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Kurt Colvin; Robert Crockett

5 Figure 2. Systems Engineering Competencies Many of the courses in the distributed grouped into SE Concentrations. curriculum have an option of being taken for graduate credit; our guidelines stress,however, that it is extremely unlikely that a series of courses taken from different providers canbe integrated together into a graduate degree granted by an academic institution. If a student hasa goal of obtaining a Master’s degree in Systems Engineering or a related field, one or twocourses may be transferable into a formal Masters program.Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copy

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. Louis, MO.27. C.A. Shooter, S.B. Shooter, “Enhancing design education by processing the design experience,” Proc. 2000 ASEE Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO.28. S. Farrell, R.P. Hesketh, “An inductive approach to teaching heat and mass transfer,” Proc. 2000 ASEE Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO.29. J.L. Barrott, “Why should cases be integrated into the engineering technology curriculum?,” Proc. 2001 ASEE Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM.30. B.S. Motlagh, A. Rahrooh, N. Safai, “Redefining engineering education methods using new technologies,” Proc. 2002 ASEE Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada.31. S.G. Tragesser, G.S. Agnes, J. Fulton, “SIMSAT: a ground-based platform for demonstrating satellite

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Bryan Cooperrider

problem is encountered, divergent thinking serves best. Iterationbetween these two is recognized as an integral part of the design process,9 and a designer mustreadily switch between wearing the hats of convergent and divergent thinking.Connections Between Engineering Design and CreativityDesign is an increasingly more important part of the engineering curriculum. Senior capstoneprojects have been a part of that experience for decades, but recently cornerstone and Project-Based Learning (PBL) has become more ubiquitous. There are some distinct elements that arepresent in most project-based design courses that can be linked (either rightly or wrongly) toencouraging creativity. Those elements are teaming, brainstorming, open-ended projects

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Jeffrey J. Heys

determine the workload distribution among the students in thegroup making it a challenge to give individual grades2. Second, some groups unable to scheduleenough meetings when every group member can be present. Third, the collecting of theindividual pieces of a project into a single coherent document or presentation can be difficult andfrustrating for some groups.Despite the disadvantages, group projects are an important and integral part of the educationalexperience in the chemical engineering curriculum. However, team projects in an industrialsetting are changing because geographically dispersed teams are becoming more common3, 4.Often, the team members can be located in two or more different cities or different countries. Ofcourse the team

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Christos Valiotis

problem solving may be the lack of higher level cognitive skills such as theability to synthesize, analyze, and transfer existing knowledge to a different setting (mathematicsknowledge to physics problems)8. At Antelope Valley College the calculus-based physics course enrolls approximately 80students per year in three sections -two during the fall semester and one in the spring semester. Iteach the day sections (one in the fall and the one in the spring). An adjunct professor teaches thenight section during fall. We use a curriculum that is a blend of the following researched basedcurricula: 1) Tools for Scientific Thinking9, 2) Real Time Physics10, 3) Socratic DialogueInducing Labs11, 4) Peer Instruction12, 5) Physlet Physics13and 6

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, Computer Science, and Technology, CSU- Kaibab LA, Student Development: An Alternative to Sink or Swim9:15 – 10:15 Concurrent Session Presentations Kaibab Applications of Technologies I Integrating Contemporary Issues II San Moderator: John Tester Moderator: Dieter Otte Francisco • Elizabeth Brauer, WeBWorK • Peg Pankowski, Assessment for Development in Electric Circuits Accreditation and Beyond • Bruno Osorno, Online Teaching of • William R. Peterson, Academe and Electrical

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Thomas N. Duening; Jeffrey R. Goss

standard MBA curriculum included the competencies theywere seeking to develop.12 For example, one corporate partner mentioned that the MBAwould not help the sales and marketing people better communicate with engineers andother technical staff. They wanted an engineering based degree that would provideengineers and non-engineers alike with a high level understanding of technology,enterprise systems and their integration, and the application of technical analytics toachieve high performance. Most importantly, they repeatedly stressed the need toprovide degree participants with a thorough background in enterprise innovation andmanaging innovation. This was clarified as a comprehensive view of the processes, tools,and disciplines essential to the

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Jiancheng Liu; Ashland O. Brown

designconsiderations into account.ABET is making increasing demands to integrate projects into engineering curriculum. Studentdesign and analysis projects can improve student learning and cultivate the ability to solveengineering problems. Machine Design and Analysis is a capstone course for the studentsmajoring in mechanical engineering. Student projects and “hands-on” experiences can improvestudent satisfaction and learning. Therefore, it is worthwhile to try new teaching methodologyfor this course to allow students to employ what they have learned and what they are learning; todevelop the skill to tolerate ambiguity that shows up in viewing design and handle uncertainty; todevelop the skill that can simplify the real design problem into an analytic model

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John T. Tester; Perry G. Wood

and Engineering education projects. We present ourfirst endeavor in the latter activity, introducing RP into our freshman Mechanical EngineeringComputer-aided Design (CAD) class, ME 180.ApproachThis initial introduction of RP into ME 180 was to accomplish several objectives: 1. Motivate students to stay engaged in the mechanical engineering curriculum. 2. Give students knowledge of advanced computing techniques. 3. Give students an experience of product realization in their first year of engineering. 4. Give students a simple but practical example of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing.The last three objectives were part of the learning objectives for the course, and are not theprimary topic of this paper. On the other hand

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

who have an interest in math and science and want to explore engineering and its disciplines with the possibility of receiving college credit from JHU. As a summer course, the class is an intensive four-week experience where students actively participate in hands-on team activities including laboratory experiments and virtual internet-based simulations while attending college-level lectures related to these activities. Field trips to local companies that employ engineers and informational sessions on college and career choices are also integrated into the course schedule. In short, the curriculum links math, science, and engineering concepts to Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest