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International Case Studies:Collaborations, Exchanges & Interactions

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ian Robinson, Edge Hill University; Michael Bramhall, Sheffield Hallam University; John Rowe, Sheffield Hallam University

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International

, research methodologies and teaching and learning in technical education. Page 12.627.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 ENGINEERING: THE UK CHALLENGEAbstractThis paper reviews experiences of the development of teamwork and leadership skills,personal reflection, planning and other transferable skills within engineering bachelorsdegrees within the UK over the last 15 years, illustrated by examples from one particularUniversity. It provides a picture of the current state of UK engineering education, and reflectsupon strengths and weaknesses. Comparisons are drawn with both European and NorthAmerican provision

Conference Session

Creating 'Materials' Awareness

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Craig Johnson, Central Washington University; Beth Rogers, Yakima Valley Community College; OraLynn Manweller, Smiths Aerospace Corporation

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Materials

MaterialsTechnology Education: the MatEd Program2(MatEd). Most NSF ATE Centers are ‘portals’:websites that redirect inquiries to other hosts (where the education activity information isretained). The principal author is a ‘Technical Partner’ on the MatEd Program and is concernedthat primary education information be stored on and made available at the ATE website. Anexample of a portal is Merlot3, as opposed to primary education information available at the NDE Page 12.1283.2site hosted by Ames Iowa4. Thus, the education activity information for this effort supports themission of MatEd, and is planned to be stored and hosted at the future MatEd ATE

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EMD Curriculum Design

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene Dixon, East Carolina University

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Engineering Management

responsible forevaluating the entire organizations understanding of the topical material. Page 12.1273.5 4 of 9In conjunction with the topical presentation and as a bridge to application within the service-learning projects each project team was responsible for creating a project charter, a projectbaseline schedule (the organization maintained a master schedule through the Project ControlsDepartment) using MSProject®, a Risk Analysis and Management Plan, and a project closurereport and presentation. The presentations were presented to the organization and the projectsponsor.Theory Application

Conference Session

How to Effectively Teach Using Teams

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven Burian, University of Utah; Pedro Romero, University of Utah; Steven Bartlett, University of Utah

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Civil Engineering

attributes of a leader periodically by the instructor orteaching assistant and is then assigned full responsibility for the laboratory including directingpreparations for the experiment (Fig. 1), designating experiment duties, and guiding the reportthrough completion. The team leader rates the team members and the team members rate theteam leader in specified categories. The team leader is also graded by the instructor based on theinformation contained in the memo or summary grade sheet (reflecting organization, efficientuse of resources, leading by example) and quality of the laboratory report. Introspective teamdiscussions are encouraged to self-analyze team dynamics and develop plan to improve.In Hydraulics, the report format, team dynamics, and

Conference Session

What's New in Dynamics?

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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El-Sayed Aziz, Stevens Institute of Technology; Sven Esche, Stevens Institute of Technology; Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Mechanical Engineering

summarized in Table 2, the survey results used to evaluate the Web-based animatedteaching modules indicate the apparent level of success achieved in designing and implementinga comprehensive student laboratory experience as judge by the students. A more detailedassessment study of the learning effectiveness of the modules is planned for the Spring 2007semester. If the planned more in-depth assessment generates similarly encouraging results, thenfurther extensions of this environment to other courses of the mechanical engineering curriculumis planned in the future.ConclusionsA simulation-based online laboratory that was developed to assist students in understanding theconcepts of mechanical vibrations in the context of practical engineering

Conference Session

IE and EM Program Mangement

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lahoud Hilmi, East Carolina University; Batts David, East Carolina University

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Engineering Management

years, telecommunication devices andinstallation have evolved as well forcing companies to consider staying inline with theircompetitors in order to survive the demanding marketplace and come up with better methods tomake decision making. According to7, IT managers have a great deal of difficulties adapting tothe ever changing technologies in order to stay compatible with the global market. According to 8network systems by themselves do not make decisions; however, they provide tools to collect,maintain, and help provide solutions. That put a burden on network engineers and administratorsto plan and install networks that are capable of providing such solution is a secure and error freeenvironment.Such challenges have placed more pressure on

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Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Forouzan Golshani, Wright State University; Michele Wheatly, Wright State University; Mary Ellen Bargerhuff, Wright State University; John Flach, Wright State University; Jeffrey Vernooy, Wright State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

disks, Braille, and image enhancement.Career and Vocational Support Services: assistance with career planning and development;opportunities for work site experiences, interviewing skills, requesting reasonable, on-the-jobaccommodations; assistance with career counseling and raised awareness about meeting thedemands of a chosen occupation.Culture of Acceptance: The barrier-free architecture and accessible academic programs haveenabled WSU to attract a large number of students, staff and faculty with disabilities, totaling anacademic community of well over 1000 individuals. In exit polls of graduating students, manystudents without disabilities comment that one of the most important lessons they learned oncampus was to understand and accept

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Systems

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter Mark Jansson, Rowan University; Ryan Elwell, Rowan University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Energy Program3 provides some of the most lucrative rebatesfor renewable energy system installations in the nation, and this clinic experience allowedengineering students to directly participate in a growing renewable energy market while learningmore about the electrical design of PV systems. In order to assure that their PV systems wouldbe economically feasible and well designed, the City of Ocean City (OC) and the OC Board ofEducation hired Integrated Systems (a consulting engineering group) to determine appropriatedesigns and plans for each of the twenty buildings they were considering. The feasibility studydetermined that ten buildings were good candidates for the PV systems. The consultingcompany (acting as an industry affiliate to the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pat Van Driessche, Douglas L. Jamerson, Jr. Elementary School; Kim Parsons, Douglas L. Jamerson, Jr. Elementary School; Chuck Parsons, Douglas L. Jamerson Jr. Elementary School; Robin Little, Douglas L. Jamerson Jr. Elementary School; Debbie O'Hare, Douglas L. Jamerson Jr. Elementary School; Marilyn Barger, University of South Florida; Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida

, Florida, opened three and a halfyears ago with a daunting challenge. Create a learning institution in a predominantly ethnicallyisolated inner city area that would naturally integrate the ethnicity of the student populationwithin the school without the aid of a district assigned plan for student placement. To facilitatethis challenge, the district provided key resources: 1) a new state of the art school, 2) applicationand subsequent Magnet School Assistance Program grant (MSAP), and 3) latitude in hiring theinstructional staff. Thecombination of these elements has resulted in a dynamic learning community.Jamerson has utilized the resources from a Magnet School’s Assistance Program Grant to design,create and implement a standards based curriculum

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Research Infrastructure in STEM Disciplines

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Cady, National Academy of Engineering; Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering

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Minorities in Engineering

populationsunderrepresented in STEM. Finally, each principal investigator should indicate how they plan toidentify, attract, engage, support, and sustain participation by both underrepresented populationsand underrepresented institutions. Thus, there are six main topics to be addressed, requiring bothquantitative and qualitative information.Table 1: Project Collaboration: Information Needed from NSF Principal Investigators, Schools,School Districts, Departments, InstitutionsParticipation Research Education Research Educationby: Capacity Capacity Percent/ Percent

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Mechanical Design and Projects

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janet Dong, University of Cincinnati; Janak Dave, University of Cincinnati

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Engineering Technology

AC 2007-2050: DESIGN-BUILD-TEST---AUTOCROSS-A CAPSTONE DESIGNPROJECTJanet Dong, University of Cincinnati Janet Dong, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Technology department at the University of Cincinnati. She received her PhD and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University, and her MS and BS in Manufacturing Engineering from China. Her academic interests include manufacturing technology, CAD/CAM, computer aided process planning and optimization, control and automation, robotics, and mechanical engineering application to dental endodontic treatment. She had published journal papers and conferences papers nationally and internationally. She

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ECE Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Doug Sterk, Virginia Tech; Tim Thacker, Virginia Tech; Elizabeth Tranter, Virginia Tech; Richard Goff, Virginia Tech; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Tech

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Electrical and Computer

populations in STEM fields. As multi-institutional centers with a 10-year potential NSF funding cycle, ERCs are well suited to fosterinter-institutional collaboration with core and outreach partner institutions over the course ofmany years. To encourage the development of programmatic linkages as part of each Center’sdiversity strategic plan, the NSF offered all active ERCs the opportunity to submit proposals forthe development of programs which create linkages between research centers and large-scaleNSF human resource development initiatives. For CPES, this program solicitation representedthe opportunity to expand linkages with the NSF’s Louis Stokes Alliance for MinorityParticipation (LSAMP) program. The LSAMP program “is aimed at increasing the

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tarek El Doker, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; David Lanning, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Justin Gigliotti, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Computers in Education

realtime. Several students were interested in extending the exercises to problems in which they hadparticular difficulties understanding the relationship between loads and supports, such assolutions to indeterminate structures and the application of superposition for complex loadings.The feedback was informal and qualitative, but critical to developing a plan for the subsequentsemester (spring of 2007), in which additional features would be incorporated into the classroomtool. The instructor believed that students quickly developed an appreciation of concepts thatwere discussed minimally during lecture (unsymmetric bending) and an improved understandingof overall patterns of stress distributions. Students generally found that utilizing

Conference Session

Improving ME Education: Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Hinds, Michigan State University; Craig Somerton, Michigan State University

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Mechanical Engineering

) operated by the MSU College of Engineering6.For the Spring 2006 semester, 14 students participated in the pilot program. Twenty studentswere selected for the Fall 2006 semester pilot. It is planned for this course to be offered eachsemester to all incoming mechanical engineering students starting in Fall semester 2007 withapproximately 200 students taking the course during the 2007-2008 academic year.Project AssignmentsThe course contained three projects to be completed by the pilot students7,8. The first two wereperformed in 2- or 3-person teams. The final project was performed individually. The followingare detailed descriptions and goals of the projects

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott Schaffer, Purdue University; Kimfong Lei, Purdue University; Lisette Reyes, Purdue University; William Oakes, Purdue University; Carla Zoltowski, Purdue University

negotiate, is proactive in discussions with participants from otherdisciplines, provides input when requested, and begins to use the language of the otherdiscipline. While the CDL model is one way to represent the progression of cross-disciplinarylearning through team participation, other studies related to cross-disciplinary learning inteams have been done in the area of urban planning, as well as within the instructional andmultimedia design fields18, 19.An extension and adaptation of the CDL model developed by Schaffer & Lei termed thecross-disciplinary team learning (CDTL) framework was used as the basis for interpretingindividual to team learning patterns in this study. The framework incorporated three majorprocesses: identification

Conference Session

Undergraduate Spacecraft Design II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Aerospace

flying the UH-1N, where he has been an Instructor Pilot, Evaluator Pilot, Executive Officer, Chief of Squadron Training and Chief of Standardization and Evaluation. He has also served as the Assistant Deputy Commander for Operations of the 1st Helicopter Squadron, providing priority airlift for White House, Cabinet, Congressional, and DoD officials. Dr. Brown was the Joint Continuity Program Manager for the AF National Security Emergency Preparedness program, HAF, where he was responsible for coordination of emergency response plans with the White House, Cabinet, OSD, Joint Staff, and other departments and agencies in the National Capital Region. He has previously served as

Conference Session

IE Curriculum Design

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Emanuel, Bradley University; H. Dan Kerns, Bradley University

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Industrial Engineering

improvement. Examples of some final presentations that have resulted fromthis approach are included.BackgroundAn ability to communicate effectively is ABET criteria (g.) for all programs accredited byABET-EAC1. Managers rated the “ability to communicate ideas and plans effectively in front ofan audience” as the most important career skill2. Recognizing the importance of good oralcommunication skills and actually putting good oral communication skills into practice are notsynonymous. How often have you watched a presentation given by a professional engineer thatconsisted of words copied from a written report? The speaker may have included a graph or achart, but most of the presentation consisted of words that you could read in the report.Furthermore

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Bioengineering laboratories: Bringing research into the classroom

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Barnett, Saint Louis University; Rebecca Willits, Saint Louis University

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Biomedical

sequence. Sample comments included (* note thatactual names have been replaced): • Conducting in depth research my junior year definitely helped with senior projects. I knew my way around the lab and was more confident in my lab skills by the time I got to senior year. Page 12.313.5 • It has helped me fulfill my objectives for my senior project because at the start of my senior project I didn't have to get comfortable with working in lab and didn't have to learn how to organize/plan experiments, only how to organize/plan the general project. After spending junior year on the project

Conference Session

K-12 Engineering Outreach Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Rogers, Murray State University; Steve Cobb, Murray State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

courses appropriate for engineering such asphysics and calculus while also developing decision making and teamwork skills are vital.However, brainstorming, organizing, marketing, funding, and delivering, effective K-12 outreachactivities can be an enormous task. The purpose of this paper is to provide some insight intosome strategies in each of these planning areas in the context of a large-scale, year-long outreachactivity. Page 12.1456.2Figure 1: A Moonbuggy (left) is a human-powered vehicle that must fit or be collapsible to fit into a 4 foot cubic volume (right) and be carried 20 feet by its two drivers (1 male and 1 female).The West

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New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald Kane, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Clarisa Gonzalez-Lenahan, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Stephen Eck, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Graduate Studies

shifted the administrative oversight of theBS/MS program to the Dean of Graduate Studies with marketing and promotion of the programto NJIT undergraduates becoming a joint effort of the Graduate Studies and the separateGraduate Admission Office (Ref. 4). This new partnership and the addition of key personnelresulted in an expansion of interest and participation of NJIT undergraduates in the program andin the important variations of the original and basic program.Need and OpportunityThe Graduate Studies Office saw this program as vehicle to develop the university in a numberof ways consistent with its mission and academic plans. The first opportunity was to increaseenrollment in the NJIT Master's programs and to increase the number of NJIT's own

Conference Session

ECET Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jerome Tapper, Northeastern University; Francis Dibella, Northeastern University; Walter Buchanan, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Technology

and soon become obsolete. Enter the Dean of Engineering. After somediscussion with the current Dean of Engineering, it was agreed that a larger space would be toeveryone’s advantage due to the extreme popularity of these courses in addition to the initialcorporate interest. A quest for a new and larger space would begin. Interestingly enough, spaceis at a great premium at Northeastern, which made this search for space that more difficult. Itwas at this point that the Dean of Engineering formed a Facilities Planning Committee whosemission was to identify new and innovative ways to obtain teaching and laboratory space. Duringthe course of this quest, a space was identified that would be a possible fit for the new IndustrialControl Systems

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Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ming Huang, University of San Diego; James Kohl, University of San Diego; Veronica Galvan, University of San Diego

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Mechanical Engineering

students (second semester mechanical engineering juniors) and both had fairlycompatible learning objectives. Although not as straightforward as the aforementioned ones, thefeasibility factor was affirmed as well after performing a detailed review and planning of thetopics to be covered for both courses. During the review, in addition to topical concerns,attention was paid especially to the timing aspect of the related topics across the two courses, toensure that there could be adequate time gap between the key foundational concepts introducedin the Dynamics and when the students would see their corresponding applications in the Designof Machinery. To this end, the generation of a topics breakdown schedule (similar to the workbreakdown schedule

Conference Session

Teaching Emerging Energy Technologies

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gene Liao, Wayne State University; Chih-Ping Yeh, Wayne State University; James Sawyer, Macomb Community College

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

framework that will be used for ASE certification• Provided transfer student advising by university faculty at community college3.1 Advisory CommitteeInitiating the development and implementation of all activities requires a system of coordinationfor exchange of information and resources and effective utilization of institutional strengths.Collaboration among faculty and administrators from both institutions and their industry partnerswas formalized through the creation of an advisory committee, which meets regularly to developand implement the planned activities and monitor progress of the project. To create this advisorycommittee, both institutions extend their existing collaborative partnership between theirfaculties to incorporate industry

Conference Session

EMD Curriculum Design

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stuart Kellogg, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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Engineering Management

curriculum. Curricular elements ofthe threads include technology enabled learning, service learning, business plans, and enterpriseteam projects. Using the Steps for Better Thinking Model2 as the developmental umbrella, allcurricular elements are strategically placed within the curriculum to provide both an integrativethread between the major components as well as a developmental thread for improving complexthinking skills. The primary role of the technology enabled support modules is to provide thefoundational scaffolding necessary to develop more complex reasoning while simultaneouslyattempting to address alternative learning styles. To develop this more fully, it is first necessary

Conference Session

Best of the NEE

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Chesney, University of Michigan

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New Engineering Educators

about each ofthe branches. Think about when you decided to go to Graduate school, when you met yoursignificant other, or when your family moved as a child. With practice, it will become easy toremember some very explicit details to these personally significant events. Page 12.307.6The second method is the use of images to bring back memories, where images are defined asphotographs, pictures, and/or floor plans. An image is some pictorial or iconic symbol that hasmeaning to us personally. At first I did not think that this method would work well with mebecause I have no talent as an artist. In fact, my artistic development ended in about 2nd

Conference Session

The Impact of Curriculum on the Retention of Women Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rose Marra, University of Missouri; Barbara Bogue, Pennsylvania State University; Kelly Rodgers, University of Missouri; Demei Shen, University of Missouri

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Women in Engineering

. Page 12.1262.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Self Efficacy of Women Engineering Students: Three Years of Data at U.S. InstitutionsAbstract This paper describes the results of three years of engineering self-efficacy datacollected from engineering students at five institutions across the U.S. Results indicate that whilestudents show positive progress on some self–efficacy and related subscales, they show adecrease on isolation subscale from the first to second measurement period. It is also notable thatthere are almost no gender differences and that self efficacy seems to be related to participationin extracurricular activities and student plans to persist in the

Conference Session

Outreach Projects and General Energy Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bin Wu, University of Missouri, Columbia; Sanjeev Khanna, University of Missouri; Richard Wyatt, University of Missouri; Roger Korenberg, Missouri Department of Natural Resources

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

good fit with energy efficiency concepts we have proposed as part of our integrated resource plan filing with the Missouri Public Service Commission.” • Student Organization: Affiliated with the proposed Center, the MU Student Society of Energy Conservation if formed: “To promote energy awareness, conservation, and efficiency. To promote renewable and clean energy systems. To educate ourselves and the public about energy conservation…” The Society will collaborate with, and compliment to the Center activities in a number of areas.Strategically, this network of partnership work together to utilize the resultant synergy to helpestablish Missouri IAC as the center of resources and services for industrial energy

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations and Applications

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ayanna Howard, Georgia Institute of Technology; Eva Graham, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

virtualrobot controllable through the interface can autonomously perform a number of basic primitives(such as path planning, unsupervised traversal, etc.), but also allow the human to be flexible inthe type of interaction – from direct tele-operation of the robotic vehicle to a collaborative role inwhich the human communicates to the robot through a natural language processor.As part of the design experience, each team is provided 1-2 robots, basic robot operatinginstructions, and time for each member of the team to individually explore the interface. Eachteam is then tasked with realizing their solution to the problem identified through the team-brainstorming session using the human-robot interface module and associated robot platform(Figure 5

Conference Session

Computer Engineering Technology Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wangping Sun, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

think deeper and learnmore.Thirdly, the students will have equal opportunities to learn. In IBSDC, each student has differentprogramming assignment and the student’s performance is evaluated individually by theinstructor. The workload unbalance can be reduced.Fourthly, but not lastly, it is not a “quick-and-dirty” process. It requires the students program byfollowing standard rules and conventions. It is a strict but helpful process to obtain goodprogramming habits.4. Implementation of IBSDCAs illustrated in Figure 2, IBSDC in programming labs is implemented in five steps. For thehomework assignment, the implementation process is similar, but the time lengths may vary.Grouping Planning Coding Testing

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marcos Esterman, Rochester Institute of Technology; Dorin Patru, Rochester Institute of Technology; Vincent Amuso, Rochester Institute of Technology; Edward Hensel, Rochester Institute of Technology; Mark Smith, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

program; a third course entitled “Design Project Page 12.535.2Management (DPM),” which trains selected students for project management roles in MSD I&IIand facilitates early-stage planning and documentation. MSD I is primarily focused on planningand designing, while MSD II is dedicated to realizing and testing a prototype of the design.Subtle adjustments to the MSD program have been made each year since its inception in 2002,however a major redesign effort was undertaken prior to the 2006 academic year to improveprogram alignment with departmental objectives, to improve delivery efficiency andeffectiveness, and to improve student and faculty