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Kurt Colvin; Robert Crockett

from a varietyof providers in a self-paced manner. The target audience for this effort is companies and indi-viduals who require better Systems Engineering capabilities, but lack the resources and infra-structure for training. These include second-tier suppliers to the aerospace industry, biomedicalengineering companies, information technology companies, utilities, and any other Californiacompanies that would benefit from better systems engineering processes. Surveys sent to abroad cross-section of California corporations were used to elicit a list of 44 Systems Engineer-ing Competencies. Analysis of these 44 competencies resulted in a core set of critical skills, plusthree Systems Engineering Concentrations: SE Management, SE Processes, and

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Keith Curtis

Training the Renaissance Engineer of 2025 By Keith Curtis Technical Staff Engineer Microchip Technology Inc. 2355 W. Chandler Blvd. Chandler, AZ 85224 Office (480) 792-7026 Fax (480) 792-4150 keith.curtis@microchip.com www.microchip.comThe Renaissance man was the evolutionary successor to the specialist of theMiddle Ages. Whereas the Middle Ages man was only a farmer, or a soldier, or abaker; the

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origins of the ‘Retention Chart’,” Educational Technology, vol. 44, no. 1, Jan.-Feb. 2004, p. 64.2. D.G. Treichler, “Are you missing the boat in training aids?,” Film and Audio-Visual Communications, vol. 1, Feb. 1967, pp. 14-16, 29-30, 48.3. J.E. Stice, “Using Kolb’s learning cycle to improve student learning,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 77, no. 5, Feb. 1987, pp. 291-296.4. J.E. Stice, “Socony-Vacuum retention study,” email communication, May 12, 2007.5. R.V. Krivickas, “Active learning at Kaunas University of Technology,” Global Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 9, no. 1, 2005, pp. 43-47.6. D.P. Subramony, “Dale’s cone revisited: critically examining the misapplication of a nebulous

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Edward J. Smaglik

the state-of-the-practice in all fields, particularlyin traffic engineering where new technologies such as improved vehicle detectionequipment and enhanced controller capabilities can have a significant impact on thesignal timing strategies that may be implemented in the field. Existing textbooks providea basic explanation of signal timing and split allocation, but do not address controllerhardware and other critical components that must be well understood for a successfuldesign. This section illustrates how current research theories can be presented in aclassroom setting, with examples for signal timing and red light running. Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference

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Jeffrey J. Heys

Engineering EducationThe term ‘wiki’ is a Hawaiian word meaning ‘quick’, but the term is used here to refer to aspecific type of website. The definition in this case, taken from Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org),is that a wiki is a website that allows visitors to add, remove, and edit content. It is frequentlyused as a collaborative technology for organizing information on websites. One of the mostcommonly cited examples is Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia whose entries can (normally) beedited by anyone using a modern browser such as Internet Explorer (from Microsoft), Firefox(from the Mozilla Foundation), or Opera (from Opera Software). Wikis are used forcollaborative or group projects for two main reasons: (1) they are easily modified (you do notneed

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Richard Theis; patricia watkins; Angela Beck

sustainability across the curriculum may have surface validity, thepresenters question whether a space can be made for the teaching of sustainability in theirspecific educational context, i.e., a technologically-oriented university that is driven byengineering, physics, and similar disciplines. More specifically, the teaching philosophies heldby the engineering faculty at this educational institution may not be compatible with those of thepresenters who seek to integrate sustainability into the engineering curriculum. The purpose of this presentation will be to report on the teaching philosophies of theengineering faculty at this university as regards sustainability. The authors propose a dialogicmethodology to encourage these faculty to

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difficult because instructors feel that they need to give up othercontent to make room for the new materials. However, we have followed a path towards full integration of greendesign and sustainability into our two semester series on chemical engineering design. Originally, a free standing elective course at the senior/graduate student level was created and offered twice.The course introduced students to green design, green chemistry, life cycle assessment evaluation, and criticalreading of peer reviewed literature on these topics. The students worked in teams to do one green design to replacean older technology and also attempted to perform one gate-to-gate life cycle assessment of a process. Afteroffering the course two times, it became

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Thomas N. Duening; Jeffrey R. Goss

President for Technology and Manufacturing and included corporateand university leaders, think tank scholars, government officials.3Since the publication of that report companies around the globe have accelerated theirpush to become increasingly innovative, and as a result more competitive. IBM hasDuening & Goss 1 March 2008American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Divisiondeveloped a consulting expertise designed to help its clients to enhance their dynamiccapabilities. The firm launched the practice, including an accompanying web site and setof user tools, during 2006.4On the corporate level, companies of all sizes have expressed

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Elizabeth J. Brauer; Karen L. Jarratt-Snider; Fonda Swimmer

University, Flagstaff, AZ Fonda.Swimmer@nau.eduAbstractWe have conducted a one-week residential camp for high school girls on the campus of NorthernArizona University for the past three years. Our primary objective is to encourage young womento enroll in college in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields,hence the name STEP UP, Summer Technology & Engineering Program and UniversityPreview. While similar camps are offered in a variety of forms around the country, we haveuniquely attracted a majority of Native American participants, many of whom would be first-generation college graduates. The camp runs from Sunday to Saturday and encompasses a widevariety of activities, primarily in

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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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Daniel Walsh; Bob Crockett; Stacey Breitenbach

the General Engineering program in 1998 and nowallows General Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, ElectricalEngineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Computer Science, ComputerEngineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Materials Engineering students toprogress toward the terminal applied MS in Engineering degree appropriate to their interests, orin existing specializations in Biochemical Engineering, Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering,Integrated Technology Management, while still undergraduates.This paper describes the implementation of the 4+1 blended dual-degree program offered in theCollege of Engineering, and the outcomes it has produced for students. This program wasdesigned

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Bruno Osorno

Online Teaching of Electrical Power Systems in Electrical Engineering; Experiences and MythsAbstract- Online teaching is here to stay. The integration of technology into teaching can be adangerous approach because of the different learning styles that our students have. We can notlonger deny or refuse to teach online, therefore we must reinvent ourselves and develop skillsthat we did not have or did have and did not know it. This paper attempts to analyze the teachingof electrical power systems online in electrical engineering. More specifically, how we deal withthe delivery of the material. We will show how effective the system, we have implemented, hasbeen for the teaching of online classes, versus the classical

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Paul Blowers; Greg Ogden; Kim Ogden

A Toolbox for Integrating Information Literacy into Engineering Courses: Helping Students Help Themselves Paul Blowers (blowers@engr.arizona.edu), Greg Ogden (gogden@engr.arizona.edu), and Kim Ogden (ogden@erc.arizona.edu) Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering PO Box 210011 The University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721-0011 The world has seemed to leap into the information age over the last decade with the rapidexpansion of internet based search tools. However, the access students have to the wide array ofgeneral and scientific information

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

is incumbent to continue such surveys and track the “alumni” of this course to make sure that we are making the proper changes that ultimately increase the number of students interested in STEM.Bibliography 1. Critical Path Analysis, California Council on Science and Technology, 2002. 2. 2003 University Eligibility Study, California Postsecondary Education Commission, 2003. Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering Education

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) Welcome to Education (Linda Shadiow, Director, Office of Faculty Development)8:50 – 9:30 Don Carter, Director of e-Learning at NAU, Three Emerging Technologies in Higher Coconino Education9:30 – 9:45 Coffee Break (Hallway) & Sponsor Displays (Kaibab)9:45– 11:45 Concurrent Session Presentations Kaibab Recruitment, Retention, & Related Laboratory & Modeling Innovations Canyon Moderator: Walt Loscutoff Moderator: David Scott • Elizabeth Brauer, et al., STEP UP: • Porbaha, Ali et al., Development of a Summer Engineering Camp for High Friction Pendulum

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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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John T. Tester; Perry G. Wood

instructionsfor use as teaching aids.A sampling of research in the use of RP in freshman engineering and technology classes givesinsight into how to use RP as a means of accomplishing educational objectives in the classroom. Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering EducationSeveral technology-oriented departments implemented RP as part of their design classes.3,4,5They had various primary educational objectives in their assessments, but they all noted animproved students’ enthusiasm towards the RP technology as well as towards their curriculumand careers. Other authors have noted the use of RP in the classroom as a

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Amir Rezaei; Mariappan Jawaharlal

Socially Responssible Senior Design Projects Amir Rezaei and Mariappan Jawaharlal California State Polytechnic University, PomonaAssistive technology is used by individuals with disabilities in order to perform functionsthat might otherwise be difficult or impossible. Assistive technology can include mobilitydevices and mechanisms such as walkers and wheelchairs, as well as hardware andsoftware. For example, people with limited hand function may use a keyboard with largekeys or a special mouse to operate a computer, people who are blind may use softwarethat reads text on the screen in a computer-generated voice, people with low vision mayuse software that enlarges screen content

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Peg Pankowski

Assessment for Accreditation and Beyond Peg Pankowski, Ed.D.AbstractThis paper details the story of one division’s efforts to update program assessment based onABET and NWCCU accreditation requirements. During a fall term, the college required allprograms to submit and implement new assessment plans, with results analyzed and reported atthe end of the spring term. This coincided with our application for ABET accreditation of two ofour engineering technology associate degree programs. The paper outlines the steps taken alongthe way to accreditation, highlighting efforts to articulate a program assessment plan. Collegeassessment forms are referenced and sample plans

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Jiancheng Liu; Ashland O. Brown

. marketing, finance,industrial design, engineering, production); 4) the opportunity to learn how to make a correctengineering drawing. The focus of this project is on the design process and how to make anengineering drawing rather than on engineering calculations. The product must be designedusing 3D CAD systems. The designed product should be original and should have a potentialmarket. It should contain less than 8 parts and its prototype cost should be less than $1000. Thisproduct should require no basic technological breakthroughs and should be somewhat novel. Thestudents can not duplicate existing products. The project is designed to demand approximately 32hours of time. All students are required to present their design in front of the class and

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Paul Blowers

Application of Multimodal Software Tools to Teach Problem Solving Skills Paul Blowers (blowers@engr.arizona.edu) Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering PO Box 210011 The University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721-0011 Many faculty members have attempted to apply new technological advances in classroom settings toimprove pedagogical approaches, increase student learning, and to run classrooms more effectively. Unfortunately,many of the approaches of applying these new tools do not accomplish these goals. This

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Taufik Taufik

Valley. Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering EducationHardware Project BackgroundOne of the power electronics companies visited during the initial stage of developing thehardware project for the introductory course was the Linear Technology located in Milpitas,California5. Discussions during the visit resulted in a plan for a hardware project that was notdesign-driven, but rather would focus on and would address common issues observed on ourrecent EE graduates. In particular, Linear Technology has observed that our EE graduates ingeneral lack of knowledge in and of handling the surface mount components

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Elizabeth J. Brauer

WeBWorK Development in Electric Circuits Elizabeth J. Brauer Department of Electrical Engineering Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ liz.brauer@nau.eduAbstractWeBWorK is an internet-based homework system first developed for math courses but alsoutilized in science courses. Little development has been done with WeBWorK in engineeringcourses. In a similar vein, some publishers have developed computer-mediated homework toaccompany their textbooks but these tend to have limited capabilities. This paper presents workdone at Northern Arizona University to develop a collection of

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David Lanning

the instructor are provided.IntroductionThe Aerospace Engineering undergraduate degree program at Embry-Riddle AeronauticalUniversity (ERAU) in Prescott, Arizona, is much like aerospace engineering programs at manyother four-year institutions. While the faculty place emphasis on faculty-student interaction,design experiences, and hands-on laboratory learning, the basic structure of the ABET-accreditedprogram (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) is similar to other undergraduateaerospace engineering degree programs.Students refer to the typical second-semester sophomore schedule as “the gauntlet,” whichincludes courses in dynamics, solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, and differential equations.While Statics is often thought of as

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Christos Valiotis

Improving Conceptual Understanding and Problem Solving Skills in Introductory Physics Courses Using the Socratic Dialogue Method Christos Valiotis Antelope Valley College, Lancaster, CAAbstractIntroductory physics courses are required for all engineering majors. Often, engineering studentspractice problem solving for the first time in these courses. Over the years, Physics EducationResearch (PER) has developed a number of curricula that have been proven successful inincreasing conceptual understanding in physics concepts. But questions still remain about theireffectiveness in improving problem solving abilities. The ability to think critically and achievean

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Reza Raeisi

APPLYING EMBEDDED SYSTEMS DESIGN FOR DISTANCE LEARNINGAbstractDigital circuits and embedded microcontroller systems are at the heart of twenty-first centurylife. Today, courses teaching of these systems are essential for engineering and technologystudents. In order to enhance students’ distance learning experience and improve their hands-onworking skills, ceiling mounted robots need to be used. The ceiling robot, controlled by studentsat remote locations, has vision capability and can travel throughout the lab in order to allow thestudents to observe faculty giving lecture as well as lab activities and demonstrations. Studentscould freely move the ceiling robot in the class and clearly see the physical