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Abu Rashid; Joko Sutrisno; Scott Cooper; Alan Fuchs

will be described. Additionally,examples of polymerization mechanism and self-assembly from the current literature arepresented.Supramolecular self-assembly is the process by which molecules are directed to create highlystructured materials in a novel manner. In self-assembly processes, molecules are driven bythermodynamics to form complex macromolecules. This approach is important in thedevelopment of materials in many areas of technology including energy, biology, and theenvironment.One example of a supramolecular polymer synthesis, which has been done in the PolymerScience and Engineering Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno is a supramolecularproton exchange membrane1. This membrane is used in hydrogen fuel cells. It offers a

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

Copyright © 2007, American Society for Engineering Educationquarters, over 44% of them did not have the passing grades, and that was a small increase from40% taken from the survey during the academic year 2000-2001 with 517 students. The highrepeat and failure rates of this course significantly hamper the students to move up to theirengineering curricula, resulting in a high attrition rate of the engineering students.The problems addressed by the hybrid courseThe ME department has addressed the failure problem in many different ways. One way was toprovide an additional one-unit Vector Statics Mechanics Laboratory, which was developed basedon the study on cooperative learning in engineering through academic excellence workshop [3].Under the

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Mel I. Mendelson

. Booker and E. Boysen, Nanotechnology for Dummies, Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.6. I.E. Alcoma, DNA Technology: The Awesome Skill, 2nd ed., Harcourt Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 2001.7. Mosquito’s eye, http://www.mos.org/sln/sem/intro.html.8. J.J. Brophy, Basic Electronics for Scientists, 3rd edition, p. 148, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1977.9. M. Mendelson, “Molecular Bio-Nanotechnology Experiment in the Classroom,” 87th Annual Meeting of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Pacific Division, Proceedings Vol. 25, pp. 44, 80,University of San Diego, CA, June 18-22, 2006.10. Sandia National Laboratories, http://www.mems.sandia.gov.11. T.A. McMahon, J.T. Bonner, On Size and Life, p. 39, Scientific American Books

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Nhut Tan Ho

designed so that they can be generalized and customized by a department to derive specificlearning outcomes and goals. With these Standards, the CDIO Initiative envisions a curriculumthat • is organized around mutually supporting disciplines, but with CDIO activities highly interwoven; • is rich with student design-build projects; • features active and experiential learning; • is set both in the classroom and in a modern learning laboratory; and • is constantly improved through a robust assessment and evaluation process. Figure 1 – Twelve CDIO Standards 1. CDIO as Context 7. Integrated Learning Experiences Adoption of the principle that product and

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M. M. Gilkeson

report, and in a final 20-minute oral presentation to the college community.All Clinic teams give a set of three oral presentations on Projects Day in May, with two hundredpersons from outside of the College in attendance. As the final activity, each team drafts and revisesa formal written report, which is approved by the advisor and then is presented to the sponsor,together with any hardware or software that has been created.Further assessment of Clinic is provided by the Clinic Advisory Committee (CAC), composed of ascore of persons from a variety of companies and disciplinary backgrounds. Included are middle-management engineers from industry and government laboratories in addition to several collegetrustees. The CAC meets quarterly to

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Mariappan Jawaharlal; Cesar Larriva; Jill Nemiro

training, offering connected in-service teacher professional development andimplementing reflective inquiry to enhance teacher and student learning and development.” (Excerpt fromhttp://coe.winthrop.edu/pds)9 Names of elementary schools and students are pseudonyms.10 Mathematics Framework for California Public Schools: Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve, by California StateBoard of Education (Sacramento, CA: California State Board of Education, 2000)11 Erickson, Frederick and Jeffrey Schultz (1997). When is a context? Some issues and methods in the analysis ofsocial competence. In Mind, culture, and activity: Seminal papers from the laboratory of comparative humancognition. Michael Cole, Yrjo Engeström and Olga Vasquez eds. Pp. 22-31. Cambridge

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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