Conference Session

Innovative Instructional Strategies and Curricula

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Murray Teitell, DeVry University, Long Beach; William Sullivan, DeVry University

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Mathematics

lecture with little to nointeraction with the professor, curriculum or fellow students. In active learning, the student istasked with a higher level of ownership in regard to academic success. The professor activelyfacilitates learning through discussion, feedback and other interactive models and thus servesmore as a teaching mentor and guide rather than a traditional lecturer. An example of activelearning is a student providing a differential equation for a hydraulic system and then challengedto learn everything they need to know to solve it. Taking the lead from accreditation bodies,progress in a course is measured in terms of desired outcomes—skills and knowledge the studentshould possess upon completion. Achievement of the outcomes is then

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Learning by Doing

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicholas Melin, United States Military Academy; Richard Hallon, United States Military Academy; Joseph Hanus, United States Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

2008 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Pittsburg, PA.13. Hanus, J. P., Russell, J. S., (2007). “Integrating the Development of Teamwork, Diversity, Leadership, and Communication Skills into a Capstone Design Course.” Proceedings of the 2007 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Honolulu, HI.14. Meyer, F., Conley, C., Hanus, J., Klosky, L. (2008). “A Global Curriculum to Support Civil Engineering in Developing Nations.” Proceedings of the 2008 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Pittsburg, PA.15. Williams, K. and Pender, G. (2006). “Problem-Based Learning Approach to Construction

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Faculty Development for Distance Learning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gene Dixon, East Carolina University

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Continuing Professional Development

curriculum that is rooted in the discipline in which the course if being offered; Page 15.152.4 2. The course contains a set of organized community-based learning activities through which students directly service a constituency as a means to address an identified community need; 3. The course provides structured opportunities for students to formally connect their service activities to the course curriculum and to broader social issues through reflective methods. ≠ Faculty scholarship associated with curricular engagement is scholarly activity that faculty produce in

Conference Session

Computers and Software in Teaching Mathematics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zohra Manseur, SUNY Oswego; Adrian Ieta, SUNY Oswego; Rachid Manseur, SUNY-Oswego

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Mathematics

.” Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Session # 2265, 2005.5. Buechler, D. N. “Mathematical Background Versus Success in Electrical Engineering.” Proceedings of the 2004 Annual Conference & Exposition, Session No. 3565, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 20-23, 2004.6. Duderstadt, J.J. “Engineering for a changing world, a roadmap to the future of Engineering Practice, Research and Education”, The Millenium Project. The University of Michigan. 2008.7. Beichner, R. J., L. Bernold, E. Burniston, P. Dail, R. Felder, J. Gastineau, M. Gjertsen, and John Risley. “Case study of the physics component of an integrated curriculum.” American Journal of Physics, 67.S1

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tirupalavanam Ganesh, Arizona State University; John Thieken, Arizona State University; Dale Baker, Arizona State University; Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Monica Elser, Arizona State University; Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University; Chell Roberts, Arizona State University; Jay Golden, Ph.D., is a faculty member in ASU’s School of Sustainability and codirector of the; James Middleton, Arizona State University; Sharon Robinson Kurpius

and qualitative), curriculum design, curriculum implementation, and sustainability.Dale Baker, Arizona State University Dale Baker, Ed.D., is an international expert in equity issues in science education. She was honored in 2006-07 as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for this body of work. In 2008 she was elected fellow of the American Educational Research Association. She is a former editor of the Journal of Research in Science Teaching.Stephen Krause, Arizona State University Stephen Krause, Ph.D., is professor of Materials Science and Engineering. His research in engineering education has focused on misconceptions and he has expertise in the development of

Conference Session

Enhancing CE Learning Through Use of Technology

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Parhum Delgoshaei, Virginia Tech; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Tech; Chelsea Green, Virginia Tech

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Civil Engineering

1995. His research interests are in the areas of knowledge modeling, water and energy sustainability, engineering learning modules for freshmen, and international collaboration. He leads a major curriculum reform project (2004-09), funded under the department-level reform program of the NSF, at Virginia Tech. A spiral curriculum approach is adopted to reformulate engineering curriculum in bioprocess engineering in this project. He co-authored an award winning paper with his PhD student at the 2007 annual conference of ASEE. He received the College of Engineering Faculty Fellow award in 2008.Chelsea Green, Virginia Tech Chelsea Green is a graduate student in the Department of Civil and

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dick Blandford, University of Evansville; Christina Howe, University of Evansville; Anthony Richardson, University of Evansville; David Mitchell, University of Evansville

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Electrical and Computer

computer engineering and computer sciencemajors. Computer engineering faculty are presently considering whether the curriculum needs tobe altered to place more emphasis on these two courses. It seems likely that we will require thecourse on Human-Computer interfacing and make the presently required course on ProgrammingLanguages an elective. A revision of the linear systems sequence is being considered to providemore emphasis on Digital Signal Processing.It seems unlikely that we will ever have open ended projects related to Probability and Statistics,Algorithms, Database Systems, Social and Professional Issues, or Software Engineering. Thesetopics will be left for coverage in the senior capstone project or in other coursework. Ourprogram provides

Conference Session

Design Education I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jahangir Ansari, Virginia State University

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Manufacturing

courses in which engineering design is included. These courses are: • ENGR 200-Engineering Graphics, • MANE 310-CAD/CAM, • MANE 315-Manufacturing Automation, • MANE 420-Simulation, • ENGR 430-Quality Control, and • MANE 450-Manufacturing Design Implementation. Page 15.352.3These six major courses and some other courses distributed throughout the curriculum include elementsof design that adequately defines an integrated design experience for students in the manufacturingengineering program. During the senior year, students also may gain additional design experience in theirchosen ENGR/MANE elective

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Thinking, Reasoning & Engineering in Elementary School

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Bedward, North Carolina State University; Eric Wiebe, North Carolina State University; Lauren Madden, North Carolina State University; James Minogue, North Carolina State University; Mike Carter, North Carolina State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

world. Technology design involves theapplication of knowledge to new situations or goals, resulting in the development of newknowledge 5. However, recent research has demonstrated that difficulties of effectively bringingsubstantive math and science content to bear in middle and high school pre-engineering curricula6 . These challenges for relevant math and science integration are even greater at the elementarylevel 7. With little room for new curriculum, there is a need to develop innovative instructionalstrategies that leverage existing inquiry-based science curriculum to support engineeringeducation goals. We suggest graphic-based modeling as a mediating process between inquiryscience and engineering design, providing students with a robust

Conference Session

Communication - Needs and Methods

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Lockwood, University of Calgary; Daryl Caswell, University of Calgary; Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary

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Liberal Education

the role of the communications instructor to capitalize on this manyfaceted skill set that, if properly integrated, can greatly enhance the quality, scope andrelevance to the engineering educational coursework.IntroductionCommunication is increasingly an element of engineering education. A brief survey ofthe curriculum of ten Canadian and American engineering programs1 reveals that at leastone course in communication is mandatory across the board. In the past this course was Page 15.292.2almost exclusively a university-dictated compulsory communications course, designedfor students in many disciplines. While certainly better than no communications

Conference Session

Innovations in Power Education in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher Lashway, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg; Peter Idowu, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg

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Electrical and Computer

[10], an academic unit started a two-year project geared toward developing computer-based laboratory instruments (CLIs) for custom hardware. The program goal was set to have theCLIs integrated into the undergraduate curriculum, giving students a first-hand laboratoryexperience. The ease of use and flexibility demonstrated in LabView made it a proficientsolution.The unique UPS system that this paper is focused on presents a similar opportunity in the designof electronic instrumentation and control for a custom UPS system. The purpose is to adapt theindustrial power unit for educational purposes in power electronics and energy storage areas.Traditionally, undergraduate programs supplement instruction with a series of laboratoryexperiments in

Conference Session

Educational Research

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Lattuca, Pennsylvania State University; David Knight, The Pennsylvania State University

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Educational Research and Methods

integration of disciplinary components isone potential outcome of interdisciplinary work, but according to this definition, it is not the onlycriterion for interdisciplinarity.Repko (2008)5 argues that interdisciplinarity “should be defined in terms of integration” and that“the disciplines themselves are the necessary preconditions for and foundation ofinterdisciplinarity” (p. 123). The task in an interdisciplinary project is to “identify the perspectiveof each discipline and interdisciplinei and their defining elements relevant to the problem [to besolved]” (2008, p. 122). This process of achieving integration, according to Klein (1996, p.221)14, requires identifying, evaluating, and rectifying differences between disciplinary insights.The OECD

Conference Session

Instrumentation in Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Asad Yousuf, Savannah State University; Mohamad Mustafa, Savannah State University; Alberto De La Cruz, Savannah State University

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Instrumentation

, according to this criterion. Second, the centrality criterion means that projects in which students learn things that are outside the curriculum ("enrichment" projects) are also not examples of PBL, no matter how appealing or engaging.(2) PBL projects are focused on questions or problems that "drive" students to encounter (and struggle with) the central concepts and principles of a discipline. This criterion is a subtle one. The definition of the project (for students) must "be crafted in order to make a connection between activities and the underlying conceptual knowledge that one might hope to foster."(3) Projects involve students in a constructive investigation. An investigation is a goal-directed process that involves

Conference Session

Sustainable Energy Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Connie Gomez, University of Texas at El Paso; Heidi Taboada, University of Texas at El Paso; Jose Espiritu, University of Texas at El Paso; Noe Vargas Hernandez, The University of Texas at El Paso

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

curriculum must span sustainability design, sustainablemanufacturing, and the interaction between sustainability and entrepreneurship. The proposedcurriculum implements teaching modules and a team teaching approach. The modules areproblem-based and result in creating an interdisciplinary educational experience for students.Therefore, one of the main goals of our team will focus on reshaping Manufacturing Engineeringcurricula to respond to current demands to produce environmentally conscious engineers capableof understanding biomaterials manufacturing processes and their implications. There is no doubtthat more attention is needed to be able to create a sustainable environment. Then, most of the

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Progress Reports: Part II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott Miller, Virginia Tech; Jeffrey Connor, Virginia Tech

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Engineering Technology

laptops within their curriculum or provide students with an incentive to use theirlaptops properly, they will continue to struggle with the negative effects of laptops in theclassroom.Introduction Observing any college campus today, a person can easily determine the impact of laptopson students’ study habits. Many students take their laptops with them to all their classes and areencouraged to use them for note taking. It is safe to assume that utilization of personal computershas been fully integrated into college academia during the past fifteen years. In the mid-1990s,college universities began requiring all students to purchase laptops recognizing the potentialpersonal computers had to increase the efficiency of an individual student’s

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hakan Gurocak, Washington State University, Vancouver

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Mechanical Engineering

software such as MATLAB.Robotics integrates computer programming, electronics and mechanical design into a finalproduct or system. As such, it provides an exciting platform for hands-on learning1-7. However,the lecture-only format of the typical robotics courses cannot take full advantage of this. It ispossible to change the format into a lecture-and-lab format, as is the case at many universities.But often there is no room in the curriculum for additional credits or additional resources, suchas teaching assistants for the lab, are not available to accomplish this change.This paper presents a hybrid course format as an alternative way to introduce hands-onexperience into an otherwise lecture-only format robotics course. The course runs as a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cheryl West, UMass Lowell; John Duffy, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Manuel Heredia, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts Lowell

initiativedesigned to sequentially infuse S-L throughout engineering curriculum as a broad approach topromote development of better engineers, more engaged citizens, along with engineering thecommon good in communities. Chemical, Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, and PlasticsEngineering departments within the college integrated S-L activities into 192 course offerings (5intro, 65 ME, 32 EE, 47 CE, 31 PlE, 12 ChE) across the last five years that involved an averageof 753 undergraduate students each semester carrying out S-L projects. Half of the faculty hasbeen involved.In order to discover student views about S-L activities in engineering courses, and to betterunderstand why students seem more motivated to learn with S-L, administration of 399 pre-S-Lsurveys

Conference Session

Leadership and Strategic Planning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Keynton, University of Louisville; James Fiet, University of Louisville; Pankaj Patel, Ball State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

31 out of 31business plans according to their expected financial performance. This program was anexperiment to see if the search model can improve the odds of aspiring PhD entrepreneurs todevelop successful business ventures in the growing biomedical device industry.The program consists of three integrated components incorporating the search model: (1) anInnovation Training Program for researchers and PhD level graduate bioengineering students; (2)an Innovative Research Fund to provide “discovery grants” for early stage research projects; and,(3) the Business Development Network to assist innovators with one-stop shopping forpatenting, determining market feasibility, business planning, licensing, and new business start-ups (Figure 1).PhD

Conference Session

Measuring the Impacts of Project-Based Service Learning on Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University; Colleen O'Holleran, Engineers Without Borders-USA; Cathy Leslie, Engineers Without Borders

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International

, and ASCE chapters) and a Summit gathering a subset of these advisors.This paper will present some of the main findings from the survey, an overview of the Summitstructure, and preliminary findings from that meeting.2. Faculty SurveyThe survey focused on two main topics, service learning in engineering education, and aspects ofbeing an advisor. Nearly 100 responses were gathered; response rates among EWB-USAadvisors were much higher than those for ASME and ASCE, 30% versus 6%, suggesting generalinterest in the subject. Among respondents, nearly 40% of engineering colleges have servicelearning courses (Figure 1); most engineering faculty though admit to using an informaldefinition of service learning, so these courses may better be described as

Conference Session

Innovations in Power Education in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ruben Otero, Student at University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez; Apurva Somani, University of Minnesota; Krushna Mohapatra, University of Minnesota; Ned Mohan, University of Minnesota

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2010-498: EMULATION OF A WIND TURBINE SYSTEMRuben Otero, Student at University of Puerto Rico - MayaguezApurva Somani, University of MinnesotaKrushna Mohapatra, University of MinnesotaNed Mohan, University of Minnesota Page 15.458.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Emulation of a Wind Turbine SystemAbstractRecently there has been an increasing interest in wind power generation systems. Amongrenewable sources of energy (excluding hydro power), wind energy offers the lowest cost. It istherefore imperative that basics of wind power generation be taught in the undergraduateelectrical engineering curriculum. In this paper, an experiment

Conference Session

Special Session: Impacts of Service in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; John Duffy, University of Massachusetts Lowell

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Educational Research and Methods

can doin the process of providing useful services to community groups. Embedding S-L projects inrequired courses sends a message that service is part of what engineers do as professionals. Inother words, it is a given that service is part of the curriculum and part of the profession.Interviews with students and faculty who have participated in such projects have independentlyidentified this aspect of S-L (Burack, Duffy, Melchior, & Morgan, 2008) (West, theseproceedings, 2010). For example, solving community problems was discussed with student’soften emphatically stating, “That is the role of an engineer!”    One faculty member even said, “It[service-learning] will change the way we think about engineering. It adds an additionaldimension

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Division Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

L. Brent Jenkins, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Electrical and Computer

the lecture and lab activities described herein assisted their learning.IntroductionIn 1975, an MIT study published by ASEE1 noted that "educational experience in design shouldbe promoted as early as possible...and should be available as an integrated part of the engineeringcurriculum." A subsequent push to "integrate design throughout the curriculum"2 led programsto add design content in lower-division (e.g., freshman engineering) courses3,4 and augmentdesign activities in upper-division courses.Instructional laboratories are a natural setting for design5, but meaningful exercises in lower-division courses pose a challenge. Several efforts have been reported which involve the addition ofelectronics topics to an introductory circuit analysis

Conference Session

Technology-Enhanced Learning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Glenda Scales, Virginia Tech; Sharon Caraballo, George Mason University; James Groves, University of Virginia; Rosalyn Hobson, Virginia Commonwealth University; Linda Vahala, Old Dominion University; Catherine Amelink, Virginia Tech

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Continuing Professional Development

AC 2010-1511: IMPLEMENTING TABLET PCS IN A DISTANCE LEARNINGENVIRONMENTGlenda Scales, Virginia Tech Dr. Glenda R. Scales serves as both Associate Dean for International Programs and Information Technology and Director of the Commonwealth Graduate Engineering Program (CGEP) in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. Dr. Scales also provides leadership for international programs, research computing and academic computing within the College of Engineering. She holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a concentration in Instructional Technology from Virginia Tech, an M.S. in Applied Behavioral Science from Johns Hopkins and a B.S. in Computer Science from Old Dominion

Conference Session

Instrumentation in Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David McDonald, Lake Superior State University

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Instrumentation

exhibit a higher level of satisfaction with the course asindicated by Pape4. Casey et al5 reported that, while project work was always seen as an integralpart of later semesters in the curriculum, the need became evident to apply project-based learning(PBL) earlier, primarily to motivate early-stage students that otherwise failed to recognize theapplicability of what they were studying to their future professions.Electric Vehicle InstructionThere is tremendous interest in electric vehicles today. Several major automotive manufacturersare developing an electric car for mass production, and the United States is on the eve of massproducing an electric car for the first time in history. US Economic Stimulus funding and similaractivities are

Conference Session

Simple Classroom Demonstrations for Mechanics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tanya Kunberger; Kristine Csavina; Robert O'Neill

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Mechanics

interdisciplinary courses, the roster contains students in bioengineering, civil engineering,and environmental engineering. Topics in statics and dynamics are discipline specific in variouscourses offered in the curriculum at the junior and senior levels. The majority of engineeringcourses at Florida Gulf Coast University are offered in the integrated lecture-lab format. Thismeans that for a four credit course, class meets twice a week for 2 ¾ hours each time. Becauseof the extended class period, presenting the necessary material in an engaging format and notoverloading students on new concepts requires additional considerations over what might occurin a course that has 50-minute sessions three times a week.Dynamics accounts for approximately 40% of the

Conference Session

The New ABET CE Criteria - Program Development

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald Welch, University of Texas, Tyler

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Civil Engineering

Engineering Program solution: a new course added to the curriculum toensure coverage of the professional topics in the title as well as other professional skillsat a time when the program was teaching its senior level courses for the first time duringthe ABET record year (2007-2008). The new course was CENG 4341 Leadership, PublicPolicy, Business Practices, and Asset Management which would provide coverage of thethree new outcomes in the BOK which are represented by program outcome 9 as well asdemonstration of parts of Outcomes 6, 7, and 8.9 Formal assignment of embeddedindicators to courses based on perceived ability to demonstrate an outcome to includeCENG 4341 provided the best odds at being BOK compliant and passing the ABET visit.The result

Conference Session

Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Grondin, Arizona State University; Chell Roberts, Arizona State University

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Liberal Education

specialization. We requirejust above the minimum content but view the last two years of the engineering programas being centered in a primary focus area which the student selects from a menu thatcurrently consists of three choices: sustainable land development; electrical integration of Page 15.421.3engineering systems; and mechanical systems. Prior to the junior year the student doesnot need to select any particular focus inside of engineering. These foci are probablylarger than Newberry and Farison’s “short stem” but are definitely smaller than that thedisciplinary options of an instrumental program, which Newberry and Farison describe astypically closely

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mathew Hagge, Iowa State University; Gloria Starns, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Remediation: Evidence from Functional MRI," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 4 March 2003, pp. 2860-65.4. Dee Fink. Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Page 15.307.19 Designing College Courses,. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003.5. Jensen, Eric. Enriching the Brain: How to Maximize Every Learner’s Potential. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006.6. Erickson, Lynn. Concept Based Curriculum and Instruction for the Thinking Classroom. Thousand Oaks, California: Corwin Press, 2007.7. Ibid8. Ibid.9. Sweller, John. “Cognitive Load During Problem Solving

Conference Session

POTPOURRI

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Guy Johnson, Rochester Institute of Technology; Brian Tomaszewski, RIT

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Information Systems

to respond to the disaster. Most data and information have geographic elements, and many problems facing the world today are geographical in nature. For example, the complexity of climate change can best be understood when viewed from a geographical, multi-scale perspective of interconnected human/environment systems. The inherent geographical nature of various forms of data, information, and structure of problems has lead to numerous applications of GTs in scientific and engineering disciplines. As the barriers to the use and exploitation of GTs have been lowered, the application of GTs in practical problem solving has grown. For example, GTs are now an integral part of society’s approach in solving problems of emergency

Conference Session

Simple Classroom Demonstrations for Mechanics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Kiefer, Michigan State University

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Mechanics

engineering principles. In an attempt to boost retention by better connecting with today’s engineering students,eight universities participated in a National Science Foundation sponsored project to change theundergraduate Mechanical Engineering Curriculum to make it more attractive to a diversecommunity of students.4 One of the efforts of this project was to develop application-basedlesson plans that would use real life examples to demonstrate basic engineering concepts.Specifically, Eann Patterson developed a set of example problems that could be used in anintroductory solid mechanics course.5 This paper provides an instructor review of five of these