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Christopher J. Lowrance

An Efficient Teaching Technique for Engineering Major Christopher J. Lowrance Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996 Christopher.Lowrance@usma.eduAbstractAlmost every professor has experimented with various teaching techniques in order to find aneffective way to reach their students. As a new instructor to engineering trying to find my ownpreferred teaching style, I found a particular technique to be extremely effective in terms itsbenefits and the positive feedback I receive from my students. According to numerous educationexperts, just purely lecturing

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American Society For Engineering Education Spring 2010 Middle-Atlantic Section Conference ENGINEERING EDUCATION:GLOBAL CHALLENGES, LOCAL SOLUTIONS April 16-17 2010 , ACOPIAN ENGINEERING CENTER LAFAYETTE COLLEGE Easton, Pennsylvania Leading Engineering Technologies, LLC1BIOGRAPHIES OF KEYNOTE SPEAKERSAlexander W. Masetti Renata S. EngelVice President, Continuous Improvement Professor & Associate Dean Undergraduate StudiesAlexander W. Masetti was appointed vicepresident, continuous improvement, in Renata S. Engel is associate dean for

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Barbara E. Mizdail

continuedinterest in serving as productive contributors in our continuously changing world. These firstyear engineers demonstrated that they are up to the challenge.Appendix A: Four phases of Technical Project Management2Phase I - Conception PhaseActivity 1: Select the Project a. Choose a Project – Brainstorm with others to choose a project b. Select one of the proposed projects or suggest another project. Come up with a concept first formulated in the mind of one or more persons. It may be a concept that can be designed or developed immediately, or it may require further study.Activity 2: Organize a Team a. Choose 2 – 4 class members/TeamActivity 3: Initiate conception Phase Documents a

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William Hornfeck; Ismail Jouny; John Nestor

first semester canbe amplified in the larger team-oriented design experience.V. ConclusionEngineers and scientists face challenges in both complexity and scope of modern problems.Many of the complexities go beyond the purely technical and involve collaboration acrossnational and cultural boundaries5. Likewise, the scope of today’s major technical challengesplaces them in the category of “grand challenges” whose solutions have worldwide implications.Today’s Electrical and Computer Engineering graduates need preparation that respects the globalnature of the profession that awaits them. The challenge of teaching the Electrical and ComputerEngineering curriculum with this in mind has been outlined in this paper. In addition, somestrategies

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Carl A. Erikson

engineer. 7 Basic Steps in the Engineering Design 7 Basic Steps in Writing a Paper Process1] Idea – “Let’s build a Dog House” 1] Assignments, creative thoughts, free writes2] Design – get plans, specifications 2] Basic Format - Intro (Thesis), Body (3points), Conclusion3] Materials – wood, nails, paint 3] Words! Use of Dictionary & Thesaurus are helpful4] Tools – saw, hammer, ruler, paint brush 4] Mind, Library, research, word processor, writer’s reference5

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Andrew Grossfield P.E.

engineering students visualize in their minds,loading, shear and moment diagrams in order to predict deflections. Freebody diagrams areessential to the solution of statics problems. It is wrong to deny engineering students theadvantages of visualizing math functions in their math courses. But the Dirichlet function andthe other “monstrous” functions that scared the 19th century mathematicians cannot bevisualized. Limit the first course in calculus to the piece-wise continuous and monotonicfunctions that the engineering students need and are able to visualize. Let us concede it isunsound to teach everything all at once and let these functions be studied in the order they werediscovered by mankind. When function sequences and series are studied, and

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William Jemison; Christopher Nadovich

LPRDS – A Requirements-Driven team-Based Design of a 2kW Solar Energy System William D. Jemison and Christopher T. Nadovich Electrical & Computer Engineering Lafayette College, Easton, PA 18042AbstractThis paper will describe a capstone senior design course that features a team-based requirements-driven project. The project scope is selected such that thetechnical requirements are sufficiently complex to require a team-based solution.The project implementation is designed to force the students to consider realisticformal engineering requirements and specifications while offering significantopportunities for student leadership. The most recent embodiment of

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Arthur D. Kney P.E.; Nancy Ball; Traci Shoemaker; Danuta Bukatko; Angela Moran; Joe Colosi

@desales.eduAbstractThis experience connects world-traveling college students with elementary and middle schoolstudents currently in traditional classroom settings. The purpose is to spark excitement forscience, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) using a non-traditional approach.The focus of the program is to strengthen STEM learning in K-7 students while alsostrengthening the academic value of college trips. Active curricular participation andcollaboration between traveling college students and K-7 classrooms make this a transformativeeducational process.During winter and spring breaks, U.S. college students travel around the world to gain a globalperspective on many issues; however, their experiences are rarely shared. The developing modelis