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1553 FPD3 - Computer & Programming Tools in First Year Instruction

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jess Everett, Rowan University; John Chen, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Jennifer Kadlowec, Rowan University

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First-Year Programs

knowledge due to the existence of poor prior knowledge ormisconception, and (3) use of discussions or peer learning.Engineering Clinic at Rowan UniversityThe four engineering programs at Rowan University (RU) have common Engineering Clinicclasses throughout their programs of study. Students enroll in Clinics in each of their eightsemesters at RU. Each clinic class involves students in teamwork (often interdisciplinary),hands-on activities, and report writing and presentation. For a more detailed discussion, seeReference (16).The Freshman Clinic is focused on engineering measurements (Fall) and competitive assessment(Spring). The Sophomore Clinic is focused on engineering design. The course is team-taughtwith communications faculty17-18. Where

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Factors Affecting Minority Engineering Students

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pedro Leite, Kansas State University-Salina; Jung Oh, Kansas State University-Salina

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Minorities in Engineering

AC 2008-2266: AN ANALYSIS OF SUCCESSFUL MINORITY STUDENTSENROLLED IN TECHNOLOGY DEGREE PROGRAMSPedro Leite, Kansas State University-Salina Pedro Leite is an Associate Professor of Computer Systems Technology at Kansas State University at Salina. His research interests include the scholarship of teaching and learning, cross-curricular collaboration, and diversity and multicultural issues in teaching and learning.Jung Oh, Kansas State University-Salina Jung Oh is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Kansas State University at Salina. She earned her Ph.D. from UCLA and was an ASEE postdoctoral fellow at Naval Air Warfare Center. She was 2004 Wakonse Teaching fellow and 2006 Peer Review of

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Sustainability in AEC and AEC Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edmond Saliklis, California Polytechnic State University

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Architectural

skilled at literature reviews. To overcome this deficiency, we have instituted a new research methods course for seniors, which is co- taught by an Architectural Engineering Professor as well as an English Professor. Another resource is the research librarian at the university library; we have asked them to make a targeted presentation to our students. Finally, we have developed a research guide, which we handed out to students to show the proper format for report writing, and it contains suggestions of how to use engineering databases and what not to do when using internet resources.AssessmentInitial assessment is subjective. It is tantamount to making sure some progress is being made.This is conducted

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FPD6 - First Year Curricula Development

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gregory Wight, Norwich University; R. Danner Friend, Norwich University; Jacques Beneat, Norwich University; William Barry, Norwich University

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First-Year Programs

design process Page 13.1009.2through project-based instruction with a blend of technical skills and non-technical or so-called“soft” skills. At the time of the writing of this paper, the first semester course, EG109, had beencompleted, and EG110 had just begun. The objective of this paper is to describe thedevelopment, design, and first year implementation of the course.After six years of discipline-specific freshman engineering courses for Civil Engineering,Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering majors, it was decided that all Engineeringand Construction Management majors would share the same curriculum during their freshmanyear. The

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FPD8 - Early Intervention & Retention

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gretchen Hein, Michigan Technological University; Amber Kemppainen, Michigan Technological University

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First-Year Programs

students enrolled in Pre-Calculus with anengineering course. The topics covered in the course were coordinated with the topics beingcovered in Pre-Calculus. For example, students apply the concepts learned regarding linear,power and exponential equations in pre-calculus to engineering applications in ENG1001. Thestudents enrolled in the course elected to participate in the program. Most of these students werepart of the Michigan Tech ExSEL program. ExSEL is a program that promotes students successthrough academic support services such as peer mentoring, study groups, study skills and timemanagement techniques, academic progress monitoring, campus resource referrals, campus andcommunity involvement events, and career and personal development

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Emerging Issues in Engineering Education Research and Pedagogy

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Walden, University of Oklahoma; Cindy Foor, University of Oklahoma; Deborah Trytten, University of Oklahoma

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Educational Research and Methods

typical federal granting agency time period ofthree years does not allow sufficient time for data collection, processing, and the comprehensiveanalysis to publish a book without multiple no-cost extensions.Another challenge to publication of this work is disciplinary differences in the treatment ofconference publications. In disciplines like computer science, full-paper peer reviewedpublications at the best conferences are of similar stature to journal publications. In socialscience disciplines, conferences have less stature and full proceedings often aren’t published.Without rigorous full-paper peer review, the engineers on our team are unable to get academiccredit for this work. This practice has inhibited the team from publishing in social

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Assessment

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patrick Terenzini, The Pennsylvania State University; Lisa Lattuca, Pennsylvania State University; Matthew Ohland, Purdue Engineering Education; Russell Long, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods

the focal outcome. The variability of these local itemsand scales is considerable. One study's review of instruments used in studies published inarchival journals or conference proceedings identified 286 outcome items that mapped to one ofthe 11 EC2000 outcomes. Between 20 to 40 survey items were associated with each of 11 a-koutcomes.7 The item bank containing these items was subsequently reduced through editing, re-writing, and writing original items and became the foundation for developing nine factoriallyderived scales that (with two exceptions) map unambiguously to the EC2000 learning outcomecriteria.In addition to the measurement uncertainties evident in the wide variety of available items andinstruments scattered throughout the

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Improving Technical Understanding of All Americans

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Engstrom, ITEA/Cal U

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

become more prominent in K-12 public education.This emphasis on design and problem solving through applied mathematics and inquiry basedscience are at the center of the National Science Foundation funded project entitled Invention,Innovation, and Inquiry (I3). This project is so named because invention and innovation are thehallmarks of technological thinking and action. This article will describe the background of theproject, how the units of instruction were developed, field testing procedures, findings, andfinally discuss how this curriculum has been implemented in various settings.The purpose of the I3 project was to write ten thematic units that focused on developingtechnological literacy in students, grades 5-6; creating teaching and

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Recruitment and Retention

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carol Gattis, University of Arkansas; Shannon Davis, University of Arkansas; Bryan Hill, University of Arkansas; Patricia Kirkwood, University of Arkansas

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Minorities in Engineering

LeadershipDuring the ECAP Peer Mentoring and Leadership program ECAP freshmen and sophomores arementored; juniors and seniors serve as mentors. The freshman year is the most important in termsof retention, because 57% of all students who leave from 4-year institutions do so within theirfirst year.13 Major causes of students leaving include academic and adjustment difficulties,incongruence and isolation.13 Programs for retention must address the holistic freshmanexperience, since over half of freshman drop outs leave because of their first-year collegeexperience, not their academics.14 Student support during the transition to college is the primeinfluence on whether a student stays or leaves.15 As a support mechanism, successful peermentoring can

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FPD7 - Global Warming & Sustainability for First-Year Students

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alex Friess; Carol Briam, Dubai Aerospace Enterprise University; Linda Thompson, Dubai Aerospace Enterprise University; Hemdeep Dulthummon, Dubai Aerospace Enterprise University

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First-Year Programs

multinational teams that in the context of the 2007 Dubai AirShow explored different branches of the industry with regards to environmental policies andstrategies. These branches included the airlines, airports, manufacturers, and regulatoryagencies. In addition, a series of workshops on research skills, presentation skills,professional communication and behavior, were offered to prepare the students both for asuccessful experience at the Air Show and to assist them in presenting their findings in aclosing presentation to their peers, a faculty panel, and industry representatives.The results assessment was initially constructed on the assumption that the student motivationto participate in the project would be strong, because a portion of the grade for

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Bannerot, University of Houston

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Design in Engineering Education

, and about4% “not enjoying” several aspects of the project work. Table 18 provides responses tothe same core statements for the Fall 2007 as well as to some additional responses. TheFall 2007 responses are very close to the previous average responses with the “ability”statements rated a little lower and the “enjoy” statements a little higher. From the last sixstatements for the Fall 2007 thirteen per cent of the students indicated the course was notuseful or that they didn’t learn a lot. Only two of sixty didn’t like the peer evaluations.Less than 10% indicated that their teaming experience was not good. By the last twostatements, it is clear that, despite some complaints about our emphasizing writing toomuch in the course, student do

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Statics and Dynamics: What's New?

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marisa Orr, Clemson University; Lisa Benson, Clemson University; Matthew Ohland, Purdue Engineering Education; Sherrill Biggers, Clemson University

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Mechanical Engineering

minor in Education from the University of Florida in 1996. Previously, he served as Assistant Director of the NSF-sponsored SUCCEED Engineering Education Coalition. In addition to this work, he studies peer evaluation and longitudinal student records in engineering education.Sherrill Biggers, Clemson University Sherrill B. Biggers is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University. His research interests include computational solid mechanics, progressive failure and nonlinear response of composite structures, and optimum design. He has taught courses in structural and solid mechanics, and finite element methods. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Duke

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Recruitment and Retention

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Callie Ruben, Arizona State University

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Minorities in Engineering

all the book assignmentsuntil I realized that there is some useful information in there. I wasn’t taking the book workseriously at first, until it hit me, that I could actually apply this material to my life! The bookreally does a good job of actually relating to you personally.” Two students mentioned that theylearned about the “FE” exam in the textbook. “I found the book to easily be read and I wouldone hundred percent recommend the book to all students in the engineering discipline.”The students were asked to write about their peers in the class. One student wrote: “From mypeers I learned the important facet of humans. Everyone was so different yet we are allmotivated to be disciplined the same and go through the same struggles. Being in a

Conference Session

Research in Multidisciplinary Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary Halada, State University of New York at Stony Brook; Mary Frame, State University of New York at Stony Brook; Chad Korach, State University of New York at Stony Brook; David Ferguson, State University of New York-Stony Brook

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

elements of this courseinclude:1. Training as mentors for the freshman/sophomore projects, providing peer advisement and feedback.2. A structure that provides a forum for students to learn professional development skills (including advanced presentation, proposal writing, and scientific publication skills), assist in the mentoring process, and network with members of the professional scientific and industrial communities. These activities will help to further develop the research projects students have been involved in as part of the minor program, and will provide strong preparation for successful careers in science and engineering. As part of this effort, students will prepare a journal quality manuscript on their work and a NSF

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Philosophy of Engineering Education: Epistemology and Ethics

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark Valenzuela, University of Evansville; James Allen, University of Evansville; Brian Swenty, University of Evansville

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Liberal Education

instrument was adapted from “AssessingGeneral Education: A Questionnaire to Initiate Campus Conversation” by Jack Meacham anddistributed by the American Association of Colleges and Universities. The last question in thesurvey asked faculty to rank the quality of the general education program on a scale from 1 to 5,where 1 was associated with the statement, “Our general education program satisfies the minimalaccreditation requirements.” The score of 5 was associated with the statement, “Our generaleducation program surpasses in quality those of our peer institutions.” With 40 % of the facultyresponding (and 61% of the respondents from the college of arts and sciences), the meanresponse to this question of quality was 2.9, the median was 3.0 and the

Conference Session

Design Communications

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Ekwaro-Osire, Texas Tech University; Innocent Afuh, Texas Tech University; Peter Orono, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis

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Design in Engineering Education

, they are inept. Forster3 argues that “The Net generation, it turns out may not beso tech savvy after all”. They rely almost exclusively on Google, Wikipedia and other such Page 13.744.2search engines as major information sources, oblivious of its credibility, reliability and validityfor research. They pay little attention to peer reviewed scholarship. Thus while they may becomputer literate, they are not necessarily information literate although the later uses skills of theformer. The set of skills needed to find, retrieve, analyze and use information is termedinformation literacy (IL). According to the Association of College and Research

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Influences on Female Interest in Pursuit of STEM Fields

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacquelyn Mobley, Ecology & Environment, Inc.

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Minorities in Engineering

of Florida campus would be intimidating to any student unfamiliar with sucha large academic system. I considered myself lucky at the time because I had at least attended apredominantly White middle and high school. But nothing can prepare one for the vastness of theadministrative process of financial aid, finding your way around campus and such large numbers of Whitepeople.IsolationI was a loner growing up. I was considered a “nerd” by my peers and rarely interacted with crowds ofpeople unless I was cheerleading. I credit this character trait for the struggle I experienced socially-in andout of class. I simply had a hard time letting people know me. Because of the pain this isolation causedme, today, I look for these individuals when I visit

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Engineering in the Elementary School

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Parry, North Carolina State University; Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University; Elizabeth Miars, Rachel Freeman Elementary School; Lizette Day, Rachel Freeman Elementary School

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

predominantly African American (AA), Limited English Proficient (LEP) and Economically Disadvantaged (ED) populations. One of the earliest successful and widely reported projects was the Valle Imperial Project in El Centro, CA. The implementation of inquiry based science kits using the National Science Resources Center (NSRC) model of exemplary science education (research based curriculum, ongoing professional development, 2 authentic assessment, community support and materials support) resulted in significant 3 increases in not only science achievement, but also reading, math and writing

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Thermodynamics, Fluids and Heat Transfer - II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Benson, Kettering University

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Mechanical Engineering

considered accepted practice in K-12 education or in Humanities [4]programs, their use in the Engineering or Physical Sciences is limited. Grumbacher used thejournal process to examine the relationship between writing processes and problem solving andfound that students who were better problem solvers are better able to use their learning logs as [5] [6]vehicles to synthesize new knowledge. Other authors, such as Selfe and Arbabi and Gibbs ,have used these journals as vehicles for engineering students to develop their writing skillswhile at the same time clarifying

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Diversity and K-12 Issues

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Asad Yousuf, Savannah State University; Mohamad Mustafa, Savannah State University; Hope Cranford, Savannah State University

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Engineering Technology

toward the abovepopulations.Virginia Polytechnic University: Virginia Polytechnic University uses a five week summerprogram to facilitate the recruitment and retention of minority students. This program focuses onincreasing skills in academic subjects; developing skills in interactions with peers, faculty andadministrators; and learning successful study methods and time management.The Rochester Institute of Technology: The Rochester Institute of Technology, in partnershipwith the Rochester City School District and the National Action Council for Minorities inEngineering (NACME) is participating in the NACME Vanguard program to identify potentialminority engineers and provide them with academic enrichment and college readiness skills.The New

Conference Session

Mechanics Education Programs and Projects

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher Papadopoulos

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Mechanics

the free body diagrams of the separate elements of the system,writing the system of equations, and arriving at the correct answer. But something stillnagged me – why did the systems behave differently? After some thought anddiscussion, I either realized or it was suggested to me that since the scenario with the 50Nweight had more mass than the one with the 50N force, it should accelerate more slowly.This seemed satisfying, and it is this sense of deeper understanding that I challenge mystudents to attain.But even here there is a price. Many students, including myself, believe that appealing tothe deeper understanding is the expected approach and shun long-hand procedure as acrutch. Even during my graduate studies, I clung to a notion that I

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy Craig, North Carolina State University; Lisa Bullard, North Carolina State University; Jeff Joines, North Carolina State University; Tom Miller, North Carolina State University; Carolyn Miller, North Carolina State University; Dianne Raubenheimer; George Rouskas, North Carolina State University; Larry Silverberg, North Carolina State University; Eric Wiebe, North Carolina State University

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Computers in Education

perform high-levelcomputing tasks within the context of a discipline. The first phase of the project entails theestablishment of an academe-industry community in which stakeholders from a broad range ofdisciplines will convene to discuss the challenges and opportunities inherent in transforming theundergraduate computing education, and to identify and implement creative strategies to do so.The “Computing Across Curricula” (CAC) community includes involvement from a number oflocal industry leaders and is modeled after the nationally recognized NC State Campus Writingand Speaking Program1 that promotes writing across the curriculum.To ensure that the goals and objectives of the project are met successfully, a detailed assessmentprocess is an

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rocio Chavela Guerra, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica Cox, Purdue University; Heidi Diefes-Dux, Purdue University

Learn” framework. The course, “EffectiveTeaching of Engineering: Linking Theory to Practice,” was first implemented in fall2007, at a large Midwestern Research I university to provide engineering graduateteaching assistants an opportunity to extend their teaching professional development. Thecourse learning objectives include developing knowledge of effective teaching practices,establishing an engineering “community of teachers” during interactions withengineering faculty and peers, producing personal deliverables that allow reflection uponrelationships between pedagogy and engineering, and receiving formative feedback aboutteaching within engineering courses.Some of the topics in this one-credit graduate level seminar included “How PeopleLearn

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Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Phy

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Ross, University of Detroit Mercy; Jenna Ross, Utica Center for Mathematics Science and Technology

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Engineering Physics & Physics

AC 2008-680: TALES FROM THE WAVE FRONT: TEACHING THE PHYSICS OFCELL PHONES AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONSRobert Ross, University of Detroit MercyJenna Ross, Utica Center for Mathematics Science and Technology Page 13.1137.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Tales from the Wave Front: Teaching the Physics of Cell Phones and Wireless CommunicationsIntroductionFor over twenty years our college has offered a summer enrichment program for high schoolstudents. The UNinitiates Introduction to Engineering (UNITE) program affords high schoolstudents the opportunity to take courses in writing, mathematics, computer science

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Innovation in Construction Engineering Education II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gouranga Banik, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Construction

Management Department at Southern PolytechnicState University in Marietta, Georgia. Dr. Banik completed his Ph.D. in Civil and Construction Engineering fromIowa State University. He has eleven years working experience in both private and public sector as an engineerand/or construction manager. He is a registered professional engineer. Dr. Banik has twenty nine refereedpublications in the area of civil engineering and construction management. He presented some of his research inseveral well-known and peer reviewed conferences like ASEE, ASCE, ASC, WEFTEC and CIB, and publishedarticles in those conference proceedings. He presented his research all over the world including the United States,Canada, Greece, Italy, Brazil and the Philippines.APPENDIX

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IT-based Instructional Technologies

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Clifton Kussmaul, Muhlenberg College

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Information Systems

. Page 13.952.7 4. View the list of tickets. 5. Accept the ticket assigned to you. 6. Create a wiki page for yourself, using the link on the main course page. (WikiFormatting is a good reference.) 7. Update the ticket. 1. Ask someone to review your wiki page. 2. Explain anything in particular they should look for. 3. Assign the ticket to the next person in the list of names. 8. View the list of tickets. 9. Accept the updated ticket assigned to you. 10. Review the wiki page. 1. If you find problems, update the ticket and assign it back to the author. 2. If you don't find problems, close the ticket.Similarly, activity 2 (below) introduces students to peer review with a wiki. In some cases, it

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Engineering Economy -- Outside the Introductory Course

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Peterson, Arizona State University

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Engineering Economy

must be a peer reviewedpaper accepted before the presentation is allowed. Having reviewed papers for the engineeringeconomy, this author will claim that it has paid dividends – such as the paper on teachingeconomics (macro or micro) to engineers which the paper’s authors thought was the same asengineering economics. Page 13.1274.2If we see (or more accurately have seen) this at profession conferences, we can hardly besurprised if it occurs elsewhere. This was brought home forcefully to this author when to hissurprise he read an article1 in Industrial Management, an IIE publication, advocating return oninvestment (ROI) as the appropriate

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Mechanics Education Programs and Projects

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cliff Lissenden, Pennsylvania State University; Nicholas Salamon, Pennsylvania State University; Andrew Miller, Pennsylvania State University

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Mechanics

,apply standards, create a conceptual design, select appropriate materials, identify applied loadingscenarios, perform the design analysis, check design calculations from another team, createdesign drawings, estimate the cost, and write a design report.In order to accomplish all this in a course like strength of materials, which is laden with analysis,the project must be well organized and accompanied with web-based tools. This paper discussesdesign of the design project, course content that is beyond the traditional strength of materialscourse coverage, and development of web-based tools that make this possible. The web-basedtools provide guidance on: the design process with interactive examples, analysis andsimulation, materials properties and

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Innovations in Computer Engineering Technology Curriculum

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University; Alaa E. Abdel-Hakim, Michigan Technological University

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Engineering Technology

stepping up to this challenge by introducing the new focus area to give the studentsof Electrical Engineering Technology program the opportunity to learn and experience the designand implementation of computer-based application. Industry’s commonly used softwaredevelopment tools are used in several courses of the program. Through industry standardapproaches, the students learn state-of-the art problem solving and development techniques.Currently, the number of courses offered in Computer Engineering Technology represents ashortage of coverage. It is much less coverage than similar programs at peer institutes. Tostrengthen the area of Computer Engineering Technology, more courses need to be added to thecurrent curriculum, the paper suggested a list

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International CIase Studies: Collabs, Exchanges & Interactions

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sohail Anwar, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona College; Patrick Favier, IUT Bethune, France; David Jouglet, IUT Bethune, France

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International

Bethune, France Dr.David Jouglet is currently serving as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the IUT Bethune,University d'Artois, France. He is an associate member of the LGI2A, a research lab at the University d'Artois. Dr.Jouglet served as the Department Head of Electrical Engineering, IUT Bethune, from 2005 to 2008. He is a peer reviewer of several scientific and engineering journals. Page 13.91.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 A Project-Based International Collaboration in Engineering EducationAbstractThis manuscript