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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steven Northrup

most important attribute indicative of success in thepractice of engineering.The Auburn study also surveyed 298 industry representatives to determine what attributes areneeded for successful engineers. The survey found that the alumni and the industryrepresentatives ranked the top 16 attributes in almost the same order of importance. In fact, thefirst four were ranked in the same order. Therefore, both the industry representatives and thealumni said that the ability to learn on one’s own was the most important attribute of a successfulengineer.The Auburn University study was performed prior to the adoption of EC 2000’s criterion 3attributes and was a survey of alumni and industry representatives associated with a largeuniversity. Therefore, to

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Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sumedha Ariely; Barbara Masi; David Wallace; Amy Banzaert

Learning, Spring 2004, pp. 21-33, 2004.6. E. Abes, G. Jackson, and S. Jones, “Factors that Motivate and Deter Faculty Use of Service-Learning,” MichiganJournal of Community Service Learning, Fall 2002, pp. 5-17, 2002.7. S. Adams and F. Pereira, “Measuring Faculty Preparation to Lead Teams in the Engineering Classroom: A PilotStudy,” Proceedings, 2002 ASEE Annual Conference, ASEE, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2002.8. M. Zwyno, “Engineering Faculty Teaching Styles and Attitudes toward Student-Centered and Technology-Enabled Teaching Strategies,” Proceedings, 2003 ASEE Annual Conference, ASEE, Nashville, TN, 2003.9. J. Mitchell, “Time Professors Spend Improving their Teaching,” Proceedings, 34th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers inEducation Conference, IEEE, Savannah

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Web-Based Laboratory Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lars Håkansson; Ingvar Gustavsson; Henrik Åkesson

G P -IB H P 3 5 6 7 0 A d y n a m ic s ig n a l a n a ly z e r C la m p in g - S o u rc e O u t C h 1 C h 2 C h 3 C h 4 h a u se P C S e rv e r P o w e r A m p lifie r A c c e le ro m e te r

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Technology and Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stephen Silliman; Leo McWilliams; Kevin Abbott; G. Christopher Clark

incorporation of these technologies has had a dramatic, short-term effect on the learning environment. Substantial care must be taken in first-year courses where students may not appreciate the uncertainties associated with educational experiments and may become disillusioned when technology use is not carried over into future years.References Cited1- Brockman, J, TE Fuja, S Batill, 2002, “A multidisciplinary course sequence for first-year engineering students”,Proceedings of ASCE, session 2253.2- McWilliams, L, S Silliman and C Pieronek, 2004, “Modifications to a Freshman Engineering Course Based onStudent Feedback “, 2004 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 2004.3- Pieronek, C, L McWilliams, and S Silliman, 2004

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Assessment Issues in 1st-Yr Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Anita Mahadevan-Jansen; Christopher Rowe; Stacy Klein-Gardner

ES S er M ic m C il id iv ed

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Innovative Teaching and Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sheldon Jeter

Page 10.41.6more logical presentation. In practice, the investigator is well advised to conduct at least Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationpreliminary Uncertainty B analysis ahead of time using generic or even estimated data.Otherwise a poor experimental design could result in excessive Uncertainty B that cannotbe easily corrected later. Indeed a complete redesign may be necessary. Table 1. Experimental Data for Heat Exchanger Experiment units 1 2 3 4 5 6 AVG m& H kg/s 0.051 0.052 0.052

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Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jessica Moffitt; Jennifer van Rij; Jeffrey Wolchok

future students. However, to allow for this process a DRIE system would need to bepurchased. Additionally, it would have been helpful if the capabilities of the UtahMicrofabrication Facility were well understood during the initial design stages of the project.However, we still believe the microfabricated energy scavenging system would make an idealsenior or graduate level design project. The system combines aspects from several engineeringdisciplines and offers a great opportunity for students to execute design, simulation, fabricationand testing in a multidisciplinary group setting.References:1. S. Roundy, R. K. Wright, and J. Rabaey, “A study of low level vibrations as apower source for wireless sensor nodes,” Computer Communications, vol

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Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jane Schielack; Carol Stuessy; George Nickles

Page 10.1173.11 inquiry," Educational Researcher, vol. 32, pp. 5-8, 2003. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education6. J. Douglas, E. Iversen, and C. Kalyandurg, (2004, December). Engineering in the K-12 classroom: An analysis of current practices & guidelines for the future. American Society for Engineering Education EngineeringK12 Center. [Online]. Available: http://www.engineeringk12.org/Engineering_in_the_K-12_Classroom.pdf.7. A. M. Hoff, M. Barger, R. Gilbert, K. S. Rogers, J. D. Hickey, E. Roe, and B. McCullough, "Teaching problem solving to high school and

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Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Vinod Yedidi; Brian Johnson; Joseph Law; Herbert Hess

-campus labs. The frequency of the voltage can becontrolled with the help of frequency control. This control is analogous using the field control onthe DC motor to vary rotor speed in the on-campus lab. Synchronous indicator and breakercontrols can also be seen in Figure 1. The synchronous indicator produces the output of thebright and dim lamp method used in the on-campus lab for synchronization. The breaker controlsallow the off-campus students to close the breakers when the synchronous indicator generatesstable 0’s on all three of the indicators. This is analogous to closing the breakers when all thelights go dark in the on-campus lab.All the on-campus experiments need voltmeters and ammeters to measure RMS voltage andcurrents in all the three

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Developments in Chem Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steve Sternberg

. Multipleresponses are listed as (x 2), which means that this response was given by multiplestudents. Examination of these comments suggests that most students enjoyed the hands-on activities, agree that they are a good use of class time, and feel they add to theireducational experience. They also believe timing could be better and that perhaps someactivities could be replaced. There was no agreement on which one(s) should be replaced.Results from exam scores for the two years of this project (2003 and 2004) are presentedwith the two prior years (2001 and 2002) in appendix 3. All scores are normalized to 0 –100 scale. Comparison shows no statistically significant difference between scores on theindividual tests.As the course instructor, I observed several

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Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sara Tracy; Jason Immekus; Susan Maller; William Oakes

who participate in service-learning during their undergraduate careers makenotable social and academic gains6. Specifically, community involvement has been associatedwith enhancing students’ appreciation of the people and organizations with whom theyworked7,8, feelings of social responsibility9,10, and development of factual knowledge related totheir field(s)11. Students who enroll in service-learning courses are characterized as beingintrinsically motivated to assist others and having a desire to seek personal growth and self-actualization12. Collectively, empirical evidence suggests that service-learning promotesstudents’ awareness of the broad issues that face society. Service-learning is believed to promote academic and personal

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Best Zone Papers

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2005 Annual Conference

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Arne Weigold; M. P. Sharma; Edward Anderson; Roman Taraban

1 bje rks tio s Co tes Ad nfo M ex te ati s Bo ion Na fo tM n f Ta Prin ff e Of Ge rratio Su kma Na d No

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Innovation in ChE Teaching

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2005 Annual Conference

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Bruce Finlayson

(H,t) = 0 for t > 0Solve this problem for v0 = 0.03 m/s, H = 0.005, µ = 1180 Pa s,ρ = 800 kg/m3. Use six points inthe x direction (including the boundary points). Plot the results versus time. You can plot allvelocity values versus time, but it is more instructive to plot them versus distance, with time as aparameter. (This isn’t required, though.) Naturally, you need to verify that your right-hand sideis correct. Since this is a linear problem, this is one case where you could compare yournumerical solution to the analytical one, Eq. (4.1-40) of “Transport Phenomena”1. Page 10.833.7 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering 7 Education

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stacy Wilson; Mark Cambron

Creation of an Assessment Plan for a Project Based Electrical Engineering Program Stacy S. Wilson, Mark E. Cambron Western Kentucky UniversityAbstract A joint program in Electrical Engineering has been created with Western KentuckyUniversity (WKU) and the University of Louisville (UofL). The program resides at WKU withUofL faculty delivering 16-24 hours into the curriculum through distance learning methods. Thefocus of the new EE program is a project-based curriculum. The mission of the new program isto build a foundation of knowledge in electrical engineering by integrating a variety of projectexperiences at every level throughout

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Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

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Marie McCarther; Linda Garavalia; David Renz; Deborah O'Bannon

Session 2692 Advancing Women in STEM disciplines to Leadership Roles in Academe Deborah J. O’Bannon, Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Linda S. Garavalia, Department of Psychology, David O. Renz, Bloch School of Business and Public Administration, and S. Marie McCarther, Midwest Center for Non-Profit Leadership University of Missouri-Kansas CityABSTRACTThis paper describes an NSF ADVANCE-funded program designed to facilitate the rise offaculty women to academic leadership positions in NSF-sponsored disciplines

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Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sherra Kerns; Edwin Jones; John Weese

Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) as the LeadSociety for EAC Programs leading to degrees designated as Engineering (without modifiers), Engineering Physics,and Engineering Science(s), and for TAC Programs leading to degrees in Engineering Technology (withoutmodifiers) for which ASEE will provide the fiscal program support, the training and assigning of programevaluators, and the infrastructure for efficient, timely interaction with ABET staff, EAC Team Chairs, and TACTeam Chairs. As do other lead societies, ASEE will strive to establish a constructive balance of program evaluatorsfrom academe and industry/government, as well as from under-represented groups in the engineering/engineeringtechnology professional spectrum. These procedures

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Norman D. Dennis

(Excellence 7 in Civil Engineering Education) Teaching Workshop, or ETW for short. 8 9 The ETW99 was designed by faculty of the U. S. Military Academy and delivered to 24 faculty10 members with 1-4 years of teaching experience. This workshop was the first in what was11 expected to be a series of annual teaching workshops for C.E. faculty. Concurrent with this12 workshop nine senior faculty from engineering programs around the country formed a program13 design team which was charged with to observing the ETW and making recommendations on14 content and conduct of future teaching workshops that could be delivered in other venues. The15 result of this design activity was the versions of ETW conducted in 2000 and subsequent yeas at16 the

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Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Joan Gosink; Catherine Skokan

,production and utilization. As such, CSM occupies a unique position among the world'sinstitutions of higher education1.Women have participated in much of the history of CSM2. The first woman to graduate, Page 10.660.1Florence Caldwell, received a degree in Civil Engineering in 1898. By 1959, three more womenhad graduated. In the 1960’s, the number of women at CSM increased and an additional 10 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright@2005, American Society for Engineering Education”women received degrees. The first PhD awarded to a woman (Catherine

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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

Session xxxx Customers on Campus – Building Successful Collaboration between Physics and Engineering through Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research Jeffrey A. Jalkio, School of Engineering Martin E Johnston, Department of Physics Christopher S. Greene, School of Engineering University of St. ThomasAbstractThe educational benefits of collaborative student – faculty research and real-world designprojects in engineering are well known. In particular, engineering students benefit from theexercise of design skills and from working with

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Distance & Service Learning, K-12, Web & Work-Based Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

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Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

relations and producingsystem. All these policies have modified human life drastically, in a non-reversible way, in manyparts of the planet. In Education field the huge challenge for the Century XXI is to prepare thenew professional for the new work market and in developing Countries like Brazil, the challengeis even bigger because there is also the urgent necessity to promote the development of scienceand technology [3].4. Distance Learning Experience – A History of more than 50 years.Brazilian Distance Learning Experience dates back form the 40’s when two initiatives have to bementioned as pioneer projects on distance education in the world: Brazilian government startedthe “Universidade do Ar” (The University of Air), which was the transmission

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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

this course: After successfully completing this course, students should be able to: 1. Explain the reasons for long-wave patterns in technology development and dissemination and how they impact economic patterns. 2. Describe the different phases of the S-curve and explain the forces that cause them. 3. Explain how attributes of innovation affect their rate of adoption. 4. Describe the major technology adoption strategies and the characteristics of those who employ each. 5. Explain the difference between destructive and reinforcing innovations. 6. Explain the reasons why individuals and groups may act to prevent change. 7. Describe the three main strategies for overcoming resistance to change. 8. Summarize the historical development of

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Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Denice Denton; Sheila Edwards Lange; Eve Riskin; Kate Quinn; Joyce Yen

, and mathematics. This paper discusses these mentoring programs and provides guidelines for replication at other institutions.IntroductionA recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education posed the question “Where are all theWomen”?1 Indeed, although female U.S. citizens are now earning more Ph.D.’s than male U.S.citizens across all disciplines,2 faculty continue to be largely male dominated.3 An even moreunbalanced picture exists in science, engineering, and mathematics (SEM). In 2003, womenearned 43% of the SEM Ph.D.’s awarded to U.S. citizens.2 However, at the top 50 SEMdepartments, as determined by research dollars, only 8.4% of the faculty in 2002 were women.4Furthermore, the representation of women among SEM Ph.D

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Workshop, Program, and Toolkit Results

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sheila Edwards Lange; Joyce Yen

further research purposes.Other issues needing further research and/or attention include the dual career issues, theinfluence of Deans in the process, and the role of implicit biases and/or departmental politicsduring the search process.References:[1] A. L. Antonio, "Diverse student bodies, diverse faculties," in Academe, vol. 89, 2003, pp. 14-17.[2] C. Turner, Diversifying the faculty: A guidebook for search committees. Washington, DC: Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2002.[3] D. Smith, C. S. V. Turner, N. Osei-Kofi, and S. Richards, "Interrupting the usual: Successful strategies for hiring diverse faculty," Journal of Higher Education, vol. 75, pp. 133-160, 2004.[4] A

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Venubabu Vulasa; David Grieve; Chetan Sankar; Bob Bulfin; Paul Swamidass

international collaborations,” International Journal of Human-ComputerStudies, Volume 60, Issue 3 , March 2004, Pages 365-380. 2. Van Ryssen, S., and Godar, S. “Going international without going international multinational virtual teams,” Journal of International Management, Volume 6, Issue 1 , Spring 2000, Pages 49-60. 3. Devon, R., Hager, Sathianathan, D., Saintive, D., Nowé, M. and Lesenne, J. “Alliance by design: International student design teams,” Proceedings of International Conference on Engineering Education, Session 2544, August 17/20, 1998. http://www.ecsel.psu.edu/alliance/ 4. Pollard, J, Devon, R, McKay, A, and Bilén , S, “Teaching Design Through International Collaboration

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Engineers & Mathematicians Communicating

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2005 Annual Conference

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Elton Graves

1.9 5.6 16.7 42.6 31.5 3.98 .95in my life’s work.Knowing mathematics will help me u43 25.9 53.7 11.1 9.3 0 2.04 .87earn a livingI expect to have little use for u48a 0 5.6 16.7 40.7 37.0 4.09 .87mathematics which I get out ofcollege.It was interesting to note that on fifteen, of the forty-five, questions the students seemedto have strong agreement, with an average response under 2. Three of these questionsdealt directly with the usefulness of mathematics.Question Quest %SA %A %N %D %S mean s.d

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Integrating Materials and Manufacturing

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2005 Annual Conference

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K. Ted Hartwig; Richard Griffin, Texas A&M University at Qatar

Individual Student Scores Figure 1. A comparison of fall 04 and spring 04 data for the laboratory final exam. The % correct is given on the y-axis, while individuals are represented on the x-axis.The agreement between the spring and fall data is very good. The data in Figure 1 is plotted aspercentages, so that the different number of questions is not relevant.Discussion Both the fall and spring courses have 90+ students. Even though the tests differ by fivequestions the averages, maxima, minima, and standard deviation are very similar. Frankly, it wasdisappointing the initial time that we gave the test to have such a low average. We expected theaverage to be in the 70’s. However, the second time the test was

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K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kevin Staszowski

understanding of heating and cooling. Cognition and Instruction. 13. 483–503.5 Papert, S (1993) Mindstorms Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas. Perseus Publishing. Cambridge,Massachusetts.6 Rojas-Drummond, S. Hernadez, G. Velez, and M. Villagran, G (1997) Cooperative Learning and theAppropriation of Procedural Knowledge by Primary School Students. Learning and Instruction. 8(1) 37-617 Stevens, R. Slavin, R (1995) The Cooperative Elementary School: Effect’s on Student Achievement, Attitudes,and Social Relations. American Educational Research Journal. 15. 321-3518 Webb, N. Farivar, S (1994) Promoting Helping Behavior in Cooperative Small Groups in Middle SchoolMathematics. American Journal of Educational Research. 31(2) 369-3959 Webb, N. Troper, J

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Higley; Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

oldcriteria. The continuous improvement requirements necessitate more documents andgreater document control but wider access is highly desirable. The faculty in theManufacturing Engineering Technologies & Supervision Department of PurdueUniversity Calumet has opted to use the Internet as the tool of choice for documentcontrol. The advantages to this system are easy access from any Internet enabledcomputer, easy dissemination, and simple document control procedures.Bibliography 1. Neff, G. and Scachitti, S., “The Assessment Cookbook: Recipes for Successfully Meeting TC2K Criteria,” Proceedings of the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference, Montreal, June 16-19, 2002

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Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Cottrell

Session 3438 Hands-On Graphics Communications – Designing Commercial Properties in an Introductory Course: Innovative Teaching Strategies for Success David S. Cottrell Pennsylvania State University at HarrisburgIntroduction This paper describes the integration of design projects during the Fall Semester, 2004,into the curriculum of an introductory graphics communications course at Penn StateUniversity at Harrisburg. These projects served a double purpose of reinforcing topicstaught in the classroom as well as introducing students to the engineering design

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

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Erik Peterson; Ian Papautsky

compare. Later in the course, students were asked analysis andsynthesis style questions, such as those beginning with recommend or explain or what if.Students were also required to perform calculations using the principles of mechanics andmicrofluidics discussed in class or the research papers. Representative questions are given below. 101. From the paper by Richards-Grayson et al., what is the appeal for applying MEMS technologies to biology and medicine? Give examples of two specific areas where MEMS technologies are being applied to biological and medical research. In your answer, describe details of the MEMS device(s) used. 11 122. Based