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Capstone Design II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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R. Keith Stanfill, University of Florida

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Design in Engineering Education

the University of Florida applied directly to their academicdepartments through a paper application for admission into the Integrated Product and ProcessDesign. Academic advisors verified the applicant qualifications against discipline-specificprerequisites, and faculty coordinators approved or rejected applicants. The paper-based processworked, but left many information gaps in the project and student recruitment process. Toaddress these gaps, an information system was developed to streamline the capture, processing,and disposition of student applications. Today, students apply over the web, advisors andcoordinators review the applications online, and accept or reject decisions are based upon needspublished in the system by the program

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Potpourri

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vukica Jovanovic, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mileta Tomovic, Purdue University

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Design in Engineering Education

, she is involved in the following projects: National Science Foundation project: Midwest Coalition for Comprehensive Design Education, Society of Manufacturing Engineers Education Foundation Project: Product Lifecycle Management Curriculum Modules and Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development (WIRED) Opportunity Fund for North Central Indiana: Development of Integrated Digital Manufacturing Curriculum. She is a student member of the American Society of Engineering Education, Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), Society of Woman Engineers (SWE), and Woman in Technology (WIT). She published two chapters in two textbooks, two journal articles and presented 23

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shekhar Sharad, National Instruments; Greg Crouch, National Instruments; Reid Lee, National Instruments; Brian Johnson, National Instruments

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Design in Engineering Education

dataflow as discussed in the previous section. The NI LabVIEW FPGA Module usesLabVIEW Embedded technology to extend LabVIEW graphical development to target FPGAs on NIreconfigurable I/O (RIO) hardware. With the LabVIEW FPGA Module, educators can create custommeasurement and control hardware without low-level hardware description languages or board-leveldesign and perform unique timing and triggering routines, ultrahigh-speed control, interfacing to digitalprotocols and digital signal processing (DSP). One of the features listed on the LabVIEW FPGA page [9]is its ability to target FPGAs without having to write any textual code. It can also integrate existingVHDL code if needed[10]. Figure 6 shows an example of code written using LabVIEW FPGA module

Conference Session

Design Communications

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Riddell, Rowan University; Maria Simone, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Peter Mark Jansson, Rowan University

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Design in Engineering Education

. Page 13.303.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Communication in a project based learning design courseAbstractSophomores in the College of Engineering at Rowan University take a two-semestersequence where they are taught design and communication in a project-based-learningsetting. In the fall and spring semesters, communication instruction focuses on technicalwriting and public speaking, respectively. The fall semester has developed into a highly-integrated technical writing and design course, allowing students to comprehend howwriting informs the design process as much as the designing informs the writing. Likewriting, public speaking is an essential aspect of engineering practice. However,integrating public speaking

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Graham Thomas, Texas Southern University; Esther Thomas, Texas Southern University

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Design in Engineering Education

designing cars which are truly green (i.e. produces zeropolluting emission). After discussing in their small groups they were to present their findings tothe class. The class got an opportunity to critic each group’s presentation and offer suggestionsfor overcoming the challenges which would be faced by the engineers doing the actual design.Their approach had to account for the integration of electronics. In the first phase of the caseanalysis, the integration of electronics in the design was emphasized. As each group presentedtheir analysis, other groups were allowed to critic the presentations, provide support for theissues they identified and present their suggestions for improvement. In the second phase, thegeneral class discussion, students

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design in the Classroom

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tongele Tongele, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

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Design in Engineering Education

through the curriculum culminating in a major design experience basedon the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier coursework and incorporating engineeringstandards and realistic constraints that include most of the following considerations: economic;environmental; sustainability; manufacturability; ethical; health and safety; social; andpolitical.”1 In the new ABET criteria for accrediting engineering programs during the 2008-2009accreditation cycle, it is under criterion 5, explicitly titled “Curriculum”, that the requirement forusing engineering standards is placed - in these terms: “Students must be prepared forengineering practice through a curriculum culminating in a major design experience based on theknowledge and skills acquired in

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Keith Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology; Peter Dominick, Stevens Institute of Technology; Edward Blicharz, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

understand how they and their teammates view learning and tasks.The second module addresses communication, feedback and team dynamics with the thirdmodule on project management. This threaded approach is also seen in a recent paper8 whichdescribes how team skills are developed through two lecture courses and then implemented inteam projects throughout the curriculum. In our work we also integrate the development of teamskills through the curriculum as a means to reinforce the process of developing the requisitecognitive and behavioral skills and attributes.Development of a Teaming ThreadThis paper describes an approach to developing team skills through a series of engineeringdesign courses. The curriculum at Stevens Institute of Technology has a

Conference Session

Design Communications

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Ekwaro-Osire, Texas Tech University; Innocent Afuh, Texas Tech University; Peter Orono, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis

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Design in Engineering Education

critical because of demand by industry for broadly qualified graduates. Intheir previous paper, the authors analyzed the student information gathering patterns using onlythe students’ final reports at the end of the semester. An assessment rubric and scoring for thestudents reports was proposed. In this paper, additional to the final reports, the student designnotebook and presentation slides are also analyzed. An assessment rubric and scoring areproposed for the design notebooks and the presentation slides. The data collected is used to mapthe information gathering activities across the whole design process. Using the informationobtained, information literacy is integrated into a capstone syllabus. Information literacy mayinculcate in the

Conference Session

Design for Society and the Environment

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emily Callaway, CH2M HILL; Sean St. Clair, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

development to future civil engineers.” Journal of Professional Issues In Engineering Education and Practice., 128(4), 212-216. 4. Carew, A.L. and Mitchell, C.A., (2001). “What do engineering undergraduates need to know, think or feel to understand sustainability?” Sixth World Congress on Chemical Engineering. Melbourne, Australia. 5. Siller, T.J., (2001). “Sustainability and critical thinking in civil engineering curriculum.” Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice., 127(3), 104-108. 6. Robinson, M. and Sutterer, K., (2003). “Integrating sustainability into civil engineering curricula.” Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design in the Classroom

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dominic Halsmer, Oral Roberts University; Nicholas Halsmer, Oral Roberts University; Robert Johnson, Oral Roberts University; James Wanjiku, Oral Roberts University

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Design in Engineering Education

strongimpression of the action of a transcendent, yet calculating, intentionality. The most coherentview of the cosmos appears to be that of an engineered system of interdependent subsystems thatefficiently interact to prepare for, develop, and support advanced life, subject to variousconstraints. Considerations of intention and purpose in natural science have recently beendisallowed, and yet our world seems to be infused with purpose. The cosmological quest benefitsfrom the integration of knowledge from all areas of study, including those that considerquestions of purpose, such as design engineering. The synthesis of this knowledge that providesthe most satisfying answers for the human condition is one that admits the recognition ofpurpose, and possibly

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Multinational and International Design

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ryan Norton, LeTourneau University; Matthew Green, LeTourneau University; Paul Leiffer

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Design in Engineering Education

. Page 13.923.21 Introduction and BackgroundMany engineering schools are now employing a service-learning approach to globally-basedhumanitarian projects1,2,3,4. The importance of integrating both globalization and social needsinto the engineering curriculum is acknowledged by the ABET criteria5, and human need is aclear priority of the engineering profession, as indicated in the NSPE creed*,6. However, themajority of North American engineering students are not familiar with the contexts in which vastneeds exist, such as those among the physically disabled or the estimated 4 billion people livingon less than $2 a day (PPP)7. These conditions represent a formidable “frontier designenvironment”, or environments outside the experience and expertise

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Conrad, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; William Heybruck, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Daniel Hoch, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Martin Kane, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Peter Schmidt, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Frank Skinner, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Linda Thurman, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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Design in Engineering Education

program, and mostthought it was an excellent addition to the curriculum. Although the percentage of responses waslow (3%), we did make contact with some excellent prospects.Another source of prospects is to contact any company in the area that hires engineers. This listis publicly available through a “Book of Lists” that is published by a national newspaper chain,the American City Business Journals (www.bizjournals.com). A database was created with thesecompany names and addresses, their websites were visited and contact information extracted.Directors of Engineering and Human Resources were added to the database along with the typeof work the company performed and the disciplines of engineers they had recently hired. Usingthe database

Conference Session

Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Masten, McMaster University; Robert Fleisig, McMaster University

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Design in Engineering Education

express their own opinion on an engineering issue, present facts andevidence, and draw a conclusion. An important part of the learning process was the “peerevaluation”, in which students graded each other's work and calibrated their own performance. Afew students chose not to write one or both articles. In some cases plagiarism was an issue, eitherbecause students were ill-prepared to write a technical article in English, they did not understandissues of academic integrity and ownership of intellectual capital, or simply because they did notallow themselves the time to complete the assignment and thus, resorted to copying at the lastminute. Because performance on the articles was not significantly correlated with success in thecourse (final grade

Conference Session

Design Communications

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edward Lumsdaine, Michigan Technological University; Monika Lumsdaine, E&M Lumsdaine Solar Consultants, Inc.

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Design in Engineering Education

improvement, and integration into a larger system,these students potentially had an opportunity to apply class learning creatively in many differentways while roughly following the given report formats. Also, the lectures during the last twoweeks were different for the enterprise students to provide closure to their course participation.The required content of the three project reports is shown in Table 2. Students did not need torewrite the entire report each time, since much of the information from a previous report couldflow into a subsequent report with minor updating, with new sections added to report progress Page 13.720.8made on the project.5,6

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jonathan Weaver, University of Detroit Mercy; Karim Muci-Küchler, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

. Page 13.723.125. Evan I. Schwartz, Juice: The Creative Fuel That Drives World Class Inventors, Harvard Business School Press, 2004.6. David C. Mowery and Nathan Rosenberg, Paths of Innovation, Cambridge University Press, 1998.7. Michael george, Fast Innovation, McGraw-Hill, 2005.8. Guy Kawasaki, The Art of the Start, Portfolio, 2004.9. Muci-Küchler, K.H., Dolan, D.F. and Jenkins, C.H.M. A Comprehensive Education in Product Development: The Key to Introduce Practice into the Engineering Curriculum. Integrating Practice into Engineering Education Conference, Center for Engineering Education and Practice (CEEP), University of Michigan – Dearborn, Dearborn, Michigan, October 3 to 5, 2004.10. Muci-Küchler, K.H

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Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Shaw, Geneva College; Murat Tanyel, Geneva College

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Design in Engineering Education

) project, setting up and teaching laboratory and hands-on computer experiments for engineering freshmen and sophomores. For one semester, he was also a visiting professor at the United Arab Emirates University in Al-Ain, UAE where he helped set up an innovative introductory engineering curriculum. Dr. Tanyel received his B. S. degree in electrical engineering from Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey in 1981, his M. S. degree in electrical engineering from Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA in 1985 and his Ph. D. in biomedical engineering from Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA in 1990

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Senay Purzer; Alison McKay, University of Leeds; Mark Henderson, Arizona State University; Chell Roberts, Arizona State University; Alan de Pennington, University of Leeds

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2008-1709: COMPARING THE DESIGN PROBLEM SOLVING PROCESSESOF PRODUCT DESIGN AND ENGINEERING STUDENT TEAMS IN THE US ANDUKSenay Yasar Purzer, Arizona State University Senay Yasar-Purzer is a Ph.D. candidate in Science Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Arizona State University (ASU). She currently works as a graduate research associate in the Communication in Science Inquiry Project, an NSF-funded teacher professional development program. She earned her master’s degree in Science Education at ASU. She has a BS degree in Physics Education and is currently pursuing another B.S.E degree with a concentration in mechanical systems. In 2007, she received the Dean’s Excellence award

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karim Muci-Küchler, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Jonathan Weaver, University of Detroit Mercy; Daniel Dolan, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2008-1264: TEACHING CONCEPT GENERATION METHODOLOGIES INPRODUCT DEVELOPMENT COURSES AND SENIOR DESIGN PROJECTSKarim Muci-Küchler, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Karim Muci-Küchler is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Before joining SDSM&T, he was an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Detroit Mercy. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from Iowa State University in 1992. His main interest areas include Computational Mechanics, Solid Mechanics, and Product Design and Development. He has taught several different courses at the undergraduate and graduate level, has over 30 technical

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven Zemke, Gonzaga University; Diane Zemke, Gonzaga University

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Design in Engineering Education

interested, please contact the first author via email.The first author is also particularly interested in creating activities that specifically teachcollaboration skills such as active listening, giving peer feedback, or assigning tasks on teams.These skills are especially relevant to engineers today but represent a significant challenge toteach well. If you are interested in developing an effective and tested curriculum in this area,please also contact the author.Finally, we wish to thank Brent Fales for his effort in creating half of these activities. Brenttaught a parallel section to the one in this study. Without his help, this study would not havebeen possible.References1. Smith, K. A., Sheppard, S. D., Johnson, D. W., & Johnson, R. T

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Mechanical Engineering Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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X. Chang Li, Lamar University; Kendrick Aung, Lamar University; Jiang Zhou, Lamar University; Xuejun Fan, Lamar University

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Mechanical Engineering

the reference point. An arrow from the reference point to the left is labeled ascooling and to the right as heating. An alternative is to make an arrow to the reference pointfrom the left as heating and from the right as cooling. In this way, the reference point willrepresent the desired conditions, and all the arrows to the reference point will be the tasks to bedone for different surrounding conditions. Different groups of students are surveyed to assessthe improvement, and the students’ feedback is included in this paper. Additional considerationto reinforce the teaching/learning process is also covered.IntroductionThermodynamics is an important curriculum for undergraduates in Mechanical Engineering, andit is often taught in two semesters

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Gender & Minority Issues in K-12 Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeff Davis, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeff Rosen, Georgia Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2008-750: DIVERSIFYING PARTICIPATION IN FIRST LEGO LEAGUEMarion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Marion C. Usselman is a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (CEISMC) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Marion received her Ph.D. in biophysics from Johns Hopkins University and has taught in the Biology Department at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. She focuses on equity issues in education and K-12 educational reform. She has co-directed the Georgia FLL program since 2001.Jeff Davis, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Jeffrey Davis, an associate professor of computer engineering at Georgia Tech

Conference Session

Two Year College Tech Session I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Jonassen, University of Missouri; William Miller, University of Missouri; Matthew Schmidt, University of Missouri; Matthew Easter, University of Missouri; Rose Marra, University of Missouri

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Two Year College Division

contexts.Architecture of the online learning environmentWe have developed an online learning environment that is an integral part of the RPTcurriculum. This technology is tightly integrated into the curriculum. The online learningenvironment has three major structural components: navigation, a case library, andlearning supports (Fig. 1). The navigational scheme enables learners to navigate torelevant cases, and also facilitates accessing answers to questions contained within thesystem. The case library is comprised of primary and transfer scenarios (cases asexemplars and as problems to solve respectively) as well as operating experience andevent reports (cases as remindings). The learning supports in the learning environmentconsist of embedded narratives, the

Conference Session

Sustainability in AEC and AEC Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jason Kirby, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Hilal Ozcan, Prairie View A&M University; Fouad Fouad, University of Alabama at Birmingham

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Architectural

entitled“Engineering Sustainable Design and Construction.” The course pairs students frominterdisciplinary teams with community partners to address real-world sustainability designproblems geared toward public service in the US as well as in other nations across the world. Page 13.1127.6The student design teams were vertically integrated to include architectural and mechanicalengineering students to provide realistic solutions to provided design problems14.Boston Architectural College has a program in sustainable design and presently offers acertificate in the subject area. The certificate program is an option for individuals that areultimately

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BME Courses & Curricular Content

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Patzer, University of Pittsburgh

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Biomedical

with tissue engineering.IntroductionThermodynamics has been an integral part of the core undergraduate curriculum in theDepartment of Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh since inception of the department.The decision was not taken lightly – considerable debate revolved around whether a preciousrequired course should be devoted to thermodynamics when students were exposed tothermodynamic concepts in other required courses such as physiology, transport, and cellbiology. However, we felt that the heuristic nature of presenting and using a relation, e.g., theVan't Hoff relation for osmotic pressure, without appreciation of the underlying principles for therelation was detrimental to fostering engineering design and development skills. A

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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James A. Ejiwale

behooves graduates of Industrial Technologyprograms to be aware of this new workforce. Therefore, the knowledge of the challenges that thisworkforce may pose and how to manage them is essential to help minimize the negative impactof virtual work on productivity.What is e-Leadership? 1According to Avolio, Kahai, & Dodge (2000), [e] “-leadership is defined as a social influenceprocess to produce a change in attitudes, feelings, thinking, behavior, and/or performance withindividuals, groups, and/or organizations. Notably, e-leadership in an organization can occur atany hierarchical level. It may involve one-to-one and one-to-many interactions within and acrosslarge units and organizations or it may be

Conference Session

Teaching Engineering and Public Policy

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cindy Orndoff, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Engineering and Public Policy

. Page 13.112.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 A Student Overview In Practical SustainabilityAbstractOne purpose of teaching sustainability in an engineering curriculum is to foster civicresponsibility and develop informed citizens who are responsible to their professions,communities, posterity and to the world. This paper provides a series of five reports authored byundergraduate students which portray the student perspective on green construction practices andhow the implementation of such practices impact on sustainability in real world applications.Students explore various techniques for construction professionals, property owners and policymakers that promote the aesthetic and economic benefits of

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rose Marra, University of Missouri; Demei Shen, University of Missouri; David Jonassen, University of Missouri; Jenny Lo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Engineering Ethics

. (2003).”Epistemological Development: An Implicit Entailment of Constructivist Learning Environments”. In Seel, N.M., & Dijkstra, S. (Eds.), Curriculum, Plans and Processes of Instructional Design: International Perspectives (pp. 75-88). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.42. Davis, E. A., & Linn, M. (2000). Scaffolding students’ knowledge integration: Prompts for reflection in KIE. International Journal of Science Education, 22(8), 819–837AcknowledgementThe authors would like to acknowledge the National Science Foundation Grant #DUE-0618459that provided funding for this project. Page 13.622.17 Appendix A. Perry’s scheme of

Conference Session

Mechanics Education Programs and Projects

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bridget Wadzuk, Villanova University; David Dinehart, Villanova University; Edward Glynn, Villanova University; Shawn Gross, Villanova University; Frank Hampton, Villanova University

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Mechanics

engineeringcurriculum and importance for a civil engineering graduate. The Department has taken theinformation collected from the survey and catalog to develop a sequence of mechanics coursesthat incorporates the most important topic areas with innovative practices, such as integration oftopic areas across disciplines, integration of lecture and laboratory experiences and applicationsto real world examples. The new mechanics sequence will be launched in fall 2009.The authors have found the survey to provide a wealth of information and it played an importantrole in the development of a reformed mechanics curriculum. Future curriculum changes canbenefit from this survey and surveys directed at specific ideas, such as problem based learningand service learning

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Public Engineering of Engineering, K12 Standards, and Overview

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark Sanders, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

final section willaddress the most recent trends in technology education, including recent efforts to effectivelyincorporate engineering content and method into K-12 technology education practice. Theunderlying purpose of this paper is to enable engineering educators to better understand thevalues and ideals that led Technology Education to its current place in K-12 education, and tobetter understand why technology educators have sought to integrate more math, science, andengineering content and method into their discipline over the past two decades.Historical Antecedents of Technology EducationManual TrainingIn the late 19th century, the transition from an agrarian to an industrial culture precipitated thegrowth of cities, demand for

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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Bryan Cooperrider

problem is encountered, divergent thinking serves best. Iterationbetween these two is recognized as an integral part of the design process,9 and a designer mustreadily switch between wearing the hats of convergent and divergent thinking.Connections Between Engineering Design and CreativityDesign is an increasingly more important part of the engineering curriculum. Senior capstoneprojects have been a part of that experience for decades, but recently cornerstone and Project-Based Learning (PBL) has become more ubiquitous. There are some distinct elements that arepresent in most project-based design courses that can be linked (either rightly or wrongly) toencouraging creativity. Those elements are teaming, brainstorming, open-ended projects