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Wangping Sun

environment is difficult to manage and easy to cause chaos and confusion.E. Safety issuesSafety is always an important and sensitive issue that arises in the discussion of travel and the realizationof a global project9. Social stability, contagious deceases and travel safety in the abroad country must beconsidered before any international program can take place.VI. Efforts to build a sustainable global learning environmentA lot of universities are working hard to build a sustainable global learning environment for theengineering programs. These efforts are taken in the following seven directions.A. Curriculum changeSome universities are integrating global issues into all years of a student’s educational experience40.Global preparation is moved beyond

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Kenneth W. Santarelli

educational needs in the elementary, middle, and highschool districts (pipeline) throughout the region. This customer driven approach is consistent withTyler’s seminal work on curriculum development16 and on Dewey’s work which provided anunderstanding of the sources of educational objectives17. Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2010, American Society for Engineering Education 198Employers in the region have recognized the need for a local program to educate engineers.According to an official statement from Edwards AFB,The entire aerospace industry has a

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Susan Conrad; Peter Dusicka; Timothy Pfeiffer

Foundation’s Course, Curriculum andLaboratory Improvement program, takes a new approach to investigating the problem anddevising instructional materials because it is based on a large-scale investigation of theorganization, grammar, and vocabulary in texts written by numerous students and practitioners.It uses computer-assisted analysis techniques from the field of applied linguistics and involvescollaboration among applied linguists, engineering faculty, and engineering practitioners.Although school tasks are produced for different purposes and audiences than workplace writing,the multiple perspectives brought to the study allow us to identify aspects of student writing thatare counter to practitioner concerns and are not the result of a class

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David Lanning; Wahyu Lestari; Shirley Waterhouse

manufacturing and laboratory space for these degree programs, and is both acampus showpiece and a critical tool for implementing the kind of hands-on instructionimportant to ERAU. In this facility, students have access to equipment not normally available toundergraduate engineering students at most universities; the use of this equipment is regularlyincorporated into the engineering curriculum at ERAU. Features include a machine shop withadjoining light fabrication spaces (the latter for after-hours work), rapid prototyping capabilities,an astronautics lab with shaker tables and vacuum chambers and an air bearing, several loadframes as well as a large reaction frame for structural testing, and a materials science andmicroscopy suite. Students are

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Ding Yuan; Jude DePalma; Nebojsa Jaksic

the lab experience.Results show an improvement for all survey questions. Future work will assess students’performance and retention.BackgroundIt is well-known that the largest attrition in engineering programs in many institutions occursduring the first-year of study1-4. Many educators have discussed this problem and proposedvarious solutions. One of the prominent approaches is to build a learning community by linkingcourses2, 3.At CSU-Pueblo, a pilot learning community was initiated in the Department of Engineering.Two first-year courses were linked with shared homework assignments. In addition, a three-hourrobotics lab was added to stimulate students’ interest in engineering, to introduce students toteam work, and to allow students to meet

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James Helbling

Fall 2003 semester, an instructor change in the Aircraft Detail Design course led to amajor curriculum alteration that emphasized component design and the addition of structuraltesting of scaled models of aircraft components. The new curriculum required student teams tobuild both wind tunnel and structural models of an aircraft component (e.g., a wing section, tailsection, pylon) to allow students an opportunity to verify both aerodynamic and structuralanalysis methods.Therefore, beginning in the Fall 2003 semester, students were required to select a singlecomponent from the aircraft they developed in the Preliminary Design course and concentrate onthe design of that component alone. They were first required to fabricate and test a wind

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John M. Murray; Roger A. Greener; Heong-seok Kim; William T. Murray

(men, birds), the four-leggeds, nations thatspring from the ground, and those that live in the water. Even the rocks and stars are worthy ofrespect11-20. Education can play an important role in illuminating this integrated worldview byexpanding our circle of understanding and action to include complex, self-organizing,interdependent systems, inspiring a sense of place through holistic, regional study, andintroducing ourselves to the land.Understanding the energy basis for man and nature21-24 is equally fundamental to sustainability inthe wild, rapidly changing American West since, over the long term, the biogeosphere mustoperate primarily on renewable solar, tidal, and deep earth energies. These bountiful energiesmanifest themselves in

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Nebojsa Jaksic; Jeff Piquette; Melvin Druelinger; David Lehmpuhl; Helen Caprioglio; Juyun Cho; Paul Chacon; Michael Mincic

://www.aacu.org/peerreview/pr- fa01/pr-fa01feature1.cfm (accessed 12/04/09)2. Barrow, D., Bassichis, B., DeBlassie, D., Everett, L., Imbrie, P. K., and Whiteacre, M., “An integrated freshman engineering curriculum, why you need it and how to design it,” Proceedings of 1995 Frontiers in Education Conference, p.3c1.7-3c1.10, 1995.3. Cooley, W., and Prucz, M., “ „Live and learn‟ program for recruitment/retention,” Proceedings of 1997 Frontiers in Education Conference, pp.80-82, 1997.4. Manuel-Dupont, S., “Writing-across-the-curriculum in an engineering program,” Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 35-40, January 1996.5. Waitz, I. A. and Barrett, E., “Integrated teaching of experimental and communication skills to undergraduate

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Lizabeth Thompson Schlemer; Faith Mimnaugh

unique in that the teams are usually working on complex, ambiguous, and timeconsuming problems. When PBL is used students achieve many desirable outcomes. Several researchersat the University of Madrid4 found that PBL used in the design of electronic systems increased interestin electronics, increased academic performance, and produced better design solutions. In addition,situational factors were found to influence the outcomes of PBL activities for junior engineeringstudents5. These situational factors include the type of project selected, the learning of the individualstudent, and the ability of students to adapt to working under time pressure.Engagement is often cited as an important component of learning in PBL. In the Civil and

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explore the mechanicalintricacies of assembling the robot. Several teams were required to improvise and troubleshootas an error was made in assembly or different pieces than advertised were included in their kits. Following assembly, the students were asked to use the NXT brick, the „brain‟ of the robot, tocreate a simple program. The NXT brick‟s have object-oriented programming capability thatallows five commands to be programmed and executed. After familiarization with theprogramming language of the Mindstorm, the students were asked to investigate some of thesensors included in the kit by following instructions on connecting the sensors properly andverifying their correct operation. The integration of the sensors into their projects

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Marilyn A. Dyrud

DowChemical, Standard Oil, DuPont, and Alcoa in the United States. Wall Street financiers, such asPaul Warburg, one of the founders of the Federal Reserve System, helped to fund Farben initiallyand were integral to its success. Antony Sutton, author of Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler,suggests that ―without the capital supplied by Wall Street, there would have been no I. G. Farbenin the first place.‖16The companies affiliated with Farben produced an amazing array of products. Initially, the focuswas on dyestuffs and chemical agents, but as the war progressed and Farben became moreintimately entangled with the politics of the Third Reich, it branched out into materials requiredfor waging aggressive war: rocket fuel and synthetics, such as oil

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Eniko T. Enikov; Vasco Polyzoev; Joshua Gill

survey data on the effectiveness of the module is alsopresented.I. IntroductionHands-on laboratories have been an integral part of the engineering curriculum since itsinception1. Their importance has been recognized by the Accreditation Board of EngineeringEducation (ABET) and its predecessors by creating criteria requiring adequate laboratorypractice for students2-6. During the last three decades, engineering laboratories have becomemore complex, including simulation tools and computer-controlled test and measurementequipment7-8. This increased sophistication has also led to more expensive equipment. Theinclusion of such laboratory courses in the undergraduate curriculum is challenging due to thelarge number of students and the increased demand

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Gemunu Happawana; Arvind Gopi

paper is to motivate and integratestudent learning process through mathematical models and equations for design.The methodology is realized using a mathematical model of a 6x6 wheel drive tractor satisfyingthe off-road profile. The methodology is used to find the optimum co-ordinates for the center ofgravity and optimum arrangements of the middle axle wheels along the tractor. The optimaltractive efficiency is then achieved by optimizing the geometric coordinates.Educational value of the paperThis paper is basically an analysis-based learning approach to motivate and integrate studentlearning process. This approach will increase student‟s motivation because it introduces theengineering content early in the curriculum and helps them understand