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Multi-disciplinary Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Byron Newberry

in electrical and computer engineering (ECE), mechanical engineering (MEC), andengineering (EGR). (The engineering major allows students the flexibility to pursue aconcentration that can be either of an interdisciplinary nature within engineering, or can be in asubject outside of engineering but which supports some well-defined career goal of the student.)The course is team taught by two, and sometimes three, engineering faculty members, with atleast one faculty member from each of mechanical engineering and electrical and computerengineering. (This same staffing arrangement also applies to the senior engineering designcourse.) Enrollment is typically about 30 students in the fall semester and 15 students in thespring semester.III. Design

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Jennifer Kadlowec; Linda Head

at early educational levels.One likely explanation that is often overlooked is the relative lack of comfort many women feelaround mechanical equipment, especially machine tools. Since much of traditional mechanicalengineering involves the design and prototyping of mechanical equipment, this lack of comfortmay manifest itself in the decision by women not to pursue mechanical engineering as a career.23In contrast, many young men are raised in an environment where familiarity with tools andmachinery is expected. In a design-intensive environment such as Rowan, a lack of prototypingexperience greatly diminishes a student’s educational experience. It is through prototyping, or“seeing what works,” that students become mature designers.One Possible

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Hunting for MINDs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Liz Oshaughnessy; Barbara Goldberg

istoday. At present, more women than men are attending college, and the statistics on collegegraduation indicate proportionately fewer women than men are attriting. However, if we examinethe segment of the college population that are pursuing careers in computer science, engineering,and other technical fields, we find that women are but a small minority here, and that someinstitutions experience selectively high migration of these talented women into other lesstechnical and less high paying professions.Clearly although much progress has been made in decreasing the gender gap in technical fields,women are still vastly underrepresented in engineering, science, information technology, andrelated fields. In fact, some estimates suggest a male/female

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Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gaby Hawat

; Statistics for Engineers,Principles of Electrical Engineering. In addition Valencia provides an “Introduction to theEngineering Profession” class, designed to assist students with their career paths throughguest speaker presentations. The demand for graduating engineers is as high as ever. Oneindicator is the increasing hiring of foreign employees to fill the gap in the supply anddemand of the engineering workforce. There actually appears to be a decline in thenumber of graduating engineers while the demand has remained constant or evenincreased slightly in the last few years. Yet not all students are ready academically orfinancially to start in an engineering program at a four year university. Many cannotafford to go to school full time and take

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What's in Store for the ChE Curriculum?

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2002 Annual Conference

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Louis Theodore; Joseph Reynolds; Ann Marie Flynn

engineersfor a career in business /management.Several faculty in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Manhattan College have discussedthis situation at great length. The result: a proposed graduate program called “Masters Programin Engineering Management and Business Administration” (MEMBA). It is now widelyaccepted that the MBA is the ideal program for company executives, e.g., a CEO, but not forengineering managers. However, there are a lot more technical managers than CEOs ... and goodproject and program managers are difficult to come by. One authority who has been exposed toboth an engineering and an MBA education recently commented: “For engineers who want tosuccessfully rise through engineering management ranks, this (program) will be

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Paterson; Samantha De Bon; Jean-Yves Chagnon; Deborah Wolfe

manage resources optimally through effective analysis, interpretation and decision-making. This ability is essential to the design process that characterizes the practice of engineering.· provide a broad basis for identifying acceptable engineering programs, to prevent over- specialization in curricula, to provide sufficient freedom to accommodate innovative educational development, to allow adaptation to different regional factors and to permit the expression of the institution’s individual qualities and ideals.· reflect the need for the engineer to be adaptive, creative, resourceful and responsive to changes in society, technology and career demands.· ensure that students are made aware of the role and responsibilities of

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Teaching Green Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Tamara Knott; Jean Kampe

(EF1015) involve coordinatingthe instruction of thirteen faculty members, resulting in a need to introduce change somewhatslowly. In the first semester of the effort, two substantial homework problems involvingsignificant green content were added to the syllabus. In addition, the new engineering studentswere required to attend a special evening lecture very early in the semester, which focused on theengineer's role in sustaining the environment.The gathering of the 1200+ first-year engineering students at an evening lecture during the firstweek of classes served several purposes. First, it provided an opportunity for the students toidentify with the College of Engineering early in their academic career. More importantly, thespeaker, Judge

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Novel Classroom Environments

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2002 Annual Conference

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Skip Rochefort; Keith Levien

Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationnew subject matter, but we are also trying to help students make judicious career choices. TheCourse Learning Objectives (CLO), which were developed to meet the ABET 2000 Criteria 3(a-k), provide a good outline of how we hope to accomplish this. CHE 101 Course Learning Objectives The students will demonstrate the ability to:1) comprehend and define the nature of the Chemical Engineering Profession. What is Chemical Engineering? What do Chemical Engineers do? What skills do ChE’s need to be successful?2) comprehend and define the roles of Oregon State University (OSU), the College of Engineering (COE), and the Chemical Engineering

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Techniques for Improving Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Beth Todd

Session 1065 Short, Instructional Module to Address Lifelong Learning Skills Beth A. Todd The University of AlabamaIntroductionEvery engineering program must demonstrate their graduates’ abilities to recognize the need forand engage in lifelong learning, as established in ABET 2000, Criterion 3(i). 1 While facultyagree that lifelong learning is an important skill and one that is significant in the future careers oftheir graduates, they often have limited experience and resources for teaching this topic. Formany engineering programs, it is hard to demonstrate where

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Karen Harris; Sunday Faseyitan; Robert Myers; Pearley Cunningham; Winston Erevelles

manufacturers while simultaneously providing newand rewarding career paths for the region’s youth4, 5.The challenge of transforming academic institutions into educators of highly qualifiedmanufacturing employees that are skilled in mathematics, science and technological innovationis a critical one that has drawn national attention. In southwestern Pennsylvania, the response tothis challenge has taken the form of an innovative partnership called PRIME. The Partnershipfor Regional Innovation in Manufacturing Education (PRIME) is an industry-driven, five-collegesystem delivering innovative manufacturing education and career development in southwestPennsylvania. PRIME brings together Robert Morris University (RMU), Pennsylvania StateNew Kensington (PSNK

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Recruiting/Retention--Lower Division

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2002 Annual Conference

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Charles Abaté; Ramesh Gaonkar

their career. Therefore, many drop out before even experiencing any real exposureto the field they are interested in. Others get to try the gateway courses, but find them toodaunting and quit.Strategies for Teaching and Learning:Faced with a huge disparity between the demands for a versatile, highly skilled technicalgraduate and the actual skills of incoming students, we clearly need a new way of thinking aboutour curriculum and our pedagogy. We can generalize several shared needs among a greatmajority of our incoming students. They need: Page 7.711.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

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Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Cockayne; John Feland; Larry Leifer

Session 2002-1817tool to create self- and group-awareness across disciplines and skill sets. This Matrixprovides an understanding of content and skills – coupled know-how – for studentschoosing classes; building degrees; choosing and defining a career; and for creatingcontinuous learning and career development goals. Figure 2. Engineering Matrix. The presence of a Skill within a Content area is presented defined quantitatively, or can be used for simply communicating presence.To effectively achieve understanding and communication in use, this tool was designedto be simple. The presentation of the tool is in a standard two-dimensional matrix, withcontent areas down the left side and skill areas along the top. In the field of engineering

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Assessing Teaching and Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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Khalid El Gaidi; Diane H. Soderholm; Doris Brodeur; Dava Newman

and systemically. 4.7 Master personal skills that contribute to successful engineering practice: initiative, flexibility, creativity, curiosity, and time management. 4.8 Master professional skills that contribute to successful engineering practice: professional ethics, integrity, currency in the field, career planning. 3.0 4.9 Lead and work in teams. Interpersonal 4.10 Communicate effectively in writing, in electronic Skills form, in graphic media, and in oral presentations. 4.0

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett; Eugene Audette; Debra Ricci

prodded to do their best. Others reported confidence that the program is solid andon the “right track” based on the perception of a world expert from another university, who alsoteaches as an adjunct faculty member in the program. The two parent focus groups and four-item questionnaires yielded similar positive reactionsas the student questionnaires regarding what the parents had experienced about the BSMEprogram and the university in general. The theme of the before-lunch focus group was to gatherparents’ impressions or stories as to why their son or daughter chose engineering as a field ofstudy and why they chose to pursue that major at this university. They told stories of studentswho tended to make early career and academic choices during

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What's in Store for the ChE Curriculum?

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Farhad Sharifi

intomany new subdisciplinaries such as polymer, dyes, textile industry, etc. In recent years, jobmarket for chemical engineers has become very volatile. As a consequence, chemical engineershave become desperate, and are often absorbed by other fields based on job availability and theirgeneral skills. These fields are sometimes not even engineering. Chemical engineers sacrificetheir long-term professional career to earn quicker money. The evolution of the modern industryfrom a conventional hierarchical (top-down) into a skill-oriented (cross linked) design hasbecome evident. Personal skills like being a team worker, communicative, collaborative,initiative for quality, design and efficiency are becoming more attractive to companies overspecialized

Conference Session

Physics in the K-12 Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

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Melanie Pearlman; Kimberly Turner

inengineering, and MEMS can be a good tool to use when discussing these concepts. In many cases,having an actual example (be it on the internet, or in the classroom) is the key to retaining an idea.MEMS are novel. Such novelty makes them a ‘hot topic’, one which is interesting to students of theupper secondary to lower high school level. It has been shown that middle school is the age when girlstend to be drawn away from science and engineering and more toward other career options [2,3,4]. Toencourage more women to stay involved in science, the material has to be presented in a way that isexciting to both genders. MEMS devices are typically rather simple mechanically, at least to somedegree. The elements are clearly visible, and in many cases can be

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mott

reflection on both the content learned and the learning process.Problem based learning (PBL) is one effective model that is based on constructivist principles.Also called activity-based learning, PBL involves engaging the learner in an activity patternedfrom an authentic task that would be performed by a competent practitioner in the field in whichthe learner will eventually find a career position.Authentic Learning Tasks Developed by the NCE/AMEIn the work of the NCE/AME, the problem is called an authentic learning task or ALT. TheALT is designed to provide an experience in which the learner can acquire a few specificcompetencies through a process of discovery, experimentation, and generalization. A set ofALTs is combined in an instructional

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Engineering Management Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ken Vickers; Ronna Turner; Greg Salamo

Session 3142 Graduate Student Practice of Technology Management: The Cohort Approach to Structuring Graduate Programs Ken Vickers, Greg Salamo, Ronna Turner University of ArkansasBackgroundMany conferences have been held to discuss the skills needed by engineering and technologyprogram graduates to be successful in technology based careers. These conferences strive tounderstand the full spectrum of job requirements by typically including representatives ofacademe, government, and industry. A common result of these conferences 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 has beenlists of

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Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

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Elizabeth R. Crockett; Matthew Ohland

career when the intervention occurs assimply another variable, rather than to consider summer bridge programs as a separate entity.This will be discussed further in the conclusions section. Note that other references are availablefor some programs, but are not necessarily added if they contain no new assessment information.Classification. The programs in the study have been classified in the tables in the appendix.Tables 1 through 9 classify a broad range of program characteristics that can be used to identifyprograms of interest for comparison studies and sharing of ideas. These tables contain thefollowing characteristics: 1. Programs included in this sample, their institution (by web address), and references 2. Population served

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bartlett

the respective student organization for fifty percent oftheir course grade. This encouraged student chosen engagements with industry, professors,upper classmen, and each other. The resultant activities accommodated individual learningstyles, interests, and career paths. Based on the Individual Development and EducationalAssessment (IDEA) Center nationally normalized long-form survey of the student reactions tothis instruction and course, three aspects of the teaching methods and style were ratedsignificantly higher than for other classes of similar size and level of student motivation. Thesehighly rated aspects were relevant to the essential and important objectives of the course andinvolved fostering student collaboration, establishing

Conference Session

Academic Prerequisites for Licensure

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brewer Stouffer; Jeffrey Russell

least as complex as any of these fields; should not the education of its futureprofessionals reflect this?The interrelatedness of today’s world touches almost everyone, especially those who managechange, which is to say leaders. From the start of their careers, civil engineers of 2030 will beexpected to know more about an increasingly complex world without the job security enjoyed byprevious generations. 36 In the global, internet-connected economy with inexpensive engineeringservices available 24 hours a day, there will be less incentive for employers to developemployees.14, 24 The leading companies will, as they always have, invest in the education andtraining of employees, but civil engineers will be forced to become entrepreneurial in

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Massood Atashbar

Engineering students traditionally take a subset of courses required for the EE and CSdegrees, along with specialized CE courses in architecture, microcontrollers and digital designand integrated circuit design. From an EE view, they have too little hardware experience touseful interfacing and according to CS, programming embedded microcontrollers in assembly orC is insufficient. This would probably be satisfactory if most CE graduates went to work in hightechnology companies like microelectronic industry, but this simply not the case. A number ofCE students wind up being employed as more traditional engineering doing software design.Many will have careers in digital communications and data acquisition, where signalconditioning, digital signal

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Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

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Thomas J. Webster; Karen Haberstroh

should apply! Thomas Lozito: My REU project involved cell modeling. I never considered modeling as an interest, but after the summer I became involved in two modeling projects. Mary Waller: The entire experience, both the research and the chance to see the clinical and industrial applications, has greatly increased my interest in BME. I plan on pursuing a career in BME. Katie Jansen: Although I am now steering away from BME, it had nothing to do with my experience this summer. The most important thing is that this experience did make me decide to go to graduate school and pursue research as a career. As I have said before, it was a very

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Burger

this sort.EAC has taken a quantum leap forward by focusing on goals and outcomes. The next steplogically is to reap a benefit by re-organizing the commissions as proposed above. [1] http://www.abet.org/ [2] A. Sanoff, Under the magnifying glass, ASEE Prism, October 2001. [3] A. Eades, ABET Revisited, ASEE Prism, Feb. 2002. [4] http://www.abet.org/accredited_programs/EACWebsite.html#C [5] http://www.abet.org/accredited_programs/TACWebsite.html [6] http://ar.byu.edu/dept_academ_advise/gemajor/98/dc/395220dc.html [7] http://www.rit.edu/~706www/newpages/eet/about.html [8] http://www.oit.edu/~career/survey/ [9] http://career.asu.edu/V/offers/CollofTech&AppSci.htm [10] http://careers.latimes.com [11] http

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Issues for ET Administrators

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2002 Annual Conference

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Daniel Jones

early in their college experience. Many ET programsface the common challenge of recruiting and retaining qualified students. At the same time,substantial portions of the incoming students lack basic skills in math and science that are neededfor them to succeed in ET. Consequently, some introductory ET courses teach basic math andscience while exposing student to career opportunities in ET.This paper discusses the experience of faculty teaching Introduction to Engineering Technology,IET 120, over the past seven years. The course has gradually shifted from a pure lecture formatto incorporate hands-on activities, plant tours, and design-and-build projects. A questionnairewas developed to assess the effectiveness of the changes in the course. The

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International Engineering Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Feng Liu; Fazil Najafi

dividesthe undergraduate education into the two phases of general education and upper division/ CEcore education. The CE program at NTU is well balanced with a requirement of six monthsindustrial training before graduation. At the UF, CE students are required to take EngineeringIntern Test (EIT) before graduation. Page 7.111.12. Course requirements in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at NTUand in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering at the UFThe CE curriculum at the UF toward a Bachelor of Science degree provides a depth ofknowledge and enable a graduate is able to pursue a career in design, construction and

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Curriculum Development in BIO Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry McIntire; Ka-yiu San; Ann Saterbak

emphasis on cellular and molecular engineering, we believe ourbioengineering undergraduate students will obtain the necessary training to become leaders inthis rapidly emerging field of the biomedical/biotechnology industry.IntroductionThe Bioengineering undergraduate program at Rice University is designed to prepare studentsfor careers in rapidly developing areas of biomedical engineering and bioprocessing. Theundergraduate educational program in Bioengineering (BIOE) has the goal of producing a newtype of biomedical engineer, fully conversant with modern biochemistry and cell and molecularbiology. This type of biomedical engineer will translate bench-scale scientific advances inbiological sciences into cost-effective new products and processes

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ET Industrial Collaborations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Fisher; David Roth; Fredrick Nitterright

to their classmates, all of whom are seniors interested in what experiences might await them upon graduation. • Many interns agree that this oral presentation is a great experience. It often is described as their first technical presentation that they really enjoy. • Freshmen from the major are given extra credit in their Freshmen Orientation course for attending the internships oral presentations. This has proved to be the best way to orient freshmen as to what engineering technology is, and what they might learn in their college career. • Guests are encouraged to attend the presentation, especially from lower-level classes and through the student section of the American Society of Mechanical

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Reaching Out to the Community

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Alan Gomez

attention to the rubric that you and your students create together for the case studyas many solutions will fit into the criteria, while some may be only a slight tweak of an existingdesign. Make sure students have data, drawings, designs and research to support the majorimprovements or minor changes to existing packaging.V. Engineering program descriptionThe course at Madison West High School, Principles of Engineering, is offered to sophomores,juniors, and seniors. We developed this course at the national level through a grant from theNational Science Foundation, its origin based on the need for pre-college survey courses thatstimulate interest in careers in engineering and technology. This course explores the relationshipbetween math, science

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Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Gilbert; Kathleen Carvalho; Elizabeth McCullough; Marilyn Barger

Session 2386 Using Technology Equipment to Teach Chemistry Laboratory Exercises in Community Colleges Marilyn Barger, Elizabeth McCullough, Kathleen Carvalho Hillsborough Community College/ Hillsborough Community College /University of South Florida St. PetersburgAbstractThe drive to attract students into science and technology careers at all levels has led to creativeprograms and efforts across the country. At Hillsborough Community College in Tampa Florida,a new associate in science manufacturing technology degree program focused on high techmanufacturing