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Kurt Colvin

redevelopment effortwas made possible by the support of the Cal Poly CTL.Backward DesignVery few of us, as engineering educators, have had a formal course in pedagogy. Therefore, inaddition to the challenging task of developing new and improving existing courses, we also haveto battle with our lack of formal training in the area of course design. However, there is a richfield of instructional design literature from which we can draw.Backward course design is one method that can guide instructors as they struggle with designingtheir own courses or even an individual lecture (McTighe & Wiggins, 2005). The steps inbackward course design include: (1) identify the desired results, (2) determine the acceptableevidence, and (3) plan learning experiences

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James Helbling

skills, including teamwork and conflict resolution, have been implemented inorder to better prepare senior students for professional challenges.This paper begins by explaining the context that led to the curricular changes in the capstonecourse. The evolution of the Detail Design course is described in detail, followed by adiscussion of the challenges and successes encountered in developing revised course content.The paper concludes with a recap of the recent physical enhancements in the courseconfiguration and plans for further improvements in preparing ERAU graduates for their post-graduate life.ContextERAU/Prescott is a 4-year university in Northern Arizona with an enrollment of approximately1,600 undergraduate students, with Aerospace

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Yusuf Ozturk; Emrah Orhun; Chris Bowerman

perspectives, new training materials and approaches. These will take place largely in the first half of the project as materials are redeveloped to embody a full multidisciplinary, global perspective and are made available on the electronic learning platform.• To provide 48 students with benefits from global exchange and training activities and in addition, by means of local, national workshops and online communities of practice, spread the benefits to a further 60 non-exchange students and around 20 academics.• To disseminate proven practices, models and study programs.3. Planned ActivitiesThe project and its aims have been developed not only to meet a need for computingworkers of all levels but also to meet the needs of the

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Gordon W. Romney; Paul D. Juneau

password couplet, and then 2) the Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 498second factor (something you have) of an SSL client browser certificate and it requires its ownadditional, (something you know), of a secure pass phrase. The Plan was to complete thefollowing steps: 1. Designate and authorize two administrative roles to be played following Security Best Practices: a. a System Administrator (SysAdmin) with administrative rights to all necessary processes. b. a Certification Authority Administrator

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Phillip R. Rosenkrantz

DownloadApply Existing Crosstab (optional) Use Current Crosstab Named "New Crosstab"Conclusions and RecommendationsThere are many more uses of a survey tool than just for the common “end of course” survey. On-line surveys can save much time and effort compared to handwritten surveys and OCR forms.An on-line survey took can be creatively used for a variety of time-saving data collectionprocesses.Sometimes the difficulty in summarizing and analyzing data delays the effort and ultimatelyaffects the implementation of changes. If properly planned out, the number of hours required foranalysis, feedback, and planning for change can be reduced and program effectiveness can bepromoted sooner.Creation of descriptive statistics for generating a thoughtful self

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Lawrence Fong; Brian P. Self

models enables them to reveal bothconceptual and mathematical errors. Diligent students record failed results from launch day anduse them to further refine their model before turning in their deliverables. We plan on expandingupon this self-assessment by instrumenting the catapult. The process is outlined in the followingsection. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 287Instrumentation ProcessThe objective of this instrumentation will be to expand upon this ''self-assessment'' principle ofthe MEA. Students will be able to cross-check their calculations with the

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Teresa M. Ogletree; Brian P. Self; James Widmann

. In general, the two projects with more direct correlations tomaterial covered in lecture, the Accident Reconstruction and Catapult MEAs, appeared to bemore successful with students. Those who did not feel motivated by the MEAs typically citedthat the scope of the projects were too large or that more time would be needed to better theirmodels.Future testing at Cal Poly will include expanding MEAs to statics and thermal systems designcourses. Additionally, there are plans to add more incident reports to the AccidentReconstruction MEA to limit the likelihood of students dividing the four cases between them,forcing the students to operate more as a team. Moreover, this will give students a wider varietyof scenarios that their procedure must be

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Xiaomin Jin; Dennis Derickson; Simeon Trieu; Samuel O. Agbo

56graduate students in Peking University and worked closely on mutually defined projects. Theparticipating students obtain experience in transcontinental collaboration and gain an awarenessof culture differences. Three journal papers and five conference papers on GaN research andeducation have been published by participating researchers since 2007. [2][4]-[10] A paper isaccepted for conference presentation in April 2009. [11] Student comments from both continentsconfirm that they obtain better understanding about foreign cultures as a result of this activity.Student comments indicate they believe that this activity will be helpful for job prospects inmultinational engineering firms. Currently plans include involvement of undergraduate studentsinto

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Bruno Osorno

be targeted for online teaching.Universities have been developing strategic plans to tackle the implementation of onlineteaching. The major hurdles needed to overcome are; changing the mindset of faculty, budgets,teacher training in new technologies, online student population’s new studying habits andquality of instruction.ChangeChange is never easy; perhaps it is the most difficult hurdle in online teaching. Faculty, need tobe fully aware of the linking of pedagogy, technology and learning-styles [2]. Furthermore, it hasbeen our experience that the need of “electronic textbooks availability” is a critical event thatfacilitates online teaching of electrical engineering in a very large scale. (Which by the way, it ishappening very fast

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Paul Blowers

when students combine advice from several different sourcesabout curricular issues, for instance, and try to create a plan of action that is inherently againstthe intentions of the faculty. An example may be replacing a core course with one from anotherdepartment while also changing out another course that then leaves the student deficient in someof the content normally required to be mastered.Another problem that longitudinal advising avoids involves hearsay or partial information. It isnot unusual for students to partially remember some advising details from previous encounterswith faculty and then misuse that partial information. Oftentimes, too, students turn to theirpeers for information and get poor advice on important decisions

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Pradip Peter Dey; Thomas M. Gatton; Mohammad N. Amin; Mudasser F. Wyne; Gordon W. Romney; Alireza Farahani; Arun Datta; Hassan Badkoobehi; Ralph Belcher; Ogun Tigli; Albert P. Cruz

. As a result they either tune out or never develop a deepunderstating of the materials and simply imitate mechanical operations and the essential analysisand arguments necessary to solve the problem. One common criticism of the PBL method is thatstudents may not recognize what might be important for them to learn, so the facilitator must beextra careful to assess each student’s prior knowledge. Another criticism is that instructorscannot cover as much material as the traditional method. Furthermore, the method is hard toimplement and there are different definition and interpretation of the strategy and the manner ofits implementation, within instruction, appears to be ad hoc. PBL requires a lot of planning andextensive work by the instructor

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Micah Lande; Larry Leifer

for the “remaking of asolution” with the results being “facsimiles of stuff” or plans by which to make copies. FutureThinking12 allows one to “reset the problem” with the outcome being a “question.” Human Product Manufacturing Tool Figure 1 Ways of Thinking Framework for Engineering Design ProjectsThis maps very closely to the Manufacturing – Test – Product – Human-centered design productcoding schema. Figure 1 highlights where these descriptions fall on the “Ways of Thinking”framework.Results in Classifying ProjectsA survey of 30 years of ME310

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Vince Bertsch; John Krupczak; Kate Disney; Elsa Garmire; Tim Simpson

Tech Tally of: technology andsociety, design, products and systems, and technology core concepts and the ITEA technologytopic areas. To make it possible to accommodate the diverse requirements of curriculumcommittees on varied campuses, the framework offers flexibility to faculty in planning courseswithin each proposed model while still accomplishing the goals of the standards. This frameworkwill form the organizational infrastructure for creating a repository of course materials as well asan online community for course developers and instructors. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference

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Lora Goodwin; Brian P. Self; James Widmann

“correct answer”, Dr Self hopes tofurther advance their intellectual curiosity and problem solving skills.James Widmann, California Polytechnic State UniversityJim Widmann is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at California Polytechnic State University, SanLuis Obispo. He received his Ph.D. in 1994 from Stanford University. Currently he teaches mechanics and designcourses. He conducts research in the areas of design optimization, machine design, fluid power control andengineering education.Lora Goodwin, California Polytechnic State UniversityLora Goodwin is an undergraduate mechanical engineering student at California Polytechnic State University, SanLuis Obispo. Her interests lie in the fields of math and science. She plans to

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Debra Larson

://www.abet.org).3. ASCE Body of Knowledge Committee. 2004. Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century: Preparing the Civil Engineering for the Future, Reston, VA, January. (http://www.asce.org/raisethebar).4. ASCE Levels of Achievement Subcommittee. 2005. Levels of Achievement Applicable to the Body of Knowledge Required for Entry Into the Practice of Civil Engineering at the Professional Level, Reston VA, September. (http://www.asce.org/raisethebar)5. ABET. 2008. Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs: Effective for Evaluations During the 2008-2009 Accreditation Cycle, ABET, Inc., Baltimore, MD. (http://www.abet.org).6. ASCE Task Committee to Plan a Summit on the Future of the Civil Engineering profession. 2007. The Vision

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Said Shakerin

development/enhancement of keen observational skill. As quoted byAscher Shapiro in the preface to the book on fluids films30, “fluid mechanics is aphotogenic subject,” and as such these fluid mechanics toys would most probably be ofinterest to general public as well as students of science and engineering.AcknowledgementThis paper is dedicated to Paul G. Hewitt, the physicist-cartoonist whose playfulpresentation of physics, especially in his text book Conceptual Physics, has been a sourceof inspiration for the author. Funding from the Committee on Academic Planning andDevelopment at the University of the Pacific is greatly appreciated which allowedpurchasing the toys described here and several others. The author thanks Dr. Ed Pejackfor providing

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19, 2009 and his help and guidance during the planning and preparationperiod of the conference. We are also grateful to the keynote speakers: Dr. Marvin White, Professor andDirector at Lehigh University, Allentown, PA; Dr. Shu Chien, University Professor and Director atUniversity of California, San Diego, CA; and Dr. Melissa Micou, a young talented faculty member in theDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, CA. We would like to express oursincere gratitude to Dr. Thomas MacCalla, VP, National University and Executive Director, NUCRI, forhis support and a special presentation at the dinner. It is our privilege to welcome Dr. David Hayhurst,Dean, College of Engineering, San Diego State University, for his concluding

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David Lanning

most of the students that received poor grades yetpassed the PSE, indicated in the last column in Table 2, had difficulty passing the PSE, takingmany attempts to pass the exam.An interesting observation can be made upon considering both Tables 1 and 2 together, thatwhile the enrollments in Solid Mechanics are typically lower in Autumn compared to Spring,there are more poor grades given during the Autumn semester. Most students on track tograduate as originally planned take Solid Mechanics during the Spring semester, while studentstaking it during the Autumn semester are often lagging behind due to poor performance incertain critical prerequisite courses. This generally poor performance in the degree programrequirements appears to continue in

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Lizabeth Schlemer; Jose Macedo

2007 ASEE Conference, AC 2007-803. 11. Rooney, S. A., Rooney, J. J. (2005). Lean glossary. Quality Progress, 38(6), 41-47.Biographical InformationLIZABETH T. SCHLEMER is an associate professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at CaliforniaPolytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. She received her Ph.D. in education from University of California,Santa Barbara, an MBA and an MS in Industrial and Systems Engineering from university of Southern Californiaand a BS in Industrial Engineering fro Cal Poly, SLO. She has 10 years of industrial experience working of UnocalCorporation. She has been teaching at Cal Poly, SLO for 15 years. She teaches a wide range of subjects fromEngineering Economy to Facilities Planning and Design

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Paul Blowers

concept maps other than in assessment4. Theypoint out that instructors can use them in instructional planning, which will be discussed later onin this work, and as learning tools. Concept maps are effective learning tools both when given tostudents and when created by students. As discussed before, creating concept maps forcesstudents to attempt to organize information. However, having concept maps provided allows thestudents to see a hierarchy or overall structure to which they can anchor new concepts within theframework of their own understanding. Schau and Mattern also discussed some quick andefficient methods of using concept maps that have not been discussed in the other works, whichis to use them as a template where varying degrees of node

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Arun K. Datta; Jacqueline Caesar; Daphne Rainey; Stephen Cammer; Julie Schuman; Oswald Crasta

costs through a redundancy of services19. Developing the state of health informatics hasthe potential to eliminate many of these concerns and increase the efficiency of the system. Thepresent US administration’s plan is to invest approximately $50 billion over the next five years tomove towards the adoption of standards-based electronic health information systems, includingelectronic health records in the nation’s health system. In February 2009, President Obamaprovided $19.2 billion for health IT in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Thislegislature is expected to create a demand for skilled healthcare professionals with knowledge ofCI. With this in mind, a CIBRED course, ‘Cyberinfrastructure in Healthcare Management’ hasbeen created