Conference Session

Materials in Design and Manufacturing

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhiqiang Hu, University of Missouri - Columbia

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Mechanical Engineering

education for over 70 years. Its new criteria for the evaluation of engineeringprograms, Engineering Criteria 2000, require implementation of sustainability concepts inundergraduate education, as reflected in the following areas (criteria 3c and 3h) (1): ‚" “Ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability;” ‚" “Broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.”Limited work has been conducted to address the need, effectiveness, and impact of incorporatingsustainable engineering

Conference Session

BME Laboratories and Skills-Based Projects

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Jevsevar, Vanderbilt University; Melanie Aston, Vanderbilt University; Shaun Price, Vanderbilt University; Cynthia Paschal, Vanderbilt University; Stacy Klein-Gardner

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Biomedical

andrising high school seniors. The curriculum successfully stimulated interest in biomedicalimaging and biomedical engineering among the test population. Feedback from the high schoollearners aided in the further development of lectures and activities for the curriculum.AcknowledgementThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grantsEEC-0343607 and EEC-9876363. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of theNational Science Foundation. Page 13.379.9Bibliography1. Bransford, J., Brown, A., &

Conference Session

Engineering in the Elementary School

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edmond Saliklis, California Polytechnic State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

the rationalebehind the teaching module, and to document the changes we made to the module as we assessedits impact over several trial runs.The PremiseThe premise of this research project was to devise an outreach program to 5th or 6th gradestudents that demonstrates an engineering idea in a fun, yet informative way. At the onset wedecided against “trial and error” exercises where the students would be asked to create somethingstrictly from their own imagination or intuition. Our argument against such tasks is that they donot accurately reflect the methods that engineers actually use. We also decided against a strictly“show and tell” approach, wherein an impressive experiment or demonstration is conducted toelicit a strong audience reaction

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pradeep Bhattacharya, Southern University & A&M College

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Engineering Ethics

saving grace in ourtechnologically advanced country is that the press in this country is still free to reportresearchers who do such researches. 3. Philosophical affiliationWe have to make dramatic changes to stay on the cutting edge of technologies andmarkets that are of crucial importance to our core audience, students, researchers,engineers, engineering managers and program managers who serve bio-medical,electronics and electro-optics industries. The popularity of ethics is partly due to its longhistory and thus it is a well developed method of philosophical reflection of itspractitioners from a country to country perspective. However, since global relations aredeveloping faster than imagined, to sharing of

Conference Session

FPD1 - Early Success and Retention

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jale Tezcan, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; John Nicklow, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; James Mathias, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Lalit Gupta, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Rhonda Kowalchuk, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

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First-Year Programs

meets three times a week forfifty minutes. The course content is a well-balanced combination of informative and engaginglectures, hands-on projects, and distinguished guest speaker seminars. While the objectives andpriorities of each discipline determine the breadth and depth of the course contents,recommendations from the industrial advisory board, faculty, and students are reflected in thefinal format of the course. The course has three main components: lecture, laboratory and guestspeaker seminars.Lecture Component:The lecture component makes up 20% of the course. This component introduces the students todifferent engineering disciplines and exposes them to the interdisciplinary nature of real-lifeprojects and the importance of teamwork and

Conference Session

Design in the BME Curriculum

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University; Donna Ebenstein, Bucknell University; James Baish, Bucknell University; William King, Bucknell University; Daniel Cavanagh, Bucknell University

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Biomedical

. Page 13.764.8 8Multi-disciplinary TeamsExternal mentors are active members of the design team and play a real role in all aspectsof the design process. Students must learn to set and achieve goals, delegateresponsibility, handle conflicting objectives, and function as a professional in a medicalsetting.Course AssessmentExternal mentors have been used for every project in every offering of our senior designcourse. It is therefore not possible to fairly compare the external mentor approach to otherpossible implementations. The observations below reflect the opinions of the design teammembers.StudentsAt the completion of the Fall semester students are asked

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Frassica, University of South Carolina; Jed Lyons, University of South Carolina; Philip Voglewede, Marquette University

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Mechanical Engineering

, an open environmentmust be fostered during the entire course to enable the instructor to have the feedback necessaryto interject appropriate instruction to the student. A second challenge is the capital investment inthe project is large as bioengineering experiments are costly. Third, it requires buy-in from allthe professors involved. Nevertheless, this laboratory experience ultimately created theconnection between the theory and physical world.AcknowledgementThis work was supported by a National Science Foundation Course Curriculum and LabImprovement award (DUE-0633648). All opinions expressed within are the authors’ and do notnecessarily reflect those of the National Science Foundation.Bibliographic Information1. Kiefer, K., Silverberg, L

Conference Session

Introductory Materials Science Course

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elliot Douglas, University of Florida

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Materials

SAT quantitative Course gradeMCI pre-test ------ .43* .35* .17†MCI post-test .33* .37* .39* .37†*Pearson’s correlation coefficient.† Spearman’s rho.Table 3: MCI results by sex. Numbers in parentheses are number of students (N) followed bythe standard deviations. The values of N reflect those students for whom data was available.MCI gain may not equal the difference between the pre-test and post-test scores due to round-offerror. MCI pre-test* MCI post-test* MCI gainMale 11.9 (87, 3.6) 15.7 (89, 4.0) 3.8 (82, 3.4)Female 10.3 (25, 2.7

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical Engineering Technology

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Tomasi, Alfred State College

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Engineering Technology

was not being exhibited in the class then the students would be treatedas children and not adults. This lack of professionalism resulted in the professordelivering the following ultimatum, “any further incidents will result in the student beingdropped from the class by the professor”. To further illustrate the seriousness of thistransgression, a writing assignment was assigned where the students were required tointerview a human resource director to determine how “the real world” would handle thissituation. The paper required the students to focus and reflect on what would happen inindustry if a verbal disagreement resulted in a physical altercation.Of the six assignments handed out during the course of the semester, it was the last onethat

Conference Session

Survivor: The First Few Years

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan Beasley, Texas A&M University; Ana Elisa Goulart, Texas A&M University; Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University

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New Engineering Educators

shifting context,” Review of Higher Education, volume 26, number 2, pages 119-144, 2002.13. J. Smith, J. Whitman, P. Grant, A. Stanutz, J. Russett, and K. Rankin, “Peer networking as a dynamic approach to supporting new faculty,” Innovative Higher Education, volume 25, number 3, pages 197-207, 2001.14. E. Bennion, “The importance of peer mentoring for facilitating professional and personal development,” Political Science & Politics, number 37, pages 111-113, 2004.15. K. Kram and L. Isabella, “Mentoring alternatives: The role of peer relationships in career development,” Academy of Management Journal, number 28, pages 110–132, 1985.16. J. Cowdery, Induction-year mentors’ self-perceptions and reflections on their training and

Conference Session

Two Year College Tech Session III

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College

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Two Year College Division

learning community, and also aided in the management of the supervised study sessions. Thefaculty members met daily with Study Leaders to coordinate course assignments with afternoonactivities. Page 13.1227.3Enrollment AnalysisAn overview of the application and enrollment history of the EDGE Program is presented inTable 1. The trend in student participation reflects an evolving focus on the composition of thecurriculum and the readiness of our target population. More detailed analysis by gender andethnicity the 2007 program is given in Table 2. There are no apparent trends in the applicationdata. Gender and ethnicity distributions have remained

Conference Session

ET Leadership, Administration, and Articulation

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vladimir Genis, Drexel University; Gerry Marekova, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

colleges presented advertisement materials to attractstudents to their educational programs. In the past three years, Goodwin College has participatedin this event by distributing AET fact sheets to students interested in pursuing their careers inapplied engineering technology. These efforts will continue in the future.AET program’s curriculumThe higher education is rapidly evolving to reflect the industry needs.3 The global marketplace isbecoming more competitive, resulting in advanced approaches to higher education in engineeringand engineering technology, specifically in educating students using quantitative and qualitativemeasures.4 The need for a technologically literate and dynamic workforce dictates therequirements for a flexible curriculum

Conference Session

Programmatic Issues in Physics or Engineering Physics Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeff Jalkio, University of St. Thomas; Arnold Weimerskirch, University of St. Thomas

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

course learning outcomes is a key part of assigning student grades.Second, accomplishment of course learning outcomes is used as an assessment tool for assessingthe curriculum. Third, assessment of how well students have accomplished the course learningoutcomes is used to improve the course in future offerings. It is the use of course data in this lastform as feedback for course improvement that is addressed in the fourth, course level, Demingcycle.Since each instructor is responsible for assessment of course learning outcomes, various methodsare used including portfolios, reflection papers, feedback from follow-on courses, pre and posttests or concept inventories, and grading systems that tie grades directly to accomplishment

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics III

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Durfee, Eastern Washington University; William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University

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Engineering Ethics

is passed out in the senior capstone class the students are told to dotheir best, but they know that the exam isn’t part of their grade. This opens the possibility thatstudents may not take as much care in completing the exam as they otherwise might and perhapsthe exam scores reflect this.Finally, the use of this exam has proven to be a great addition to our academic program inprofessional ethics. It has also been a great opportunity to re-address the importance ofprofessional societies and the benefits that they can offer.Conclusions, Recommendations and the FutureStudents in the various Engineering Technology programs are now better prepared to handle theethical challenges that will be presented to them during their engineering career

Conference Session

History and Future of Engineering Technology

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Immanuel Edinbarough, The University of Texas at Brownsville; Posinasetti Rao, University of Northern Iowa

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

in air bag deployment, ink jet print heads, and biosensors based on nanoprobes. On thesophisticated front, Digital Light Processing (DLP) projection systems are getting popular. At theheart of every DLP projection system is an optical semiconductor known as the DLP chip, whichwas invented by Dr. Larry Hoenbeck of Texas Instruments in 1987. The DLP chip is probablythe world’s most sophisticated light switch. It contains a rectangular array of up to 2 millionhinge-mounted microscopic mirrors; each of these micro mirrors measures less than one-fifth thewidth of a human hair. When a DLP chip is coordinated with a digital video or graphic signal, alight source, and a projection lens, its mirrors can reflect a digital image onto a screen or

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids and Heat Transfer - II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Christopher, Rice University; Adam Parks, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base; Vipul Sharma, Air Force Institute of Technology; Michael Maixner, U.S. Air Force Academy

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Mechanical Engineering

ME467 Energy Conversion at the Air Force Academy for theircogent and insightful questions regarding the Mathcad functions.DisclaimerThe views expressed are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy orposition of the U.S. Air Force, Department of Defense or the U.S. Government.References1Dixon, G.W., Teaching Thermodynamics without Tables—Isn’t it Time?, 2001 ASEE Annual Conference& Exposition, paper 2001-2266.2Maixner, M.R., and Havener, G., Thermal Fluids Systems Engineering at the United States Air ForceAcademy, 2004 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, paper 2004-2266.3 Maixner, M.R., Interactive Graphic Depiction of Working Fluid Thermal Properties Using Spreadsheets

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Teaching Part Three

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Collins, J.P. Morgan Chase; Gerard Lennon, Lehigh University; John Ochs, Lehigh University; Richard Weisman, Lehigh University; Vincent Munley, Lehigh University; Joseph Sterrett, Lehigh University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

. The faculty instructorsencourage groups to reflect on situations afterward and to appreciate the positiveeducational aspect on the overall project when Option 1 was used and deadlines aremissed. III. Typical Team ActivitiesTo provide insight on how the student teams operate with limited guidance two pastprojects are discussed, the 2005 golf design project and the 2007 master plan project.Additional details of the golf facility design can be found in Reference 1.A. Team StructureFrom the first day the project is presented, students are advised to attack the project bydividing into sub-groups that will focus on different aspects of the project. While theformation is left to the students, typically there are 6 to 8

Conference Session

Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Khanjan Mehta, Pennsylvania State University; Sven Bilen, Pennsylvania State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Venture CDR 12 P3 Week Patents & Intellectual Quest 5 13 Property Issues Week POC to Product Reflection on Course, POC to Product 14 Technical issues Ventures, Ideas Non-technical Issues Week Course Quality Control Final Prototype Demos Final Presentations 15 P4 Exam Final Report Due Week

Conference Session

Course-Based Approaches to Entrepreneurship

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

. Standard Average deviation Typically for every one credit hour, 3 to 4 hours per week of student time in and out of the classroom is expected. With this in mind, the one credit hour was 4.00 0.63 properly reflected in the time I spent on this course. How would you rate your experience for the course? 4.17 0.41 I got what I wanted out of this course (the course met my expectations). 4.33 0.52 Table 9. Student ratings of statements about the Creative Problem Solving course. On a scale of 1 to

Conference Session

K-12 Engineering Outreach Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Powers, Clarkson University; Bruce Brydges, SUNY Potsdam; Gail Gotham, SLL BOCES; James Carroll, Clarkson University; Peter Turner, Clarkson University; Douglas Bohl, Clarkson University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

students’ innovation-related skills as well as students’ reflections on the class. Themain idea is to develop a student-centered environment that helps students to develop a can-do,proactive, innovative mindset; an environment that will light their spark of innovation, and providethem with resources to translate their ideas from paper to prototype. We have identified four majorgroups of relevant skills, namely, problem solving, “big picture”, personal and social skills, and usedseveral different activities to try to boost them. A variety of projects and challenges, and multi-sensory activities were synthesized to create an empirical, authentic, and multi-disciplinaryexperience. This effort is in line with our college longer term goal to infuse

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Kasprzak, Milliken Research Associates; Kevin Hulme, University at Buffalo - SUNY; Deborah Moore-Russo, Suny - Buffalo; Kenneth English, University at Buffalo - SUNY; Kemper Lewis, University at Buffalo - SUNY

followed by traditional instruction (i.e. representative mathematical theory and governing dynamics equations) in the classroom setting. ‚ For each of the 11 laboratory groups, the laboratory instructors could easily detect the immediate progression of knowledge and lesson comprehension during the experiments. With the first driver, there would always be a considerable amount of apprehension and guesswork, as the student would serve as the first person to complete the exercise. Based on that student’s successes and shortcomings, the second and third drivers would conquer the exercises much more quickly and confidently, and generally speaking, improved driver performance in each session reflected this trend. ‚ The

Conference Session

SPECIAL SESSION: Describing the Engineering Student Learning Experience Based on CAEE Findings: Part 2

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Turns, University of Washington; Jessica Yellin, University of Washington; Yi-Min Huang, University of Washington; Brook Sattler, University of Washington

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Educational Research and Methods

usually obtain more specific and useful information when we probe concrete and non- routine events than when we ask about general rules and procedures . . . probing in the CDM is not limited to responses that can be objectively anchored and verified. Questions can sometimes require the decision makers to reflect on their own strategies and bases for decisions . . . the probes are designed to obtain information at its most specific and meaningful level . . . thus we ask the decision- maker to select an incident that was challenging and that, in his or her decision- making, might have differed from someone with less experience.” (p. 465-466)In our case, we asked faculty to describe two specific

Conference Session

The Academic Environment

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica Young, Syracuse University; John Tillotson, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

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Women in Engineering

your male collaborators.Several male faculty members commented that women faculty members might have in fact, an Page 13.924.9easier time securing grants because of special NSF funding sources and initiatives targeted atfemales, but none of the women faculty members mentioned this point.Double stigma for women faculty membersThe majority of female faculty members described feeling a double stigma of possibly beinghired because they are a female and then having to work extra hard to prove they are bothdeserving of the position and earned the job because of their qualifications. The following quotesfrom female engineering faculty members reflect

Conference Session

Design: Content and Context

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shanna Daly, Purdue University; Robin Adams, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods

the course of thetask by talking with other people, investigating research documents, utilizing pastresearch, and reflecting on their previous experiences. This speaks to the role ofexperience, tradition, and history “doing design” and “being a designer.” Page 13.273.16The theme of ‘depth’ emphasized designers’ stance on the importance of solid contentbackground in the discipline. Designers stressed the importance of depth of knowledge.While there are certainly skills associated with design tasks that are separate from contentknowledge, content knowledge is a foundation for decision making. Content knowledgehelps build intuition, and informs

Conference Session

Philosophy of Engineering Education: Epistemology and Ethics

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gayle Ermer, Calvin College

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Liberal Education

alsoserve as case studies for discussion of technological risk in engineering courses or in liberal artscourses that reflect on the role of technology in society. The paper will conclude with somerecommendations for what we need to do as engineers to reduce the risk of engineering disastersand how we can integrate the awareness of these concepts into the experiences of undergraduateengineering students.2. Technology, Engineering and RiskDoing technology is central to what we are as humans. Anthropologists have chosen to describethe first modern humans as “homo habilis,” therefore expressing the centrality of our “tool-using”and tool creating capabilities to our very nature.2 But, everyday observation reminds us thattechnology, like all other human

Conference Session

Metrology Laboratories

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Georgia Harris, National Institute of Standards & Technology; Christopher Grachanen, Hewlett Packard Company

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

P Ptechnical sessions of the 2005 NCSLI Annual Workshop and Symposium, participants weregiven sticky dots to mark on kiosk displays the areas that they believed to be of highest priority.In addition, a survey form was distributed to gather feedback on suggested action steps thatNCSLI might take. The overwhelming feedback on the kiosks, surveys, and individualdiscussions related to Metrology Outreach. The objectives and framework of the roadmap wereslightly modified in 2007 to reflect the intervening time and are noted below. Page 13.922.2Objectives:1. Metrology & Standards Outreach. Ensure awareness of metrology, measurement sciences

Conference Session

BME Laboratories and Skills-Based Projects

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shahin Sirouspour, McMaster University; Pawel Malysz, McMaster University; Ali Shahdi, McMaster University; Ryan Leslie, Quanser Inc; Mahyar Fotoohi, Quanser Inc; Paul Karam, Quanser Inc

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Biomedical

the distance of haptic point from the center of force field as shown in Fig. 16. Anupper bound is placed on the force to prevent the application of large forces that might damagethe device. A separate s-function is implemented for the haptic guidance algorithm in Part 2. Thehaptic exploration experiments in Part 1 are repeated with the repelling force field to assess theeffectiveness of haptic guidance for robot-assisted medical interventions.5.4. Experiment IV: Control Architectures for TeleoperationIn master/slave telerobotic systems, a human operator can remotely control a robotic arm inorder to interact with a task environment. In this context, force-feedback haptic interfaces can beemployed to reflect the environment force back to the

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nadia Kellam, University of Georgia; Ashley Babcock, University of Georgia; David Gattie, University of Georgia-Athens

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Women in Engineering

, F. E. (1959). Characteristics of socio-technical systems. In Emery, F. (ed.), The Emergence of a NewParadigm of Work. (Centre for Continuing Education, Australian National University, Canberra, 1978, pp. 38–86.)16. Johnson, B. L. (2002). Extending the study of learning environments: connecting the field to other literatures.Queensland Journal of Educational Research, 18(2), 183-206.17. Sergiovanni, T. J. (1986). Understanding reflective practice. Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 1(4), 353-359.18. Aviolo, B. J. (1999). Full leadership development: Building the vital forces in organizations. Thousand Oaks,CA: Sage Press.19. Aldridge, J. M., & Fraser, B. J. (2000). A cross-cultural study of classroom learning environments in

Conference Session

At The Institutional Level

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Judy Loveless-Morris, University of Washington; Priti Mody-Pan; Robert Embrey, Highline Community College; Kali Kuwada, Seattle Central Community College; Marisela Mendoza, Columbia Basin College; Robert Olsen, Washington State University; Eve Riskin, University of Washington

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Women in Engineering

is ability to capitalize on market differences.The diverse locations of the participating institutions provide access to larger and more diverseminority populations. For example, some of the colleges within NW-ETEP are able to drawfrom a larger number of Hispanic populations, while others are better able to draw from African-American and female populations. 2 In general, each institution attempts to increase URMrecruitment from all minority populations. However, each institution also finds strength indrawing from particular minority applicants that are reflective of geographic location. Thisenables NW-ETEP to make progress toward increasing overall minority recruitment without