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Innovative Curriculum Development in EET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kathleen Ossman

Session 1448 Teaching State Variable Feedback to Technology Students Using MATLAB and SIMULINK Kathleen A.K. Ossman, Ph.D. University of Cincinnati I. IntroductionThis paper describes a course and laboratory in State Variable Feedback developed as a t echnicalelective for students in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET) program atthe University of Cincinnati. Students pursuing the EET degree are required to take courses inSignals and Systems and Feedback Controller Design. They learn to design lead

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New Computer ET Course Development

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kyle Hebsch; Jefferey Stevens; Andrew Gilchrist IV; Joel Weinstein

Session 2137 Providing a Real World Experience in the Teaching of Computer Technology By Joel Weinstein, Andrew Gilchrist IV, Kyle Hebsch, Jefferey Stevens Northeastern UniversityAbstractOne of the greatest challenges facing engineering technology educators is preparation forwhat graduates will face in the real world. Unlike the classroom, problems are notpredefined, solutions do not come from answer books and personnel are not nearly asexpert as the instructors that have prepared the students. This paper describes a courseand its methodology that helps to better prepare students for

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michael Matthews; James Ritter; James Mc Intyre; James Becnel; Chuck Holland

Session 1613 Fundamentals of Fixed Bed Adsorption Processes: Analysis of Adsorption Breakthrough and Desorption Elution Curves. James M. Becnel, Charles E. Holland, James McIntyre, Michael A. Matthews, and James A. Ritter Department of Chemical Engineering University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29205IntroductionFixed bed adsorption processes are ubiquitous throughout the chemical process and otherindustries. This laboratory is an extension of a lab proposed by Cruz et. al. (2000), which isdesigned to allow students to

Conference Session

Combining Research and Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Raul Ordonez; Marianne Cinaglia; Kathryn Hollar; Jess Everett; Joseph Orlins; Kauser Jahan; Mariano Savelski; Linda Head; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh

. space with multifunctional state -of-the-art teaching and research laboratories. The chemical, electrical and environmentalengineering programs have purchased over $3.4 M worth of equipment in the last fouryears and have all major analytical equipment for research.Nine engineering professors are involved in the REU projects, one as PrincipalInvestigator, one as co-principal investigator and the rest as senior personnel. The themeof this REU is such that faculty from various engineering backgrounds can participate.Faculty are actively involved in mentoring activities for students during and after theduration of the REU project. Experienced Rowan Undergraduate Research Assistants,and Rowan Graduate Students work closely with the REU

Conference Session

Combining Research and Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Duggan

ASEE Meeting Montreal,Quebec June, 2002 Session #: 1351 Studying Land-Applied Biosolids: An Integration of Research and Teaching in an Environmental Engineering Curriculum Jack Duggan, Ph.D., P.E. Wentworth Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe selection of appropriate reuse, recycling and disposal options for biosolids

Conference Session

Combining Research and Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Bruce Berdanier

was designed and implemented in Spring 2001 as an environmental engineering analysiscourse at the undergraduate level. Environmental engineering courses in Civil engineeringprograms at the undergraduate level are typically focused around engineering design conceptsand focused closed-end design and laboratory experiences. The objectives of this new coursewere: · To provide the students with an open-ended field laboratory experience that they would have to design and implement themselves, · To have the students focus the independent lecture and laboratory experiences that they had accumulated throughout their program of study to determine the information that they would need to characterize a watershed and conduct a TMDL

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rachel Specht; Kathryn Hollar; Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

Pressure, Saturated) conditions. The software offersmany options for the convenient display of automatically-calculatedvalues; however, these direct measurements at BTPS conditions arethe only values necessary to perform the calculations involved in this experiment. Thecalculation/display options may be exercised in order to provide numbers against which studentsmay check their calculations.For their laboratory report, students perform all calculations by hand. In a subsequent laboratoryperiod, students are introduced to the process simulator, HYSYS. In an in-class activity, studentsuse HYSYS to draw a simple process flow diagram of the respiration cycle. They provide theirdata and allow HYSYS to perform material and energy balances on the

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jacquelyn Sullivan; Lawrence Carlson

Session 1354 Exploring Entrepreneurship through Product Development: A Hands-on Approach Lawrence E. Carlson, Jacquelyn F. Sullivan Co-Directors Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory and Program College of Engineering and Applied Science University of Colorado at BoulderAbstractEngineering students of all disciplines typically engage in at least one open-ended designexperience during their undergraduate careers. Through hands-on design and build projects, theylearn

Conference Session

Combining Research and Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Melanie Daniel; Joshua Becker; Carlos Ortiz

environmental study independent from academic laboratory experiments, this projectexposed the demands of research vs. teaching in an institution dedicated almost exclusively toteaching and without graduate programs in engineering technology. It is extremely demanding forfaculty to teach three different courses and conduct scholarly activities requiring laboratory work.Finally, despite the limitation of resources, it is possible to conduct studies that can motivatestudents to search for solutions to engineering problems.From the student perspective, an appreciation was gained concerning the importance of valuableresearch in an academic environment. Perhaps for the first time, students were faced with realworld applications and situations employing

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nick Salamon; Gautam Wagle; Cliff Lissenden

Session 3568 Applications of Finite Element Analysis for Undergraduates C.J. Lissenden, G.S. Wagle, and N.J. Salamon Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Penn State UniversityAbstractThe Engineering Science and Mechanics department and the Mechanical Engineeringdepartment at Penn State share responsibility for teaching an undergraduate course on finiteelement analysis applications. We present one approach for teaching this course. Instructors canapproach a course like this in a variety of ways. Faculty, students, and industry generallydisagree as to what the learning objectives of this course

Conference Session

Combining Research and Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stanley Grant; Semsi Ensari

flood control channels on the coastal waterquality. As part of a class project, 14 undergraduate students, consisting of ChemicalEngineering and Environmental Engineering majors, performed this study during rising (flood)and falling (ebb) tides, and showed the distribution of FIB in flood control channels. While thestudents were exposed to field work and laboratory procedures for the water quality, the resultshave important implications in the design of the diversion systems during dry weather.IntroductionOnce viewed as being a sub-set of civil or chemical engineering, the discipline of environmentalengineering has established a status in its own right worldwide1-3. The industry requires that newgraduates have both increased knowledge in the

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Wendy Reffeor

Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering EducationOnce approved by the instructor, students constructed their mechanisms to their engineeringdrawings using materials available in the engineering laboratory facilities. They tested theirmechanisms for accuracy and troubleshot any problems that occurred during testing.Modifications were made to the mechanisms and documented. Full documentation of changesincluding the reason for the change was required.Evaluation of the project was based primarily on the accuracy of the design calculations, thecorrelation between the design calculations and the final physical trials, the accuracy andcompleteness of the engineering drawings and the conclusions drawn from the

Conference Session

Techniques for Improving Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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David Cottrell

material involving teaching and learning principles and styles,communication skills, and assessment techniques for evaluating faculty and student alike.The seminars selectively highlighted critical topics from the Lowman and Wankat andOreovics texts including those presented by this article as well as numerous personalsuccess stories from senior professors and ExCEEd staff.Almost without exception, participants acclaim the laboratories with their practice classesas an extremely beneficial aspect of the workshops. The two workshops scheduled thepractice sessions either consistently in the morning or in the afternoon. Nevertheless,both venues proved highly effective and the time of day became an insignificant issue.As noted previously, to encourage

Conference Session

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

skills, or program outcomes, are also thecornerstone of the program's self-study report for ABET accreditation.) This paperaddresses the planning and development of portfolios for assessing students' achievementat the end of their programs in aerospace engineering at MIT.BackgroundIn its strategic plan of 1998, the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) committed to major reform of itscurriculum, teaching and learning methods, and laboratory environments. To achieve itsgoals, the department framed its curriculum to model a product system life cycle. Thefour phases in the curriculum are referred to as Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate(CDIO). The Conceive stage includes defining the need and

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mariano Savelski; Robert Hesketh; Kevin Dahm

micromixing to undergraduate students hasbeen developed and tested. It will be integrated into a junior-level Chemical ReactionEngineering course in the Spring 2002 semester. The presentation will detail results and studentresponse.AcknowledgementsSupport for the laboratory development activity described in this paper is provided for by a grant(DUE- 0088501) from the National Science Foundation through the Division for UndergraduateEducation.BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION1 Fogler, H. Scott, Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering, 3rd Ed., Prentice Hall PTR, NewJersey 1999.2 Bourne, J.R.; Gablinger, H., “Local pH gradients and the selectivity of fast reactions. II.Comparisons between model and experiments.” Chemical Engineering Science 44 (6) p. 1347

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Feland

tolls for thee.”3 It was never truer for engineers than today.Unfortunately the academic environment is conditioned on rewarding individual achievement. Itis typically not until students have excelled in the individual reward structure for 12 years thatwe force them to work in teams. When we do this we tend not to provide them with the tools orthe language to support this new work practice. Much has been done to attempt to address this.Under a program sponsored by Ford, Michigan State University developed a one-lessonteamwork minicourse for a senior-level Mechanical Engineering class. 4 TennesseeTechnological University uses the Army’s Leadership Reaction Course to teach teamwork andleadership. 5 UCCI has adopted the Emotional Intelligence

Conference Session

Techniques for Improving Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nicholas Steneck; Donald Carpenter; Trevor Harding; Susan Montgomery

EducationThere is an interesting trend with respect to copying. 96.8 % of students believe that copyingfrom another student during an exam is cheating. This number drops to 72.0 % for copyinghomework from another student, 59.1 % for copying laboratory reports from previous terms,49.3 % for copying homework from previous terms, and 17.9 % for copying passages out of thetextbook. There is a corresponding increase in students who thought these acts were unethicalbut not cheating. Exams, laboratory reports, and homework are all methods of assessing studentperformance in a class and all play a role in the final grade, yet students are obviously making adistinction between them. In most classes, exams weigh more heavily towards the final grade thanlaboratory

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching and Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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Donald Headley; Sanjiv Sarin

.Author BiographiesSANJIV SARINSanjiv Sarin is a Professor of Industrial Engineering and Associate Dean for the College of Engineering at NorthCarolina A&T State University. He received a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute ofTechnology, New Delhi and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the State University of New York, Buffalo. He is amember of ASEE and IIE, and a registered Professional Engineer in North Carolina.DONALD B. HEADLEYDonald Headley is a Visiting Professor at North Carolina A&T State University. He is a Human Factors ResearchPsychologist with the Army Research Laboratory – Human Research and Engineering Directorate, Aberdeen ProvingGround, Maryland. He received a B.S. in Research Psychology

Conference Session

Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Larry Dunn; Jessica Matson; Kenneth Hunter

B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Tennessee Technological University. He hasover 26 years of engineering experience, including positions in academia, industry, the United States Army, agovernment laboratory, and his own consulting business. He is a registered P.E. in the State of Tennessee.JESSICA O. MATSONJessica Matson is currently Professor and Chairperson of the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Departmentat Tennessee Technological University. She received her B.S. from Mississippi State University and her M.S. andPh.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology, all in industrial engineering. She has previously served on the facultyat Mississippi State University and the University of Alabama and is a registered P.E

Conference Session

Techniques for Improving Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Cindy Finelli; Trevor Harding

Session 2230 Suggestions for Establishing Centers for Engineering Education Trevor S. Harding and Cynthia J. Finelli Kettering UniversityIntroductionAt the 2001 ASEE Annual Conference, a group of individuals gathered for a session entitled “ARoundtable Discussion of Best Practices for Developing Centers for Engineering Education,Teaching, and Learning”. The event was part of the Breakfast of Champions session, regularlysponsored by the Educational Research Methods division of ASEE. Eleven people directlyinvolved in existing centers for engineering education were invited to

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; David Oglesby; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

Session 2768 Incorporating Web-Based Homework Problems in Engineering Dynamics Ralph E. Flori, David B. Oglesby, Timothy A. Philpot, Nancy Hubing, Richard H. Hall, Vikas Yellamraju University of Missouri-RollaAbstractWe are involved in a project funded by the Department of Education (FIPSE) which focuses ondeveloping interactive software to improve the teaching and learning of engineering statics,dynamics, and mechanics of materials. This paper presents an overview of this project, discussesits objectives, and focuses on

Conference Session

Use of Labs to Introduce Students to Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

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Andrew Lau; Sven Bilen; Elizabeth Kisenwether

sense of accomplishment at having progressed successfully through learning the new principlesand the engineering design process.Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank Dr. Robert Pangborn, Associate Dean for UndergraduateStudies, for funding the development of this lab module; Anthony Skraba for helping define theinitial version of the module; and Agilent Technologies for donated test equipment used in thislab.References1. Simon, H. (1998), “What We Know About Learning,” Journal of Engineering Education, v. 87, n. 4, p 343.2. ABET Engineering Criteria 2000, http://www.abet.org, 2000.3. Lyons, J., J. Morehouse, and E. Young, Design of a Laboratory to Teach Design of Experiments, Proceedings of the American Society for

Conference Session

Using Animation and Simulation in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gregory Smith; Adam Siurek; Jamie Workman

sections in the fall and onesection in the spring. On lab days, the students are broken down into smaller laboratory groupsto perform the experiments, however, all groups perform the same experiment during the allottedtwo-hour time period. Without a teaching assistant, the instructor must explain and/ordemonstrate the laboratory procedure to several groups prior to each start-up. This takes aconsiderable amount of time and slows the groups down, but has always been a necessarycomponent. Also, unless the instructor takes the time to predict how long each group should taketo do the experiment and schedule the groups to come in on a staggered timetable, severalstudents must wait for the equipment to become free as the groups progress through

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Control Applications

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2002 Annual Conference

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Daniel Marcal de Queiroz; Hartono Sumali

address the problems associated with teaching a hands-onlaboratory course away from the home institution where the course was established. Theproblems included content adaptation, equipment availability, laboratory setup, scheduling,instruction methods, language barrier, funding, and a few other problems. Advantages andcompromises associated with the international adaptation of the course are discussed. It is hopedthat this paper will help create a model for international teaching collaboration.IntroductionIn the last decade or so, a plethora of publications have addressed the importance of preparingengineering students for the internationalization of their profession 1. In most of thosepublications, international or global education means

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sheldon Jeter

Session 1566 USING A GENERIC CHECKLIST FOR TEACHING AND GRADING THE FORMAT, COMPOSITION, AND PRODUCTION QUALITIES IN LABORATORY REPORT WRITING Sheldon M. Jeter Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstract An itemized checklist on the format, composition, and production qualities expected inexperimental engineering reports is presented and described. The checklist can be used as aninstructional tool, a working reference, and a grading instrument. Methods to implement its useare also described, and a quantitative

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Haering

", and it was a good example for teaching the students how to use spreadsheets to dosummations and other mathematical operations. Upon grading the laboratory reports, it wasclear that almost none of the students understood the generation and use of the calibration curve,despite the fact that they had not asked questions about the material. On three separate occasionsI tried to clear up the confusion with very little success. In the process I learned several quicklessons. First, the details of curve fitting, even without the calculus, were beyond theunderstanding of the students. Second, by allowing a detail to cause confusion, I hadinadvertently obscured the more important issue of the calibration curve and its use. Finally,freshman students are

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Real-world Applications in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Newman; Albert McHenry; John Robertson; Lakshmi Munukutla

troubleshooting semiconductor tools and processes; 2)understanding the technology’s operations and limits; and 3) interacting with colleagues,suppliers, and customers.The Microelectronics Teaching Factory is designed to fill this need. Industry clearly believes theintegrated regional solution to expensive laboratory instruction can ease workforce shortages.Intel already collaborates in a regional lab serving multiple campuses in New Mexico, and TexasInstruments supports a regional lab model in Texas. Regional companies have already given theTeaching Factory their vote of confidence through major donations of equipment and pledges ofcontinuing support. Our partnership aims to prepare technicians and engineering technologistswith BS and MS degrees so

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Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mary Vollaro

Instrumentation Division Session 2559 Field Trips: An innovative approach in teaching ‘Manufacturing Processes’ to traditional undergraduates Mary B. Vollaro, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Engineering, Western New England College, Springfield, MA 01119AbstractTeaching manufacturing processes to undergraduates with industrial and mechanical engineeringmajors poses a challenge, in that, students have little background from which to begin buildingtheir knowledge. Comparing and contrasting different processes becomes just another ‘book’problem to solve and/or

Conference Session

Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jeremy Losaw; Ann Anderson

motor sports programs as part of a Mechanical Engineeringcurriculum. Page 7.1271.1At Union College we have developed a racecar aerodynamics laboratory exercise that is used in ajunior year fluid mechanics course to teach students about the relationship between pressure and “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education ” Session 2166velocity as described by Bernoulli’s equation and about the

Conference Session

New Programs and Textbooks in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robin Adams; Mary Lidstrom; Kjell Nelson; Jeffrey Bonadio; David Stahl; Cynthia Atman

Session Teaching Biology from an Engineering Perspective: Integrating Biology into Undergraduate Engineering Education Kjell Nelson1, Robin Adams1, Mary Lidstrom2, Jeff Bonadio3, Dave Stahl4, Cynthia Atman1 1 Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching, 2Department of Chemical Engineering, 3Department of Bioengineering, 4Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WashingtonAbstractA new course has been developed at the University of Washington that is designed to teachfundamental biological concepts specifically