Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Education: Upperclass Years

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Bullard, North Carolina State University; David Ollis, North Carolina State University

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Chemical Engineering

development in chemical engineering at a large publicuniversity. The topical content which has been developed may also be used “À la carte” forincorporating elements into existing engineering courses if there is not room in the curriculumfor an integrated course of this type. The complete course content, including the syllabus,subject matter presentations, assignments, and relevant links, is available on a public web sitefor use by engineering instructors: (www.courses.ncsu.edu/che395). Course evaluationsindicate that students assign high values to this required seminar.IntroductionEngineering departments employ different strategies for introducing soft skills such as writing,oral presentation, teamwork, information literacy, and ethics. A frequently

Conference Session

Conceptual Learning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Morris Girgis, Central State University

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Educational Research and Methods

tools including the taxonomy, the CPI, and the assessment rubric. The paperoffers an integrated approach to develop and enhance the student’s concept and procedural skillsby utilizing the presented tools. The approach is iterative and requires flexibility and adjustmentwhile using these tools to best prepare and advance the classroom environment.I. IntroductionOne of the pressing challenges facing engineering educators is teaching students the engineeringconcepts while enhancing their problem-solving competencies. It has been observed thatstudents who are able to identify basic concepts and possess conceptual knowledge may stillstruggle to solve multi-concept or multi-disciplinary problems. In addition, professors mayunderestimate the

Conference Session

International Study Abroad Programs & Student Engagements

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joerg Mossbrucker, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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International

AC 2010-1075: THE PERFORMANCE OF U.S. EXCHANGE STUDENTS ABROAD,A LONGITUDINAL STUDYJoerg Mossbrucker, Milwaukee School of Engineering Page 15.1250.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 The Performance of U.S. Exchange Students Abroad, A Longitudinal StudyAbstractThe Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) and the University of Applied Sciences Lübeck/Germany (FHL) have a well-established, dual-accredited, bi-directional exchange program inElectrical Engineering that is completely integrated into the curricula of both institutions. Thebasic layout of this tuition-neutral exchange program is shown in Figure 1. MSOE and

Conference Session

Administering First-Year Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gretchen Hein, Michigan Technological University; Amber Kemppainen, Michigan Technological University; Susan Amato-Henderson, Michigan Technological University; Jason Keith, Michigan Technological University; Melissa Roberts, Michigan Technological University

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First-Year Programs

education. At Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech),we had three different groups (faculty, graduate students and upper level undergraduate students)develop design activities. These activities were developed for the ENG1001/1100 coursesequence for first-year students who were enrolled in pre-calculus as their first math course atMichigan Tech as part of an NSF CCLI Phase 1 grant (DUE: 0836861). All groups developedengineering activities that included a: Design/Model/Build sequence, Matlab mathematicalmodel, spreadsheet analyses, and technical communication of their activities. For thecomponents listed previously, lectures and class activities, project description and deliverablesand example Matlab codes were developed for the

Conference Session

Materials Selection & Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Olshefsky, ASTM International

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Materials

meet criteria outlined by the code body.Standards must be developed through a consensus process and be written in mandatory languageto insure that the application and intent of a standard is clear. The resulting referenced standardsare considered part of the requirements of the code. Page 15.1087.4Best Practices for Integration of Standards Education in CurriculaABET, Inc., formerly known as The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, setsengineering accreditation requirements for the incorporation of standards in engineeringcurricula: “Students must be prepared for engineering practice through a curriculum culminatingin a major

Conference Session

Leadership and Strategic Planning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia Fry, Baylor University; Gregory Leman, Baylor University; William Jordan, Baylor University; Brian Garner, Baylor University; Brian Thomas, Baylor University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

ProgramBaylor University was awarded a $50,000 grant from the Kern Family Foundation in July 2008,and became a member of the Kern Entrepreneurial Education Network (KEEN). The grant wasto extend the work done in integrating entrepreneurship with engineering & computer science inthree specific ways: 1. Implementation of an intense hands-on, coached learning classroom style to accelerate skill acquisition and demonstration (the SuperCoach® curriculum) in the existing two- course sequence; 2. Creation of a KEEN Innovators program to assist faculty in embedding entrepreneurial content into their engineering and computer science courses; and 3. Formalizing a Technology Entrepreneurship (TE) certificate for engineers and

Conference Session

DELOS Best Paper Nominations

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Satterfield, National Institute of Standards and Technology; Susan Heller-Zeisler, National Institute of Standards and Technology

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

NISTSummer Institute provides to each teacher a LabQuest and sensors for measuring temperature,magnetic field strength, pH, motion, force, gas pressure, heart rate, and electrical conductivity.The LabQuest is currently integrated into several of the NIST Summer Institute activitiesincluding thermometry and diffraction and there is an ongoing effort to encourage scientists todevelop activities using the LabQuest and probes, with loans made to scientists for this purpose.Scientists are eager to investigate use of the LabQuest and probes for their own edification andalso because as befits people in their career field they enjoy learning new things. The NISTscientists and engineers who participate in the NIST Summer Institute are also eager to sharehow

Conference Session

Innovative Instructional Strategies and Curricula

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Schmeelk, Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Branch; Jean Hodges, Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Branch

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

organization that manages Education City, among other projects. Initiallysupervised solely by Qatar Foundation, VCUQatar began in 1998 as Shaqab College of DesignArt, but in 2002 the school became an official branch campus of VCUR, began to operate morefully under its direction, and was officially renamed Virginia Commonwealth University inQatar.VCUQatar’s approximately 200 students come not only from Qatar but from all over the world.Regardless of their nationality, all must study in English because the country’s rulers recognizeEnglish as the lingua franca of global business.VCUQatar undergraduates may major in Fashion Design, Graphic Design, Interior Design, orPainting and Printmaking. The curriculum imposes specified Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS

Conference Session

Outstanding Contributions - Mechanical Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Willis, Southern Methodist University; Paul Krueger, Southern Methodist University; Alice Kendrick, Southern Methodist University

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2010-1721: PERCEPTIONS, EXPECTATIONS AND OUTCOMES OF THETHIRD YEAR OF A RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR UNDERGRADUATESPROGRAMDavid Willis, Southern Methodist University David A. Willis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Southern Methodist University (SMU). He received his B.S. degree from North Carolina State University in 1995 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University in 1997 and 2001, respectively. His areas of research interests are heat transfer, phase change, and fluid mechanics problems associated with short pulse laser-material interactions. His research involves experimental studies of laser microfabrication, high power laser-ablation, laser

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Faculty, and Profession

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tershia Pinder-Grover, University of Michigan; Chris Groscurth, University of Michigan

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Educational Research and Methods

line-by-line reading ofparticipant comments, where each comment is compared to similar comments. This stage isexploratory and reflexive rather than linear. During open coding data are sorted (and resorted)and individual participants’ comments are contrasted against one another. Each author engagedin open coding independently to get a “feel” for the data, after which time we met to discusstentative themes observed in the transcripts. This process produced an initial set ofapproximately 10 codes or themes (Table 2).The second stage of our analysis involved axial coding.22 According to Ezzy (2002), “the aim ofaxial coding is to integrate codes around the axes of central categories” (p. 91).22 During axialcoding less-central codes are integrated

Conference Session

Mentoring & Outreach for Girls & Minorities

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Backer, San Jose State University; Belle Wei, San Jose State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

undermined by amyriad of additional non-cost-related sociocultural factors”.9 Therefore, a way to expandparticipation by Hispanic students is to allow them to pursue personally rewarding, group valuedinterests while providing them with a rich and dense social support network. We includedcomprehensive student mentoring as an integral part of the HCB initiative to draw the highschool students into both the university and the technology communities.Several studies10 11 12 show that Hispanics generally have greater intrinsic motivation orunderlying interests in social and relational issues. That is, they could be attracted to computingif it was presented in a social context as a means to solve “community problems” that were

Conference Session

Historical Perspectives for Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education

. Boelter rose to the position of Associate Dean by1943. The earliest proposal to offer an engineering curriculum at the Los Angeles campus datedback to 1937, but it was only in the context of war preparedness that the University of CaliforniaRegents finally authorized an engineering degree program in 1941, initially in industrialtechnology. It was through direct legislative intervention, as backed by a special appropriation aswell as through the vocal support of a UCLA alumni organization, that UC President RobertGordon Sproul was compelled to open a new College of Engineering at UCLA in 1944. Involvedin the planning process, Boelter placed himself in the candidate pool for the deanship.11Boelter is generally credited with pioneering a unified

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanics of Materials & General Mechanics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ganapathy Narayanan, The University of Toledo

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Mechanics

4initially for a new learner to appreciate the difficult random concepts, but whenthe student comes in touch with randomness in other aspects of life, the studentwould be prepared well to deal with the randomness issue in solving theengineering problem rather than brush it aside, due to ignorance, by not dealingwith randomness in any quantity or with any random analysis.For completeness, an attempt is made to discuss briefly the subject materials thatwould be appropriate as an extension to the Probability and Statistics taught in theundergraduate curriculum. Of course, the author tries to be coherent in thepresentation. More details of these random topics in this paper can be found inmany references2,6-8.This paper discusses first the basic

Conference Session

New Learning Paradigms I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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Educational Research and Methods

are identified and corrected. Using procedures such as informalcooperative learning guarantees that students have been exposed to some active and interactive Page 15.919.6methods prior to engaging in PBL.B. Infusing PBL in the Curriculum: There are several strategies that may be utilized to infusePBL in an engineering curriculum. The selected strategy depends upon: 1) the commitment ofthe institution, as a whole, to the process of deploying active learning schemes in general, andPBL in particular, 2) the readiness of the teaching staff, and 3) available recourses, facilities, andsupport services. Table 1 illustrates three approaches to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brock LaMeres, Montana State University; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Fred Cady, (Retired) Montana State University

Page 15.689.3physically located on campus.In order to evaluate whether including measurement-based microprocessor laboratory experienceis worth the cost and development time, a baseline assessment must be made on a control groupof students who do not have access to the test equipment. In this project, we developedassessment tools that were used to collect data on a set of five learning objectives on a controlgroup of students during the fall of 2009. Our interventions (the use of a logic analyzer) will beimplemented in the curriculum in fall of 2010 in an attempt to improve the student learningrelated to the learning objectives. The same assessment tools will be used on the subsequentcohorts of students in order to measure the impact of the

Conference Session

New Learning Paradigms II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ming-Chien Hsu, Purdue University; Monica Cardella, Purdue University; Senay Purzer, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods

received a Ph.D. and a M.A in Science Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction from Arizona State University. Her creative research focuses on collaborative learning, design & decision-making, and the role of engineering self-efficacy on student achievement. Page 15.200.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Development of an Instrument to Assess Elementary Teachers’ Design Process Knowledge: Findings from a Pilot TestAbstractAs more states are adding engineering to their teaching and learning standards, teacherprofessional development activities are necessary to foster

Conference Session

International Initiatives, Partnerships,Teaching Strategies, and Collaborative Networks

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Esteban Rodriguez-Marek, Eastern Washington University; Min-Sung Koh, Eastern Washington University; Michael Brzoska, Eastern Washington University; Claudio Talarico, Eastern Washington University

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International

AC 2010-2104: A MULTINATIONAL 1+2+1 ELECTRICAL ENGINEERINGPROGRAMEsteban Rodriguez-Marek, Eastern Washington University ESTEBAN RODRIGUEZ-MAREK is an Associate Professor in the department of Engineering and Design at Eastern Washington University. He did his graduate work in Electrical Engineering at Washington State University. He worked as a research scientist at Fast Search & Transfer before transferring to the Department of Engineering & Design at Eastern Washington University. His interests include image and video processing, communication systems, digital signal processing, and cryptographic theory and applications.Min-Sung Koh, Eastern Washington University MIN-SUNG KOH

Conference Session

Technological Literacy and K-12 Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vaneshette Henderson, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Kelly Rusch, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Brenda Nixon, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Warren Waggenspack, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

kit included an oil pump, solar cell, solar vehicle, crane, rotating swing, wind power system Page 15.66.8 and water turbine. Kathy Moise, pictured right in Figure 5, discuss implementing program strategies into her curriculum. “The program was excellent! I enjoyed meeting math/science educators from around the Louisiana. We are implementing the engineering design process in both our junior high and high school science classes this year. We look forward to introducing our students to the amazing field of engineering.”• Bioengineering – Rehabilitation Engineering – Figure 5. Kathy Moise and Jesse The

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kemper Lewis, State University of New York, Buffalo; Kevin Hulme, State University of New York, Buffalo; Edward Kasprzak, Milliken Research Associates; Deborah Moore-Russo, State University of New York, Buffalo; Puneet Singla, State University of New York, Buffalo; Kenneth English, State University of New York, Buffalo

integratingexperience-based system simulation modules into a series of vehicle dynamics courses. We alsopresent experiential modules to integrate the motion simulation system into a required junior-level mechanical engineering course and in a required senior-level flight dynamics aerospaceengineering course. This paper reports on work done under National Science Foundation grantDUE-0633596 in the Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program.1 Background and Motivation: Cyber-enhanced EducationIn engineering education, relating theoretical and analytical results to real-world phenomena isone of the most difficult tasks. While text, equations, diagrams, and graphs are an efficientmeans of presenting large amounts of information, such

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Narayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marilyn Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Aerospace

Georgia Tech has developedinto one of the world’s largest university resources for multidisciplinary system design studies.Learners working here range from freshmen to graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, researchengineers and faculty. They work on a large number of problems from various government andindustry sponsors, and have organized themselves into an environment where team members atall levels can be integrated into teams. A range of analytical tools and standard operatingprocedures have been developed, that are available for use in courses. Thus we now have thefollowing formal resources as a starting point for the project: Page

Conference Session

Understanding and Measuring the Impact of Multidisciplinarity

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

participants should be capable of developing a set of rubrics that can be effectively utilized in administering their assessment procedures. 3. The participants should finally be able to generate a set of graphs that provide them with appropriate, productive feedback pertaining to student learning capabilities. A problem-based curriculum is significantly different from the traditional disciplinecentered curriculum (Woods, 1994). This is because problem-based learning has been definedas minds-on, hands-on, focused, experiential learning (Wilkerson & Gijselaers, 1996). Modernteaching techniques should be combined with knowledge acquisition along with an activity

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students, Diversity, and Assessment

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carla Purdy, University of Cincinnati

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Graduate Studies

overall career training for Ph.D.students at many other institutions.IntroductionThe Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) in Engineering program at the University ofCincinnati (UC) was originally established in 1999 to carry out the goals defined by thenational PFF program1, i.e., to prepare Ph.D. students to teach and to provide them withmultiple mentors. At the time, there were many job opportunities for engineering facultyin general and for computer science faculty in particular. Thus the UC PFF program2,3focused on providing information on modern teaching techniques, some practicalteaching experience, and basic information on how to be successful in an academic jobsearch. An integral part of the UC program, as with all PFF programs, has

Conference Session

Faculty Set the Preliminary Standards for Co-ops

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Mark Schreck, University of Louisville; Angela Cline, University of Louisville

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

and a key requirement of the academic experience for all Speed School engineeringstudents. “Co-op” is an academic program that integrates classroom learning with workexperience in the student’s field of study. The co-op student works full time for this time period,is paid an hourly wage, and receives academic credit for each semester of co-op training. For thestudent, the co-op experience provides “hands-on” engineering experiences as part of theirformal education. For the employer, the co-op program provides access to a skilled, short-termcost-effective workforce, and equally important, the opportunity to evaluate and recruit potentialfull-time employees. The student begins co-op training in the fifth semester and worksalternating semesters

Conference Session

Improving Student Entrepreneurial Skills

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University; David Barbe, University of Maryland

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

creative, inventive, and innovative thinking, at FAU, UMD and JHU. Thematerial is based on a continuously improved/modified curriculum. This includes common sense,intuition, imagination, teaming, thinking, diversity, and communication activities; problemexploration, risk taking activities, and team-based competitions; student presentations anddiscussions; projects, teasers and 3-d puzzles.Students helped in putting these sources together. We learned a lot by observing studentsdiscovering problems, trying to solve them, facing and resolving difficulties, taking risks,struggling under time constraints, and presenting their work. Of great advantage was an exercisewhere student teams prepared videos on their perception of innovation (published on

Conference Session

Project-based Learning and Other Pedagogical Innovations

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Cressler, Georgia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

, this classical course model is deficient, and mustchange if the future educational needs of our students are to be best satisfied, and our globalcommunity best served. Of particular interest in this context is the exposure of non-engineeringmajors (e.g., management students) to micro/nanotechnology, something they would generallynever encounter in a “normal” college undergraduate curriculum. We offer here an example of asolution to this dilemma by describing a new course introduced at Georgia Tech which dealssquarely with micro/nanotechnology at the undergraduate level, and importantly is intended toserve undergraduate students of all majors (e.g., management, engineering, sciences, etc.) and alleducational levels (freshman through senior).At

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Gerlick, Washington State University; Denny Davis, Washington State University; Shane Brown, Washington State University; Michael Trevisan, Washington State University

and outcomes set in educational curriculum. That is, an approach to discussingand teaching nursing students, for example, to reflect on their practice may be much differentthan that of student-teachers; although the actual mental processes involved may be similar.Differences in purposes and terminology between fields have often been stated as reasons for thisconfusion in meaning. Nevertheless, reflection for learning is increasingly being purported as animportant learning outcome and educators are seeking ways to best address this in the classroom.This paper addresses this need by focusing on the reflective practice of students in engineeringcapstone design courses. This paper presents preliminary results from a study seeking to analyzeand

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education: Intercultural Awareness and International Experience

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry Bland, John Brown University

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International

the participating institutions said they were encouraging cross-culturaldevelopment, but did not assess the cross-cultural competence of students in their programs.John Brown University (JBU) has recognized the need to make global issues an integral part ofthe students’ education. The university core curriculum now requires every student to take atleast one three-hour global studies course in fulfilling degree requirements. The Department ofEngineering has embraced this activity and is working to incorporate global issues into coursesthat span the typical four-year course plan. This initiative is seen as an opportunity tosignificantly strengthen the engineering program, improve ABET outcomes, and furtherstrengthen ties with our liberal arts

Conference Session

Enhancing CE Learning Through Use of Technology

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Alhassan, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne; James Welch, Indiana-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW)

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

, Page 15.717.2analysis, and design) in a sequential approach through successive interrelated core and electivecourses (Structural Analysis, Reinforced Concrete Design, and Steel Design), supplies thestudents with the fundamentals needed to tackle large projects on their own. Using the softwarein a variety of courses allows for the students to further refine these computer skills while theyare at the university, thus fulfilling the ABET outcome of, “…an ability to use the techniques,skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.”Structural Analysis CourseCivil engineering students are first introduced to SAP2000 and ETABS in the StructuralAnalysis course, a core course in any civil engineering curriculum. SAP2000 is

Conference Session

Construction Classroom Development

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tamara Chowdhury

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Construction

: ≠ Develop program educational objectives, program outcomes, and the supporting curriculum. ≠ Integrate program outcomes and curriculum. ≠ Develop an assessment plan. ≠ Develop an evaluation and improvement plan.The continuous improvement plan and program assessment activities are shown inthe flow chart below. Page 15.376.5 Benchmarking: Visit to other Exit Student Southern

Conference Session

Fulfilling the CE BOK2 - Case Studies

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George List, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

  introduction  to  environmental  engineering  class  that can  be taken  by  all  students.  Further  changes  being  considered  include  classes  in  sustainability and  sensors  and  instrumentation,  and  an  introductory  class  in  construction  engineering.  The humanities  and  social  studies  requirements  have  also  just  been  revised  as  a  result  of  a redefinition of the campus­wide general education requirements. Evaluation of Current Civil Engineering Program versus the BOK2 Outcomes This discussion needs to begin with a fundamental observation that the BSCE curriculum at NC State is  not predicated on either BOK1 or BOK2. It is designed to meet the needs of the  firms that  hire  our  students  and  the  current  ABET  criteria