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Best Teaching Practices for ABET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mary Crawford, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

Page 8.715.8 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationtechnology platforms. We are staying abreast of current standards for sharable learningobjects and will support our faculty as sharing digital content becomes a greater priority.Teaching is an evolving process and the FIC is staying current with regards toeducational research and to promoting good teaching practice. Along with otherinstitutions and organizations, the FIC is participating in a Faculty Innovation ProfileProject sponsored by Vanderbilt’s Office of Innovation through Technology. The FIPPInitiative, consisting of design studio events

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Issues for ET Administrators

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2003 Annual Conference

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Abi Aghayere

that ETscholarship should take on an applied flavor while maintaining an appropriate objective andthorough peer review component to ensure the quality of ET scholarship and maintainrespectability and acceptance within the wider academic community.11, 14In a survey of seventy-six institutions with ET programs designed to investigate appropriatecreative endeavor, research, and scholarly activities deemed important for promotion and tenureof ET faculty, Buchanan identified the most highly rated creative endeavor activities forpromotion and tenure of ET faculty to be: (1) papers or presentations given at technical orinstructional conferences, (2) applied research activities, and (3) development of courseware orinstructional material.5During an

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A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

G. Burbach

Pyramid and NC A & T began as part of the Talent 21 Program at NCA&T. The Talent 21 Program, funded by the National Science Foundation as part of its HBCU-UP program, is a comprehensive academic enhancement project designed to promote SMETcareers among minority students. As part of the Talent 21 Program, NC A&T received fundingto start an undergraduate research training program in geophysics. The purpose was to provideSMET students with opportunities to participate in practical, hands-on research projects whichinvolved real-world application of physical science. Pyramid heard of the project and offered tohelp provide expertise, guidance, and student mentoring in geophysics. Pyramid committed toprovide both staff time and resources

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Practice/Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Katherine Liapi

with no significant change inthe course offerings. The quality of student projects, the excellent course evaluations, andthe increased interest and involvement of undergraduate students in this area of researchprove the success of this effort.The integration of research on deployable structures in general, best served the followinggoals:a) reinstate the role of geometry in the architectural engineering education as a tool for Page 8.741.5the invention and design of new forms. More specifically the overall educational goal ofthis effort was to reintroduce geometry in a systematic manner in the curriculum as a wayof gaining insight into the design of

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2003 Annual Conference

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Paul Bishop; Gary Lewandowski; Joel Fried; Carla Purdy; Anant Kukreti

specifically designated funds for an annual lectureship can eventually be identified.• Administrative support: once the program is organized, administrative needs are relatively simple. These can easily be provided by one graduate assistant allocated to the program at the college level.5. Program Assessment and ConclusionsCurrently an independent assessment of the national PFF initiative is being conducted. The resultsof this assessment are not yet available. However, both anecdotal evidence and the local statisticsgiven above show that the programs which have been established in UC's College of Engineeringare having a significant positive impact on doctoral education and on placement of graduates intoacademic positions at a wide range of

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A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mark Kithcart; Legunchim Emmanwori; G. Van Ness Burbach; Dominic Clemence; Caesar Jackson; Guoqing Tang

and numerical simulation. Theproposed approach facilitates a mutually refined understanding of site, the data, and the methodsselected for testing; the results will be used to build models that simulate earth subsurfacestructures. This research training program aims to expose students to theory via topical seminarsand workshops, and to practice via hands-on experience in field geophysical surveying,comparative field data analysis, computational modeling and numerical simulation of syntheticseismic data. It offers structured education and training activities that guide experiences ingeophysical techniques and research. The goal is to integrate research into education by linkingthe creation of new knowledge with the transfer of that knowledge

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Capstone Design and Engineering Practice

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Gesink; S. Hossein Mousavinezhad

:_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATIONJOHN GESINK (john.gesink@wmich.edu) is an Associate Professor of electrical and computer engineering atWestern Michigan University where he teaches graduate courses in instrumentation, is responsible for thedepartment's capstone senior design projects courses and is the department's graduate program coordinator. Hisresearch area is rehabilitation engineering, sensors and instrumentation. He is a member of the IEEE and ASEE.S. HOSSEIN MOUSAVINEZHAD (h.mousavinezhad@wmich.edu) is Professor and Chair, Department ofElectrical and Computer Engineering, Western Michigan University. His teaching and research interests includedigital signal processing (DSP) and Bioelectromagnetics. In addition to administrative responsibilities, he

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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

provides a forum for future faculty to practice improved teaching methodologies.Guided Participation in the RCS Studio – Sirena Hargrove-LeakSirena Hargrove-Leak is a Ph.D. candidate in the final stages of her dissertation research in theDepartment of Chemical Engineering, where she supervises undergraduates assisting in herresearch project. She has conducted research as an undergraduate, Master’s, and Ph.D. studentand participated in several programs and workshops designed to prepare graduate students foracademic careers, such as the African American Professors Program [9] at USC. Sirenaultimately plans to pursue an academic career and is vitally interested in approaches to learning. Sirena Hargrove-Leak’s Perspective As one might expect, each

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Professional Graduate Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Stanford; Duane Dunlop; Donald Sebastian; Stephen Tricamo; Donald Keating

, which Spitzer and others call for,requires purposeful, planned transformation to develop graduate education as an integrated system forlifelong learning that is concurrent with the working professional’s on-going practice of engineering inindustry. Determining the specifications for integrated professional curricula requires that a cleardistinction be made between the differences of traditional research-based graduate education for academicscientific research and that of practice-based professional graduate education for technology developmentand engineering leadership of systematic innovation in industry. We believe that the characteristics thatdifferentiate these two types of graduate studies can be distinguished best by using modern

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Potpourri Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steven Beyerlein; Denny Davis; Kenneth Gentili

designeducation3. TIDEE is “an interdisciplinary community of engineering design educatorscommitted to developing, implementing, and refining processes which lead to measurableimprovements in the readiness of our graduates for team-based design in the modernworkplace.” Over the last eight years TIDEE has provided regional leadership in designeducation that has resulted in:q Consensus on: • attributes of a quality engineer • learning outcomes associated with design • performance criteria at critical points in engineering degree programsq Best practices for: • designing curriculum for engineering design • creating assessment tools • facilitating student growth in professional skills • measuring student performance in a team-based

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Teaching Design with a Twist

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sohail Anwar; Eric Granlund

report and presentation. Page 8.515.5The first KSB that the students covered was KSB T-1, The Informed Design Cycle. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationStudents were given the steps in the informed design cycle model which included: ClarifyDesign, Research and Investigate, Generate Alternative Designs, Choose Optimal Design,Develop a Prototype, Test and Evaluate and Redesign. At this point the students wereasked to create some hand sketches or CAD drawings of their own possible designs andshare them with

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Industry Initiatives for Graduate Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Elaine Laws

ElectricalEngineering at the University of Massachusetts--Lowell, and Dr. Armando Rodriguez,Professor of Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University received these awards in1997 and 1998 respectively14,15, .ConclusionOver the years the fellowship programs have been cited as among the best, "distinctive intheir combination of support over the entire graduate career, the provision for summeremployment opportunities and mentoring"16. It is these elements that have contributed tothe numbers of students successfully completing Ph.D.s and joining the ranks ofdistinguished researchers. Along with mentoring and practical work experiences gottenfrom the initial internship, however, has been the involvement and commitment of thetechnical staff who continue to

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Professional Graduate Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Stanford; Donald Keating

, a new need has emerged for a different broadly educated graduate than is often provided by a research-oriented Ph.D. program and one who has greater depth than a graduate at the master’s level. This need may be met by doctoral level programs having a strong design element. A degree of Doctor of Engineering may be granted if the institution does not wish to award the Ph.D. for such work. These programs will emphasize design or creative activities (as opposed to an intense research effort Ph.D.), considerable breadth of in- depth course work, perhaps including some humanities and economics, and significantly greater industrial involvement than has been general academic practice to date. Quality and status equal to

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Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

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Hanna Lee; Sven Bilen; Robert Pangborn

Analysis,” presentation to the Faculty Advisory Board, Penn State University April 2002.10. Dekker, D. L., “Issues when using company sponsored design projects to provide a design experience for students,” 1997 ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 5–8 November, 1997, pp. 304–306.11. Bond, H. B., “Enhancing the career impact of design courses,” IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 41, No. 4, 1998, p. 350.12. Kitto, K. L., “Integrating concurrent engineering into the undergra duate design and research experiences,” 1997 ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 5–8 November, 1997, pp. 955–959.13. Bilén, S. G. and L. P. Bernal, “The Vortex Ring Transit Experiment Get Away Special Project

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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

must fully prepare students in the best practices and attributes of teams.Our graduates will be expected to contribute in a collaborative environment such that their effortsyield a competitive advantage for the company. Teaming, rather than individual effort, is how thebusiness world gets work done and effective teaming builds significant human capital for thecompany (Beyerlein, 2001). Unfortunately, a typical engineering student experiences a learningenvironment with high rewards for individual achievement and little or no emphasis on criticalskills such as cooperation, trust, communication and leadership. McAnear and Seat (2001)correctly point out that teamwork skills are behavioral and teaching effective teaming requiresdifferent approaches

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Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Kashef; Mark Rajai

discouraged if the department headpromotes everyone the same way regardless of their performance in the three areas (teaching,research, and service). Other discouragements could be a late feedback on a job well done, usingthreats, breaking promises, etc. Page 8.1125.3Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationThe best practices for faculty support/developmentIn some cases, a good faculty member resigns because management can’t meet the faculty’sneeds. In some other cases, some high-quality faculty

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Student Learning and Research

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stanley Kieta; Christopher Decock; Gregory Dick; Jerry Samples

situation.Dropping the laboratory from the fall schedule was considered. This idea itself wasquickly dropped. The negative impact on student progress and learning wasunacceptable. Attempts to reschedule the lab during evening hours proved unworkable.The schedule conflicts, which resulted from a number of the students being employed,could not be resolved. The ultimate solution required that we venture outside traditionalEngineering Technology boundaries.The practice of employing student laboratory instructors is foreign to ET education atPitt-Johnstown. The college’s primary mission is undergraduate instruction and full timefaculty members teach virtually all classes and laboratories. Only a few graduate classesare offered, and they are outside Engineering

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Women in Engineering: New Research

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2003 Annual Conference

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Yell Inverso; Rachelle Heller; Dave Snyder; Charlene Sorenson; Catherine Mavriplis

undergraduate and graduate studies in SEMfields. We have developed activities designed to encourage women and students of otherunderrepresented groups to consider graduate studies, apply to graduate school and, oncein, stay in and complete advanced degrees. The project has five activities: a workshop forsophomores and juniors considering graduate school, the interdisciplinary seminar coursedescribed here (A Walk on the Moon), a summer research competition for first year1 Under-represented minorities include ethnic minorities and students with disabilities. Page 8.140.1Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stephen Martin; Shailendra Mehta; Ronald Steuterman; Leah Jamieson; Donald Blewett; William Oakes; Edward Coyle

technical issues. Furthermore, R&D manager'scomments regarding new PhD hires from the university indicated a need for training andexperience in team work, market and business related issues, and formulating problems in amanner relevant to the metrics of a market driven enterprise.The process culminated in a successful $2.5 million National Science Foundation (NSF)Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) grant proposal by Thursby asthe PI, and Professors Warren H. Stevenson (Purdue Mechanical Engineering) Louis A. Sherman(Purdue Department of Biology), William R. Woodson (Purdue School of Agriculture) as Co-PIs.The key parameter for the program’s design was that it truly "add-on" to the PhD and MBAstudents' educational

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New Ideas in Energy Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Doanh Van

Session 2533 Teaching Design for Energy Sustainability Doanh Van, PhD., PE., CEM Union UniversityAbstract“Increasingly, investors are diversifying their portfolios by investing in companies that set industry-wide best practices with regard to sustainability”1. Sustainability has become yet anotheruniversal trend, besides total quality management, six sigma and total customer satisfaction, thatbusinesses and industries must adapt to remain competitive in the global market. Industries areadapting to Corporate Sustainability and, as a result, engineers

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EM Skills and Concepts in the Real World

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Collins; Alisha Youngblood

an academic(classroom) setting to the aggressive and competitive industry environment.The industry sponsor also benefits from the collaborative research efforts with undergraduatestudents. One clear goal for the sponsor is to identify future employees for the company, andthere’s no better means to evaluate a potential employee than to observe a student’s performancein a semester long project. Individual and team relationships are developed between the studentand company sponsor, which in many cases results in full-time employment opportunities uponthe student’s graduation. Finally, the sponsor has a sizable resource of 50 to 60 senior-levelengineering students to perform a study where large sample sizes are necessary in obtainingcredible

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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

successful year of supporting undergraduate women in summer research projects.It has also been offered to groups of women graduate students and their advisors. Based on theWomen in Engineering Programs and Advocates Network (WEPAN)1 Mentor TrainingCurriculum2, the Workshop can be offered with only a modest amount of preparation and thus caneasily be sustained. It can also be customized for various audiences. Goals of the Workshop are:to improve directly the research experience of both undergraduate and graduate students, to givefaculty research advisors a forum to discuss mentoring practices, and to learn "best practices"from one another.The WISE Committee offers this Workshop once a year to the summer REWU students. In 2001-2002, the Workshop was

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Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

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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REU at VaNTH & Graduate Programs in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Quint

greatly expanded the business potential for commercially applying the innovationsintroduced by this technology-based discipline. Thus, many BME students are attracted by theentrepreneurial potential of the field. Also, most students graduating with the M.S. degree areemployed in industry and would benefit from training in business practices and the businessenvironment [1]. In the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at The University of North Carolina atChapel Hill (UNC-CH), annual student surveys frequently requested more exposure to the BMEindustrial sector. In a 1998 survey in our department, only about half of the students entering ourgraduate program had taken an introductory course in economics in their undergraduate

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Capstone Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Quadrato; Ronald Welch

different grading process than thosethat have an easily defined solution. This paper explains how, through the use of a blendedcriteria and norm based assessment and evaluation process, to clearly communicate standardsand outcomes, fairly grade dissimilar designs, and effectively encourage continuousimprovement of design products. Evidence of these outcomes will be assessed through thestatistical analysis of student feedback from the United States Military Academy.Introduction United States Military Academy (USMA) civil engineering majors are required tocomplete a one-semester capstone design project as a requirement for graduation. The capstonedesign provides the best integrated experience to assess student performance on the USMA

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Design Through the Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ellis

innovation, feeling, and impressions - Favor form over function - Emphasis on physical prototypes - Exhaustive search of possibilitiesQuotes: - “They try for form follows function but without understanding function they sometimes wander astray.”Table 9. Student perceptions of possible improvements to architectural design approachKey ideas that architecture students can learn from engineers: - Recognize practical limitations - Be more open to advice (e.g. from engineers) - Put more emphasis on function - Conduct a more orderly, objective, and efficient search for solutions - Make decisions after research not before - Select a solution and stick with it – move forward - Respect deadlinesQuotes: - “Moderate their emphasis

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Nestor; David Rich

performance than alternativetechnologies, recent improvements have yielded performance that is acceptable except invery extreme cases. In these cases, the designer has a choice of traditional bipolartransistors, Bi-CMOS (a hybrid of the two technologies), or compound semiconductortechnologies such as gallium arsenide. However, these technologies are more expensiveto manufacture and exhibit much higher power consumption. For these reasons, mostmainstream designs are now done with CMOS.At the same time, changing design practices have revolutionized the way that electronicsystem design is performed. At the board level, small-scale integrated circuits such asoperational amplifiers have replaced discrete components because of their reduced cost.With

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Multidisciplinary Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Peretti; Paula Berardinelli; Naomi Kleid; Deanna Dannels; Chris Anson; Lisa Bullard; Dave Kmiec

productivity, andteam cohesiveness, with several operational definitions (outcomes-statements) beneath eachcategory. This rubric will be completed twice during the semester by faculty advisors, the TWSconsultant, and industry representatives—as a primary indicator of team competence. PhaseThree data are being collected in Spring 2003 and will be analyzed in Summer 2003.Multidisciplinary teaming instruction and assessment Over a three-year period, our NSF team developed three models for multidisciplinaryteaming instruction and assessment. Each model was designed and redesigned in an iterativeprocess based on data from the prior semester. Ultimately, a tailored, competence-oriented modelfor teaming instruction and assessment seemed to fit best

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Activities for the Materials Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Goddard

quality alloy that they can lateruse in practical applications.IntroductionAny student, having completed basic chemistry, would be ready for a first laboratory course inthe realm of Materials Science and Mechanics of Materials, which might fall anywhere from thefreshman to junior year, depending on the particular engineering curriculum. In such coursesthere is need for interrelated experiments which can give both depth and breadth ofunderstanding which can be built upon in other classes, such as Machine Component Design. Itis also very useful if such experiments should happen to be at the lower end of the cost range. Ahappy concurrence of these factors is to be found in threaded rod, which meets the ASTMSpecification A 193 Grade B71ASTM (American

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Engineering Education Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jolly Lesley; David Radcliffe

Session 1630` Dilemmas in Framing Research Studies in Engineering Education David F Radcliffe, Lesley Jolly Catalyst Centre, School of Engineering, University of Queensland, AustraliaAbstractThere has been considerable debate about the need for more empirical, evidence based studies ofthe impact of various interventions and practices in engineering education. A number ofresources including workshops to guide engineering faculty in the conduct of such studies haveemerged over recent years. This paper presents a critique of the evolution of engineeringeducation research and its underlying assumptions in