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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Blair Rowley, Wright State University; Kumar Yelamarthi, Wright State University; Thomas Bazzoli, Wright State University

students towork in teams. A course outline is provided in Table 1.The computer lab exercises involve e-mail and web searching, designing an airplane wing,HTML scripting, MatLab, Excel, and statistics, and how things work as the writing intensiveassignment. The instrument labs cover 2-D and 3-D drawing using TurboCAD and SolidWorks,use of lab instruments, circuit measurements on resistive circuits, and building and testing amultivibrator, decade counter, and flip-flop using integrated circuits. In addition, basic solderingand basic wireless communication is taught using a temperature satellite. Apart from the labs,students also participate in three other teaming activities which are the focus of this paper. Thethree teaming events, three exams and

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Faculty Development Toolkit

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maher Murad, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown; Andrew Rose, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown

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New Engineering Educators

23 His/her ethics and professional integrity 6 46 His/her professional experience 2 15As indicated in Table 1, most responses indicated that effective teaching methods, enthusiasm,and instructor’s confidence in his/her knowledge and views are the qualities of an excellentinstructor they had as in the past as students. Almost half of the responses indicated that otherqualities of an instructor make him/her an excellent instructor including the way he/she treatedstudents in class, his/her concern of student learning, grading system and fairness, his/her senseof humor, and his/her ethics and professional integrity. About a third of the survey

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rachel Adams, Loyola Marymount University; John Dorsey, Loyola Marymount University; James Landry, Loyola Marymount University; Michael Manoogian, Loyola Marymount University; William Trott, Loyola Marymount University

in isolation with noarticulation with engineering coursework. At Loyola Marymount University, first yearengineering students take a one semester introductory chemistry class that addresses atomictheory, stoichiometry, properties of gases, solids and liquids, periodic law, solutions,thermochemistry, and redox equations. This new course added biology topics, addressed moreadvanced chemistry topics and integrated these biology and chemistry topics with engineering ina new and innovative way. To our knowledge, few if any institutions offer a course like it. Fewexamples were found based on an internet search. Few engineering biology courses existed thatwere not associated with a biomedical program. Some evidence of similar courses was found atthe

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin Dahm, Rowan University; Roberta Harvey, Rowan University; Brian Lefebvre, Rowan University; Heidi Newell, Rowan University; James Newell, Rowan University

2006-876: DEVELOPING METACOGNITIVE ENGINEERING TEAMS THROUGHTARGETED WRITING EXERCISES AND STUDYING LEARNINGPREFERENCESKevin Dahm, Rowan University Kevin Dahm is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He received his Ph.D. from MIT and his B.S. from WPI. Among his areas of interest are computing and process simulation in the curriculum, and integrating economics and design throughout the curriculum. He has received the 2005 Ray Fahien Award, 2003 Joseph J. Martin Award and the 2002 PIC-III Award from ASEE.Roberta Harvey, Rowan University Roberta Harvey is an Assistant Professor in the Writing Arts Department at Rowan University. She holds a Ph.D. from the

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Faculty Involvement in International Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jongwon Kim, Seoul National University; Dong Mok Kim, Seoul National University; Stefano Consiglio, Technical University of Berlin; Semih Severengiz, Technical University of Berlin; Guenther Seliger, Technical University of Berlin; Lalit Patil, University of Michigan; Debasish Dutta, University of Michigan

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International

launch of the GPD course did not pose any problem. This is due to theinbuilt flexibility in graduate programs in the U.S. and Korea. The course was started as an Page 11.46.3“experimental” course in UM (ME 599) and as a “temporary” course at SNU (Advanced MEDesign Problem II with the subtitle of GPD). Such courses at the graduate level can be offeredby any faculty at UM and at SNU and require minimal approvals.The integration into the curriculum (i.e., conversion from experimental/temporary to a regularcourse) did require formal paperwork and approvals. There were unique issues that had to beaddressed during this process. First, the offering of

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Denny Davis, Washington State University; Steven Beyerlein, University of Idaho; Olakunle Harrison, Tuskegee University; Phillip Thompson, Seattle University; Michael Trevisan, Washington State University; Benjamin Mount, Washington State University

— model, observation, and interpretation— for constructing assessments1. In thecontext of an engineering classroom, design performance produces two different andcomplementary types of outcomes: learner development and solution development. Further,design is: open-ended, iterative, creative, collaborative, goal-driven, process-intensive, product-focused, customer-oriented, value-added, and constrained by society. Learner and solutiondevelopment usually progresses from a state of students’ fragmented understanding and ideas toa more mature state of integrated understanding and design solutions.The proposed conceptual model for engineering design identifies four areas of performance thatdescribe design: (1) personal capacity, (2) team processes, (3

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Veronica Burrows, Arizona State University; Vincent Pizziconi, Arizona State University; Robert Culbertson, Arizona State University; Marilyn Carlson, Arizona State University

2006-1148: PROJECT PATHWAYS: CONNECTING ENGINEERING DESIGN TOHIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS IN AMATHEMATICS-SCIENCE PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMStephen Krause, Arizona State University Stephen J. Krause is Professor and an Associate Chair of the Chemical and Materials Engineering Department at ASU. His teaching responsibilities are in the areas of design and selection of materials, general materials engineering, polymer science, and characterization of materials. His research interests are in innovative education in engineering, and structural characterization of polymers and semiconductors. He has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory for assessing fundamental knowledge of students in

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Teaching Innovation in Architectural Engineering I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Suzanne Bilbeisi, Oklahoma State University

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Architectural

– that is a direct result of the project goals, the needs of the user group, and the vision ofthe architects and architectural engineers. Architectural engineers play an integral role in thecreation of architecture, as they are responsible for the design and analysis of the requiredtechnical systems.Assignment 7Students are asked to imagine that they have just been hired as the lead designer for a new“space” on the university campus. The space will be visible from the president’s office, and willbe a reminder to him of the creativity and innovation of students and the learning process. Thenew space most likely will become a meeting and gathering point for students as they go abouttheir daily life on campus.The functional program is quite simple

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Introductory Materials Engineering Courses of 2020

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paulo Blikstein, Northwestern University; Uri Wilensky, Northwestern University

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Materials

an importantdriving force for engineering education reform programs. As basic science and engineeringbecome increasingly intertwined in fields such as nanotechnology, molecular self-organization,molecular electronics, and microbiological synthesis13, students and professionals have to dealwith time scales from the nanosecond to tenths of years, and sizes from the single atoms tomachines many thousands of meters long14. Many researchers and industrial leaders in the field have been pointing out that reforminitiatives are falling short of those new challenges. Bazzo15 and Blikstein16 criticized the“banking” approach of simply adding new courses to the curriculum, and Hurst17 pointed out thatsyllabi and curricula were so overloaded with

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What's New in Mechanics of Materials?

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lucas Passmore, Pennsylvania State University; Aiman Kuzmar, Pennsylvania State University-Fayette

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Mechanics

, civil, industrial,and aerospace engineering and engineering technology disciplines. It provides a fundamentalunderstanding of the mechanical properties of various materials which makes them useful for amultitude of applications. It also provides an introduction to the analysis of staticallyindeterminate structures which allows more complex problems to be solved than is possible withstatics analysis alone. These important topics are, however, approached in different ways fortraditional engineering, and engineering technology students here at Penn State. The similaritiesand differences in the two courses are addressed in this paper. The paper also explains theimportance of this comparison to the students and the educators in both

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Trend in Construction Engineering Education II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Haiyan Xie, University of Arkansas-Little Rock; James Tramel, University of Arkansas-Little Rock; Wei Shi, University of Florida; Mei Lu, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology

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Construction

. • First, students don’t need to cope with school time schedule. • Secondly, virtual schools still operate with a formalized calendar: the great majority of them on the basis of a curriculum to be taught and learned additively in a given number of years, sub-divided into smaller periods of working months, weeks, days, till lessons. • Thirdly, notions of truth and falsity are arrived at through exam evidence.This paper proposes a new model to improve the Internet-based course programs throughfollowing an action research process in the virtual classroom. Thus, the author can cultivatedemocracy and dynamic learning and communication groups in Internet-based courses toimprove the actual abilities of students. The training

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marcia Friesen, University of Manitoba; Myron (Ron) Britton, University of Manitoba

competence.In response, the goals of the IEEQ program are to: ‚ Provide a time-effective alternative to the APEGM examination program, ‚ Provide a supportive community for immigrants as they work toward professional recognition, both with other immigrants pursuing similar goals and with Canadian engineers, and ‚ Provide an opportunity for progressive transition and integration in the Canadian engineering profession over time, both in demonstration of technical background and in cultural and personal adjustments.Additional goals are to address key integration challenges as identified by immigrants andemployers alike, namely professional licensure, Canadian engineering work experience, English

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zhiwei Guan, University of Washington; Steve Lappenbusch, University of Washington; Jennifer Turns, University of Washington; Jessica Yellin, University of Washington

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New Engineering Educators

professional skills and abilities. This could imply that group discussions of their portfoliosmay help students reflect. Page 11.1000.11Surveys and interviews in Christy’s studies revealed student reticence in self-directed learning.9This obstacle could greatly hinder students’ motivation to direct their own learning and maybeeven their motivation to create thoughtful portfolios. Students in this study suggested thatinstructors should explain how and why portfolios enhance learning, provide an appropriate levelof structure, and integrate portfolios into curriculum planning.9 In designing a portfolioassignment for mechanical engineering students, Guan

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Orlando J. Hernandez

" 2Examination of the "cone of learning" shows an increase in retention when students are activelyengaged in the learning process [4]. Mechatronics is loosely defined as the application ofmechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and computer intelligence to the design ofproducts or systems. The mechatronics course at Bucknell consists of mechanical and electricalengineering students at the senior and graduate levels. The students engage in a variety ofactivities in teams comprised of members from each of these groups. In addition to teamlaboratory exercises and homework assignments, the students work in interdisciplinary groups toprocess their efforts. That is, they engage in meaningful discussion among themselvesconcerning their activities and

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Beverly Withiam, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown; Susan Dawkins, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown; Robert Martinazzi, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown

include topicssuch as academic integrity, personal management skills, testing and test anxiety, diversity,registration process, problem solving and decision making.The “second punch” comes from “boxing” lessons taught by the Engineering Technologyfaculty. Their contribution centers on giving freshmen an engineering specific perspective on theprofession they will enter upon graduation. “Sparring” skills the faculty teach include subjectssuch as an overview of the engineering profession, success strategies, personal growth anddevelopment, student organizations, the difference between engineering technology andengineering, and employment opportunities.IntroductionMany incoming college freshmen believe that they have developed the requisite skills in

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ahmed Khan, DeVry University-Addison; Shawn Schumacher, DeVry University; Lynn Burks, DeVry University

2006-2154: EFFECTIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING: PREDICTING STUDENTLEARNING AND SUCCESS FOR NON-TRADITIONAL STUDENTS IN CONTEXTOF FACULTY AND STUDENT TRAITSAhmed Khan, DeVry University-Addison Dr. Ahmed S. Khan is a senior Professor in the EET dept. at DeVry University, Addison, Illinois. He received his M.Sc (applied physics) from University of Karachi, an MSEE from Michigan Technological University, and an MBA from Keller Graduate School of Management. He received his Ph.D. from Colorado State University. His research interests are in the areas of Fiber Optics Communications, faculty development, and outcomes assessment, and, Internet and distance education. He is author of “The Telecommunications Fact Book

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Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Phillips, Oklahoma State University

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Architectural

engineering student’scurriculum. At this point in the curriculum, the students have completed all of their structuraldesign courses, but have not yet dealt with studio projects beyond the schematic design phase.Fig 1: Oklahoma State University - Architectural Engineering majors Curriculum ChartThis studio is team taught by four faculty members (two architects, one environmental controlsand one structural) and has been structured to give the students an experience similar to whatwill be experienced in practice upon graduation. The course is structured so the schematic,design development, and construction documents phases are explored during the semester.During these three phases, each student acts as their own design firm where they deal with

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark Henderson, Arizona State University; Bradley Rogers, Arizona State University; Robert Grondin, Arizona State University; Chell Roberts, Arizona State University; Scott Danielson, Arizona State University; Rajeswari Sundararajan, Arizona State University

northeastsection of the state. The Reservation has many mesas which may produce such effects (Figure2). Figure 2 Mesas on the Hopi ReservationIn response to the request, five engineering faculty members traveled to the reservation toinvestigate the planned tower erection sites and talk in detail about the project. The departmentsaw this as a great opportunity to enhance the PBL nature of the curriculum by adding thisproject as an elective for the entering freshmen. A one-credit hour elective course was addedand 22 of the 29 freshmen signed up.Opportunity with Hopi ReservationThe wind assessment project had several goals as defined by the Hopi representatives. 1. Understand the problem of justifying wind power turbines for

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Innovations in Teaching Upper-Level Physics

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gerald Rothberg, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Engineering Physics & Physics

Computer ScienceDepartment, University of Washington7-10. The course itself might be unique in that it carries only two credits, is scheduled to meet onlytwice per week in fifty minute sessions, and still is expected to educate students to a depthcomparable to the typical preceding courses in mechanics, electricity and magnetism. Toprovide additional opportunities for problem solving, I hold an additional, strictly voluntary,recitation session each week. The course was created by me in response to curriculum changes in the School ofEngineering and taught for the first time in the fall 2004 semester. The population is about 180sophomores in the fall and about 100 sophomores in the spring. The spring class consists ofcoop students who have

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Camilla Saviz, University of the Pacific; Abel Fernandez, University of the Pacific; Michael Golanbari, University of the Pacific; Rahim Khoie, University of the Pacific; Kyle Watson, University of the Pacific

engineering class at Pacific has ranged in size from 100 to 130 students during thepast five years. All first year engineering students take Introduction to Engineering (ENGR5), acourse designed to introduce students to the different fields of engineering. Responsibility forteaching this core course is shared by all engineering departments within the School ofEngineering and Computer Science (SOECS) and the course is co-taught by five faculty of allranks and from different departments. The course allows faculty to develop close relationshipswith incoming students at an early stage. Two of the faculty who helped developed this retentionprogram were also responsible for teaching ENGR5. Program components were integrated aspart of ENGR5 and subsequent

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Hurricane Katrina

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Qin Chen, University of South Alabama

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Ocean and Marine

the driving force of many processes. The practice of coastal engineering involves not onlythe traditional civil engineering principles, but also the sciences of oceanography and coastalgeology. The typical civil engineering curriculum of an undergraduate program, however, doesnot include course work in marine sciences and coastal engineering.The discipline of coastal engineering in the United States began in the 1930s in connectionmainly to oceanfront development and grew significantly during the Second World War inconnection to naval operation and troop landing on the beach. Today, coastal engineers have Page 11.60.3expanded their role from

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Melinda Seevers, Boise State University; Pat Pyke, Boise State University; William Knowlton, Boise State University; Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University; John Gardner, Boise State University

and Engineering where he is the Coordinator for Graduate Studies and holds a joint appointment. His research activities include device and simple circuit reliability physics, materials characterization, nanofabrication of materials and devices, biomaterials, and molecular electronic devices. He is actively involved in integrating teaching and research has received several teaching and research awards.Pat Pyke, Boise State University Patricia Pyke is the Director of Special Programs for the College of Engineering at Boise State University. She oversees projects in freshman curriculum development, retention, math support, mentoring, and women’s programs. She earned a B.S.E. degree in

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Trend in Construction Engineering Education I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Virendra Varma, Missouri Western State University

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Construction

2006-34: DESIGN-BUILD APPROACH TO PROJECT DELIVERY: THE CHECKSAND BALANCES IN THE OVERALL CONSTRUCTION PROCESSVirendra Varma, Missouri Western State University Virendra K. Varma, PhD,PE,F.ASCE, is Professor of Construction, and Chairman of the Department of Engineering Technology at Missouri Western State University. He is the Chair of the ASEE Construction Engineering Division. He is a Past President of MSPE-NW Chapter of the National Society of Professional Engineers, and a Past President of ACI-Missouri. He served on the TAC/ABET Commission as a commissioner from 1998-2003. He is an Instructor of the SEMA-MO ATC-20 course on Earthquake Damage Assessment (Structural), and is also an ACI

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael McGrath, University of Colorado-Boulder

tools for teaching and learning”6. Oneconsideration here is the role of training in academia, and how this isintegrated with a university’s role as an educator. LASP’s experience hasshown that the combination of education with training enables the student tomore quickly become productive in the design and problem solvingexperience. A student coming to us with specific trained skills relevant todesign almost immediately integrates into our process. It is also the case thattraining acquired from outside of the university experience is relevant, eitherthrough a hobby, interaction with a parent, or a high school experience. TheNAE study notes that attempts to change the basic engineering curriculum toinclude features like additional training “have

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Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Research

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tom Langen, Clarkson University; Stefan Grimberg, Clarkson University

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Environmental Engineering

) providing students who are traditionally underrepresented in environmental scienceand engineering with an opportunity to conduct independent research that is mentored by anexperienced scientist or engineer; (2) teaching these students how to conduct meaningfulenvironmental research and communicate the results of that research to professional colleaguesand the general public; (3) communicating to students the importance of graduate school as anintegral part of the educational pipeline leading to successful careers in science and engineering;(4) demonstrating why synthetic, integrative research is necessary for understanding and solvingcomplex environmental problems, and therefore why multidisciplinary and interdisciplinaryapproaches to environmental

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Trend in Construction Engineering Education I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eddy Rojas, University of Washington; Carrie Dossick, University of Washington

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Construction

shaking a light wood frame in an earthquakesimulation or exposing roofing tiles to alternating rain and sun in an accelerated weathering test,an experiential learning environment allows students to experience materials, means andmethods that solidify their understanding of construction assemblies and processes.Experience Learning Model at the Pacific Northwest Center for Construction Researchand EducationIn order to effectively and efficiently incorporate experiential learning into the constructionengineering and management curriculum at the University of Washington, a model has beendeveloped by the writers to take advantage of the new research and education facilities whilebuilding upon the body of knowledge in experiential learning in

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Improving ME instructional laboratories

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ralph Volino, U.S. Naval Academy; Andrew Smith, U.S. Naval Academy

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Mechanical Engineering

allthermodynamics courses, but are not typically tied directly to the mechanical devices thatperform the thermodynamic cycles. There are practical reasons for this disconnect. Within thetime available for an engineering degree program, it would be ineffective to teach all the detailsof many complex mechanical devices. In addition to the volume of information required, astechnology advances, many of these devices will become obsolete. Students need to acquire thefundamentals of analysis and design, so that they can keep learning after graduation and applythese concepts in integrated engineering problems. It is still desirable, however, to providestudents with some examples of complete systems that integrate concepts from several courses.Capstone design

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Faculty Involvement in International Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark Henderson, Arizona State University

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International

Figure 1: Technology and Its Distance from Socio-cultural IssuesThe question then is: How can we as engineering educators and mentors create anatmosphere to engender this Global Competency?Engineering education routinely addresses technology and does it well. However, typicalengineering students avoid social and cultural subjects because they either would rather tinkerwith technology or because there is no room in the curriculum for that material or both. Addingglobal content exacerbates the problem by increasing the material in an already bulgingcurriculum.The Symposium attendees did keep this problem in mind throughout the discussions whichincluded breakout sessions on the following issues. These issues were extracted from the

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Saeid Moslehpour, University of Hartford; ramin Sadeghi, Power and Water University of Technology (PWUT)

content.These large scale regional solutions (infrastructures) could answer such important researchquestions as, • How can we truly bridge the gap between poor and remote virtual university with those in economically and geographically well established areas? • What architectures will best support communications and collaboration, as well as provide equitable access to sources of content (digital libraries) for all students? • How can we expand the role of digital libraries and museums in order to organize and disseminate their content across the infrastructure and integrate it with curriculum? • How can the different distance learning solutions available integrate coherently with content development? • Given the huge

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith Williamson, East Carolina University; Gene Dixon, East Carolina University; Paul Kauffmann, East Carolina University; Tarek Abdel-Salam, East Carolina University

of synthesis for traditionalcognitive theory based approaches to engineering education. These capstone courses areexpected to help students broaden their perspectives on how to integrate theoretical andpractical knowledge and how to reflect on practice. Within the last decade, employersand leading educators have been complaining that this synthesis, as it pertains to life-longlearning and expertise, may not be enough for new graduates to compete in a fastchanging global marketplace for engineering services. These leaders suggest that newgraduates need: (a) better communications skills; (b) an ability to work in Page 11.430.2multidisciplinary teams