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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susanne Green; Michele Auzenne; Chris Burnham; Ricardo Jacquez

process of inquiry for the course. Students are also directed to campus offices and services providing academic counseling, tutoring, and assistance in acquiring learning and study skills.Spring Semester Courses:• MATH 185: College Algebra covers complex numbers, roots of polynomials, exponential and logarithmic functions, conics, and binomial theorem.• CE 198: Supplemental Instruction for Math 185 provides assistance in comprehending difficult math concepts and maintaining a timely schedule for completing quizzes and exams,• CHEM 111G: General Chemistry I provides instruction in descriptive and theoretical chemistry.• PHIL 240G: Ethics for Engineering and Scientific Careers is an examination of ethical dilemmas that challenge

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Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Ward; Tonya Emerson

Education Annual Conference & Exposition” Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThe most frequent explanations provided by faculty and administrators for student fallout tend tofocus on “poor preparation” or “lack of discipline” of incoming first-year students. There issufficient data to support the notion that mathematics and science education in the United Statesis failing to prepare high school graduates for careers in mathematics and science. Other studies,however, suggest that the loss of majors from mathematics, science, and engineering disciplinescame from “a pool a disproportionately able undergraduates”. [2] Data compiled regardingengineering and computer science students at CSU, Chico who

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Interdisciplinary Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jung Oh

thoroughly enjoyed taking a very fun, creative and original way for me to present my research on francium by making the francium quilt.” “It allowed me to use my computer skills from previous classes.”I use this project as an instructional demonstration tool when teaching relevant topics inmy classroom. For example, I take the copper periodic table piece to the classroom whendiscussing oxidation and reduction and electron configuration. I show the francium quiltwith its unit cell drawing to talk about crystal structures. I display the projects topromote science and diversity awareness during public outreach activities, such asCollege Open House and TWIST (Teen Women in Science and Technology) Career Dayat Kansas State University at Salina

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Stephan A. Durham; W. Micah Hale

necessary skills and training to help further my education and career as a civil engineer.Concrete CountertopsThe enthusiasm and success created from the previously discussed projects led several studentsin the spring 2005 semester to construct concrete countertops, Figure 5. Figure 5: Concrete CountertopTwo students designed and built several concrete countertops for a local homeless shelter inFayetteville, AR. The students partnered with several architectural students for the project whichincluded countertops and cabinetry. The students believed that the projects they had performedin the class helped in the construction of the countertops for this voluntary project.Conclusion “Proceedings of the

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Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2005 Annual Conference

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Martin Johnston; Christopher Greene; Jeff Jalkio

andinterdisciplinary work is encouraged. We find that during the school year, few of our studentshave time to work on projects outside of their coursework. This leaves summers available forthis type of project. Furthermore, typically the kinds of skills that students need to be useful insuch projects are typically not available until late in their undergraduate career and by that timethe students are typically looking for jobs or internships that will lead to jobs.So how can we overcome these problems that lead to relatively short periods of useful time?First, it is critical to move useful skills as early as possible in the curriculum. This is often donefor other reasons such as the improvement of retention rates. By incorporating useful designskills in the

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Industrial Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Robertson

interface. Define the standard at the interface Work out from there - in both directions. Graduation Common featuresASU lower-level courses Company career path Figure 1: Emphasis to manage the industry-academic interface For this simple concept to work, we need to start with a clear understanding of the whole Page 10.915.2 range of skills expected of new graduates. This covers business and inter-personal skills Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for

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Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

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2005 Annual Conference

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Dean Schroeder; Doug Tougaw

-based leadership • Environmental stewardship • Managing with technology As a result of these emphases, the Valpo MBA program has been very successful at attracting engineering graduates to the program, with as many as half of the students in many classes having an engineering or technical background. The MBA curriculum is broken into three sections. Up to 14 credits of foundation courses are required for students without a business background, followed by 26 credits of core courses taken by every students in the program, and finally 12 credits of electives chosen to complement the particular student’s interests and career needs. The following three courses provide an introduction to values-based leadership, environmental stewardship

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Philosophical Foundations, Frameworks, and Testing in K-12 Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Laura Nelson; Keith Williamson; Hassan Ndahi; Sharon Waters

merit ofinnovative teaching practices and career induction experiences for students. We foundthat science and engineering outreach activities combined with teacher professionaldevelopment seminars and a socio-constructivist framework for teaching provide aneffective approach for limiting the use of accountability systems as the sole reference forsuccess. Similarly, the approach helped teachers cope with the pressures of high-stakestesting while conducting professional experimentation to change their attitudes andbeliefs about science and engineering topics. Specifically, the use of graduate students ascontent-resources in classrooms creates a collaborative environment that encouragesteachers to avoid tendencies to narrow curriculum standards

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Boyer; Taryn Bayles

Page 10.111.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationGrumman’s Electronic Systems sector employees with Baltimore inner-city high school studentsto help them achieve their dreams of pursuing technical and business careers. “WORTHY is aninvestment in our future” says Iorizzo, “while the students gain valuable one-on-one experiencein a real work environment, our employees are playing a critical role in developing the future ofour workforce.”1 Each year, Northrop Grumman selects at least 10 Baltimore inner-city highschool students for the program who are entering into their sophomore or junior years

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Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kanchana Jayasuriya; Doreen Thomas

/interviewpanel consisted of the Dean of Engineering, Assistant Dean (Transition & Diversity), a Senioracademic staff member from each Department of the Faculty (usually Head of Department)and a Human Resources Officer.Due to the high standard of applicants, the Faculty decided to award 4 Fellowships (one morethan originally planned). The Faculty will actively encourage the career progression anddevelopment of the successful candidates, and provide opportunities for articulation into themore sought after Teaching and Research positions. The expectation is that, in the long term,this will lead to more women academics in senior positions and contribute to attracting morewomen into engineering.Expected benefits for the FacultyIt is expected that the

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Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tomas Cavanagh; Richard Gilbert; Linda Austin; Edwin Goolsby; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

courses developed by theconsortium. The web-based modules offer a rapid-response method to introduce the workforce atvarious levels (new graduates, incumbent workers, career transition, etc.) to the biotechnologyindustry and provide them with valuable real-world information that will better enable them to beimmediately productive in their new job. In addition, because the modules can be incorporated intoacademic courses, they can serve as a bridge for workers to pursue further higher education.Ultimately, the online modules will be available throughout the state for workforce training and thecommunity college curriculum will be available to colleges throughout the state that either have orwant to develop a program in biotechnology

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ferruzza

integral part – but at the end –of their report. We ask their thoughts, along the lines of: did they enjoy the exercise and did itprove to be useful in building their skills as scientists and engineers. We also solicit suggestionson how to improve the exercise.In a bird’s eye view, the responses show a somewhat even distribution of opinions in three largesegments: the enthusiasts, strongly supporting and cheering the exercise as a very important stepin preparing their needed career skills; the indifferent ones, looking at this as just anotherexercise, albeit longer and more complex than usual; and the cynics, openly stating they did notenjoy it and that time might be served better by alternative activities. A large majority of studentsin the cynic

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Social Responsibility & Professionalism

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Goodwin

An Experimental Course for First-Year Students: Leadership in Engineering Mary E. Goodwin Iowa State UniversityAbstractA first-year leadership course was created for engineering students. The purpose of the class wasto develop stronger leadership skills in undergraduate engineering students early on in theircollege career. This was done by actively engaging students in leadership activities that gaveopportunities for practicing skills while also providing classroom instruction on leadershiptheories, issues, and concepts. Industry has expressed a need for graduating engineering studentsto have stronger leadership

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NEW Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Vollaro

, promotes life long learningthrough the use of handbooks, technical papers, and critical evaluation of web sites. Theinstructor has observed students who become frustrated with traditional web searches (forfundamental technical information) and become enthusiastic about professional societyhandbooks, especially those available on-line or on CD-ROM with search capabilities. Theseadditional skills and experiences with new literature resources demonstrate to the students the Page 10.1485.6connection between this course and the technical applications, which they may encounter duringtheir engineering careers. “Proceedings of the 2005 American

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Design and Computation in ChE Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Miller; Atanas Serbezov

and expanded into new areas, there has been increasingpressure to modify senior process design to better prepare graduates for the realities which theywill face during their careers. Some of the challenges discussed in the literature include thefollowing: 1. Shifting the emphasis from process design to product design within the chemical industry [1-3]. 2. Including the design of batch processes in addition to continuous processes to reflect the growth areas of the chemical industry [4]. 3. The need to understand the business factors that affect design [3,5] 4. The need to incorporate sustainable development and design of green processes [6].In addition to changes

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Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Seyed Allameh; Morteza Sadat-Hossieny; Mark Rajai

“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”international collaborative teams.1 Students graduating from an engineering program canexpect to work at some point in their career, on teams with individuals from differentcultural and linguistic backgrounds from various locations in different continents.Doerry1 explains that international programs for engineering students have had limitedimpact on engineering education as a whole. These programs have remained curiouslyperipheral; students participating in these programs remain relatively small. Tounderstand the reason why so few students choose to gain “international experience

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Design and Computation in ChE Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Shaeiwitz

engineer and are responsiblefor completing the work within their groups. The initial assignment to the class is deliberatelyvague and open ended. The goal is to force students to define their own work statement, withinput from faculty members, and to learn material not normally taught in class. The exact topicsstudents must learn are a function of the project. It is less important what they learn year to year.The goal is to make students realize that they will have to continue learning new materialthroughout their careers and that they have the ability to do so.AssessmentTwo assessment measures were used. In one, the two instructors use a rubric to evaluate,separately, all aspects of the final design report and oral presentation submitted by the

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Dillard

where their teaching load is increased. Compound this with “mission creep”, a trendat institutions across all Carnegie classifications toward increasing demands for research, and thenew faculty hire may indeed serve two masters.2 Although programs like Preparing FutureFaculty address this concern, such programs are not available at most universities3.Misalignment between a new hire’s research/teaching preconceptions and departmentalexpectations negatively impacts all stakeholders. Tenure is often lost because research andteaching duties are mismanaged. Career goals are stalled and resources invested in those facultymembers are lost. Accurate prior knowledge of the research/teaching balance and the requisiteactivities would facilitate a fast

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Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Gibson; Dorene Perez; Rose Marie Lynch

Operations, required in their Associate in AppliedScience degree programs. They are from a variety of career fields, including marketing,accounting, management, computer systems and information systems, which allows themakeup of the "companies" to be representative of an industry. Integrating students fromvarious disciplines not only fulfills the technical needs of the student teams but also providesvaluable interaction and communication opportunities. Acting on the advice of the advisorycommittees for their career programs and utilizing a list of essential workplace skills1endorsed by the area Tech Prep consortium, the instructors who organize the project make thedevelopment of teamwork and communication skills a major focus. In their technical

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Curriculum Topics: Industrial ET/Industrial Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kari Clase

professionals currently employed within various realms of the field of biotechnologyBibliography1. Miller, Thomas P., and Associates for Indiana Health and Industries Forum. (2002). The Indiana HealthIndustries Workforce Study. Retrieved October 6, 2004, from http://www.ihif.org/industryinfo.aspx2. Kling, Jim. Careers in Biotech Manufacturing. Science’s Next Wave, April 23, 2004. RetrievedJanuary 5, 2005 from http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/3. Cliff Mintz, CEO of the training and staff search firm BioInsights Inc. quoted by Jim Kling. Careers inBiotech Manufacturing. Science’s Next Wave, April 23, 2004. Retrieved January 5, 2005 fromhttp://nextwave.sciencemag.org/4. Louet, Sabine. Get Ready to Scale Up. Science’s Next Wave, March 21, 2003

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Mobile Robotics in Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Bolick; Richard Drushel; John Gallagher

matriculated engineering students entertaining and engaging educationalexperiences that give them early experience with the kinds of open ended design problems theywill face in their professional careers. By their nature, however, these classes often require someprior computer programming experience – which raises the threshold of entry to the very earlycareer students who might most benefit from the extra motivation and depth provided by dealingwith open-ended problems. In previous work we discussed minimizing dollar cost andmaximizing physical access to a robot by creating a WWW/web cam based infrastructure andsupporting open sourced robot simulation software. In this work, we will focus on additionalwork that addresses more fundamental pedagogical

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cheryl Willis; Susan Miertschin

assignments. Eachearlier assignment focused on the presentation of information about a career interest of thestudent. One assignment asked the students to present information in the form of a report,another assignment asked the student to present information in the form a presentation slides,and the third assignment asked the student to present information as a web site. The groupdevelops a qualitative evaluation report for the nine items.In Fall 2004 a survey was administered to gauge the students’ former experience with electroniccollaboration and to learn what they thought of using the the MSPS in support of their groupproject. The survey items and results are in Table 1. Interesting results from the survey include: • Most students knew

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Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ollis

A “Basis Set” for Multidisciplinary Design Courses David F. Ollis Department of Chemical Engineering Raleigh NC 27695-7905 North Carolina State University ollis@eos.ncsu.eduAbstract We describe a variety of multidisciplinary design course formats developed andinstalled during the lifetime of the NSF–sponsored SUCCEED engineering educationconsortium. These formats provide design approaches to meeting the ABET/EC 2000criterion mandating that all graduating students will have “a multidisciplinaryexperience” during their undergraduate careers in engineering

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Integrating Mathematics and Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ranjith Munasinghe

the material in the sequel to theclass? Undergraduate projects are for the capable students interested in penetrating thisunfortunate boundary.3. Many upper classmen, specially the students we would select for research projects, entertainthe idea of going to graduate school. Introduction to research by an undergraduate project canhelp them make this important career decision.4. Obviously, research projects promote team work and writing project reports and presentationsimprove communication skills.5. We must not forget the most fundamental goal of any research project. We conduct research tofind new ideas and invent new things. In fact, undergraduate researchers have a uniqueadvantage that sometimes could help them invent revolutionary

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Integrating Research into Teaching

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Johnson; Andrew Jackson

3D Engineering Drawing tools 2) Excel and MiniTAB 3) Full integration of the Microsoft Office Suite, including: Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Publisher, and an Introduction to Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Programming.Conclusion Students in the Industrial Engineering program at Texas A&M University-Commerce arebeing introduced to tools and techniques that will be used throughout their academic programand throughout their chosen careers. The IE faculty team at Texas A&M University-Commerceis attempting to break the cycle of courses that often appear to be isolated, in the eyes of thestudents. The contents of the course must continue to meet the

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Communication Skills in Aerospace Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Patric McElwain; James Helbling; Angela Beck

campus is located inDaytona Beach, Florida, while the other is located in Prescott, Arizona.The Prescott Campus has approximately 1,800 students. In addition to flight-related degreeprograms, the Prescott Campus has other degree programs—Aerospace Engineering, ElectricalEngineering, Global Security and Intelligence Studies, Aviation Business Administration, toname a few—including several not offered at the other two campuses.Unlike many universities, where students take a variety of courses from different disciplines inorder to find a career focus that suits their talents best, the ERAU student typically enters theUniversity having already decided on a specific career path. In addition, while ERAU is auniversity in every sense of the word

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Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

internationalscale, as reported over the past four years in the International Engineering EducationDigest, and attempts to connect them in ways that reveal megatrends in engineeringeducation. From the rush of universities to get into for-profit distance education ventures,to the worldwide drive toward harmonization of degrees and their quality assurancemechanisms, to downturns in engineering enrollments due to student disenchantment Page 10.933.1with the profession, to career disruptions due to outsourcing, the topics repeated in the Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2005 Annual Conference

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Primus Tillman; Keith Johnson

it isdeveloped.To fulfill the EDG vision, current ETSU President Paul Stanton saw the need to obtain additionalspace and facilities to accommodate and house the growing technology and the expanding bodyof students who exhibited an increasing desire to purse digital media studies. ETUS partneredwith several industries to obtain hardware and software resources at minimal cost that enabledthe transformation of a basic print facility into an advanced visualization laboratory. ETSU’srapid response to the increased demand and the acquisition of adequate resources enabled itsdigital media program to continue growing and expanding.Digital media expertise contributes significantly to highly technical careers and economicdevelopment. For example

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Issues for ET Administrators

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Blanton

-party vendors.At no time in the history of medicine has the growth in knowledge and technology been soprofound.5 The consequences for those seeking entry into the fastest growing job markets willgenerally be more than the median level of education.4 Already the opportunities foremployment and the quality of employment are most likely limited for the least skilled and areand will most likely be expanded among the more highly educated. The reward for beingtechnologically literate is strong career fields that typically provide steady employment, trainingopportunities, fringe benefits, and promotional opportunities. Page 10.1471.5 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual

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Innovation in Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

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Louise Green; Barbara Quintiliano; Andrea Welker

falseinformation; that they are experts at searching the Web; and that the large numbers of people thatuse the Web will make detection of falsehoods more likely (Thompson 2003, Profeta andKendrick 2002, Davis Herring 2001, Calvert 1999, and Tolppanen 1999). Manuel (2002) reportsthat 28% of freshman at California State University agreed that a “central internet authorityreviewed all Web information for its accuracy.” Furthermore, many students also have themistaken belief that the Web will provide all the information they may need in the course of theircollege career. Investigating their college library’s resources, whether print or electronic, neveroccurs to them. To them, it’s all on the Web, it’s all worthwhile, and it’s all free.These findings indicate