Conference Session

Technology in the Physics or Engineering Physics C

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raymond Winton, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

modeling complexity, isincluded in the philosophical stream almost entirely as a conceptual transistor, whose onlytrue visibility is through its device models. So it almost seems to exist only in the framework Page 13.807.8of interesting integrated circuit layout geometries and somewhat impenetrable device models.Fortunately, the reality of MOS as a classroom circuit element is reconditioned by theconnection between the university community and the rapid-prototyping environment. Inthis respect an operating environment for which a low-cost multi-project fabrication contextwas developed through a DARPA (defense advance research projects agency

Conference Session

Enhancing K12 Mathematics Education with Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wendy Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Barbara Brizuela, Tufts University; Peter Wong, Tufts University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2008-1824: INTEGRATING ALGEBRA AND ENGINEERING IN THE MIDDLESCHOOL CLASSROOMWendy Huang, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBarbara Brizuela, Tufts UniversityPeter Wong, Tufts University Page 13.759.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Integrating Algebra and Engineering in the Middle School ClassroomAbstractThe Building Math curricula project was originally titled “Integrating Algebra and Engineeringin the Classroom.” It resulted in the development of three middle school instructional units thatuniquely integrates inquiry-based mathematics investigations and engineering design challenges.The engineering

Conference Session

FPD9 - First Year Learning & Assessment

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jim Chamberlain, Clemson University; Lisa Benson, Clemson University

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First-Year Programs

what I want to do instead of filling a mold” Engineering not rewarding / appealing “(new field) deals mainly with people rather than (“pushed from”) with things” Profession Other profession more appealing “the number of options for a career (in new field)” (“pulled towards”) “more money to be made” Misunderstanding of engineering as a “I can do project management (in new field)” profession “actual practical knowledge

Conference Session

Introductory Materials Science Course

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Amaneh Tasooji, Arizona State University

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Materials

of students in introductory materials engineering classes. Most recently, he has been working on Project Pathways, an NSF supported Math Science Partnership, in developing modules for a courses on Connecting Mathematics with Physics and Chemistry and also a course on Engineering Capstone Design.Amaneh Tasooji, Arizona State University Amaneh Tasooji is an Associate Research Professor in the School of Materials at ASU and has been teaching and developing new content for materials science and engineering classes and laboratories. She has developed new content and contextual teaching methods from here experience as a researcher and a manager at Honeywell Inc. She is currently working to develop

Conference Session

Focus on High School Girls in Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Brake, Eastern Michigan University; Kaninka Bhatnagar, Eastern Michigan University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

towardsengineering and the physical sciences but there have been very few studies that have examinedwhat young people think about “technology”. One of the largest research projects to addressstudents’ technology perceptions was the 1986 Netherlands study conducted by the EindhovenInstitute of Technology: Pupils’ Attitude Towards Technology, PATT.7 Even though it is 20years old it is relevant to this study because, like this study, it specifically dealt with ‘technology’as opposed to science, engineering or math. Also, the scope of the PATT study was large as itwas initially offered to 2,600 thirteen year old students in the Netherlands. This was expanded toinclude 11 countries. This study found the following attitude and impressions of studentsregarding

Conference Session

Anything New in the Mechanics of Materials?

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arturo Fuentes, University of Texas-Pan American; Stephen Crown, University of Texas-Pan American; Bob Freeman, University of Texas-Pan American

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Mechanics

introduced to motivate the student to do well. The stage of go public corresponds to the final project and report in the engineering design process.Challenge N: The following progressively more ambitious challenges enable the student toprogressively deepen their knowledge to the topic being explored.According to the authors, the different stages of the Legacy learning cycle focus to differingextents on student motivation, discovery, knowledge, and self-efficacy (key desirable studentoutcomes). Even though all stages of the Legacy learning cycle have a combination of them,there is usually one or two that dominate in each stage. For example, while the stages of“challenge”, “generate ideas”, and “go public” may all contain a

Conference Session

New Ideas for ChEs II (aka ChE Potpourri)

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Birnkrant, Drexel University; Matthew Cathell, Drexel University; Priscilla Blount, Martha Washington Elementary School; Jean Robinson, Martha Washington Elementary School; Adam Fontecchio, Drexel University; Eli Fromm, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

. Fontecchio is the recipient of a NASA New Investigator award, the International Liquid Crystal Society Multimedia Prize, and the Drexel ECE Outstanding Research Award. He has authored over 35 peer-review publications on Electro-Optics and Condensed Matter Physics. His current research projects include developing liquid crystal polymer technology for optical film applications including electro-optic virtual focusing optics, reflective displays, flexible displays, power generating MEMS arrays, and photonic crystal structures with tunable defects. Page 13.798.1Eli Fromm, Drexel University Eli Fromm is

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2008 GSW

Authors

Guanlin Tang; Yu-Lin Shen

indentation load-displacement curve, A is the projected contact area at the onset of unloading, β is an indentergeometry-dependent dimensionless parameter close to unity, and Er is the reduced modulus given by 1 1 −ν 2 1 −ν i 2 = + . (8) Er E EiIn Eq. (8) E and ν are the Young’s modulus and Poisson’s ratio of the material being tested, and Eiand νi are the Young’s modulus and Poisson’s ratio of the indenter. In our simulation the parameterβ was first calibrated with a pure Al body of the same geometry, and a value of 1.06 was determinedwhich was followed in all subsequent analyses. When calculating the projected contact area A, thelast nodal point on

Conference Session

Focus on Under-Represented Women

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Donohue, University of Virginia; Larry Richards, University of Virginia; Carolyn Vallas, University of Virginia

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Women in Engineering

literature: that persistence is more likelywhen female students receive the support to which they’re accustomed from high school fromkey mentors who provide examples and strategies for survival in a male-dominated profession;when the peer group is well represented, lessening the chance of isolation; and when programshave features that fit well with preferred learning environments for female undergraduates, suchas interdisciplinary studies with a stress on the inclusion of liberal arts courses, flexibility, lowstudent-faculty ratio, no pigeon-holing or stereotyping by faculty and fellow students, project andteam-based learning, emphasis on design projects (including service learning), and support ofinnovation and entrepreneurship in both faculty and

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam Chalmers, United States Military Academy; Eric Crispino, United States Military Academy; Joseph Hanus, United States Military Academy

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New Engineering Educators

sporting events, greeting andencouraging all of them to let them know we cared about them outside of the classroom. For thecivil engineering Firsties (seniors) we have a private social gathering where we teach them homebrewing in an informal atmosphere and they learn proper social etiquette and moderate alcoholconsumption. In addition, we perform duties as the Academic Officer in Charge (AOC) wherewe inspect cadet living and study conditions from 1930-2330 at least once a semester. Thisallows us to gauge how well cadets are able to study at night, and it allows us to visit ourstudents in their rooms and see how they are doing at a very personal level. Each instructor alsoparticipates in a CE489 Individual Study Project, that allows a group of

Conference Session

Engineering Student Involvement in K12 Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Malinda Zarske, University of Colorado at Boulder; Jacquelyn Sullivan, University of Colorado at Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado at Boulder; Janet Yowell, University of Colorado at Boulder

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

MS in civil engineering from CU-Boulder.Jacquelyn Sullivan, University of Colorado at Boulder JACQUELYN F. SULLIVAN is founding co-director of the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program and Laboratory. She co-created and co-teaches a First-Year Engineering Projects course, an Innovation and Invention course, and a service-learning Engineering Outreach Corps elective. Dr. Sullivan initiated the ITL's extensive K-12 engineering program and leads a multi-institutional NSF-supported initiative that created TeachEngineering, an online collection of K-12 engineering curricula. Dr. Sullivan has 14 years of industrial engineering experience and directed an interdisciplinary water resources

Conference Session

Accreditation and Assessment Concerns in Civil Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nirmala Gnanapragasam, Seattle University; Katie Kuder, Seattle University; Dragovich Jefferey, Seattle University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

science and engineeringtopics2. The university worked with NCEES to obtain previously unreleased FE Page 13.311.3data on student performance in various topics for their institution from 1993 to1996. Their analysis showed that there is a direct correlation between increasingFE score and increasing GPA. The correlation coefficient between the averageFE raw score and average student GPA was found to be 0.42 for 104 civilengineering students over the fours years. As part of this project, the universityadministered a Campus Engineering Assessment (CEA) examination in April1996, two weeks prior to the FE examination. The examination was constructedby the faculty and

Conference Session

Case Studies & Engineering Education Around the Globe

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karim Altaii, James Madison University; Hennia cavallini, University of Costa Rica

Tagged Divisions

International

provided manyeducational benefits for all involved including understanding the fundamentals of energy, its usesand resources, exposure to international energy technologies, experience and understandingassociated with living and working in an international setting; and applied, interdisciplinarycourse experience that integrates the technical, social, and economic dimensions of aninternational setting. Seven students from each of the institutions were taught by a team ofinteruniversity faculty and learned via immersion about Costa Rican culture, history, geography,language and political affairs. Each JMU student was hosted by a Costa Rican family and thecourse included hands-on field trips to operational renewable energy projects and installations

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids and Heat Transfer - I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Kean, California Polytechnic State University; Ronald Miller, Colorado School of Mines; Brian Self, California Polytechnic State University; Tamara Moore, University Of Minnesota; Barbara Olds, Colorado School of Mines; Eric Hamilton, U.S. Air Force Academy

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

-solving strategies from studentsin mathematics classes, but have now been expanded to other disciplines including ethics andengineering science2,3.Through a collaborative, large-scale National Science Foundation project, MEAs are now beingdeveloped to elicit student misconceptions about important but poorly understood concepts inthermal science. For example, misconceptions about the second law of thermodynamics and itseffect on energy quality are being explored in an MEA where students estimate the overallthermal efficiency of electric vs. hybrid vs. gasoline cars. Student teams must use a systemsapproach and include all relevant energy conversion steps in their problem solving process.In this paper, we will describe MEAs and how they are being

Conference Session

Emerging Information Technologies

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyle Lutes, Purdue University; Richard Mislan, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

software professionally since 1982. Prior to his current appointment at Purdue, he held various software development positions in industry and has worked on projects for such industries as banking, telecommunications, publishing, hospitals, medical schools, retail, and pharmaceuticals. Addition to his teaching and research duties at Purdue, Kyle is the founder of DelMar Information Technologies, LLC. His company specializes in custom software development using Microsoft technologies (C#, .NET, .NET Compact Framework, Active Server Pages (ASP), SQL Server, and Visual Basic) for mobile devices (smart phones and Pocket PCs), enterprise, web, client/server and desktop

Conference Session

FPD2 - First-Year Advising and Transition

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ida Ngambeki, Purdue University; Odesma Dalrymple, Purdue University; Demetra Evangelou, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

program at one university, allow students togain a better understanding of various disciplines by participating in engineering projects in thecommunity10. Colleges and universities also use introduction to engineering or first year seminarcourses in engineering to introduce students to the different fields in engineering by havingprojects and labs relating to different disciplines, or having guest speakers come in to giveintroductions to the different disciplines5, 11. Other colleges allow students to take severalintroductory courses in various areas to allow them to explore and gather information on variousfields12.A study of one such introductory program found that approximately 30% of students choose theirengineering discipline before

Conference Session

Contemporary Practices in Engineering Management Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stanislav Karapetrovic, University of Alberta; John Doucette, University of Alberta

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

isexplicitly or implicitly expected”7.Following the “Guiding Principles” and the “Framework” provided in sections 4 and 5 of ISO10001: 2007, respectively, the objectives, processes and resources for the application of threeS2C2s, as well as the codes themselves, were planned and developed in accordance with section 6of the standard. The S2C2s included the “response” code, which guaranteed the professor’sresponse to a student inquiry within a set time, as well as the “review” and “schedule” codes,which promised prompt review of projects, assignments and exams, and conformance to the setlecture schedule, respectively. Subsequently, the first two codes were implemented in all fourcourses, while the schedule code was used in courses “A”, “B” and “D”. The

Conference Session

Attitudes, Self-Confidence, and Self-Efficacy of Women Engineering Students

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carmen Villa, Texas A&M University; Carolyn Clark, Texas A&M University; Jennifer Sandlin, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

study. When we entered the classroom and approached the female students, we were immediately surrounded by male students; it was kind of intimidating. It was not only that the male students were curious about the visitors and the project; it was like they were trying to protect their female peers. In addition, male students showed their pride in their female classmates, they told us that female students were better than them, ‘they [female students] are the best students [academically] [ellas son las más aplicadas].Literature on women’s learning33 suggests that women’s preferences are for learning that iscooperative, and studies on women in engineering22,23 indicate that a competitive climate hascontributed

Conference Session

Attitudes, Self-Confidence, and Self-Efficacy of Women Engineering Students

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Holly Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Ruth Streveler, Purdue University; Ronald Miller, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara Olds, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

. During the 2006-2007 academic year, Barbara was a part-time visiting professor in Purdue University’s Engineering Education Department. Her research interests focus primarily on understanding and assessing engineering student learning, including recent work developing concept inventories for engineering topics with colleagues from CSM and Purdue. She has participated in a number of curriculum innovation projects and has been active in the engineering education and assessment communities. Barbara is a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), currently serving as the Chair of the International Advisory Committee of ASEE. She is also a member of the Advisory Committee

Conference Session

BME Curriculum Development

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sonya Seif-Naraghi, University of California, San Diego

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Biomedical

the model that Purdue has, short trips might be the best way to begin. Two to fourweeks would be a good start for a small group of bioengineering students to travel toanother country and interact with students there. A good example of this type of trip is aninitiative in the aerospace engineering department at Arizona State Univerisity – studentsfrom ASU collaborate with students from ITESM’s Monterrey campus to complete theirSenior Design projects. They communicate via teleconference and email throughout theyear and then spend three weeks together to assemble and present their completedproject. If relationships such as this could be initiated for the other disciplines, thatwould beneficial; the potential for positive cultural and

Conference Session

Frontiers in Engineering Management Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ertunga Ozelkan, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Agnes Galambosi, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

AC 2009-1142: ASSESSING ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT STUDENTS’PERCEPTION OF ON-LINE LEARNINGErtunga Ozelkan, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Ertunga C. Ozelkan, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management and the Associate Director of the Center for Lean Logistics and Engineered Systems (CLLES) at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte). Before joining academia, Dr. Ozelkan worked for i2 Technologies, a leading supply chain software vendor in the capacity of a Customer Service and Curriculum Manager and a Consultant. He also worked as a project manager and a consultant for Tefen Consulting in the area of productivity improvement

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Agnieszka Miguel, Seattle University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

: smile, employ naturalposture and movement, frequent gestures, varied facial expressions, make only occasional glancesat notes, and maintain frequent eye contact with the audience (especially with the students in theback of the classroom). Present at least some of the lecture as you walk around the room. Whilespeaking, try to project relaxed confidence, enthusiasm and passion for the topic, honesty, concernfor the students, openness, warmth, and a sense of humor. Try to minimize distractive behaviorssuch as leaning against a wall or a board, repeating ”you know what” or ”uhm”, and repetitivemovements [2].Include breaks in lectures. Do not lecture for more than 20 minutes without some sort of astudent-centered break. Students cannot pay attention

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marie-Pierre Huguet, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Frank Wright, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

instrument ineducation3 and its integration is often seen as a significant force driving change4. It is nowcausing educators to re-think the very nature of teaching and learning. But where do you start?How can instructors design powerful, innovative, and effective web-based environments that canbe successfully integrated in a face-to-face class or stand alone to support a distance course?In this paper, we answer the question from the perspective of a four-year long project that led aninstructor from using an institutional, unimaginative, web-based template to designing a fullycustomized, award-winning course that truly reflected his teaching style and philosophy,supported the institution’s mission statement and the course objectives, and supported

Conference Session

International Aspects of Civil Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Crispino, United States Military Academy; Andrew Bellocchio, United States Military Academy; Scott Hamilton, United States Military Academy; Aaron Hill, United States Military Academy; Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Department’steaching load rapidly expands to meet larger enrollments. This growth is attributed to theincreasing size of each graduating class from 84 to over 300 cadets and the development ofsenior level engineering courses. In the first year of teaching to a class of juniors only, a facultyof 5 taught a total of 14 sections during the spring and fall semesters of 2007. In the second yearof teaching to both senior and junior classes, a faculty of 13 taught a total of 52 sections duringthe fall and spring semesters. This rapid expansion, shown in Figure 3, is projected to continueuntil reaching a steady state of 92 annual sections for 2011 and beyond. Page 14.694.6 60

Conference Session

Critical Thinking and Creative Arts

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christy Moore, University of Texas, Austin; D'Arcy Randall, University of Texas, Austin; Hillary Hart, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

AC 2009-1879: THE BIG PICTURE: USING THE UNFORESEEN TO TEACHCRITICAL THINKINGChristy Moore, University of Texas, Austin CHRISTY MOORE is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin where she teaches engineering communication courses and a signature course on “Society, Technology, and the Environment.” Her pedagological and research interests include service-learning projects, engineering ethics and professional responsibility, research ethics, and strategies for advancing students' analytical and rhetorical skills. She is co-PI on an NSF project, The Foundations of Research Ethics for Engineers (FREE) and collaborated on the

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education III

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raymond Winton, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

spring semester 2004*. Date Concept development OTA design* Advanced design Projects 2003 6.5 wk 5 wk 1.5 wk 1.5 wk 2004 6.0 wk 5.5wk* 2.0 wk 1.5 wk 2005 6.0 wk 4.5wk 2.5 wk 1.5 wk 2006 6.5 wk 4.0wk 2.5 wk 1.5 wk 2007 6.0 wk 3.5wk 3.5wk 2.0 wk Table 4-1: Measure of the impact of the algorithm on Analog IC design course. Theschedule is a nominal 15 weeks. The data is taken from end semester class schedules as werereadjusted during the progress of the

Conference Session

Software and Hardware for Educators II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Tront, Virginia Tech; Kimberly Filer, Virginia Tech; Glenda Scales, Virginia Tech; Jane Prey, Microsoft Research

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Page 14.695.2with support from the college administration, alumni, corporate entities, and from variousresearch agencies such as the NSF. Innovations include the incorporation of freshman hands-onmechanical dissection labs, multi-disciplinary projects, and integrated subject material courses toname a few. Most notable among the teaching/learning innovations are the College’s efforts inthe effective use of computing and communication technology in the curriculum. This effortspans the breadth of digital network communications technology from gigaPOP networkingthrough advanced wireless nets, utilizing a broad spectrum of computing devices from personaldigital assistants through multiprocessor super computers. In this paper we describe howpersonal

Conference Session

Software and Hardware for Educators II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick Cunningham, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Shannon Sexton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Julia Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

notes, Supplement instructor provided notes with your own, Take all of your own notes, Not take notes at all)9. When do you refer to your notes outside of class (mark all that apply)? (Answers: Doing homework, Working on Projects, Before exams/quizzes, Never)10. When do you refer to the course notes posted on Angel (mark all that apply)? (Answers: Right after class, Doing homework, Working on projects, Before exams/quizzes, Never)11. When you reference the course notes posted on Angel do you (mark all that apply): (Answers: Print them out, Save them for future use, Access Angel when needed, Don’t use the notes on Angel)12. How often did your instructor use DyKnow during lecture? (Answers: Very Frequently, Frequently

Conference Session

Bridging the Gap and Freshman Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nelson Baker, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology; Thomas Morley, Georgia Institute of Technology; Rick Clark, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

seemed to be a viablealternative. Page 14.302.2Working together, a team partnering people from both Georgia Tech and the Fulton CountySchool System investigated the many challenges inherent in such projects, and proposedpotential solutions. Team members from the university included representatives from the Schoolof Mathematics, the Office of Undergraduate Admission, the Office of Financial Aid, CEISMC,and the Distance Learning and Professional Education (DLPE) office, and from the schoolsystem included the school system curriculum coordinator, technology staff, and high school-level teachers and administrators.The objectives of the program were

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computer-Oriented Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Akram Al-Rawi, McKendree University; Azzedine Lansari, Zayed University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

component with each module of the CCNAExploration curriculum. Typically, it requires two hours per week for each module in a typicalsixteen week semester. Cisco Networking Academy provides students with lab projects either indownloadable PDF files or if they wish, student can purchase the lab textbook15 from CiscoPress. The proposed course curriculum also includes a lab component which is vital forunderstanding key concepts in each chapter. Ideally the lab should include Cisco routers andswitches to provide hand-on learning experiences, but Packet Tracer can be used to facilitate therequired learning if the instructor of the course is familiar with routers and switchesconfigurations. The lab projects can be mapped into the course learning outcomes