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Topics in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher Murad

Understanding of the outcome listed or I have never heard of this concept. Five (5): I feel that I have mastered this outcome and I understand the concept completely.It can be seen from both Table 1 and Figure 2 that the three course outcomes related to diversity(in bold) all received high scores from students. Perhaps diversity related issues are not aschallenging to understand compared to the technical outcomes but the scores still indicate thatstudents took notice of the issues. The response to the last two outcomes in particular is anindication that students feel they were better prepared, after the course, to work in teams indiverse places and in diverse environments. The response to the last question also indicates thatstudents have gained better

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Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Mingle; Tom Roberts

article focuses on the importance of engineering educator under- standing of different knowledge types and how the types relate to outcomes described in Criterion 3.10 P. Drucker, The Age of Discontinuity, 1962.11 S. Davis and J. Botkin, The Monster Under the Bed: How Business is Mastering the Opportunity of Knowledge for Profit, 1994.12 Plato, The Republic, 1945, Books VI-X, translated by F. Cornford. The parts shown are from the lecture outline of Columbia University Professor D. Dalton, 1998.13 W. Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1603. The analogy follows from the oration of Hamlet, “To be or not to be, that is the question!”14 R. Sternberg and J. Davidson, The Nature of Insight, 1995.15 Wall Street Journal, “Information

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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

. Page 9.1102.1246. Yourdon, E. (1998). Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer. Sydney: Prentice-Hall. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationBiographiesCRAIG CAULFIELD graduated from Murdoch University in Perth, Australia in 1994 with a Bachelor ofScience in computer science and completed a Masters of Science in software engineering in 2001 through EdithCowan University in Perth, Australia. He currently works as a senior software developer for a large Australianagribusiness while studying towards a PhD in computer science at Edith Cowan University.GURPREET KOHLI is a PhD student at Edith

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IS and IT Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Taz Daughtrey; Edgar Sibley; Anne Marchant

Engineeringservice attacks and hacking, professional ethics for the Information Security specialist, securityarchitecture and models.5. Integrating Information Assurance (IA) into a Computer Science Curriculum (JMU)James Madison University has a conventional CS curriculum for undergraduates, as well asMaster’s degrees offered in two programs: on campus and online. The online Master’s programhas, since its inception in 1997, been devoted to Information Assurance: the degree is formallydesignated a “Master of Science in Computer Science with a concentration in InformationSecurity.” The on-campus graduate program, beginning with the 2003-2004 academic year,includes a new concentration entitled “Secure Software Engineering.”In 2002, a special-topics survey

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TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ever Barbero; Larry Banta

. Students prepare resumes, project progress memos, design reports, project proposals and other written communications as the instructor sees fit. Most sections also include oral presentations.It is important to note that the key courses identified for a particular outcome are not by anymeans the only courses that contribute to developing the skills students need to master theoutcome. The evidence is collected from a few key courses but the ability of our students toachieve an outcome is developed over a large set of related courses (R in Table 1). Thus,program enhancement requires that all opportunities for improvement be considered. Therefore,all related courses and key courses are identified in a curriculum-mapping matrix that

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Edward Hensel; Elizabeth DeBartolo

/Masters program as a second-year student at RIT. The focus ofthis paper is the BS/MS student, who wishes to complete all the standard undergraduaterequirements and graduate from RIT with a BS and MS degree at the same time.BS/MS students have a very rigorous schedule (Table 1) that provides them with two extraquarters of coursework during their five years at RIT. This is done by waiving one of the fiveco-op blocks and allowing them to begin co-ops over the summer after their second year insteadof during the third year. While BS/MS students are required to take two fewer courses towardtheir MS degrees than full-time MS-only students are, they are still required to take an extraeight courses beyond the BS to satisfy the MS requirements. This means

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Peter Wiesner; Karen Miu

. Page 9.1266.10MARY JANE MILLER is IEEE Corporate Librarian. She holds a Masters of Science in Library Sciencefrom the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Berea College,Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering, Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationBerea, KY. Prior to joining IEEE, she managed libraries in R&D organizations of two Fortune 500companies.KAREN NAN MIU is Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Drexel University. She received theB.S, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. As recipient of the NSFCareer Award and the ONR Young Investigator

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Computed Simulation and Animation

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2004 Annual Conference

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Tom Mancine; Scott Harper; Ryan Scott; Hassan Rajaei

graduate student in Computer Science at Bowling Green State University. He is currentlycompleting his masters' project and plans to graduate in May 2004. His interests include generic programming anddistributed systems.RYAN SCOTTRyan Scot was a graduate student of Computer Science at Bowling Green State University. He received a MS inDecember 2003. Page 9.1098.15 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education

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IE Outreach and Advancement

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bullen Frank

engineering degrees are of 4 years duration, and themain body of entrants come directly from senior secondary school. These students aretypically 17 to 19 years old at that time. Graduates with honours degrees may be permitted toundertake a research masters degree (typically 2 years duration) or a doctorate (typically 3-4years duration). A very good student could plausibly complete their undergraduate degree andresearch doctorate by the age of 25 to 26. The academic researcher Postgraduate Honours students students

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering III

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2005 Annual Conference

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Valerie Grash; Andrew Rose

course is a comprehensive study of master architect Frank Lloyd Wright, carefullyexamining his life, his career, and his ideas. Beginning with his unique family and childhood, thecourse chronologically explores those people and forces that influenced him, as well as closelystudying his development as an architect. All of his major works are examined in detail, but, dueto the geographical proximity of Fallingwater to UPJ, special attention is paid to his executedand unexecuted designs in western Pennsylvania, including a Saturday fieldtrip to Fallingwater.Most students taking this course (including several Engineering Technology students) did so tofulfill General Education3 requirements, although a couple students were Humanities majors witha

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Adams; William Manion

. spreadsheet data. Figur e 2. Mar ker s of success and weakness assessment for memo assignment.Benefits of the New Wr iting AssignmentsOverall, the new writing assignment strategy reduced the quantity to a manageable amount andraised the quality of graded material for the instructor and the students. The instructor was ableto provide constructive criticism for each individual paper, and the students were better able toconcentrate on a shorter, more structured assignment. Students began to employ COPE principlesin constructing their assignments rather than following the odd academic habit of writingeverything they know on a particular topic (instead of what the readers need).Instead of attempting to master a wide range of writing skills at once

Conference Session

Pedagogy

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2005 Annual Conference

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Charles Pezeshki

-negotiatespecifications once more design details are discovered. Most students have noexperience with negotiation besides the win-lose game at the used car lot, and are poorlyequipped to deal with the complex communication necessary to maintain a positiveenvironment in the face of competing demands. By teaching negotiation explicitly,students are given a solid basis for communicating with the customer when requirementsor metrics may be difficult to meet, and increase customer satisfaction by enhancingcustomer understanding and leaving both sides feeling that they have done well.Techniques that are used in ME416 come from a negotiation workshop I attended taughtby Jim Thomas, a master negotiator. Such workshops offer an opportunity for a courseDirector to obtain

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

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Richard Whalen; Susan Freeman; Beverly Jaeger

class. Toovercome the issue of collaboration and cheating on this final project, instructors selecteddifferent sets of projects from the set of projects described above. Within a section, eachinstructor judiciously handed these out to reduce the number of friends and/or Pair ProgrammingPartners with the same project. Instructors selected two or more projects to assign in their classesfrom the available project set. The limited number of projects made the evaluation procedureclearer and more consistent, which would be more difficult with one very open-ended project.Conversely, too many projects would make it difficult for the professor to master the nuances ofall assignment details.While the projects were distributed to the class, in-class time

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Scoff

blow. If youweren’t so lucky the meter would blow up. Now compound this with three phase powermeasurements where two or three watt meters are needed to measure power, each withfour connections. A real mess soon occurs. Mastering the complex of wires soonbecomes the lesson, instead if learning how to measure electrical power and what themeasurements mean. And since this is AC, it might be desired to know about reactivepower as well as the real power that is measured by watt meters. One of the oldtechniques for measuring reactive power was to shift the phase of the voltage that thewattmeter was measuring by 90 degrees. Then the reactive power would be equal to the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Giles; Donald Roberts; David Mitchell; Anthony Richardson

introductory programming courseand so choose to use that language for this project. Because the string processing that is requiredto effectively use the text based API directly can be tricky to master for beginning programmers,a robot class library that hides the details of the underlying API is provided to the students. Theclass library also introduces the students to object-oriented programming. With the class librarya simple robot control program would look like this: ERrobot robot(“10.10.0.200”); // create robot object robot.move(3,”ft”); // example method call robot.say(“I’m on the move!”): robot.move_wait(); robot.rotate(180); // rotate

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Powell

Engineering Magazine, 30 January.10. Walpole, Ronald E. and Raymond H. Myers. 1985. Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists. 3ded. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co.LIEUTENANT COLONEL ROBERT A. POWELL (US Army) is an Assistant Professor in the Department ofSystems Engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He received a BS in IndustrialEngineering, Texas A&M University, a MS in Operations Research/Management Science, George MasonUniversity, a Master of Military Art and Science, US Army Command and General Staff College, and a Ph.D. inSystems Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology. He teaches courses in Engineering Economics and ProjectManagement. His teaching in senior year is focused on advising multi

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stephen Lancaster; Susan Walden; Teri Murphy; Deborah Trytten

University of Oklahoma. His graduatefocus is in undergraduate mathematics curriculum. His interests lie in gender and ethnic diversity in undergraduatemathematics, comparative international undergraduate curriculum and pedagogy, and comparative internationalpreparation of secondary level teachers. He has a master of arts in mathematics from the University of Oklahoma.SUSAN E. WALDEN is Director of the Research Institute for STEM Education at the University of Oklahoma. Shereceived her Ph.D. in Computational Organic Chemistry from the University of Oklahoma. She has taught organicand general chemistry, but her primary interests are in researching and applying democratic pedagogies to thesciences and engineering. She is also interested in educational

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2005 Annual Conference

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Macy Reynolds

2003.5. WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY. (http://www.eas.wayne.edu/fam_people.html). Educational AccessibilityServices.MACY REYNOLDSMacy Reynolds teaches engineering technology students at the University of Dayton as an instructor in TechnicalComputations, a course in Excel VBA programming. She has taught in the department for thirteen years and has atotal of thirty-seven years of teaching experience. Her undergraduate degree is from Ohio State University and shehas Masters Degrees in both special education and gifted education from Wright State University. Page 10.145.10 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering

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Systems Approach to Teaching ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gary Mullett

future)consists of two to three sub-layers. As labeled in Figure 2, sub layer 1a (the system device layer)consists of passive and active electronic components, memory, core sub-systems, and possiblyother related technology components (mechanical, photonic, biomedical, etc) that may be eitherfixed in their function or able to be reconfigured under electrical control. Sub layer 1b (thesystem configuration layer) consists of embedded controllers/microprocessors or otherspecialized processing cores that are able to be directed in their operation under software control.These devices are typically used to interface to and control the functioning of the layer 1adevices and cores. Finally, a master or supervisory sub-layer labeled as 1c overlays the

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New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Bahman Motlagh; Walter Buchanan; Alireza Rahrooh

to a step input. The digital controller will provide therequired output with variations in a single plant parameter. A fully adaptive controller will then beimplemented using PC Matlab to allow for any of the plant parameters to vary and still maintain asuitable output. This concept is used in our Senior Design Project Course as well as in Master Programin Engineering Technology.The popularity of the PID controller and the increased use of microprocessors has led to a digitalversion of the algorithm for use in computer control applications. The first part of this paper will lookat the output response of the specified plant to a step input. Some of the plant parameters will beadjusted to obtain the best results. The next part will show how

Conference Session

Engineers in Toyland - Come and Play

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Bertini; Steven Hansen

. (1988) Dimension of Thinking: Framework for Curriculum and Instruction. ASCD, Alexandria.Biographical InformationSTEVEN HANSENB.S. Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Cornell University, 1997Candidate for Masters of Urban and Regional Planning, Portland State University, 2005ROBERT L. BERTINIAssociate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Urban Studies & Planning, Portland State UniversityPh.D., Civil Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 1999M.S., Civil Engineering, San Jose State University, 1991B.S., Civil Engineering, California Polytechnic State University, 1988 Page

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Astronautics and Space Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Joslyn

programby all of the cadets, mentors, and technicians who have been involved in the program. Inparticular, We’d like to recognize the dedicated hard work of Lt Col Timothy Lawrence,Lt Col Daniel Miller, Maj Ralph Sandfry, Maj Michael Lydon, Lt Col Gary Yale, Mr.Scott Dixon, Mr. Renny Stackney, Master Sergeant Philip Maes, and Technical Sergeant(soon to be Second Lieutenant) Benjamin Hazen.Bibliography1. Siegenthaler, K. E. Jerry J. Sellers, David J. Richie, and Timothy J. Lawrence “Student Design, Page 10.1151.9 Development and Operations of Small Satellites at the United States Air Force Academy” Proceedings “Proceedings of

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Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joon Kim; Daniel Biezad

both the motivation to master asubject and the developing passion for creative activity.Technical educators bemoan the fact that some, if not many, of our students do not developthis passion for learning or habit for independent, innovative thought that is at the heart of allprofessional education.5 Despite the significant promotion of team activities in engineeringcolleges, some still view the engineering profession in particular as solitary work in cubiclesthat consists of reading articles and accessing computer programs for an occasional meeting.This view matches and is reinforced by much of their academic experience in the classroom.The link between theory and practice may be spoken but seldom experienced for these

Conference Session

New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

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Johannes Strobel; David Jonassen

(16)Engineering education level: bachelors (70), masters (30), doctoral (0)Professional engineering experience (15.3 years)Business size: 1-20 (21), 21-100 (29), 101-500 (17), 501-1000 (33)Department size: 1-10 (40), 11-50 (22), 51-75 (7), 76-100 31)Problem size: large (45), midsize (43), small (12)Department type: chemical (0), civil (14), electrical (20), industrial (0), mechanical (7),product development (11), safety (7), quality control (11, executive level (20)Table 1. Demographic information about interviewees (values in parentheses arepercentages.)We treated the interviews as multiple case studies, on which we employed a modifiedanalytic induction process, "a qualitative research method that uses a systematic set ofprocedures to

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena; Elizabeth Bauer; David Munoz; Joan Gosink; Barbara Moskal

accolades, including designation as a Program of Excellence from the ColoradoCommission on Higher Education. The program also expanded to include Masters and Doctorate degrees and anundergraduate specialty in environmental engineering. Dr. Gosink twice served as a Program Director at NSF.DR. JUAN LUCENADr. Lucena, Associate Professor in the Liberal Arts and International Studies Division, researches the global andcultural dimensions of engineering education and practices under a number of NSF-sponsored projects. His book,Defending the Nation: U.S. Policymaking in Science and Engineering Education from Sputnik to the War AgainstTerrorism, will be published in 2005. He also serves as a NAE/Boeing Senior Fellow in Engineering Education.DR. DAVID R

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Improving Statics and Dynamics

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2005 Annual Conference

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Phillip Cornwell; Richard Layton

Figure 2. The students inthe new curriculum did significantly better than those taking the traditional dynamics course.From this assessment it is clear that the new curriculum does not hurt the students and in fact itappears to help them in mastering the mechanics material.For this assessment, the majority of students in the SEC were majors in electrical engineering(EE) and computer engineering (CO) and the students in the traditional dynamics course weremechanical engineering majors. Therefore, the question remained as to whether the students inthe new curriculum performed better because the EE/CO students were academically superior tothe ME students or because of the new curriculum. Since this curriculum was required for allmechanical

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Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ji Yeon Hong; Charla Triplett; Jenefer Husman

Office phone: (480) 726-7272.JENEFER HUSMAN is a faculty member in the Division of Psychology in Education, at Arizona StateUniversity. She received her Masters and Doctorate at the University of Texas at Austin. Her current teachingand research includes: Future Time Perspective; Education and Motivation; Self-regulation and Learning Strategies.Contact information: jenefer.husman@asu.edu Office phone: (480) 965-3993.JI YEON HONG is a doctoral candidate in the department of Educational Psychology and InstructionalTechnology, University of Georgia. She received her B.A. from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea in 2001,and M.A. in 2004 from Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. Her research interest includes students’motivation, career goal

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

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Rahul Kulkarni; Carl Steidley; Rafic Bachnak

A&M – Corpus Christi. He has aMS degree in Computer Science from A&M – Corpus Christi. While doing his Masters degree, Rahul worked asResearch Assistant researching in Aerial Photography, and design and development of Airborne Multi-spectralImaging System. Rahul also holds Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Mumbai, India. Page 10.142.12 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Eduction Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education

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Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mysore Narayanan

). Teaching with Style : A practical guide to enhancinglearning by understanding teaching and learning styles. Available in CD-Rom formfrom International Alliance of Teachers Scholars. ( ISBN # 0-9645071-1-0) Page 10.231.11“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Greenwood, C., & Maheady, L. (1997). Measurable change in student performance :Forgotten standard in teacher preparation? Teacher Education and Special Education, 20(3), 265-275.Hawkins, P., & Winter, J. (1997). Mastering change: Learning the lessons of theenterprise in higher

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Design of Lab Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Schurmann; C. Stewart Slater

New FacultyAward. He is a Fellow Member of ASEE.Timothy Schurmann is a Graduate Research Associate in the Department of Chemical Engineering at RowanUniversity where he is pursuing his Masters degree in Chemical Engineering.Joshua MacMillian is an undergraduate student in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Rowan Universitywhere he is pursuing his Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering.Angela Zimarowski is an undergraduate student in the Department of Chemical Engineering at RowanUniversity where she is pursuing her Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering. Page 10.934.10 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for