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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Javier Kypuros; Thomas Connolly

on improving theirunderstanding of the fundamentals. All listed the virtual system activity and the MATLABexercises as their top 2 preferences. Furthermore, more than 80% of the students surveyedagreed that the virtual system animations improved their ability to visualize physical responses.When asked to suggest improvements, many students suggested incorporating more virtualsystems with MATLAB-facilitated analysis to improve their understanding. Measurable % of Correct Answers Question Concept(s) Improvement Outcome(s) Pre-Quiz Post-Quiz

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New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Adam Cavender; Saeed Foroudastan

has the capability of eliminating unwanted noise of manysorts. Commonly referred to as noise cancellation, after the company who has pioneeredthe technology, Noise Cancellation Technologies, Inc., it is proving useful in a widerange of applications. Testing has been underway since the late 1980’s, but thetechnology has not yet found its way into the automobile industry on a large scale. Theuse of noise canceling devices on automobiles, specifically diesel transportation vehicles,could result in significant reductions of environmental noise in urban/rural interfaces.With a renewal of this information throughout topics taught in the classroom, studentswill be able to pursue goals that are enriched with technologies that extend past what

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ERM Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jefferey Froyd

Haskell Principle #2. Acquire some level of knowledge base in subjects outside the primary area Haskell Principle #3. Understand what transfer of learning is and how it works Haskell Principle #4. Understand the history in the area(s) that transfer is wanted Haskell Principle #5. Acquire motivation, or more specifically, a “spirit of transfer” Haskell Principle #6. Develop an orientation to think and encode learning in transfer terms Haskell Principle #7. Create cultures of transfer or support systems Haskell Principle #8. Understand the theory underlying the area(s) in which we want to transfer Haskell Principle #9. Engage in hours of practice and drill Haskell Principle #10. Allow time for the

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Architectural Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sze-wai Chan; Ming-yin Chan

involved in investigation of authentic problems.Group project learning was frequently incorporated in engineering curriculum since 80’s [1].The popularity of students working in small groups can be traced to the fact that group workprovides a number of benefits. It allows students to gain practical experience with genuinesetting of a building team. Team spirit can be developed during the course of projectexecution. Many problems will not be discovered in a classroom lecture, but it does happenfrom time to time in group-work. Communication skills, mediation and liaison technique canalso be developed in the design process. Despite all of the benefits of group work in building design process, the use of groupsis fraught with problems. The

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Pierre; Frank Tuffner; Robert Kubichek

suitable for transmitting digital data across a limitedbandwidth channel. The students next observe the effects of changing the line code pulse shapefrom rectangular to a smoother, raised-cosine shaped pulse. In particular, they observe theresulting significant reduction in bandwidth produced by raised-cosine pulses.The final portion of the lab investigates the transparency of each line code. Transparencydescribes the ability to distinguish individual bits in the waveform, especially if a long sequenceof all 1’s or all 0’s is transmitted. This is simulated using a sequence of four random charactersfollowed by 252 all-zero characters. The students focus on the long sequence of zeros and if

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Curriculum Development in Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Powers; Mary Fran Desrochers

controlprimarily because it allows us to focus on sensors and controls, not on the mechanics ofprogramming. It is also well accepted in industry and has led to job offers for our students.LabVIEW™’s integrated data acquisition and control environment includes excellent informationpresentation capabilities. This allows students to easily see what’s actually happening with anacquired signal and how applying various signal analysis tools affect it. This permits very rapidhands-on testing of signal processing routines to, for example, best reduce the effects ofelectrical noise on a desired signal.Why teach LabVIEW™ ?1,2,3 • It is fun for both the students and the faculty • It is an industry accepted standard that can translate into job offers • The

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar

: Nise, Norman S. Control Systems Engineering, Fourth Edition. Wiley, 2004. Please note that there is a Web site available for this course, at www.wiley.com/college/nise, which has some problem solutions and MATLAB files to help you understand the course material.Supplemental Reading List: • Dorf and Bishop, Modern Control Systems, 9th Edition, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0-130-30660-6 • Dorsey, John F., Continuous and Discrete Control Systems with CD Rom, 2002, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0-072-50500-1 • Johnson, Curtis D., Process Control Instrumentation Technology, 7th Edition, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0-130-60248-5 • Stefani, Shahian, Savant and Hostetter, Design of Feedback Control Systems, 4th Edition, Oxford

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Julia L. Morse

Possible Points Program Number(s) Points Earned Outcome 1 Electropneumatic System Design 29 Pneumatic system design 1-1 Appropriate component selection/combination for desired functionality: a □ Compatibility of actuator and DCV 3 A1, A2 b □ Appropriate DCV energizing features (solenoids, spring returns) 2 A2 c □ Appropriate pneumatic flow design (tubing connections, DCV design ) 2 A1, A2

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Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

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Terry Wildman; Kumar Mallikarjunan; Mark Sanders; Jeffrey Connor; Vinod Lohani

outreach’ component of a preliminaryproposal for setting up an Engineering Research Center at Virginia Tech. The proposal iscurrently under consideration at NSF.AcknowledgementThe support provided by two NSF grants (i.e., award #s 0342000 & 0431779) is sincerelyacknowledged.Bibliography1. ITEA.2000. Standards for technological literacy: Content for the study of technology. Reston, VA.1a. Sanders, M. E. (2006, in press). Technology teacher education in the United States. In Williams, J. Technologyteacher education: A global perspective. Reston, VA: Council on Technology Teacher Education.2. Sanders, M., Lohani, V. K., Loganathan, G.V., Magliaro, S., 2004. “Engineering Education: Bridges andOpportunities for Technology Education and Engineering

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Asad Davari; Amir Rezaei

decadeof the 80’s and the first half of the 90’s brought changes in the service region, including changesin the mix of business and industry employing graduates and major changes in the technology,mainly in computer technologies found in the workplace. As a relatively small state-assistedinstitution with an open admission policy, WVU Tech provides access to higher education forthe citizens of the nation, state and its local region who seek careers in engineering, engineeringtechnologies, sciences, business, general education and health professions. Graduates,particularly in engineering have been very successful in their careers and the alumni support isvery strong and widespread. The rigorous curricula and the dedicated faculty at WVU Tech

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steve Warren

multi-week projects drive home concepts such as convolution, fastFourier transforms, and frequency-domain filtering that are difficult to absorb from lecture notesand short-term, episodic handwritten exercises.AcknowledgementsPortions of this material are based upon work supported by the National ScienceFoundation under grant BES–0093916. Opinions, findings, conclusions, orrecommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do Page 10.976.16not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright

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Engineering Education Research and Assessment II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sang Ha Lee; John Wise; Thomas Litzinger; Richard Felder

572 students. Table 2compares the results of the current study with those of past studies reported by Felder andSpurlin.3 The Cronbach alpha values obtained in this study show a similar pattern to past studiesand are comparable in magnitude to the values obtained in three of the four studies. TheSensing-Intuitive (S-N) scale and the Visual-Verbal (V-V) scale both were found to havereliability in excess of 0.7, whereas the Active-Reflective (A-R) and Sequential-Global (S-G)scales had Cronbach alphas of 0.60 and 0.56, respectively.The question is whether the measured alpha values signify acceptable reliability. Tuckman4distinguishes between instruments that measure a univariate quantity, such as a test of knowledgeof a subject area or mastery

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Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jane Rohrback; Donald Carpenter; Lisa Anneberg; Andrew Gerhart

. Their hard work and dedication is whatmakes the Engineering Exploration Days possible.References 1. Marofsky, M., “In Practice: Training the MTV Generation. From Sesame Street to MTV, your newest generation of employees was raised on the boob tube. How do you get through to those young adults? Try taking a lesson from music videos.,” Training and development journal, 44(6), June 1990, 9-15. 2. Robyn, S., “Algebra for the MTV Generation,” Media and Method, 39(3), Jan 2003 6-9. 3. Zimmermann, P. G. and Pierce, B., “Mangers Forum – Managing the MTV Generation,” Journal of Emergency Nursing, 24(5), 1998, 446. 4. Jones, T. and Berger, C., “Students' Use of Multimedia Science Instruction: Designing for the MTV

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Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mary Hofle; Ken Bosworth

from this workshop into your courses and teaching plans.Several of the above sessions were actually split across days, and/or revisited throughout theweek. In most cases, we were able to present grade-appropriate (grades 4-8) material in each ofthe sessions.The workshop attendees were asked to break up into 3 static “working groups”. Whenever agroup experiment was to be performed, the group would work as a team on devising theexperimental setup, determining the method(s) to be used for collecting the data, and interpretingand presenting the results of the experiment to the entire workshop. Groups were free to, and infact, encouraged to “engineer” their own experimental design. When the groups presented theirresults and interpretations to

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yong Tao; W Bao; R Moreno; Marc Zampino; Yiding Cao

DBT projects spanning severalclasses. Additionally, this project incorporated training and development components and anoutreach component for high school students. The objectives and outcomes of the project atUniversity of Idaho are completely in-line with the needs and goals at FIU2. The PI(s) intend toadapt this project for use in a the thermal-fluid sciences by the development of a laboratoryfacility to support DBT student projects focused on heat exchanger design and HVAC (heating,ventilation, and air conditioning) duct system design. Cross Flow Heat Exchanger DBT. The PI(s) will update a current piece of teachingequipment in the laboratory (PA Hilton Cross Flow Heat Exchanger Apparatus). The device iswell suited for the DBT

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College Engineering K-12 Outreach III

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sarah Nation; Leah Jamieson; Jill Heinzen; Carla Zoltowski; William Oakes; Joy Krueger

(s) is completed and delivered, new projects are identified by the team andcommunity partner allowing the team to continue to work with the same community partner formany years. Each undergraduate student may earn academic credit for several semesters,registering for the course for 1 or 2 credits each semester. The credit structure is designed toencourage long-term participation, and grants multi-year projects of significant scope and impactto be undertaken by the teams.Each student in the EPICS Program attends a weekly two-hour meeting of his/her team in theEPICS laboratory. During this laboratory time the team members will take care ofadministrative matters, do project planning and tracking, and work on their project. All studentsalso

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Larry N. Bland

of the American Society for Engineering Education" 1225 International Engineering Program, June 2005, http://www.uri.edu/iep/pdf/facts_figures/2001-2002/gender.pdf.26 Vader, D., Erikson, V. A., Eby, J. W. (2000); “Cross-Cultural Service-Learning for Responsible EngineeringGraduates,” Projects That Matter: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Engineering. Washington, D.C.:AAHE.27 Kelley, B. S., Fry, C. C., Sturgill, D. B., Thomas, J. B.(2004) “Faith-Based and Secular Experience onRebuilding Engineering and Computer Science Higher Education in Kurdistan of Iraq,” in

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Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Feldhaus

toward their postsecondary degree inthe area(s) of Mechanical Engineering Technology, Electrical and Computer EngineeringTechnology, Computer Information Technology, Construction Technology and ComputerGraphics Technology. Project PETE made it possible for IPS students to graduate withcore academic Advanced Placement credits, Technology Advanced Placement credits, an Page 10.1036.1Indiana Academic Honors Diploma and/or a Certificate of Technical Achievement.“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThis paper

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Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2005 Annual Conference

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Philip Gerhart; Andrew Gerhart

S -Qc Fuel flow sensor E R LP / NATURAL GAS TANK CONDENSATE COLLECTION TANK Figure 2: Schematic of the Rankine Cycler2. Page 10.864.3Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lason Watai; Arthur Brodersen; Sean Brophy

student having prior knowledge and practical competencies. Theresults are in Table 1. The sample size N was 191 students enrolled in Spring 2000, Fall 2000,and Spring 2001 semesters.Table 1. Results of student prior knowledge and practical competency evaluation. Competencies Mean S. D.A Test Instruments 1 Understanding & operating the features on the scope correctly 2.84 1.11 2 Displaying, measuring and interpreting the wave forms on the scope 2.87 1.03 3 Measuring the amplitude of signals using the oscilloscope 2.79 1.08 4 Measuring the phase angle between signals using the oscilloscope 2.41

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zdravko Markov; Todd Neller; Ingrid Russell

and testing these hands-on laboratoryprojects in their introductory AI courses.The paper presents an overview of our project and some preliminary results of testing some ofthe material at the authors’ departments. This paper reports on the first phase of the projectwhich was accomplished during Summer and Fall 2004.4. Overview of the ProjectThe project is geared toward the development of several intro AI projects, each of whichinvolves the design and implementation of a learning system which will enhance a particularcommonly-deployed application. Instructors may select which project(s) to assign throughout asemester or may give students options to select from.The projects are easily adaptable. Our designs are modular and object-oriented

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Philosophical Foundations, Frameworks, and Testing in K-12 Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Skylar Stewart; Linda Ramsey; Julie DuBois; Jorge Roldan; David Mills

Inquiry-Based Activities and Technology to Improve Student Performance on the Science Reasoning Portion of the ACT (American College Test) J. E. Roldan, S. S. Stewart, J. N. DuBois, L. L. Ramsey, and D. K. Mills GK-12 Teaching Fellows Program Louisiana Tech University P.O. Box 3179 Ruston, LA 71272ABSTRACTA six-week module to prepare Louisiana high school students from a small rural community forthe science portion of the American College Test (ACT) was developed and taught by twograduate engineering students from Louisiana Tech University. The graduate students, in

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shana Smith

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationReferences Abshire, K. J. & Barron, M. K. (1998). Virtual maintenance; Real-world applications within virtualenvironments, IEEE Proceedings Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, 132-137. Bell, J. T. & Fogler, H. S. (1997). Ten steps to developing virtual reality applications for engineering education,Proceedings of the 1997 ASEE Annual Conference, Retrieved February 15, 2002, fromhttp://www.vrupl.evl.uic.edu/vrichel/. Bishop, A. J. (1973). The use of structural apparatus and spatial ability – A possible relationship, Research inEducation, 9, 4-49. Byrne, C

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State of the Art in 1st-Year Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tom Walker; Hayden Griffin; Tamara Knott; Richard Goff; Vinod Lohani; Jenny Lo

Exposition Copyright @ 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”help students submit software-related bugs to the Alice development team as well as answerquestions students had during in-class exercises. Weekly lessons of Alice involved three parts:(1) readings associated with the week’s lessons and downloading the latest version of thesoftware prior to the first lecture of the week (2) lecture containing new programming concept(s)with hands on exercise (3) continuation of week’s concept with hands on exercise andappropriate homework assignment. Weekly lessons covered the following topics: objects,methods, parameters, storyboarding, selection structures, and loops. Through self-study,students were also encouraged to

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EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

JoDell Steuver; Donna Evanecky

products. Othersources of fad promotion include business schools, consulting firms, and mass-mediaproductions.4Dr. W. Edwards Deming’s successes in Japan finally garnered American interest in his theories.The success of the Japanese economic recovery after World War II and the change in the qualityof Japanese-produced goods caught Americans’ eyes. While Americans enjoyed a cushy marginin trade in the early 1950’s, it soon became discernable that Japanese goods were disturbingAmerican markets. Engineering management became part of the quality revolution whenJapanese parts and products began to cut into the U.S. trade balance. By 1980, U.S. automotivemakers were embarrassed by the NBC documentary If Japan Can, Why Can’t We? Deming wasinsistent that

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Research On Student Teams

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

59 75 66 65 S 57 60 60 59 T 74 67 81 75 J 83 82 81 82 Table 7: Myers-Briggs Temperament Indicators as a Function of Team Effectiveness Satisfies the EN or IN Good Teams Average Teams Poor Teams Plus T, F, P, and J Number 6 of 18 1 of 6 6 of 16 Per Cent 33 17 38 Table 8: Per Cent of Teams Satisfying

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mitchell Neilsen

Explorer (RCX) bricks. Although conceptually simple, the problem enables students to connect abstract design concepts with a concrete implementation and to better understand the importance of using an iterative design methodology.* In part, this material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under NSF Grants No.9980321 and 0227709. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are Page 10.270.1those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Proceedings

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Technology and Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

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Chrysanthe Demetry

): More interest in the inner world of concepts and ideas • Sensing (S): More readily perceives immediate, real, practical facts of experience Intuition (N): More readily perceives possibilities, relationships, meanings of experience • Thinking (T): Prefers to make decisions objectively and impersonally Feeling (F): Prefers to make decisions subjectively and personally • Judging (J): Prefers to live in a decisive, planned way Perceiving (P): Prefers to live in a spontaneous, flexible way.8Over the past several decades, many studies have shown that some MBTI types tend to strugglein or drop out of engineering programs more than others. These findings are most oftenexplained by mismatches between

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Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Devon

conceptual design. They welcome questions and suggestions.References 1. Pahl, G., and W. Beitz. Engineering Design: A Systematic Approach. 2nd Edition. Translated by K. Wallace, L. Blessing, and F. Bauert. London: Springer-Verlag, 1996. 2. Cross, N. Engineering Design Methods, 3rd Edition. Chicester: John Wiley, 2000. 3. Wallace, K. M., and L. T. M. Blessing. (2000) Observations on Some German Contributions to Engineering Design: In Memory of Professor Wolfgang Beitz. Research in Engineering Design. 12, pp2-7. 4. Pugh, S. Creating Innovative Products: Using Total Design. Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley, 1996. 5. For example, Dieter, G. Engineering Design, 3rd Edition. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2000; Ulrich, K

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Aminul Karim; Yakov Cherner; Ahmed Khan

Integration of Interactive Simulations and Virtual Experiments in Fiber Optics and Wireless Communications Courses for Onsite, Online and Hybrid Delivery Yakov E. Cherner*, Amin Karim**, Ahmed S. Khan** *ATeL, LLC, **DeVry UniversityAbstractRapid pace of technological growth has placed new demands on the skills, competencies andknowledgebase of engineering and engineering technology graduates. In order to be successful inthe 21st century workplace, graduates are required to acquire Digital-age literacy. Theengineering and engineering technology graduates are not only expected to understand the theorybehind state-of-the-art technologies, but also to