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Industrial Collaboration & Applications in ET

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Dobrowski, Purdue University-North Central

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Engineering Technology

current and relevant to their chosen field. It can be further stated that existing employees, through either undergraduate or graduate studies can also further their education and make themselves more valuable to their employers. This being said, universities want to provide their students with practical experience so that they are better prepared to start their careers. Business, likewise, wants students with relevant knowledge thereby reducing training time.It is for these reasons, and others, that the amount of University/Industry collaborations haveincreased in the last ten years. As Powers et al. (1988) stated “the most fundamental reason thatinstitutions of higher education want to collaborate with businesses

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Using Teams, Seminars & Research Opportunities for Retention

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carolyn Vallas, University of Virginia; Anaïs Miodek, University of Virginia; Larry Richards, University of Virginia

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Women in Engineering

itsinception, the ten-week SURP/REU has been open to all undergraduate students pursuingdegrees in STEM fields. It focuses on encouraging underrepresented students (women, AfricanAmericans, Hispanics and Native Americans) in engineering by involving them in an excitinghands-on research experience.These demographic groups have been consciously targeted for several reasons. The first is toaugment the overall number of students completing engineering bachelor’s degrees by bolsteringthe participation of minorities in the field. In addition, and perhaps more importantly, producinga diverse pool of students and graduates in engineering ensures the inclusion of a variety ofperspectives. As stated above, this leads to a broader focus and greater creativity

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ERM Potpourri

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barbara Lovitts, National Academy of Engineering; Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering

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Educational Research and Methods

Underlying Educational InterventionsThe Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education (CASEE) at theNational Academy of Engineering has developed a web-based database that summarizes theavailable research on educational interventions designed to enhance student learning, retention,and professional success (see www.PR2OVE-IT.org -- Peer Reviewed Research OfferingValidation of Effective and Innovative Teaching). The website is similar to the U.S. Departmentof Education’s What Works Clearinghouse (http://www.whatworks.ed.gov/>), except thatPR2OVE-IT does not engage in extensive pre-screening of papers for rigor. Rather, we leavejudgments of rigor up to individual users of the system and focus instead on summarizing theresults of

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donald Elger, University of Idaho; Scott Metlen, University of Idaho; Robert Carson, University of Idaho; Tristan Utschig, Lewis-Clark State College; Dan Cordon, University of Idaho; Marie Racine, University of District Columbia; Steven Beyerlein, University of Idaho

thermophysical systems. He also teaches a senior laboratory course that introduces principles of experiment design and small-sample statistics. Dan’s doctoral research involves use of catalytic ignitors to support combustion of water/ethanol fuel. Dan also manages the UI Small Engine Research Facility – helping students with the FutureTruck, Formula SAE, and Clean Snowmobile Challenge competitions. He received a UTC Student of the Year award in 2003 for his efforts. Page 11.12.2© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 A Case Study to Explore Learning during a

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Climate Issues for Women Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Creamer, Virginia Tech; Soyoung Lee, Virginia Tech; Peggy Meszaros

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Women in Engineering

career decision making. Journal of College Student Development, 46(1), 13-27.14. Creamer, E. G., Lee, S., & Laughlin, A. (2005). Self-authorship as a framework for understanding life decision making among college women in Korea: Manuscript submitted for publication.15. Dryburgh, H. (2000). Underrepresentation of girls and women in computer science: Classification of 1990's research. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 23(2), 181-202.16. Fassinger, R. E. (1990). Causal models of career choice in two samples of college women. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 36, 225-248.17. Felsman, D. E., & Blustein, D. L. (1999). The role of peer relatedness in late adolescent career development. Journal of

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Programs for High School Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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P. Ruby Mawasha, Wright State University; Kumar Yelamarthi, Wright State University; Paul Lam, University of Akron

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, American Society of Mechanical Engineers and American Society for Engineering Education. Dr. Mawasha has received numerous honors including Omicron Delta Kappa (Leadership), Pi Tau Sigma (Mechanical Engineering), Pi Mu Epsilon (Mathematics), and Tau Beta Pi (Engineering). His research interests include thermo-fluids sciences, bioengineering, applied mathematics, and engineering education.Kumar Yelamarthi, Wright State University KUMAR YELAMARTHI is a Ph.D. student. He holds the MSEE from Wright State University. He serves as the lead Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Freshman Engineering and Computer Science Program. He was honored as the most outstanding graduate student in 2004, outstanding

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mike Murphy; Michael Dyrenfurth, Purdue University

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International

Student Exchange, Faculty Exchange, and Faculty Collaboration – both instructionand research and development. We then share some of the key characteristics that make eachpossible and successful. Key factors, such as timetable matching and course equivalencymapping for accreditation and time-to-degree considerations, will be described and exampleprocedures and documents to these ends will be shared.This paper provides, not a conceptual exploration of what might be, but rather a practical, reality-based sharing of best practices that derive from our two institutions’ more than two year effort toevolve sustainable linkages. We are reporting on lessons learned from the real experience ofadministrators, faculty and students, not only exchanging but

Conference Session

Industrial Collaboration & Applications in ET

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Stuart, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Engineering Technology

in the global market place and what islikely to happen tomorrow. They need to study the proper reasons for outsourcing and when notto outsource. The labs we have and the experiments we work on must be designed to not onlyshow the students the properties of materials that were popular in the last century but they moreimportantly need to show the student how to design and select the best materials for design andmanufacture for the next century. We need to instruct our students on the rapid turnaround ofcomplex design drawings and yet have them capable in the art of sketching and asking all of theright questions when faced with a design project or a product to be manufactured. These are allqualities that industry is asking for in the graduates

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zhiwei Guan, University of Washington; Steve Lappenbusch, University of Washington; Jennifer Turns, University of Washington; Jessica Yellin, University of Washington

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New Engineering Educators

Professionals. in International Professional Communication Conference. 2005.14. Knott, E.W., W.K. Lohani, O.H. Griffin, G.V. Loganathan, G.T. Ade, and T.M. Wildman. Bridges for engineering education: exploring ePortfolios in engineering education at Virginia Tech. in ASEE 2004 Annual Conference and Exposition, "Engineering Education Researchs New Heights". 2004.15. Erikson, C.A.J. and R.L. Ness. Portfolios: an effective assessment strategy for first year engineering students. in Proceedings of the 1998 Annual ASEE Conference. 1998. Page 11.1000.14Appendix I: Review of Papers:PAPER Jalkio 02 7DEFINITION

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Curricula of the Past, Present, and Future

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University; Robert Pangborn, Pennsylvania State University; David Wormley, Pennsylvania State University

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Educational Research and Methods

resulted in lasting changes. The ChemE project was notsustained, for two reasons. First, although it was very effective, the ChemE project proved to beso facility and people intensive that it became clear that it could not be institutionalized in itsoriginal form. Secondly, the faculty champion departed Penn State before lower cost ways toadapt the approach could be investigated. Page 11.3.7The fate of the IME and ME projects gave us some new insights into the change process. TheIME, Inc. project was a definite success and met expectations for student outcomes. Its successallowed the IME faculty to see that such changes could be undertaken

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Topical Public Policy Issues

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Devon, Pennsylvania State University; Elizabeth Kisenwether, Pennsylvania State University; Richard Schuhmann, Pennsylvania State University; Robert Pangborn, Pennsylvania State University; Kim Barron, Pennsylvania State University

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Engineering and Public Policy

for Penn StateKim Barron, Pennsylvania State University Kim Barron is a graduate student in Industrial Engineering at Penn State. Kim has a Bachelor's degree from Penn State in Industrial Engineering. Page 11.551.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Engineering Education and the Global Economy: The Search for PolicyAbstractEngineering education in the United States is confronted with some new realities, both real andperceived. Engineering is increasingly a globally distributed, cooperative activity and the USoutsourcing of research, design, manufacturing, and

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Engineering Without Borders Programs Involving Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Iskandar Hack, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne; CARMEN BOJE, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

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International

begun to explore the many ways that technology can enhanceinternational education for professional school students, and there is a need to share our “bestpractices.” The Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access(TICFIA) Program is a Title VI funded initiative designed to support projects that will developinnovative techniques or programs using new electronic technologies to collect information fromforeign sources.”. Engineering needs to become “engineering-plus-international flavoring”[1]. By example,Mazumder and Bean [23] write: “…an engineer must possess not only technical skills, but alsocross-cultural skills based on knowledge to the other culture and their own cultural biases”. Theydescribe the

Conference Session

Design for Manufacture and Industry

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Semke, University of North Dakota; Richard Schultz, University of North Dakota; James Albrecht, Imation Corp.; Jason Moses, Imation Corp.; Peter Ridl, Imation Corp.

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Design in Engineering Education

research labs with universityfunds, Imation financial support for graduate students and Senior Design projects, and the useof specialty Imation equipment essential to the studies being conducted. The dedication of thefaculty and Imation representatives to these activities should also be duly noted. Severalfederal agencies can now be effectively targeted for the submission of research proposals.Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI), a National ScienceFoundation (NSF) program, is especially appropriate for the activities at UND with Imation.The GOALI initiative aims to synergize collaborative research partnerships by making fundsavailable to support an mutually beneficial mix of industry/university linkages. Industry

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Assessment of Information Literacy Programs for Engineers

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alysia Starkey, Kansas State University-Salina; Jung Oh, Kansas State University-Salina; Judith Collins, Kansas State University-Salina; Beverlee Kissick, Kansas State University-Salina

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Engineering Libraries

will be gathered, and how?Assessing information fluencyThis section shares examples of preliminary assessment efforts. The central question is, “Dostudents have the technical, conceptual and critical thinking skills of information [fluency] tosucceed in their profession?”7 The “best practices” for assessing a student process likesecondary research can be time-intensive, for example: • Portfolio assessment including steps from brainstorming • Interviews with students at each stage of research process • Summative assessments of work completed, including oral defense • Observing students and monitoring their work as they search and retrieve8For practical reasons, collaborators have used confidence intervals, an

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Ensuring Access to K - 12 Engineering Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Hwang, United InnoWorks Academy and Duke University; Ahrash Bissell, Duke University; Daniel Kaplan, United InnoWorks Academy and Duke University; Matthew Mian, United InnoWorks Academy and Duke University; Vineet Agrawal, United InnoWorks Academy and Duke University; Jessica Manson, United InnoWorks Academy and Duke University; Gary Ybarra, Duke University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Program by Volunteer College Students for Middle School Youth from Underprivileged BackgroundsIntroductionInnoWorks is an innovative science and engineering program designed by volunteer collegeundergraduates for middle-school students from disadvantaged backgrounds, the flagshipprogram of United InnoWorks Academy, a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organizationfounded in 2003. The primary goals of InnoWorks are to (1) provide underprivileged studentswith an opportunity to explore the real-world links among science and engineering disciplines,(2) foster teamwork, enthusiasm, and career interests in science and engineering, and (3) usecurrent neuroscience and educational research to develop mentoring, teaching

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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LeeRoy Bronner; Olusola Laniyi

explores ways of improving the education of African Americans by significantlyincreasing the number of college graduates from Historically Black College and Universities(HBCU) as a way of increasing the number of opportunities available to them. The HBCUs areinstitutions of higher learning, whose principal mission is to educate African Americans, andthese institutions have evolved since their beginning in 1837 when their primary responsibilitywas to educate freed slaves to read and write. At the dawn of the 21st century, along withgraduate and post-graduate degrees, HBCU’s offer African American students a place to beeducated and earn a sense of identity, heritage and community. For decades after theirestablishment, HBCUs were virtually the only

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Division Poster Sessions

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barbara Karanian, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Gül Okudan, Pennsylvania State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

general similarities,praise and recognition for cooperation and collaboration—protects the leader’s interest. Peopleare not so influenced by receiving advice from the people they like but by the knowledge thatthis person likes them42. The leader’s job, however, is not to invent or manufacture similarities orcooperative mutual goals, it’s to identify where the similarities naturally exist in all relationships.Everyone benefits. We relax at work when we are liked.Best practice during next research steps would be conducted to replicate the gender-compositionof the group component in the team finding (see above section C) and modify the questions andadditional research manipulations to uncover the meaning of gender in terms of emotionalresponses to

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Assessing Design Coursework

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Asli Sahin, Virginia Tech; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Tech; Timothy Simpson, Pennsylvania State University; Steven Shooter, Bucknell University; Robert Stone, University of Missouri-Rolla

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Design in Engineering Education

Alpha Pi Mu Industrial Engineering Honor Society.Janis Terpenny, Virginia Tech Janis Terpenny is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education with affiliate positions in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial & Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. Dr. Terpenny’s research interests focus on the design of products and systems, including design process and methodology and use of interdisciplinary collaboration and human centered design to improve student learning and motivation. Dr. Terpenny is a co-director of the NSF Center for e-Design, a multi-university NSF industry-university cooperative research center. Prior to joining Virginia Tech, Dr. Terpenny was an

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Warren Hull, Louisiana State University; Lillian B Bowles, Louisiana State University; Karen Powell, Louisiana State University; Warren Waggenspack, Louisiana State University

be the ancillaryskills of written and oral communication? Certainly, ensuring that students learn therequisite fundamentals of engineering and its mathematical and scientific underpinnings isalready a daunting challenge. In answering this question, the Engineering AccreditationCommission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) developedan outcomes-based accreditation initiative called Engineering Criteria 20001 (EC2000). Oneof the EC 2000 criteria (Criterion 3 under “Program Outcomes and Assessment”) is thenecessity for engineering graduates to demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively.While considered progressive and innovative, EC2000 was not without its critics. Funded bya National Science Foundation

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Louis Everett, University of Texas-El Paso; Elsa Villa, University of Texas-El Paso

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

available to help the team succeed. The objective is tomake sure the strong students realize they can get the instructor to help the weakerstudent. Since oftentimes the weaker student may not seek help, the stronger student canencourage the weaker one to get help. The incentive virtually forces the strong students toseek out the weaker ones. If a student has a reputation among peers for being hardworking, and that student has a poor grade on an exam, they become a much valuedpartner. This encourages all students to be positively interdependent, a key element offunctioning cooperative groups.Assessment Instruments Since one objective of this project is to increase the success rates of students indynamics, the class grades are monitored. To see

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Manufacturing Education Innovation and Assessment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna Qualters, Northeastern University; Jacqueline Isaacs, Northeastern University; Thomas Cullinane, Northeastern University; Ann McDonald, Northeastern University; Jay Laird, Metaversal Studios

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Manufacturing

, engineering studentsin particular have been shown to have a preference for active, visual, hands-on learning10-13.While previous generations have valued solitary contributions, today’s students are communal intheir learning style. Ron Zemke14 has characterized these students as “leave no one behindattitude”. This is a generation brought up with cooperative and collaborative learning modelsfrom kindergarten.Environmental and Economic Tradeoffs Within Supply ChainsIn determining a model industry in which to explore the research questions, the U.S. automotiveindustry seemed the most likely choice. Car manufacturing relies on hundreds of suppliers forcomponents and materials to manufacture vehicles, with emissions released to air, water, and

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Design Projects

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Schultz, University of North Dakota; William Semke, University of North Dakota; Douglas Olsen, University of North Dakota; Arnold Johnson, University of North Dakota; Ofer Beeri, University of North Dakota; George Seielstad, University of North Dakota

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Design in Engineering Education

than weekly temporal resolution. It was designed primarily by electrical and mechanical engineering graduate students for installation in an Earth-observing window inside the International Space Station. REU Site participants contributed to astronaut training modules, graphical user interfaces for the flight and ground systems, and the design of custom ground test equipment.‚ Airborne Environmental Research Observational Camera (AEROCam). This payload is a three-band multispectral imager with one- to two-meter spatial resolution designed primarily by electrical and mechanical engineering graduate students for flight on UND Aviation fleet aircraft, with applications in precision agriculture and disaster response. REU

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Esteban Rodriguez-Marek, Eastern Washington University; Min-Sung Koh, Eastern Washington University; Claudio Talarico, Eastern Washington University; William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University; Thomas Griffith, North Seattle Community College; Michael Brzoska, Eastern Washington University

. • Explore possible assessment for these outcomes and report on them to department faculty.Solidify industry relationships • Extension of advisory board members to include persons with a background in EE and non-technical members in the Seattle-area who can assist with both curriculum development and student recruitment and retention. Note that the advisory board currently is entirely formed with industrial representatives from Eastern Washington. • Attend Industry and Education Collaboration Conference. • Contact technology companies, non-profit organizations, government agencies, and start Page 11.995.14 up non

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Visualization

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan Hartman, Purdue University; Patrick Connolly, Purdue University; Jeffrey Gilger, Purdue University; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

to . . . experts, the use of VR in education can be aimed to provide more attractive, motivating, and much more interesting learning experiences to future students. [Experts] would like to see the novelty, the immersion, the stimulation of the senses, and the feeling of exploration encouraging the student to move from passive learning to active learning. Most of all, they would like to see VR technology supporting the cooperative learning environment we all strive for. (p. 11)While some virtual reality testing of spatial abilities has been accomplished, such researchgenerally has centered on rotational tasks and instruments. Preliminary research has shown thatnot only might VR remove some inherent biases