Conference Session

Who Should Teach the BOK

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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Civil Engineering

education in general, and those of the Middle East and the Arab Gulf States, in particular Page 12.92.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 A Practitioner - Faculty Collaboration in Teaching Civil Engineering DesignAbstractTeaching civil engineering design through senior projects or capstone design courses, withindustry involvement and support, has increased in recent years. The general trend towardincreasing the design component in engineering curricula is part of an effort to better preparegraduates for engineering practice. While some design projects are still of the “made up

Conference Session

Two Year Colleges

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dan Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College

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Two Year College Division

the Department Chairperson for Physics, Engineering, & Architecture and a member of the AAPT Committee on Physics in Two Year Colleges. His primary professional interest is in the integration of the findings of physics and engineering education research with education practice. Page 12.1426.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 THE EVOLUTION OF THE EDGE PROGRAM IN ITS FOURTH YEARThis paper presents the results of the fourth iteration of the EDGE (Early Development ofGeneral Engineering) Summer Bridge Program that was initiated in 20031. This year the projectwas completely supported by a grant

Conference Session

Leadership Perspectives in Engineering Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott Segalewitz, University of Dayton

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Engineering Technology

, negotiated by the Senior VicePresident and Provost at the University of Dayton and his counterpart at Shanghai NormalUniversity, articulated the format of the program, admission requirements, tuition and fees, andthe responsibilities of each institution. It was agreed that an articulation be developed to transferstudents in two programs: Electronic Information Engineering at SNU to Electronic EngineeringTechnology at UD; and Mechanical Design, Manufacture & Automation at SNU toManufacturing Engineering Technology at UD. The agreement also indicated that “the twoparties will negotiate the curriculum offered…”Early in the curriculum development process, faculty at UD shared course outcomes and syllabiwith their counterparts at SNU. A short time

Conference Session

Software Engineering Topics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marcelo Jenkins, University of Costa Rica

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

softwareorganization, thus providing the students with a taste of an implemented process.The model for an undergraduate software engineering curriculum proposed in D. J. Bagert et al.5proposes a list of nine software engineering courses that can be part of a Computer Science or aSoftware Engineering degree. The list includes a one-semester course on software qualityassurance but includes no guidelines or suggestions on how to teach the topic.Jaccheri et al.6 describe a software process improvement course in which the students are given adocumented quality manual that contains a general process model written in a formal softwareprocess modelling language and they have to perform improvement initiatives.Gannod et al.7 propose a list of four software engineering

Conference Session

Assessment of K-12 Engineering Programs and Issues

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kelly Hutchinson, Purdue University; Shawn Stevens, University of Michigan; Namsoo Shin Hong, University of Michigan; Molly Yunker, University of Michigan; Cesar Delgado, University of Michigan; George Bodner, Purdue University; William Fornes, Purdue University; Nick Giordano, Purdue University; Joseph Krajcik, University of Michigan

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

’ performance on sciencestandardized exams as they progress through school.5,6 This suggests that the lower performance Page 12.1258.2of older students on these exams is due at least partially to a lack of interest in science.Several promising strategies have been developed by science educators in an effort to increasestudents’ interests and positive attitudes toward science. Schwartz-Bloom and Halpininvestigated the introduction of pharmacology topics into biology and chemistry curriculums andfound that this topic was of interest to students in both science areas and thus caused an increasein student learning.1 Their work builds on previous research

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators: Tricks of the Trade II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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New Engineering Educators

work independently or in small learning teamsas they acquire and integrating information in a process that resembles that of inquiry.Problem-solving learning has its roots in the medical school setting where small groupsof mature, motivated students work to solve very real-world problems. In this process,problems are defined and researched, and high levels of learning occur as they progressthrough the exploration, analysis and implementation cycle.Students soon see that learning is an ongoing process and that there will always be (evenfor the teacher) new learning issues to be explored. Because they learn concepts incontext, they are more likely to retain that knowledge and apply it appropriately in novelsituations.5 As they work through real

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Physics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian Belu, Wayne State University; Alexandru Catalin Belu, Wayne State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

)Equations (28), (31), and (32) define the discrete electromagnetic system. This is not onlythe simplest discretization but also has some very nice properties. All the integralrelations and other theorems that are true of the continuum electric and magnetic fieldsare exactly true of this discretization, and can be proved using simple algebra. Forexample, adding up Equation (28) over a set of cells comprising a region of space givesthe integral form of the continuity equation, relating the sum of the charges in a region tothe sum of the discrete currents at its surface.The discrete electrodynamic system described above can be easily simulated on acomputer. The computation of electromagnetic fields is needed for an abundance ofeveryday applications

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, Santa Clara University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

assessment of the studentlearning outcomes have been done using both a test prepared by the school and a standard testknown as the SSCI.The Signals and Systems Concept Inventory (SSCI) [2-3] is a set of multiple-choice questionsthat measures students’ understanding of fundamental concepts such as signal transformations,linearity, time-invariance, transforms, convolution, etc. There are two versions of the SSCI forLinear Systems. One deals with Continuous-Time (CT) systems and the other deals withDiscrete-Time (DT) systems.The paper is divided into six sections. In Section 2, we describe our Electrical Engineeringundergraduate curriculum. In Section 3, we describe the Linear Systems course contents. InSection 4, we discuss an assessment test used

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques in Mechanics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rick Williams, East Carolina University; William Howard, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

studentwith a good basis for discussing sources of experimental uncertainty. We do not require a formalanalysis of experimental uncertainty since this is covered later in our curriculum, however, we dostrongly believe that it is important for students to begin developing an understanding ofexperimental uncertainty and ask them to comment on uncertainty in every lab write-up. Thesources of uncertainty in this lab include the accuracy of the spring scales, the accuracy of thelinear measurements, and the fact that we are ignoring the mass of the spring scales and chain. Page 12.151.8 12 T1y

Conference Session

Building Knowledge Based Economies: the Role of Industry-University-Government Partnerships

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barbara Waugh, Hewlett-Packard Company; Claudia Morrell, University of Maryland-Baltimore County; Russel Jones, World Expertise LLC; Nancy Hafkin, Knowledge Working

Tagged Divisions

International

an African beachhead and a prototype for regional capacity building, to build in gender equity at each stage of the process, and to design for scaling throughout Africa, based on stakeholder engagement. The innovation for engineering education consists of building and leveraging multi-stakeholder megacommunities focused on building sustainable capacity through engineering education through strategic co-leadership by the private sector. .I. Introduction – on capacity building, technology infrastructure and innovation The process of capacity building and the role of technology infrastructure and innovation is discussed more thoroughly in “HP University Relations: helping build engineering capacity in Latin America.” In her paper

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Currin, Southern Polytechnic State University; Timothy Zeigler, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Construction

engineeringprogram is in progress and has followed a four step process: • Develop program educational objectives, program outcomes, and the supporting curriculum. • Integrate program outcomes and curriculum. • Develop an assessment plan. • Develop an evaluation and improvement plan.Program Educational Objectives, Outcomes, CurriculumAs discussed earlier in this paper, the construction engineering proposal committeedeveloped the program educational objectives, program outcomes, and curriculum.Program constituencies were identified and consulted. The committee communicatedwith the university administration, faculty and students of the Construction Managementand Civil Engineering Technology departments, industry and professional

Conference Session

Using Technology to Enhance Teaching and Learning

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pilar Pazos, Northwestern University; Robert Linsenmeier, Biomedical Engineering Department and Department of Neurobiology and; Suzanne Olds, Northwestern University

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Educational Research and Methods

, 2006, San Diego, CA, 6 pp.9. Roselli RJ & Brophy, SP (2006) Experiences with formative assessment in engineering classrooms. Journal ofEngineering. Education, 95, 325-333.10. Slain, D, Abate, M, Hodges, BM, Stamatakis, MK, & Wolak, S. (2004) An interactive response system topromote active learning in the doctor of pharmacy curriculum. Am. J. Pharmaceutical Education. 68(5), pp. 1 – 9.AcknowledgementsThis work was supported primarily by the Engineering Research Centers program of theNational Science Foundation under grant EEC-9876363. Page 12.1567.14

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dick Blandford, University of Evansville; Deborah Hwang, University of Evansville

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

not combined intoa single department that shared some courses, it is likely that the first programming courses incomputer science would use Java.Another major change in the computer science curriculum consists of the way in which thetechnical electives are structured and chosen. Upper level electives in the computer scienceprogram are structured such that they are open to both computer science students and tocomputer engineering students. This means that in general, the only prerequisite for thesecourses is the data structures course. In terms of which courses are offered, for example, itmeans that an advanced version of object oriented programming will probably not be offeredunless there is great enrollment in computer science since there is

Conference Session

Non-Technical Skills in ET

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jung Oh, Kansas State University-Salina; Alysia Starkey, Kansas State University-Salina; Beverlee Kissick, Kansas State University-Salina

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

involves an integrated three-step processincluding a discipline-specific pre-lab activity, general/customized information literacyinstruction, and communication skills development. This paper describes how thecollaborating team has learned from each other’s reflections to make the assignment ameaningful learning experience.Librarians and faculty have been traversing on parallel paths during the past few decades.The rapid explosion of technological integration into nearly every aspect of daily life hasmerged the separate paths into one. Writing centers and libraries recognize their roles ascenters of learning and the importance of collaboration.1 Librarians, writing center staffand faculty must now travel in tandem in order to prepare students to

Conference Session

Engineering in High Schools

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas Oppliger, Michigan Technological University; Shawn Oppliger, Copper Country Intermediate School District; Mary Raber, Michigan Technological University; Robert Warrington, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

the program grows will ultimately be a function of programassessment and funding. Parallel efforts will include curricula design incorporating the newMichigan Merit Core Curriculum.IV. Integrating an Enterprise Model into the High School CurriculumThe pilot will begin as an extracurricular program, however for this initiative to be successful inthe long term it needs to help students meet the state graduation requirements developed inresponse to the Cherry Commission. The new Michigan Merit Core Curriculum establishes arigorous set of graduation requirements that are among the best in the nation. The requirementswere created to prepare students with the skills and knowledge needed to meet the demands ofthe 21st Century global economy.The

Conference Session

What's New in Dynamics?

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

El-Sayed Aziz, Stevens Institute of Technology; Sven Esche, Stevens Institute of Technology; Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

student may have difficulty understanding what a mathematical solution to a problem 2means from a practical point of view. If students are provided with the means to performexperimentation and to apply the theory to real world situations, this can only be expected to leadto a better visualization and understanding of the theoretical concepts. The simulation systemdiscussed here presents an attempt of integrating Web-based content and interactive multimediatechniques into the curriculum. The integrated platform provides an easy flow of data fromtheory to modeling and measurement, bridging the gap between theory and hands-on learning, asshown in Figure 1. It greatly enhances the students’ understanding

Conference Session

Our Future in Manufacturing

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Truc Ngo, San Diego City College; Armando Abina, San Diego City College; Gene Lyons, Kyocera America Corporation

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

members played an integral part in the development of this advanced manufacturing program. Curriculum is based on program competencies and program outcomes established and approved by key executives, managers and engineers from local manufacturing firms. SDCC MFET industry advisory board consists of executives, managers and engineers from Goodrich Aerostructures, Delta Design, Kyocera, Sony, Jabil Circuit, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Remec, Nokia, Solar Turbines, NASSCO, GKN Chem-Tronics and Johnson Matthey. The board has been assisting the Engineering and Technologies Department with program advertisement at their own companies. For example, Goodrich Aerostructures and GKN Chem-Tronics have published

Conference Session

Leadership Perspectives in Engineering Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Richter, Eastern Washington University; William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

) Department at EWUwere determined to bring this practical dimension of engineering education into the classroom.Utilizing a combined total of over 50 years of industrial experience to draw from, actual andrealistic problems were incorporated into every aspect of the coursework. Instead of usingstandard textbook exercises, problems and their associated constraints are drawn from theirprevious industrial experience in order to reflect more accurately exactly how engineers functionon the job. These practical problem solving projects challenge students to perform like practicingengineers as an integral part of their learning experience. The end result is a greatly enhancedreal world aspect of their education, while preparing them for their eventual

Conference Session

Developments in the Energy Laboratories

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ke Chen, Cleveland State University; Ana Stankovic, Cleveland State University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

AC 2007-1330: BUILDING A MODERN POWER ELECTRONICS AND ELECTRICMACHINES LABORATORYKe Chen, Cleveland State University Ke Chen received BS degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is currently a master student in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Cleveland State University.Ana Stankovic, Cleveland State University Dr. Ana V. Stankovic received BS, MS and PhD degrees from the University of Belgrade, Serbia and University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is currently an Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Cleveland State University. Her expertise is power electronics and electric machines and drives

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alka Harriger, Purdue University; Kyle Lutes, Purdue University; Jack Purdum, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Jack Purdum is currently an assistant professor in the Computer Technology department at Purdue University. He is the author of 14 programming texts and has research interests in methods in computer language education, image processing, and mobile computing. Dr. Purdum was also the CEO of a company that produced compilers, editor, assemblers, linkers, and other programming tools as well as a statistics package. Page 12.472.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Designing curricula to teach concepts and increase employabilityAbstractThe software development curriculum in the Computer

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angel Martinez, Kansas State University; Steve Warren, Kansas State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

asa $100 kit. The kit includes supervisory software written in Visual Basic that allows students tocommunicate with the board via the left and right channels of the Line-In port on a computersound card. Generally speaking, the functionality and resources on this board are restricted whenone considers broad use in an EE curriculum. For example, if a professor were to assign studentsthe task of building an audio filter comprised of a cascade of active filters, the breadboard wouldnot provide enough space. Additionally, for circuit theory and signals & systems courses, EEstudents would need access to an array of input waveforms in addition to audio, includingperiodic sine, square, and triangle waveforms. Because of the importance that modern

Conference Session

Engineering in High Schools

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Mativo, Ohio Northern University; Adam Stienecker, Ohio Northern University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. The intensity of activities above indicates a need to interest secondary schoolstudents with STEM curriculum. With keen interest in introducing and energizing secondaryschool students to STEM curriculum, the authors (we), together with local secondary schoolteachers, evaluated the typical high school curriculum and found that while Science, Technology,and Mathematics (STM) were widely taught, Engineering was mostly absent in the curriculum.We also noted that engineering was the subject matter that brought STM to life throughapplication of the knowledge gained. After several discussions, the authors selectedMechatronics as an avenue for cultivating interest in STEM and maintaining it during highschool and post high school years because of its

Conference Session

Engineering in High Schools

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Merrill, Illinois State University; Rodney Custer, Illinois State University; Jenny Daugherty, University of Illinois,-Urbana-Champaign; Martin Westrick, University of Illinois,-Urbana-Champaign; Yong Zeng, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

analysis. “Because so many different designs and approaches exist to solving aproblem, a designer is required to be systematic or else face the prospect of wandering endlesslyin search of a solution” (p. 91). 10ConstraintsThe design processes utilized in engineering and technology education are very similar withsome notable exceptions. Lewis has suggested that engineering design places more emphasis onassessing constraints, trade-offs, and utilizing predictive analysis compared to technologyeducation. 1 The importance of constraints is, however, included in the Standards forTechnological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology. 10 In Standard Eight, constraintsare viewed as an integral part of an iterative process that typically requires

Conference Session

Non-Technical Skills in ET

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Robertson, Arizona State University; Richard Newman, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

was easy to replicate in an academic department. Componentswere cheap and the design skills were well-suited to undergraduate teaching in anyElectronics Technology department. However, electronics in that form has effectivelydisappeared so the provocative question is, “how have the discipline skills being taught inhigher education institutions changed to match the new generation of job requirements?”The technology change has been driven by the effects of increasing integration ofelectronic functions on silicon. The inexorable progress of Moore’s law 1 has allowed arelatively small number of companies around the world to produce powerful electronicfunctions that deliver super-computer performance on a single chip. The product is alsodelivered

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Dean, Old Dominion University; Moustafa Moustafa, Old Dominion University; Julie Moustafa, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

drafting and design.Optimally, the program will take the input gathered from employers and use thatinformation to refine the program into a seamlessly integrated process where the studentis challenged in every course to rise to the highest level of performance in a real-worldscenario based curriculum. Typically, the problems presented to employees in the real Page 12.1538.6world are ill structured problems with multiple unknown variable and no clearprototypical solutions. Jonassen (2000), in dealing with designing instruction for illstructured problems recommends a systematic approach to designing instruction in thisparticular case. First, begin with

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Industrial Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ranjeet Agarwala, East Carolina University; Tarek Abdel-Salam; Mohammed Faruqi, Texas A&M University-Kingsville

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Instruction.The students had a positive rating for the delivery of instruction. Overall, the students feltthat the Instructor did very well (greater than 6.5) in all elements of instruction. But themost important feedback as depicted figure 4, suggests that the students rated thelaboratory instruction higher than lecture. These results validate the strengths that thelaboratory based components bring to a curriculum thereby enhancing student learningexperience.At the end of each semester each instructor in the department completes a courseimprovement summary log to create an archival record of how each course competencieswere accomplished and how improvement will be made for subsequent offerings of thecourse. Table 4 summarizes the problems identified

Conference Session

Teaching Topics in Aircraft Manufacturing

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Swami Karunamoorthy, St. Louis University; H. Mallikarjuna, St. Louis University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

functions with MATLAB software. Integration of rulebased modeling of dynamic systems and analytical computation of transfer functions withMATLAB provides a viable pedagogical tool for undergraduate education in LinearSystem Control.IntroductionLinear Vibrations and Linear System Control are relatively difficult courses inundergraduate curriculum for Aerospace, Mechanical as well as Electrical engineeringstudents. The primary difficulty lies in developing the equations of motion from givenphysical system. In applying the Newton’s force method, one should have goodunderstanding of degree of freedom and free body diagram. In applying the energymethod, one should have good understanding of kinetic energy, potential energy, anddamping energy. Although

Conference Session

Leadership Perspectives in Engineering Technology

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hamad Albadr, Riyadh College of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Engineering External FactorsWhile these changes in health care are occurring, there are other external factors that will alsoaffect the Biomedical engineering field: A. Internationalization of science and technology.The science and technology used in health care are universal. Coupled with globalmanufacturing and international companies, it is clear that science and technology areworldwide in application. B. Integration of Technology. The examples provided by some of the preceding authors, it is evident that health caretechnology is sophisticated and cross-disciplinary. The application of communications theoryto improving the accuracy and speed of DNA sequencing is such an example. In addition,devices are increasingly interdependent and

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education III

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Otis, University of Washington; Linda Whang, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

engineers who received instruction in informationaccess and use as undergraduates were able to identify more information resources available tothem and had a higher opinion of formal sources of information, such as libraries, than did Page 12.577.3respondents who did not receive library instruction as an undergraduate.12 More recently,Okudan and Osif studied the effect of including library instruction in the curriculum of anengineering design course at Penn State University and found that the “[a]ddition of a guidedresearch intervention to the engineering design teaching improves the design performance inengineering teams.”13In this study, we

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching and Learning

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica Cardella, Center for the Advancement of Scholarships on Engineering Education (CASEE); Cynthia Atman, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

mathematics is considered to be a fundamental element of engineering education, littleempirical research has been conducted to understand how engineering students actually usemathematics. This project takes a research- informed approach towards understanding the role ofmathematics in engineering design by combining two studies of engineering students’ use ofmathematical thinking: a study of engineering students’ use of mathematics during an industry-based senior design project and a study of engineering students’ use of mathematics during alaboratory based design problem.The capstone study used a combination of qualitative methodologies to investigate engineeringstudents’ use of mathematics during one of their first real- world design projects. For