Conference Session

Using Cooperative Education to Validate ABET Criteria

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Griffin, Texas A&M University; David McMahon, Texas A&M University; Martha Marberry, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

andpresentation skills, more design using CAD, general project management skills, and continuedemphasis on working in teams.ConclusionsCooperative education can be a very useful tool for the ABET assessment process. It provides anindependent measurement of student’s performance. In our opinion, the results that we havecollected demonstrate that usefulness. While certainly this is not the only measure that a programwould want to use, it is a very helpful indicator. Page 11.1380.10

Conference Session

Leadership and Administration in ET

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Whitt, Purdue University; Rodney Handy, Purdue University; Margaret Ratcliff, Purdue University-Columbus/SE Indiana

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Page 11.579.6the organization, technology students have the skill set allowing them to identify theselead users. As a result they will be more aware of customer needs and able to makesignificant contributions in the global marketplace.Six Sigma is generally recognized as a measure of quality where a process can’t producemore than 3.4 defects per million opportunities. When most people refer to Six Sigma,they are referring to the DMAIC methodology which is most used in stable or iterativeprocess changes, not innovative processes. The DMAIC methodology is made up of fivedistinct phases: Define the project goals and customer (internal and external)requirements, Measure the process to determine the current performance, Analyze anddetermine the

Conference Session

Teaching Ethics II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

toengineering ethics.At Texas A&M University, evidence of this interest in professional ethics culminated in thecreation of a new course in engineering ethics, as well as a project funded by the NationalScience Foundation to develop material for introducing ethical issues into required undergraduateengineering courses. Case Western Reserve University has created an Online Ethics Center forEngineering and Science. University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Scienceand the Darden School of Graduate Business Administration have created a web site that isdedicated to the dissemination of engineering ethics case studies and supporting resources forstudents and faculty. The Ethics Updates site of the University of San Diego is another

Conference Session

Methods & Techniques in Graduate Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Balachandran, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; Lalitha Balachandran, Wisconsin Department of Transportation

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

evaluator.Lalitha Balachandran, Wisconsin Department of Transportation LALITHA BALACHANDRAN is an advanced engineer Advanced Engineer at the Division of Transportation System Development - Southwest Region, Wisconsin Department of Transportation, 2101 Wright St, Madison, WI 53704-2583. She is registered as a professional engineer in the state of Wisconsin. She has completed many highway design projects from 1990 to 2007 and is currently in a managerial position. Page 12.474.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Designing Weekly Online Graduate Course Discussion and Rubrics for

Conference Session

New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Kane, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Clarisa Gonzalez-Lenahan, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Stephen Eck, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

liberalarts programs and engineering programs (Ref. 3). The implementation of the concept at NJITand the concept itself (now including PhD and MBA programs) has gone through several stagesof development since that time, driven by a number of factors that reflect the transition of NJITfrom a specialized, primarily undergraduate institution to a major public research university(Ref. 1) with over 40 Master's programs, 18 doctoral programs, and graduate enrollmentapproaching 3000. The initial concept was to allow undergraduates to proceed smoothly into thenew Master's programs that were being developed, allowing enhancement of theirprofessionally-based education and providing a vehicle for faculty and students to work onMaster's level Projects and Theses

Conference Session

IP and Supporting Student Startups

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin High, Oklahoma State University; Paul Rossler, Oklahoma State University; Karen High, Oklahoma State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

practitioners and so maddening to inventors. Precisely following these rules for anyinventor, including inventors associated with entrepreneurship programs, may make thedifference between a successful invention and a failure. Page 11.807.2Utility The utility requirement is likely the most important and, from an engineering perspective,the easiest to define. The engineers working on a project typically know from their designspecifications whether they have been successful in creating the proper design. Almost bydefinition an invention must be useful and thereby have utility. Unfortunately, the legal standard is not as forthcoming. The

Conference Session

Introducing Active Learning into ME Courses

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gul Kremer, Pennsylvania State University; Madara Ogot, Pennsylvania State University

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Mechanical Engineering

Introduction to Engineering Through and Integrated Reverse Engineering and Design Graphics Project”, Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 413-418, October 2000.4. Dym, C., Agogino, A., Eris, O., Frey, D., Leifer, L., “Engineering Design Thinking, Teaching and Learning”, Journal of Engineering Education, January 2005.5. Ogot, M., “The Creative Design Workshop: Learning and Discovery through Reverse Engineering”, Proceedings of ASEE Conference and Exhibition, Montreal, Canada, June 2001.6. Sheppard, S. and Jenison, R., “Examples of Freshman Design Education”, International Journal of Engineering Page 11.428.8 Education vol. 13

Conference Session

Feedback and IT: Improving Student Learning

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Roberts, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

curriculum in general, and 6. The outcomes of teaching, as reflected in student learning.8The method or methods selected should be tuned to assess the desired aspects to beevaluated. The evaluator should also be selected with the end in mind—it should besomeone with expertise in evaluating the desired aspect(s).Time is also an important consideration. Faculty members are very busy and reluctant tocommit to excessively time-consuming projects. Many successful peer review projectsrequire a surprisingly small time commitment. A time commitment on the order of a halfhour per week or less is typically feasible—any program requiring significantly more Page

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Javad Hashemi, Texas Tech University; Sachin Kholamkar, Texas Tech University; Naveen Chandrashekar, Texas Tech University; Edward Anderson, Texas Tech University

at the Texas Tech University. The aim was to help undergraduate studentslearn more about the objectives and procedures of laboratory experiments in order to be betterprepared for performing their tasks during the physical experiment. The intention of this project was to assess the benefits of both web based training inperforming the actual experiments and in the learning of students. Furthermore, we wanted toassess the perceived effectiveness of the software as a function of the student learning style andGPA performance. Access to modules was given to several sections of Materials ScienceLaboratory Course. A pre-lab quiz was given to all students to test the students’ understanding ofobjectives, procedure and the anticipated results

Conference Session

Biology in Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Coppinger, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Shannon Sexton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Biomedical

the Director of Assessment at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology where she designs and implements assessment activities for both small and large scale projects. She has presented her work at national psychology and assessment conferences and has published in the areas of political and social psychology. Shannon holds an MA degree in General Experimental Psychology. Page 11.921.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Meeting the learning styles of biomedical engineers in a mainstream genetics course: a biologist’s perspectiveIntroductionA primary goal of undergraduate

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Devdas Pai, North Carolina A&T State University; Gukan Rajaram, North Carolina A&T State University; Ricky Lewis, Northeast Guilford High School; Oliver Lewis, North Carolina A&T State University; Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; Jagannathan Sankar, North Carolina A&T State University

for most completecombustion of the fuel, which is one other way to control pollution levels. The students were alsoinvolved in a simple project to understand the working principle of the spectrometer, whereinthey built a simple opacity meter based on the spectrometer principle to measure the variation inthe light intensity for different emission conditions (See Appendix for details).Collecting DataDuring the opacity meter testing, the sensor diode was monitored by a multimeter set tomillivolts. Because the meter is very sensitive to changes in voltage within the diode, eachsample was tested three times to represent the full scope of the readings. Then the three differentnumbers were averaged for each sample for comparison. The following

Conference Session

Engineering Management Program Management

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Abel, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Engineering Management

M L M L LE126 – Mechanics of Solids L M L L L M L M LEM470 – Engineering Management L L L M M M MEM 475 – Project Management L H MEM365 – Statistics for Engineering Mgrs M M LEM380 – Engineering Management Lab. M L M

Conference Session

Design of Laboratory Experiments

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Afshin Goharzadeh, The Petroleum Institute; Arman Molki, The Petroleum Institute; Michael Ohadi, The Petroleum Institute

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

of the sponsoringconsortium and the local oil companies. We also provide research and continuing educationservices to our sponsors, thus justifying the need for state of the art laboratories at bothundergraduate and graduate levels.Graduates from the Mechanical Engineering Department will work for the sponsoring companiesas field test engineers, laboratory test engineers, design engineers, development engineers,project management engineers, and research engineers. We must prepare the students with theability to undertake a variety of engineering tasks in the oil and gas industry. As a senior levelcourse, the Advanced Measurement Laboratory course is a technical elective in the MechanicalEngineering program. The objective of this course is to

Conference Session

Civil Engineering in the Classroom

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Parker, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

students to make connections among ideas within the course and between the current course and other courses or the students’ experiences. Human Dimension goals increase students’ understanding of themselves and their interactions with others. Caring goals hope to create positive attitudes and feelings within students toward a particular course. Learning how to Learn goals help students become self-directed learners.In terms of Fink’s taxonomy, the goal of this project was to create new Teaching and LearningActivities and a new Feedback and Assessment tool. The Teaching and Learning Activities havebeen designed to address as many of the kinds of learning

Conference Session

On Pedagogy of Lab Courses and Their Design

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nobuyuki Kitashoji, Kanazawa Institute of Technology; Eiichi Sentoku, Kanazawa Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Page 11.719.7 - How to make good tasting coffee - A broom that collects dust well - How to cool body temperature using an electric fan - How to improve the ventilation of a room - How to prevent the temperature in a car from rising2.5 Approach to Improve the Effectiveness of Learning(1) Team-based ProjectsThe FLE courses involve a team-based project. The team-based learning experiencedevelops the students' cooperative and leadership capabilities and deepens theirunderstanding through collaborative work. Each team is composed of 5 or 6 students. Fig.2shows a scene of team-based experiment. Fig. 2 Team-based Experiment(2) Poster SessionIt is desirable for students to work on as many themes as possible in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

VISAR BERISHA, Arizona State University; HO-MIN KWON, Arizona State University; Andreas Spanias, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

[12] Berkeley TinyOS project http://webs.cs.berkeley.edu/tos/[13] Crossbow, “TinyOS Tutorial”, 2004[14] J. Thorn, “Deciphering TinyOS Serial Packets,” Octave Technology, Octave Tech Brief #5-01, March 2005[15] Java Technology http://java.sun.comAcknowledgment: This work has been sponsored in part by the ASU SenSIP cluster and byNSF DUE 0443137. Page 11.728.10

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments and Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jorge Tito-Izquierdo, University of Houston-Downtown; Alberto Gomez-Rivas, University of Houston-Downtown; Weining Feng, University of Houston; George Pincus, University of Houston-Downtown

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

, Inc., 1999.[2] Feng, W., Gomez-Rivas, A., and Pincus, G., “An Experimental Approach for Evaluating Harmonic Frequenciesof a Flexible Beam”, ASEE 2005, Portland, Oregon.AcknowledgementThe authors acknowledge the support from Scholars Academy of the University of HoustonDowntown for supporting students participating in this project. Page 11.187.19

Conference Session

FPD5 -- Placement & Early Success

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mwarumba Mwavita, Oklahoma State University

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First-Year Programs

unprecedented level of national interest.The 2003 National Science Foundation report emphasized that Science and technology willcontinue to be the engines of the US economic growth and national security 1. The report furtherindicates serious problems lying ahead that may threaten U.S. long-term prosperity and nationalsecurity. Among various trends is a reduced domestic student interest in critical areas, such asengineering and the physical and mathematical sciences1. Future projections indicate thatemployment in engineering and science will increase by 51 percent or approximately 1.9 millionjobs by the year 2008. 2 Numerous studies have examined plausible explanations and factors contributing to dropoutrates among engineering students in many of the

Conference Session

Faculty Development: Tenure & Promotion

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Micah Hale, University of Arkansas; Findlay Edwards, University of Arkansas; Norman Dennis, University of Arkansas

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

directly result in your promotion and tenure, butthe contacts you make during committee meetings may. These committees provide youwith great opportunities for networking. The contacts you make may one day be yourexternal reviewers for your dossier or future collaborators on a research project. Innational organizations, committee membership takes times, so attend conferences early inyour academic career and begin forming those professional relationships early.External ReviewsUniversities typically require external review of your tenure dossier and the facultymember must provide a list of potential external reviewers to your department head. Theexternal reviewers evaluate your tenure dossier and in turn write a recommendation letterto your

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum & non-Technical Skills

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Khan, DeVry University-Addison; Barbara Eichler, DeVry University; John Morello, DeVry University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

composite materials can increase environmental problemsSelf-assembling and self-replicating nature In manufacturing area, many processes willof nanotechnological processes need to be redesigned embodying new principles, particularly relating to containment of active or waste products.Source: Meyer, M. (2001). Socio-Economic Research and Nanoscale Science andTechnology, Societal Implications of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, NationalScience Foundation. pp. 224-225, Available online:http://www.wtec.org/loyola/nano/NSET.Societal.Implications/II. Society, Nanotechnology and EducationThe projected

Conference Session

Materials Science and Engineering of 2020

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chrysanthe Demetry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Materials

students were asked to think about the question on their own, then turn to aneighbor, explain their response, and try to come to a consensus. Students then individually“clicked in” their responses, which were projected in the form of a histogram for all to see.(Responses of specific students are available privately to the instructor, but student responsesremain anonymous on the display.) Thus, students’ collective thinking becomes visible to bothinstructor and students.The “clicker questions” that relied on application of the lever rule are shown in Table 2. Whilethe preparation assessment questions were more conceptual in nature or asked students to gleaninformation from the phase diagram, most clicker questions required the students to

Conference Session

Using Teams, Seminars & Research Opportunities for Retention

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dawn Farver, University of Arkansas; Carol Gattis, University of Arkansas

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

://www.asee.org/about/publications/profiles/upload/2004ProfileIntro2.pdf) Accessed 03/08/2006. 2. National Science Foundation. 2004. National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Statistics, Science and Engineering Degrees: 1966-2001, NSF 04-311, Project Officers, Susan T. Hill and Jean M. Johnson, Arlington, VA. 3. Wadsworth, E.M. 2002. Giving Much/Gaining More: Mentoring for Success. Purdue Press, West Lafayette, Indiana. 4. Steele, J., J.B. James and R.C. Barnett. 2002. Learning in a man’s world: Examining the perceptions of undergraduate women in male-dominated academic areas. Psychology of Women Quarterly 26: 46-50. 5. Campbell, A. and G. Skoog. 2004. Preparing undergrad women for science

Conference Session

Programs for High School Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

June Marshall, St. Joseph's College; John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

the University’s automated cell lab projects on a smaller scale. Page 11.260.3The design and fabrication of the modules purchased by the high schools were college-based class activities in electronics and material processing courses. The only expensesto the high schools were the cost of the components. The secondary educators have beenthrilled to have “plug and play” modules that genuinely turned-on their students. This isdefinitely one of those win/win initiatives that can provide an enjoyable, meaningful classproject, and at the same time establish a pipeline for recruiting talented incoming majors!OutcomesIn fifteen years of teaching experience, the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica Cox, Purdue University; Alene Harris, Purdue University

rating standards were calculated across the eleven content experts andacross the twenty vignettes.78) (The professor is talking about pressures in the heart.)PROF: I want to focus today in particular on what’s happening with the pressure.PROF: So that’s this middle, yellow band (refers to projected graphic).PROF: But of course it’s very closely- in fact, inescapably linked to what’s happening in the very top band,and that’s the electrocardiogram.PROF: But again, and down here, what goes on down here (gestures to lower part of image) is also closelyrelated to the volume issues here (gestures to middle part of image).PROF: I want to look here at the pressures.To what extent are the following HPL elements present in the highlighted segment

Conference Session

Ocean, Marine, and Coastal Engineering Topics

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Walid Elshorbagy, United Arab Emirates University; Mir Azam, Chuden_Cti; Kouichi Taguchi, Chuden-Cti; Tetsuya Ichikawa, Chuden_Cti; tomohiko terasawa, Chuden_Cti

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

transports most of the world traded oil. Understandingits water dynamics is therefore a necessary component for any environmentalstudies, coastal development projects, and oil pollution prediction models to beundertaken in the region. The current paper reports major findings of recent fieldobservations and hydrodynamic modeling effort conducted in the Arabian Gulf.The field observations were obtained during a hydrographic survey conducted tomeasure the salinity and temperature in the southern shelf of the Gulf in summerand winter seasons. Salinity and temperature fields were developed tocomplement the physical data established from earlier studies. Hydrodynamicsimulation of the Arabian Gulf was made using a three dimension rectilinear gridsystem

Conference Session

Digital Communications Systems

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce Dunne, Grand Valley State University

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Electrical and Computer

, Portland, Oregon.6. D. Silage, "Augmenting Hardware Experiments with Simulation in Digital Communications," Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Nashville, Tennessee.7. Internet URL http://www.qpsk.com/8. K.A. Kramer and D.R. Maxwell, "Projects with Applications to Wireless Communications - An Innovative Approach to the Digital Design Course," Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Salt Lake City, Utah.9. J.Z. Zhang, K. Burbank and R. Adams, "A Systems Approach to Teaching "Introduction to Electronic Communications" for ECET Students," Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Salt Lake City, Utah.10. R.P. Ramachandran, L.M. Head, S.A. Mandayam, J.L

Conference Session

Leadership and Administration in ET

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wael Ibrahim, ECPI College of Technology; Rasha Morsi, Norfolk State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Sciences - Physics, Chemistry, etc. 6-18 Management - Total Quality Management, Quality Control, Production Planning and Control, Industrial Supervision, Industrial Finance and Accounting, Industrial Safety Management, Facilities Layout and Materials Handling, Industrial Ergonomics and Time 12-24 Study, Industrial Communications, Business Law, Marketing, Leadership, Project Management, International Business, and Teaming, etc. Technical - Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Computer Aided Design, Electronics, Materials Testing, Computer Technology, Packaging, Construction, Manufacturing 24-36 Processes, etc. Electives

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Pioneering Courses

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacqueline Isaacs, Northeastern University; Christopher Bosso, Northeastern University; Carol Barry, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

current and projected workforce. To increase student awareness of thesocietal implications of this developing technology, the academic partners in the Center forHigh-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN), an NSF-sponsored Nanoscale Science and EngineeringCenter (NSEC), have created a team taught course entitled “Nanomanufacturing I”. Assessmentof engineering and science student performance is reported for the segment of the course thataddressed policy issues.1. IntroductionThe academic partners in the Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN), an NSF-sponsored Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC), have created a team taughtcourse entitled “Nanomanufacturing I”. Faculty from all three core partner academicinstitutions, including Northeastern

Conference Session

Innovative Laboratories in BME

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Judy Cezeaux, Western New England College; Steven Schreiner, Western New England College; Diane Testa, Western New England College

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

projects for developing world hospitals. Page 11.799.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Integration of Diverse Laboratory Experiences throughout the Biomedical Engineering CurriculumAbstractLaboratory instruction is crucial in bioengineering curricula to introduce biological andphysiological measurements as well as to foster an understanding of the complex nature ofbiological systems. Traditionally, stand-alone bioengineering laboratory courses providedstudents an opportunity to learn the function and operation of instrumentation as well as toanalyze data by applying theories learned

Conference Session

Questions of Identity

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mike Graham, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Amy Wendt, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Paul Peercy, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Patrick Farrell, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Jay Martin, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Sarah Pfatteicher, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Jeffrey Russell, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

leadershipskills in the areas of change management, creativity, and diversity with explicit attention to theapplication of these skills to the leadership and development of faculty, administrative staff, andstudents. Our goal was to assist engineering education leaders in enhancing their knowledge andskills in areas required for achieving the visions of the NAE report, The Engineer of 2020.”1Inaddition, each of the eight schools was required to identify three challenges faced by theirschool. Prior to attending the retreat, each of the teams was to have developed a plan foraddressing these challenges or a project to pursue.The EELI retreat was a remarkably effective means for the development of our task force, in partbecause of the ideas presented at the