Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ning Fang, Utah State University; Randy Cook, Utah State University; Karina Hauser, Utah State University

and the application of artificial intelligence techniques in the area of operations management. Before going into academia, Karina spent 16 years in industry as a programmer and consultant for Enterprise Resource Planning systems. Page 12.920.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Integrating Lean Systems Education into Manufacturing Course Curriculum via Interdisciplinary CollaborationAbstractLean systems have proven to be an effective strategy to increase productivity and costcompetitiveness for many companies in the U.S. Lean systems are fundamentally the Toyotamanagement model that

Conference Session

International Case Studies:Collaborations, Exchanges & Interactions

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raghu Echempati, Kettering University; Butsch Michael, FH-Konstanz, Germany

Tagged Divisions

International

in advance to study abroad. They basically prepare their course plan foreach of their academic terms until they graduate. Typically, they do study abroad duringtheir Junior – II term. One of the main functions of the faculty advisor is to make surethat the courses offered at the host school transfer back (with a Pass or Fail grade). Due tohigh demand for study abroad in the Mechanical Engineering at Kettering, the minimumcumulative grade point to apply for study abroad as well as to pass a course at the hostschool has been raised from a mere Pass grade (D Grade) to Fair grade (C grade).Currently, more than 80% applicants have their GPA above 90%. Students typically takeup to 16 credits (4 courses) including the social science course that is

Conference Session

Aspirational Visions of Civil Engineering in 2025 & Policy 465

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald Welch, The University of Texas-Tyler; Michael Robinson, Rose-Hulman Institute; Charles Glagola, University of Florida; James Nelson, University of Texas-Tyler

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

can be applied to civil engineering curriculum design. Beginning with the “supply” ofraw intellectual talent (i.e., students) provided from a variety of sources (e.g., high schools,community colleges, etc.), the educational system “produces” civil engineering graduates, whichare then “distributed” to the workforce or to post-graduate education. The “need” driving thesystem is the ability to plan, lead, and execute civil engineering design, and the “customers” arepublic employers, private companies, nonprofit organizations, graduate programs, and thepublic-at-large. The systems view of civil engineering education thus takes into account enteringstudents, potential students, BSCE graduates, educators, industry, government (employers

Conference Session

Design Methodolgy

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rudolph Eggert, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

multifunctionalteam design and 6.) information retrieval and learning.In 1993, Todd et. al.4 suggested refinements to senior capstone design courses, to address thedifficulty that businesses were having in competing in world markets using traditional design andproduction methods. They described a product development process which included: functionalspecifications, concept generation, concept evaluation and selection, design, robust engineering,process planning, prototype development and testing, production and acceptance testing. Theysuggested that educating students in these aspects of the PRP would improve their student’spreparation for employment.In 1995, Todd et. al.5 presented results of a national survey of capstone engineering coursesconducted in

Conference Session

Teaching Methods for the 21st Century: Part 1

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Savage, California Polytechnic State University; Linda Vanasupa, California Polytechnic State University; Jonathan Stolk, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Materials

Materials Engineering at Cal Poly is to preparestudents to be successful as global engineers. Our vision is to equip engineers to solve technicalchallenges in the context of a complex global society. Our strategy is to redesign our entireMaterials Engineering undergraduate curriculum and promote self-directed learning (SDL),systems-level thinking and sustainable engineering practices. Moreover, we plan to develop apedagogy that challenges students to balance economic, societal and environmental issues whenstriving to achieve design solutions based on the fundamental principles of material processing, Page 12.367.2structure and properties. We refer

Conference Session

ABET Accreditation of Multidisciplinary Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fred DePiero, California Polytechnic State University; Lynne Slivovsky, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

graduation requirement in this area. This provides students an opportunity to practice team skills. Such experience is important for practicing engineers, with the ever increasing diversity of engineering science and applications. Required activities for students are defined by each individual program, and may include items such as: ‚ Team senior project ‚ CO-OP or internship employment ‚ Certain club activities ‚ Working with faculty on a sponsored project ‚ Project embedded in curriculum ‚ Taking certain courses ‚ Service learning projectWe plan to implement the MD certification via a course requirement. Programsemploying a list of options for their students can implement the validation step in a

Conference Session

How to Effectively Teach Using Teams

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Subhi Bazlamit, Ohio Northern University; Farhad Reza, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

andorganizational members, and paying students for their work. Income to the PMC is primarilythrough annual dues. In addition, a slight profit is made by charging more than the cost per headfor professionals at the breakfast meetings; while allowing the students to attend for free.Pavement Management Software: Micro PAVERMicro PAVER, the Pavement Maintenance Management System software10, was originallydeveloped to assist the Department of Defense in analyzing the condition of pavement on airfields, streets, and parking lots. This program is most useful for smaller cities and other limited-size projects to plan for future road maintenance and repair. Here at Ohio Northern, the team ofstudents uses the program to rate the local village roads.The process

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers – II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Dale Bremmer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

: Teachers’ Use of Digital Resources in STEM Teaching,completed by a well-known national research organization [21]. Teachers need new models tosee the transformative powers of non-textual digital resources in their classrooms. Unfortunately,studies indicate that traditional approaches to in-service training for teachers (usually of the “halfday workshop” variety) often do not lead to change in classroom practice by these sameeducators [39].We report here on the dynamics of combining PRISM assessment results and the emerging needfor new IT literacy skills in 21st century STEM careers to guide a PRISM transformation. Inbrief, we plan to move from being a convenient resource provider to becoming a majorcontributor in STEM pedagogical reform by1

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I - Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Odete Lopes, Politecnico de Viseu; Joao Vinhas, Politecnico de Viseu; Joao Paiva, Politecnico de Viseu

Tagged Divisions

International

maintenance andindustrial management. Curricular structure is strongly based on Mathematics and Physics.The adequacy of the course revealed the need to reinforce practical knowledge application, tointensify the use of problem based learning, to design new laboratorial strategies, to promoteteam work and to develop the fundamental skills in engineering formation.The new course design also resulted from the analysis of similar courses in referencecountries in engineering, such as Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, France,Swiss, Spain, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. It was compared mainly in terms of duration,curricular plans, credit system units and strategies adopted. The new Mechanical Engineeringdegree is comparable in structure with the

Conference Session

Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Experiments and Labs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

B. Terry Beck, Kansas State University; Brian Anderson, Kansas State University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

currently available for direct measurement of the power input tothe blower; however, such an addition is planned for future upgrades of the wind tunnel setup.This addition would then allow measurement of overall energy conversion efficiency. However,the power levels shown in Figure 7 are very reasonable considering the fact that the wind tunnelis designed for a maximum test section airspeed of about 150 mph using a 10 hp blower.Extrapolation of the above plot clearly indicates that these maximum power requirements are inthe proper range.Summary and ConclusionsThis paper presents the authors recent experience with a simple modification to an existingAerolab educational wind tunnel test facility. This facility is used for experimentation tocomplement

Conference Session

Topics Related to Assessments and Outcomes

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Frederick, Mechanical and Aeropace Engineering; Rebekah Frederick, Homewood Academy for Girls

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

editing, marketing, and industrial engineering at The of Alabama inHuntsville worked on related projects.Regional Technical SymposiumAn eight-hour symposium on the design aspects of the course was given in the second week ofthe project. Planning for the symposium began about six moths before the start of the project.At this juncture, the instructor worked with an industry professional to outline a particular designproject along with the technical disciplines that were to be involved in the project. The instructorselected a suitable textbook and student discipline assignments that covered these topics. Table1 shows the outline of the materials for the ATM project. The instructor then presented aproposal for a one-day symposium to the local

Conference Session

Engineering Management Program Management

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin High, Oklahoma State University; Paul Rossler, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

mph.Additionally, numerous accidents had occurred at the intersection after a wideningproject: Hill, a civil engineer with highway design expertise, testified for the plaintiffs that he had studied the intersection from 1978 to 1996; that historically there had been numerous collisions there after the widening; that increasing the lanes to five without a traffic control device doubled the risk of collisions because of the deficient sight distance; that under the standard of engineering care in 1986, DOT should have included a traffic control device in the design for the Widening Project; and that DOT departed from the engineering standard of care in design and planning in not requiring and including a

Conference Session

Emerging Technologies in Manufacturing Education II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Salil Desai, North Carolina A&T State University; Devdas Pai, North Carolina A&T State University; Jagannathan Sankar, North Carolina A&T State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

specifically towards Page 12.970.2nanotechnology applications. The authors believe that instead of offering standalone nano andmicro technology modules, it was best to integrate them as addendum to existing courses. This isbecause many Industrial engineering students are unfamiliar with these state-of-the-art fields.The approach is to gradually introduce students to nano/micro technology as extensions toexisting advanced manufacturing courses. Further, after sufficient awareness is generated, theauthor plans to introduce standalone courses at both senior (undergraduate) and graduate levels.INEN 324: Computer Aided Design and ManufacturingStudent

Conference Session

Critical Success Factors for Technopolis Creation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Zidek, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Cindy Orndoff; Susan Blanchard

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

market, developed an elevator pitch,performed a preliminary financial analysis, and developed a business plan for the product orservice they had develop for the high school math programs. The project will be continuedduring the Service Learning in Engineering course where the students will be required to developa prototype, test and analyze the potential of the product or service identified during EngineeringEntrepreneurship. The goal of the Service Learning in Engineering course is to have adeliverable for each high school math teacher that can be incorporated into the classroom and hasthe potential to be sold to other high schools not only in Florida but also throughout the UnitedStates.The products or services developed by the engineering

Conference Session

Marketing Engineering to Minority Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Willie Ofosu, Pennsylvania State University-Wilkes-Barre; Ahmed Abdul-Rahman, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology; Emmanuel Nutsuklo, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology; Michael Brenu Osae, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

technologies that are new indeveloped nations can also be found in developing nations. What can present a differenceis that in developed nations, adequately trained manpower would be found to operate thesystem whereas this may not be the case in all developing nations. Due to costs involvedin many such endeavors, it is important that the particular technology is proficientlyevaluated to ensure that it is the system needed for the particular application desired andthat the results when the technology is applied, will effectively achieve the plannedobjective.With the view to adapting the technology to local conditions, the factors that are used inassessing it for the planned objective should involve a study of applying the technologyin the equatorial

Conference Session

NAFP Panel Discussion

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Goang-Shin Liaw, Alabama A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Technology, and a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Dr. Liaw has been heavily involved in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for many years. He has planned, directed, and executed more than ten research projects at Alabama A&M University with contract values in excess of two million dollars. He has authored over 50 technical articles, reports, and papers as a result of his research work. Dr. Liaw’s current research interests are to apply nanotechnology in water and air purification systems in the Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) for the International Space Station and future Lunar Habitat

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ed Doering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Xiaoyan Mu, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Chinese. We plan to add Spanish audio in the future. Moreover, captioning can beselected so that hearing-impaired students can read the commentary.The assessment and evaluation component of the project will study correlations between websiteusage patterns, demographic information (major, gender, and ethnicity), and academicperformance (end-of-term course grades). In order to maintain confidentiality, students receivean account number from their instructor, and only the instructor knows the student nameassociated with the account number. When a student uses the CLEO system for the first time,they read an informed consent statement and indicate that they agree to participate in the study.We are presently working with faculty at [our home

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Martello, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Jonathan Stolk, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

Paul Revere in the Science Lab: Integrating Humanities and Engineering Pedagogies to Develop Skills in Contextual Understanding and Self-Directed LearningAbstractABET, ASEE, and the wider engineering community have long acknowledged the potentialbenefits of interdisciplinary education, including the opportunity to develop non-technical skillssuch as communication and teamwork while cultivating a broader awareness of the ethical,societal, historical, and environmental impacts of engineering work. Instructors haveencountered many challenges in planning and implementing integrated courses, such as thedifficulty of coordinating the teaching methods, content, and learning objectives of differentacademic disciplines in a finite and

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Henriette Bier, TU Delft; Dave Hoffers, TU Delft; Matthijs Frederiks, TU Delft; Sander Korebritz, TU Delft

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

, 2007 BR: An Interactive Software-Prototype for 3D LayoutAbstractAs a research project implemented with graduate students from TU_____, BuildingRelations [BR] deals withthe development of an interactive software prototype to support the design process: BR employs bottom-upprinciples of organization to generate functional layouts exhaustively enabling development of more alterna-tives than by means of conventional sketching methods mainly because architectural space planning is highlycombinatorial, and therefore, difficult to conceive exhaustively by human search means.ContentFocusing on the development of an interactive design tool which allows simulation of complex design proc-esses, the project proposes an alternative

Conference Session

Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

themselves. The basic premise is that an individuallearner must actively "build" knowledge and skills3. What is more active than having to sign onto the class website, and take the time to link the various extra resources the professor hasprovided? This paper will describe a work in progress to use Blackboard’s tracking tool toassess this active construction of knowledge which can be linked to the “Recognition of need forand ability to engage in life-long learning”. At the initial stage our plan does not create avalidated predictive instrument, but tries to compare the grades of students who utilize theresources available on a very interactive Blackboard course website to those who do not andinfer that this will contribute to choices to engage in

Conference Session

Who Should Teach the BOK

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

” typecarried out by individual students, the vast majority of projects today deal with “real-worldproblems” and are usually conducted by student teams. The paper begins first by brieflyreviewing the design as a “thought” process, focusing on several dimensions of “designthinking” and how “design thinking” skills are acquired. Second, the paper reports on thedevelopment, implementation, and subsequent evaluation of a senior design course at aninternational university, where practitioners have played a major role in planning and teachingthe capstone course. The new, restructured design course, co-taught by practitioners from theRegion, has met its declared objectives and exposed students to professional practice. Thisindustry-driven experience has also

Conference Session

Improving ME Education: Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Goodarz Ahmadi, Clarkson University; John McLaughlin, Clarkson University; Stephen Doheny-Farina, Clarkson University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

discussed. We have added a number of computational modules to make the coursepresentations of the materials more interactive. The plan is to have sufficient number ofcalculation modules for the student to experiment with. As a result the student willdevelop a physical understanding of some of the more complex concepts.Module II, Computer Simulations We refined and developed several computer modules that were incorporated intothe course sequence. One class of examples was concerned with exploring the flow andparticle transport in a variety of obstructed ducts. Fortran simulation programs that were Page 12.28.3developed earlier were converted to

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibibia Dabipi, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore; Bryan Burrows-McElwain, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore; Anthony Stockus, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore; Christopher Hartman, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

sophisticatedmodifications to solve the same problem from the previous semester. Students partakingin the engineering exercise are forced to confront concepts outside of their normal field ofexpertise in the short span of a semester and make decisions on a cost and designschedule. This particular engineering project is multidisciplinary in two ways. First, itinvolves engineering students with the aviation science program faculty who asks thatthey study a problem that they are not necessarily familiar with. Secondly, theengineering and design of the project is to investigate alternative brakes and controlsystems. Because a decision made by one student module affects the plans of the otherstudent module, the student’s are forced to develop an internal management

Conference Session

EMD Curriculum Design

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene Dixon, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

initial efforts will notbe experiential for the students but plans are to provide for an ever expanding integration of thecourse content.DiscussionInitial efforts for the international “exchange” were suggested by a Chinese-American facultymember at ECU recognized the importance of international experience. From her perspective itwas apparent that, for the most, ECU students could not afford to go abroad. The alternative wasto find and exploit opportunities to bring international experience to ECU. As an Acting Dean ofthe College housing the Engineering Department, she successfully identified ways to establishinternet exchanges with countries that lacked direct satellite uplinks. As the principle drivingforce for ECU’s Global Understanding

Conference Session

Technical Capacity Building for Developing Countries

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fazil Najafi, University of Florida; Micheal Dreznes, International Road Federation; James Ekberg, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

International

Mayor played an integral role in the efforts to implement traffic engineering inMexico and in 1966 was asked to organize the Traffic Engineering Commission at the Ministryof Public Works. He headed the Commission until 1972 when he was appointed Director of theTraffic Engineering and Transportation Department of the Federal District (Mexico City). In1978, he organized his own consulting firm and continued to use the lessons he learned duringhis Fellowship regarding planning, traffic, and transportation studies and design until his illnesswhich lead to his untimely death in 1987.Rafael Cal y Mayor was the founder of the first chair in traffic engineering in the School ofEngineering at the University of Mexico. A Fellow in the Institute of

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hassan El-Kishky, The University of Texas-Tyler; Ralph Hippenstiel, The University of Texas-Tyler

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

include an electronic guitar, an iPod dock station, and a color detection machine.The work in the project started late in the summer of 2005 and the laboratory was fullyfunctional early during the spring of 2006. Several undergraduate lab assistants worked on thetask of preparing a categorized set of circuit project plans for the Hobby Shop and compilingthem into a library that was eventually made accessible to students late in the fall of 2005. Eachproject included schematics, a brief description of the use of the circuit, its functionality andapplication limitations. Also, several short talks were given to freshmen classes across campuswith a focus on engineering students in particular. The project was promoted and potentialparticipants were

Conference Session

Retention of STEM Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Morrison Obeng, Bethune-Cookman College; Xiaohe Wu, Bethune-Cookman College

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

andtechnical activities have helped in the retention of students in the engineering program. The BCUfaculty and Administration are very supportive of these student organizations. It is planned toform the IEEE student chapter at BCU in the spring of 2007. Figure 1, and Figure 2 show theengineering student enrollment at BCU from fall 1999 to fall 2006. Page 12.650.4 Engineering Student Enrollment 60 # of Engineering Students 50 40 Enrolled

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I - Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Frempong, State University of New York

Tagged Divisions

International

totalcapacity of 120Gb/s and 5.8 million simultaneous phonecalls.The 27850 km fiber communications ring network projectis the third of its kind since 1964. The first project wasSAT-1which was coaxial cable connectivity that linkedSouth Africa and Europe. SAT-1 was replaced with SAT-2in 1993. The SAT-2 was designed to work in tandem withan existing satellite system. Safe routing path was verycritical for the submarine fiber installation, as such,extensive planning and marine engineering was used toscan the ocean floor to identify areas of activity such asfishing, shipping, mining and etc.As indicated in figure-1 below, the SAT3/WASC/SAFE isdivided into two segments. The SAT3/WASC networksegment links Sesimbra in Portugal, Cape Town in SouthAfrica

Conference Session

New Tools in Teaching and Learning Biomedical Engineering Concepts

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael VanAuker, University of South Florida; Joel Strom, University of South Florida; William Lee, University of South Florida

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

, fluid flow, and electric and magnetic potential problems.The authors (JAS, MDV) are currently working on a textbook that would be germane to the firsttwo courses of this sequence.ConclusionIn summary, CV engineering is an established discipline of biomedical engineering. This fact Page 12.345.7must be considered by institutions when planning for educational efforts, e.g. course andprogram development, research thrusts. The information presented here should be useful toengineering departments who are already participating in the area or who plan such anexpansion.Bibliography1. Ritter AB, Reisman S, Michiak BB. Biomedical Engineering Principles

Conference Session

K-12 Engineering and Pre-College Outreach Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Piechota, University of Nevada-Las Vegas

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

1 2 3 4 5 access 3. The material posted on WebCT was a good 1 2 3 4 5 supplement to the taped lectures 4. I am confident that I met the course 1 2 3 4 5 objectives 5. The face to face meetings were valuable for supplementing the material on WebCT and 1 2 3 4 5 the taped lectures 6. My overall impression of the course was 1 2 3 4 5 favorable 7. I plan on majoring in engineering in college