1992, and the Dean’s Outstanding Teacher award at Rose-Hulman in 2000.RICHARD LAYTONRichard Layton received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1995 and is currently an AssistantProfessor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Layton worked for twelveyears in consulting engineering, culminating as a group