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Best Zone Paper Competition

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rashmi Jain, Stevens Institute of Technology; Keith Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology; Elisabeth McGrath, Stevens Institute of Technology; Bernard Gallois, Stevens Institute of Technology

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is one dominated by systems. In order to better prepare graduates with asystems perspective and the competencies to be effective in system design, we discuss initiatives topromote the development of systems thinking, both in undergraduate and K-12 communities. This paperdescribes vertically-integrated curriculum innovation, in which graduate-level coursework spawned apilot program to embed systems in a core engineering design course for undergraduates with its resultingadoption and extension to a core design thread, and a resulting high school curriculum development anddissemination effort which has followed. These efforts have also prompted educational research todevelop the academic underpinnings of the relatively under-developed scholarly

Conference Session

Best Zone Paper Competition

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ross McCurdy, Ponaganset High School

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Establishing Fuel Cell Education in the High School K-12 Education Issues Relevant to EngineeringAbstract Today’s high school students are the next generation of potential fuel cell users anddesigners, and educating our students now is a critical step towards the widespread acceptanceand implementation of hydrogen fuel cell technology in the near future. While most schoolshave not integrated hydrogen fuel cell technology into their curriculum, some pioneering schoolshave already developed programs to teach and apply fuel cell science in the classrooms; amongthem is the Fuel Cell Education Initiative, started in 2001. The Fuel Cell Education Initiative began with an idea and a mission: to teach studentsabout

Conference Session

Best Zone Paper Competition

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan Klingbeil, Wright State University; Richard Mercer, Wright State University; Kuldip Rattan, Wright State University; Michael Raymer, Wright State University; David Reynolds, Wright State University

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ASEE North Central Section Outstanding Teaching Award (2004), and both the CECS Excellence in Service (2004) and Excellence in Teaching (2002) awards at Wright State University.Richard Mercer, Wright State University RICHARD E. MERCER is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Wright State University. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Washington in 1980. Professor Mercer is active in curriculum reform, and has led an NSF supported effort to integrate Mathematica laboratory sessions into the freshman calculus sequence at Wright State University.Kuldip Rattan, Wright State University KULDIP S. RATTAN is a Professor in the

Conference Session

Best Zone Paper Competition

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Hunter, Georgia Institute of Technology; Dwayne Henclewood, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology; Mshadoni Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology; Laurie Garrow, Georgia Institute of Technology; Angshuman Guin, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Traffic program was a week-long summer program conducted atGeorgia Tech with support by the Federal Highway Administration. This highly interactive andflexible program introduced high school students to transportation engineering and helped themdevelop and prepare for success in science and engineering. The curriculum included, amongother things, an overview of the transportation sector and fundamentals of developingappropriate signalized timing plans for signalized intersections. The curriculum culminated witha design challenge in which teams of students attempted to design the best signal timing plan fora series of two intersections. This paper will give details about the curriculum, evaluationresults, and lessons learned about high school

Conference Session

Best Zone Paper Competition

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol Gattis, University of Arkansas; Shannon Davis, University of Arkansas; Bryan Hill, University of Arkansas; Edgar Clausen, University of Arkansas; Christa Hestekin, University of Arkansas; Bradley Dearing, Illinois State University

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in the state of Arkansas.Christa Hestekin, University of Arkansas CHRISTA N. HESTEKIN Dr. Hestekin is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Arkansas. Her research interests are in the separation of biomolecules, specifically DNA, using microchannel electrophoresis for applications in medicine, agriculture, environmental sciences, and biosecurity.Bradley Dearing, Illinois State University BRADLEY M. DEARING Mr. Dearing is a faculty associate at Illinois State University and teaches Engineering and Technology at the University’s laboratory high school. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees from Illinois State. He has served as President