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Where are We Going? The Future of Civil Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Allen Estes, U.S. Military Academy; Ronald Welch, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

process is a self-policing function that protects the high qualityof civil engineering programs around the country. Others find this system to be stifling,inflexible and too prescriptive. As state legislatures have forced civil engineering programs to fit Page 11.1260.4into 120 or 128 credit hour programs, there is little room for creativity or innovation after all ofthe mandatory requirements have been met. As technology has expanded, engineering hasbecome more interdisciplinary and the expertise required goes far beyond the traditional civilengineering sub-disciplines. The cutting edge areas of research are not in reinforced concrete,channel

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EM in a Global Environment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Bramhall, Sheffield Hallam University; Steve Lawson, Leeds Metropolitan University; Ian Robinson, Sheffield Hallam University

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Engineering Management

exercise, with curriculumbeing designed to minimise competition with other regional Higher Education Institutions(HEIs). Courses are often planned to attract students who are ‘initiative-’ or ‘technology-aware’ (for example, the recent explosion of courses in Internet Engineering). It is bothdifficult and resource intensive to maintain meaningful advisory relationships with a broadrange of current engineering practitioners. Therefore many HEIs prefer to simply consult aselect band of industrially-based departmental friends when proposals are all but complete.One should therefore not be surprised that our curriculum is not always ideally suited to thecomplexities of the current industrial environment.The University’s PerspectiveThroughout the rapid

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Innovative Teaching Methods

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Beth Wittig, City College of the City University of New York

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Environmental Engineering

engineering projects7. Learn to professionally communicate technical findings and develop ability to work effectively in a groupThe objectives of the new EnvE course are as follows:1. Develop understanding of water quality parameters used in characterizing water and wastewater pollution (augmented by laboratory experiments)2. Motivate the need for water and domestic wastewater treatment3. Develop knowledge of commonly used technologies in water and wastewater treatment (augmented by laboratory experiments)4. Given raw water quality and effluent requirements, recommend and justify a train of treatment of processes5. Develop knowledge of commonly used technologies in air pollution treatment (augmented by laboratory experiments)6. Given input

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Preparing Engr Students for International Practice

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Juan Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Gary Downey, Virginia Tech

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International

2006-2313: A SYSTEMIC APPROACH TO GLOBAL COMPETENCY FORENGINEERSJuan Lucena, Colorado School of Mines JUAN LUCENA is Associate Professor in Liberal Arts and International Studies and affiliated faculty member in the Center for Engineering Education at the Colorado School of Mines. He is also 2005-2006 Boeing Company Senior Fellow in Engineering Education at the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and was keynote lecturer at the 2004 National Conference on Engineering Education in Colombia. Trained in mechanical and aeronautical engineering (B.S. Rensselaer 1987, 1988) and in Science and Technology Studies (Ph.D. Virginia Tech 1996), he is Principal Investigator of the NSF-funded project

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Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Keith Bowman, Purdue University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

pursue a individually tailored upper level program of study to earn aBachelor of Science in Engineering. The flexibility offered by the MDE program will enableresponsiveness to emerging technologies that lie between traditional disciplines. For thisprogram to be successful foundational coursework that provides problem solving context whilesubstituting for existing engineering courses such as statics and dynamics as well as physicscontent such as electricity and optics that have historically required mostly beginning-collegemath skills for problems solving. The first MDE course (MDE 1) will be developed to presentphysical properties of matter as they interact within engineering systems and is entitled PhysicalProperties in

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Esteban Rodriguez-Marek, Eastern Washington University; Min-Sung Koh, Eastern Washington University; Claudio Talarico, Eastern Washington University; William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University; Thomas Griffith, North Seattle Community College; Michael Brzoska, Eastern Washington University

in the University of ULSAN, South Korea, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering in Washington State University. His interests are in the areas of speech and image signal processing, signal processing in communication, photoacoustics and embedded systems.Claudio Talarico, Eastern Washington University CLAUDIO TALARICO is an Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering at Eastern Washington University. Before joining Eastern Washington University, he worked at University of Arizona, University of Hawaii and in industry, where he held both engineering and management positions at Infineon Technologies, IKOS Systems (now Mentor Graphics), and Marconi. His

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International and Sustainability Perspectives and Women in Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado-Boulder

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Women in Engineering

that worked in refugee camps in areas hit with natural disasters and civil conflicts. Atthe end of the semester, students write reflective essays on civil engineering and why they maywant to become civil engineers. In these essays, 50% of the 8 women and 21% of the 84 menstated an interest in serving society. One female student wrote: “I was surprised and interested toread [about] the international and service aspects.... I would like to find out more about this formof ‘emergency civil engineering’.” Another female student commented: “I like that I would bedoing something that makes a difference in the community.”The three-credit First-Year Engineering Projects course (GEEN 1400) has had a few sectionsfocused on “Appropriate Technology” over

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Faculty Involvement in International Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Russel Jones, World Expertise LLC

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International

being pursued by the WFEO Committee on CapacityBuilding: • Engineering for the Americas – capacity building throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, utilizing both a ‘bottoms-up’ approach involving initiatives for Page 11.1366.4 engineering educators and a ‘top-down’ approach with policy level decisions at the Ministerial level of government. The Ministers of Science and Technology of the Organization of American States have endorsed this program in their November 2004 “Lima Declaration”, and a major symposium of government, academic, industry and NGO leaders was held from 30 November through 2 December

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FPD4 -- Real-World Case Studies & Projects

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Roth Elliot, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago; Phillip Jacob, Northwestern University; Stacy Benjamin, Northwestern University; Bruce Ankenman, Northwestern University; James Colgate, Northwestern University

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First-Year Programs

Page 11.892.1 Director of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), the Paul B. Magnuson Professor and Chairman of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Northwestern University Medical School, and the Chairman of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. In that capacity, he is responsible for the quality of patient care at RIC and for the rehabilitation education and research efforts at those institutions. He also is the Project© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Director of the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Technology Promoting Integration for Stroke Survivors: Overcoming Societal

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ECE Curriculum Innovations

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cynthia Furse, University of Utah; Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny, University of Utah; Stephanie Richardson, University of Utah; Rohit Verma, University of Utah; April Kedrowicz, University of Utah; Bryan Stenquist, University of Utah

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Electrical and Computer

sensors for location of faults on aging aircraft wiring and telemetry systems in the human body. Dr. Furse has directed the Utah “Smart Wiring” program, sponsored by NAVAIR and USAF, since 1998. She is Head of Research for LiveWire Test Labs, Inc., a spin off company commercializing devices to locate intermittent faults on live wires. She is the author of over 50 publications in refereed journals and 50 conference presentations.Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny, University of Utah Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Teheran University, Iran, in 1976, the M.Eng. degree from University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology, UK, in 1977, and the

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On Pedagogy of Lab Courses and Their Design

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Euan Lindsay, Curtin University of Technology; Malcolm Good, University of Melbourne

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

2006-535: VIRTUAL AND DISTANCE EXPERIMENTS: PEDAGOGICALALTERNATIVES, NOT LOGISTICAL ALTERNATIVESEuan Lindsay, Curtin University of Technology Euan D. Lindsay is a Lecturer at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia. He has recently completed a PhD in Engineering Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia, investigating the effects of remote and virtual access to laboratory hardware upon students’ learning outcomes. His research interests include engineering education, telecontrol (particularly internet-based telecontrol), animatronic puppetry, and technology-mediated interfaces for deaf-blind communication.Malcolm Good, University of Melbourne Malcolm C. Good received the

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Manufacturing Education Innovation and Assessment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Priya Manohar, Robert Morris University

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Manufacturing

industries (biomedical equipment). • Attending sessions at professional conferences and trade exhibits: Students attended Materials Science and Technology ’05 conference, trade exhibition, and a four hour Materials Camp organized by ASM. Materials camp consisted of eight displays: bio-, and cryogenic- materials, manufacturing engineering, non- destructive testing, corrosion, plastics, mechanical testing and shape memory alloys. Students gained valuable experience through their participation in the hands-on exhibits at these displays. The students also enjoyed the exhibit in the MS&T trade show by the Pittsburgh Artist – Blacksmiths Association, where an induction coil was set up to heat bars of

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Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amir Rezaei, West Virginia University Inst. of Tech.; Marco Schoen, Idaho State University; Gurdeep Hura, West Viginia University Inst. of Tech.

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Mechanical Engineering

Inst. of Tech. Page 11.769.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Innovative methods in teaching fundamentals of undergraduate engineering courses Amir G. Rezaei, Ph.D. Marco P. Schoen Ph.D. Gurdeep Hura, Ph.D. Umesh Korde, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering Department California State University, Pomona Idaho State University West Virginia University Institute of Technology

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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

daunting proposition: companies are lookingfor students who they can count on to produce. When you couple in thechallenges to U.S. leadership in space from advances in space technology inthe international markets, along with the growing international competition Page 11.286.4for space in emerging countries4, its easy to understand the challenges toeducating today’s space engineers. It is also easy to understand the NAE’sview that “current complexities are so daunting that tinkering at the edges –reforming one course, one program, one department at a time – is no longera viable response if we are to build the kind of robust programs in researchand education now needed

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Timothy Hinds, Michigan State University; Craig Somerton, Michigan State University; Robert Chalou, Michigan State University; Clark Radcliffe, Michigan State University; Gaile Griffore, Michigan State University

2006-1626: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGFRESHMAN PROGRAMTimothy Hinds, Michigan State University Timothy Hinds is an Academic Specialist in the Michigan State University Department of Mechanical Engineering. He teaches undergraduate courses in machine design, manufacturing processes, mechanics and computational tools. He also teaches a senior-level undergraduate international design project course and has taught graduate-level courses in engineering innovation and technology management. He received his BSME and MSME degrees from Michigan Technological University.Craig Somerton, Michigan State University Craig Somerton is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the

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Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Farison, Baylor University; Carmen Li Shen, Baylor University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

physics, or Page 11.901.2engineering science, as many of these are institutions that do not offer doctoral programs inengineering and are therefore included in this list.The U.S. News Methodology and Self-DescriptionThe following heading and self-description were given by U.S. News for the most recent surveyand report: “Methodology: Best undergraduate engineering programs” “The U.S. News rankings of undergraduate programs accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology are based solely on the judgments of deans and senior faculty who rated each program they are familiar with on a scale from 1 (marginal) to 5

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Software and e-learning in the ME curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Benson Tongue, University of California-Berkeley; Eric Lew, University of California-Berkeley

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Mechanical Engineering

2006-172: A WEB ENABLED STUDY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGBenson Tongue, University of California-Berkeley Benson Tongue is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his MS from Stanford University and his BSE, MA, and PhD from Princeton University. He taught from 1983-1988 at the Georgia Institute of Technology and has been at Berkeley since 1988.Eric Lew, University of California-Berkeley Eric Lew is an undergraduate student, majoring in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. His projected graduation date is May 2007

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EM Program Trend and Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yesim Sireli, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; S. Gary Teng, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Ertunga Ozelkan, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

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Engineering Management

2006-588: GROWTH OF A YOUNG ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT PROGRAMYesim Sireli, University of North Carolina-Charlotte Yesim Sireli is an Assistant Professor at the Engineering Management Program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She received a Ph.D. degree in Engineering Management from Old Dominion University, and also holds MSc and BSc degrees in Electrical Engineering. Her research interests include business forecasting, decision analysis, customer-oriented product development, quality management, and technology management.S. Gary Teng, University of North Carolina-Charlotte S. Gary Teng is the Director of Engineering Management Program and Center for Lean Logistics and

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Approaches to Emerging Topics

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ron Madler, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott; Phillip Anz-Meador, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott; Karl Siebold, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott

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Aerospace

offered in a typicalcurriculum, with benefit both to students and faculty. Additionally, a university can serve as arepository of knowledge, which extends beyond the life of an industrial contractual relationship.This paper presents methods on how to implement into an aerospace engineering or spacephysics curriculum the knowledge and foundation needed to understand space debris problems,and by extension many interdisciplinary problems and other areas of science and technology.1. Astronautics Courses & Space Debris EducationThe topic of space debris affects three of ERAU’s major programs in Prescott, AZ. Theseprograms are Aerospace Engineering, Space Physics, and Global Security & Intelligence Studies.The interdisciplinary nature

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Frank Barnes, University of Colorado-Boulder

Achievement Award, Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Electron Device Society, the 2002 ECE Distinguished Educator Award from ASEE, The Colorado Institute of Technology Catalyst Award 2004, and the Bernard M. Gordon Prize from National Academy of Engineering for Innovations in Engineering Education 2004 He was born in Pasadena, California in 1932 and attended numerous elementary schools throughout the country. He and his wife, Gay, have two children and two grandchildren. Page 11.197.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 AN INTEGRATED UTILITIES MASTERS OF ENGINEERING

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Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven O'Hara, Oklahoma State University; Khaled Mansy, Oklahoma State University

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Architectural

2006-156: EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH IN THE DAYLIGHTING SYSTEMSENGINEERINGKhaled Mansy, Oklahoma State University Khaled A. Mansy is an Assistant Professor in the Architectural Engineering Program, School of Architecture, Oklahoma State University. He earned his Ph.D. from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, 2001, and has 16 years of teaching experience in professional programs in the USA and Egypt. Dr. Mansy is the PI of the NSF grant awarded to build this daylighting laboratory; the artificial sky dome.Steven O'Hara, Oklahoma State University Steven O’Hara is a Professor of Architectural Engineering, School of Architecture, Oklahoma State University. He received his Bachelor of

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Capstone Courses II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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C. Stewart Slater, Rowan University; Mariano Savelski, Rowan University; Robert Hesketh, Rowan University

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Environmental Engineering

2006-279: GREEN ENGINEERING DESIGN THROUGH PROJECT-BASEDINDUSTRIAL PARTNERSHIPSC. Stewart Slater, Rowan University C. Stewart Slater is a Professor and Founding Chair of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He received his Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. from Rutgers University. His research and teaching interests are in the area of membrane technology where he has applied this to fields such as specialty chemical manufacture, green engineering, bio/pharmaceutical manufacture and food processing. He is the recipient of the 1999 Chester Carlson Award, 1999 and 1998 Joseph J. Martin Award, 1996 George Westinghouse Award, and the 1989 Dow Outstanding New Faculty Award.Mariano Savelski, Rowan

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Virtual and Distance Experiments

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Imad Jabbour, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Linda Haydamous, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Wissam Kazan, Stanford University; Amine Hayek, Stanford University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

2006-1824: REMOTE INTERNETWORKING LABORATORYImad Jabbour, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Imad W. Jabbour received his B.E. in Computer and Communications Engineering with distinction from the American University of Beirut in 2005. He is currently an M.S. candidate in the Information Technology program at MIT, and is working as a graduate Research Assistant at MIT's Center for Educational Computing Initiatives. His current research includes the implementation of software tools for online laboratories, as part of Microsoft-MIT's iLabs project. He holds a Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator certification since 2003, and is a Student Member of the IEEE since 2002.Linda Haydamous

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Software Engineering Curriculum Support

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sheryl Duggins, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

, andfunctionality. The necessary process discipline is in place to repeat earlier success on projectswith similar applications.3. Defined: The software process for both management and engineering activities isdocumented, standardized, and integrated into a standard software process for the organization.All projects use an approved, tailored version of the organization’s standard software process fordeveloping and maintaining software.4. Managed: Detailed measures of software process and product quality are collected. Both thesoftware process and products are quantitatively understood and controlled.5. Optimizing: Continuous process improvement is enabled by qualitative feedback from theprocess and from piloting innovative ideas and technologies.”Most

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K-12 Activities

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leilah Lyons, University of Michigan; Zbigniew Pasek, University of Windsor

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Educational Research and Methods

2006-2132: ENHANCING ENGINEERING OUTREACH WITH INTERACTIVEGAME ASSESSMENTLeilah Lyons, University of Michigan Leilah Lyons is a doctoral student in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. Her interests include use of technology in informal and pre-college education.Zbigniew Pasek, University of Windsor Dr. Pasek is an Associate Professor at the Dept. of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at the University of Windsor, Canada. He was previously with University of Michigan. His research interests include manufacturing automation and system design, informal engineering education, and decision-making processes in organizations

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Knowing Our Students II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Roman Taraban, Texas Tech University

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Educational Research and Methods

1Civil Engineering 1 1Computer Engineering 1 0Computer Science 5 1Electrical Engineering 5 4Engineering Physics 1 2Engineering Undecided 6 1Industrial Engineering 7 3Mechanical Engineering 20 11Mechanical Technology 1 0Petroleum Engineering 26 49TOTAL 73 73Note. The Freshman/Sophomore group are those students who completed 61 or fewer credit hours, and theJunior/Senior group were students who completed more than 61 credits.Materials and ProcedureThe materials included the Metacognitive Reading Strategies Questionnaire

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Knowing Our Students III

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Guili Zhang, University of Florida; YoungKyoung Min, University of Florida; Matthew Ohland, Clemson University; Timothy Anderson, University of Florida

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Educational Research and Methods

, Florida A&M University,Florida State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, North Carolina A&T State University,North Carolina State University, University of Florida, University of North Carolina at Charlotteand Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. To protect the rights of humanparticipants, each university is assigned a letter that is only known by the researchers involved inthe study.The following nomenclature is used consistently in this study to define the student populations. • Stayers: Undergraduate students who matriculated in an engineering field as defined in Page 11.1324.4 the Classification of

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles Bunting, Oklahoma State University; Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State University

facts learned. We assume that information technology will compensate for these losses and they will not negatively impact students’ preparation for an engineering career.The second phase of Engineering Students for the 21st Century commenced in the fallsemester of 2005 and will continue for four years. Since ECEN is in the preliminarystages of this reform project the remainder of this paper discusses the model that is beingimplemented rather than any specific experiences or data.Drawing from the first phase of ES21C, ECEN is transitioning a portion of the electricalengineering curriculum from a knowledge-based paradigm (acquiring a set of concepts)to being development-based (emphasizing students’ development). ECEN’s current

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education Innovation and Assessment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Wells, North Dakota State University

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Manufacturing

processes’, such as has been taught for manyyears on many campuses. Such an option would also draw upon other commonly offeredcourses in mechanics, materials, electronics, quality control and engineering economics. Theinvestment for the minimalist scenario is quite small The ‘process engineering’ course in this scenario should focus on product engineering andprocess engineering. The product engineering portion of this course would concentrate on partsthat would be fabricated and subsequently assembled into usable products. Parts would bedefined in some detail as to features, dimensions, tolerances, fits, finishes and the processesthrough which the material transformations are affected. Basic concepts of group technology arequite useful in this

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The Senior Experience: Capstone and Beyond

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Philip Dunn, University of Maine; Bryan Pearce, University of Maine-Orono

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Civil Engineering

2006-1930: INTRODUCING PROJECT MANAGEMENT TO SENIOR CIVILENGINEERING STUDENTSPhilip Dunn, University of Maine Philip Dunn PE is an Assistant Professor of Construction Management Technology at the University of Maine in Orono. He holds master's degrees in business, public administration, and civil engineering. He is very involved with the Maine Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Maine Association of Engineers along with several civic groups in his community.Bryan Pearce, University of Maine-Orono Dr. Bryan Pearce has taught at the University of Maine since 1978. He is a graduate of MIT with graduate work at the University of Florida. In addition to his research