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BME Introductory Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Curry; Eugene Eckstein

the gait challengeProceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationinto our first-year course, we feel that we are giving the students an application of their acquireddata analysis skills that is more highly motivating than a canned exercise.AcknowledgementsThe authors thank Drs. John Hochstein and Teong Tan for partnering in course instruction andDr. Deborah Lowther for assisting in the development of the challenge-based module andassessments. This work is supported by the National Science Foundation Vanderbilt-Northwestern-Texas-Harvard/MIT (VaNTH) Engineering Research Center for BioengineeringEducational Technologies (EEC9876363

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International Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Janet Ellzey; Ted Aanstoos, The University of Texas, Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

engineering technical elective and an American historycourse (satisfying institutional requirements). The engineering course “ME379M EngineeringStandards and Industrial Policy in a Global Environment” included topics such as national andinternational standards organization, ISO 9000, ISO 14000, environmental policy and regulation,engineering disasters and corporate responsibility, worldwide energy usage, and the relationshipbetween society and technology. Several lectures were given by visiting faculty or industrialrepresentatives. The instructor translated articles from Le Monde, the centrist Parisiannewspaper, related to business and technology in order to prompt discussion about varying viewson technical and political issues related to technology

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth A. Stephan; Benjamin L. Sill; Matthew Ohland

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationand non-sensor versions. The third lab module presented is a significant departure from thosethat can be developed in a parallel format. Some of the greatest gains of new classroomtechnology may be found in activities that cannot be reproduced without the technology. A bookchapter is in press that discusses much more extensively the expectations and evaluation oftechnology in the classroom.3Beam stiffness laboratoryThis laboratory allows students to continue their investigation of stiffness using force and motionsensors begun with the springs laboratory described in our earlier work. After confirming that thecantilever

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Architectural Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Betz

of writing iscurrently emphasized in this discipline pedagogically? Two, are there significant writing styledifferences in the discipline that that require faculty in the discipline to guide the student thoughtand writing process? The current emphasis in engineering and engineering technology programsis placed on highly formatted technical and scientific laboratory reports.1 The problem with thistype of technical writing in the discipline is that it doesn't really prepare students to communicate1 It is interesting to note that students have had a difficult time writing the conclusions in their laboratory reports. Page

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Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

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W. Carlson

Learning from a Wizard: Lessons from Nikola Tesla for Engineering Students W. Bernard Carlson Department of Science, Technology, and Society School of Engineering and Applied Science University of Virginia One of the most flamboyant characters in the history of technology is the electricalinventor, Nikola Tesla (1856-1943). The inventor of the alternating current (AC) motorand an early pioneer in radio, Tesla was a highly talented rival of Edison who became acelebrity in the 1890s. During his heyday, the newspapers presented Tesla as a wizardwho tamed electricity by means of mystical and

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Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Voigt; Nathan Shenck; Delores Etter; Thomas Salem; Samara Firebaugh

all Navy or Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society of Engineering EducationMarine Corps officers in a military that is as technologically complex as it ever has been. It iswith this in mind that the Naval Academy has endeavored to become one of the bestundergraduate engineering schools in the country. The facilities, the faculty, and the focus onundergraduate education are keys to the success of the institution. In addition, the NavalAcademy is the primary source of engineering majors for the Navy and Marine Corps.Our students enter the Naval Academy as undesignated majors. As such, all of them, no matterwhich major

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Measuring Perceptions of Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Ochs

entrepreneurship mapsPA standards for career pathways onto the divisions of the startup company including a)arts and humanities mapped to design and marketing, b) business and communication tomarketing and finance, c) engineering and industrial technology to production, and d)health and human services to human resources, safety, health and legal issues. Studentsform their own companies with president, division heads and team members. They searchout product ideas; perform market research, product research and development. Theyidentify their customers and market their products and /or services through the school’smorning TV show and fliers throughout the school and surrounding community. Thecompany’s board of directors must pitch the idea to the faculty and

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Integrating Mathematics and Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Pennell; Peter Avitabile; John White

courses to courses in their majors orto their careers. Consequently, their motivation to learn the material in mathematics courses islow, and their retention of this material is poor.This paper describes an interdisciplinary, multisemester project designed to lead students toappreciate the relevance and importance of basic STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering andMathematics) material. Starting in the sophomore level differential equations course andcontinuing in junior and senior level engineering courses, students analyze dynamic systemsfrom various points of view, including mathematical modeling. This paper describes the projectand the modules being developed to implement it.IntroductionMathematicians teaching service courses for engineering

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Schmucker, Trine University

!), feel like they took substantive steps towards becoming an engineer, and arebetter prepared to “hit the books hard” and be successful in follow-on courses.The Civil Engineering CourseThe basic first-year University Experience course provides orientation to the campusenvironment particularly in terms of academic resources such as library and museum archives,technology and computing, advising, learning styles models, et cetera. The civil engineeringcourse is structured around three engineering design experiences that move students along theeducational paradigm of learner, observer, assistant, to practitioner. Course delivery methodfollows a learn-by-doing, just-in-time approach. Approximately 7 lessons of 29 were devoted to

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Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

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Larry Young; John Fernandez

., Computers, theorizing, and practice, in Berdayes, Vincent &Murphy, John W. (eds.), Computers, Human Interaction, and Organizations: Critical Issues, PraegerPublishers, Westport, CT, 2000, pp 1-13.2. Cooper, Alan, The Inmates are Running the Asylum, Sams Publishing, 1999.3. Denning, Peter J., The field of programmers myth, Communications of the ACM, 47, 7, July 2004,15-20.4. Fernandez, John D., Engaging students with community organizations by using computer technology,SIGITE 2004 Conference, October 2004.5. Fernandez, John D., Human computer interaction closes the software engineering gap, Proceedings ofthe 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Conference and Exposition, 2004.6. Hafner, Katie, Wanted by the police: a good user

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Mathematics Curriculum in Transition

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2005 Annual Conference

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Om Agrawal; Fred Fontaine

, while ensuring that mathematics coursesaccommodate the needs of other engineering majors simultaneously.With the technological explosion characteristic of the Information Age, electrical engineeringis becoming increasingly dependent on advanced mathematical concepts. Mathematicsfaculties play a vital role in the education of undergraduate electrical engineering students. Therole can extend beyond course work by exploiting opportunities to collaborate with electricalengineering faculty on practical projects and applied research.This coordination impacts the sequencing of undergraduate mathematics courses taken byelectrical engineering students, the selection of examples and applications in these courses, thecoverage of particular topics, and the

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ME Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Alley

presents lessons learned from this pilot symposium and discusseshow we intend to incorporate these lessons into next year’s symposium.Introduction The Boyer Commission Report has urged universities to “make research-basedlearning the standard” for the education of undergraduates [1]. Also calling for more Page 10.73.1* This work was supported by the National Science Foundation: NSF Project 0341171. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Educationresearch by undergraduates in science, technology

Conference Session

Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ming Sheu; Michael Ohadi; Arman Molki

., “A Model for the Engineering Laboratory of the Future”, Proceedings of the Fourth WorldConference on Engineering Education, Saint Paul, MN, 1995, pp. 112-116.3. Ratcliffe, M., Parker, G., and King, C., “Meeting the Needs of the Employer: An Innovative Course in SoftwareEngineering”, Proceedings of the Fourth World Conference on Engineering Education, Saint Paul, MN, 1995, pp.39-42.4. Krar, S.F., Gill, A.R., Smid, P., “Technology of Machine Tools”, 6th ed., McGraw Hill, 2005.5. Giesecke, F.E., Mitchell, A., Spencer, H.C., Hill, I.L., Dygdon, J.T., Novak, J.E., “Technical Drawing”, 12th ed.,Prentice Hall, 2000.6. Hawkins, S., Coney, M.B., Bystrom, K.E., “Incidental Writing in the Engineering Classroom,” Journal ofEngineering Education, vol. 85

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Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Krueger; Ted Aanstoos; Ronald Barr

in the awareness of programoutcomes and their importance in the curriculum. Many students see them as overly generalizedstatements that have no bearing on the concepts they need to pass a given course. Thus,dissemination of the notion and value of program outcomes is a major hurdle for the faculty.This paper suggests that engaging students at the freshman level in the departmental programoutcomes is one strategy to foster a climate of their acceptance in later courses. Examples offreshman class assignments and projects that address specific program outcomes in a MechanicalEngineering department are presented.IntroductionIn the mid-1990’s, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) developeda new set of criteria for

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ismail Orabi

Page 10.437.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright C 2005, American Society of Engineering EducationES 107, Introduction to Engineering, is a three semester-hour course. It provides an introductionto engineering through a realistic and hands-on problem-solving experience. It focuses onengineering design process--the application of math, science, and technology to create devicesand systems that meet human needs. It provides an introduction to group work, to oral andwritten communications and to engineering ethics. The course is required for all freshman-engineering students, and a large number of non-engineering majors at the University of

Conference Session

First-Year Design Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tonya Peeples; Julie Jessop

educational mandate in the University of Iowa College of Engineering (UICoE) as expressed by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET): “Eachgraduate will have an education that is supportive of a broad awareness of the diversity of theworld and its cultures, and that provides an understanding of the impact of engineering practicein the global/societal context.”9 This paper provides an overview of the lectures, materials andactivities that comprise the Emergency/Homeless Shelter Design Project that we give our Page 10.555.2students as a capstone design project in our EPSI project sections. Proceedings of the 2005 American

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Matthews; Perry Heedley

, in which a total of 5 engineersworked on the entire analog portion and only a single engineer designed the ADC.This trend has increased the importance of teamwork and communication skills for newengineering graduates, and has received attention from bodies such as the Accreditation Boardfor Engineering and Technology (ABET)1. Employers value prospective employees withteamwork experience2. Page 10.159.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThe authors believe that integrating these skills

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Rajesh Malani; Enno Koehn

engineering students have passed the fundamentals ofengineering examination. This is significantly higher than the national average of roughly 60-70%. The data indicate, therefore, that engineering students, who are motivated to enroll in andcomplete a review course, are well prepared to satisfy the requirements of the FE Examination.This is also true for the other engineering disciplinesVII. Engineering AccreditationThere are various criteria that must be satisfied for an engineering program to be accredited bythe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). These are tabulated in thepublication, “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs”1. One requirement that must besatisfied is that each program should have an assessment

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

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Suzanne Brainard; Sheila Edwards Lange; Elizabeth Litzler

estimates theeffects of climate and integration measures on career commitment. Both regression analyses findthat certain aspects of climate and integration are significantly associated with graduate studentadvancement and retention.I. IntroductionGraduate enrollments in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) reached arecord high of 455,400 students in the fall of 2002. According to the National ScienceFoundation, the number of women graduate students in STEM has increased every year for thelast twenty years and more than 40% of STEM graduate students are women [5]. As science andengineering graduate programs become more diverse, it is imperative that we know more aboutgender differences in perceptions about the climate for graduate

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Problem-Solving & Project-Based Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Taryn Bayles

strategies, and connect with the many resources that areavailable on campus to help ensure success.BackgroundThe high school level Introduction to Engineering course was developed based on the interestand ideas that emerged from a workshop conducted at UMBC in July 2001. The objective of theworkshop was to better equip high school teachers and counselors to identify, guide, and prepareprospective students at each of their schools for a career in engineering. The three-day workshopwas developed and presented by the author and was modeled after work done by RaymondLandis1, former Dean of Engineering and Technology at California State University, LosAngeles. Invitations to the workshop with a brochure and application form were sent to areahigh schools

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Tricks of the Trade

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2005 Annual Conference

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Susan Freeman; Beverly Jaeger; Maurice Aburdene

Empty-Handed Demonstr ations for Engineer s: Think Inside the Box Maurice F. Aburdene*, Beverly JaegerŒ, Susan FreemanŒ *Bucknell University, ŒNortheastern UniversityAbstractRecently there has been much emphasis on the inclusion of technology to improve student learning inengineering and this has proven to be very effective in a variety of engineering courses. The objective ofthis paper is to supplement technology-based education by teaching fundamental concepts using "empty-handed" demonstrations. This instructive technique is defined as one that is accomplished by usingwhatever is typically available in or near traditional classrooms and by simulating concepts with studentsand/or

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Akhlesh Lakhtakia; Christine Masters; Judith Todd

undergraduatedegree, whether they plan to continue their studies in graduate school or enter the workforce.Feedback from industrial advisors and the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET) continues to emphasize communication skills as a primary attribute sought during thehiring process. Due to the nature of the flexible, multidisciplinary undergraduate curriculum, Page 10.766.2communication skills are particularly important to individuals graduating from Penn State’sEngineering Science honors program so they can convey, to those unfamiliar with the Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

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Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Ward; Tonya Emerson

Students Are Leaving Engineering Curriculums; Can Our Educational Approach Stop This? Tonya Emerson, Michael Ward College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Construction Management California State University, ChicoAbstractRetention rates in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) majors have been aserious concern nationwide for many years. The Consortium for Student Retention DataExchange’s 2002-2003 STEM Retention Report provides sobering data on our national retentionrates. The report shows that retention rates at Carnegie-Masters type institutions for incomingfirst-year students in STEM majors that continue and

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Richard Gilbert; Robert Poth, Douglas L. Jamerson Jr. Elementary School; Robin Little, Douglas L. Jamerson Jr. Elementary School; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

behind the scene of the problem to ensure the success of theproject. Jamerson students are helping to shape their own learning paths by becoming problemsolvers of and for the future.BibliographyBurghardt, M. David (1999a). Introduction to Engineering Design and Problem Solving. New York: Mc-GrawHill.Burghardt, M. David (1999b). Assessing Elementary School Design Portfolios, The Technology Teacher, 59 (2).Koch, Janice (1999). Science Stories. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.Florida Sunshine State Standards for Mathematics and Science (2004). State EducationDepartment, Tallahassee, FL.AuthorsROBERT POTH is the Principal of Douglas L. Jamerson, Jr. Elementary School. He earned his B.A. in ElementaryEducation and a M.Ed in Educational Leadership from

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Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Byrne

response by strain gauge technology 5 Measure structural deflections 6 Compare analytical and theoretical results 7 Communicate test results through reports or presentation Page 10.778.3Table 2. Learning outcomes for ME 331. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education For the past three years, the ME 331 lab experiences have included; Tensile testing,Rockwell Hardness; Microhardness, Impact testing, Torsion testing, Flexure testing, Heattreatment (HT

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Building New Communities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Smith; Ronald Miller; Ruth Streveler

Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education o Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (CASEE) Annals of Research on Engineering Education (AREE) o Departments of Engineering Education Purdue – Department of Engineering Education Virginia Polytechnic University – Department of Engineering Education Utah State University – Department of Engineering and Technology EducationThe RREE workshops are positioned to assist in building engineering education researchcapacity in the engineering faculty community. More rigorous engineering education research isbeing called for

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Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Reed Stevens; Kevin O'Connor; Lari Garrison

for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationWe thank those students who are participating in this study, in particular the two womendiscussed in this paper, and the Learning, Technology and Interaction Group led by ReedStevens at the University of Washington for helpful comments on and discussion of anearlier draft of this paper.References[1] Stevens, R. & Hall, R. “Disciplined perception: Learning to see in technoscience,” Talking mathematics in school: Studies of teaching and learning, (107-149). M. Lampert & M. L. Blunk, (Eds.), Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1998.[2] Lave, J. and Wenger, E. Situated learning: Legitimate peripheral

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Integrating Mathematics and Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shane Palmquist

discussed which improves student understanding of theconcepts in applied engineering mechanics. As part of the course, a steel truss bridge project isintegrated into the curriculum.I. IntroductionEngineers are technical problem solvers. From a historical prospective of the mid 20th centuryand after, engineers have been trained to be number “crunchers” due to significant changes inengineering education and technology as a result of the post World War II era1-4. From highschool math and science courses through college engineering courses, engineers have been“molded” to crunch numbers. Here is a problem with all the associated numerical information.Now, solve for the solution.The practice of number crunching has not only been ingrained in our

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Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

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Karan Watson; John Weese

-track faculty hired for the fall 2004, 11 (23.4%)are women.COURSE Preparation of two written papers and two oral presentations on mechanicalDESCRIPTION: engineering topics; generation of a professional résumé; development of a life- long learning plan; presentations by different faculty and industry representatives on: effective communications, preparation for engineering practice, becoming a professional engineer, contemporary issues, engineering ethics, career-long technical competence, the impact of technology on society, and being well-read and well-informed. One Credit (1-1). Prerequisite: Upper level ME

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Tricks of the Trade

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramesh Chawla

PVC.SummaryEveryday real life situations present potential for case studies. The physical situation and effectsare generally reported in the media. These reports are written for lay public and are easy tocomprehend. These situations can be expanded to probe further into the causes and remedies ofthe problems, while utilizing the concepts and fundamentals of science and engineering. It is aninteresting teaching tool and students can relate to the practical aspects of engineering ineveryday life.References1. Castaneda, Ruben, The Washington Post, Page B2, Tuesday, Feb 20, 2001.2. HI Point Industries - Oclansorb http://www.oclansorb.com/oclan.htm3. ABTEK – Technologies and Services http://www.bbriefings.com/pdf/30/exp032_t_absorb.pdf4. EC-2100P http