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Innovative Classroom Techniques

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2004 Annual Conference

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Nihat Gurmen; H. Scott Fogler

Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education7. Linser, R. and Naidu, S. Web-based simulations as teaching and learning media in political science. Paper presented at the 1999 Fifth Australian World Wide Web Conference, Lismore, Australia, (1999).8. McCollum, K. In test, students taught online outdo those taught in class. In Chronicle of Higher Education (1997).9. Nachmias, R., Mioduser, D., Oren, A. and Ram, J. Web-supported emergent-collaboration in higher education courses. Educational Technology and Society 3 (2000).10. Schutte, J. G. Virtual teaching in higher education: The new intellectual

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Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Renato Pacheco; Lucia Helena Martins-Pacheco

decisionmaker’s final target. The edges show the causal relationships among those concepts or ideas or,in other words, how the concepts interfere each other. It is done through two basic laws ofinteraction of parts, which are, for example, “cause” or “not cause”. However, in a “cause” case,we need to inform if the action of a given concept Ci is in direction of strengthening orweakening the other(s) concept(s) C j .To construct a CM, the opinions of several specialists about a pair of concepts could becombined through a process called a vote procedure (the most voted opinion wins), what is donewhen we use a questionnaire. But, if the relationships were obtained, for example, from a textwritten by a specialist about a particular subject, we need to find

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Anoop K. Dhingra; Al Ghorbanpoor; Joe Rauter

economic contribution upon starting employment with theindustry.References 1. Bagchi-Sen, S., “A Study of University-Industry Linkages in the Biotechnology Industry: Perspectives from Canada,” Intl. Jl. of Biotechnology, Vol. 3, No. 3-4, pp. 390-410, 2001. 2. De Ramirez, L.M., Zayas, J.L, Lamancusa, J., and Jorgensen, J., “Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership Program Outcomes Assessment Results,” Proc. Of the 27th Frontiers in Education Conf., Part 3, pp. 1196-1200, Pittsburgh, PA, 1997 3. Kelley, F.N., “Productive Partnership in Polymer Education,” Division of Polymer Chemistry, Natl. American Chemical Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 1996.

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Christopher R. Carroll

howengineering solutions impact humanity in the social areas listed above. The course will preparestudents to use knowledge from their respective disciplines for the good of humanity with bothtechnical competence and professionalism.BackgroundEngineering programs at UMD are relatively new, originating in the mid 1980’s with threeprograms that were prescribed to be different from those existing on the Twin Cities campus ofthe University of Minnesota. Our original mix of programs, consequently, was an interestingcollection of Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Materials ProcessingEngineering, in order to avoid the “traditional” programs that existed in the Twin Cities. As ourprograms have matured, the restrictions imposed by the Twin Cities

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Design for Community

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2004 Annual Conference

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Edmund Tsang

Michigan University Engineering Design Center for Service-Learning whichsponsors the project.The Initial Design Page 9.383.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright c 2004. American Society for Engineering Education”In the mid-to-late 1990’s when the primary author was an associate professor of mechanicalengineering at University of South Alabama, he adopted the service-learning pedagogy inteaching the first- year “Introduction to Mechanical Engineering”1. In ME 101, students workedin teams to design and build laboratory equipment and

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Materials Science for Nonmajors

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2004 Annual Conference

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Aaron Blicblau

Computer Managed Learning and Assessment Integrated Within a Materials Engineering Program for Non-Majors Aaron S Blicblau Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, AustraliaAbstractThis paper reports on an on-line learning initiative in Engineering Materials for first yearstudents in diverse disciplines of engineering. This initiative was developed for general firstyear engineering students to incorporate an on-line assessment system for the major aspects oflearning and teaching: lectures, tutorials and laboratory work. This teaching approachrequired the availability of a data delivery system (using a proprietary brand of software), forprovision of pedagogical

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Goff

engineer, a customer, an enthusiast, a biker. I also had managed amotorcycle shop in the early 70’s. It was a good match. Page 9.553.4 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationI left the meeting with a project challenge to think about during my riding for the next month.Later that day, I met with the folks at MSOE and firmed up my assignment for the fall quarterthat would start right after Labor Day. I would teach one section of ME160 – Introduction toMechanical Engineering and deliver two large

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Course Development and Services

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2004 Annual Conference

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Marc Hoit

Session 2158 Sur vey Builder : A Tool to Suppor t Assessment Mar c Hoit 1, Rick Sayer s2, Bill Lewis2, Akhil Kar ker a 2, Nar en Kamat 2 1 -Associate Dean, College of Engineer ing, Academic Affair s/ 2 -Car eer Resour ce Center Univer sity of Flor ida, Gainesville, FLAssessment is a critical component of all educational programs. The need to develop andadminister surveys to a wide variety of audiences is one of the standard techniques used in allassessment programs. One of the major

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Understanding Students: Cognition

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2004 Annual Conference

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Marina Pantazidou; Paul Steif

Session 1330 Identifying the Components of Modeling Through Protocol Analysis Paul S. Steif, Marina Pantazidou Carnegie Mellon University/National Technical University of AthensIntroductionThe art of engineering involves a variety of skills, and one of them is modeling. While theterms “model” and “modeling” are not simple to define, within engineering, Piel and Truxal1offer a helpful account: “a model is the simplest possible system description that includes allimportant aspects.” One might add to this “at the appropriate level of detail and accuracy”,which helps to capture the significant amount of judgment involved

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ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

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2004 Annual Conference

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Dick Blandford

Session 3232 Softwar e Design of a Digital Filter Using Evolutionar y Methods Dr . Dick Blandfor d Univer sity of EvansvilleIntr oductionEvolutionary computation was conceived and articulated in the 1960's as a method of solvingotherwise intractable problems. Computer programs based on evolutionary techniques typicallyconsume lots of computer resources and until the 1990's the technique was implemented only bythe few who had access to those resources. Over the last ten years, computers have become fastenough and enough memory has become cheaply available that

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Mathematics in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

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Pravin Raut; Jonathan Lambright

for Engineering Education Annual Conference &ExpositionCopyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education"second exam by the students that did not obtain that threshold during the first exam. In addition,the results show that the data was not skewed during the second exam occurrence by adisproportionate number of those students that achieved 51% or above on the first examoccurrence (11 or 30%). COMPASS Exam First Time Passing Rates 50 50 45 40 37 N S 35 u t m 30 u b Number of students taking the exam. d e 25 e 20

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International Engineering Education II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Fazil Najafi

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright©2004, American Society for Engineering Education Table 2. Comparison between courses at UF and UNAH Number Course UF Credits Equivalent Course UNAH Credits Term 1 Gen Ed -- S Social & Behavioral Science 3 Philosophy 4 Gen Ed- H Humanities 3 Spanish I, Foreign Language I 8 MAC 2311 Analytical Geom. & Calculus I 4 Analytical Geom., Calculus I 8 CHM 2045 General Chemistry I

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Professional Ethics in the Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

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Carsten Ahrens

intended to involve mostly students of the first(undergraduate) study years and of the former project year to have the possibility of letting themwork also in the following project year(s).In addition it was always an aspect of quality and equivalence of the project to have adiversified European composition. But as it happens always in international projects betweeninstitutions of higher education there are more or less active and interested students and more orless active and financially interested and supporting cooperation partners.And thirdly all participating institutions had to verify their interest in this IP in such a way thatthey paid about 50% of the travelling and living costs for their participants, students andteachers. And they had

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Capstone Design II

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2004 Annual Conference

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James Reising

assigned from among those presented at The Online Ethics Center forEngineering and Science at CASE Western University3. One example case from the OnlineEthics Center involved the use of technical information and data contained in one engineer sproposal by another engineer. The example is based on a case ruled on by the NSPE Board ofEthical Review. A recent newspaper article4 concerning the Justice Department investigation ofcharges that Boeing Co. obtained Lockheed Martin Corp. s proprietary documents and themisuse of proprietary information was the basis of another class discussion.The significant change to this part of the course was the requirement that students submit theiranswers to discussion questions in writing. These papers are then used

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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Bryan Goda; Pete Hanlon; Lisa Shay

Session Number: 2471 Experience with Multidisciplinary Design Projects at the US Military Academy Peter D. Hanlon, Bryan S. Goda, and Lisa A. Shay Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996 {peter.hanlon/bryan.goda/lisa.shay}@usma.eduAbstract - The intent of Senior Design Capstone Projects at the US Military Academy is toprovide cadets with a challenging engineering problem that requires them to integrate keyconcepts from several previous EE courses. Multidisciplinary projects add to that challengebecause the students who

Conference Session

Teaching with Technologies

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ronald Gonzales

impact of HCI cultural diversity interface design should strengthenour resolve to support education at all levels and through all markets. Concern for translation,filtering, system constrains, and other commonly used system administration techniques wouldbe at a minium.Tsalapatas, S., Stav, J.P., Brna, P., & Kalantziz, S. (2003) referenced the funding of theEuropean Commission’s Minerva-Socrates program (eCMS) that is used to design and developweb-based content for support of asynchronous eLearning, will aid in efforts to publish,discover, retrieve, and integrate educational material. The eCMS system of course organizationpedagogy moves a step further to recognize that the structure of courses often reflects theacademic practices and

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Whalen; Chris Fernandes

details. A screenshot of sucha page is shown in Figure 1. In addition, users via a link can see a roster of students currentlyregistered for any given course. Such a roster includes each student’s full name, major(s), andadvisor(s). The pages are automatically regenerated nightly during registration periods so noroster is more than 24 hours out of date. Page 9.368.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 1: Example of a Registrar

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Engineering Ethics Papers Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Daniel Lynch

, 1988.COLE-TURNER, Ronald “Science, Technology, and the Mission of Theology in a New Century”. In Volume II, God and Globalization: The Spirit and the Modern Authorities, Max L. Stackhouse and D.S. Browning, eds. Trinity Press International, 2001. Chapter 4, p.139-165.FREIDSON, Eliot. Professionalism. The Third Logic. U. Chicago Press, 2001.FLORMAN, S. The Existential Pleasures of Engineering.GERT, Bernard. Morality. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.HARRIS, C.E.. Jr. and Pritchard, M. S. and Rabins, M. J. Engineering Ethics, Second Edition Wadsworth, 2000HOLLENBACH, D. The Common Good and Christian Ethics, Cambridge U. Press, 2002.KRAUSE, Elliott A. Death of the Guilds. Professions, States, and the Advance of Capitalism

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Lighting the Fire: REU

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2004 Annual Conference

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Shashi Nambisan

Session Number: 3215 (Civil Engr Division) Involving Undergraduate and High School Students in Research: Opportunities, Challenges, and Rewards Shashi S. Nambisan, Ph.D, P.E. Professor of Civil Engineering University of Nevada, Las Vegas 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas NV 89154-4015 Tel: (702) 895-1357, Fax: (702) 895-4401, E-mail: shashi@ce.unlv.eduAbstractHistorically student involvement in research at Universities and Colleges has primarily revolvedaround those in graduate programs. However, the NSF’s Research Experience forUndergraduates program and

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K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

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Adnan Javed; Fazil Najafi

Florida majoring inCivil Engineering with an emphasis in Public Works/Transportation. Mr. Javed is currentlyworking for Boyle Engineering Corporation in their civil and transportation group for the Florida-West Region.2) GARY S. DOWNING Gary S. Downing is a University of Florida graduate and a ProfessionalEngineer (P.E.) He is one of the first few graduates who successfully completed the SarasotaCounty’s PEDP, and is a member of PEDP pioneering team. He is currently serving as theEngineering Section Supervisor for the Road Program Division, Sarasota County.3) THAI TRAN Thai Tran is a Florida State University graduate, and recently got hisprofessional engineering licensure while working for the Drainage Operations, Sarasota County.He has been an

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Projects,Teams & Cooperative Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Hunter

deployed.A clear advantage of the BEVLB Project was that it met most of the selection criteria previouslydescribed: • The topic is real and current. It provides an excellent case study for class discussion of related global and societal issues, such as the need for rehabilitation and replacement of various forms of national infrastructure. The existing inventory of AVLB’s represents a weakness in the United States military infrastructure. The vast majority of the existing AVLB’s are based on 1950’s technology, have an average age of 25 years, have never received a major upgrade, are slower than the other combat vehicles they are used to support, and carry bridges that must be operated at reduced

Conference Session

Programming Issues for Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Fernandez

- Anniversary Edition,Addison-Wesley, 1995. 2. Cooper, Alan, The Inmates are Running the Asylum, Sams Publishing, 1999. 3. Humphrey, Watts S., A Discipline for Software Engineering, Addison Wesley, 1995. 4. ISO 13407 Standard, Developer View Index of the EMMUS Web site,www.ucc.ie/hfrg/emmus/methods/iso.html. Accessed September 11, 2003. 5. McBreen, Pete, Software Craftsmanship: The New Imperative, Addison Wesley, 2002. 6. McCracken, D. and Wolfe, R., User-Centered Website Development: A Human-Computer InteractionApproach, Pearson Education Inc., 2004. 7. Preece, J., Rogers, Y., and Sharp, H., Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction, JohnWiley & Sons, Inc. 2002. 8. Pressman, Roger S

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

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Suryaprasad Jayadevappa; Ravi Shankar

designs.This provided flexibility in terms of the laboratory resource requirement and also makingit a laboratory intense course with many assignments involving designs. Over 90 % of theparticipating class was able to perform inline or above the expectation set for the class.5.References [1] Grotker, T., Liao, S., Martin, G., and Swan, S., “ System Level Design using SystemC”, KluwerAcademic Press, 2001.[2] Sterheim, E., Singh, R., Madhavan, R., Trivedi, Y., “Digital Design and Synthesis with Verilog HDL“,Automata Publishing Company 1993.[3] Bhasker, J., “ SystemC Primer”, Star Galaxy Publishing, 2002.[4] SystemC website, www.systemc.org[5] Arnold, M., G., “Verilog Digital Computer Design – Algorithms to Hardware”, Prentice Hall 1999

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Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Teerasak Asvahem; Campana Claudio; Devdas Shetty

ASME 2002 Design Engineering TechnicalConferences and Computer and Information in Engineering Conference, Canada, September 29-October 2, 2002.[3] LabVIEW, http://WWW.NI.com/[4] James Madison, “CNC Machining Hand Book,” Industrial Press Inc, NY.[5] David J. Ritter, “LabVIEW Essential Techniques GUI,” McGraw-Hill, NY.[6] Peter Smid, “CNC Programming Handbook,” Industrial Press Inc, NY.[7] Yusuf Altintas, “Manufacturing Automation” Cambridge University Press[8] S C Black, V Chiles, A J Lissaman, S J Martin, “Priciples of Engineering Manufature,” ARNOLD, NY.[9] Serope Kalpakjian, “Manufacturing Processes for Engineering Materials,” Addison-Wesley PublishingCompany.BiographicalDEVDAS SHETTYDevdas Shetty is Vernon D. Roosa Professor of

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Portable/Embedded Computing II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Baraniuk; Ray Wagner; Patrick Frantz; Lee Potter; Hyeokho Choi; Douglas Jones

, CLASS Foundation, and Rice University for supporting thedevelopment, launch, and growth of Connexions. Thanks to Texas Instruments and Motorola forthe DSP hardware and software development tools. And thanks to the dedicated Connexions staff,including Ricky Radelli-Sanchez, Adan Galvan, and Brent Hendricks.References[1] R. G. Baraniuk, C. S. Burrus, B. Hendricks, G. Henry, A. Hero, D. Johnson, D. L. Jones, J. Kusuma, R. Nowak, J. Odegard, L. C. Potter, and K. Ramchandran, “Connexions: DSP education for a networked world,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing – ICASSP’02, Orlando, FL, May 2002.[2] S. Appadwedula et al., “Open-content signal processing laboratories in Connexions,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf

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Collaborative Programs and Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

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Nancy Levenburg; Paul Lane; John Farris

opportunities to which students responded using a five-pointLikert scale (1 = Strongly Disagree, 5 = Strongly Agree). 1. There are many opportunities for new businesses in my major field(s) of study. 2. Students in my discipline should be exposed to new venture opportunities. 3. Grand Valley State University students are encouraged to pursue new ventures.The survey results revealed no statistically significant differences between businessstudents, engineering students, and other majors on any of the three statements. Indeed,students perceive opportunities for entrepreneurship across academic disciplines; (e.g.,“There are many opportunities for new businesses in my major field(s) of study” [F =.188, sig. = .829

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Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Zhanmin Zhang; Susan Tighe; Gerardo Flintsch; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

Infrastructure Systems: An Integrative Research Program, Program Announcement and Guidelines. http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/stis1995/nsf9552/nsf9552.txt.2. American Society of Civil Engineers. (2003). Report Card for America’s Infrastructure: 2003 Progress Report. http://www.asce.org/reportcard/.3. Asset Management Primer. (1999). Office of Asset Management, Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation.4. Amekudzi, A., P. Herabat, K.L. Sanford Bernhardt, and S. McNeil. (2000). Educating students to manage civil infrastructure. American Society for Engineering Education, http://www.asee.org/conferences/search/.5. Haas, R. and Hudson,R. (1978). Pavement Management Systems. McGraw Hill.6. Grigg, N. (1988

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Expert Advice on Instructional Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

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Phillip Wankat

later shortened the name back toEngineering Education. This magazine continued as a mix of scholarly and popular articles until1991 when publication temporarily ceased. ASEE PRISM was started that year and the new Page 9.1254.1Journal of Engineering Education (JEE) was started in January 1993. Separate Proceedings Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationwere again published starting in the 1970’s: first from the Frontiers in Education conferences,then from the College Industry Education

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Fontenot; Kendrick Aung

very powerful computing tools are made available to them. Main disadvantages forimplementing these systems with limited budgets are lack of standards and technical supports.However, the advantages of building and using such a system from scratch are great andextremely educational in terms of depth of understanding and hands-on learning.Bibliography Page 9.691.5 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education1. Navaz, H. K., Henderson, B. S., and Mukkilmarudhur, R. G., “Bringing Research and New

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Learning & Teaching Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Vladimir Briller; John Carpinelli

, withdrawals, and performance after withdrawals wereanalyzed. The sample included all CCS students who were enrolled in CIS courses during thefall 2001 and/or spring 2002 semesters.All course records from fall 1995 to spring 2002 of the CCS students who were enrolled in CIScourses in fall 2001 and/or spring 2002 semesters were analyzed. The total sample of students(seats) for FTF courses = 15,468. The total sample of students (seats) for DL courses = 2,554.Two data sets were created, one for the undergraduate students and another for graduate students.Datasets included student demographic information and major(s); SAT scores for undergraduatestudents and GRE scores for graduate students; mode of study (DL or FTF); grades for all CIScourses taken by