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Jeffrey S. Burmeister; Kyle A. Watson; Maria Garcia-Sheets

What is Engineering? – a University of the Pacific MESA Program/Johns Hopkins University Partnership Jeffrey S. Burmeister, Kyle A. Watson and Maria Garcia-Sheets School of Engineering and Computer Science University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA 95211AbstractWhat is Engineering? is a course designed by Johns Hopkins University, and in partnership withThe Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Achievement (MESA) Program, conducted atmultiple sites throughout California. This course is designed to introduce multiple engineeringtopics to high school juniors and seniors. The MESA Schools Program (MSP) provides academicdevelopment for

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William R. Peterson

Academe and Industry - Where Is the Disconnect? Dr. William R. Peterson Assistant Professor Department of Technology Management College of Technology and Innovation Arizona State University Technology Center 6075 S. WMS Campus Loop W Mesa, AZ 85212 480-727-1582 (office) 480-727-1684 (fax) AbstractIndustry still reports that the new engineering

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Richard Theis; patricia watkins; Angela Beck

articulate their assumptions regarding the purpose(s)of engineering education, the role of sustainability in the engineering curriculum, and therelationship between sustainability and the “ethics” and “environmental awareness” criteriaposed by the engineers’ accreditation agency (ABET 2005). Specifically, electronic dialogicjournals will be created that allow select engineering faculty to share their pedagogical ideology,to explore the relationship between the technological content that they teach and the objectivesand outcomes required by ABET, and to articulate the methods and goals they have for shapingour students’ philosophical perspectives as regards sustainability.Word count: 199

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Keith E. Holbert; George G. Karady

—specifically a K-12 school teacher—toprovide authoritative source(s) of the STATEMENT, what was envisioned as a simple search andproof would ultimately reveal a lack of evidence for the cited statistics. The STATEMENT beingreferred to here is that people (or students) learn (or recall/remember): • 10% of what they read • 20% of what they hear • 30% of what they see • 50% of what they hear and see • 70% of what they say (and write) • 90% of what they say as they do a thingThere are various forms and permutations of the STATEMENT found in published literature. Thispaper details the results of the quest to find support for the STATEMENT. This is not the firstinvestigation into the source of these numbers, as our literature search

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Larry Jang

resultscollected during laboratory time will be presented. The use of such systems in senior ProcessControl class and Unit Operations Laboratory class greatly enhances student learning.Introduction In engineering education, one of the tasks for instructors is to bridge the “gap” betweentheory and practice for students. For years, the traditional approach adopted in most controlcurriculum is to develop dynamic models of systems using Laplace transform as the keyanalytical tool. While this approach is mature and many tuning rules have been developed forindustrial application, students tend to consider Process Control as another course inmathematics in which the usual time domain is transformed to an abstract Laplace s-domain. Afew years ago some

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Wolf-Dieter Otte; Anthony Crain

for a number of years. In these classes, students were “learning bydoing” in a semi-professional environment.Software engineering is concerned with creating and maintaining software applications byapplying technologies and practices from computer science, project management, engineering,application domains, and other fields. In other words, Software Engineering encompasses “hardskills” that pertain to Computer Science, application domain(s) and process knowledge as well as“soft skills”, like thinking conceptually, attending to detail, working in a team, leading a team,etc. Unlike hard skills, soft skills are discipline-neutral.This paper reflects on experiences the author made with optimizing the composition of projectteams. Optimization of

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Bearing Base School Girls Isolation system for Earthquake • Christos Valiotis, Improving Conceptual Engineering Demonstration Understanding and Problem Solving • Constantin Ciocanel, et al., Teaching Skills in Introductory Physics Courses Engineering Laboratories Based On A Using the Socratic Dialogue Method Problem Solving Approach • Jeffrey S. Burmeister, et al., What is • Larry Jang, Internet-based Control Engineering? – a MESA Program/Johns Systems with Demonstration of Real- Hopkins University Partnership time, Real-world Control

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Bryan Cooperrider

in Economic Settings: AnExperimental Analysis”, The Journal of Political Economy, 97 (5) pp. 1232-125416. Brown S., 2007, “The Creative Impulse”, Mechanical Engineering Design Magazine, Sept 2007, pp 24-2917. Eris, O., 2006, "Insisting on Truth at the Expense of Conceptualization: Can Engineering Portfolios Help?”International Journal of Engineering Education, 22 (3), pp. 551-55918. Faste, R., B. Roth, 1998, "The Design of Projects and Contests - the Rules of the Game." Journal of Roboticsand Mechatronics 10 (1) pp. 7-13.19. Kazerounian K., Foley S., 2007, “Barriers to Creativity in Engineering Education: A Study of Instructors andStudents Perceptions”, Journal of Mechanical Design, vol 129, pp. 761-76820. Dym C., 2006, “Engineering Design

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Christos Valiotis

requireproportional reasoning. In one of the items of the test students are asked to write an equation thatdescribes the following statement: There are six times as many students as they are instructors in this campus. Use S for students and P for professors. About 40% of the students write the equation in its incorrect form: 6S=P. When probed further,almost all of them admit that they used a straight equation using the words of the statementinstead of a proportion. Another major problem for students is their inability to assign propernames to variables7. Their confusion is compounded by the fact that the same variable sometimeshad a different meaning in mathematics than in physics. Yet another possible reason for students’poor performance in

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Nikolay Kravchuk; Ryan Colquhoun; Ali Porbaha

0.4Acceleration (ft/s )2 0.2 0 -0.2 -0.4 -0.6 No Base Isolation With Base Isolation -0.8 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Time (Seconds) Figure 8. Responses of the model structures under free vibration Forced

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Kurt Colvin; Robert Crockett

different providers over their course of study. Breadth/Depth of Material: While not quantified in this catalog, students can get an idea of the breadth (number of competencies covered) and depth (level of treatment of each compe- tency covered) of the material in a given course by noting the number of competencies cov- ered (1’s in the matrix). A large number of skills covered by a single course is typically an indication of a survey course, which may be useful for becoming well versed in the breadth of Systems Engineering, but may not serve a student’s needs as part of a focused Concentra-Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copy- right © 2008

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Kyu-Jung Kim; Amir Rezaei

Concentration Static Fatigue Static Failure Fatigue Failure S-N Diagram Cumulative Fatigue Fluctuating Fatigue Stress Modified Goodman Diagram Cylindrical Members Thin-Walled Thick-Walled Rotating Cylinder

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Edward J. Smaglik

Manual, National Research Council, Washington,D.C., 2000.2 Smaglik Edward J., A. Sharma, D.M. Bullock, J.R. Sturdevant, and G. Duncan, “Event-Based DataCollection for Generating Actuated Controller Performance Measures," Transportation Research Record,TRB, National Research Council, Washington, DC, TRB Paper ID# 07-1094, in press.3 Traffic Engineering (Third Edition) by Roger P. Roess, Elena S. Prassas, and Willian R. McShane,copyright 2004, Prentice-Hall, Inc.4 Associated Press. Arizona Plans to Install More Speed-Enforcement Cameras.(http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1122speed-ON.html), Accessed 02.07.08)5 Roberts, Craig A., Brown-Esplain, Jamie. “Technical Evaluation of Photo Speed Enforcement forFreeways,” ATRC Report # 596, October

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Constantin Ciocanel; Mohammad Elahinia

theanalysis will be reported.Overall, we believe that the redevelopment has a beneficial impact on the students’ learning andprovides a basis for exposing the students to real life like engineering experiences.Bibliography 1. Smith, K., Sheppard, S., Johnson, D., and Johnson, R. (2005). “Pedagogies of Engagement: Classroom- Based Practices,” Journal of Engineering Education, American Society of Engineering Education, 94(1):87-101. 2. Fink, L., Ambrose, S., and Wheeler, D. (2005). “Becoming a Professional Engineering Educator: A New Role for a New Era,” Journal of Engineering Education, American Society of Engineering Education, 94(1):185-194. 3. Freuler, R., Fentiman, A., Demel, J., Gustafson, R., and Merrill, J. (2001