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Curriculum Issues in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steve Chenoweth; Donald Bagert

Science and Software Engineeringat the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana. His research interests include software processimprovement, software tools for student advising, and software methodologies. Dr. Bagert is a registeredProfessional Engineer in software engineering in the state of Texas. Contact him at Don.Bagert@rose-hulman.edu.STEPHEN V. CHENOWETHSteve Chenoweth is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Rose-HulmanInstitute, following a career at NCR Corporation and at Bell Laboratories. His research interests include softwarearchitecture and requirements, software processes, artificial intelligence, and alternatives to pedagogy. Contact himat Steve.Chenoweth@rose-hulman.edu

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Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

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Reed Stevens; Kevin O'Connor; Lari Garrison

experience, which is always really important. Um I've been looking a lot more into getting into grad school right now, and I know research is really important for that. Um it gives you- it gives me a better, at least, a better idea of what I want to do with my life. Cause I really want to work there um after school, so um I think a lot of people don't really have- like don't know what they wanna do, for- as a career for sure. They have ideas, but I know exactly what I wanna try to do…[i.e., work at the lab “permanently”]In sum, Tarja’s view of school, as it relates to her sense of self, is as a means to an end, Page 10.558.5rather

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Non-Technical Skills for ET Students

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2005 Annual Conference

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Marilyn Dyrud

more discussion-oriented than in engineering andtechnology.This paper gives instructors new to ethics tips on content and pedagogy: what dostudents need to know about ethics in order to assist them in their careers, and how doinstructors impart that information? Specifically, this paper examines definitions, codesof ethics, major issues in engineering ethics, and pedagogical techniques.While ABET provides a pragmatic reason for including ethics in engineering andtechnical curricula, Michael Davis, who has widely published on the topic of appliedethics and is senior researcher at the Center for the Study of the Ethics in the Professionsat Illinois Institute of Technology, suggests more compelling reasons:• increased ethical sensitivity

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Computed Simulation and Animation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Baker

generate the results plots are also programmed intomacros.IV. References1 Wosu, S., Lovell, M., and Goldbach, R., “Pitt Engineering Career Access Program: Building aPipeline for Success through Project CARE”, Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference& Exposition, American Society for Engineering Education, (2004).2 Leake, J.M., “Development of an Advanced Course in Computer-Aided Design, Analysis, andPrototyping”, Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, American Societyfor Engineering Education, (2004).3 Chattopadhyay, S., “Teaching of Design in Various Academic Settings”, Proceedings of the2004 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, American Society for Engineering Education,(2004).4 Hagigat, C., “Using Finite

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Education Ideas in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Rick Homkes; Henry Kraebber; Donna Evanecky

& Safety,working in manufacturing test, corporate training, and embedded systems.Donna Evanecky started teaching as an assistant professor for Purdue University School of Technology in 2001 afteran eight-year career in the field of quality management at Daimler Chrysler. She teaches for the Department ofOrganizational Leadership and Supervision at the Kokomo campus.Henry Kraebber is a professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology in the College of Technology at PurdueUniversity in West Lafayette, Indiana. He teaches manufacturing operations and quality systems. Page 10.212.7 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for

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K-12 Programs for Women

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2005 Annual Conference

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Dana Newell

receiving only 2.8% of Bachelor's degrees in engineering in 1999-2000 [4]. Page 10.272.1 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 2192 Over the past few decades, the Commission on Professionals in Science & Technology hasstudied reports on women in engineering career fields [5]. Many of these findings are still truetoday. In 1982, a relatively small percentage of women earned science and

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Issues of Building Diversity

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2005 Annual Conference

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Isadore Davis; Eugene DeLoatch; Sherra Kerns; Carla Purdy; Lueny Morell

thecurrent and future U.S. population of white females, underrepresented minorities and personswith disabilities to pursue engineering and science careers. This can’t be achieved withoutholistic strategic diversity and implementation plans that encompass strategies on representation,valuing, managing and strategic diversity. Page 10.845.7 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationDiversity - Human Environmental Awareness Training (HEAT)Before we briefly describe the attributes of a holistic diversity

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Design and the Community

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2005 Annual Conference

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Carol Haden; John Tester; Jerry Hatfield

electro-mechanical devices, as well as their level of enthusiasm andmotivation towards engineering as a chosen career. The assessments are accomplished before andafter the course revisions for comparison.Index Terms –Student retention, design education, engineering education, Legos, Mindstorms.IntroductionThe College of Engineering and Natural Sciences (CENS) at Northern Arizona University (NAU) isrenovating the way it recruits, educates and graduates engineering students. With the aid of theWilliam and Flora Hewlett Foundation, CENS is actively assessing its regional recruitmentresources for incoming freshmen, as well as restructuring its courses to excite and encouragecurrently-enrolled students to stay in engineering. NAU is the smallest of

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Recruitment and Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Warren; Diana Mellar

students who are not always well preparedacademically. Vermont Tech has consistently attained career placement rates in the student'schosen field of study of 98 percent, or higher. Vermont Tech continues to maintain its academicrigor by offering lesser-prepared students a well-designed, three-year option for completing theirassociate degree in Engineering Technology.Clearly, Vermont Tech would be pleased if the preparedness of incoming students were toimprove. However, the strong local word-of-mouth reputation of Vermont Tech has been thedriving element for enrollment management, and thus any change in the preparedness of theincoming student population is not likely to occur in the short term. In addition, since VermontTech is a state institution

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Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Kline

genericapplication, a management perspective yet with a strong technical focus, and quantitativeanalysis methods to serve as problem solving tools.The manufacturing systems course has been developed for a quarter long (ten weeks) graduatelevel class in an Engineering Management program, but has also been offered as an electivecourse for undergraduates. Students in the program are typically working professionals early intheir careers and representing a wide range of job responsibilities including design,manufacturing, and service and from a wide range of industry segments including automotiveand suppliers, pharmaceutical, medical equipment, and chemical processing industries. Atraditional class with a metalworking processes focus would have limited appeal

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New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

begin choosing their electivesfrom different specialization areas.The Bachelor of Science in Computer Science program was one of the first Bachelor of Scienceprograms implemented at UVSC in 1993. The program’s goal has been to provide a qualityprogram that meets accreditation standards while providing the students with a skill set thatallows them to succeed in computing careers.2 Since our school does not offer a stand alone fouryears engineering program, the computer science department curriculum contains an area ofspecialization in computer engineering.Computing Curriculum – Computer Engineering draft 20043 specifies eighteen knowledge areas;sixteen of which relates directly to Computer Engineering and two relate to mathematics(probability

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Chouikha; Don Millard

, resulting in poorer performanceand diminished interest in pursuing technical careers.2, 6 Although there is a rising demand forelectrical and electronic goods, foreign competition for electronic products and increasing use ofengineering services performed in other countries are negatively impacting employment growthin the U.S. In contrast, the number of graduating engineers in other countries is on the rise – nowplacing the U.S. behind China, Japan and India.7 Page 10.1351.1 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for

Conference Session

ME Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Rogers; John Anderson; Corey Jones

theengineering field, out of necessity, but it should not be that way.Students should be willing to take an extra year of courses toward the concurrent renewableenergy degree because it will add specialization to the mechanical engineering degree alreadybeing pursued. Generally, mechanical engineering programs train their students to be jack ofall trades but masters of none. Many mechanical engineering graduates leave college withlittle or no direction to the career field they will be entering. The dual degree adds specializedexperience which will make the graduate more attractive to employers. Currently renewableenergy engineers pay is above average when compared to the typical mechanical engineeringsalary. This gives incentive for students to add the

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ME Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hakan Gurocak

Engineering and Science Institute. Four committees wereestablished with one representative from each institution: (1) Curriculum, charged withaligning lower- and upper-division curricula; (2) Student services, to focus on career andacademic support; (3) Enrollment services, to develop admissions criteria, registrationprocesses, financial aid support, and recruitment strategies; and (4) Marketing, to developand recommend content and strategies for promoting the Institute. The two directors,who were charged with monitoring, reporting outcomes and problem solving, providedoversight for all of the committees.The committees mostly carried out tasks with their core members. This providedefficiency and led to faster development. From time to time committees

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Leonard Perry

challenges. “What problem solving methodology can I use to solve anunstructured problem?”Six Sigma is a proven process improvement methodology used in industry for solving problems.The Six Sigma philosophy and methodology started at Motorola in the 1980’s has gainedpopularity in industry is based on the DMAIC model which contains five steps: Define, Measure,Improve, and Control. The DMAIC method provides the framework to improve the capabilitiesof an existing process by reducing variation, defects, or even costs. The DMAIC is a structuredproblem solving methodology that incorporates a majority of the process improvement toolsintroduced throughout an Industrial Engineering student’s career at the university. The DMAICmethodology can provide students

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Capstone/Design Projects: Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Rafic Bachnak

, Page 10.1079.4 and advisor “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” • Project description: a) State the primary objective of the project b) Justify the proposed project (Better than what is currently available? New product? Less expensive? Etc….) c) Briefly describe the final product/operation d) Discuss basic plans for implementation • Professional objectives (why do you want to do it?): a) State the project's relationship to your learning goals b) State the project's relationship to your career

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A through K and Beyond

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tim McLernon; David Hughes

to ensure that, if assessment is to take place, the most appropriate methods ofassessment are employed.Student’s education will have been driven by assessment and the outcomes of that assessmentprocess will have determined that student’s university career. The expectation of studentsembarking on a higher education course is that the process of assessment-led education willcontinue. This mindset ultimately affects teaching and learning methods in higher education and,perhaps obviously, the assessment of student learning in higher education.Higher education is about letting students take responsibility for their own learning byencouraging student-centred learning. Good assessment practice requires considerable thought

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NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russ Pimmel

subsequent sections of the paper. Additional information about all DUEprograms can be found on our website. 2 Page 10.542.1∗ This paper represents the opinion of the author and not an official NSF policy. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education”The Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Program, 3 which is jointly managed byDUE and the Division of Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education (ESIE),provides grants to strengthen the education of technicians for careers in biotechnology

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Gally; Steve Chadwick; Randy Shaffer; Milton Cone; Jim Helbling

students will recognize their ability to specialize in disciplines likeelectrical engineering or computer science, to which they may have a greater affinity, and stillfind a rewarding career in aerospace.The primary goal of this course is to teach basic design skills within the various disciplines,while allowing the students to have fun in the process. This goal is aimed at retaining studentswithin the engineering field by exposing them to some of the more enjoyable aspects of theprofession. In order to foster this environment, the course was focused on hands-on creativedesign projects culminating in competitions between teams, with final grades depending uponteam performance. Developing team skills, therefore, was an important goal, as was

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Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

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Russel Jones

University of Rio de Janeiro.He chaired the initial meetimng in Brazil where the Engineer of the Americas concept was developed.LUENY MORELL is a member of the University Relations staff of the Hewlett Packard Company. She isresponsible for relations with universities throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.RUSSEL C. JONES is a private consultant, working through World Expertise LLC to offer services inengineering education in the international arena. Prior to that, he had a long career in education: facultymember at MIT, department chair in civil engineering at Ohio State University, dean of engineering atUniversity of Massachusetts, academic vice president at Boston University, and President at University ofDelaware

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Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

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Russel Jones

, Dean at Southwest Missouri State University, Assistant to the President of the University ofDelaware, and Chair at Cleveland State University. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education 7RUSSEL C. JONES is a private consultant, working through World Expertise LLC to offer services in engineering educationin the international arena. Prior to that, he had a long career in education: faculty member at MIT, department chair in civilengineering at Ohio State

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ET Curriculum & Design Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Blanton

magnetism.ConclusionsThe success and future of academic programs in engineering technology are related to theemployability of its graduates.7 At no time has the growth of technological knowledge been soprofound. The reward for being technologically literate is strong career fields that typically Page 10.521.8 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering Educationprovide steady employment, training opportunities, fringe benefits, and promotionalopportunities.8 With each new advance in technological knowledge, there is a

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Virtual Instrumentation in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Terrance Lovell; Dale Litwhiler

Reading, PA. He receivedhis B.S. from Penn State University (1984), his M.S. from Syracuse University (1989) and his Ph.D. from LehighUniversity (2000) all in electrical engineering. Prior to beginning his academic career in 2002, he worked with IBMFederal Systems and Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems as a hardware and software design engineer.TERRANCE D. LOVELLTerrance D. Lovell is an electrical engineering student at Penn State Berks-Lehigh Valley College in Reading, PAwhere he is also completing his associate degree in electrical engineering technology. He serves as president of thestudent chapter of SAE and is also a laboratory assistant in the EET department. Prior to his academic pursuits hewas an electronics countermeasures

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Interdisciplinary Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Fox

multidisciplinary subject, and preparation for a career asan engineering technologist builds on an understanding of this inherently cross-disciplinarynature of systems and control principles. For example, certain controls concepts, such asdynamics and modeling, frequency response, feedback, and stability, are of fundamentalimportance and usefulness in both engineering technology disciplines. The new course development effort then shifted to preparing an interdisciplinary course incontrol systems designed to be jointly taken by MET and EET students. The balance of thispaper describes this effort, including the research done in preparing a final course outline and thework done to couple meaningful hands-on laboratory exercises with the theory topics

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Attracting Young MINDs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Amy Freeman; Anita Persaud

implementing it forall engineering students can only secure their future academic and career success.In conclusion, of the 896 underrepresented engineering alumni who have graduated in PennState’s College of Engineering 110 year history, 725 or 81% of these engineers graduated in thelast 20 years, after the establishment of The Multicultural Engineering Program. This is clearevidence of the significant effectiveness and success of the continued need for MulticulturalEngineering Programs and Women in Engineering Programs on university campuses nationwide.Bibliography[1] National Institute of Education. Involvement in Leaning: Realizing the Potential of American Higher Education. Washington, D. C.: U. S. Department of Education, 1984.[2] Pascarella

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Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yong-Kyu Jung

©2005, American Society for Engineering Educationsubjects that are necessary from an educational point of view. Many of those topics, however,may not often, or ever, be used for the post-academic engineering career. To leverage classroompractices, rapid design approaches using FPGA-based synthesizable register-transfer level (RTL)implementations must be added to the current curricula.Since classroom projects are generally of smaller scale and lower quality than industrial projects,functional simulation followed by FPGA-based verification may be enough. However, industrialprojects usually require accurate functionality and timing as well. Because of that requirement,both functional and timing simulations with logic synthesis and optimization are

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Curriculum Topics: Industrial ET/Industrial Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mativo

chair of department ofTechnology at the University of Eastern Africa, Baraton. He holds a BA, BIT (Andrews, MI), BME(Auburn, AL), MED and Ed. D (Georgia) in Career and Technical Education. He is a member of Sigma Xi. Page 10.384.10 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Radha Balamuralikrishna; Clifford Mirman

students can transfer courses. While the typical transferstudent tends to remain within their geographic region, that area may be served by at least twodifferent four-year institutions. Thus, the transfer of course work is dependent on the agreementsin place between the 2-year and the 4-year institutions. In many cases, the course equivalentsaccepted in transfer vary by school. Thus, it is becoming more important for the transfer studentsto know where they would be transferring to at the start of their community college career. Itshould be noted at the start that within the State of Illinois, transfer into to the engineeringprograms provides the simplest paths toward transfer from the community college 7. The State ofIllinois has developed a

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Curriculum Development in Computer/Communications ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Warren Koontz

faculty of RIT after completing a 32-year career with Bell Laboratories. Page 10.1316.12 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Igor Verner

middleschool pupils in our laboratory of technology.Robotics has been risen an especially effective medium for engineering education6. Itinvolves students in self-directed learning, interdisciplinary design, teamwork, professionalcommunication, technical invention, and research. We believe that robotics as part of ateacher training program can help engineering students to develop professional andpedagogical skills needed for their careers.3. Instructional robots and experimentsMany prototypes of computer-controlled mechanisms in the course are built using the Robixkit7. This robot construction set implements the concept of digital manipulatives. It containsessentially all components required for desktop robot construction. Its mechanicals