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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers

in industry. Sincestudents in the microEP program were projected to be substantiallyoriented toward industrial careers, the Cohort Methodology was createdto give them practice in the behaviors that would most strongly benefitthem in organizations with large common goals.The Cohort Methodology was recognized as an interesting new approach toPhD education in 1999 when the microEP graduate program won a NSF IGERTgrant for $2.5 million to support its experiment in PhD education. Thetactics implemented in this grad program have had the result ofpreparing microEP graduates for early career success in both industryand academics, as well as resulting in a supportive work groupatmosphere that has been attractive to underrepresented group students.The

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Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Singer

Collaborative Design across the United States Thomas M. Singer Sinclair Community CollegeHow 2 design programs have linked up in developing curriculum and student projects inusing collaborative design methods in the classroom.Project / presentation overviewwww.designcollaborative.orgThe design of manufactured parts at times requires a team effort. This team effort may alsorequire having to work with other design teams that are separated by a great distance. Gettingdesign and drafting programs to simulate this type of commercial interaction has beentraditionally difficult. Our Design program at Sinclair Community College and the Designprograms at

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Ken French

visits are made to laboratory equipment like the gas turbine, wind tunnel andhigh-pressure test vessel. Industrial and professional engineers are invited forpresentations on employment prospects, safety, liability and industrial expectations. The vortex tube project commences about one-third of the way into the semesterand extends to semester's end. The project is interleaved with several shorter team designprojects with duration of one class to three weeks. From the first lecture introduction ofthe project, students are challenged check patents and to surf the 'web' with keywords"vortex tube","ranque", "hilsch", and "air coolers", and from the search create a URL list.Using different search engines and pursuit strategies a few of the

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Theodore W. Manikas; Douglas E. Jussaume; Gerald R. Kane

the University of Tulsa, the Electrical Engineering department contains a laboratory that hasspace and equipment for approximately twenty students. In order to meet ABET requirements,we typically offer two laboratory courses per semester. During the fall semester, the laboratory Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 2is used by both a microprocessor design course and a senior project design course. For thespring semester, the room is occupied by laboratory courses for both digital logic and electronics.A brief history lesson is in order to understand how these constraints

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NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

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2005 Annual Conference

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Patrick Carriere

nation'sscientific and technological enterprise. One of the principal strategies in support of NSF's goalsis to foster integration of research and education through the programs, projects, and activitiesit supports at academic and research institutions. These institutions provide abundantopportunities where individuals may concurrently assume responsibilities as researchers,educators, and students and where all can engage in joint efforts that infuse education with theexcitement of discovery and enrich research through the diversity of learning perspectives. Thisapproach emphasizes the strong bond between learning and inquiry. It recognizes theimportance of building a solid understanding of math and science principles, as well asdeveloping skills for

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Internet Computing and Networking

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gregory Mokodean; Xiannong Meng; Luiz Perrone; Maurice Aburdene

Analysis of Wireless and Mobile Computer Networks Courses Maurice F. Aburdene, Xiannong Meng, L. Felipe Perrone, and Gregory L. Mokodean Bucknell UniversityAbstractThis paper presents an analysis of wireless and mobile computer networks courses. The resultsare based on information collected from course Web sites of universities and colleges incomputer science, electrical engineering and information science departments. The dataanalyzed include course titles, course structure, textbooks, major topics and their presentation,projects, and laboratory exercises. We found that wireless and mobile computer networkeducation can be divided into three

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Betsy Aller; Edmund Tsang; Andrew Kline

. These include projects for a classroom playhouse; an apparatus illustrating Archimedesprinciple; an apparatus to teach and experiment on electromagnetism, which has been throughseveral developmental iterations in the engineering design process involving students fromCEAS, COE, and K-12 teacher customers; and an interactive wind tunnel. Materials developedduring a joint workshop for practicing and pre-service K-12 teachers are discussed, where theparticipants worked with university faculty to develop their own STEM-related curriculummodules for classroom usage. Efforts continue to build and enhance a service-learningconsortium with academic units within WMU, other educational institutions, and communitygroups, including a project with Goodwill

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Recruitment and Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

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Deborah Sharer; David Murphy; Stephen Kuyath

the two one-week Summer Campsoffered by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s (UNC Charlotte) EngineeringTechnology Department as a part of its Diversity in Engineering Technology project, funded bythe National Science Foundation. The purpose of the camps was to involve high school studentsin an intensive week-long program and show them that engineering and engineering technologycould be fun and rewarding.The Engineering Technology Department at UNC Charlotte has four disciplines: ElectricalEngineering Technology, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Civil Engineering Technology,and Fire Safety Engineering Technology. Faculty from each of the disciplines developed aneducational, but engaging, hands-on activity designed to pique the

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TC2K Issues and Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Higley; Jana Whittington; Joy Colwell

Session 2150 Assessing the Assessments: Sometimes the Results are Surprising Joy L. Colwell, Jana Whittington, James Higley Purdue University CalumetABSTRACT: The Manufacturing Engineering Technologies and Supervision Department atPurdue University Calumet has been actively involved with course embedded assessmenttechniques for more than three years. The assessment project has spanned the engineeringtechnologies programs, the computer graphics technology program, and the

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Justin Davis

laboratory isdesigned to continuously evolve. Each semester has ten one-week fixed assignmentswith a three-week design project at the end of the semester. The fixed assignments areindividual and have specific learning objectives dictated by the course outline. Thedesign projects are team-based and use the same learning objectives as the fixedassignments. The finished design projects are then used as next semester’s fixedassignments. This paper will provide the details and evaluate the effectiveness of thisapproach.1. Introduction The development of the Internet has created a very efficient method ofdisseminating information. It is so efficient, that stopping the flow of protectedinformation is extremely difficult. This has been proven in many

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Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Higley; Jana Whittington; Joy Colwell

degree andcreate a “project team”. For example: in a CGT bachelor’s degree program,develop six performance assessments (critiques) and rubrics, two in each of threesuccessive courses within the program.This approach uses six flexible, adaptable assessment tools, consisting of acritique and rubric for two projects in each of three successive courses. Theproject team produces valid, reliable assessment tools in the form of performanceassessment based critiques and rubrics which document student learning. Theteam documents the validity and reliability of the developed assessment tools, in away appropriate for this type of assessment tool, and also prepares all necessarydocumentation to prepare other faculty to use the assessment tools in

Conference Session

Retention Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Fisher

criticalobjectives are to increase retention of undergraduate students to graduation and to decrease thetime to graduation. The project described in this paper is focused on these two objectives. Page 10.1346.3 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”The CircLES ProgramIn 1995 the National Science Foundation funded UTEP and five other minority-servinginstitutions as Model Institutions for Excellence in an effort to develop models for undergraduatescience, technology, engineering, and

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Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kerry Kinney; Tricia Berry

GLUE: Sticking with Engineering through Undergraduate Research Ms. Tricia S. Berry, Dr. Kerry A. Kinney The University of Texas at AustinAbstractThe Women in Engineering Program (WEP) at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) isin the third year of developing, managing and expanding a hands-on, seminar-basedundergraduate research program, Graduates Linked with Undergraduates in Engineering(GLUE). GLUE undergraduate student participants are matched by major and interest area witha graduate student for the spring semester. The undergraduate participant works with thegraduate student on a research project three to five hours per

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Scott Danielson; Robert Hinks; Mark Henderson; Chen-Yaun Kuo; Chell Roberts; Darryl Morrell; Robert Grondin

. Page 10.429.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThe data gathering and analysis process included a forecast of engineering education demand forASU and an assessment of projected economic trends and needs for the state of Arizona.Engineering education literature was collected and examined and an analysis of non-disciplinespecific engineering programs was performed. In addition, site visits were made to five of theprograms. A team of Tempe Campus and East Campus faculty members conducted anassessment of Strengths, Opportunities, Weakness, and Threats (SWOT) of a new engineeringprogram and

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Engineering in High School

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2005 Annual Conference

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Malinda Zarske, University of Colorado at Boulder; Daria Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado at Boulder; Janet Yowell, University of Colorado at Boulder; Jacquelyn Sullivan, University of Colorado at Boulder

School of Science and Technologyprovided an opportunity to teach a hands-on, high school engineering elective course, targeted atinspiring students to explore engineering as a future career path. Through the support of an NSFGK-12 grant, the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program developed an engineering electivethat submerses ninth-grade students — most from populations traditionally underrepresented inthe field of engineering — in the creative engineering design process, including emphasis oncooperative teamwork, engineering design/build projects and making technical presentations.The goals of the Creative Engineering elective are to enhance student learning throughexperiencing relevant, hands-on, inquiry-based engineering; to instill

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Teaching Team Skills Through Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Harris; M. Bramhall; Ian Robinson; David Hick

undertake. This module develops the students’ teamwork andleadership skills away from the university, by participating in a series of indoor and outdoortasks, with an inter-disciplinary design focus, spread over a weekend. Assessment is by bothstaff observation and student self-reflection with a ‘portfolio style’ evidence-based final report.The second module described in this paper uses ‘video conferencing’ between higher educationinstitutions, with postgraduate students at each university undertaking joint project work. Thesejoint projects are multi-disciplinary, for example engineering students working with businessstudents, or materials engineering students working with design students. This leads to thestudents’ greater understanding of the

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rasha Morsi

. Professional organizations are available but are nationwide andeven though Universities can have student chapters, the bond that is built by having a universityconnection does not exist. It is the author’s observation that these students need the nurturingfactor which can be achieved by creating a club they can relate to in their undergraduate years.There are a number of successful efforts that have worked on increasing the number of femalestudents in SET fields. GISET is a club that tries to provide the community outreach found in thefollowing projects while keeping the connection/bond to the school. These projects include: 1) The Northwest Girls Collaborative Project (NWGCP) [11]: This project brings together organizations in Washington and

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Experiences with Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Christensen; Scott Dunning

The University of Maine’s Advanced Manufacturing Center: Lessons Learned During the First Two Years of Operation By Thomas E. Christensen, Scott C. Dunning University of Maine Advanced Manufacturing CenterAbstractThe University of Maine’s College of Engineering has created an Advanced ManufacturingCenter with a student-oriented mission. This center provides a distinctive engineering approachto solving manufacturing problems and gives Engineering Technology students hands-onexperience working on engineering and manufacturing projects. With much of the center’s workcoming from off-campus businesses; the students gain

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Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Nastasi; Leslie Brunell; Keith Sheppard

Designing an Enclosure for the Concorde – A Novel Multidisciplinary Team Project J. Nastasi*, L. Brunell** and K. Sheppard*** *Industry Professor – Product-Architecture Program ** Lecturer and Design Coordinator – Civil Engineering *** Associate Dean Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, NJ 07030 The evolution of methods and materials of design and engineering increasingly requirearchitects, engineers and manufacturers to work collaboratively from the outset of a

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NEW Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Vollaro

introduction to the ‘language of materials science’ iskey to understanding and utilizing the concepts presented. The analysis of mechanical andphysical properties, the manufacturing process, the material specifications for a selectedapplication or component, and the advantages and limitations of selected material are the focusof the project and a technical poster presentation.From the point of view of an engineering educator, the “Annual Materials Science PosterSession” is a learner-centered activity, which is defined as ‘an activity which provides creativeexperiences for students with many different learning styles1,2. The students must demonstrate

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College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

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Russell Faux; Meredith Knight; Brian Gravel; Christine Cunningham

, and students to improve STEMeducation. These grants are also awarded with the mission of educating the future industry andprofessorial workforce on the culture and importance of K-12 STEM education. Tufts Universityreceived its first three-year GK-12 grant in 2000, called “GK-12 Engineering Fellows: A K-12Resource for Integrating Engineering, Math and Science.” The project was awarded a three-yearcontinuation in 2003 under the name “Tufts Engineering the Next Steps (TENS) GK-12.” Theseprojects developed a cohort of over 20 graduate students from various engineering disciplines(including computer science), who have worked to infuse engineering into existing math andscience curricula in K-12 schools.The model of GK-12 at Tufts University is one

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Integrating Research into Teaching

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mary Johnson; Andrew Jackson

, 5S philosophy and techniques, and photographsof real-world examples of 5S. In this Fall 2004 freshman level course, students were divided into teams of 5 to 7members. They identified potential targets for 5S implementation and reviewed them with theinstructor. The instructor’s role was to help scope the project and to ask the team questions aboutresources, permissions, and schedules. The teams planned their projects and described their plansto implement 5S into each project. To plan their projects, the teams were given two one-hourclass periods to discuss their projects with each other and with the instructor, as needed. Twoadditional class periods were devoted to the team’s meeting and to conducting their 5Simplementation. It should

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tony Keller; Jeff Frolik

presented herein may serve as a model for similarly sized programs.Motivation In recent years, retention among freshman engineering students at UVM has only been~60%. To improve retention and attract new students into engineering, faculty from ECE andME worked to identify components of the freshman curriculum in need of revision. Historically,engineering students at UVM had not been exposed to engineering design until their junior orsenior years. This lack of a hands-on design project experience during the freshman year isinconsistent with the curriculum at universities with a strong engineering presence. Thus, a newcross-listed course, EE/ME 001 – Freshman Design Experience, was developed in the Fall 2003and introduced during the Spring

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Zimmerman-Oster; Mohan Krishnan; Shuvra Das; Sandra Yost

teams. Because engineers are traditionally trained in fields such as either“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright ASEE 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Mechanical or Electrical engineering, many of today’s engineering graduates are not wellprepared to function competently in environments that require them to work on products whereelectrical and mechanical knowledge areas are intertwined.An NSF-funded project addresses these competency gaps through the development of two team-oriented, project-based courses as a follow-up to a previously developed “Introduction toMechatronics” course [1-5]. For this project, we have identified the following goals: (a

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Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sumedha Ariely; Barbara Masi; David Wallace; Amy Banzaert

, a representative group in terms of research focus, gender, and tenure level,indicating that 80% of faculty are open to the use of service learning. However, 52% expressedconcerns about time constraints and 56% needed support finding suitable projects for technicalclasses. If this type of support, including methods to mitigate time constraints, were available,faculty were interested in the practice. Surveyed faculty considered service learning mostappropriate for design classes, but were open to the practice in other classes if suitable projectswere available.IntroductionService learning is a teaching method that integrates academically-appropriate communityservice projects into the curriculum of a class. Service learning research shows that

Conference Session

Manufacturing Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lenea Howe; Jr., Elijah Kannatey-Asibu

problems. By contrast, the design of RMS is composed of many individualprojects, all driven by a systems perspective. It provides an excellent example todemonstrate how a system-level perspective drives the individual research projects, and,in turn, how projects are integrated to form a system. This is an integrative approach thatcombines the depth in a particular discipline with breadth due to interaction with studentsand researchers from other disciplines.A driver of a different type for our education plan was the lack of valuable skills thatwould allow young engineering professionals to function more effectively in industry.Engineers in industry must be effective participants and leaders of teams, yet thetraditional university environment was

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Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey LaCombe; James Detweiler; Daniel Loranz; Eric Wang

skill, knowledge, and experience. Missions of growing complexity provide opportunities to acquire baseline skills and then to build on them. We call this strategy "crawl", "walk", "run" and "fly!"This craw, walk, run, and fly euphemism forms the core of the NevadaSat Program. Our roster ofactivities begins with BalloonSats (Figure 1, left), where students build payloads out of kits withdata logging equipment, a timer, a camera, and material to build an enclosure. The payloads areattached to a lanyard, parachute and a weather balloon. The weather balloon provides lift for thestudents’ project and sends them up to a predetermined height. The data logging equipmentrecords data such as radiation, temperature, and pressure.CanSats

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Social Responsibility & Professionalism

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Louise Yates; Maura Borrego

forms of active learning to varying degrees; approximately 50% of thefreshman class completes a design project in their introductory course.Like most science and engineering courses, the focus is on technical content, resulting indense courses with little room for the addition of societal context and other less technicaltopics. Thus, the decision was made to create a new interdisciplinary course for students Page 10.444.1from all engineering majors. The goal of the Engineering Freshman Academy seminars is Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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R. L. Kolar; K. M. Dresback; E. M. Tromble

includesthe following: holistic, interdisciplinary approach to civil and environmental infrastructure prob-lems; collaborative research within and outside CEES that teaches valuable partnering skills; par-ticipation in CEES’s novel educational efforts, including integrated curriculum projects,multidisciplinary design experiences, team learning, team teaching, and K-12 alliances; a full yearin the classroom team teaching with a faculty member; and participation in new faculty seminarsand at least two educational methods courses. Table 1 below lists 10 measurable objectives takenfrom our GAANN contract, that we are using to track progress of the fellowship program. Ourbroad-based program exposes GAANN Fellows to all of the rigors associated with a

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NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Jeff Jackson

terms of seeing what types of STEMefforts have been previously funded. This review may also provide contact information for othergrantees that may be willing to share their proposal development experiences.Proposal PreparationHere we list some, hopefully obvious, but often overlooked issues in the proposal preparationprocess. This is not intended to be an all inclusive list, but rather a compilation of some of themore important facets of the proposal preparation process. 1. Project goals – The project goals must be clearly articulated and consistent with the solicitation objectives. These goals must include rational development, evaluation and assessment. Important ideas must be clearly delineated in the proposal. NSF program