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Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Alberto Gomez-Rivas; George Pincus

HRS SEMET 4323 Technology Seminar 3 F,S ET 4320 Prestressed Concrete 3 SET 4324 Senior Concrete Project 3 F,S ET 4325 Senior Steel Project 3 SENGR 3302 Engineering Economics 3 S ET 4322 Foundation Design 3 SENGR 3409 PC Facilities Management 4 ALL ET Elective 3 ALLET Elective 3 ALL ET Elective 3 ALL 16 15F= fall; S = spring; SU= summer Figure 1

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Tools of Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

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Debra Fowler; Jefferey Froyd; Don Maxwell

scores on theLASSI scales. Additional research could help to determine if the students are really notprogressing in their capacity for lifelong learning. Then if the students are truly not getting betterat the skills projected to increase the capacity for lifelong learning, one could further determinewhat interventions might be effective in changing this trend.AcknowledgmentsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grantnumber 9802942. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.The author(s) would like to thank Eric Sandt for offering his freshman engineering

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Leonhard Bernold; Joni Spurlin; Cathy Crossland; Chris Anson

Session 2793 Understanding How Freshmen Engineering Students Think They Learn Joni E. Spurlin, Leonhard E. Bernold, Cathy L. Crossland, and Chris M. Anson, Ph.D. North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695IntroductionThe work in this project is founded on an ongoing effort sponsored by the National ScienceFoundation* which has as its goal the establishment of a thorough understanding of “whatfreshmen do” when it comes to “college study” and how or whether

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Integrating Math in Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Szaroletta

described work into four optimization techniques into mechanics classeshas resulted in a focus on Microsoft’s Excel™ Solver™ for undergraduate mechanics appliedoptimization instruction. This paper has described both the theory and practice of optimizationimplementation, including spreadsheet solver, solid modeling, and finite element analysis (FEA).Mechanics students in both lower and upper divisions find the above project to be a valuablelearning aid to the underlying theory of beam flexural stresses and to the software tools that areavailable to them.Subsequent work in upper division mechanics classes will include prototyping and photoelastic Page

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Jaeger; Richard Chapman; Victor Nelson

a solid foundation in mathematics, science, and electrical orsoftware engineering fundamentals to introduce wireless communications theories,devices, circuits, systems, networks, standards, management, and applications. Designexperience is interwoven throughout the curriculum by introducing basic design conceptsearly, emphasizing hands-on design experiences in the laboratories, including effectiveuse of computers and other modern engineering tools, and culminating with a capstonedesign project in the senior year. In addition to its technical aspects, the curriculumemphasizes oral and written communication skills, the importance of business, economic,social and global forces on engineering, appreciation of the need to maintain the

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Materials Curricula: Modeling & Math

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2003 Annual Conference

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S. Yarmolenko; J. Sankar; D. Pai; Juri Filatovs

8.233.3Characterization by Digital Microscopy,” taught to graduate students 11. This is a software-based Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationcourse, centered on Image-Pro, and is the evolved equivalent of “Quantitative” Metallography,the examination of microstructures in the optical and scanning microscope ranges. The softwarehas a large number of functionalities tailored for materials research and is rich in subject matterpossibilities. The formal lectures focused on the core topics of statistics, spatial geometry, and theproperty-structure link. Individual projects, based on the students’ thesis or

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What's New in Engineering Economy

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2003 Annual Conference

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Justin Chimka; Alisha Youngblood; Heather Nachtmann

/ Distribution Exhibit 1. Project phasesPilot StudyThe pilot study has been conducted. In this section, some future analysis and experimentalmethods will be demonstrated, and an outline of prototypical teaching materials will be cross-validated with pilot study data. Experimental materials were designed and used to collect datafrom 58 volunteer industrial engineering students (41 reported male, and 15 reported female).The average age of the sample is 19.2 years with an average of 2.7 college semesters completed.The collected data were analyzed to evaluate a pre-prototype estimation process model, whichwas developed from reviewing multiple estimation resources (Canada and Sullivan, 1988; Canada,et al., 1995; Matthews

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International Engineering Education II

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2003 Annual Conference

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Fazil Najafi

leadership skills. The CE education at UET Lahore emphasizes on thefundamental concepts and principles, which constitutes the basis of civil engineering practice. Tofoster their creative abilities, the students are assigned projects on design or laboratoryinvestigations for self-directed execution. The classroom and laboratory work is supplemented Page 8.27.1Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationwith field trips to acquaint students with the civil engineering projects of national importance

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Motivating students to achieve

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2003 Annual Conference

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Kirk Schulz; Noel Schulz

. However, it is also more challenging as you may have to move two labs, finishgraduate students, and complete some research projects. Some thoughts relating to advancementare:• A dual career couple member may apply a little earlier for a desired administrative position so that they can advance locally without transplanting the spouse. Dual career couples may need to be a little more creative with advancement opportunities within their local university if they do not wish to relocate.• If you or your spouse is interested in administration advancement, both partners should maintain as marketable a position within your current university as possible. This will help with resources at your current institution as well as for

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What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Connie Della-Piana

. CircLESalso provides students with discipline-specific student advising and requires students toparticipate in one to two semesters of science or engineering-oriented learning communities,based on their pre-college preparation in Mathematics and English. This paper describes thedesign and findings of a five-year longitudinal study of student persistence in STEM sinceimplementation of the program. Findings from the study indicate that students who participate inthe program have higher retention rates in STEM, as well as at the University, and increasedpersistence toward graduation when compared to 1997 baseline rates. Similar results are* The Model Institutions for Excellence Project is funded by the National Science Foundation (EEC# 9550502).† The

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Smith

andthen perform measurements to validate parameters such as illumination intensity,functional effectivity, and energy efficiency. Lighting is a national priority as itconsumes approximately one-third of all expended electrical energy. This hasresulted in national and state regulatory legislation for both new and retrofitlighting. This project will also establish the Internet protocol whereby any remotecomputer location can be granted access to and interactively participate in thedeveloped experiments and facilities.This project involves collaboration with Dr. Richard Mystick, of the Architectural Page 8.1022.1Engineering Department and Global University at Penn

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Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Newman; Jon Weihmeir, Arizona State University; John Robertson, Arizona State University; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

Mesa, Arizona, 85212.AbstractBy responding to the needs of many organizations, a critical mass of faculty and industryexpertise has been assembled around the Microelectronics Teaching Factory (MTF) atASU’s East Campus. With students from the University and local Community Colleges,the aggregate number of students provides a large load for the MTF. All students (andfaculty) follow the same safety training and industry-standard qualification. The BSclasses follow a sequence: web-based preparation; simulation to explore keyrelationships; MTF lab work appropriate to the degree level; class work to integrate thelearning experience and internship or project in one of the participating companies. Thegoal is to develop an efficient learning

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dan Parshall; Anthony Buonaquisti; Anita Callahan

, justprior to the next round of FCAT exams. A total of 209 students began the program, of which120 completed the entire curriculum. (For details regarding age, gender, and other samplingfactors, contact the first author.)Classroom EnvironmentThe curriculum itself varied over a wide range of topics that were selected by the scienceeducation team at MOSI, based upon the hope that they would both spark student interest, as wellas being related to everyday activities. Each class typically featured a brief lecture to introducethe basic concepts, followed by a hands-on experiment that allowed the students to see theconcepts in action. Over the course of the project, the broad subject areas covered wereastronomy, physics, and biology. Specific topics

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

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Toby Boulet; Joe Iannelli; Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman; Richard Bennett; Arnold Lumsdaine

problems presented in engineering are reality that has already been modeled. Once the initialLOs are developed, a new set of problems will be developed for the students to develop their ownmodels of reality. The students will be given access to the advanced modules when they havesuccessfully completed the review modules. The completion of the modules will automaticallyprovide them with a password and also send the faculty member an email about the studentcompletion.This project has been initially funded by the University of Tennessee College of Engineering andthe Innovative Technology Center. Each participating faculty member received a day of trainingfor the developments and funding for an assisting graduate student.PlanThe following survey was

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Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Holcombe

. Page 8.804.1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ? 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Introduction Some schools of technology are experiencing as much as a 38% decline in enrollment intheir engineering technology program. Many programs are being developed to increaseawareness of engineering technology Prominent examples of such include Project Lead The Way(PLTW), Expand Your Horizons (EYH), Purdue’s Women in Technology and a similar programby IBM. These programs, along with others, are aimed at the overall problem of the lack ofawareness of engineering technology. They are aimed at the general population and not at

Conference Session

Pre-College and ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Johnson

organizations likeASEE, MESA, IEEE, NASA, and Boeing. Engineering Information Foundation and Project LeadThe Way are involved in activities to promote engineering in the pre-college education system.However, in spite of all of these efforts, enrollments in engineering programs are still falling.With the allotment of H-1b visas rising from 65,00 in 1998 to 195,000 in 2001, there are concernsabout the lack of interest and preparation of American students especially in the engineeringfields. This paper discusses another approach to informing K-12 students aboutengineering as a creative and fulfilling career choice. Presently, three factors suggest a means ofencouraging California’s students to be engineers: • The California Commission on Teacher

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2003 Annual Conference

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Wieslaw Grebski; Rajeshwar Amireddy; Lori Singer; Judith O'Donnell

accrediting body, ABET, hasencouraged and supported interdisciplinary projects in the curriculum. Much support was givento the project at Penn State Hazleton that involved the coupling of business and engineering, sinceit was in line with some new goals set forth by ABET which included the encouragement ofmultidisciplinary courses.Curricular Issues:Penn State Hazleton offers traditional mechanical technology and electrical technology programs.These programs are ABET accredited and are offered in Hazleton at the associate degree level.The graduates of these programs can either seek employment or continue their education at thebaccalaureate level. A majority (approximately 80%) of the students continue their education inthe baccalaureate degree

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Moeness Amin; Athina Petropulu; Ahmad Hoorfar; William Jemison; Robert Caverly

projects meant to help reinforce thematerial so that students achieve a deeper understanding, and extra material for courseinstructors. The self-contained concept modules will be developed in conjunction with currentundergraduate and graduate courses in the ECE program as well as newly developed courses. Itis also anticipated that the modules will be used by practicing engineers wishing to learn moreabout smart communications.IIA. Module Content Identification The first step in the SCS module development was the identification of the major contentareas the modules would cover. The goal in this step was to distill the high-level topical researchareas that students would need as background in SCS technology into a series of self

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Matson

3100 Course Summary IME 3100 Engineering Economy Course Outcomes Course % Credit Hrs. a. Summarize concepts of time value of money. 5 0.15 b. Perform interest formula calculations for cash flow diagrams. 15 0.45 c. Develop the cash flow diagram for a project. 10 0.30 d. Perform an economic analysis, including sensitivity analysis, of 30 0.90 alternative projects using interest formulas. e. Determine the effect of taxes and

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Innovative Teaching Methods in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Ford; Denise Jackson

engineering undergraduate students. Through this project, we developed aninformational Web site on the fundamental tools and techniques of industrial engineering and theirapplication areas, with details on the interaction of Industrial Engineering with people. The website currently presents background information, examples, and problems on ergonomics, workmeasurement, and industrial management. Future developments will include modules on money,computers, equipment, processes, and facilities.BackgroundIndustrial Engineers, like all engineers, are problem-solvers. The problems our graduatesencounter in practice rarely fall neatly into a well-defined category such as manufacturing,facilities design, human factors, quality control, etc; however, we tend

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Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ranky

and Siemens-Plessey in the UK,and then in 1992 when together with Mick F. Ranky, supported by CIMware Ltd.,http://www.cimwareukandusa.com and FESTO Ltd. an interactive multimedia CD-ROMwas developed as an electronic support system for servo-pneumatic positioning, as wellas part of another project for bio-medical engineering with Prof. T. Pato in Berne,Switzerland. In 1997 Paul G. Ranky and Mick F. Ranky developed a 3D browserreadable, virtual computer disassembly method, supported by industry, that has led toseveral other R&D grants (including major DOD grants for NJIT) and publications,including the 3D Multimedia Case Based Library (1995 to date).Since then the topic as well as the architecture has evolved into a robust, object

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mausumi Syamal; Gary Ybarra

well informed” about engineering. This statistic is the result of thefact that engineering is generally not introduced in either elementary or secondary education.Exposing elementary and middle school students to engineering concepts will increaseawareness of the general population and potentially lead to more children pursuing careers inengineering fields. This project introduces students at Rogers-Herr Middle School in Durham,North Carolina, to mechanical engineering fundamentals throughout the course of a schoolyear. Our goal is to create an integrated curriculum accompanied by hands-on projects andweekly quizzes. Teaching is structured with weekly lectures accompanied by several interactivedemonstrations and experiments. Students are given

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Women in Engineering: New Research

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2003 Annual Conference

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Urmila Ghia; Rebecca German; Lisa Hogeland; Brian Kinkle; Carla Purdy

Page 8.848.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationparticular laboratory group, students doing research at either the undergraduate or the graduatelevel and their advisors can benefit from specific training in the mentoring aspects of thisrelationship. The Mentoring Workshop project we describe here has been developed by theWomen in Science and Engineering (WISE) Committee at the University of Cincinnati, avolunteer faculty committee which was created in 1996. The Workshop was first developed tosupplement the WISE Summer Research Experience for Women Undergraduates (REWU), whichis in its fourth

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Berry; Patricia Carlson

/advocate “products” – are the lifeblood of the profession. Project reports, feasibility studies, proposals, user/client supportmanuals, libraries of design documents, product specifications, risk communication, and amyriad of memoranda and business letters – this list is but a part of the many text forms requiredof a practicing engineer.Second, writing is important to engineering – as it is to any knowledge worker – because the actof placing ideas into language mediates higher-order intellectual activities that are foundationalto critical thinking and multi-staged problem solving.1 Though other symbol systems – notablymathematics – play a major role in engineering reasoning, language fosters mentalmanipulations such as synthesis, analysis

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Developing Young MINDs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rosa Cano; Howard Kimmel

of efficacy in scientific, engineering and technological fields in which womenare traditionally underrepresented.Developed by the Center for Pre-College Programs, FEMME concentrates on thosetechnological areas necessary for the future. Academic curricula provide students withopportunities not available in their high school to master higher level problem solving skillsin mathematics, science and technology; learn about architecture, computer science andengineering principles, and practice written and oral communications. The structure of theprogram includes classroom discussions, lectures, laboratory experiments anddemonstrations, projects, and field trips. Projects and field trips relevant to the group themeenhance all classroom activities

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Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Lansey; Jeff Goldberg

; Exposition. Copyright2003, American Society for Engineering Educationdynamics, electronic circuits, and engineering economics - then they would have to take a batteryof four 3-credit courses. We do not mean to say that the materials in these courses are notnecessary, but for some majors, three credits of one topic may be less preferred to one credit (15hours) in each of three topics. Breadth may be better than depth for some majors and sometopics. Since 1998, the project has also been supported by the General electric Foundation, theCOEM, and the Arizona Board of Regents. A rough estimate on direct costs for developmentand 3 offerings to date is $400,000. This does not include faculty time that has been donatedduring the course offerings or time

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Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tushar Patil; Ofodike Ezekoye; Justin Cone; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

notionthat business is about relationships and communication. Through exercises, students areencouraged to develop their questioning and listening skills to guide them in a range of businessinteractions. This short course endeavor complements a larger project within the mechanicalengineering department focused on implementing project-based learning into the curriculum.IntroductionToday’s corporate leaders stress that while they are not necessarily looking for engineers topossess MBA’s in marketing or finance, they are looking for new graduates to possess better“soft skills” (e.g., written and oral communications aptitude; marketing-related knowledge; andfamiliarity with business and financial matters). They note that these soft skills be emphasized

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Perceived Quality Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Kena Burke; Paul Rainey

though some members felt that the ABET Criterion 3(a-k) wasambiguous and difficult to understand by their faculty and students. Therefore, coursecoordinators were asked to define their interpretation of the outcomes by listing the “relevantactivities” that would demonstrate student achievement. Figure 2 below is an example forENVE 442 – Advanced Systems Design: LevelsABET 3(a-k) Criterion (L, M, H) Relevant Activities(a) Ability to apply knowledge of math,science, & engineering H Design project with multiple aspects of design engineering(b) Ability to

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Narasingarao Sreenath

global issues—from climate change to AIDS, demographictransition, aging, carrying capacity, resource use (E.g.: water, energy, labor) etc.Dominant relationships, hierarchical modeling and techniques for combining thequantitative with the qualitative are used. A teaching tool has been developed withmodels and real-life data, which the students use in classroom exercises, as well as on aresearch project as a course requirement. The approach has been used for several years inundergraduate, university-wide course. The opportunity is provided for the students tointeract with peers in foreign countries on the selected global issues via the Internet. In Section 2 we will discuss the methodology used. Hierarchy and multilevelmodeling approach is

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sundiata Jangha; Richard Peltier; Pamela Reid; F. Scott Cowan; Christal Gordon; David Woessner; Douglas Edwards; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

universities. The NSBE Jr. programs at the three highschools addressed in this paper are part of this effort, and are a joint project of the Georgia TechSociety of Black Engineers (GTSBE), and the NSF-supported GK-12 STEP program5.The Student and Teacher Enhancement Partnership (STEP) ProgramIn 1999, the National Science Foundation initiated a new type of graduate student supportthrough the NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12) program. Studentsreceiving GK-12 fellowships are required to interact directly with K-12 teachers in an attempt to Page 8.1276.2improve both K-12 education and the pedagogical and communication skills of the