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Nontraditional Ways to Engage Students

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2004 Annual Conference

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Massarani Marcelo; Jose Siqueira; Celso Furukawa

theparticipants are aroused to speak their minds concerning the process as a whole, beginning withthe perception of reality and going on with the launching of solutions, the generation of options,the selection of the viable options, the execution and the focus on results. A good text on thesubject is Sutton´s.1After a fifteen-minute interval, the facilitator proposes an exercise to the participants, forexample, do a brainstorm to find ways to improve specific products or to arouse interest in certainboring activities. The results are discussed and the process itself is detailed, in order to underlinethe strengths and the weaknesses of working as a team. This exercise takes about 1 hour and 30minutes

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New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mary Anderson-Rowland

. Anderson-Rowland, M.R., Blaisdell, S.L., Fletcher, S.L., Fussell, P.A., McCartney, M.A., and Reyes, M.A., “A Model Partnership to Recruit and to Retain Underrepresented Engineering Students,” WEPAN 1998 Conference Proceedings, Seattle, Washington, June 1998, p. 241-246. 7. Anderson-Rowland, M.R., Blaisdell, S. L., “ A Comprehensive Approach to the Recruitment and Retention of Women in Engineering,” Shaping a National Agenda for Women in Higher Education, Conference Page 9.1421.8 Proceedings, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2000, Women in Science and

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International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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Harry Koehnemann; Barbara Gannod

the courses, and results from teaching it for three semesters.3.1 CET 415 ObjectivesThis section discusses CET 415’s objectives regarding the student’s experience withmanaging requirements, communicating with developers and customers, releasingversions of software, and performing project planning and management.CET 415 uses projects from real customers. While using real customers is not in itselfinnovative, it is a vital, mandatory component for an applied software process class.Software development requires communication among many different stakeholders,among them developers, customers, end users, project managers, and removing one ofthose roles limits the experience. Customers for the class were taken both from insideand outside the

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ing-Chang Jong

of detailed guiding rules for the effective teachingand learning of this method has been found in current textbooks. It is the purpose of this paper toshare mechanics ideas with fellow mechanics educators by contributing ten synthesized guidingrules for the conjugate beam method to effectively assist in its teaching and learning. Should thismethod be included in the mechanics curriculum? Readers are invited to answer this question.References1. Westergaard, H. M., “Deflections of Beams by the Conjugate Beam Method,” Journal of the Western Society of Engineers, Volume XXVI, Number 11, 1921, pp. 369-396.2. Timoshenko, S., and G. H. MacCullough, Elements of Strength of Materials, Third Edition, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1949, pp.179

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Curriculums in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

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Larry Stout; Ken Bosworth; Brian Williams; Habib Sadid; Mike Ellis

relevancy of the present curriculum is an important component of thecontinuous quality refinement of our program. Consequently, a systematic method needs to berefined for making not only decisions regarding proposed course material additions but also theremoval of course material when its time is past.Bibliography1 National Science Foundation (1995), “Restructuring Engineering Education: A Focus on Change”, A report of anNSF Workshop on Engineering Education, NSF 95-65.2 R Eley, S Williamson, and F Lamb (2002), “Desires of Industry, products from academia – Ships that pass in thenight?”, Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.3 “2003 – 2004 Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs

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Capstone Design II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Vikas Jain; Durward Sobek

: Acceptable, 7: Outstanding) Requirement The design meets the technical criteria and the customer s requirements 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Basic The design is feasible in its application and fabrication / Feasibility assembly 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 The design incorporates original and novel ideas, non- Creativity intuitive approaches or innovative solutions

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Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ryan Cavanaugh; Matt Ellis; Mark Ardis; Richard Layton

Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 134-138. Page 9.246.136. Russell, S. and Norvig, P, 1995, Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach, Prentice-Hall. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationRYAN CAVANAUGHRyan Cavanaugh, formerly a Computer Science student at Rose-Hulman, graduated in February, 2004. He is nowworking at Microsoft’s Visual Basic team after three internships at the company. His interests include compilers,ray-tracing, and game simulation.MATT G. ELLISMatt Ellis is a junior

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

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2004 Annual Conference

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Josh Humphries; David Radcliffe

brief. The purpose of this document was to provide students with a concise description ofthe potential project. The information requested included a short, descriptive title, backgroundinformation to orientate the students to the area of research, a brief introduction to the field ofresearch, and a paragraph to establish the context including the prior art. The project proposeralso listed one or more issues or research question(s) with the focus on the question or issue to beaddressed in the research and an indication if this topic may result in several thesis topics arounda common theme and what these might be. Crucially they had to outline the expected outcomesof the thesis. To assist the students to get started on a literature review, the

Conference Session

Course/Program Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

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Suguna Bommaraju

reading assignment (syllabus contains the schedule of reading assignment for eachclass), students search the web for anything that connects in some way with what they have read.Students must compile and present a print out of the relevant page(s) at the site and then write abrief summary of how the web source connects to the reading. An example of a handout isshown Appendix-II.Few examples of topics are listed below: 1. Some key terms for web search: Electric Charge, Engineering Notation, Atom, Battery, Volt. (Week 1) 2. Search the web to find out electric energy produced by “wind” (week 3) 3. “Holiday lights” an application of series circuit. (Week 5) 4. Literature search on Superconductors and applications (week 7) 5. Write a

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Novel Upper-Level Materials Curricula

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2004 Annual Conference

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Rajiv Asthana; Richard Rothaupt; Danny Bee

Page 9.178.2to estimate the open and closed porosity, apparent and true density, etc. from gravimetric measurements. “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”4. Summary and Analysis of Student-Generated Data4.1 Densification of sintered alumina: Figure 1(a) shows the average density of MgO-dopedAl2O3 as a function of sintering temperature for four different sintering times. The data are basedon measurements on three-hundred and thirty alumina specimens sintered over a span of sevenyears. The data replicate the well-known `S’ shaped densification curve for ceramics [1,2]. Thedensification is

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BME Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

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Robert Roselli

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

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E. Hirleman

GEARE: A Comprehensive Program for Globalizing Engineering Education E. D. Hir leman 1, D. Atkinson 1, E. A. Gr oll1, J . Matthews1, L. Xu 1, B. Aller t 2, W. Hong2, A. Alber s3, S. L. K. Wittig4, Z. Q. Lin 5, and L. F. Xi5 1 School of Mechanical Engineer ing, Pur due Univer sity / 2Depar tment of For eign Languages and Liter atur e, Pur due Univer sity / 3Institut für Maschinenkonstr uktionslehr e und Kr aftfahr zeugbau, Univer sität. Univ. Kar lsr uhe / 4Ger man Aer ospace Center (DLR), Köln / 5School of Mechanical Engineer ing , Shanghai J iao Tong Univer sity GLOBAL ENGINEERING ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION (GEARE)AbstractThe

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K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

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Joseph Reagan; Aldo Morales; Sedig Agili

; Exposition. Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education• fir(x, h, r, &dbptr, NH, NX); This is the fir filter function from dsplib. It takes as input the array x, which is the input signal; and the array h, which is the filter coefficients. NH and NX are the sizes of the arrays. The output of the filter is put into the array r. The arrays for h are circular buffers, and must be aligned on a memory boundary such that the k Least Significant Bits (LSB)s of the starting address are zeros; where k = log2 (NH).• void Copy_Buff(u16 count,DATA *input,DATA *output); This function is required to copy the input buffer x to the output buffer r, when the fir function is not used. This

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2004 Annual Conference

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F.C. Lai

Efficiency, McGraw-Hill, pp. 271 – 350, 1994.2. McQuiston, F. C., Parker, J. D., and Spitler, J. D., The Cooling Load, Chapter 8, Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning Analysis and Design, John Wiley and Sons, 5th Edition, pp. 215 – 275, 2000.3. McQuiston, F. C., and Spitler, J. D., Cooling and Heating Load Calculation Manual, ASHRAE, Inc., 2nd Edition, 1992.4. HVAC Applications, ASHRAE Handbook, SI Edition, 1999.5. URL: http://www.hvac-software.com, HVAC Computer Systems, Ltd.6. URL: http://www.carrier-commercial.com, Carrier Corp.7. URL: http://www.geoexchange.org, USACERL.8. Fundamentals, ASHRAE Handbook, SI Edition, 2001.9. Wang, S. K., Lavan, Z., and Norton, P., Load Calculations, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration

Conference Session

The Fundamentals of Fun

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2004 Annual Conference

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Matthew Morris; Dawn Conniff; J. Ledlie Klosky

Classroom.” American Society for Engineering Education, 2002 National Conference, Montreal, Canada.Klosky, J.L.; Vander Schaaf, R. (2002). “Hands-On Demonstrations in Introductory Mechanics,” American Society for Engineering Education, 2002 National Conference, Montreal, Canada.Lowman, Joseph. Mastering the Techniques of Teaching. California: John Wiley & Sons, 1995.Marchese, Theodore J. “The New Conversations about Learning.” Keynote Address at the American Associationfor Higher Education, 1998.Wankat, Phillip C. and Frank S. Oreovicz. Teaching Engineering. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc, 1993.BiographyDAWN E. CONNIFFDawn E. Conniff is an instructor at the United States Military Academy (USMA). CPT Conniff received a B.S.degree from USMA in 1994

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Computer-Based Measurements

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2004 Annual Conference

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Keith Koenig; Viva Austin; Bryan Gassaway; Thomas Hannigan

Experiment”, Senior SeminarReport ASE 2712, Mississippi State University, 19854. Fugate, M., “Working Hardware and Software for Communications Between Apple III and Hewlett-Packard Computers”, Special Topic Report ASE 7003, Mississippi State University, 19865. Messer, B., “Control Loop Response Characteristics of the Supersonic Wind Tunnel”, Senior SeminarReport ASE 2712, Mississippi State University, 19876. Burchak, R., “A Least-Squares Cubic Polynomial Spline Fit Algorithm for Data Smoothing”, MSThesis, Mississippi State University, 19877. Godwin, S., “Investigation of the Boundary Layer Near the Leading Edge of a Flat Plate at Zero Angleof Attack”, Special Topic Report, Mississippi State University, 19878. Podbielski,C., “Development of a Real

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Trends in Construction Engineering III

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2004 Annual Conference

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Luke Nicholson

circumstances and our curricula must be adjusted to a new andevolving situation. This paper will share specific improvements and additions to bothConstruction Management and Civil Engineering Technology curricula that willintroduce students to a new and still evolving landscape for building in the future, onethat will allow students to adapt to the new field of sustainable building design andconstruction successfully. Page 9.773.2INTRODUCTIONThe sustainable building design and construction movement had its origins in theAmerican energy crisis of the early 1970’s. The realization that unlimited energysupplies at low cost was no longer realistic forced Americans to

Conference Session

Web-Based Instruction

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2004 Annual Conference

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JoDell Steuver

, S., Franklyn-Stokes, A., and Armstead, P. (1966). Individual differences in student cheating. Journal of Education Psychology, 88(2), 229 - 241.2 Davis, G., Becker and McGregor. (1992). Academic dishonesty; prevalence, determinants, technique punishments. Teaching of Psychology, 19, 16 - 20.3 Sophocles. (1966). Sophocles: A Collection of Critical Essays (Vol. Quotation No. 54792): Prentice Hall. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Page 9.367.5 Exposition Copyright © 2004, American

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Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Obadiah Ritchey; John Clark; Jim White; Tim White; David Barnhart; Jerry Sellers

., Microcosm, El Segundo, 1998.2. Heidt, H., Puig-Suari, J., Moore, A.S., Nakasuka, S., Twiggs, R.J., “CubeSat: A New Generation of Picosatellite for Education and Industry Low-Cost Space Experimentation,” Proceedings of the Utah State University Small Satellite Conference, Logan, UT, August 2001.3. Nason, I., Creedon, M., Puig-Suari, J., “CubeSat Design Specifications Document,” Revision V, Nov. 2001. .4. Nason, I., Puig-Suari, J., Twiggs, R.J., “Development of a Family of Picosatellite Deployers Based on the CubeSat Standard,” Proceedings of the IEEE Conference, Big Sky Montana, IEEE, 2002.5. Schaffner, J. “The Electronic System Design, Analysis, Integration, and Construction of the Cal Poly State University CP1 CubeSat,” 16th

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Best Zone Papers

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2004 Annual Conference

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Joseph Betz

participation in POE areas. ** 3. Professional degree in Architecture, Engineering or Engineering Technology. *** * This category accounts for the overwhelming majority of certified technology teachers and includes related degrees in Industrial Arts, Vocational & Occupational Education and combinations of AAS in Engineering Technology and Technology Education. ** Participants of a multi-week summer workshop in Principles of Engineering (POE) similar to the NSF funded program run by Stony Brook University and Hofstra University mid 1990’s. *** Defined as Bachelors degree with significant theory content and design.These categories are important in that they provide a baseline to measure trends and

Conference Session

Engineering Education: An International Perspective

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2004 Annual Conference

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Saeed Foroudastan

to make the economy move in a positive direction. It directlymotivates other countries to exploit resources in developing nations by using subsidizedloans to help these nations mature. In order to repay these loans, poor governments mustrely on the material wealth of its location, sacrificing long term sustainability for theshort term gain. Other world authorities act in the same manner. Such authorities includethe World Trade Organization and the International Monetary Fund, both supported bythe U.S., allowing re-compensation to occur without any regard to the environmentaldrawbacks of such actions 8.The American government did start to back off of investments into foreign developmentin the early 1990’s, where 57% of international capitol

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Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

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Chris Daubert; Steven Peretti; Paula Berardinelli; Deanna Dannels; Chris Anson; Lisa Bullard

TWS Lab Design Lab Design Student Grades WS 25 35 46 42External Evaluations S 11 teams 10 teams 8 teams 9 teams of SpeakingExternal Evaluations W 5 teams 8 teams 7 teams 13 teams of Writing Page 9.238.4 Peer Evaluations T 8 teams 13 teams “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for

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Student Learning and Research

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jay Porter; James Ochoa; Joseph Morgan

to configure the computer display in a waythat best presents the teaching materials. This configuration can support an instructor whowishes to use a single camera and computer to capture his presence (talking head) whilelecturing to students using computer-based media such as PowerPoint slides or by using a pen-based input device. In this configuration, the classroom computer will generate approximately100-120 MBytes of information for storage at the LIVE Server each hour. This translates intoapproximately 250 kbits/s of bandwidth that is needed to support each classroom. Obviously, iftwo cameras/computers were used in the classroom, the bandwidth requirements would double. Another important lesson was in the area of camera resolution

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Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Per Andersson

.html.4 Polanyi, M. (1967). The tacit dimension. Routledge&Kegan, London.5 Herschbach, D. (1995). Technology as knowledge: Implications for instruction. Journal of Tech. Ed., 17.6 CETIS-Center for School Technology Education. http://www.liu.se/org/cetis/english/index_eng.shtml7 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (Boston). http://timss.bc.edu.8 http://folk.uio.no/sveinsj/SASweb.htm9 Piaget, J. (1977). The Child’s Conception of the World. Granada, London.10 Freinet, Célestin (1988). För folkets skola. C&L Förlag, Göteborg.11 Sjøberg, S. (2002). Naturvetenskap som allmänbildning. Studentlitteratur, Lund.12

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Nicole DeJong Okamoto; Tai-Ran Hsu

with the current state of technology3.In the early 1960’s, heat removal rates ranged typically from 0.1 to 0.3 W2. The SemiconductorIndustry Association estimates that rates for 3.5 GHz chips used in servers and workstations willreach 160W in 20064. Air cooling is the most common technique used to cool electronics.Innovative air cooling techniques allowed heat dissipation rates of 60-70 W by the late 1990s2.However, the point has been reached when many industries have had to look to high-capacitycooling technologies rather than air cooling. One high-capacity cooling technology, liquidcooling, has been used for many years by such companies as Cray (using immersion in liquidnitrogen) and IBM and Honeywell (in their water-cooled mainframes

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Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ramana Pidaparti; Hasan Akay

Engineering Courses,” Proceedings of the 2003 American Society forEngineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Session 1693, June 2003.[6] Everett, Louis J., P. K. Imbrie, and Jim Morgan, 2000. Integrated Curricula: Purpose andDesign, Journal of Engineering Education, 89(2):167-175, 2000.[7] Philip S. Schmidt and Joseph J. Beaman, “PROCEED: A Department-Wide CurriculumReform Initiative in Project-Centered Education, Proceedings of the 2003 American Society forEngineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Session 2366, June 2003. Page 9.901.14 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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Improving Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

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Patrick Hollis; Namas Chandra; Chiang Shih

. and Eison, J., Active Learning: Creating Excitement in the Classroom, ASHE-ERIC Higher Educational Report No. 1, 1991. 2. Johnson, D. W., Johnson, R. T., and Smith, K., Active Learning: Cooperation in the College Classroom, Interaction Book Company, Edina, MN, 1991. 3. Bidanda, B. and Billo, R., On the Use of Students for Developing Engineering Laboratories, Journal of Engineering Education, April 1995. 4. Pai, D., Kelkar, A., Layton, R. A., Schultz, M., Dunn, D., Owusu-Ofori, S., and Duraphe, A., Vertical Integration of the Undergraduate Learning Experience, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual conference, Charlotte, NC, 1999. 5. Shih, C., Hollis, P., and Buzyna, G., The Development of a

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ELD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mellinger Margaret

science: cross-disciplinary information literacy in theapplied sciences and business. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship Spring.http://www.istl.org/03-spring/article4.html Accessed 15 March 2004.25 Oregon State University Libraries. Digital Collections. http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/digitalcollections/Accessed 15 March 2004.26 Helfer, Doris S. 2002. Academic Entrepreneurship: The HBS Library takes a lesson from the school it serves.Searcher 10(4): 70-71.Biographical Information Page 9.865.10MARGARET A. MELLINGER is Business and Engineering Librarian for the Oregon State University Libraries. Proceedings of

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Design and Manufacturing Experiences II

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Richie; Timothy Lawrence; Jerry Sellers; Kenneth Siegenthaler

deployment.Despite repeated attempts to recover the spacecraft by the cadet-faculty operations team,the mission was declared a loss after only one month [3].Although it was considered a technical failure, FS-1 represented an academic success forthe program because cadets participated from “cradle to grave” in a real-world missionwith an all too real-world outcome. Cadets designed and built FS-1’s payload andsubsystems, which were integral in the mission operations from devising operations plansto participating in the launch campaign. Cadets also manned the Academy’s groundstation during overhead passes of a satellite not operating under normal conditions.Cadets involved with trouble-shooting the anomalies soon after deployment certainlygained deep insight

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Writing and Communication I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Roberta Harvey

://ctls.concordia.ca/pdf/resources/learning%20styles%20and%20writing.pdf15 Sharp, J.E., J.N. Harb, and R.E. Terry, “Combining Kolb Learning Styles and Writing to Learn in EngineeringClasses, Journal of Engineering Education, April 1997, p. 93-101.16 Reece, J.E., and G.D. Cumming, “Evaluating speech-based composition methods: Planning, Dication, and theListening Word Process,” in The Science of Writing: Theories, Methods, Individual Differences, and Applications,C.M. Levy and S. Ransdell, eds., Lawrence Erlbaum, 1996.ROBERTA HARVEY is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Composition and Rhetoric at RowanUniversity. She has worked with engineering students at various institution for over 10 years and currently teaches awriting course for engineering