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Frank Peters; John Jackman; Sarah Ryan; Sigurdur Olafsson

An Active Learning Environment in an Integrated Industrial Engineering Curriculum Frank Peters, John Jackman, Sarah Ryan, Sigurdur Olafsson Department of Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering fpeters@iastate.edu, jkj@iastate.edu, smryan@iastate.edu, olafsson@iastate.edu Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011AbstractWe are developing a new learning environment that supports a suite of interrelated modulesbased on real-world scenarios. The primary goals of the project are to integrate industrialengineering courses, improve students’ information technology skills, and enhance students’problem

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James A. Davis; Melissa Dark

]. There is an urgent need to significantly increase the number of graduates who areprepared for careers in the IA fields. A major barrier to meeting this challenge is that fewUniversities currently offer a comprehensive IA educational program; furthermore, sufficientnumbers of experienced faculty to ramp up such an effort does not exist. Given the growingneed for graduates educated in computer security and the current lack of a capacity to meet thatneed, there is a premium placed on leveraging existing expertise by sharing instructionalmaterials for core concepts. This will succeed on the scale needed only if there is an acceptedIA curriculum framework in place. CNSS Job

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Emmanuel Ugo Enemuoh

Integrating Design of Experiments and Writing into a Manufacturing Processes Course Emmanuel Ugo Enemuoh, Ph.D. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering University of Minnesota Duluth eenemuoh@d.umn.eduAbstractThe manufacturing processes course taught at the University of Minnesota Duluth is anintegration of traditional lecture, writing, and laboratory intensive. The laboratory componentfocuses on the use of writing and design of experiments to analyze and characterizemanufacturing processes. Results and observations from the experiments are presented in ajournal format. Plastic injection molding, green sand casting, extrusion

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Karen C. Chou; W. James Wilde; Saeed Moaveni

expansion. In addition to meeting ABET's major design experiencerequirement, this design experience also achieves the following:• The major design experience is integrated throughout the program with minimal interruption to the more traditional curriculum.• Students can gain a perspective of how different levels of their learning and knowledge contribute to a real-world civil engineering project.• Students develop a good rapport with peers in their class and other classes and foster a mentoring relationship.• The project forges more (perhaps better) interaction and communication among engineers, faculty, and students.As the civil engineering program matures and the class size increases, we plan to require theproject team to

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Beckry Abdel-Magid; Yunsheng Xu

of open endedproblems, communication skills and preparation for professional developmentand lifelong learning.While some engineering schools are revamping their whole programs to includethese topics [5], other programs are using simple mechanisms such as requiredor elective courses to integrate these topics in the traditional curriculum. Twocourse that are used to introduce undergraduate research and lifelong learningskills to engineering students are discussed in this paper. The first is a requiredone-credit engineering seminar course, and the second is an electiveindependent study course.Elements of Research and Lifelong Learning SkillsResearch experience is very valuable to undergraduate engineering students. Itprovides them with an

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Rebecca E. Burnett

of communication skills and thegrowth of their expert-like behaviors is the focus of this paper. It begins with a very brief reviewof literature, continues with an equally brief identification of some critical assumptions and theirimplications for assessment of communication in engineering students, and concludes bysuggesting quantitative and qualitative assessment strategies and one way to ensurepedagogical integrity for the assessment process. data can provide a rich picture of students’communicative competence.Research about engineering communicationResearch in rhetoric establishes a positive relationship between technical knowledge and anability to communicate that knowledge, so students can improve their understanding of

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Marlee A. Walton

CE Integrated Program. Specifically, the integratedprogram, which began a phased implementation in the Spring of 2001, already covers: • The 11 ABET outcomes • Leadership • Project management/construction • Business principles/public policyWhile the CE Integrated Program addresses nearly all the elements in the proposed BOK,it is uncertain if the elements are provided at the appropriate level of competency toassure civil engineers are successful in the future. Therefore, the BOK CurriculaCommittee invited Iowa State University’s CCEE Department to be one of the selectedinstitutes to develop a model curriculum to satisfy the BOK at the necessary competencylevel. To date, Iowa State University, Colorado

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Alec B. Scranton

increasingly required to use the Internet to work together from remote locations.For this reason, it is important for students to begin developing their communication skills in thisrelatively new medium early in an engineering curriculum. To meet this need, the courseincludes a cooperative learning group project called the “People Balance Project” in which thestudents work together in interdependent groups of five, with each group member assuming adifferent role essential to the success of the project. Since the project is delivered andimplemented on the Internet, a group may include members from different sections of thecourse, different universities, or even different countries. In the project each group of studentscollects data on the people

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Melinda Gallagher; Lawrence J. Genalo

classroom instructors who modeled exemplary use oftechnology. The students were required to enroll in a technology rich engineering coursecalled Toying With TechnologySM which offered a positive, comfortable, and stimulatingatmosphere in order to introduce preservice teachers to aspects of science, math, andtechnology in the context of engineering. As a major component of the course, studentswere required to research and design an Engineering ABC Book tailored to both K-12students and classroom curriculum. A description of the Toying With TechnologySMcourse, cohort, and the Engineering ABC Book Project are examined and described.IntroductionToday, more than ever before, technological competence has become crucial tomaintaining our nation’s position

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Fahmida Masoom; Abulkhair Masoom

engineering science courses.This paper is a discussion of assessment measures that are employed by the GeneralEngineering Department at UW-P and raises questions about what more could be done.Assessment is an integral part of the academic process. It requires and reflects a long-termcommitment to the program and its constituencies, viz., the students, alumni and industrypartners. Like most engineering programs, we have had a long history of self-assessment and 2improvement. However, we have had little documentation of processes already in place.Although we are in the middle of an ABET accredited cycle, there has been significant pressurefrom the campus administration to document