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the average studentperforms 2% better than predicted and the distribution of this difference is negatively skewed (-0.64) indicating the bulk of the students outperform the prediction.Also notice in Figure 1 that no students were predicted to finish with above a 93%. This is likelydue to the fact that few students earn all A’s and A+’s in previous coursework, so very few havea GPA higher than 4.0. This prediction, therefore, fails to predict that students will score an A+in a future course. 100% 95% 90% Actual Performance (in CE300) 85% 80% 75

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process and the team has demonstrated proper design methodology during the design process.Automotive Systems Capstone The ME492 (Mechanical Powertrains and Vehicle Dynamics) course provides much of the basicknowledge required of mechanical engineering majors to participate in the Society of AutomotiveEngineers’ BAJA SAE competition. In academic year 08 a new course director took over the course.This course director had served as a committee member for the academic year 07’s Baja-SAE team. InAY 07 it was quickly apparent that the Baja-SAE team lacked some basic knowledge required to properdesign of the vehicle. A review of the AY 07 ME492 syllabus revealed some of the underlying causes: Lesson

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Elif Kongar; Tarek Sobh

22Max Faculty professional development funding $125K $87K $75K 23Max #GA’s and RA’s offered per semester (credit hours) 1170 360 300 24Max Student professional development funding $65K $26K $25K 25Max Staff salaries (current average, all without Dean) $65K $61K $61K 26Max Session Chairmanships 42 24 21 27Max Tech-related expenditure (s/w, h/w, etc.) $4M $2.7M $2.0M 28Max # online courses offered/year

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Christopher W. Swan; Julia Carroll

A Brighter Economic Future. National Academies of Sciences, National Academies Press, Washington, D.C.4. ABET (2007). Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs. The Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. http://www.abet.org/.5. Goldberg, D.E. (2006), The Entrepreneurial Engineer. John Wiley and Sons, New Jersey.6. Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at IIT. http://ethics.iit.edu/codes/engineer.html (Accessed March 14, 2008).7. Freeman, S.; Matson, D.; Sharpe, G.; and Swan, C. (2006) “International Citizenship and Global Service Leadership – The Role of Interdisciplinary Teams in Engineering Education”, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Chicago IL

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Eileen M. Kowalski; Joe D. Manous

Education and Practice. 131:4, 218-222.7. Friesen, Marcia, K. Lynn Taylor, and M.G. Britton (2005) “A Qualitative Study of a Course Trilogy in Biosystems Engineering Design”. Journal of Engineering Education. 94:3, 287-296.8. Grigg, Neil S., Marvin E. Criswell, Darrell G. Fontane, Laurel Saito, Thomas J. Siller, and Daniel K. Sunada (2004) “Integrated Civil Engineering Curriculum: Five-Year Review”. Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice. 130:3, 160-165.9. Light, Richard J., Judith D. Singer, and John B. Willett (1990) By Design, Planning Research on Higher Education. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 296p.10. Newstetter, Wendy C. (2005) “Designing Cognitive Apprenticeships for

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Ismail I. Orabi

how well existing material will translate online, creating new approaches tocommunicating with students, and evaluating and rebuilding the course as problems arise.AcknowledgmentI would like to thank all the students that took part in the survey.Bibliography1. Charp, S. (1998). Any time, any place learning. T H E Journal, 25(8), 6.2. Chickering, A. W., & Gamson, Z. F. (1991). Seven principles for good practice in undergraduateeducation. In3. A. W. Chickering & Z. F. Gamson (Eds.), Applying the Seven Principles for Good Practice inUndergraduate Education, New Directions for Teaching and Learning (pp. 63-69). San Francisco:Jossey-Bass.4. Green, K. (1997). Drawn to the light, burned by the flame? Money, technology and distance

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Bahram Nassersharif

classroom). Each projector screen will cover two of the flat screen LCD monitors when inuse. Therefore, the visual system in the room can be operated in one of three modes: 1. Four projectors 2. Two projectors and four LCD monitors 3. Eight LCD monitorsThe instructor station is an Intel Quadcore PC with a quad-port video board, 1 terabyte of disk storage,and 4 gigabytes of memory. The instructor station is also equipped with two WACOM pen screensallowing the instructor to write on the computer screen. We chose the Synchroneyes software to controlthe student workstations. With this software the instructor can broadcast their screen(s) to all studentscreens or project any student’s screen to their own screen.The technology environment for

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Hudson V. Jackson; Evelyn A. Ellis

Career Choice Practical Figure 1.0: Schematics of Proposed StrategyEmphasis is placed on encouraging students to recognize the relevance of engineering to their own lives,as they now know it. Key points that would be highlighted in both examples include: • What led to the development of such principles? • How was society impacted then, as well as now? • Was there any technological/engineering advancement as a result of this? • Who were the key players? • How has or how can this be applied? • Example application(s)/events specific to each grade level. • Relevance to present day--making it personal. • Are the right connections being made? Putting it all together.It is

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Richard J.H. Gash; David Fedroff

standard undergraduate courses of study.1. U.S. Green Building Council, LEED for New Construction and Major Renovations, Version 2.2, October, 2005.2. Kosmatka, S., Kerkhoff, B., and Panarese, W.; Design and Control of Concrete Mixtures, 14th Edition, PortlandCement Association, Skokie, Illinois, 2002. 6

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Diana Schwerha; Chang Liu; Sertac Ozercan; Tripura Vadlamani; Lev Neiman

Statistics," College Student Journal, vol. 41, pp. 454-459, June.2007.[4] F. A. Conners, S. M. Mccown and B. Roskos-Ewoldson, "Unique challenges in teachingundergraduates statistics," Teaching of Psychology, vol. 25, pp. 40, 1998.[5] T. Franklin, J. Mayles, C. Liu and D. Chelberg, "Games and engineers in the science classroom: Acase study," in 18th International Conference of the Society for Information Technology & TeacherEducation (SITE), 2007,[6] C. Liu, "Second life learning community--A peer-based approach to involving more faculty membersin second life," in SLSS Educator's Workshop, 2006,[7] C. Liu, "Software project demonstrations as not only an assessment tool but also a learning tool," in2006 SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer

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Vicki V. May

separate units of the course. Each person in thegroup is required to select a different reference(s) and draft the section individually; thegroup then evaluates the individual sections and combines them to create a single section,which they post to the class wiki. In addition to digital resources available to the studentsthrough Blackboard, I have placed several textbooks on reserve at the library.Student responses so far have been mixed. In addition to midterm and end-of-term surveysrelated to the effectiveness of this approach, I am tracking student usage of the digitalresources. A comparison of the class notes developed by individual students with thosedeveloped by the groups allows me to assess the contributions of the individuals and

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Adam J. Czekanski; David-Michael P. Roux

converted to grade point averages on a 4.0 scale. The block(s) of instruction each mid-termexamination covered is/are in parenthesis. The differences between the mid-term scores and the population CGPAsfrom Table 1 are also shown. Mid-Term 1 Difference Mid-Term 2 Difference Population GPA from GPA from (Block I) CGPA (Blocks II/III) CGPA Raising Hands

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Saikat Ray

U.S.A. The primary avenue of getting a job in the U.S.A. for a person who is not a citizen or a permanent resident is the H1-B visa (work visa).2 Due to immigration policies, it is easier to get the F-1 (student) visa and convert the status into H1-B after completion of the degree than directly getting the H1-B1 . Anecdotes tell that in the flourishing dot-com era of late 1990’s, many post-bachelor’s Ph.D. students would belured away by the companies. That may be the reason that in some schools it is difficult, de jure or de facto, for afunded post-bachelor’s student to get an M.S. diploma even after completing the equivalent course works.2 Obtaining employment based permanent residency (the “green card”) for getting a

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Richard B. Mindek

the PLC and switching functions, making the operation of turning the fan on safer.(5) Next, flip the toggle switch “1” of the 1796 SIM1500 Input Simulator to the up position. Note that theblinking red light turns on. This occurs because output 0 (O:0/0) of the PLC is activated from 0, OFF to1, ON. Referencing rung 2 of the ladder logic diagram in Appendix A, it is seen that O:0/0 (portrayed asa load on the right side of rung 1 of the ladder logic diagram) is activated when input 5 (I:0/5, a ladderlogic switch) is activated to 1, ON. This is done by physically moving toggle switch 1 of the 1796SIM1500 Input Simulator in the up position, completing the 24 VDC circuit. The ladder logic also showsa time base switch, or timing delay, S:4/13, in