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Christine Pauken

Aircraft aerodynamics and structures. I enjoyed the Instuctor's lectures. This course didn't make me stress out like all others which made learning much more enjoyable. At the beginning I was closed minded to the topics. As the class went on I started to see that the topics fit in with my degree program. I can't see the relevance of any of the material to electrical engineering. Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering EducationThe last comment is common and there are still a significant number of students who do not seethe use or need for

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Bryan Cooperrider

onwhether these were present in their coursework. Of the ten criteria they established, engineeringstudents felt 9 of the 10 were missing, and the instructors felt only one was missing. Their studyled them to conclude “the environment and factors that impede creativity in engineering are farmore profound and dominant in the engineering education than they are in sciences educationand naturally far more than those in liberal arts education.” 19 The most important maxim, andone worth noting, is that designers must keep an open mind. It is easy to be blinded by currentparadigms, and without an open mind it is difficult to see the next great idea.One student approached the author of this paper after the class was chided for poorly formeddesign

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Keith E. Holbert; George G. Karady

, M.M. Morcos, “Hands-on, minds-on electric power education,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 90, no. 1, Jan. 2001, pp. 93-99.12. C.J. Finelli, A. Klinger, D.D. Budny, “Strategies for improving the classroom environment,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 90, no. 4, Oct. 2001, pp. 491-497.13. S. Shooter, M. McNeill, “Interdisciplinary collaborative learning in mechatronics at Bucknell University,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 91, no. 3, July 2002, pp. 339-344.14. T.W. Simpson, “Experiences with a hands-on activity to contrast craft production and mass production in the classroom,” International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 19, no. 2, 2003, pp. 297-304.15. R.S. Ascough

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

to do it. You get to figure it out for yourself. There’s different ways to do it. Like the Lego design project – it opens your mind a lot.”• From a participant who came both years: “I didn't do well in my freshman and sophomore years in high school- I was kind of slacking. Then I went to STEP-UP camp last year and I raised my GPA six or seven points this past school year. I did a really good job in school and I think the camp had something to do with it. I had an “I can” kind of attitude after being at camp. I have more of a goal in mind."SummarySTEP UP has been a highly successful summer engineering camp for high school girls. Ourparticipants learn about the engineering

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Thomas N. Duening; Jeffrey R. Goss

Enterprise Systems Innovation & Management (ESIM): A New Engineering Masters Program Thomas N. Duening Entrepreneurial Programs Office Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering Jeffrey R. Goss Global Outreach and Extended Education Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering Arizona State University AbstractInnovation is a topic on the minds of many executives leading top firms around theworld. New competitive pressures that have emerged as a result of

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

both breadth and depth needs to be considered throughout any introductory engineering course in order to have a positive introductory engineering learning experience.The Future of What is Engineering? What is Engineering? has proven to be a challenging, mind-expanding course for college- bound high-school students interested in STEM. Like any course following the continuous improvement model, it is a work in progress with input coming from at least eight different Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering Education sites as of this writing. With only two years at the University of the Pacific, it

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John T. Tester; Perry G. Wood

student retention.IntroductionNorthern Arizona University has been exploring methods by which to recruit and retainengineering students into their undergraduate program. Two of the Mechnaical Engineeringfaculty have recently been engaged in modifying a freshman CAD class with these motivationsin mind. They are implementing “Rapid Prototyping” (RP) into the ME 180 Freshman CADclass. This paper will document the work in progress on this effort to date.RP is the process which converts a CAD model into an artifact or product.1 This process hasbeen used increasingly over the past two decades in engineering firms to produce first-articledesigns. Advantages of using RP machines over using tradition fabrication methods includereduced scrap, less skilled

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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Christos Valiotis

Interactive Engagement (IE), in the sense thatstudents are engaged in both “hands-on” (sometimes) and “minds-on” (always) in the learningprocess. FCI data were collected for 10 semesters and 15 sections (2003 – 2007) with a total of292 students participating. Table 2 shows the conceptual Hake-gain for each semester. The dataclearly show that there is a substantial gain in conceptual understanding despite the fact that thestandard deviations are significant. A one-tailed t-test was performed for each semester in orderto detect differences in achievement between the night and day sections. In each case, the null Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copyright