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Jeffrey S. Burmeister; Louise Stark

Bioengineering workshops for 6th-12th grades Jeffrey S. Burmeister, Ph.D. and Louise Stark, Ph.D. School of Engineering and Computer Science University of the Pacific, Stockton, CAAbstractBioengineering is a rapidly growing field with increasing interest at all levels. K-12 engineeringworkshops are valuable to bolster both interest and understanding at an impressionable age.Bioengineering demonstrations, presented to an uncontrolled audience, can be challenging becauseof the multi-disciplined nature and/or need for IRB approval. This paper describes bioengineeringworkshops conducted for an Expanding Your Horizons in Science

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Debra Larson

questions.The conclusions drawn from this trial run of the initial version were: • The questionnaire functioned as was intended, and with some minor refinements will be even better. • The plot’s scale and the demarcation point between cells were inappropriate and yielded too generous interpretations of style.This initial trial also provided the impetus to create and implement a student version.Second Version(s) of Questionnaire and ResultsA revised version of the instructor self-assessment questionnaire was produced shortly after ananalysis of the ETW respondents. Questions 1, 2, 6, 15, and 17 were edited to clarify the intentof each question. Additional, quantitative type information, was provided to help respondentsdistinguish

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year. Theseprograms appear to be unique and have been in place since 1970. They conform to the modelsfor engineering education for the future recently proposed by the NAE Engineering 2020 study,by the ASCE Body of Knowledge proposal, and by the recently approved changes to the ModelLaw by NCEES.In addition to the accredited MEng programs, our students are awarded a B. S. in discipline aftercompleting from 132 to 138 semester hours on the way to earning the respective MEng degree.These B. S. programs would be accreditable by EAC of ABET if it were permitted by EACbecause they were purposely redesigned 1989 to comply with this policy which says, in part, "Criteria for advanced level programs are completion of a program of study satisfying the

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Abu Rashid; Joko Sutrisno; Scott Cooper; Alan Fuchs

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J. C. LaCombe; E. L. Wang; M. Nicolescu; P. Rivera; B. Poe

of performance. 6 The student researcher(s) will obtain Students prepared a poster and made a technical presentation experience in communicating the results of at the ARLISS competition. Students assisted in preparing a their design efforts. paper to be submitted for presentation at the 2005 ASEE conference. One graduate student defended a thesis on the subject of BalloonSat. 7 The CanSat program will formulate a plan The investigator team has met with representatives from (in coordination with other NV participants) other universities and formulated a plan for

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Teruni Lamberg

by theNortheastern Nevada Mathematics project is described. The Northeastern Nevada MathematicsProject is a three-year Math Science Partnership project funded through the Nevada Department Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copyright © 2007, American Society for Engineeringof Education. It is a sub-grant award from the U. S Department of Education. The professionaldevelopment/research team consists of a mathematician, math education faculty, math consultantfrom the department of education and the regional professional development coordinators.Thirty- seven teachers from 22 schools were selected from rural areas in Nevada. These teachersare in the

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Mohammad Amin

integrate a broad range oftechnologies and skills. Students are given the opportunity to crystallize the ideas learned earlierand to implement comprehensive systems across an organization. The Master’s Research Projectfocuses on the research and selection of an appropriate topic on one of the research orapplications in the field of wireless communication systems. Each project is to be evaluated by apanel consists of five judges (normally two from university and three from industry) and gradedby “H” for Honors, “S” for Satisfactory and “U” for Unsatisfactory. Each group is responsibleto submit a final project report and make a 50 minute formal presentation. Following is the listof MSWC courses: 1. WCM601 Analog and Digital Communications

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John T. Tester

remained fairly constant,1 though differentdepartments have increased steadily (such as Mechanical Engineering) while others have varied.The “Design4Practice,” or “D4P,” curriculum is a series of innovative undergraduate classes whichinvolve active learning laboratories for the students in each of their freshman, sophomore, junior andsenior years. The program objectives were developed in response to the call by industry forbaccalaureate engineers to possess a broader set of skills beyond their analytical and computer skills.This call was strengthened by the Engineering faculty’s observation of the students’ experiences insenior capstone design during the late 1980’s and 1990’s. These students, who had had no priorexperience with a design process

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Mel I. Mendelson

Transistor Length (a) (b)Figure 5. (a) SEM photograph of the eye of a mosquito 7. (b) Schematic cross-section of transistor 8.Vernier calipers over a one-month period. Their nail growth was determined to be linear withtime, ranging from 0.5 – 1 nm/s (Figure 6a) 9. The nail growth rate was correlated with forming3 – 7 amino acid molecules per second. This process was repeated on the growth of a malestudent’s beard (Figure 6b). The growth rate was linear and about 4x faster than thumb nails. Hair Growth Rate 12

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Ann-Marie Vollstedt; Michael Robinson; Eric Wang

. 1997. “Refocusing U.S. Math and Science Education” Issues in Science and Technology Online. Winter 1997. Accessed from 3. Gonzales, P., Calsyn, C., Jocelyn, L., Mak, K., Kastberg, D., Arafeh, S., Williams, T., and Tsen, W. 2000. “Pursuing Excellence: Comparisons of International Eighth-Grade Mathematics and Science Achievement from a U.S. Perspective, 1995 and 1999.” National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education. Accessed from 4. House Committee on Science. 1998. “Unlocking Our Future Toward a New National Science Policy.” Accessed from Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copyright

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M. M. Gilkeson

Professional Education," New York: G.P.Putnam's and Sons, 1960, p.288.(3) Kubie, Lawrence S., "Neurotic Distortion of the Creative Process," Univ. of Kansas Press, Lawrence KS, 1958,p.129.(4) Flexner, Abraham, "An Autobiography," New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940. Also see Flexner, Abraham,"Medical Education - A Comparative Study," New York: The Macmillan Co., 1925, p.334; and Flexner, Abraham,Bulletin No. 4, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1910.(5) Benjamin, Harold, "The Saber-Tooth Curriculum, New York: "McGraw- Hill Book Co., 1939, pp.55-6 (6) nerds.unl.edu/pages/preser/sec/articles/sabertooth.html. [University of Nebraska, Lincoln site] (7)Time Magazine free archives, www.time.com/time

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Patricia L. Fox; D. Jan Cowan; Stephen P. Hundley

. ASEE Sustainable Forum http://www.asee.org/resources/organizations/aboutefs.cfm7. Hawken, P., The Ecology of Commerce A Declaration of Sustainability, Harper Collins Publisher, New York. 1993, p. 13.8. European Union Environment, http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/index_en.htm, (2004).9. H. Lewis and J. Gertsakis, Design + Environment: A Global Guide to Designing Greener Goods, pp. 22-27. Greenleaf Publishing, Sheffield, UK (2001).10. W. McDonough and M. Braungart, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, pp. 92-117. North Point Press, New York, NY (2002).11. Fox, P., Worley, W., Hundley, S., & Wilding, K. (2006). Enhancing Student Learning Through International University-Industry Cooperation: The GO

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Wolf-Dieter Otte

1. W. Ted Mahavier et al.. A quick-start guide to the Moore method. http://www.discovery.utexas.edu/rlm/reference/quick_start-3.pdf 2. William S. Mahavier. What is the Moore method? http://www.discovery.utexas.edu/rlm/reference/mahavier1.html 3. G. Edgar Parker. Getting more from Moore. http://www.discovery.utexas.edu/rlm/reference/parker.html 4. Wolf-Dieter Otte. Example of a class web site. http://flagstaff.cse.nau.edu/Courses/CS499%20-%20Enterprise%20Web%20Computing/index.html 5. Apple Inc. iTunes-U. http://www.apple.com/education/products/ipod/itunes_u.html 6. UC Berkeley. iTunes-U Portal. http://itunes.berkeley.edu/ 7. Stanford University. iTunes-U Portal. http://itunes.stanford.edu/ 8

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Amir G. Rezaei; Kyu-Jung Kim; Jawaharlal Mariappan; Angela C. Shih

) learning objective(s) , descriptions of measurable outcomes that students should be able to demonstrate upon completion of the learning unit. d) rationale , brief justification of why the students need to learn the topic. e) learning unit content , what is to be taught. f) instructional procedures , how you will help the students connect with the content. g) evaluation procedures , how you will measure outcomes to determine if the material has been learned. The evaluation should be based on the LEARNING OBJECTIVES Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copyright © 2007, American Society for Engineering Education h) materials and aids