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Mel I. Mendelson
Engineering Creativity in Teaching Nanotechnology Mel I. Mendelson Mechanical Engineering Department Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CAAbstractVarious engineering examples of micro-and nano-systems were described with applications inbiology, chemistry and electronics. Some 21st Century ethical and social dilemmas were alsopresented as case studies. Learning was assessed through pre/post-testing and student surveys.Post-testing showed ~ 200% improvement over pre-testing. Student surveys indicated thatcreating visual drawings, models and real life ethical/social issues improved their learning.IntroductionMost of the approaches
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Abu Rashid; Joko Sutrisno; Scott Cooper; Alan Fuchs
advanced materials are useful in emerging applications including:energy, biomedical, and environmentalTo help with the development of a learner-centered module on the topic of supramolecular self-assembly, the schematic shown in Figure 3 was created. This figure presents the main elementsof the integration approach for teaching the concepts of macromolecular self-assembly. The“learner centered” ideas are characterized by the learning styles listed in the center of the figure.The learning elements include: in-class lectures / student presentations, laboratory experiences,textbook, and exam / homework content. Within the laboratory experience area, experimentsrelated to emulsion formation and phase separated membranes will be presented
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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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M. M. Gilkeson
inTijuana, Mexico. [See End Note 1 and Reference 6.]To quote Time Magazine’s 1939 synopsis,7 “When . . . tigers disappeared, schools neverthelesswent on teaching the old fundamentals for their cultural value.” New-school educators “. . . foundtwo surviving old tigers, . . . [and] started a Real-Tiger School.” Needless to say, the saber-toothcurriculum survived well beyond the extinction of that species of tiger. This may sound familiar tosome educators.A Personal NoteMy first in-depth exposure to experiential learning came in the 1950s at Tulane University. I wasassigned to develop a Practice School, which would take chemical engineering seniors four days perweek to a petroleum refinery for their final semester. A decade of experience in the
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Nhut Tan Ho
design classes;and enhancing the competence of participating professors in teaching CDIO skills. Futuredirections for further developing and evaluating the framework and student retention goals arealso discussed. Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copyright © 2007, American Society for Engineering EducationI. Introduction and BackgroundProjected U.S. engineering workforce needs call for 48% representation by underrepresentedminorities by 20501,2. Meeting this need will be challenging: Data show that ScienceTechnology Engineering Mathematics (STEM) students who are African American, Latino andAmerican Indian remain vastly underrepresented in university
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John T. Tester
adaptation of a distance-learningcomputer system (WebCT Vista). The logistics of the team assignments, kit issue,student teaching assistants and computing/laptop management are addressed in thispaper. Specific issues of using a distance-learning system for an on-campus, team-orientedclass are also addressed.IntroductionThe College of Engineering and Natural Sciences (CENS) at Northern Arizona University (NAU) isrenovating the way it recruits, educates and graduates engineering students. NAU is the smallest ofthree Arizona universities offering undergraduate engineering education programs. While the largerUniversity of Arizona and Arizona State University (ASU) enrollments have increased since 1998,NAU Engineering enrollments in engineering has