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Teaching Design with a Twist

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sohail Anwar; Eric Granlund

several different courses.Engineering Design and Graphics 100 (ED&G 100) is an introduction to engineeringdesign course for all freshman baccalaureate engineering students at the Altoona Collegeof the Pennsylvania State University. In this three credit-hour course, engineering designprocess is taught through team oriented design projects supported by communicationskills: graphical and written. Implementation of project-based learning in ED&G 100course is achieved by assigning a comprehensive project designed to encompass all thefundamental engineering principles covered in the course and to complement the projectsconducted in the associated design laboratory. The capstone project requires students todesign a product to be mass produced

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steven Beyerlein; Jeff Williams; Beth Milligan; Andrew DuBuisson; Robert Drew; Karl Rink; Edwin Odom

regularly taught introductory courses, shaped the senior laboratory course, and collaboratively taught seniordesign. He was recognized for his faculty development and outreach activities by a university teaching award in2001.DR. KARL RINKDr. Karl Rink recently joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the UI after spending 10 years inindustry researching the combustion and thermodynamic behavior of gaseous, liquid, and solid phase propellantsand explosives. He holds 33 U.S. patents with an additional 10 applications under examination. He has receivedthe PACE Award from one patent and is the youngest recipient of Purdue’s Outstanding Mechanical Engineeraward

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Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Byron Newberry; James Farison

College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) in 1978-79, it was the first engineeringprogram on a campus with an historically strong liberal arts tradition. With no history orreputation in engineering and with the limited resources (laboratories, faculty, student body andtradition) available to a start-up technical program on a largely liberal arts campus, it was virtuallyessential that it began as a broad (rather than specialized) program. According to our currentclassification scheme, it would have been of the primary-philosophical type.The program came under the newly formed Department of Engineering and Computer Science in1980, still in A&S. The 1982-83 Catalog describes the program: “The Bachelor of Science inEngineering Sciences … program

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ashraf Ghaly

the social or behavioral sciences through a course inanthropology, economics, political science, psychology, or sociology.4. An understanding of the inherent beauty and poetry of mathematics through an appropriatecourse.5. An experience in the natural sciences through two courses in basic or applied science, at leastone of which must include laboratory work.6. An exposure to other languages or cultures, by participating in the Terms Abroad program, orcompleting two or three courses in a foreign language, or three courses in one of the following --Africana, East Asian, or Latin American Studies.7. Significant writing experiences: (1) Freshman Preceptorial, (2) two to four courses that includeintensive writing, and (3) a Senior Writing

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Teaching Design with a Twist

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2003 Annual Conference

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Onofrio Russo; Gunter Georgi

. Diana Flesche, a Teaching Assistant, helped greatlyin the preparation of this manuscript. Elisa Linsky provided copy editing assistance.Bibliography1. “Undergraduate Teaching Assistants in Freshmen Engineering,” J. Ingham and L. M. Folan, presentation at the 2000 ASEE Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, June 20, 2000.2. “Introducing Design Throughout the Curriculum,” G. W. Georgi, L. M. Folan and D. R. Doucette, presentation at the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 19, 20023. “EG 1004 – Introduction to Engineering and Design,” Laboratory Manual, Polytechnic University, August, 2002.4. Freshman Engineering Website: http://eg.poly.eduONOFRIO N. RUSSOOnofrio N. Russo is the Special Assistant to the Head of Civil

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ET Design Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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Wagdy Mahmoud; Tom Timmermann; Bonita Barger; Ahmed Elsawy

/ Winter99. (http://et.nmsu.edu/~etti/winter99/education/rehg/paper_rehg/FIRSTPG.HTM). 16. Ralph Buchal, ”Web Based Shared Workspaces for Collaborative Learning”, ASEE 2002-Session 1658. 17. Ralph Buchal, “Development and Delivery of Interactive Web Based Seminar”, ASEE 2002-Session 2158. 18. Georgios Fakas and Denis Gillet, “The Electronic Laboratory Journal: A Web Based Collaborative Environment for Remote Experimentation”, ASEE 2002-Session 1969. 19. Joel R. Jackson, “inFusion: Simplifying Online Course Creation” 21st Century Engineering – Online Journal for Engineering and Engineering Technology, Vol.2 (2), Spring 2002.Bibliographical InformationAHMED ELSAWY is a professor and chairperson of the Department of

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Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2003 Annual Conference

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

controlled laboratory experiments with children supported these principles (Mayer,1997; Moreno & Mayer, 1999; Mayer, Heiser & Lonn, 2001). In recent years, however,research with so called “pedagogical agents”, which are computerized characters that appear on astudent’s screen to help guide the learning process, has posed some challenges for the modalityprinciple. Though these agents appear to create redundancy for the visual channel when theyappear on a screen with visual information, they still have been found to facilitate learning(Atkinson, 2002).The shear flow study reported here is an attempt to add a data point to the above investigationson the efficacy of hypermedia in learning. This study consists of a controlled examination

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Web Systems and Web Services

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2003 Annual Conference

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Marcus Huggans; Steve Watkins; Halvard E. Nystrom

. WATKINSDr. Steve E. Watkins is Director of the Applied Optics Laboratory and Associate Professor of Electricaland Computer Engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla. He is a member of severalinterdisciplinary teams which address technical communication, web-based educational resources, and theapplication of fiber optic sensor systems. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in1989.MARCUS A. HUGGANSDr. Marcus A. Huggans is an applications engineer in the Consumer Electronics Division, 1394Consumer Products of Texas Instruments, Inc. in Dallas, Texas. He received a Ph.D. in engineeringmanagement from the University of Missouri-Rolla in 1998.HALVARD E. NYSTROMDr. Halvard E. Nystrom is an Associate Professor of Engineering

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Teaching Styles and Peer Review

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2003 Annual Conference

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Malgorzata Zywno

Page 8.500.13 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education New Information Technology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, (1993).20. Reed, P.A., Learning Style and Laboratory Preference: A Study of Middle School Technology Education Teachers in Virginia, Journal of Technology Education [online], Vol. 13 (1), (2001). Online at: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JTE/v13n1/reed.html.21. Fuller, D., Norby, R.F. & Pearce, K, Internet Teaching by Style: Profiling the On-line Professor, Educational Technology and Society [online], Vol. 3 (2), (2000). At: http://ifets.ieee.org/periodical

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Manufacturing Competitiveness

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2003 Annual Conference

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Todd Johnson; John Fesler; Kenneth Stier

.Manufacturers have embraced lean manufacturing during the slow down in the economyas one method of remaining profitable5. Having students experience lean manufacturing concepts in the laboratory canhave a positive effect on the experiences offered to the students prior to them entering theindustrial setting. It is important that faculty provide students with the experiences thatdevelop a strong conceptual framework of how this management practice will benefit theindustry in which they work. Many of our students learn best when they are actively engaged in activities thatemphasize the concepts that we are trying to teach. This paper will focus on a NationalInstitute of Standards (NIST) developed Lean Manufacturing Workshop and a project

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Assessment Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Greg Kremer

. See the standard forms for additional details and information. Page 8.1027.6 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Table 2: Course design template and assessment form Course #: MEXXX Course Title: Insert Title Instructor: Insert Name Academic year and quarter: Prerequisites: Prerequisite for: Catalog Description: Credit hours and Class/Laboratory Schedule: Textbooks and/or other Required Materials: Area of

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Engineering Education Research

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jolly Lesley; David Radcliffe

incurriculum or re-organisation. These innovators were inspired by amongst other things; previousexperiences (usually elsewhere), a supportive environment (e.g an innovative department), staffdevelopment courses and conferences, strongly held beliefs. Only a few derived their inspirationfrom aspects of their research work.The future of the sole researcher or the lone scholar in an engineering school is threatened by therise and rise of the large, usually multi-disciplinary, research laboratory or institute and thestrategically directed funding from research agencies and university administrators. Similarly, themove to guided initiatives in (engineering) education research in higher education involving(cross institutional) teams of people dealing with

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ashraf Ghaly

design and conduct experiments, as well as analyze and interpret field and laboratory data, in more than one of the major recognized major civil engineering areas.4. Ability to understand the role of and to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.5. Ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems.6. Ability to communicate effectively, that is, to listen, observe, speak, and write.7. Ability to participate on and lead multi-disciplinary teams.8. Ability to understand the role of the leader and to use leadership principles.9. Understanding the elements of building, facilities, process, and systems design.10. Understanding of the elements of

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Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Cassel

. Page 8.499.7 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationTerm Project. Working in teams of three or four, students evaluate the market potential ofinnovative high-tech products or services. Topics are provided each semester by Penn’s Centerfor Technology Transfer, the University’s patent and licensing operation, from a list of recenthigh-tech disclosures from University laboratories. Each team selects a discovery topic, reviewsthe disclosure file, meets with the inventor, shapes the discovery into a product, then performs anopportunity analysis to assess the market potential of their product. Primary

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ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2003 Annual Conference

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Norman Anderson; Mani Mina

. The laboratory would then mainly consist of a set ofproblems for students to solve along with an out-of-class assignment. Mathematical packagessuch as MATLAB and Mathematica could then be used to solve problems such as Gauss' lawand boundary value problems. Other cadence-type programs could also be used in conjunction tolook at transmission-line problems and magnetic circuits. In this manner, students would learnhow to be problem solvers instead of allowing their doubts in mathematics to hinder theirthinking process. They would also be exposed to high-level computation and simulationpackages necessary for research and professional careers.In addition to the computational part of the practice-discovery sessions, a demonstration ormeasurement

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Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

start a for-profit online school, which was closed down when a newpresident took over (Digest 3 August 2001). California had to rethink its interruptibleservice contracts with energy providers after considering what cuts offs would mean tomedical facilities, laboratories and such (Digest 15 February 2001).While the impact of communication and instructional technology in engineering educationover the past three years will be discussed in the next section of this paper, we need tospend some time here considering how technology has offered entrepreneurially mindeduniversity administrators some dazzling opportunities for making money. The Digest isfull of articles about how this university or that around the globe has plunged intoproduction of on

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Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Vaidy Vaidyanathan, University of Central Florida; Carmo D'Cruz, University of Central Florida

University.P.N. “VAIDY” VAIDYANATHAN is Assistant VP for Research at the University of CentralFlorida. His responsibilities include developing inter and multi disciplinary projects across theuniversity by building teams of faculty from various disciplines as required. He is also active intechnology protection and commercialization. His work experience is in both in industry andacademia and he has brought products from the laboratory to the market place. His formaleducation includes degrees in Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering,Business Administration and Materials Science & Engineering. Page 8.56.12Proceedings of the

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Multimedia Engineering Education,Distance, Service, & Internet-Based Approaches

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2003 Annual Conference

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Alan Adams; Nick Safai

distribution on the plate’s most central location. Pair of strain gages wasplaced in predetermined location of the seat pan and then the test was performed.The static test for the load deflection of seat pan was conducted on the honeycomb seat panel atthe NIAR Structural Laboratory using the MTS-servo hydraulic stand. The purpose of this testwas to evaluate the material property of the load bearing seat pan. A bowling ball test fixture hasbeen especially selected in order to fit the seat pan cavity’s diameter. The main purpose ofselection of this fixture was to have an even distribution of load concentrating around the circularopening and therefore simulating an even down- force transferred load, directed into the seatlegs. Figure 9 shows the clamped

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Design Through the Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Anna Philips; John Hochstein; William Janna

ice is delivered and the machine will shave it or reduce it insome way to crushed ice.Design of an Experiment to Illustrate the 1st Law of Thermo (5 engineers) Page 8.1007.11There are companies that manufacture and market laboratory equipment for engineering schools. Consider one suchcompany interested in marketing an apparatus for illustrating the first law of thermodynamics by using somecommon industrial equipment. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationIt is

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Anna Philips; John Hochstein; William Janna

ice is delivered and the machine will shave it or reduce it insome way to crushed ice.Design of an Experiment to Illustrate the 1st Law of Thermo (5 engineers) Page 8.1008.11There are companies that manufacture and market laboratory equipment for engineering schools. Consider one suchcompany interested in marketing an apparatus for illustrating the first law of thermodynamics by using somecommon industrial equipment. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationIt is

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2003 Annual Conference

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Eck Doerry

accessible to all engineering undergraduates. Leveraging recent technologicaldevelopments, our aim is to create, in essence, a single engineering college offering access to thecombined courses and resources of NAU and our foreign partner institutions; students at oneuniversity will be able to participate - via an appropriate combination of direct (in person)participation and internet technologies (distributed teaming) - in engineering design coursesoffered at any partner university. An important side benefit in this age of dwindling educationalresources is that students will have access to a much wider array of specialized elective topics,laboratory equipment and practical experiences (the totality of courses/facilities available at allpartner

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NSF Opportunities for Undergraduate Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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George Bebis; Dwight Egbert; Dave Williams

research papers and reports dealing withcomputer applications in computer vision, remote sensing, image processing, and neurocomputing.George Bebis completed his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1996 at the University ofCentral Florida, Orlando, FL. From 1996 to 1997 he was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. During the summer of 1998, he was a summer faculty visitor at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory(CASC). Currently, he is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at UNR and the founder-director of the UNR Computer Vision Laboratory.Dave Williams is the Engineering Instructor at Western Nevada Community College in Carson City, Nevada. He isa Registered Professional

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2003 Annual Conference

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Nancy Thompson; Eric Vilar; Beth Davidson; John Brader; Michael Matthews; Elisabeth Alford; Sirena Hargrove-Leak

instruction as future faculty members. Although many subjects do not lend themselves directly to a studio approach, opportunities for constructing self-knowledge and working with peers and near-peers can be integrated into nearly all traditional engineering subjects. For example, group work can be assigned to encourage students to learn from one another. Constructivism can be adapted for the classroom by allowing students to investigate laboratories or homework assignments without providing detailed instructions. Such approaches lead students to devise their own research strategies and construct their own understanding. Overall, the studio provides a multifaceted program. It directly enhances the participants’ ability to communicate, and it

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Assessment in BME Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Peter Mente; Marian McCord; Joni Spurlin; H. Troy Nagle; Susan Blanchard

engineers and life-long learners, with a solid background in the basic sciences and mathematics; an understanding and appreciation for the arts, humanities, and social sciences; an ability to communicate effectively with diverse audiences and for various purposes; and, a desire to seek out further educational opportunities. 6. To expose students to advances in engineering practice and research and to prepare them for opportunities in graduate engineering education or professional schools. 7. To retain faculty who are committed to the educational and research missions of the department and to acquire, maintain, and operate facilities and laboratory equipment appropriate to our engineering program. 8. To recruit students with high potentials who will

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Kathleen Knott; Iraj Omidwar; Mani Mina

© 2003, American Society for Engineering Education8. References 1. Dekker, D.L. “Engineering design processes, problem solving and creativity,” Proceedings Frontiers in Education Conference, Vol. 1 , 1-4 Nov 1995, pp. 3a5.16 -3a5.19 vol.1 2. Yokomoto, C.F,; Voltmer, D.R,; Ware, R.” Incorporating the “aha!” experience into the classroom and laboratory,” Proceedings to Twenty-Third Annual Frontiers in Education Conference 'Engineering Education: Renewing America's Technology', 1993., 6-9 Nov 1993, pp. 200 -203 3. Dewey, John, How We Think. New York: Prometheus Books. 1991. 4. Dewey, John. Logic: The Theory of Inquiry. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1938. 5. Dewey, John. Democracy and

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Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Ettema; James Stoner; Forrest Holly; Wilfrid Nixon

BSfrom Stanford University in 1968, an MS from the University of Washington in 1969, and a PhD fromColorado State University in 1975, all in Civil Engineering - Hydraulics.JAMES STONERJames Stoner is an associate professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Urban and RegionalPlanning at the University of Iowa. He has previously served as Associate Director of the Center forComputer Aided Design and Director of the Iowa Driving Simulation Laboratory. Dr. Stoner received hisPh.D. in Civil Engineering from Northwestern University. Page 8.45.14 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Hy Tran; Catherine Clewett

New Mexico Mechanical Engineeringdepartment. There the students met Professor Tran and some of his graduate students. Thestudents had a chance to see what academic engineering is like, see the laboratory and the rapidprototyping machines that would build their designs. There was an added bonus; the studentsvisited the University Science and Engineering Library (Centennial Science and EngineeringLibrary). To introduce the students to the library, they conducted a small treasure hunt lookingfor the oldest journal they could find as well as a journal that had articles about topics of interestfor them. Never having seen a technical library before, the students were fascinated.The students’ final designs were realized using the University’s fused

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Bret Van Poppel; Blace Albert; Daisie Boettner

Operating Memorandum (DPOM) 5-4: Curricular Developmentand Change provides procedures to implement changes to the curriculum at the USMA.Implementation of curricular changes requires recommendation by the Curriculum Committee tothe General Committee for approval. Impacts on other programs and resource requirements arekey factors in whether the mechanical engineering program receives approval to integrate itscourses. Addition of an Introduction to Engineering course requires a change to all engineeringcurriculums. Redesign of the mechanical engineering curriculum to integrate courses and to offer newelectives most likely would have to be achievable within the limitations of the current facultystructure, laboratory space, and technician

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Fredrick Cowan; Alan Gravitt; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

support from NSF Project Number DGE-0086420. Many thanks tothe administration, faculty, and students at Westlake High School. The cost of computer timewas underwritten by the Systems Realization Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology.REFERENCES1. Borning, A., 1977, “ThingLab – An Object-Oriented System for Building Simulations Using Constraints,” IJCAI, Vol. 1, pp. 497-498.2. Chi, M. T. H., Feltovich, P. J., and Glaser, R., 1981, “Categorization and Representation of Physics Problems by Experts and Novices,” Cognitive Science, Vol. 5, pp. 121-152.3. diSessa, A. A., 1988, “Knowledge in Pieces,” Constructivism in the Computer Age, (Forman, G., and Pufall, P. B., eds.), Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ, pp. 49-70.4

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Issues in Computer Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Eck Doerry

.Tiffin, J. and Rajasingham, L. (1995). In search of the virtual class, Routledge Publishers, London.Acknowledgements.We would like to gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the NSF (Grant #EEC-9725036), which provided the funding for the initial phases of this work. The NAU College ofEngineering and, in particular, the Dept. of Computer Science also provided critical funds to bringthe project out of the laboratory and to full release. Bill Busby and Daniel Wallace contributedmuch work to the user studies and early implementation, respectively. Page 8.260.15Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education