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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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Mary Ellen Litzinger; Barbara Bogue

. New York, NY: Henry Holt.11. Mead, G.H. (1934) Mind, Self and Society. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.12. Musil, Caryn McTighe. Gender, Science and the Undergraduate Curriculum: Building Two-Way Streets. Washington, DC: AACU, 2001. wee www.acu-edu.org/publications13. National Council for Research on Women, Balancing the Equation: Where are Women and Girls in Science, Engineering and Technology? (2001)14. Nelson, M.B. (1998). Embracing victory: Life lessons in competition and compassion. New York: William Morrow.15. Rosser, Sue V., ed., “Building Inclusive Science: Connecting Women’s Studies and Women in Science and Engineering,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 200016. Rosser, Sue V.ed., Teaching the Majority: Breaking the

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Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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Barbara Masi

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Session 3561Jones, Elizabeth A. Transforming the Curriculum: Preparing Students for a ChangingWorld, ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report 29(3), Adrianna J. Keyser, Series Editor,San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2003.Myers, Chet and Thomas Jones. Promoting Active Learning: Strategies for the CollegeClassroom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993.National Academy of Sciences. “Improving Undergraduate Instruction in Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics: Report of a Workshop,”http://www.nap.edu/openbook/0309089298/html, The National Academy of Sciences,copyright 2003.CHARLES E. LEISERSONProfessor Leiserson

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Curriculums in Transition

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Nathan Klingbeil

their ETCS 101Introduction to Engineering, Technology and Computer Science course2. Without a doubt, the introduction of early intervention programs and application-orientedfreshman engineering courses are significant steps toward increasing student retention,motivation and success in engineering. That said, the correlation between retention rates andthe inability of incoming students to progress through the required calculus sequence cannot beignored. This problem is not unique to WSU, and in recent years has received substantialattention in the engineering education literature10-16. The general consensus thus far is that thetraditional approach of teaching students the required mathematical theory simply as aprerequisite to subsequent

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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David Murphy

. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Fire SafetyEngineering Technology program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where he develops and teachesfire safety classes. Page 9.277.5 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering”

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

Session xxxx Canaries in the mineshaft: engineers in the global workplace Bethany S. Oberst, Ph.D., James Madison University and Russel C. Jones, Ph.D., P.E., World Expertise LLCAbstractWe need to get beyond the overheated rhetoric about the offshoring of jobs and look seriously athow engineers and the engineering profession want to live and act in society. This articleoutlines the current debate about the migration of jobs overseas and the dismemberment ofengineering and technology jobs into commodifiable pieces. It is written so as to provide

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Industrial Engineering Poster Session

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Rebecca Blust

learning is explained by Bonwell and Eison as, the students “are doingthings and thinking about what they are doing”.1To accomplish this, a group of Engineering Technology students were challenged to apply thelean manufacturing concepts learned in class to a pre-designed production simulation. Thesimulation, “Wagons R Us”, required the students to assemble wagons using K’NEX plasticcomponents as their raw materials.The simulation begins by having students participate in and observe an extreme case of atraditional production system. According to Dr. Ann Stalheim-Smith, “active learning is not aspectator sport”.2 Therefore, the exercise required each student to actively participate. Studentswere divided into teams, given the constraints of the

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Novel Courses for ChEs

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Frank Bowman

through Advisor Seminars, Journal of Engineering Education, 86, 29 (1997).7. Richardson, C., "Freshman Retention in Engineering Technology Programs at Rochester Institute of Technology," in Proceedings of the 1997 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Milwaukee, WI (1997).8. Overholser, K.A., "Engineering Freshman Seminars," in Proceedings of the 2001 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Albuquerque, NM (2001).9. Bowman, F.M., Balcarcel, R.R., Jennings, G.K., and Rogers, B.R., A Freshman Chemical Engineering Seminar, Chemical Engineering Education, 37, 24 (2003).10. AIChE, Chem-E-Car Competition Rules, http://students.aiche.org/events/chemecar.asp (2003).11. Brophy, S.P. and Bransford, J., "Design Methods for

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Teaching Engineers to Teach

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Craig Quadrato; Ronald Welch

Session 2515 Required Faculty Training - How to Teach Civil Engineering Ronald W. Welch, Craig Quadrato, Blace C. Albert United States Military AcademyAbstract Most new civil engineering faculty are hired with the presumption that they knowhow to teach. However, the usual extent of their formal faculty training is occasionallyfilling in for their faculty advisor while in graduate school. At West Point, we couldclaim that since our new faculty trained soldiers every day prior to going to graduateschool, there is no need to waste valuable time and resources on formal faculty training.But, is that

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering and More

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Linda Katehi; Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Katherine Banks; John Gaunt; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman; Phillip Wankat

, andadopting engineering technologies appropriate to the time. The Department is now lookingtowards taking a leadership role in engineering education reform. Such a step will createopportunities to reform the first-year engineering program, long the centerpiece of FrE.FrE serves as the gateway to the Schools of Engineering with all students completing the FrEcore curriculum being admissible as sophomores to the professional engineering degreeprograms at Purdue. In this role, FrE works closely with the Engineering Professional Schools,the School of Science, and the School of Liberal Arts, as well as industry, alumni and parents torecruit, retain, and reinforce outstanding engineering students.Transformation of the first-year program needs to find

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Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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Carolyn Heising; Mary Goodwin

, students were asked to read selected chapters from the following books whichwere also the required texts for the class: Women in Engineering: Gender, Power and WorkplaceCulture (McIlwee and Robinson, 1992), Men and Women of the Corporation (Kanter, 1993), TheTime Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work (Hochschild, 1997),Workplace/Women’s Place (Dubeck, 2002) and Becoming Leaders: A Handbook for Women in Page 9.1426.8 Diversity Course 9Science, Engineering and Technology (Williams, F. M., & Emerson, C. J., 2002). After havinggroup discussions on these

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Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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Ramesh Chawla

. Elemental Chlorine Free (ECF) technology produces no dioxins and has no effect on the aquatic environment less pulp produces high yield than Totally Chlorine Free technology. Page 9.958.7 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education Page 9.958.8Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004

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Engineering Ethics Papers Session

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June Marshall; John Marshall

techniquespresented in this document are intended to assist engineering faculty as they strive tocomply with the recent ABET standard by which they will eventually be evaluated.Bibliographic InformationDewey, J. (1909/1975). Moral Principals in Education. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.Engineering Criteria 2000: Criteria for Accrediting Programs in Engineering in the United States.” 3rd ed.,Engineering Accreditation Commission, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc.,Baltimore, MD, Dec., 1997, http://www.abet.org/eac/eac2000.Greer, P. (1998). Teaching virtue. Education Week on the WEB. Retrieved April 3, 1998.http://www.edweek.org/ew/vol-17-21greer.h17Hargreaves, A. (1993). Changing Teachers, Changing Times: Teachers Work

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Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering

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Michael McGeen

projects that utilize GIS data and RP to study the MilwaukeeRiver Watershed. An encouraging side benefit of this undergraduate research has been ahigh percentage of our REU students going on to graduate school.I. IntroductionMilwaukee School of EngineeringMilwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) is a private, coeducational nonsectarianuniversity located in a metropolitan center. It provides a balanced education --undergraduate and graduate -- for men and women in the disciplines of engineering,engineering technology, business, communication, construction management, medicalinformatics, nursing and perfusion (http://www.msoe.edu/president/mission.shtml). Themission is accomplished through an organized environment that places carefullyrecruited

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jeffrey LaCombe; Eric Wang; Chris Rogers

middle school education" proceedings of the ASEE Annual conference and exhibition, session 2620, 2001 3. Klenk, P., Barcus, K., and Ybarra, G. "Techtronics: hands-on exploration of technology in everyday life" Proceedings of the 32nd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Boston, MA, November 2002 4. Oppliger, D. "Using FIRST LEGO League to enhance engineering education and to increase the pool of future engineering students (work in progress)" proceedings of the 32nd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Boston, MA, November 2002. 5. Howell, W.L., McCaffrey, E.J., and Murphy, R.R., "University Mentoring for FIRST LEGO League" proceedings of the 33rd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in

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Attracting Young MINDs

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Shaundra Bryant; David Cavallo; Arnan Sipitakiat; Anindita Basu

Citythat You Want” and “RoBallet” (a performing arts and technology environment), in addition to creating morestraightforward engineering challenges such as ramp climbing, robotic contests, autonomous vehicle rallies, and soon. We also emphasize programming projects, whether in the creation of their own video games or for programmingof robotic devices or designs. While each of these themes are extensive and a thorough review of each is beyond thescope of this paper, they share the underlying premise of the primacy of meaningful engineering as a gateway toimportant content and personal achievement. Through the course of design and construction, students encounterproblems that require knowledge within the disciplines (i.e. math, physics, etc

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Trends in Mechanics Education

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S. Ibrahim

conducted by aconsortium of universities known as Foundation Coalition has extensively supported the conceptof courses’ integration. The Coalition included Arizona State University, Maricopa Community Page 9.184.4* Equations are not numbered sequentially but have same numbers as in the reference textbook. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationCollege, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Texas A&M Kingsville, Texas A&M University,Texas Woman’s University and the University of Alabama. One

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Paul Leiffer

Laboratory Possible with Undergraduates Alone?,” 2004 ASEE Conference Proceedings.2. Gonzalez, R., “BME Undergraduate Design Projects Using Various Undergraduate Majors,” 2001 ASEE Conference Proceedings.3. Leiffer, P.and Gonzalez,R., “Development of Modules and Labs for ‘Biomedical Engineering Across the Curriculum’,” 2002 ASEE Conference Proceedings.PAUL R. LEIFFER, PhD,PEDr. Leiffer is a professor in the School of Engineering and Engineering Technology at LeTourneau University,where he has taught since 1979. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from DrexelUniversity. Prior to joining the faculty at LeTourneau, he was involved in cardiac cell research at the University ofKansas Medical Center. Email

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Graduate Student Experiences

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Kawintorn Pothanun; William Peterson

paperconcludes with comments from the student’s faculty advisor.IntroductionIt is not uncommon for graduate students in engineering to be assigned to teach a courseat the undergraduate level during their student years. For many this is their first teachingassignment. I was one of these graduate students. I was assigned to teach an engineeringeconomics course at the undergraduate level in the Fall 2003 semester at Old DominionUniversity (ODU). There were 36 students in my class. All of them had either junior orsenior standing in their departments. They were from various departments, i.e., CivilEngineering, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Engineering Technology, MechanicalEngineering, and Computer Science.New educators, especially graduate students, in

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods in Engineering Economy

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2004 Annual Conference

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Kawintorn Pothanun; William Peterson

section ofEngineering Economics at the undergraduate level in the Fall 2003 semester at OldDominion University (ODU). There were 36 students in my class. All of them had eitherjunior or senior standing in their departments. They were from various departments -Civil Engineering, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Engineering Technology,Mechanical Engineering, and Computer Science.Typically, the departments will select the textbook for the assigned graduate assistants.This helps as there are many texts (all with strengths and weaknesses) and this would be adaunting task for a graduate student to do well. The Department of EngineeringManagement and Systems Engineering at ODU selected Newnan, Donald G., Jerome P.Lavelle, and Ted G. Eschenbach

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Engineering Ethics Paper Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jimmy Smith; Steven Nichols

, University of Texas at Austin 3. Michael C. Loui, Ph.D., M.ASEE, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 4. Vivian Weil, Ph.D., Director, Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology 5. Philip E. Ulmer, P.E., Consulting Safety Professional, Eagle River, Alaska 6. Fredrick Suppe, Ph.D., Philosophy, Texas Tech University 7. Carl M. Skooglund, Retired Vice President & Ethics Director, Texas Instruments 8. E. Walter LeFevre, Jr., Ph.D., P.E., M.ASEE, Past President, NSPE, Civil Engineering, University of ArkansasSpecial Assistants and Technical Advisors

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Assessing Teaching & Learning

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Sang Ha Lee; John Wise; Thomas Litzinger

inengineering education involves curricular reform, teaching and learning innovations, faculty development, andassessment. He may be contacted at tal2@psu.edu.JOHN WISEJohn Wise is Director of Engineering Instructional Services at Penn State. In this capacity, he provides assistance tofaculty members and teaching assistants in the areas of teaching, learning, and instructional technology. Hereceived his B.A. in Liberal Arts from The University of the State of New York and his M.S. and Ph.D. inInstructional Systems from Penn State. He may be reached at jwise@psu.edu.SANGHA LEESangHa Lee is a doctoral candidate in Educational Psychology at Penn State. He earned his M. Ed. and B.S. inMathematics Education from the Korea National University of Education

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Renato Pacheco; Renato Carlson; Lucia Helena Martins-Pacheco

for Relevance: Roles for Academia and Industry in Japan and the U.S.,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 86, No. 4, October 1997, pp. 341-348.5. Steiner, C. J., “Educating for Innovation and Management: The Engineering Educators’ Dilemma,” IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 41, No. 1, February 1998, pp. 1-7.6. Bazzo W. A., Ciência, Tecnologia e Sociedade e o Contexto da Educação Tecnológica. Florianópolis, SC: Editora da UFSC, 1998.7. Mahan, J. E.; Jayasumana, A.; Lile, D. and Palmquist, M., “Bringing an Emphasis on Technical Writing to a Freshman Course in Electrical Engineering,” IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 43, No. 1, February 2000, pp. 36-42.8. Rainey, V. P., “Beyond Technology – Renaissance Engineers,” IEEE

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Student Teams & Active Learning

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Steven Zemke; Jennifer Beller; Donald Elger

insights. Without their help this work would Page 9.1150.13not be possible. Proceeding of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2131Finally I wish to acknowledge the Engineering Technology and Multimedia Design Departmentat Eastern Washington University, and the chair Michael Brzoska specifically, for their opennessto investigating new ways to instruct our students.References1. Joyce, B., & Weil

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Curricular Change Issues

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Samuel Daniels; Bouzid Aliane; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

Engineering EducationIntr oductionAt the 2003 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education Dr. ShirleyAnn Jackson, President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, delivered the main plenary speech.Dr. Jackson outlined the themes which must be addressed by the engineering educationcommunity to prepare our graduates for today’s challenges. Among her comments was theobservation that breakthroughs in technology today are driven by the convergence of multiplefields, thus requiring that engineers develop a multidisciplinary perspective. The engineeringeducation community is challenged to increase breadth without sacrificing disciplinary depth.Dr. Jackson asked whether the time has come to seriously consider designating the master’s

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Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

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Anthony Richardson; Dick Blandford

suggests thatas much as half a course could be devoted to these topics as core material included in everycomputer engineering program. An expedient way in which this can be done is to require a 3-hour core course in "Embedded Systems and Real Time Programming" as part of the computerengineering curriculum.Hughes and Nelson1 define computer engineering as the following: "Computer engineering embodies the science and the technology of design, construction, implementation and maintenance of the hardware and the software components of modern computing systems and computer-controlled equipment. Computer engineers are solidly grounded in the theories and principles of computing, mathematics and engineering, and apply these theoretical

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ravi Ramachandran; David Silverstein; Kevin Dahm

. Page 9.1414.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationBiographical InformationKevin Dahm in an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He received his B.S. fromWorcester Polytechnic Institute in 1992 and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998. Hiscurrent primary teaching interest is integrating process simulation throughout the chemical engineering curriculum,and he received the 2003 Joseph J. Martin Award for work in this area.Ravi P. Ramachandran is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering atRowan University

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K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

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Serdar Tumkor; Ali Imre Aydeniz; Ismail Fidan

marketing period. There are manyimportant studies, such as concurrent engineering have been performed about this subject andthese studies have been successfully integrated to the conventional design process1. As a resultof the growth of the companies, departments could be located in the different places and far fromeach other, so that the professionals have less and limited opportunity for face to facecommunication and brainstorming. Therefore, it is a necessity to modify and adapt classicalmethods to the current situation. Developments, especially on the communication andinformation technology, increase the adaptation possibility of conventional methods to the newsituations. It is very well known that, the computer is an important device for

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TIME 6: Web-based Instruction

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James G. Brasseur; Laura L. Pauley

State Teaching andLearning Consortium. The web site design and the interactive editor were created by Ken Kubiak.Bibliography1 The Engineering Case Library (ECL) by the Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) of ASEE, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, and Carleton University. Contact: Richard A. Layton, P.E., Ph.D., Rose-HulmanInstitute of Technology.Biographical InformationLAURA L. PAULEY is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Penn State University, University Park. Since2000, she has also served as the Professor-in-Charge of Undergraduate Programs in Mechanical and NuclearEngineering. Dr. Pauley teaches courses in the thermal sciences and conducts research in computational fluidmechanics. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford

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Tricks of the Trade: Outside Class

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Kirk Schulz; Noel Schulz

Session 1475 Faculty Development – The Future of Engineering Education Noel N. Schulz and Kirk H. Schulz Bagley College of Engineering Mississippi State UniversityABSTRACTThe economic woes of the last several years have hit universities hard. Endowments havelittle or no return. Corporate funding is harder to get. More and more people arecompeting for National Science Foundation dollars where supply is not meeting thisincreased demand. Operating budgets have been reduced providing little or no travelfunds for faculty. Senior faculty who often teach multiple classes are

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Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

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2004 Annual Conference

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Thomas Walker; Joseph Goodman

Postgraduate School. His primary academic andpedagogical interests are in the areas of distance/asynchronous learning technologies and methods, object-orientedprogramming, and object-oriented modeling.REVEREND JOSEPH K. GOODMAN, Undergraduate engineering student in the Bradley School of Electrical andComputer Engineering at VPI & SU. Reverend Goodman’s interests and experience include the area of networkdesign and administration, interactive web server design and programming, and public licensed software. Page 9.955.8