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DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Josue Njock-Libii

Session 1725 Integration of design in the engineering core: Teaching engineering science courses with design in mind. Josué Njock Libii Engineering Department Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, Indiana 46805-1499 USAFor more than twelve years, design has been successfully integrated into two, erstwhile, lecturecourses in the ME curriculum of Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne. The coursesare Fluid Mechanics (a required course) and Vibration Analysis (a technical elective

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Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Shaundra Bryant; David Cavallo; Arnan Sipitakiat; Anindita Basu

to see what “average” children would make of our space. During our design of RoBallet, we had an initial generative theme in mind: for students to create dancepieces that expressed a particular emotion. We wanted children to think about how to express an emotion using allof the various elements available to them, from choreographing movements, to composing music, to designing lightsand creating animations, and also to consider how these different media best augment each other. Page 9.965.6Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2004, American

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Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sylvanus Nwosu; Robert Goldbach; Mike Lovell

grouped by comment theme and by program, startingwith the affirmative responses and followed by the negative responses.‘Yes’ responses were categorized into three groups:• Getting there (9 responses, 6 from CARE I) – this group of respondents expressed some awareness and interest in the field, and given continued exposure, are most likely to consider engineering as a career.• Prepared – these four respondents felt that the program provided a good preparation for entering the field.• This is for me (4 responses, 1 CARE II) – these are the participants who have made up their minds that engineering is what they want.The ‘no’ responses fell mostly into two categories:• Not feeling it- In the CARE I program, 9 of

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Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Suzanne Berliner-Heyman; Nicole Koppel; Rosa Cano; Siobhan Gibbons; Howard Kimmel

) hasoffered the Women in Engineering and Technology program (FEMME) since 1981.Started as a program for 25 ninth graders, the program now serves 125 post-4th throughpost-8th grade students each summer. In that period of time since the initial program, anassortment of program evaluation instruments have been developed and implemented.This paper will discuss these instruments, some successes and some failures, and some ofthe results that have been obtained.IntroductionStudies over the past twenty years on the relationship between gender and achievement in Page 9.582.1SMET fields have shown that the most striking difference between boys and girls in the

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Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Diana Muldrow; Rosa Cano; Deran Hanesian; Henry McCloud; Angelo Perna; Howard Kimmel

Session 1170 Impact of K-16 Programs at New Jersey Institute of Technology on STEM Deran Hanesian, Levelle Burr-Alexander, Rosa Cano, Howard Kimmel, Henry McCloud, Diana Muldrow, Angelo J. Perna, Reginald P. T. Tomkins The Otto H. York Department of Chemical Engineering The Center for Pre-college Programs New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, New Jersey 07102AbstractOver thirty (30) years ago, faculty at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) recognized aneed to develop programs directed at

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Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Dara O'Neil; Gordon Kingsley; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

quantifiable benefits to both sides? Page 9.980.13 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIndications of Partnership BuildingSustainable partnerships must be built upon the efforts, concerns, and agendas of many people ifthey are to survive the departure of the original players. Bearing this in mind, our philosophyhas been to encourage all STEP participants to expand the partnership network wheneverpossible, and to include academic departments, individual laboratories, campus offices

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Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

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Turns Jennifer; Atman Cindy; Angela Linse; Karl Smith

, Sonia. 2003.Educational reform, personal practical theories, and dissatisfaction: The anatomy of change in collegescience teaching. American Educational Research Journal, 40 (3), 731-767.Gosling, Jonathan and Mintzberg, Henry. 2003. The five minds of a manager. Harvard Business Review, November,54-63.Halpern, Diane F. 2002. Cognitive science and the work of reform. New Directions for Higher Education, 119, 41-43.Jackson, Shirley A. 2003. Changes and challenges in engineering education. Main plenary address, AmericanSociety for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, June 23, 2003.http://www.rpi.edu/web/President/speeches/asee.html (accessed 12/31/03).Jaafari, Ali. (2003). Project management in the age of complexity and

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Understanding Students: Cognition

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2004 Annual Conference

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Lawrence Genalo

Page 9.988.8the child’s mind develops and forever impacted the way we teach children. Edison inventedProceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition CopyrightÆÉ 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationthings that made our lives a bit easier and changed the way we live. Edison was, indeed, a modelof Piaget’s constructivist model of learning.Today Piaget’s theory can still be seen in the modern engineer. Whether one is looking in theworkforce or the college setting where engineers are being trained, Piaget’s model ofdevelopment and learning is prevalent. It is the structure around which many courses, ToyingWith TechnologySM being one of many examples, are successfully developed

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Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Craig Caulfield; G Kohli; S P Maj

observation to the next in the hope that something will turn up. Too often the hypotheses with which we work are at home in the twilight regions of the mind, where their wavering outlines blend into a shadowy background. There they are Page 9.1102.8 safe from sudden exposure, and are free to swoop down for sustenance on whatever datum comes their way. Models are at any rate conscious, explicit, and Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education definite; there is nothing ghostly in their

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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John McGuire; John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

Session Number 1793 The Music of Engineering Kathleen M. Kaplan, D.Sc., John A. McGuire, Lt Col John J. Kaplan (Ph.D., J.D.) USAF Howard University/University of Northern Colorado/USAFAbstractThe relationship between music and engineering can be measured. There isoverwhelming empirical evidence that link these two fields, yet few researchers havestudied the relationship. This paper is not about the artistic and technical applications ofrecording technology, but rather the progression of music that has fostered theengineering feats of today.Music has motivated more than the heart of the engineer, it has driven the field

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Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sayward Touton; Cory McDonald; Amy Monte; Gretchen Hein

Session 3453 Engineers Need Mentors Too! Sayward H. Touton1, Cory P. McDonald1 Gretchen L. Hein2, Amy E. Monte2 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering1 Department of Engineering Fundamentals2 Michigan Technological University Houghton, MIAbstractThe Graduate, Undergraduate Initiative for Development and Enhancement (GUIDE) program atMichigan Technological University (MTU) is a unique scholarship program that couplesunderrepresented students

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Engineering Ethics Papers Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Margaret P. Battin; Gordon B. Mower; Angela R. Harris; JoAnn Lighty

pharmaceutical drug to get well then Protect is making a lot more money compared to if only two week supply is needed. Sam researches into this theory more and concludes that his co- worker is correct. He is now left with the dilemma of what to do next. Case 3. Developing the "Particle Replacer" Scott Holloway When I was young, my mind boiled with ideas. I dreamed of engineering what I thought of as the "particle replacer," or object replicator. Taking a hint from Star Trek: The Next Generation, this invention would scan any object that one may have; say, a gold ring. From the “raw materials“ bin of the device it would use the raw material (e.g., dirt) that is given an exact copy of the same gold ring would be produced. This device would

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Leadership in the Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

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Robert Martinazzi; Jerry Samples; Andrew Rose

. These include thehabits of “Be Proactive”, “Begin with the End in Mind”, and “Put First Things First”.3 Thepurpose of these habits has the student looking at themselves and evaluating their trustworthinessas a person. Emphasis is placed on the need for them to be true to themselves and to personallyfollow certain guiding principles in life in order for others to choose to follow them. This isessentially an “examination of conscience” coupled with reflection and insights on formulatingaction plans to increase their trustworthiness. Page 9.842.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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Pre-College and ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Stirewalt

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering SE-2(1), March, 19764 E. Gamma et al., Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, Addison–Wesley Publishing, 19955 D. Sayers, The Mind of the Maker, Harper Collins, 19416 C. M. Reigeluth and F. S. Stein, “The elaboration theory of instruction,” appears in Instructional-design theories and models: An overview of their current status, C. M. Reigeluth, editor, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 19837 J. E. Stice, “A First Step Toward Improved Teaching,” appears in Engineering Education 66(5), February, 19768 B. Bloom, Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. Handbook I: Cognitive Domain, David MacKay Company, 19569 E. Gamma et al., Design Patterns: Elements of

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Innovation in Continuing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Modesitt

Universities: Carnegie-Mellon, Southern Methodist University, Stanford, MIT, Colorado State University and Purdue come to mind immediately. They have long been in the business of providing distributed learning to engineers (and others) in the U.S.A. and in some cases, across the world via video tape, microwave, TV, satellite, and more recently with CD-ROM and DVD, and of course the Internet. The Open University in the UK has been a paradigm for many of us, and there are undoubtedly others throughout the world. Please contact the author if your favorite was left out. The former institution of the author has just initiated an on-line interdisciplinary M.S. SE program in which 18 students are enrolled, as of January 2004. This is part of

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Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

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Yaakov Varol; William Sparkman; Walt Johnson; Nancy LaTourrette; Jesse Adams; Jeffrey LaCombe; Gary Norris; Ellen Jacobson; Norma Velasquez-Bryant; John Kleppe; Pamela Cantrell; Eric Wang; Ted Batchman

concentrate on the K-12 valves since thefirst valve, elementary school, has the largest impact on the quantity of the output, the middleschool valve has the second largest impact, and so forth. However, the valves over which we(the university) have control are at the university-level: first year experience, sophomore, juniorand senior-level valves. Thus, from our standpoint, we achieve the largest impact by focusing onthe first valve at the university-level: the First Year Experience (FYE).However, we also recognize that the K-12 valves have far greater potential to affect the totalflow rate. With this in mind, at UNR the College of Engineering is partnering with the Collegeof Education on all aspects of this project. Thus, while we are focusing on

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

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Albert Lozano

2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for EngineeringAlthough in some cases the boundaries between Service Scholarship and Scholarship ofTeaching and Learning and the Scholarship of Research and Discovery are not clearly definedand may overlap, it is necessary to keep in mind that those boundaries are artificial as all thescholarship activities of faculty members follow a continuum. From the point of view ofpromotion and tenure, the deciding committees have mostly given a very low priority to theservice activities. Even new faculty member are strongly encourage to limit the extent of thistype of activities. However, by adding the

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

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Gregory Watkins

additional content that would bring the course in line withcurrent trends. Weaknesses in the existing course were: • Little reinforcement of concepts • Tenuous linkage to real-world engineering problems • No exposure to commercial softwareWith these weaknesses in mind, the multidisciplinary course has been updated to include twosoftware packages commonly used by today’s practicing engineers, Excel, by Microsoft, Inc.,and Matlab, by The MathWorks, Inc. The basic concepts, such as root finding, simultaneousequations, optimization, curve fitting, and numerical differentiation and integration, are coveredas before, in traditional methods. In addition, each topic is now augmented with lecture materialand demonstrations on Excel and

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Expert Advice on Instructional Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

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Phillip Wankat

Professor, Allyn & Bacon, Boston, 2002.12. Wankat, P.C. and Oreovicz, F.S., Teaching Engineering, McGraw-Hill, NY, 1993. Free at .13. Rogers, G. M. and Sando, J. K., Stepping Ahead: An Assessment Plan Development Guide, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN, 1996.14. Light, R. J., Making the Most of College. Students Speak Their Minds, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2001.15. Katehi, L., Banks, K., Diefes-Dux, H., Follman, D., Gaunt, J., Hahgighi, K., Imbrie, P. K., Montgomery, R., Oakes, W., and Wankat, P., “Development of Graduate Programs in Engineering Education,” Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, (in press). Biography: PHILLIP C

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jim Rand; Don Bowie; Donald Peter; Anthony Donaldson

BUSINESS AND ENGINEERING PROJ ECT INTERACTION Don Bowie, Anthony Donaldson, Don Peter , J im Rand Seattle Pacific Univer sityAbstract ́ As a result of industry feedback and the ABET 2000 criteria, Seattle Pacific University(SPU) has introduced a multidisciplinary interactive experience between the business school andthe electrical engineering department. This paper reports the way this interaction wasimplemented through a teaming effort undertaken between the School of Business & Economicsand the Department of Electrical Engineering,utilizing professors from both departments who allpossess considerable industry experience. A primary objective is to provide the student

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Projects,Teams & Cooperative Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

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Samuel Daniels; Bouzid Aliane; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

SESSION 3153 Pr oject Planning & Development for Engineer ing Fr eshman Bouzid Aliane, Michael A. Collur a, Samuel Daniels, J ean Nocito-Gobel School of Engineer ing & Applied Science, Univer sity of New HavenAbstr actThe nature and background of students seeking an engineering education has changeddrastically in the last decade, as has the expectations of industrial employers. Manystudents lack the organizational skills needed for academic success. Similarorganizational skills, although more advanced, are required for managing engineeringprojects. A new course was developed by the faculty at the School of Engineering andApplied Science

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Ethics & HSS in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Haws

. Hoover was a prolific (and sometimes eloquent) writer—often more coherent than like-minded contemporaries, such as Arthur Morgan. As engineering educators, we should befamiliar with two of his more important political tracts: American Individualism (1922) and TheChallenge to Liberty (1934). We should also be familiar with the first volume (of three) of hisMemoirs: Years of Adventure (1952). George H. Nash wrote an excellent, multi-volumebiography, the first volume of which, The Life of Herbert Hoover: The Engineer (1983) bears onHoover’s engineering career. Finally, the eighth chapter of Edwin T. Layton, Jr.’s The Revolt ofthe Engineers (1971) contains a fascinating analysis of Hoover’s participation in the attemptedreform of the American

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DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Farris

invitenon-engineering faculty, practitioners or interested community members to participate inideation sessions. The goal is to break out of the engineering mind set that tends to startworrying about how to make it in detail, before expanding the pool of ideas.III. ScreeningThe term screening refers to a systematic and unbiased process of selecting a small number ofideas to investigate further from the many ideas generated in the ideation phase. This is animportant concept in the marketing New Product Development process and is enumerated in theCrawford and Benedetto text that is used in that class. Student teams began this phase bydesigning a screening method that reflected the priorities of the project sponsors. Despite thefact that the most

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Expert Advice on Instructional Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Felder

Session 1375 THE ABC’S OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION: ABET, BLOOM’S TAXONOMY, COOPERATIVE LEARNING, AND SO ON Richard M. Felder, Rebecca Brent North Carolina State University/Education Designs, Inc.If you are like most university professors, you were not taught anything about how to teach ingraduate school or when you began in your first faculty position. All you had to go on was howyour professors taught, but nobody taught them anything about teaching either. It doesn’t make alot of sense, but that’s our system. Teaching is too complex and too important a profession to let people do it

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ERM Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

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Susan Etheredge; Glenn Ellis; Thomas Gralinski; Domenico Grasso; Baaba Andam

Session # 3630 Teaching Teachers to Teach Engineering Baaba Andam, Glenn W. Ellis, Susan Etheredge, Domenico Grasso Smith College, Northampton, MA Thomas Gralinski Amherst Regional High School, Amherst, MAABSTRACTMassachusetts is leading the integration of engineering into K-12 education by adopting astatewide science and technology/engineering framework. To meet the need for teachers whocan deliver this curriculum, we have assembled an interdisciplinary team from Smith Collegeand Amherst Public Schools to design a workshop for pre

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Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Brian Manhire

Session 2560 Grade Inflation, Ethics and Engineering Education Brian Manhire Ohio UniversityAbstractAn overview of grade inflation in American higher education is presented and its ethical implica-tions are examined and found to be troubling. A synopsis of the ethical ethos of engineering isprovided and an account is given of corresponding expectations regarding ethics instruction inengineering education. Because it is unethical, grade inflation is contrary to the ideals and goalsof engineering education; and recommendations are

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Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

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Anita Mahadevan-Jansen; Christopher Rowe

described in the previous section) form the Page 9.928.9foundation in the development of the subsequent modules and are based on the problem-solving Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationmethodology in a discipline-specific environment. The modules have a minimum set ofrequirements that had to be met by the instructor. Keeping the time constraints in mind (<4weeks, 11 class sessions, 3 days/week), the objectives were: • Must contain a grand challenge and at least two subchallenges • Must

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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W. Wentzheimer; Jennifer VanAntwerp; Gayle Ermer; Steven VanderLeest

aware of the things they may need to learn in depth in the future. It is this breadth that isnot so easily picked up on the job, where the work may in fact be quite narrow for a time. Itshould be the role of the entire undergraduate education to open a student’s mind, as NationalAcademy of Engineers’ president Bill Wulf puts it, “to appreciate the human dimensions oftechnology, understand global issues, be sensitive to cultural diversity, and know how tocommunicate effectively.”2 Once a sense of wonder and respect for these issues is well plantedthrough a variety of undergraduate courses, then a lifetime of experiences can truly lead to alifetime of growth

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Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

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Alisha Waller

Page 9.850.2outcomes, we have to understand thoroughly the research design and process which was Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationfollowed. Although we teach this level of explicitness to senior design teams, we have notpracticed it as a community in engineering education research. Let’s now consider each principleand the criteria and lessons it provides, keeping in mind that this paper is only one possibleinterpretation of the principles.Scientific Principle 1: Pose significant questions that can be investigated empirically Two important criteria are embedded within this principle

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Engineering/Education Collaborators

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2004 Annual Conference

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Norma Velasquez-Bryant; Gokhan Pekhan; Ahmad Itani; Pamela Cantrell

teachers. It was gratifying to see how muchpersistence all the teachers had as they grappled with difficult content until they understood.Another struggle all the teachers had was attempting to come up with a suitable topic for theengineering project within the modules. Most science at the secondary level is taught as purerather than applied, so it was difficult at first for the teachers to adjust their mind set to come upwith a suitable engineering project that fit with the science standards for which they areaccountable. One group thought they were on the right track as they began developing theirmodule on inertia and friction relative to movement of air, earth and water. The engineeringprofessors had to redirect their thinking to include a