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Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Karthik Ramani; Anderson David; Alexander Lee

tools for design cannot be taught in a traditionalclassroom. Also the CAD and other computer-based packages have many features and havebecome increasingly complex. Mastering the advanced tools is critical because the environmentsare changing fast. Lectures and demonstrations cannot help students learn advanced CAD/CAMtools. To learn advanced software, the best way to learn is by “doing” and “experiencing,” notjust “seeing” 8, 9.History of Continuous InnovationOne of our broad goals was to energize the undergraduate curriculum in the CAD area. Initially,we experimented with versions of the course where there was a significant amount of theory butlittle practice. During our interactions with industry, we noticed that engineers withundergraduate

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Summers

, NT etc. The free version of "Real Player" ® does not runsmoothly at present, and the upgrade will cost the users approximately $20.00. The new version ofQuick Time that is part of the new Windows operating systems is supposed to work for SMI files, butour attempts to make it play have thus far failed. For Windows 98 on down, the present software worksflawlessly.To further facilitate the development of electronic media for on-line courses, we have generated a checklist of things professors need to do to produce a finished product. The following is a suggested outline ofmaterials the professor needs to compile on his or her own to master an electronic textbook:1. TITLE PAGE – Show credits, descriptive title, author's name, and all vital

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Novel Courses for CHEs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Chih-hung Chang; Skip Rochefort; Shoichi Kimura; Milo Koretsky

science ordesign course. By integrating the technical content in this manner, the future process engineersin this industry will be able to draw upon core fundamentals as they go about problem solving. Agrid of target courses for classroom integration is presented in Table 2. Those marked with an“X” represent targeted courses. For example, the design problem offered in Process Design II(ChE 432) in S 2002 is shown in Figure 1.In addition to reinforcing fundamental chemical engineering sciences through these selectedmicroelectronic processing unit operations, we will also address several other ABET criteria.Our goal is that every student has mastered both the technical skills and professional practicesnecessary to be successful. Professional

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What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Staci Provezis; Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Larry Shuman; Siripen Larpkiattaworn; Obinna Muogboh; Dan Budny; Harvey Wolfe

Frontiers in Education ConferenceGeneral Chair.Siripen Larpkiattaworn received a chemical engineering bachelor degree from Chulalongkorn University,Thailand, in 1994. She has a master degree in industrial engineering from University of Pittsburgh. She iscurrently a Ph.D. candidate in industrial engineering department, University of Pittsburgh. Her areas of interest arequality management, statistics and neural networks. She has four-years of industry experience with ExxonMobil(Thailand) and three-years experience in education research.Obinna S. Muogboh is a faculty member at the Lagos

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2001 Annual Conference

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Heidi Diefes-Dux; William LeBold; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie

. 36--======U=--- . . | | Mechanical.... 29. --U========--- . +---------------technology---------------+ | Mining........ 19U-======--- . . | Agr. Mechanics 30====-U--- . . . | | Nuclear....... 15U===========---- . | Aviation Tech. 35=====---U . . . | | Petroleum..... 22-U=====---. . . | Building Const 35=====---U-- . . | +--------------DEGREE LEVEL--------------+ Computer...... 34-======U---- . . | | Bachelors only 66. ---=========--- .U| Electrical.... 27====U====----- . . | | Some grad-engr 57. . ---========-U. | Industrial.... 29=====U==---- . . | | Some grad-neng 48. --=======U=--- . | Manufacturing. 36--======U=---- . . | | Master Engr... 46. ----=====U

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2001 Annual Conference

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James Ladesic

Problems: No time! Too risky! No incentives!Among educators there are differences in opinion regarding the value of timespent mastering different codes and altering existing pedagogy to implementthem. Some feel such an investment is simply not worth the effort. If asked whythey have not taken action to implement technology almost all faculty indicatethat there is insufficient time available for mastering the use of any one softwarecode much less deciding where in an already packed curriculum it could beinserted. To make matters worse, there has recently been a national push to reduceoverall degree credit hours – something that compresses even further our jam-packed curricula. There is also concern that it may be hopeless attempting tokeep up with

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Narayanan Komerath

agrees withthe experience of most people who learn on the job.The postulate used here is that such iterative learning can be incorporated into the traditionalcourse sequence by thoughtful integration of technology and learner-centered tactics. In otherwords, students can be afforded the opportunity to master subjects through iteration, withoutmaking drastic changes to the curricular structure. This latter point is essential for practicality,if the idea is to be implemented in the near term. The implementation of iterative learning has been developed through previous experiments 15,16.• At first it was applied to develop courses on Flow Diagnostics and Flow Control15 where the students mastered the ideas in the course by developing one

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Wei-Chiang Lin; Mark A. Mackanos; E. Duco Jansen; Anita Mahadevan-Jansen; Sean P. Brophy

Assistant Professor in 1997. His research interests are in therapeutic applications of lasers and novel,non-invasive methods of optical imaging of biological tissues. Dr. Jansen is one of the Domain Experts inBiomedical Optics in the NSF sponsored Engineering Research Center (ERC) for BioEngineering EducationTechnologies.ANITA MAHADEVAN-JANSENAnita Mahadevan-Jansen received her Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Physics from the Universityof Bombay, Bombay, India. She received her Master's and Doctoral degrees in Biomedical Engineering fromthe University of Texas at Austin 1993 and 1996 respectively. Dr. Mahadevan-Jansen joined the faculty of theDepartment of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University in the fall of 1998. Her expertise

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ed McCombs; David Pratt; John Nazemetz

donewell in advance of student viewing, undertook the taping of his lectures well before the “official”start of the semester so that he had nearly half of the course lectures recorded before the start ofthe Fall semester. This provided the technicians adequate time to master the videostreamingtechniques and would also allow all students (on-campus and remote) to be on the same scheduleas the lectures were available to the students well in advance of the scheduled viewing date.Thus, no delivery delay and bifurcation of the class (as occurs with on-campus delivery anddelayed videotape or videostreaming delivery) would occur. Page 6.408.6The

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2001 Annual Conference

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Robert Gilbert; Cynthia Finley

), 147-151.2. Yarbrough, S.E. (1998) “Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Multimedia-based Laboratory for aCivil Engineering Probability and Statistics Course”, Master of Science Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin.3. McBrayer, M.C., Wiley, K.E., and Gilbert, R.B. (1998) “SimSite: Computer Model to Simulate Site Investigationfor Groundwater Remediation”, Proceedings, Geotechnical Site Characterization, Robertson and Mayne (eds.),Balkema, Atlanta, 189-194.4. Carter, W., McBrayer, M.C., Ortiz, A., and Gilbert, R.B. (1999) “Using SimSite Computer Simulation to TeachHigh School Math and Science Classes”, Proceedings, Annual Gulf Coast Meeting, CD compiled by B.H. Thrasher,American Society of Engineering Educators, Longview, Texas

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2000 Annual Conference

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Jeffery M. Saul; Rhett J. Allain; Duane L. Deardorff; David S. Abbott; Robert J. Beichner

Page 5.510.10 Poster 7 Cooperative Grouping• Individual accountability. Each member is responsible for doing their own fair share of the work and for mastering all the material.• Positive interdependence. Team members have to rely upon one another.• Face-to-face interaction. Some or all of the group effort must be spent with members working together.• Appropriate use of interpersonal skills. Members must receive instruction and then practice leadership, decision-making, communication, and conflict management.• Regular self-assessment of group functioning. Groups need to evaluate how well their team is functioning, where they could improve, and

Conference Session

Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Jeruzal; Brenda Henderson; Ahmad Pourmovahed

course objectives and instructor expectations. It was also necessary to identifyavailable tools.B. The assessment plan The intent of the Energy Systems Laboratory course is to provide students with an integratedenergy systems experience and to provide students with opportunities to develop effectivecommunication skills. Simply acquiring data and performing calculations is not enough. Thestudents must understand, apply, and communicate results. With this in mind, the courselearning objectives were divided into four objectives dealing with the application of fundamentalconcepts and engineering tools, and two objectives dealing with communication skills andeffective team working skills. Mastering all of these objectives prepares the students for

Conference Session

ET Capstone Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hamid Khan

Session 2648 Teaching to Design, Build, and Test in Senior Projects: Learning Outcomes in the Cognitive, Affective and Psychomotor Domains Hamid Khan Master of Technology Program Northern Kentucky University Highland Heights, KY 41099 khanh@nku.eduAbstract: ABET Criterion I.C.2.b: “Technical Design Courses ---- These are courses inpractice-oriented standard design applied to work in the field, such as construction, inwhich students acquire experience in carrying out established design

Conference Session

Engrng Edu;An International Perspective

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hamid Khan

Session 2760 The Praxis of International Management Through Project Cycle Hamid Khan Master of Technology Program Northern Kentucky University Highland Heights, KY 41099 khanh@nku.eduABET Criterion I.C.2.b: “Technical Design Courses ---- These are courses in practice-oriented standard design applied to work in the field, such as construction, in whichstudents acquire experience in carrying out established design procedures in their ownareas of specialization. The key to this type of technical

Conference Session

Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Soulsby

rather than just find an empty classroom to read or do homework problems between classes. Students need to unravel the myth that they need to study to 3am in order to be successful in engineering by instead learning how to use their time throughout the day efficiently and to plan for upcoming events. Creating a ‘master schedule’ and from it each week a ‘weekly schedule’ helps students begin to manage their free time and to plan appropriately when projects and exams get assigned. [Comment: in recent years successful students seem to be using a monthly planner to keep track of their commitments.]· SQ3R Textbook Reading Method: A method that forces the student to actively engage the material being read

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Understanding Students: Cognition

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Thibault; Noel Boutin

be achieved for that semester (see Appendix 1 for a listing of the first semestercourses and elements of competency). Among the end-of-program competencies to be mastered byevery graduating students, there is an intrapersonnal competency that can be formulated asfollows : « To practice self-assessement, that is, to view things in their proper perspective, to evaluate the situation, to evaluate one’s limitations, one’s need of life-long learning and, when neeeded, to resort to external expertise ».That competency, like most of other end-of-program compentencies, should be built up graduallyeach semester. For the first semester, we ask first-year students to practise on the followingelements

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Chaturaporn Nisagornsen; Arun Arunachalan; Hengzhong Wen; Kurt Gramoll

NISAGORNSENChaturaporn Nisagornsen is currently a Ph.D. student of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University ofOklahoma. He received bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering from the Royal Thai Air Force Academy,Bangkok, Thailand, and master degree in the same major from the University of Oklahoma. His present workinvolves research in multimedia and online education technology for engineering and technology applications.ARUN ARUNACHALAMArun Arunachalam is a Masters student at the University of Oklahoma. He completed his B.E in MechanicalEngineering at PSG College of Technology, India. He focused on developing web-enabled training systems with hisgraduate-level research through the fall of 2001.WEN HENGZHONGHengzhong Wen is a Ph.D. student of

Conference Session

Instructional Technology in CE 1

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Welch; Stephen Ressler

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students for Success

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Robert Drew; Matthew Walker; Karl Rink; Dan Gerbus; Dan Cordon; Edwin Odom

materials made the task challenging to the students. Another stretch goal wasto design and fabricate an aluminum yo-yo, shown in Figure 3B, that had the same shape, polarmoment of inertia, and performance as a Tom Kuhn Roller Woody Yo-Yo.17 This projectincluded learning the CNC programming for the lathe and manufacturing setups for production.The most recent challenge was to reengineer the MIT Stirling Engine Project18 to fit within thefee structure and machine shop resources available to the University of Idaho.19 The IEWorksteam and all of the 1652 parts that they machined are shown in Figure 3C. In order for the tasksto be accomplished on time, scheduling, costing, customer communication, and themanufacturing processes had to be mastered by the

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2001 Annual Conference

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William Drake; Douglas Walcerz

groups to develop reports and providing many written reaction papers address the standard 7.communicate effectively as well as 5. Communication with Blackboard software and associated e-mailtechniques gave another example of 1. . . . mastering modern tools of their disciplines.The process of working through course objectives and comparing them to the outcomes standards gave amuch better appreciation of how the objective fit into the overall scheme of providing, in our campusvernacular, “an educated person.” The process of developing these objectives and associating them with theET2K standards initially took about one hour for each course. This involved reviewing the course syllabusand text to identify what reasonable outcome objectives might be

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tanya D. Ennis, University of Colorado Boulder; Jana B. Milford, University of Colorado at Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado, Boulder; Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Minorities in Engineering

) 1 (16) 4 6 0 3 2 *1 2 (32 ) 5 19 2 1 5 0 *One student placed into Calculus 2, but chose to enroll into Calculus 1 to better master the concepts.We learned from the placement exam results that even though students had completed upper-level math classes in high school (e.g., calculus, pre-calculus, etc.), they sometimes did notdemonstrate readiness for the college-level math class that would come next in the sequence.Some students initially expressed frustration that they did not place into the course they hadanticipated. Subsequent actual performance has supported taking a conservative

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xiaobin Le, Wentworth Institute of Technology ; Anthony William Duva, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Richard L. Roberts, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Ali R. Moazed, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

observations and opinions about how toinstruct senior mechanical design projects based on our Capstone design course - MECH690-Mechanical Design will also be presented and shared throughout this paper. We recommend thatmechanical engineering program provide every student the virtual factory when they graduate.1. IntroductionOne of the main activities of engineers is to design and to construct products that satisfycustomers‟ and society‟s needs. One of the primary outcomes for engineering education is totrain students for conducting engineering design. In ancient time, engineering students wereapprentices to their Masters to learn engineering designs through real practices in realenvironments. Nowadays, engineering students are effectively training

Conference Session

Ethical Perspectives on the Grand Challenges of Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Page 22.1104.12Society, S. Jasanoff, et al., eds. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1994.4. Wisnioski, Matthew. "'Liberal education has failed': Reading like an engineer in 1960s America." Technology andCulture 50 (4), 2009, pp. 753-782.5, Azarin, Samira, Nicola Ferrier, Stephen M. Kennedy, Daniel Klingenberg, Kristyn Masters, Katherine D.McMahon, Jeffrey Russell and Susan C. Hagness. "Work in Progress: A First-Year introduction-to-engineeringcourse on society's engineering grand challenges." 38th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2008,Saratoga Springs, NY.6. Aronowitz, Scott. "Duke and NC State Launch Joint Program to Stimulate K-12 STEM interest" CampusTechnology. March 55, 2010. Available at: http://campustechnology.com

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Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George D. Ricco, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

division here between “master” and “apprentice” engineer is akin to degrees oftacit versus empirical knowledge. The master engineer via Dasein is a creature that derives hisor her power and authority in the process of engineering, and makes better use of the tacit fieldof knowledge he or she has accrued over the years than an apprentice. There are two reasonswhy this description of engineering mastery is important: first, the reckoning of engineering as itstands can be described by principles of existential phenomenology; and second, symbolicinteractionist constructs can provide grounding to these problems. Remember that here within anexistential framework, objects do not need arise from goal-oriented conduct.(43) Where symbolicinteractionism

Conference Session

Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vassilios Tzouanas, University of Houston, Downtown; Lea Campbell, University of Houston, Downtown

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

AC 2011-2505: THE TEAMWORK CONUNDRUM: WHAT SHOULD BETAUGHT AND HOW CAN WE ASSESS TEAM LEARNING IN ENGI-NEERING TECHNOLOGYVassilios Tzouanas, University of Houston - Downtown Vassilios Tzouanas is an Assistant Professor of Control and Instrumentation in the Engineering Technol- ogy Department at the University of Houston-Downtown. Dr. Tzouanas earned a Diploma in Chemical Engineering from Aristotle University, the Master of Science degree in Chemical Engineering/Process Control from the University of Alberta, and the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Chemical Engineer- ing/Process Control from Lehigh University. His research interests focus on process control systems, process modeling and simulation, artificial

Conference Session

Why Industry Says that our Engineering Students Cannot Write

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott Duncan, Valparaiso University; Mark M. Budnik, Valparaiso University; Jeffrey Will, Valparaiso University; Peter E. Johnson, Valparaiso University; Shahin S. Nudehi, Valparaiso University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

22.1135.2communication skills to engineering students, an effective implementation faces manychallenges. Students must have the time to complete technical communication assignmentswhile also mastering the design process and completing a project with intensive design andmanufacturing content. Faculty must create assignments in a variety of technical communicationmediums that allow them to provide constructive feedback while working under resourceconstraints. In addition, the evaluation of technical communication skills must be consistentacross multiple faculty members and the assignments must allow faculty to evaluate and providetechnical communication feedback to individuals as well as to complete teams so that individualswith weak communication skills cannot

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Engineering Mechanics Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roman Taraban, Texas Tech University

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Mechanical Engineering

; Giest, M.R. (2006). Misconceptionsabout rate processes: Preliminary evidence for the importance of emergent conceptual schemas in thermal andtransport sciences. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition, Chicago, IL.[18] Higley, K., Litzinger, T., Van Meter, P., Masters, C., & Kulikowich, J. (2007). Effects of conceptualunderstanding, math, and visualization skills on problem-solving in statics. Proceedings of the American Society forEngineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Honolulu, HI.[19] Litzinger, T. A., Van Meter, P., Firetto, C. M., Passmore, L. J., Masters, C. B., Turns, S. R., Gray, G. L.,Costanzo, F., & Zappe, S. E. (2010). A cognitive study of problem

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Lessons for New Engineering Educators

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amani Salim, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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New Engineering Educators

22.1218.9In summary, the experience of preparing for and conducting TA-PD training presented the PRwith challenges associated with teaching open-ended modeling problems and training TAs toprovide consistent grading and effective feedback. To be able to teach with realistic problem ssuch as MEAs and to train TAs effectively depends on both mastering the content knowledge ofthe subject to be taught, and also developing knowledge of the audience. Knowing the audienceand their level of knowledge on the subject to be taught helps stimulate effective in-classdiscussion. This is congruent with the ideas on the importance of being teachers that arethoughtfully adaptive17.IV. Ways to Use Course Innovation for Enhancing the Post-Doctoral ExperienceA. Take

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Accreditation and Assessment in SE Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nan Niu, Mississippi State University; Donna Reese, Mississippi State University; Kui Xie, Mississippi State University; Chris Smith, Mississippi State University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

other to achieve the common goal. • Face-to-face interaction: Team members do most of the work together. They provide assistance, encouragement, and feedback to the other team members. • Individual accountability and personal responsibility: Each team member is responsible for doing his/her share of the work, and is expected to master all necessary material. • Interpersonal and small-group skills: Team members use effective communication and conflict-management skills. Page 22.1254.6 • Group processing: Team members set common goals, reflect on team accomplishments, and make adjustments as

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A Systems-Thinking Approach to Solving Problems

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adeel Khalid, Southern Polytechnic State University; Scott C. Banks, Georgia Tech Research Institute

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Systems Engineering

) applications. He is adept in performing requirements definition, analysis, review, management, and documentation using Dynamic Object Oriented Requirements Software (DOORS). As a lead systems engineer, he played an instrumen- tal role in designing, developing, and testing the next generation of Entegra Electronic Flight Instrument System (EFIS). Dr. Khalid received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. He holds Master of Science degrees in the discipline of Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University, and Industrial, and Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. He obtained Bachelors of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Ghulam Ishaq Khan