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Software Engineering Curriculum Components

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Deepti Suri, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Mark Sebern, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Software Development Laboratory: A Retrospective Abstract At Milwaukee School of Engineering(MSOE), undergraduate students work on a one academic year (three quarters) Software Development Laboratory (SDL) course sequence in their junior/senior year. SDL was created with a vision of providing a “real-life” team experience to students where they could unite theory and practice while working on large scale ongoing projects in the context of a standardized development process. This paper presents a retrospective on the pedagogical philosophy of the SDL and the specific challenges that we are currently facing in executing this

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado-Boulder

a framework for evaluatingethical behavior, and showing the breadth and excitement of the civil engineering profession.Case study examples of civil engineers and civil engineering projects now include humanitarianaid in refugee camps and the Three Gorges Dam in China. Students are required to attend ameeting of an engineering professional society, and the student chapter of Engineers WithoutBorders (EWB) has proven to be a popular option. The recent changes in this course fit with along-term plan to create an “Engineering for Developing Communities” certificate program forundergraduate students in the College of Engineering.BackgroundAn awareness of international issues is increasingly important for engineers, who are nowcompeting and

Conference Session

Engineering Without Borders Programs Involving Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Evan Thomas, University of Colorado-Boulder; Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado-Boulder; Andrew Azman, University of Colorado-Boulder; Bernard Amadei, University of Colorado-Boulder

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International

2006-606: ENGINEERING EDUCATION THROUGH SERVICE LEARNING: TWOCASE STUDIESEvan Thomas, University of Colorado-Boulder Evan Thomas is a doctoral student at the University of Colorado at Boulder in Aerospace Engineering Bioastronautics. He is a civil servant employee at NASA's Johnson Space Center, working in the Life Support and Habitability Systems Branch in the Crew and Thermal Systems Division. Evan's research at CU-Boulder and at NASA is in Microgravity Fire Detection, analyzing the feasibility of a Modulated Laser Analyzer for Combustion Products (MLA-CP) for the crewed spacecraft environment. Evan has been leading EWB-USA projects in Rwanda and Nepal. He founded the EWB-JSC chapter at

Conference Session

Approaches to K -12 Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eugene Brown, Virginia Tech; Robert Kavetsky, Office of Naval Research; Robert L. Stiegler, NSWCDD; Peter N. Squire, NSWCDD; Juanita Jo Matkins, College of William and Mary; Gail Hardinge, College of William and Mary; John A. McLaughlin, McLauglin Associates

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

issues in teacher education, including assessment, gender and multicultural issues in science education.Gail Hardinge, College of William and Mary GAIL B. HARDINGE -- Dr. Hardinge is an educational psychologist who currently works with the Va. Department of Education's Training and Technical Assistance Centers, at the College of William and Mary, providing professional development programs for teachers. She has worked in public education for twenty-two years and is an adjunct Assistant Professor at William and Mary, teaching courses in collaborative consultation and assessment, as well serving as the college's VDP Project Coordinator.John A. McLaughlin, McLauglin Associates

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Phillips, University of Guelph; Michele Oliver, University of Guelph; Bill Van Heyst, University of Guelph; Douglas Joy, University of Guelph; Warren Stiver, University of Guelph

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Computers in Education

design projects andultimately as alumni. Is the introduction in second year working? Are our senior students andalumni using CAD/CAE intelligently or are they using it as a black box? We opted to use recentcapstone design projects to provide some initial feedback. These projects have been conducted Page 11.340.3by students who have experienced our second year courses.Capstone design projects at Guelph are identified and developed by the students and completedin a single semester. Teams are typically made up of 3-4 students. Actual product development,prototyping and industrial collaborations are encouraged. Each design team has a faculty

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ECE Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark Yoder, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Bruce Black, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Electrical and Computer

developments of comparing the use of LabVIEW (agraphical programming language) to MATLAB (a text-based language) in teaching discrete-timesignal processing (DSP).This paper presents the results of using both methods in a junior-level introduction to DSP class.The students who enter this class have had a course in continuous-time signals and systems butno DSP theory background. The class uses the text “Signal Processing First”, by McClellan,Schafer, Yoder, published by Prentice Hall, to introduce discrete-time signal processing. In thepast, a series of MATLAB based mini-projects were used in addition to homework to reinforce theDSP concepts. The new version of the class uses the same mini-projects except that they arebased on LabVIEW.Several quarters

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Novel BME Courses and Course Adaptations

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Conrad Zapanta, Pennsylvania State University; Keefe Manning, Pennsylvania State University

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Biomedical

knowledge to the design of artificial organs including circulatorysupport devices, drug delivery systems, artificial lungs and oxygenators, artificial kidney,pacemakers, neural prostheses, prosthetic heart valves, orthopedic implants, bioartificial organs(tissue engineering), and cardiopulmonary bypass. These lectures demonstrate how thetechniques and knowledge presented in the first part of the class are applied to the design ofartificial organs. The students then complete a final design project for an artificial organ of theirown choosing.1. IntroductionArtificial organs have a significant impact on the types and quality of medical care availabletoday. Artificial organs treat over 4.8 million patients a year in the United States and

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FPD3 -- Professional Issues for First-Year Courses

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Simmons, University of Queensland; Elise Barrella, Bucknell University; Keith Buffinton, Bucknell University

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First-Year Programs

2006-178: PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION BEST PRACTICESTUDY FOR FIRST-YEAR, MULTI-DISCIPLINARY COURSESElise Barrella, Bucknell University ELISE M. BARRELLA is a senior Civil and Environmental Engineering major at Bucknell University. Upon acceptance to Bucknell, she was selected to be a Presidential Fellow, which provided a stipend to support her research on this project. The best study practice was conducted at The University of Queensland, Australia while Elise was studying abroad for the Spring 2005 semester. In addition to her fellowship research, Elise is vice president of programming for Bucknell's student chapter of ASCE, a member of Delta Gamma sorority, and a teaching

Conference Session

Learning from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nancy Clement, Purdue University; Edward Coyle, Purdue University; Joy Krueger, Purdue University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

. Coyle is a Fellow of the IEEE and in 1998 was named an Outstanding Engineering Alumnus of the University of Delaware. Dr. Coyle was a co-founder, with Professors Leah Jamieson and Hank Dietz, of the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) Program at Purdue. He was also a co-founder and co-director, with Professors Leah Jamieson and Bill Oakes, of the National EPICS Program, which supports and coordinates EPICS sites at Purdue and 14 other universities. Further information about EPICS is available at http://epics.ecn.purdue.edu/. For their work with the EPICS Program, Professors Coyle and Jamieson have jointly received the School of Electrical and Computer

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Preventing Marginalization of Underrepresented Students on Teams

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paige Smith, University of Maryland-College Park; Linda Schmidt, University of Maryland-College Park; Patricia F. Mead; Stephanie Adams

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Women in Engineering

2006-2451: HOW TO PREVENT MARGINALIZATION OFUNDERREPRESENTED STUDENT POPULATION MEMBERS ONENGINEERING STUDENT TEAMSPaige Smith, University of Maryland-College Park PAIGE E. SMITH, Ph.D., Director of the Women in Engineering Program, A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland. Dr. Smith has received several grants in the area of team behavior and improving team environments for members of underrepresented student populations in engineering. She provides leadership in recruiting and retaining female engineering students for the college. Her current research focuses on engineering design teams and project management.Linda Schmidt, University of Maryland-College ParkPatricia

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Curricula of the Past, Present, and Future

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yvonne Ng, College of St. Catherine; Lori Maxfield, College of St. Catherine

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Educational Research and Methods

demand. The most salient feature of PCM rests in the multiple curricular configurations that result from the use of four interrelated and parallel designs for organizing curriculum: Core, Practice, Connections, and Identity. The four parallels offer opportunities to optimize student learning through the creation of a curriculum that is more meaningful, powerful, and engaging in the education of confident and competent engineering professionals. Projects presented at past ASEE conferences are innovative because they address specific parallels, thus fleshing out a student’s overall education. The PCM not only offers a way to see education as a whole, so as to identify the gaps, but also a way to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wenshen Pong; Tim Le, San Francisco State University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

. Page 11.476.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Development of Hands-on Experimentation Experience For Civil Engineering Design Courses At San Francisco State UniversityAbstractThis project will describe the revision of structural design courses, such as Reinforced ConcreteStructures and Steel Structures, at San Francisco State University’s School of Engineering, amajor undergraduate degree granting institution. Development of hands-on experience fordesign courses originated with and was supported by funding from the National ScienceFoundation to set up an integrated undergraduate structural engineering laboratory. It aims tohelp students maximizing learning through hands

Conference Session

Professional Development Programs for Teachers

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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M. David Burghardt, Hofstra University; Maryann Llewellyn, Uniondale School District

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. Page 11.558.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Engineering Effective Middle School Teacher Professional DevelopmentAbstractThe Math Science Technology Education Partnership (MSTP, 2003) is one of the NSF MSPtargeted projects that has as its primary mission the improvement of middle school mathematicsinstruction and student learning in mathematics, science, and technology education classes. It isthe only MSP project that uses engineering design as one of its key elements. The thesis of theproject was simple: with more instructional time devoted to mathematics, and with mathematicstaught with current pedagogical practice, student learning should improve. The MSTProfessional

Conference Session

The Senior Experience: Capstone and Beyond

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Large Seagrave

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Civil Engineering

curriculum capstone courses in Civil and other engineering disciplines attempt tofulfill a host of objectives. Most notably, they incorporate design projects and teamwork tofulfill specific criteria of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET).They provide their students with an opportunity for synthesis, employing the technical skills theyhave learned in the program, and introducing elements of professional practice that will easetheir integration into industry after graduation.In order to meet the needs industry has for young engineers, many universities have incorporatedmock corporate environments and real-world clients into the capstone course. Besides familiaritywith a team work environment and real clients, preparation for

Conference Session

Faculty Involvement in International Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jongwon Kim, Seoul National University; Dong Mok Kim, Seoul National University; Stefano Consiglio, Technical University of Berlin; Semih Severengiz, Technical University of Berlin; Guenther Seliger, Technical University of Berlin; Lalit Patil, University of Michigan; Debasish Dutta, University of Michigan

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International

necessary to determine almost every detail of the course,including the semester project, the associated lectures, project-relevant assignments, designreviews and overall grading strategies. The participating universities not only have differentsemester schedules, but also different guidelines and practices that pose significant challengesfor the participating faculty. However, the course has been successfully offered each year sinceits inception in Fall 2000 and on each campus there is a strong student demand for this course.The development of the initial content and format of this course took more than a year1,2,3. Thisis not uncommon for special courses. However, several issues have to be addressed in order tosustain such a course in the long

Conference Session

Achieving the Civil Engineering Body of Knowlegde

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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C. Conley, U.S. Military Academy; Decker Hains, U.S. Military Academy; Scott Hamilton, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

experience from reviewing student chapterand club annual reports from many schools over several years, from attending and observingnumerous Regional Student Conferences, from running Workshops for Student Chapter Leaders,from participating in Practitioner and Faculty Advisor Training Workshops, and finally fromserving as advisor for the USMA student chapter, the authors assess the contribution of studentgroups to attainment of Policy 465 outcomes.Through community service projects, field trips, guest speakers, organizing and running local,regional and in some cases national events, and through the leadership opportunities offered inthe ASCE student groups, civil engineering undergraduates can, and do, demonstrate that theyare developing the skills

Conference Session

Design in the BME Curriculum and ABET Assessment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John D. Gassert, Milwaukee School of Engineering; John Denis Enderle, University of Connecticut; Amy Lerner, University of Rochester; Samantha Jacques; Peter Katona, The Whitaker Foundation

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Biomedical

Page 11.412.3AbstractThe ABET Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs specifically requires design incriterion three and criterion four. These requirements stem from a fundamental need forengineers to understand and carry out the design process and the requirements areunlikely to change in the foreseeable future. ABET criteria do not allow substitution ofresearch for design in an engineering program. What is the difference between researchprojects and design projects and why doesn’t ABET allow the substitution? Theobjective of this paper is to review the rationale for the design requirement in the ABETcriteria; review the differences between design and research; and to propose questionsthat can be used to differentiate between a research

Conference Session

Ocean, Marine, and Coastal Engineering Topics

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Wood, Florida Tech; Brian Howell, Western Carolina University

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Ocean and Marine

EDUCATION AND TRAININGAbstractCombining teaching, research, and engagement has always been a goal of EngineeringTechnology faculty. Finding “real world” applications which can be implemented at theundergraduate level has always proved challenging as well. One method of achieving thisis to define an application area which can be managed by responsible faculty and whichcan be broken into small enough tasks to be suitable for completion by succeeding yearsof undergraduate students in their capstone design activity.At Western Carolina University and Florida Institute of Technology, a project has beenundertaken which is achieving many of these goals. The Kamikaze AutonomousUnderwater Vehicle (AUV) is currently under continuous

Conference Session

Modern Software Measurement Techniques

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tracey Windley, University of Idaho; Jasper Nance, University of Idaho; Kevin Buck, University of Idaho; Herbert Hess, University of Idaho

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Instrumentation

acquisition, data processing, and presentation, especially in a universitysetting. Memory fades and what may have made sense two months ago may have no meaningnow. Also the person processing the data or presenting it may not be the same person whorecorded it. Even worse, the person who recorded it may no longer be part of the project. Thesetime lapses and researcher discontinuities often result in situations where data could become lost,non-credible, or incomprehensible to other researchers. In university research this is a realproblem due the high turnover rate of researchers and inexperience in data acquisition. In summary, the three main problems encountered during data acquisition with

Conference Session

New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Phillip Sanger, Western Carolina University; Aaron Ball, Western Carolina University; Michael Clare, Western Carolina University; Chip Ferguson, Western Carolina University; John D. Graham, Western Carolina University

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Graduate Studies

Engineering and Technology at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina. He holds a B.S. and an M.S. from Appalachian State University, and earned his doctorate from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His areas of interests include fluid power, advanced machining, prototyping systems, and applied research.Michael Clare, Western Carolina University Michael Clare is a graduate student of Engineering Technology at Western Carolina University pursing a Masters of Science in Technology. He earned his B.S at Western Carolina University in 2004 and, at the time of this project, Mr. Clare was a senior in the Engineering Technology program.Chip Ferguson, Western Carolina

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New trends in ECE education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Agnieszka Miguel, Seattle University

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Electrical and Computer

course to juniors provided our students with more choices in electiveofferings during the junior year, introduced them to an important topic that is not coveredin any of our other courses, and hopefully stimulated their interest in a new field and builttheir confidence in their knowledge. Since DIP is a topic of interest to students in boththe ECE and the CSSE departments, the course was also open to students from bothdepartments.Course StructureThere were no exams in this course. Students were given written homework assignments(20% of the course grade), computer projects (25%), and a final project (40%). Inaddition, students were graded on class participation based on the MATLAB diary oftheir in-class computer exercises (15%). Students were

Conference Session

Women & New Faculty Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology; Cory Hoffman, Rochester Institute of Technology; Melissa Zaczek, Rochester Institute of Technology

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New Engineering Educators

years both grading for the Materials Science course and teaching laboratories.Melissa Zaczek, Rochester Institute of Technology MELISSA A. ZACZEK is a student at Rochester Institute of Technology completing her BS and ME in Mechanical Engineering. Her Masters focus is project management with a concentration in business. Her undergraduate focus is bioengineering with an American Politics minor. Page 11.1160.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Student-Faculty PartnershipsAbstractOne of the biggest challenges facing new engineering faculty members is finding good

Conference Session

Capstone Courses II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Fernandez, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

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Systems Engineering Constituent Committee

Industry-Based Software ToolsIntroductionService learning or civic engagement is a goal being pursued by many institutions of higher education.This goal is addressed by computer science (CS) and information technology (IT) programs whichencourage or require some form of real world experience. However, students in computer science and inother science fields are not typically attracted by community or real world projects. Faculty and staff inthese disciplines have a responsibility to connect students with the community and the world that theywill support upon graduation. This paper describes a paradigm for community-based capstone coursesthat uses industry-sanctioned software engineering support tools. A discussion of the supportingpedagogical

Conference Session

Student Learning and Teamwork

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ahmed Khan, DeVry University-Addison; Gene Gloeckner, Colorado State University; George Morgan, Colorado State University

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Engineering Technology

) andstudent learning/success in terms of self reported technical competency (effect size ismedium-to-large). Student GPA failed to reveal any significant relationships with facultyteaching techniques. The recommendations based on the study suggest ways to improvefaculty development and training activities to promote student learning in the domains ofengineering technology.I. Purpose of the StudyThe purpose of this research project was to explore the relationship between students’perceptions of the importance of faculty teaching techniques and their self-reportedlearning and success. The research project addresses the following question: Are there associations between students’ perception of the importance of the faculty teaching

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Design of Laboratory Experiments

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nebojsa Jaksic, Colorado State University-Pueblo

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

many books and articles on STM construction6 - 8, but they usually describeSTMs that are expensive and do not use off-the-shelf parts. While the academic literaturecontains some promising information, the Web is often a good choice for exploration ofcurrent projects. An extensive Web search revealed three promising projects (eitherunfinished, not achieving atomic resolution, or using obsolete parts) that were used as astarting point in our preliminary designs. While a successful STM project by Alexander9used very inexpensive components it required two laboratory signal generators and anoscilloscope for operation. It did not have a motorized final approach of the tip towardsthe sample and the data could not be recorded in a computer file

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2006 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Kyle Liddell, Arkansas Tech University; Chih-Hao Wu, Arkansas Tech University

1 Development of an Open Source Software Package for Autonomous Robotic Docking Using Stereoscopic Imaging Kyle Liddell Dr. Chih-Hao Wu Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Arkansas Tech University Russellville, Arkansas Abstract The goal of our project, Development of Machine Vision Algorithms for Cooperation in aMulti-Agent Robotic System, is to create and implement

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

contribute to students' intellectual development and progress ? 4. How does the instructor respond to students' learning difficulties ? Does the teacher revise the teaching strategies to address such problems ? 5. What impact does this type of teaching have on students' life-long learning attitudes ? Are they able to “learn, how to learn.” Page 11.811.3 2A Ten-step ProcessOver the past several years, the Senior Design Project Course has evolved into avery powerful and productive component in the

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FPD1 -- Implementing a First-Year Engineering Course

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Hagenberger, Valparaiso University; Barbara Engerer, Valparaiso University; Doug Tougaw, Valparaiso University

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First-Year Programs

of the different engineering disciplines necessary to select a major and, eventually, acareer. Courses at universities such as Vanderbilt2 and Purdue3 provide such backgroundknowledge, helping their students to make an informed decision about their choice of major.Frequently, such courses are designed in a modular structure, such that students can completedifferent modules and different hands-on projects based on their particular interests. Enablingstudents to make an informed choice of major was one of the most important learning objectivesof the first-semester engineering course at Valparaiso University until 2004, and it is still asecondary purpose of the course

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FPD1 -- Implementing a First-Year Engineering Course

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susanne Wolf, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt; Manfred Hampe, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt

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First-Year Programs

, Germany, in 2001. From 2002 until now she works at the Didactic Center of Technische Universität Darmstadt. She is currently working on her doctorate which is part of a broad-based research project of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Her interests involve the development, introduction and evaluation of innovative teaching and learning methods as well as quality assurance. She is particularly interested in project-based courses that support the acquirement of soft skills. Page 11.701.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 How to provide first-year students with a really good

Conference Session

Software Engineering Teaching Methods and Practice

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric Durant, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

Requirements and Interdisciplinary WorkAbstractThe author discusses an interdisciplinary approach to helping students learn to write a systemrequirements specification (SRS). This approach has been refined during use over the last threeyears and involves students in the first quarter of their junior year. Software engineeringstudents enrolled in a required requirements course act as the requirements team over an eight-week period while biomedical engineering students who are ready to begin the requirementsphase of their capstone design project act as clients. Each of the requirements and client teamsconsists of four to six members. The experience was documented in ASEE conference papers inOctober of 20041 and June of 20052.Benefits of the process and