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Assessment in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Bianey Ruiz; Stephanie Adams

on institutions of higher educationto prepare students to be effective team players1,2,3,4. For this reason, accreditation institutions atthe collegiate level such as the Accounting Education Change Commission (AECC) and theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), are requiring higher educationinstitutions to introduce teamwork activities into their curriculums5,6. In response to thisdemand, institutions of higher education are developing methodologies for introducing teamworkin their classrooms for enhancing the process of learning. Collaborative learning, cooperative learning and other forms of active learning aremethods that are being used in classrooms as ways to promote teamwork among students andenhance their

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Leah Jamieson; Lynne Slivovsky; William Oakes

well, but not the other team memberswhich makes the peer evaluation more difficult to factor in.One of the tools that is under development and would add value to the current system is a rubricto characterize the contributions from students from other disciplines more effectively. EPICSstudents come from many disciplines across campus and many of the tools are written withengineering students in mind. Such tools can help for advisors and students set betterexpectations and assist in the assessment of those students.References 1. “Improving Engineering Design: Designing for Competitive Advantage”, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 1991. 2. Dekker, Don L, " Design/Build/Test Projects Are Not All Created Equal

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

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Eric Roe

Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Additionally, this increase in their technological savvy accompanies them back to their localschools.Technology InfusionDuring content development, the teachers are paired with university faculty and graduatestudents to identify technology applications that will complement the required content. Keepingthese suggestions in mind, the university and community college team begins to research thepossible technology connections. It is here that the development process starts to move frombeing driven by the standards and core curriculum to the high technology applications.After identifying the technology applications that reinforce the science and mathematics lessons

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Industry Initiatives for Graduate Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Elaine Laws

Session____ Looking Back Over 30 Years--AT&T Labs and Lucent Bell Laboratories Ph.D. Fellowship Programs 1972 - 2002 Elaine P. Laws--AT&T LabsDuring 2002, AT&T Labs and Lucent Bell Laboratories will celebrate the 30thanniversary of their sponsorship of Ph.D. fellowship programs for under-representedminorities 1and women in science and engineering. In the early 1970s AT&T's researchand development organization, then known as "Bell Laboratories," initiated efforts torecruit minority students for technical positions within the Labs. These efforts were theresult of suggestions from the

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steven Chin; John Schmalzel; Shreekanth Mandayam; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

Clock pulse is high, Page 8.801.10 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education” and retains its value otherwise. Keep in mind the use of real estate on the DSP chip (e.g. minimize the number of FETs). 2. Design both select circuits in Design Architect. Ensure that the tri-state buffer works correctly for all inputs. Again, keep in mind real estate. 3. Completely simulate all circuit designs in Quicksim and Accusim. Show that the circuits work completely

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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David Doner

Session 2793 Using a Self-Paced Course to Introduce Students to Life-Long Learning Skills and Ethical Choices David M. Doner Chemical Engineering Department West Virginia Institute of Technology Montgomery, WV 25136IntroductionThe past sixteen years a second semester, junior level course has been taught using a self-pacedformat. The basic philosophy for using a self-paced approach is that after graduation individualsare solely responsible for remaining current and competent in

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Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ali Kashef; Mark Rajai

and they have adependable and trustworthy faculty and staff. But, the fact is that they can do much more forstudents and the profession. First of all, it is a good idea for a department head/chair tounderstand his/ her personal leadership style 1. It can be autocratic, directive, positional power, Page 8.1125.1democratic, personal power, motivational, controlling, visionary, etc. Then, it is important toapply different leadership styles for different situations. In most cases at the university level, itProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

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Computer Assisted Data Acquisition

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2003 Annual Conference

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M.L. Meier

Session 1526 Spreadsheet Applications for Materials Science Michael L. Meier Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of California, Davis Abstract Spreadsheets have the potential to improve the teaching of the use of computers in solving engineering problems. Ideally, they would be integrated into existing courses, rather than teaching separate courses on spreadsheets. If this is done then homework assignments could be made much

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Assessment of Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Harvey Wolfe

Issues in Teaching Entrepreneurship to Heterogeneous Groups of Students Harvey Wolfe University of PittsburghAbstractEntrepreneurship for Engineers at the University of Pittsburgh is a course geared towardundergraduate seniors and graduate students in all engineering disciplines. The premise ofthe course is to combine engineering innovation with business development that will resultin new product development plus a thorough understanding of what is required to launch anew product. Since students are from varied backgrounds, including many disciplines ofengineering and sciences, as well as business, teams are made of individuals with differentknowledge sets and mind

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Teaching Design with a Twist

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Bannerot

generate an appropriate solution or, perhapsmore importantly, to evaluate the solution. We have used exercises in specification developmentin both our freshman “Introduction to Mechanical Engineering” course and our sophomore designcourse. This paper will describe these exercises and provide an example.Preface“The mere formulation of a problem is far more often essential than its solution…” -- AlbertEinstein1“The most critical step in the solution of a problem is the problem definition or formulation.” 2, 3, 4“The starting point of most design projects is the identification by a client of a need to be met.” 5 The client’s statement of need must be refined in the problem definition in which 1) objectives areclarified, 2) user requirements are

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Remote Sensing and Telemetry

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mihaela Albu; Keith Holbert

least contemporary, if not in front of the leading technologies of a society.Rapid technological changes make even more difficult the task of shaping the cultural profile offuture inhabitants of an interconnected world. More than other learning environments, higherengineering education faces greater demands from the global market - workforce. Moreover,life-long learning is a recognized necessity. Remote experimentation appears to be a valuabletraining tool for life-long, engineering education.Although students have remote access to many “mind-artifacts” (e.g., texts, figurative or non-figurative knowledge representations and inferences) – using either the Internet or theirUniversity intranet – they do not yet have open access to the laboratory

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Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

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Budny Dan; Teresa Larkin

research on adultlearners suggests that increased learning gains can be achieved when instruction is designed withstudents’ learning styles in mind [1]-[6]. In addition, several practitioners within the domain ofphysics, as well as engineering education, have noted the importance of teaching with learningstyles in mind [7]-[14]. Furthermore, attention to learning styles and learner diversity has beenshown to increase student interest and motivation to learn. The particular population of students that encompasses the focus of this paper is non-sciencemajors taking introductory physics at American University. Most students take this introductorycourse to satisfy the university’s General Education requirements for graduation. Because thebackgrounds

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Virtual Instrumentation

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2003 Annual Conference

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M. Kostic

(visually/graphically) and quantitatively(numerically). The interactive simulator should stimulate users’ curiosity and accelerate learningby active, “what- if” inquiry and experimentations, and thus, enhance their experience andcomprehension. Each and every one of these new tools, when designed well and used creatively,may qualitatively enhance the learning environment. Introduction What are “sampling” and “aliasing” and why they are important? In science and engineering, sampling means “discrete

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ET Design Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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Frederick Mahaffey; Elizabeth Petry

. Relationships expand as teams become larger and include office colleagues, consultants, constructors and possibly others”2 • “Self-motivation tends to be an inherent characteristic of people in architecture firms and other professional organizations.”3 • “An effective team is much more than the sum of the individuals who populate it. One of the (project) manager’s challenges is to build the team – actually help team building itself – Page 8.1089.1 into an effective working group.”4Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jennifer Brougham; Susan Freeman; Beverly Jaeger

initiated for software development in a corporatelanguage literacy, and communication skills. With this setting. XP promotes a systematic and shared approachin mind, are there potential benefits to be derived from to generating computer code. With XP, programmersteamwork for novice programmers? Is it possible and is follow a code development structure and take onit easier to teach computer-based problem solving to predefined responsibilities to generate code as a team.new engineers by having them work in pairs? Pair programming adapts the XP approach to attain educational results and enhance the learning processRecent

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Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rex Ramsier; H Michael Cheung; Edward Evans; Francis Broadway; Helen Qammar

Session 2625 Focusing on Teamwork Versus Technical Skills in the Evaluation of an Integrated Design Project Helen K. Qammar, H. Michael Cheung, Edward A. Evans, Department of Chemical Engineering Francis S. Broadway, Department of Curricular and Instructional Studies Rex D. Ramsier Departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Chemical Engineering The University of Akron Akron, Ohio 44325Engineering educators

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Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mysore Narayanan

Session No. 1460 T.Q.M. IN THE CLASSROOM Mysore Narayanan Miami UniversityAbstractThe author re-examines university teaching strategies to support teaching innovations andclassroom excellence. He has applied some of the principles of Total QualityManagement to classroom teaching with a view to facilitate better classroommanagement and increased student participation. The author reports on his findingswhile applying a set of twenty principles to teach a senior level engineering course.These twenty principles were developed using the landmark work established byW. Edwards Deming. Deming

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Simulation Courses & BME Laboratories

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2003 Annual Conference

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Safa Sadeghpour; Ragu Vijaykumar; Mark A. D'Avila; Joseph V. Bonventre; Heather Gunter

hiswork implementing the tutorials and to Professor Robert Linsenmeier of NorthwesternUniversity for his valuable insights on module design.References1. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. Eds: Bransford, J.D., Brown, A.L., Cocking, R.R..National Academy Press (Washington; 1999).2. J.E. Greenberg, N.T. Smith, and J.H.Newman. (2003) "Instructional Module in Fourier Spectral Analysis, Basedon Principles of 'How People Learn'," accepted for publication in the Journal of Engineering Education.3. Paschal, C. (2002). “Effective and Efficient Homework-Free Active Learning Systems Physiology Instruction,”Submitted to Advances in Physiology Education.4. Nguyen, J.D. and Paschal, C.B. (2002), “Development of Online Ultrasound

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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

Session 3268 Is There A Better Way To Present An Example Problem? Timothy A. Philpot, Richard H. Hall, Ralph E. Flori, Nancy Hubing, David B. Oglesby, Vikas Yellamraju University of Missouri – RollaAbstractStatics, Dynamics, and Mechanics of Materials are introductory engineering courses that employ principles ofmechanics and mathematics to solve a wide array of engineering problems. Accordingly, these courses are taughtlargely through the use of example problems, traditionally delivered to students either by the professor in aclassroom setting or

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New Electrical ET Course Development

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2003 Annual Conference

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Aaron Gold; Walter Banzhaf

Session 2548 The Evolution of an EET Program’s Introductory Course in Electricity/Electronics Walter Banzhaf, Aaron Gold Ward College of Technology, University of HartfordIntroductionA new course (EL 110) was developed in 1999 for first-semester students entering our four-yearbaccalaureate programs in electronic and audio engineering technology. In recent years we hadnoticed that very few of our entering students had experience with technical aspects of electricityand electronics, and we realized that students found the traditional first-semester DC

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mark Wherley; David DiBiase; Eric Spielvogel; Jonathan Mathews; Sarma Pisupati

Session 2793 Online Teaching of “Energy & The Environment” Jonathan P. Mathews*, Eric Spielvogel, Mark Wherley, David DiBiase, and Sarma Pisupati* The e-Education Institute and *Department of Energy & Geo-Environmental Engineering, College of Earth & Mineral Sciences, The Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractIn the Fall of 2002, the Department of Energy & Geo-Environmental Engineering (EGEE) incollaboration with “The John A. Dutton e-Education Institute” (College of Earth and MineralSciences) offered a 3-credit web-only version of

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Veretta Sabb; Clarence Hill; Antonio Gonzalez; Freya Toledo; Didier Valdes-Diaz

Page 8.1153.6 White Earth Tribal and Community College“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”V. Plans for the FutureThere are several plans that have been laid out to continue attracting bright minds to thetransportation field at early ages. The National Summer Transportation Institute will continuelooking for Universities to participate in the current Transportation Institute Program to attracthigh school students to the Transportation Field. In addition, there is a plan to have graduatesfrom STI come back for a second summer experience related to the transportation field

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EM Skills and Concepts in the Real World

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2003 Annual Conference

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Charles Thompson

the management of technology. This is a long established practice,particularly in the training of doctoral students who will be studying the management of realengineering organizations, although it is underreported in the current periodical literature. Theusefulness of this technique to practicing engineers and engineering managers, as distinguishedfrom researchers, will be discussed as a basis for justifying its application to undergraduateengineering students who may have no present interest in a career in research. Particularattention will be given to two evolving areas: student choice of projects; student critiquing ofprojects.No justification is required for the choice of projects by the instructor; from experience, theinstructor can

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New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2003 Annual Conference

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Amy Miller

as a facilitator, the instructor should monitor the discussion but retain veto rights. Theinstructor should be open-minded to the ideas of the students while also considering theeducational quality expected of the university. Outrageous suggestions should be courteouslyvetoed. The instructor will need to draw out the opinions of the quieter students and be certainthat the changes being discussed reflect the opinion of the silent majority not just the vocalminority.(6) By listening to the students, and allowing them to have a part in developing the Page 8.2.3 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society of Engineering Education Annual

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Internet Programming and Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Miller; Steve Walsh; Leigh Haefner; Hollylynne Stohl

Education (pp. 191-212). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishing.10. Vygotsky, L.S. (1978). Mind in Society: The development of higher psychological processes. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.THOMAS K. MILLER IIIis a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University and Director of theEngineering Entrepreneurs Program, which he founded in 1993. He received the PhD in Biomedical Engineeringand Mathematics from the University of North Carolina in 1982, and is a member of the Academy of OutstandingTeachers at NC State. He is currently serving as Vice Provost for Distance Education and Learning TechnologyApplications.STEPHEN J. WALSHis a Visiting Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer

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Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Creese

willattend. Another key marketing item for engineering programs is all of our students(or X percent)had jobs by graduation last year. The elimination of tenure was presented at the 1992 ASEE meeting as one of the keynotespeakers from industry indicated that the financial problems of universities was caused byfaculty who were not productive or questioned authority. University administrators tend toworship the industry leaders as they can provide substantial financial support through grants andcontracts. Hopefully they will also remember that the problems of Enron, World-Com andArthur Andersen were caused by not having independent minds that questioned authority or bynot listening to subordinates who provided warnings of future problems. At

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Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Carolyn Clark; Prudence Merton; Jim Richardson; Jeffrey Froyd

complex as they struggled with three major issues: the role ofassessment data, the limitations of the pilot for gaining full-scale adoption of the new curriculum,and the need for structural change to sustain the new curriculum.IntroductionOne of the more recent initiatives in improving undergraduate engineering education has beenconducted by the NSF sponsored Foundation Coalition (FC), a partnership between sixinstitutions that, starting in 1993, designed, implemented, and institutionalized innovativefreshman and, in some cases, sophomore curricula. In this paper we focus on the FC’s evolvingmodel of the curricular change process. Using examples from different partner institutions we willillustrate how three underlying assumptions about change

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Computer Literacy Among Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

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Roli Varma

Session 2270 Retention of Minority Undergraduates in Information Technology Roli Varma University of New MexicoAbstractUndergraduate minority student retention is a major problem in core information technologyfields namely computer science (CS) and computer engineering (CE) in American colleges anduniversities. Even though increasing numbers of minority students are declaring CS and CE astheir major, departments are having a difficult time retaining and graduating them. The minoritystudents are often less well prepared for CS or CE education and are preoccupied

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Student Teams and Active Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

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Daniel Raviv; Rosalyn Berne

Session 2330 Eight-Dimensional Methodology for Innovative Thinking About the Case and Ethics of the Mount Graham, Large Binocular Telescope Project Submitted by:Rosalyn W. Berne, Division of Technology, Culture and Communication,University of Virginia, 351 McCormick Road, Thornton Road, Charlottesville, Va. 22904.434-924-6098. rwb@virginia.eduAnd,Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University, Electrical Engineering Department, FloridaAtlantic University, Boca Raton Florida, 33431. 561-297-2773. ravivd@fau.eduAbstract Case analysis is a common method for

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Tools of Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

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Saleh Al Hashimi; Colm Mealy; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller

students at the PI to results from students taking Physics I at the Colorado School of Mines, and 5) analyze all of the results.This paper includes a preliminary analysis of our results as well as suggestions for further study.The CSM-PI PartnershipAt the request of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), the Colorado School of Mineshas been retained to provide academic leadership required to design, start up, and operate thePetroleum Institute (PI), a world-class educational institution dedicated to educating engineers forthe oil and gas industry. When it is fully operational the PI will offer undergraduate and graduatedegrees in five programs: • chemical engineering • petroleum engineering