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Applications in Mechanical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

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Francis Di Bella

Session 2004-124 ASEE ANNUAL MEETING Salt Lake City, Utah June, 2004 The Trebuchet Project: Launching a “Hands-On” Engineering Technology Approach To Conducting Hands-On Statics and Dynamics Laboratory Courses Francis A. Di Bella, PE Assistant Professor Northeastern University, Boston, MA Mechanical Engineering TechnologyABSTRACT“…Hands-On, real word engineering experience” is the refrain that is

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Derek Maxwell; Kathleen Kramer

developedfor an undergraduate course in digital design. The projects to be described were initiallydeveloped within an undergraduate advanced digital design course and as independent studentprojects and were then adapted for use as a final project within a junior-level first course indigital design. As second-semester juniors, students are also completing a course in signals andsystems that provides them some initial background in frequency-domain topics that areapplicable.Beginning in Spring 2002, laboratories within the digital course were updated to make use ofaffordable and versatile programmable logic device boards produced by Digilent, Inc [DIGI

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Dennis Silage

Session 1532 Reintroducing Amateur Radio In ECE Capstone Design Projects Dennis Silage Electrical and Computer Engineering College of Engineering, Temple UniversityAbstractPresented here from experience are the salient steps for the reintroduction of Amateur Radio intothe capstone design project in Electrical and Computer Engineering and diverse examples ofsuch projects. These steps include the involvement of the faculty supervisor, the establishmentof an Amateur Radio station as a communications laboratory sponsored by the department, asurvey

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Lighting the Fire: REU

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mark Evans; Ronald Welch

project choicesthat meet their individual needs for a challenging, rewarding academic experience. The fact thatthis course is offered in addition to the program-required capstone course and taken by over 90percent of the seniors each year testifies to the value that the cadets see in the course.In the past decade at USMA, academic promotion criteria have increasingly looked at researchand publication records of faculty members. Thus, what was once a primarily teaching-focusedschool has began to morph into a research-focused school. With the growing need for modestfaculty research and the absence of graduate students, the development of undergraduateresearch opportunities quickly evolved. There have been numerous successes and failures overthe

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Mathematics in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

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Anne Spence

used in both middle and highschool algebra classes; (2) provide a summer workshop for in-service mathematics teachers andundergraduate engineering Teaching Fellows; (3) develop an undergraduate engineeringTeaching Fellows program to provide hands on instructional classroom support for middle andhigh school algebra teachers to help them integrate the CD curricula into their courses; (4)maintain student interest in engineering at schools through the development andinstitutionalization of an after-school engineering program that culminates in a series ofcollaborative and competitive activities; and (5) increase the involvement of females and otherunderrepresented groups in engineering by providing female and minority engineering rolemodels in the

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Multidisciplinary Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Bannerot

resources which have equivalents in engineeringeducation: the meeting space or studio (the laboratory for engineering) and the humanresource (the instructor for both). Just like the laboratory in science and engineering, thestudio is a dedicated space which is usually assigned to a faculty member or a smallgroup of faculty in the same discipline, e.g., interior design, graphic design, etc. andreserved specifically for the teaching of studio courses by that faculty or the small group Page 9.145.6of faculty. To engineering faculty the teaching space resembles the “old” engineering Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education

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Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

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Stephanie Cupp; Paolo Moore; Norman Fortenberry

Session 1630 Linking Student Learning Outcomes to Instructional Practices – Phase I Stephanie Cupp, Paolo Davidian Moore, and Norman L. Fortenberry National Academy of Engineering Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering EducationAbstractThis paper begins to test the assumption that stakeholders in engineering education know whatset of teaching and learning practices by faculty and students will lead to desired student learningoutcomes. The work reported here seeks 1) to identify from published sources, a set of desiredengineering student learning

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Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2004 Annual Conference

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Per G. Reinhall; Paula R.L. Heron; Lesley Low; Brian C. Fabien

was a post-doctoral research associate in the Physics Education Group at the University ofWashington. Currently a research scientist at Information Systems Laboratories, Inc. in Seattle, WA, herresearch interests are in nonlinear dynamics.PAULA R.L. HERON is an Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Washington, where she is amember of the Physics Education Group. She has published several papers on her research on the learningand teaching of physics. Dr. Heron is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the APS Forumon Education. She consults on several NSF-funded education projects.BRIAN C. FABIEN is currently a Professor in the Department on Mechanical Engineering at theUniversity of Washington. His research interests

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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J. Schmalzel; A. Marchese; Jennifer Kadlowec; Shreekanth Mandayam; Stephanie Farrell

Session 1526Shreekanth Mandayam is an Associate Professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at RowanUniversity. He received his Ph.D. (1996) and M.S. (1993) in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University andhis B.S. (1990) in Electronics Engineering from Bangalore University, India. He teaches junior-level courses inelectromagnetics and communications systems and graduate-level courses in digital image processing and artificialneural networks. He conducts research in nondestructive evaluation and biomedical image processing.Anthony Marchese is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Rowan University, where he has beensince September 1996. He has also held positions in industrial and government laboratories

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Thomas Edgar

of Engineering Educationtypes, and special features which can only be determined by working through thedrawings. The third goal is to teach AutoCAD. “Do you know AutoCAD?” is still the mostcommon question students are asked during job interviews. By learning it during thesophomore year, it becomes a tool that they can use throughout their college career. The course was developed to fit into the curriculum between Surveying in the Fallof sophomore year and the breadth of CE courses at the junior years. Because it usesland descriptions and legal documentation, Surveying is a prerequisite course. It alsofunctionally limits the class to Civil Engineering students. The course also has a co-requisite of Mechanics of Materials to ensure

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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

. The second course is for mechanical engineering, material scienceengineering, and computer science students and focuses on structured programming through theuse of robotics.The future scholars program is the teaching analogy to a research post-doc. The future scholarswork with faculty on the integrated freshmen courses while receiving training on learning andteaching styles.The Hewlett Bridging into Engineering Program is aimed at students who are at high risk ofdropping out based on historic data. The program is being followed up with periodic meetingsbetween the participants and student mentors. Page 9.611.11 This project was

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The Best of Interdisciplinary Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Marshall; Steven Budd; Michael Fountain; Paul Givens

”technologies.The authors believe that the implementation of Strategic Market Assessments for NewTechnologies at USF has not only provided unique inter-disciplinary learning opportunities forgraduate students and faculty investigators, but has enhanced both the awareness of technologycommercialization in university faculty members and the university administration. Further, therate of movement of USF faculty innovations from university laboratories into new venturebusinesses has been increased in numbers and in level of success.IntroductionUniversities are repositories of large amounts of research, information, and knowledge; butunless moved from the laboratory, translated into useful technologies and/or products, andultimately commercialized, this

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Life Sciences and ChE

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2004 Annual Conference

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Alfred Carlson

Session # 3613 Making Memories The Penn State Bioprocessing Cluster Program 2000-2002 Alfred Carlson Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractAs part of a larger National Science Foundation grant to Penn State, I ran a special hands-on, “real life” educational program in bioprocessing for senior chemical engineers. Thestudents took all of their courses for the spring semester, senior year, from a singleinstructor and pooled them into a seamless laboratory project to produce a recombinantprotein at pilot plant scale. The students were able to learn how to design experiments,plan and execute runs, and operate a

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Karl Stephan

Session No. 1532 A Digital Electronics Course Using CPLDs for Manufacturing Engineers Karl D. Stephan and Vedaraman Sriraman Department of Technology, Texas State University-San Marcos San Marcos, Texas 78666Abstract: The challenge faced by ECE instructors who teach a one-semester digital electronicscourse in a manufacturing engineering curriculum is to present a useful fraction of the material tostudents whose primary interest is not electronics. We have developed a course whichaccomplishes this goal with the use of complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs) and a termproject that

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Math Software Use in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ian Leslie

problems. Faculty responsible for this introductorycourse as well as a numerical methods course felt that too much time was being spent on theminutia of programming syntax. Both of these packages can be learned sufficiently quickly totackle meaningful problems in undergraduate engineering within one semester. Each package hasits strengths and a role to play in undergraduate engineering instruction. These strengths will bediscussed in the paper.IntroductionThe Mechanical Engineering Department at NMSU has a long history of teaching programmingat the undergraduate level. As with virtually every other engineering program, the important roleof scientific computing was recognized early on. When one of the authors joined the faculty in1984, FORTRAN was

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Engineering/Education Collaborators

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jeffrey Connor; Vinod Lohani

Session 3130 An Analysis of Freshman Engineering: A Cross-College Perspective J.B. Connor 1, V.K. Lohani 1, E. Bull 3, T.M. Wildman2, S.G. Magliaro 2, T.W. Knott 1, O.H. Griffin, Jr 1 J.A. Muffo4 1 Department of Engineering Education 2 Department of Teaching and Learning 3 Department of Computer Science Office of Academic Assessment

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Issues in Computer Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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G Murphy; G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

routers, and associated on-line vendor basedcurricula, such as CCNA, CCNP, are now readily available. This approach to networktechnology education requires an understanding of switch and router operation. However, anextensive analysis of educational materials in this area has indicated that these devices aretypically treated as 'black boxes'. Such an approach may not be best suited to the promotion oflearning as students are required to construct their own mental model of the internal operation ofsuch devices and which may, or may not, be correct. To address this problem a state model hasbeen designed for both switches and routers which allows complexity to be controlled and hencecan be used as a basis for teaching both introductory and advanced

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International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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Vera Galishnikova; Thomas Maleck; Paul Streng; Jason Merrill; David Prestel; Darren Mason; Ronald Harichandran

Engineering in Volgograd, Russia. This program successfullyaddresses such academic challenges in engineering education as the inherent verticalstructure of scientific curricula, courses with laboratory requirements, ABETaccreditation, and accelerated summer course calendars. Engineering disciplinesincluded are civil engineering, environmental engineering, mechanical engineering,chemical engineering, statistics, and construction management. Also featured in thisprogram is a unique curricular collaboration between the humanities and engineering.The paper also discusses the program’s treatment of such logistical issues as studentsafety, moving large groups of students through a cultural landscape where Russianlanguage proficiency is a necessity, as well

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International Engineering Education II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Fazil Najafi

classes, a 55-minute period, but the total creditfor each laboratory is only 1 UV regardless of the actual time spent. A professor teaches lecturesclasses, and either a professor or a technician instructor teaches the laboratories.Table 2 presents a list of the courses offered at UF and UNAH. A comparison of course-by-course based on content is made. The left side of the Table 2 shows an example of the necessaryundergraduate courses for obtaining 131 credits at UF (degree requirement). The Right side ofTable 2 shows the courses that students are required to take under the plan of study at UNAH.The total at the bottom of Table 2 shows the difference in the number of credits and number ofcourses required to complete the civil engineering degree at

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Industry-Based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Rothaupt

criticisms leveled at engineering schools by the Societyof Manufacturing Engineers in their Curricula 2000 Report1 and the Manufacturing EducationPlan: 1999 Critical Competency Gaps2 document and in other papers which alleged that schoolsoffer too few “practical” and “hands-on” courses. Stout has a rich tradition of teaching studentstechnical skills that can only be taught in laboratory experience. By integrating theory and Page 9.727.1Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Educationexperimentation with

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Technological Literacy I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Robinson; M. Sami Fadali; Ann-Marie Vollstedt; Eric Wang

agreement of the three teachers (see Table 2), the following generalizations are made: 1. Working with the robotics materials helped students practice problem solving and inquiry skills. 2. The NSES goal of promoting inquiry was addressed in the small group work with the robotics materials. This work involved inquiry/ exploration and problem solving among the groups members and in some cases between groups as well. 3. Small group work with the robotics materials helped make the physical science content more interesting to learn. The robotics material also made the physics content more relevant. 4. Teaching strategies that use visuals and/or concrete materials such as those found in laboratory investigations, can

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DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Stephan Hussmann; Nitish Patel; Julainne Sumich; Bruce MacDonald; Abbas Bigdeli

available, and ifput on line it is searchable, easy to update, and printing costs are reduced. The teaching staffsneed only to summarize and guide students as they approach and read the documentation.ResourcesIt is helpful to provide students with resources that they are able to use at home as well as in theuniversity laboratories. Small hardware devices can be issued to groups and taken away.Appropriate software can be distributed to students to use at home.PrinciplesSome key principles in managing the course include: - Keeping updated. Both technical and academic staff must invest a considerable effort in keeping up with technology, so that the large effort students make is devoted to technology relevant to expected employment

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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James Bowen

, G.L. 2001. Implementing a Common First Year Engineering Program at Michigan Tech. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education. Washington, D.C.: American Society for Engineering Education.5. MATLAB, MATrix LABoratory is a trademark of The Mathworks, Inc., Natick Massachusetts.6. Devens, P.E. 2000. MATLAB & Freshman Engineering. Proceedings of the 2000 American Society for Engineering Education. Washington, D.C.: American Society for Engineering Education.7. Herniter, M.E., and Scott, D.R. 2001. Teaching Programming Skills with MATLAB. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education. Washington, D.C.: American Society for Engineering Education8. Bowen, J.D. 2003. Using a

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Brown; Michael Flynn; Gordon Carichner; Dennis Sylvester; David Blaauw; Catharine June

logic design, circuit design, microarchitecture, validation,design methodology and tools, and mask-level design. It notes that teaching VLSI is challengingbecause it requires both depth and considerable breadth. As stated in the RFP, Intel would like tosee students with stronger software skills, analog circuit expertise, experience in high speed and/or low power circuit design, exposure to modern submicron semiconductor processes, and consid-erably more hands-on experience designing integrated circuits.The philosophy of the University of Michigan VLSI curriculum has been to give students a broadbackground in fundamental topics, combined with project-oriented VLSI courses that rely onmodern design flows, professional CAD tools, and current

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New Program/Course Success Stories

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ghanashyam Joshi

andapplications specifically useful to engineering and technical graduates. The main topics in thecourse are planning, forecasting, decision making, project management, time management,quality control, optimization, reliability and risk analysis, and scheduling. The engineeringmanagement course offers students with ample opportunity to demonstrate their mastery ofcourse materials and related ideas through guided class discussions, open ended projects,assignments, research reports, and tests. The main distinction of this course when compared to atraditional management course is less emphasis on non-technical topics such as accounting andbusiness management.The observations and experiences learnt from the development and teaching of the

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BME Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Wagner; Daniel Cavanagh

Engineering, he isalso Co-Director of the newly formed Biomedical Engineering Program. Dr. Cavanagh teaches a variety ofbiomedical and chemical engineering courses in addition to researching intravascular gas embolism and dialysis.JOHN J. WAGNER is a sophomore in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Bucknell University. Heplayed a major role in the development of the biotransport laboratory exercises for the first-year engineers. Page 9.118.9 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

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Edward Sheinberg; Alberto Gomez-Rivas; George Pincus

engineering such as mechanical andcivil in safety and fire protection.Technology is a key ingredient in performance oriented fire protection because it providesalternatives to old traditional methods. The department has an electrical technology facultymember, with extensive background in electronics and industrial experience in fire protectiondevices now teaching courses related to alarm systems and developing laboratories forinstruction in fire protection electronics.The Safety and Fire protection program currently includes three tenured faculty memberswith advanced degrees in engineering and academic or industrial experience in fireprotection. Six adjunct professors with extensive safety and fire protection experience in theHouston area support the

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Zollars

Paper 2004-1243 Real or Simulation: Experiences Using Computer Simulation versus Remote Operation for Process Control Jim Henry Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598 Richard Zollars Department of Chemical Engineering Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-2710AbstractThis paper has a comparison of student reactions to having laboratory experimentsconducted

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ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Heinz Luegenbiehl; Kathryn Neeley; Jerry Gravander

between science (or the sciences) and practice. As Mead expressed it,“We were out in the research laboratory trying to figure out what was true. . . .Of course, thingsthat don’t work in the lab don’t work in the real world, but things that do work in the lab oftentake a long time to work out in the real world.”4 Mead might also have added that things thatwork in the lab sometimes do not work at all in practice. The “bridge” between the engineeringcurriculum and engineering practice matters, then, because it educates students about the realitiesof the disjunction between the laboratory and practical application. Ideally, educationalexperiences that fulfill the Criterion 4 requirement give the students an understanding of theintegrative nature of

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Issues in Computer Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Chi Thai

the National Research Council1, 2 advocated the adoption of InformationTechnology to improve student learning at the high school and university levels, but Hilton2 alsoacknowledged that "Information Technology (IT) is changing at a breathtaking pace, making itvirtually impossible to accurately predict its future impact on teaching and learning inundergraduate science, mathematics, engineering, and technology education". Maeroff's3 surveyshowed that "A Classroom of One" is just around the corner, and Raschke4 predicted that theUniversity, as we know it, will be "deconstructed" in the near future as learning shifts from ateacher-initiated orientation to a more active role from the student. For this purpose, the NationalScience Foundation had