Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheng Lin, Old Dominion University; Alok Verma, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

defined first. This isbecause that a geometric characteristic cannot be applied with a non-FOS. Page 12.361.32.1 Feature of Size (FOS)According to ASME 14.5M6, Feature of Size is defined as:“One cylindrical or spherical surface, or a set of two opposed elements or opposedparallel surfaces, associated with a size dimension.”Figure 1 shows the top and front projection views of a part with dimensioning. Based onthe definition of FOS, Dimensions A, B, D, H, K, and J are feature of sizes, whileDimensions E, F, G, and I are non-FOS. Figure 1: An example for feature of size.2.2 Maximum Material Condition (MMC)To indicate that a

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mahbub Uddin, Trinity University; Raj Chowdhury, Kent State University

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Environmental Engineering

airbornenanoparticles. These units must be designed for an extremely high efficiency to capture thesmallest nanoparticles (<2nm). Many research projects are currently under consideration todevelop new filtration system for collecting nanoparticles. Electrostatic precipitators (ESP) canalso be used to control the emission of nanoparticles effectively.There are several existing federal laws (The Substances Control Act, The Occupational Safetyand Health Act, The Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, The Clean Air Act, The Clean Water Act,and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act) that can provide a legal bias for controlling andregulating engineered nanomaterials. However, these laws lacks specific guidelines fornanoparticles production, handling or labeling. New

Conference Session

Software and E-learning in the ME Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Autar Kaw, University of South Florida

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Mechanical Engineering

-2001).Mr. T. A. Cherukara was the Project Manager and Professor G.H. Besterfield was the PI. Theauthor would like to thank Dr. Tapas Das of University of South Florida for his help ininterpreting the assessment data.Bibliography 1. National Science Foundation, Where discoveries begin, http://www.nsf.gov/, accessed December 2006. 2. T.L. Friedman, The world is flat: a brief history of the twenty-first century, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, (2005). 3. Combined research and curriculum development and educational innovation program, http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04001/nsf04001.htm, accessed December 2006. 4. A.K. Kaw, G.H. Besterfield, S. Nichani, Integrating a research problem in a course in applied elasticity

Conference Session

Professional Development and Scholarship

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren Hill, Weber State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

in the fall. They then review how well they achieved their goals with theirsupervisor late in the spring semester. Since some goals may be for projects that span more thatone year, the spring review may include how well they are progressing on a multi-year goal.Here the objective of the review is more formative than summative where there is an attempt toseek congruence between a faculty member's personal goals and the goals of the department, thecollege, and the university.Quality of Information from these SourcesEach of the sources described above have pros and cons associated with them in terms of thequality of the information they contain. For example, according to Arreola1, the self-report ofthe faculty member can most clearly be related

Conference Session

Computer and Information Technology-Related Issues

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Duane Fairfax, USMA; Kevin Huggins, USMA; Bryan Goda, USMA

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

and labs as well asfour team projects, two exams, and a final. Given this backdrop, we now introduce our 4-stepintegration framework. Page 12.32.4Step 1. Pre-course IT Impact AnalysisThis initial step strives to determine the potential impact that the introduction of IT will have onstudents. If students have a weak background and/or a low confidence with IT, then ITintegration should be different from a group of students whose background and confidence ishigher. The challenge was finding a consistent, quantifiable measure. To accomplish this, wedeveloped an IT impact analysis factor (IAF), which is a weighted average comprised of thestudents

Conference Session

Assessment of K-12 Engineering Programs and Issues

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Valerie Galarza, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Mariela Figueroa, UPRMUniversity of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Cristina Lugo, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Ricardo Rodriguez, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Francisco Rivera, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Alexandra Medina-Borja, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

been defined as adecisive predictor of college success in STEM disciplines. It is then important to develop anunderstanding of the factors that affect the level of preparation of students entering engineering.We present the results of a series of focus groups undertook to elicit high school deficiencies andother problems faced by engineering students upon arrival to college in the opinion of currentindustrial engineering students at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. We aim to defineareas of opportunity to develop tools and workshops to train high school STEM teachers for afuture phase of this project. Differences among different types of high school characteristics inthe island are being controlled, such as main language of

Conference Session

Perspectives for Women Faculty

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicole Hawkes, WiSE / University of Southern California; Jean Morrison, University of Southern California; Cauligi Raghavendra, University of Southern California

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Women in Engineering

regular set-up funds for the faculty position. 2. Major Support for Current Faculty (original program, 2001) Supplemental funding for major research projects through WiSE offers a way to offset barriers and life-cycle related obstacles that have been shown to slow or interrupt the careers of women faculty. Some of these barriers are subtle and can range from difficulties in meeting teaching and research demands while simultaneously raising a small child, to a reduced chance a new funding opportunities because of a lack of access to a network group. Funds may also be requested to take advantage of opportunities that arise unexpectedly and therefore are not funded through regular agencies and programs. Any USC faculty member in

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Part 1

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heidi Loshbaugh, Colorado School of Mines; Brittany Claar, Regis University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

, if you can find the amount of force that goes into that, then I mean you can make safer cars. For like the armed forces, same Page 12.775.11 type of deal. I mean, where are you gonna get that sturdiness from? I mean that’s what we thought was really cool about our project. But I mean it wasn’t until after we developed like the nit-picky stuff, and I don’t-, I mean, I guess it’s (.) you see, I mean you see movies and everything, everyone’s showing geeks as just glasses, pocket protectors and all this stuff and (.) I mean I don’t know it’s just one of those weird terms that you just see people getting

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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sameer prabhu, The MathWorks; Zachariah Chambers, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Liz Callanan, The MathWorks; Marc Herniter, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Design is typically used to describe large systems with complex interactions Page 12.536.9between components, and the standard curriculum approach does not lend itself to tackling suchbig projects in one class. In Model-Based Design, highly simplified models of the subsystems aredeveloped and the subsystems are connected together to form a more complicated overallsystem. Once the input/output characteristics of the subsystems are finalized, different engineerscan work independently at different levels on the model. Some engineers can work at thesubsystem level and develop accurate models of the subsystem while other engineers can work atthe top

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Part 1

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Lichtenstein, Stanford University; Heidi Loshbaugh, Colorado School of Mines; Brittany Claar, Colorado School of Mines; Tori Bailey, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

not been mentored by engineers. For example, astudent might have participated in Odyssey of the Mind, a national, project-based competitionwhere students apply math and science to build various projects according to specific criteria.While such an activity is “engineering-like,” when it was not specifically mentored by anengineer, we did not consider it engineering exposure. Similarly if a student had extensiveexperience programming or building computers but was self-taught, without the benefit ofhaving received any formal, discipline-based computer science, we considered this lowengineering exposure.Grace entered Coleman with low exposure to engineering. She enjoyed her math andphysics classes in high school, and during her senior year, she

Conference Session

The Impact of Curriculum on the Retention of Women Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Backer, San Jose State University

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Women in Engineering

a particulartheme of inquiry, as well as the Senior Capstone project.”2 The freshmen inquiry course onDesign & Society is one of nine themes offered.In Fall 2002, SJSU began their MUSE program for incoming freshmen. MUSE was designed tobridge the gap from high school to college. MUSE includes academic seminars on a variety ofsubjects that help the freshmen students gain skills that are necessary to academic success. Inaddition, all MUSE classes are certified in one of SJSU’s General Education areas. Therefore,students taking the MUSE seminars receive three units of General Education credit. Theseminars qualify in one of the following areas: B1 (physical science), B2 (life science), C1(arts), C2 (letters), D1 (human behavior), or E

Conference Session

What's New in the Mechanics of Materials?

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Linsey, University of Texas-Austin; Austin Talley, University of Texas--Austin; Daniel Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Kristin Wood, University of Texas-Austin; Kathy Schmidt, University of Texas-Austin; Rachel Kuhr, University of Texas-Austin; Saad Eways, Austin Community College

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Mechanics

Spectrum of Active Learning Activities in Engineering Mechanics Keywords: Active learning, hands-on activities, learning styles, Myers-BriggsAbstractThe introduction of active learning exercises into a traditional lecture has been shown to improvestudent learning. Hands-on learning opportunities in labs and projects provide a primaryapproach in the active learning toolbox. This paper presents a series of innovative hands-onactive learning activities for mechanics of materials topics. These activities are based on aMethodology for Developing Hands-on Active Learning Activities, a systematic approach forefficient and effective activity development, and were robustly evaluated at three institutions ofhigher learning. These

Conference Session

FPD2 -- Highlighting First-Year Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean Kampe, Virginia Tech; Whitney Edmister, Virginia Tech; Matthew Stimpson, Virginia Tech; Brad Matanin, Virginia Tech; Amanda Martin, Virginia Tech; Cory Brozina, Virginia Tech; Bevlee Watford, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

the best-liked aspect was “I liked living with other engineers. We have mostof the same classes and this helps with homework, understanding concepts, and projects.” Thisbest response is counted once in “Living with other engineering students,” once in “AcademicHelp from peers,” and once in “Common Classes.” Table VI should be viewed as a summary ofthe common responses that we encountered; it does not include sporadic items that appeared veryinfrequently.Discussion We have tried to account for differences in college preparedness by creating the matchingcohorts. But there are problems with that approach. Namely, the matching cohort selection didnot screen for participation in other LLCs on campus. And, there were no matches made for in

Conference Session

Programmatic Issues in Engineering Physics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Bougie, American University; Philip Johnson, American University; Nathan Harshman, American University; Teresa Larkin, American University; Michael Black, American University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

introductory computer science. We include this requirementfor several reasons. First, it means that all graduating physics students know sufficientrudimentary programming to model experiments on computers. Second, by exposing physicsstudents to programming, the course has the potential to spark their interest in computationalphysics. Physics students constitute a significant portion of the enrollment in the introduction tocomputer science course, and the course is being partially adapted to this audience. Theseadaptations include recent student projects in modeling a physical system, and plans to teachMATLAB programming as well as Java in future offerings of this course.h. AU physics student feedbackIn addition to the above considerations, student

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shane Brown, Washington State University; Karyn Hildreth, Washington State University

120, an introductoryengineering course that encompasses all branches of engineering. In exchange for volunteering,the students were offered a pizza dinner once a week during focus group sessions and a $40.00gift certificate to Amazon.com or Starbucks at the end of the study.There were 8 Engineering 120 courses with a class size of about 36 each. After a briefexplanation of the project and incentives, a sign up list was sent around that asked the interestedvolunteers to indicate where they lived. Because WSU has a policy that all freshmen must live indorms their first year, it made it much simpler to separate the students who opted to live in

Conference Session

Effective Tools for Teaching Engineering Economy

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kailash Bafna, Western Michigan University; Betsy Aller, Western Michigan University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

document camera, the ability to easily plug in a laptop computer, and an audiosystem, all connected to a projection system mounted on the ceiling. The instructor can selectand use any delivery device with the capability of easily switching back and forth between them.Besides a wireless environment, each seat in the classroom also has the ability to connect alaptop computer to the university computing system using a cat-5 cable. The University has alsomade WebCT-Vista available to all instructors.The engineering faculty has gradually started incorporating various forms of technology in theirclassroom instruction. The primary author has further incorporated several new innovations intothe teaching of engineering economy, a course required in many

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Industrial Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wesley Stone, Western Carolina University; Zachary Kuhn, Western Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

of 50 by 50 mm without using the CNC stages, allowing for much higher-speed machining. • The beam can be focused to a spot size adjustable between 6 and 24 microns (µm) with CNC axis resolution at 0.1 µm. This provides the capability of micron-level high- precision machining. A human hair is typically on the order of 50 µm in diameter. • Two solid-state cameras assist in precision alignment, while two additional solid-state cameras provide access to view the machining process during operation. • The PC drives three LCD monitors. A fourth LCD monitor is used to display the image projected by one of the cameras in the workspace. • It is a completely enclosed class I system which means that when all

Conference Session

Influence of Race and Culture

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tony Mitchell, North Carolina State University; John F. Flannigan, III, III, Sloan Construction Company; Renee M. Wooten, SAS Institute, Inc.; Eric P. Pearson, Northrop Grumman Corporation; Angelitha Daniel, North Carolina State University

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Minorities in Engineering

interviews, andother relevant college relations activities. Milliken has found that being a member of our MEP board has been a tremendous benefit inhelping meet their recruiting goals on an annual basis. Our Minority Engineering Program hashelped Milliken get closer to the students in order to identify new leaders that will fit Milliken’sculture and passion for excellence. Company representatives spend time in the classroom,support student group activities, and work with faculty to provide students with real worldexperience on challenging engineering and business-related projects that will result in full timeemployment after graduation.During our 2006 Summer Transition Program, our MEP office worked with Milliken and sent agroup of approximately 60

Conference Session

Technology Integration in the Classroom for Manufacturing II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Devdas Shetty, University of Hartford; Jonathan Hill, University of Hartford; Tom Eppes, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

. Motors provide the necessary torque tothe mechanical system, e.g. linear slides, robotic arms or some other actuator design. Motorselection and mechanical design is a critical part of a motion control system, and mostmanufacturers provide a wealth of data and assistance in this process.The motion sensor is a device that captures actual movement and closes the feedback loop to themotion controller. A motion sensor is not always required for such as with stepper motors, but isessential for servo motor control. For this project, a widely used motion sensor called aquadrature encoder was used. It senses the shaft position of the motor and feeds the result to themotion controller. Other feedback devices include potentiometers for analog position

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Burghart, D. M. & M. Hacker, (2003). New York State Curriculum for Advanced Technological Education.5 Bell, M., et al, (2002). Everyday Mathematics, The University of Chicago School Mathematics Project. Chicago, IL: SRA/McGraw-Hill. Page 12.489.8Appendix A – Kindergarten Matrix Example Kindergarten Integrated Engineering Curriculum Units Engineering Physical Science Earth Science Life Science Nature of Gravitational Electromag- Science and Force and netic Force & Natural

Conference Session

Computer Education Management Tools

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lupita Montoya, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Chris Moore, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

project leader for course support of distributed education courses, consultant to faculty on issues of technology integration, instructional design and content development, and researcher and evaluator for emerging instructional technologies. Chris earned a Master of Science degree in Curriculum Development and Instructional Technology in May, 2000 from the University at Albany. Chris has six years of experience in instructional design and integrating information technologies in support of teaching and learning. Page 12.1479.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 The

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Venkata Seshada Aluri, University of Arkansas; Javed Alam, Youngstown State University; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

the modern IT and are expected torevolutionize the way instruction being delivered online in the future. Implementation Level of IT Adoption and Timeline Figure 1: Standard S-curve35 showing the projected IT adoption and implementation level in education with time. Although the outcome of using multimedia elements in teaching subject matter is beneficialfor students and instructors, a large number of instructors do not follow this approach. We foundthat the following six shortcomings can be attributed to the low rate of IT adoption inengineering education by instructors: a. Time

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Bennett, Kansas State University; Eric Lawrence, Kansas State University; Genevra Neumann, Northern Iowa University; Elena Verbych, Kansas State University; Steve Warren, Kansas State University

precalculus classes. Problem sets are due atmidnight on specified days. Problem sets are still available after the due date and somestudents work problem sets for practice before each exam.The system automatically records the students’ problems, saved work, initial answers,final answers, time of all accesses of the system, ip-addresses of all accesses of thesystem, and whether they checked the help page for problems they missed.AnalysisSince the system was first developed in Trigonometry, we have the most data in thatcourse (a key consideration for a data-mining project). So we will focus our analysis onTrigonometry. The first question is whether it is possible to detect conceptualunderstanding from analysis of procedural work. Van Hiele4 has noted

Conference Session

Multimedia Tutorials and Web Development

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anne Donnelly, University of Florida

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Minorities in Engineering

who was not aSEAGEP Scholar, the responses show the high value they placed on the mentoring and financialsupport they received from the program and the opportunities for networking and professionaldevelopment, as shown below:• Someone who is a SEAGEP scholar gets extra help, extra push, and feels she is not alone• The support network provided by SEAGEP was irreplaceable. We formed a network with faculty and students within UF as well as outside UF. There was also support in terms of providing laptops, sending us to conferences, and providing us a venue to showcase our work. We also received opportunities to mentor undergraduate students.• Funding - ability to select project of choice, exposure to research, networking, support

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ning Fang, Utah State University; Gary Stewardson, Utah State University

, comprehensive and high-quality course design 8, and cooperative learning 9,10.Among these existing instructional strategies, engineering laboratory experience has been widelyrecognized as an effective pedagogical practice that plays a significant role in developing andreinforcing students’ understanding of a variety of important engineering concepts taught inclassroom lectures 11-14. Engineering laboratory experience has been integrated into suchmethods as active learning, cooperative learning, project-based learning, problem-based learning,and research-based learning in various engineering disciplines.Engineering laboratory experience has been particularly emphasized when it comes to the

Conference Session

Collaboration Provides the Best Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl Cates, University of Cincinnati; Anita Todd, University of Cincinnati

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

loop that shows theimpact of teaching through student co-op performance. This information is beingused in curricular reform projects around campus to both illuminate areas forreform and to measure the impact of changes on co-op student performance. TheUniversity of Cincinnati has been awarded a $1 million US Department ofEducation Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education [FIPSE] grantto be used for the Development of a Corporate Feedback System for Use inCurricular Reform.Using aggregated data from employer assessments of cooperative educationstudent work performance to measure curricular effectiveness forms a cornerstoneof outcomes based assessment at the University of Cincinnati. One problem is thatresults may get buried in both

Conference Session

Engineering Education in the Arab World / Mid-East Region

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ulas Toros, University of Florida; George Younis, University of Florida; Fazil Najafi, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

International

Engineering 4 Soil Mechanics 4 Fluid Mechanics 3 Turkish I 0 Summer Practice I 0Semester 6CGN 3501 Civil Engineering Materials 4 Construction Eng. & Management 3CEG 4011 Soil Mechanics 4 Foundation Engineering I 3SUR 2322 Project Dev. And 3 Hydromechanics 4 Visualization Engineering Hydrology 3CWR 3201

Conference Session

Two Year Colleges

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito Enriquez, Canada College

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Two Year College Division

has the potential to be a more effective teaching pedagogy compared to traditionalinstructor-centered teaching environments, and should be applied to math, science and otherengineering courses with traditionally high attrition rates.6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThis project was supported by Hewlett Packard through the Technology for Teaching grant, andthe @ONE Scholar Program. The author would also like to thank Darla Cooper and Michelle Page 12.487.12Barton of the @ONE Scholar Program, and Charles Iverson of Cañada College for invaluableinput, discussions, comments and suggestions.7. REFERENCES1 Birk, J., and J. Foster. “The importance of Lecture in

Conference Session

FPD3 -- Professional Issues for First-Year Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Lau, Pennsylvania State University

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First-Year Programs

best. As a guide, they are given a handout that summarizesrules for arguments along with their typical forms and typical flaws, drawn from A Rulebook forArguments.10 While we do not have much time to adequately develop their argumentation skills,this handout and use of the principles in the discussions and evaluations of their argumentsshould improve their abilities to defend their decisions, and hopefully to make better decisionsby recognizing flaws in their analysis.There are many excellent engineering case studies available on the internet. Because there are somany, a project was carried out to categorize the cases to aid faculty in selecting ones that meettheir needs. The resulting table is available on the ethics web site in the College

Conference Session

Experiences in Teaching Energy Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Skvarenina, Purdue University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

it convenient to createa lesson for each class period with the questions that would be used during class and a separatelesson for a quiz. Note that student-managed lessons require a handout to the students with thequestions and choices (if applicable), while teacher-managed questions are projected on thescreen for the students to answer.Figure 2: Interface for developing questions for student response Page 12.1018.4Obviously, for the system to be used for grading, there has to be an enrollment of the studentclickers so the instructor and system know who is responding. At Purdue, enrollment is donethrough WebCT, which ensures that the students