Conference Session

FPD12 -- Novel Approaches to First Year Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cecelia Wigal, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga; Ignatius Fomunung, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga; Edwin Foster, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga; Ronald Goulet, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga

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technical writing to effectively communicate major ideasThe IED Culminating ProjectThe goal of the IED team project is to design a device for a specific customer. Since the fallof 2005 the projects consist of opportunities from (1) a grant from the Tennessee Departmentof Education and (2) UTC faculty needing small devices to support research or upper levelcourses or projects. Early in the semester a request for project proposals is sent to the grantparticipants and the faculty of the UTC CECS. The course instructors select those proposalsthat best meet the needs of the course and the abilities of the freshman students (many ofthese students have yet to take an engineering course). The projects must include a threedimensional application as well as

Conference Session

FPD3 -- Professional Issues for First-Year Courses

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen High, Oklahoma State University; Rebecca Damron, Oklahoma State University

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AC 2007-1744: ARE FRESHMAN ENGINEERING STUDENTS ABLE TO THINKAND WRITE CRITICALLY?Karen High, Oklahoma State University KAREN HIGH earned her B.S. from the University of Michigan in 1985 and her M.S. in 1988 and Ph.D. in 1991 from the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. High is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering at Oklahoma State University where she has been since 1991. Her main research interests are Sustainable Process Design, Industrial Catalysis, and Multicriteria Decision Making. Other scholarly activities include enhancing creativity in engineering practice and teaching science to education professionals. Dr. High is a trainer for Project Lead the Way pre

Conference Session

FPD4 -- Hands-on & Real-World Studies

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Rice, University of Maryland-Baltimore County; Taryn Bayles, University of Maryland-Baltimore County; Greg Russ, University of Maryland-Baltimore County; Julia Ross, University of Maryland-Baltimore County

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the Practice of Chemical Engineering in the Chemical & Biochemical Engineering Department at UMBC, where she teaches, the Introduction to Engineering Design course, among other Chemical Engineering courses. Her research interests include engineering education and outreach. She is actively involved in developing curriculum to introduce engineering concepts to K-12 students.Greg Russ, University of Maryland-Baltimore County Gregory Russ graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2006 with a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is currently pursuing a MS degree in Chemical Engineering with a focus on Engineering Education, also from UMBC. He is a member

Conference Session

FPD7 -- Service Learning

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Promiti Dutta, Columbia University; Alexander Haubold, Columbia University

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engineering careers in industry, government agencies and other organizations concerned with the environment and the provision of primary materials and secondary materials and energy, as well as graduate studies in related disciplines. • This course teaches the basic concepts and skills needed for the practice of Earth and Environmental Engineering, including measurement and control of material and contaminant flows through the environment, assessment of environmental impact of past, present and future industrial activities, and analysis and design of processes for remediation, recycling, and disposal of used materials. • This course ensures that the technical training of our students is based on a strong liberal arts

Conference Session

FPD11 -- Multidisciplinary Experiences

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kauser Jahan, Rowan University

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First-Year Programs

AC 2007-1021: THE AQUARIUM PROJECT: TEACHING ENGINEERINGPRINCIPLES AND SUSTAINABILITYKauser Jahan, Rowan University Kauser Jahan is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rowan University. She completed her Ph.D. studies in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis in 1993. After completion of her graduate studies, she worked as an environmental engineer for the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection (NDEP). Her research interests include bioremediation of contaminated groundwater and soils; the fate and transport of pollutants in the environment; and applied microbiology in environmental engineering. She is

Conference Session

FPD2 -- Highlighting First-Year Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Schimmels, Marquette University

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, are directed towardexercising and reinforcing these characteristics. Students assess their own preparation andcontribution to class discussion using these criteria. Students also self-assess and peer-assesstheir activities on their team project using these same criteria.2.2 Engineering Projects: The Practice of the ArtIn the second course, each skill is further developed through their application to a larger-scaledesign project with less direct guidance as to the specific skill or characteristic to be invoked at aparticular time. In this course, students are expected to self-manage their design project. Tofacilitate this, more powerful tools for project management and design communication areintroduced and exercised. This is accomplished

Conference Session

FPD12 -- Novel Approaches to First Year Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Rowe, Vanderbilt University; Stacy Klein-Gardner

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First-Year Programs

view “MultiplePerspectives” of others commenting on the challenge and possible ways to address it. Studentsthen participate in extended “Research and Revise” activities where data and information wouldbe gathered to help the student address the challenge, followed by “Test your Mettle” a formative Page 12.125.3self-assessment and “Going Public” where students solutions would be made public to peers andothers. While having been implemented in a limited, but growing, number of K-12 studies'2-3results were positive for students working with this design, referred to as the “Legacy Cycle”, bythe developers.The VaNTH Engineering Research Center (ERC

Conference Session

FPD2 -- Highlighting First-Year Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynnane George, U.S. Air Force Academy; Robert Brown, U.S. Air Force Academy

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, technical analysis, mission specific hardware design and procurement, contracting actions, launch readiness, and launch operations for the launch. TIV-23 was launched successfully from Cape Canaveral on 14 May 1995. She next moved to the US Air Force Academy in 1995, where she served as an instructor and later professor of astronautics as well as Director of Research. She then returned to Georgia Tech to pursue her PhD in Mechanical Engineering and completed her research dissertation “Active Vibration Control of a Flexible Base Manipulator” and degree in 2002. She next moved to the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base

Conference Session

FPD2 -- Highlighting First-Year Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Burton, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

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First-Year Programs

workedtogether as part of the video and then the students take a break and work through individualproblems. This “hands-on”, learning by doing approach is one that is very popular withstudents since it is in tune with the way students learn best. It is also in tune with the ethos ofRMIT University as an institution producing practically focused, work ready graduates, aspreviously discussed.Videos, which have now been produced for use in conjunction with several different lectureand laboratory classes, are accessed via Blackboard, which is part of RMIT’s Learning Hub.They are thus a practical and readily accessible learning tool as well as an innovative one.Since these videos are comprehensive in their coverage and segmented into appropriatelearning