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Geon S. Seo; Eniko T. Enikov

280Properties and Micro/Nano Technologies for Biological Systems” in Fall semesters 2005 and 2007at the University of Arizona. In both semesters, students learned the same topics and performed thesame design term project based on a microcantilever sensor. However, in 2005 they designedcantilever sensors and simulated their deflection using computer programs such as ANSYS,SolidWork, and MatLab, and in 2007 the students fabricated their own cantilever sensors andperformed the experiment on deflection measurements with them. Table 2. The results of surveys. Fall 2005 Fall 2007 Questions (Answer: 1 - 10

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Bruno Osorno

problemLectures-We posted lectures in WebctTM at least four days in advance. Students had a chance toread the lecture and print it. Two very important observations came to light; one that students didexpect to see the material in advance and two that students would print the notes. Handwrittennotes were acceptable because ElluminateTM and SmartboardTM allowed us to write on top of thenotes; consequently we have Image, Sound and Editing (ISE) all real-time. Ideally you want toupload the power point images provided by most textbooks and then use ISE.Expectations- Partlow and Gibbs [4] found that online courses should be relevant, interactive,project-based, and collaborative and should, furthermore, give learners some choice or controlover their learning

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Richard K. Herz; Gregory E. Ogden

107 Fig. 5. Distributed dynamic process simulator in PureWaterLab.AcknowledgementsDevelopment of SimzLab has been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation throughawards including DUE-0443044. Students contributing to the project include UCSD graduatestudent Hsu-Wen Hsiao and UA undergraduate students Erica Reiner, Chris Poole, MeganMeyer, Jason Kim, Adam Burkhart, David Bartz, and Michael Hwang.References1. "Revolution" software development tool, developed and distributed by Runtime Revolution Ltd., Edinburgh, Scotland , accessed February 19, 2009.2. Zacharia, Z. (2003) Beliefs, attitudes, and intentions of science teachers regarding the educational use of computer simulations and inquiry-based experiments

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Thomas J. Impelluso

felt that this course didn't teach me how to write programs only a few key algorithms. I feel that the course shouldbe more focused on the coding and not the algorithmsNO MORE ONLINE CLASSES, I PAY MY TUITION TO LEARN FROM A HUMAN NOT ACOMPUTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!This is an excellent introductory course in programming for any non computer engineering student. I think thestructure of the exams should be changed; I think the exams should be more like project-oriented.This is a great course overall, but there has to be a class before this at least to show us how programming works; toteach us the basics of programming and getting familiar with it. This course just jumps ahead and you can fall backvery easily.go a little slower in the beginning, since

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Frederick Harris; Gordon Lee; Stuart H. Rubin; T. C. Ting; Billy Gaston; Gongzhu Hu

self-paced learning. Further, researchers realize the power of the web as a learning tool [6-7, for example].Through the web, students and teachers are able to draw upon the vast database of informationavailable through a flexible and global media. The purpose of this paper is to support the claim that computing continues to have amajor impact in engineering education as well as to project how computing can provide an evengreater influence in engineering education through digital tutors and web-based learning. Thepaper is organized as follows: Section 2 provides some information on the current state ofeducation in the US which warrants the need for improvement which Section 3 discusses thechallenges in using computing to address

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James Helbling

weakness in recent alumni surveys. The ABETcriteria require engineering programs to show that graduating students have computer simulationand experimental experience as well as communications and ethics skills and have demonstratedthe use of that skill set to enhance the technical content of their curriculum. The application-based engineering approach and team-teaching with communications faculty as a part of thesenior design experience certainly helps to fill these requirements, and the auditors whole-heartedly endorsed the process.Additionally, alumni surveys have shown a reversal of the previous trend showing dissatisfactionwith technical writing and project management skills acquired at Embry-Riddle’s Prescottcampus, as shown in the following

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Paul Blowers

should be strong problemsolvers at this point in their academic careers.The concept map shown later was originally constructed by the author the first time they werethe instructor for this course. In many institutions, the equilibrium thermodynamics coursebecomes a repository of topics that may not fit together into a coherent whole and the authorstruggled to synthesize the connections between the seemingly disparate topics. With the corerelationships worked out, it then became possible to connect all of the material rationally whilealso building an end of the semester project that required students to use the interconnectionsbetween course content. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest

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Amelito G. Enriquez

during problem-solving sessions, or the combination ofboth factors are responsible for improved student performance.Additionally, these studies should attempt to delineate the effects of Tablet PC use by theinstructor from the effects brought about by enhanced interactivity due to student use of TabletPCs in the classroom.Similar studies should be done on courses with high attrition rates: courses that are traditional“bottle necks” for STEM students, and courses that are problem-solving intensive and requiringhigh levels of critical thinking. Finally, other software applications that promote interactivity inthe classroom should be considered in conjunction with Tablet PC use.5. AcknowledgementsThis project was supported by Hewlett Packard