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

Create, Innovate, and Educate: Integrating Sustainability into Engineering Education Patricia L. Fox, D. Jan Cowan, Stephen P. Hundley Purdue School of Engineering and Technology Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)AbstractThis paper highlights an international, interdisciplinary course that seeks to integratesustainability into the engineering education curriculum through a course entitled GO GREEN(Green Organizations: Global Responsibility for Environmental and Economic Necessity). Thiscourse helps to create new knowledge for students by stressing the interconnected aspects offinancial, social, and environmental

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Mariappan Jawaharlal; Cesar Larriva; Jill Nemiro

flexibly implemented in order to accommodate the specific needs and challengesassociated with the participating schools and their communities, our desire to tie our programinto the standard school curriculum dictated that robotics activity be integrated into the regularschool day, thus ruling out after-school programs or clubs.The Initiative links to Cal Poly Pomona programs in a number of ways through the participationof faculty from the Engineering, Psychology and Education departments at Cal Poly Pomona.Collectively, this interdisciplinary team contributes expertise in engineering, working withrobotics in schools, implementing effective team activity; and analyzing the learning of theparticipants (students, teachers, university students, and

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Brian P. Self; Lynne A. Slivovsky; Kevin Taylor; Sema Alptekin

component in its engineering curriculum and stresses “learn by doing,” and this emphasiscan be used in projects that can help the community. Many instructors have had individualsuccess with service learning design projects, and we hope to expand these valuable learningexperiences to an even larger percentage of our students.Service LearningService-learning is a pedagogy in which students achieve academic learning objectives byworking on projects that address societal needs. Necessary, and to distinguish itself fromcommunity service, is a reflection component (Jacoby, 1996; Tsang, 2000). Students gain anappreciation for the role they can play in society by reflecting on a variety of socioeconomic andethical implications of their

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Justin Reginato

an effortto commercialize research projects, often culminating with a business plan competition.Introducing entrepreneurship to graduate students has its benefits. First, student experience andsophistication can affect the willingness to participate in entrepreneurship courses. Secondly,graduate curriculum guidelines are less impacted by accreditation boards, specifically theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). Third, there is some generalconfusion among faculty and administrative personnel regarding the concept of entrepreneurshipand the pedagogy surrounding it. At the University of the Pacific School of Engineering andComputer Science, which does not have a graduate program, each of these problems wasencountered upon

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Nhut Tan Ho

-Implement-Operate (CDIO), while making the key success-enabling principle ofthe Minority Engineering Program model--collaborative learning--an explicit and integrated partengineering curriculum design. The approach involves establishing a model framework foradapting and implementing CDIO so that it: can be generalized for and have programmaticimpact at other predominantly minority institutions similar to CSUN; can contribute to anevolving community of interaction, development and ongoing improvements in the education ofminority engineering students; and can significantly increase the number of minority studentsable to Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate new products and systems. The framework consistsof two components: adaptation and implementation

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Abu Rashid; Joko Sutrisno; Scott Cooper; Alan Fuchs

. A lesson plan is presented forincorporating novel pedagogical strategies for the introduction of concepts related tomacromolecular self-assembly. Also included is a survey which provides data on studentpreferences in the areas of in-class lectures, student class presentations, and other learning tools.IntroductionThe topic of self-assembly is an interesting one that can offer engineering students a new way oflooking at their curriculum. The topic itself is broad enough that many examples can be offeredand used in a variety of educational settings, depending upon the needs of the instructor. Thepedagogical challenges associated with engineering education and of the manner in which thepolymerization mechanism and self-assembly can be used

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Mohammad Amin

PCS enables us to keepconnected with everyone from anywhere anytime. Never before has such power existed.According to Louis Gerstner, IBM Chairman and CEO, the Internet and its major constituentcomponent the World Wide Web (WWW), are taking their place alongside other greattransformation technologies that fundamentally changed the way things are done in the world1.The Internet and mobile are becoming interwoven in virtually every aspect of life, and arerapidly emerging as an integral part of the very fabric of society. In about one and half decades,the mobile PCS has significantly impacted our personal activities and businesses. The Internetand wireless communications are maturing and the future holds great promise for even greatergrowth and

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

effectiveness of the proposed hybrid course. Two lines of assessment will be made. Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copyright © 2007, American Society for Engineering EducationConcept inventories (CI): They have recently emerged as tools for assessing students’understanding of the basic concepts in engineering education. By undergoing a rigorous processof validation, engineering concept inventories can provide meaningful primary assessmentthroughout a curriculum or an specific course such as Vector Statics. The effectiveness of thiscourse is measuring by:1. Integrating previously developed and tested Concept Inventory test specifically for Staticsthroughout

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John T. Tester

creating restricted access for each team member’s allocatedfile system ‘by hand’ or through scripts run on the network server; the file server is run andmaintained independently from WebCT Vista. Again, a future goal is to integrate a group-orientedfilesystem capability in WebCT Vista, thus eliminating the need for managing separate networksystems for a single course.ConclusionsPresented was an overview of the management of a large-enrollment, robotics-oriented course at thesophomore level in engineering. Mindstorm kits and accessories are the basic kits used by thestudent teams, and nearly all informational materials are presented online through web-basedsystems. The management of these kits, the classroom facilities, and the web-based systems

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M. R. Wilhelm; J. P. Mohsen

five-year, integrated Master of Engineering programs contain an ABET accreditable four-year component that meets the EAC of ABET general basic level criteria.2. Students who complete the MEng programs have earned a total of 163 – 168 semester hours credit and a degree accredited by ABET at the advanced level.3. From 40 to 50% of our students leave Speed School after 4 years and having earned from 133 to 138 semester hours, depending upon their major programs, with a baccalaureate degree not accredited by ABET!National IssuesMany engineering schools in the U. S. are under pressure by university administrations to reducethe requirements for award of baccalaureate degrees to a range of from 120 to 128 semesterhours. At the same time