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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Beverly Withiam, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown; Susan Dawkins, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown; Robert Martinazzi, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown

include topicssuch as academic integrity, personal management skills, testing and test anxiety, diversity,registration process, problem solving and decision making.The “second punch” comes from “boxing” lessons taught by the Engineering Technologyfaculty. Their contribution centers on giving freshmen an engineering specific perspective on theprofession they will enter upon graduation. “Sparring” skills the faculty teach include subjectssuch as an overview of the engineering profession, success strategies, personal growth anddevelopment, student organizations, the difference between engineering technology andengineering, and employment opportunities.IntroductionMany incoming college freshmen believe that they have developed the requisite skills in

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ahmed Khan, DeVry University-Addison; Shawn Schumacher, DeVry University; Lynn Burks, DeVry University

2006-2154: EFFECTIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING: PREDICTING STUDENTLEARNING AND SUCCESS FOR NON-TRADITIONAL STUDENTS IN CONTEXTOF FACULTY AND STUDENT TRAITSAhmed Khan, DeVry University-Addison Dr. Ahmed S. Khan is a senior Professor in the EET dept. at DeVry University, Addison, Illinois. He received his M.Sc (applied physics) from University of Karachi, an MSEE from Michigan Technological University, and an MBA from Keller Graduate School of Management. He received his Ph.D. from Colorado State University. His research interests are in the areas of Fiber Optics Communications, faculty development, and outcomes assessment, and, Internet and distance education. He is author of “The Telecommunications Fact Book

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Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Phillips, Oklahoma State University

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Architectural

engineering student’scurriculum. At this point in the curriculum, the students have completed all of their structuraldesign courses, but have not yet dealt with studio projects beyond the schematic design phase.Fig 1: Oklahoma State University - Architectural Engineering majors Curriculum ChartThis studio is team taught by four faculty members (two architects, one environmental controlsand one structural) and has been structured to give the students an experience similar to whatwill be experienced in practice upon graduation. The course is structured so the schematic,design development, and construction documents phases are explored during the semester.During these three phases, each student acts as their own design firm where they deal with

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark Henderson, Arizona State University; Bradley Rogers, Arizona State University; Robert Grondin, Arizona State University; Chell Roberts, Arizona State University; Scott Danielson, Arizona State University; Rajeswari Sundararajan, Arizona State University

northeastsection of the state. The Reservation has many mesas which may produce such effects (Figure2). Figure 2 Mesas on the Hopi ReservationIn response to the request, five engineering faculty members traveled to the reservation toinvestigate the planned tower erection sites and talk in detail about the project. The departmentsaw this as a great opportunity to enhance the PBL nature of the curriculum by adding thisproject as an elective for the entering freshmen. A one-credit hour elective course was addedand 22 of the 29 freshmen signed up.Opportunity with Hopi ReservationThe wind assessment project had several goals as defined by the Hopi representatives. 1. Understand the problem of justifying wind power turbines for

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Innovations in Teaching Upper-Level Physics

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gerald Rothberg, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Engineering Physics & Physics

Computer ScienceDepartment, University of Washington7-10. The course itself might be unique in that it carries only two credits, is scheduled to meet onlytwice per week in fifty minute sessions, and still is expected to educate students to a depthcomparable to the typical preceding courses in mechanics, electricity and magnetism. Toprovide additional opportunities for problem solving, I hold an additional, strictly voluntary,recitation session each week. The course was created by me in response to curriculum changes in the School ofEngineering and taught for the first time in the fall 2004 semester. The population is about 180sophomores in the fall and about 100 sophomores in the spring. The spring class consists ofcoop students who have

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Camilla Saviz, University of the Pacific; Abel Fernandez, University of the Pacific; Michael Golanbari, University of the Pacific; Rahim Khoie, University of the Pacific; Kyle Watson, University of the Pacific

engineering class at Pacific has ranged in size from 100 to 130 students during thepast five years. All first year engineering students take Introduction to Engineering (ENGR5), acourse designed to introduce students to the different fields of engineering. Responsibility forteaching this core course is shared by all engineering departments within the School ofEngineering and Computer Science (SOECS) and the course is co-taught by five faculty of allranks and from different departments. The course allows faculty to develop close relationshipswith incoming students at an early stage. Two of the faculty who helped developed this retentionprogram were also responsible for teaching ENGR5. Program components were integrated aspart of ENGR5 and subsequent

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Hurricane Katrina

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Qin Chen, University of South Alabama

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Ocean and Marine

the driving force of many processes. The practice of coastal engineering involves not onlythe traditional civil engineering principles, but also the sciences of oceanography and coastalgeology. The typical civil engineering curriculum of an undergraduate program, however, doesnot include course work in marine sciences and coastal engineering.The discipline of coastal engineering in the United States began in the 1930s in connectionmainly to oceanfront development and grew significantly during the Second World War inconnection to naval operation and troop landing on the beach. Today, coastal engineers have Page 11.60.3expanded their role from

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Melinda Seevers, Boise State University; Pat Pyke, Boise State University; William Knowlton, Boise State University; Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University; John Gardner, Boise State University

and Engineering where he is the Coordinator for Graduate Studies and holds a joint appointment. His research activities include device and simple circuit reliability physics, materials characterization, nanofabrication of materials and devices, biomaterials, and molecular electronic devices. He is actively involved in integrating teaching and research has received several teaching and research awards.Pat Pyke, Boise State University Patricia Pyke is the Director of Special Programs for the College of Engineering at Boise State University. She oversees projects in freshman curriculum development, retention, math support, mentoring, and women’s programs. She earned a B.S.E. degree in

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Trend in Construction Engineering Education I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Virendra Varma, Missouri Western State University

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Construction

2006-34: DESIGN-BUILD APPROACH TO PROJECT DELIVERY: THE CHECKSAND BALANCES IN THE OVERALL CONSTRUCTION PROCESSVirendra Varma, Missouri Western State University Virendra K. Varma, PhD,PE,F.ASCE, is Professor of Construction, and Chairman of the Department of Engineering Technology at Missouri Western State University. He is the Chair of the ASEE Construction Engineering Division. He is a Past President of MSPE-NW Chapter of the National Society of Professional Engineers, and a Past President of ACI-Missouri. He served on the TAC/ABET Commission as a commissioner from 1998-2003. He is an Instructor of the SEMA-MO ATC-20 course on Earthquake Damage Assessment (Structural), and is also an ACI

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael McGrath, University of Colorado-Boulder

tools for teaching and learning”6. Oneconsideration here is the role of training in academia, and how this isintegrated with a university’s role as an educator. LASP’s experience hasshown that the combination of education with training enables the student tomore quickly become productive in the design and problem solvingexperience. A student coming to us with specific trained skills relevant todesign almost immediately integrates into our process. It is also the case thattraining acquired from outside of the university experience is relevant, eitherthrough a hobby, interaction with a parent, or a high school experience. TheNAE study notes that attempts to change the basic engineering curriculum toinclude features like additional training “have

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Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Research

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tom Langen, Clarkson University; Stefan Grimberg, Clarkson University

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Environmental Engineering

) providing students who are traditionally underrepresented in environmental scienceand engineering with an opportunity to conduct independent research that is mentored by anexperienced scientist or engineer; (2) teaching these students how to conduct meaningfulenvironmental research and communicate the results of that research to professional colleaguesand the general public; (3) communicating to students the importance of graduate school as anintegral part of the educational pipeline leading to successful careers in science and engineering;(4) demonstrating why synthetic, integrative research is necessary for understanding and solvingcomplex environmental problems, and therefore why multidisciplinary and interdisciplinaryapproaches to environmental

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Trend in Construction Engineering Education I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eddy Rojas, University of Washington; Carrie Dossick, University of Washington

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Construction

shaking a light wood frame in an earthquakesimulation or exposing roofing tiles to alternating rain and sun in an accelerated weathering test,an experiential learning environment allows students to experience materials, means andmethods that solidify their understanding of construction assemblies and processes.Experience Learning Model at the Pacific Northwest Center for Construction Researchand EducationIn order to effectively and efficiently incorporate experiential learning into the constructionengineering and management curriculum at the University of Washington, a model has beendeveloped by the writers to take advantage of the new research and education facilities whilebuilding upon the body of knowledge in experiential learning in

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Improving ME instructional laboratories

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ralph Volino, U.S. Naval Academy; Andrew Smith, U.S. Naval Academy

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Mechanical Engineering

allthermodynamics courses, but are not typically tied directly to the mechanical devices thatperform the thermodynamic cycles. There are practical reasons for this disconnect. Within thetime available for an engineering degree program, it would be ineffective to teach all the detailsof many complex mechanical devices. In addition to the volume of information required, astechnology advances, many of these devices will become obsolete. Students need to acquire thefundamentals of analysis and design, so that they can keep learning after graduation and applythese concepts in integrated engineering problems. It is still desirable, however, to providestudents with some examples of complete systems that integrate concepts from several courses.Capstone design

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Faculty Involvement in International Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark Henderson, Arizona State University

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International

Figure 1: Technology and Its Distance from Socio-cultural IssuesThe question then is: How can we as engineering educators and mentors create anatmosphere to engender this Global Competency?Engineering education routinely addresses technology and does it well. However, typicalengineering students avoid social and cultural subjects because they either would rather tinkerwith technology or because there is no room in the curriculum for that material or both. Addingglobal content exacerbates the problem by increasing the material in an already bulgingcurriculum.The Symposium attendees did keep this problem in mind throughout the discussions whichincluded breakout sessions on the following issues. These issues were extracted from the

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Saeid Moslehpour, University of Hartford; ramin Sadeghi, Power and Water University of Technology (PWUT)

content.These large scale regional solutions (infrastructures) could answer such important researchquestions as, • How can we truly bridge the gap between poor and remote virtual university with those in economically and geographically well established areas? • What architectures will best support communications and collaboration, as well as provide equitable access to sources of content (digital libraries) for all students? • How can we expand the role of digital libraries and museums in order to organize and disseminate their content across the infrastructure and integrate it with curriculum? • How can the different distance learning solutions available integrate coherently with content development? • Given the huge

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Keith Williamson, East Carolina University; Gene Dixon, East Carolina University; Paul Kauffmann, East Carolina University; Tarek Abdel-Salam, East Carolina University

of synthesis for traditionalcognitive theory based approaches to engineering education. These capstone courses areexpected to help students broaden their perspectives on how to integrate theoretical andpractical knowledge and how to reflect on practice. Within the last decade, employersand leading educators have been complaining that this synthesis, as it pertains to life-longlearning and expertise, may not be enough for new graduates to compete in a fastchanging global marketplace for engineering services. These leaders suggest that newgraduates need: (a) better communications skills; (b) an ability to work in Page 11.430.2multidisciplinary teams

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Mechanical/Manufacturing ET Design Projects

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Noel Titus, Purdue University; Margaret Ratcliff, Purdue University-Columbus/SE Indiana

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Engineering Technology

2006-809: DESIGN AND SPECIFICATION CLASS TEAMING WITH ALCOA INREAL WORLD DESIGN PROJECTMargaret Ratcliff, Purdue University-Columbus/SE Indiana Margaret Ratcliff is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering Technology at Purdue University College of Technology in Columbus, Indiana and has been there since January 2005. Before joining Purdue University at Columbus, she spent 11 years in industry working mostly as a Product Design Engineer, Senior Project Engineer, and Structural Analyst. She earned a M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University and a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tulane University.Noel Titus, Purdue University Noel Titus is

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Materials Science and Engineering of 2020

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jonathan Stolk, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Alexander Dillon, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Materials

rather than instructorteaching.6,7,8,9,10 Student self-direction is generally considered an integral component ofproblem- and project-based learning approaches. Evaluations of problem- and project-basedlearning approaches have shown increases in motivation and satisfaction, problem-solving ability,communication and teaming skills, occupational preparedness, knowledge retention, andcapacity for self-directed learning.7,9,11,12,13,14 Research has also shown that these approaches canlead to improvements in content acquisition and performance on traditional exams, althoughsome of these effects are still far from generally accepted, particularly in the engineeringcommunity.12,13,14,15,16Despite the general agreement that self-directed learning

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rosamond Parkhurst, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara Moskal, Colorado School of Mines; Gary Downey, Virginia Tech; Juan Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Thomas Bigley, Virginia Tech; Sharon Ruff, Virginia Tech

program to integrate engineering into the middle school classroom.Barbara Moskal, Colorado School of Mines Barbara M. Moskal (bmoskal@mines.edu ) received her Ed.D. in Mathematics Education with a minor in Quantitative Research Methodology and her M.A. in Mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh. She is an Associate Professor in the Mathematical and Computer Sciences Department at the Colorado School of Mines. Her research interests include student assessment, K-12 outreach and equity issues.Gary Downey, Virginia Tech Gary Downey (downeyg@vt.edu ) is Professor of Science and Technology Studies and affiliated faculty member in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia

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Innovative Teaching Methods in IE Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Judith Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ron Billings, Georgia Institute of Technology; Garlie Forehand, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Industrial Engineering

Systems Engineering. His teaching and research is in the area of manufacturing operations and includes capstone design. Before coming to Georgia Tech, he worked as an engineer in the semiconductor industry for a dozen years and served as Partner and CEO for a small company that developed software for factory scheduling.Garlie Forehand, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Forehand was Director of Research Program Planning and Development at Education Testing Service until February 2000. Dr. Forehand teaches and consults in the areas of research design and workplace communication. His research emphasizes curriculum innovation and evaluation. As a consultant to Georgia Tech, he has assisted

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New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Ports, QTS, Inc.; Dennis Kulonda, Florida Tech; Clifford Bragdon, Florida Tech; Carmo D'Cruz, Florida Tech

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Graduate Studies

and it attracts great venture capital streams to itsindustries, so there ready capital for infrastructure investment and business development. It has ahighly educated population and an international perspective, which make it easy for foreigners towork and establish business relationships. It has great supply of high-tech managementprofessionals who have many years of experience in manufacturing.There is close collaboration between high-tech companies and universities in Taiwan.Universities integrate their curriculum into the high-tech industry needs through the relationshipsof the schools with the high-tech parks. The science-based knowledge and education of theTaiwanese is a good fit with technology and problem-solving innovation. Taiwan’s

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Multimedia and Distance Learning in ET

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nikunja Swain, South Carolina State University

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Engineering Technology

curriculum 2, 3, 4. The objective of this paper is to discuss the application of built-in VIs inLabVIEW to develop VI modules to be used in an introductory Electrical Power SystemsCourse.This paper is arranged as follows: Section II discusses various LabVIEW application areas.Section III discusses the VI module for Basic Single Phase and Three Phase Circuits. Section IVdiscusses the VI module for Transmission Line Modeling. Section V discusses the VI module forSimple Economic Dispatch Problem. Section VI presents the discussion about load flow VI.Section VII presents the conclusion and discussion and Section VIII presents the references.II. LabVIEW Application AreasLabVIEW is extremely flexible and some of the application areas of LabVIEW 5 are

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Curricula of the Past, Present, and Future

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cristina Pomales-Garcia, University of Michigan; Yili Liu, University of Michigan; Virginia Soto, University of Michigan

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Educational Research and Methods

research and activities, CASEE has definedspecific and measurable outcomes to challenge itself and the engineering community to achieveits goal of excellence in engineering education by defining excellence of engineering educationin terms of its effectiveness, engagement and efficiency.Along with institutional goals as standards of excellence, research in engineering educationshows that an integral part of the process is providing the undergraduates with opportunities todevelop individual characteristics that will positively impact the students’ future career.Rugarcia et al.2 state that an integral part of the engineer profile is the development of three maincomponents: knowledge, skills, and attitudes that dictate the goals toward which students

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Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Suining Ding, Indiana University Purdue University-Fort Wayne (Eng)

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Architectural

© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Teaching Dynamics of Cultural Dimensions In Design To Create Sustainable Environment: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Of ArchitectureAbstract Sustainable design is the concept that recognizes human civilization as an integral part ofthe natural world, and that nature must be preserved if the human community itself is to survive.Cultural dimensions of design are the tangible and intangible aspects of cultural systems that arevalued by or representative of, a given culture and reflected in the built environment [12]. Therewas no existing course in our curriculum to cover the topic of culture and design. Therefore, it isnecessary to develop a new

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Otieno, Northern Illinois University; Clifford Mirman, Northern Illinois University; Abul Azad, Northern Illinois University

2006-1688: EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS WITH SECONDARY SCHOOLS TOPROMOTE MINORITY ENTRY INTO THE ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGYDISCIPLINES – THE INITIATIVES AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF PROJECT SMILEAndrew Otieno, Northern Illinois University ANDREW W. OTIENO has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Technology at Northern Illinois University (NIU) since August 2000. He received his Ph.D. from Leeds University, UK in 1994, in mechanical engineering. Dr. Otieno has worked in various capacities at several institutions both in the United States and in Kenya. Before joining NIU, he was a Post-doctoral research fellow at the Intelligent Systems Center, University of Missouri-Rolla. His research interests

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Annette Mallory Donawa; Clifton Martin, Morgan State University; Carl White, Morgan State University

minority achievement in science, technology,engineering and mathematics (STEM) have been addressed by seeking to intermediate a fairlyconstant set of variables – poor academic background and preparation for STEM subject matter,inefficient instructional approaches, and an absence of functional study habits and skills.Purpose The Center for Advanced Microwave and Research Applications (CAMRA), a NASA-sponsored University Research Center (URC) is mandated to produce a significant number ofstudents who obtain advanced degrees in STEM disciplines. In order to satisfy the requirements,CAMRA tests novel and innovative interventions that may potentially advance the designatedoutcomes. During the summer 2005, CAMRA, through its summer bridge

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International Exchange/Joint Programs in Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Masakatsu Matsuishi, Kanazawa Institute of Technology; Wayne Sanders, Rose Hulman Institute Of Technology; Kazuya Takamata, Kanazawa Institute of Technology; Tetsuro Furukawa, Kanazawa Institute of Technology; Loo Ching Nong, Singapore Polytechnic

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International

their project with the Project Supervisor. Although the time formeetings with the Project Supervisor and the time allocated for practical work arewritten into the student timetable, students are free to work outside these allocated timeslots. Students are expected to spend an average of three hours per week on their project.Project work is not "structured". Every project is unique and every problem may havemore than one possible solution.Students of the final year project are given 30 weeks to complete a project which will becredited as one module in their curriculum. The project theme was “Design of Smalland Light Civil Engineering Structures, and the subtitle was “Bus Stops composed ofPedestrian Overhead Bridges and Bollards”.(3) Students of

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Salim Haidar, Grand Valley State University; Ali Mohammadzadeh, Grand Valley State University

and Mathcad are essential in obtaining numerical results in order to understand andpredict system’s physical behavior. For example, the natural frequencies and mode shapes of afour degree of freedom model of an automobile suspension system are, in general, pairs ofcomplex conjugates for which hand calculations and extractions is a formidable task, if notimpossible. Such studies can be easily done in MATLAB or a Mathcad environment. Exampleslike this, makes it more and more evident to the teachers of vibrations that the best approach toteaching vibration concepts and principles is to carefully integrate computational methodsavailable in most software programs with the theory.Although the treatment of automobile suspension system is a standard

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Multimedia and Distance Learning in ET

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yongjin Kwon, Drexel University; William Brownlowe, Montgomery County Community College; Vladimir Genis, Drexel University

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Engineering Technology

the emulation of control programs. Students programmed,debugged, uploaded, tested, and remotely controlled the robots over the Internet (Figure 4).During the laboratory sessions, the web cameras sent image sequences to the remote users,providing visual feedback to the students. The experiments demonstrated the integration ofcomputer, sensors, micro switches, and Internet-based automation technologies in modernmanufacturing systems, using an Internet PLC (programmable logic controller). The series of Page 11.1430.6experiments enabled students to understand how computer and Internet-based technologies canstreamline dispersed, remotely-operated

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

summarized in his famous "14 Points" that have inspired significant changes among a number of leading US companies striving to compete in the world's increasingly competitive environment.10. Invite external reviewers and judges to evaluate and criticize your project. Evaluation of the service by the recipient is extremely important. It Page 11.811.5 must be recognized that Civic Education is an integral part of the service learning project exercise. It is very important that this aspect of the 4 project is assessed clearly. The project should be