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International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

of specialization in Computer Engineering in the Computer Sciencedepartment is a viable option for schools that can not have engineering programs.References[1] Impagliazzo, John, et. al. Computer Engineering Computing Curricula, SIGCSE 2003, Reno, Nevada, Feb. 2003.[2] http://www.ee.byu.edu, BYU – Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, access on January, 2004.[3] http://www.ece.utah.edu , UU – Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, access on January 2004.[4] http://www.uvsc.edu , UVSC – Department of Computing and Networking Sciences, access on December 2003.[5] Manokhoon, Kitti and Fazil Najafi, Civil Engineering Curriculum at the University of Florida and the Mahanakorn University of Technology, Proceedings of

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Design Throughout the ChE Curriculum

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Shannon White; Patricia Niehues; Steven Peretti; Lisa Bullard

Session 1413 A Web-Based Case Study for the Chemical Engineering Capstone Course Lisa Bullard, Patricia Niehues, Steven W. Peretti, Shannon H. White North Carolina State University One of the most daunting tasks in teaching the capstone design class is to develop suitableprojects. Some departments may not have faculty with industrial experience; other departmentsmay not be located near industrial partners to provide hands-on experience to the students; andother departments may lack faculty with deep expertise in specific areas such as biotechnology.North Carolina State University is developing, testing

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Instrumentation in the Classroom

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William J., Jr. Park; Elizabeth A. Stephan; Benjamin L. Sill; Matthew Ohland

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationReferences1 Tribus, M., “Education for Innovation,” Engineering Education, p. 421 ff., February, 1971.2 Travers, R.M., Essentials of Learning: The New Cognitive Learning for Students of Education,5th Edition. New York: MacMillan, 1982.3 Jacobs, G., “Hypermedia and Discovery-Based Learning: A Historical Perspective,” BritishJournal of Educational Technology 23(2), 113-121, 1992.4 Goforth, D., “Learner Control = Decision Making + Information: a Model and Meta-analysis,”Journal of Educational Computing Research 11(1), 1-26, 1994.5 http://www.abet.org/images/eac_criteria_b.pdf6 Felder, R.M., “Reaching the

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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Hue Van Tran; Steven Reyer; James Friauf; Owe Petersen; Katherine Wikoff

, and microprocessorsystems. He received his Ph.D. from Marquette University in 1978 and has done research and extensive consultingin the areas of DSP and communications.OWE PETERSEN is Professor and Program Director for Electrical Engineering at the Milwaukee School ofEngineering. He is a former Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories. His areas of interest areintegrated circuit technology, high-speed integrated circuit design, and quality in manufacturing. He received hisMSEE and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (1965, 1971) and his BSEE from the University of Wisconsin(1963) Page 9.578.8

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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Malgorzata Zywno

since1999 by McGraw Hill7, had similar findings. The two most frequently mentioned barriers towider creation and use of digital resources were: knowing what is available (50%) and lack ofdevelopment time (49%). Thus it is not surprising that in a recent survey8 of decision-makersresponsible for implementations of instructional technology, two thirds of respondentsrepresented institutions interested in using learning objects in online learning. Page 9.1428.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering

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EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 2

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LTC Robert Powell

.: The Brookings Institution.6. Powell, Lita D. R. 1994. Cooperative Office Education: Student, Employer and Teacher-CoordinatorPerceptions. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland.BiographyLIEUTENANT COLONEL ROBERT A. POWELL is an Assistant Professor in the Department of SystemsEngineering at the United States Military Academy. He received a BS in Industrial Engineering, Texas A&MUniversity, a MS in Operations Research/Management Science, George Mason University, a Master of Military Artand Science, US Army Command and General Staff College, and a PhD in Systems Engineering, Stevens Instituteof Technology. He is married with three children and a bulldog

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Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering

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Murtuza Aluminiumwalla; Mohammed Haque

achieved by the integration of the contemporaryinformation technology (IT) and visualization tools in teaching engineering technology.Although the classroom environment in Engineering and Construction Science is highlystructured by the instructor, teaching students to be critical thinkers is essential in the virtualclassroom of the future. The objective of this research was to develop a virtual tour of areinforced concrete building construction using 3D animation and walkthrough. All thetechniques that were used in this research employed a generic programming architecture, whichwas discipline independent and could be adapted to any other similar domain. Thesevisualization techniques can be valuable aids not only in teaching in the classroom but

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Azzedine Lansari; Akram Al-Rawi, McKendree University; Faouzi Bouslama, Université Laval

of the Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationcourses, provide focus to the curriculum in the APM. Furthermore, all courses are designed toclearly show the experiences that students draw upon while achieving a Learning Outcome.The College of Information Systems at ZU seeks to produce graduates who have anunderstanding of information technology and its uses, and who are capable of identifying andsolving problems. The college has established five major leaning outcomes which form the basisfor curriculum analysis and student assessment: • Problem identification and analysis • Problem solving

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Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jeannie Brown Leonard; Janet Schmidt; Linda Schmidt; Paige Smith

other science, technology, andmathematics disciplines, graduates of engineering programs typically enter a work environmentthat immediately requires team and interpersonal process skills. From the perspective ofeducation, positive team project experiences can motivate students to perform at higher levels.Well-functioning teams have been shown to improve learning and retention in non-engineeringfields, especially for members of underrepresented groups3,4,5,6,7.Previous research suggests that while most engineering faculty are committed to using projectteams in their classrooms, they have little or no formal training on how to work with studentteams or how to teach team members to work well together8. Focused on their discipline and onpedagogy

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Engineering Education: An International Perspective

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mulchand Rathod

Session 3560 ORGANIZING THE FIRST EVER CONVENTION OF ALUMNI OF SARDAR PATEL UNIVERSITY OF INDIA IN THE USA Mulchand S. Rathod, PhD, PE Division of Engineering Technology College of Engineering Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48202 SUMMARY During the summer of 2003, a group of alumni of Sardar Patel University (SPU), named after the first deputy prime minister of India, convened a team to organize the first ever alumni convention of SPU in the USA. This paper

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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Greta Zenner; Amy Payne; Aura Gimm; Wendy Crone

nanotechnology.The UW IPSE program is a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded collaboration betweenthe UW Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) on NanostructuredMaterials and Interfaces and The James Lovell Museum of Science, Technology, and Economicsin Milwaukee, also known as Discovery World (DW), the largest science center in Wisconsin.UW IPSE’s collaboration between a research university and a science center is an innovativeprogram that draws on the strengths of each partner to bring cutting-edge science to the public.In the process, the UW IPSE interns receive technical training and engage in an iterative projectdevelopment process as they gain experience in communicating science, and students and thegeneral public gain a better

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Alok Verma; Cheng Lin

1793 Session Enhancing MET Curriculum with Applied Research Experience for Faculty - Parametric Study of Water Jet Cutting (WJC) Processes – A Case Study Alok K. Verma, Cheng Y. Lin Department of Engineering Technology Old Dominion University Carl J. Voglewede, Mike E. Tall Technology Development and Integration Branch NASA Langley Research CenterAbstract In today’s global competitive environment, the engineering technology curriculum must adoptand

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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

, rural exodus, and pollution,which demanded institutional, cultural and political transformations1,2. Nowadays, we are thewitnesses of a new revolution. The generalized use of computers and computerized systems havebeen changing again the means of production, and also, personal relations. Once more, thecourse of History has been modified, at this time by the so-called “information revolution”,which has been altering lifestyles, educational practices, production relations, etc3. And, the main“engine” of these processes has been the discoveries in science that make possible thedevelopment of new technologies, which give support to a massive industrial production andpromoting several transformations in social relations. But, this process brings new

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Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2004 Annual Conference

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Stephen Tricamo; Dennis Depew

Session 1455 Enabling the U.S. Engineering Workforce to Perform: Building Organizational Sustainability for Innovation in Professional Graduate Engineering Education S. J. Tricamo,1 D. R. Depew,2 A. L. McHenry,3 D. D. Dunlap,4 D. A. Keating,5 T. G. Stanford 5New Jersey Institute of Technology 1 / Purdue University 2/ Arizona State University East 3 Western Carolina University 4 / University of South Carolina 5 AbstractThis is the second paper in the panel session of the National

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Engineering Ethics Case Studies

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2004 Annual Conference

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Alice Trussell

Session 3441 ABET 2000 and Ethics: Partnering with Librarians to Embed Ethics Into Course Curricula Alice J. Trussell, Daryl Youngman Kansas State UniversityAbstractThe ultimate expectations that all Colleges of Engineering are challenged to meet are theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology [ABET] criteria. Included in the ABET2000 criteria are very specific requirements for Colleges of Engineering to provide substantivecourse content focusing on ethical education and decisions that engineers will face in the realworld. Ethics requirements are

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Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Timothy Walker; Annu Prabhakar; George Suckarieh

Company known for its support not only ofinnovation but also of the educational process of honors students. Many of theconstruction management students coop with the company and are hired immediatelyupon graduation. The company at that time was considering a much simpler concept forthe knowledge transfer. The concept was based on providing a support network of expertswithin the company to provide expertise to all professional staff. The network providesthe professionals with consultations in various technological areas of construction. Page 9.694.2Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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Dennis Depew

T. G. Stanford 8 Purdue University 1/Arizona State University East 2/New Jersey Institute of Technology 3 Rolls-Royce Corporation 4 / Raytheon Missiles 5/ The Boeing Company 6 Western Carolina University 7 /University of South Carolina 8AbstractThis is the third paper in the panel session of the National Collaborative Task Force for reform ofprofessionally oriented engineering graduate education to make it more relevant to the needs ofindustry to ensure a strong U.S. engineering workforce for competitiveness. This paper addressesthe need for new funding mechanisms to initiate, develop, and sustain high-quality professionalgraduate education both at comprehensive universities and at research universities

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Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jay Snellenberger; Donald Keating

Session 1455 Enabling the U.S. Engineering Workforce to Perform: Recognizing the Importance of Industrial Engagement In Professional Graduate Engineering Education J. M. Snellenberger,1 D. H. Quick,1 I. T. Davis,2 J. P. Tidwell,3 J. O’Brien,4 R. M. Haynes,5 D. R. Depew,6 D.D. Dunlap,7 D. A. Keating,8 T. G. Stanford 8 Rolls-Royce Corporation 1 / Raytheon Missiles 2/ The Boeing Company 3 Hewlett-Packard Company 4/ Northrop Grumman Space Technology 5 Purdue University 6/ Western Carolina University7

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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

intermediate to long-term strategic research on infrastructure preservation and management. 4. Resistance to change and reluctance to embrace technological advances among decision- makers. These attitudes sometimes discourage young professionals.Academics have been interested in civil infrastructure systems education for several decades.Amekudzi et al.4 describe some of the history of the development of infrastructure managementas an academic discipline. Several texts have been published, including Haas and Hudson’s firstedition of Pavement Management Systems in 19785, Grigg’s Infrastructure Engineering andManagement in 19886, and, most recently, Hudson, Haas, and Uddin’s InfrastructureManagement in 19977.Workshops and conferences have

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Ethics & HSS in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Andrew Lau

of engineers to single-mindedly develop and deploy technology willcontinue to make life better, i.e., we believe in real human progress facilitated by our work.There are a lot of good things to be said about this paradigm, or at least the consequences of it. Ithas enabled modern society, at least the rich, industrialized societies of the world, to live in anunprecedented time of material affluence. People also live longer healthier lives.But over the last several decades, we have learned that technologies often have unintendednegative consequences, with significant impact on society. Technology has contributed to manyof our problems today – nuclear weapons, resource depletion, pollution, global warming, theozone hole, soil erosion, and

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Engineering Education: An International Perspective

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2004 Annual Conference

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Saeed Foroudastan

Session 3560Teaching the Engineering Students of Today to Sustain the Resources of Tomorrow Saeed D. Foroudastan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Brian Rappold, Research Assistant Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies Department Middle Tennessee State UniversityAbstractThe actions of the past are beginning to take their toll on the environment, the economy,and society. The consequence resulting from the carelessness of industries is beginningto show its ugly face in the form of rising health care costs and other costs associatedwith air

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Programming Issues for Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Robert Friedman; Jerri Drakes

an effort to provideeducational software, involving all students in authentic learning situations by having themparticipate in all phases of the software engineering lifecycle. Through a development processknown as participatory design, curators from The Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center inMontclair, NJ teamed with 5th graders from St. Philip’s Academy and undergraduates from NewJersey Institute of Technology to produce interactive software that assists visitors to the museumlearn about the history of the Negro Leagues through chronology and biography; learn aboutstatistics and probability through the databases that draw on records of individual players fromthe Negro Leagues; and learn about the geography of the state of New Jersey and

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Sanders; Charles W. White; Sanju Patro

issue by modifying their curriculum to include courses onglobalization, global supply-chain management, cultural education, etc. KetteringUniversity’s Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering; and Business department recentlyhosted an international conference that brought together educators, students, andcompany executives from various countries to a common platform. By leveraging theWebEx communication technology, the conference provided an arena for individuals andorganizations from various parts of the world to interactively participate in the conferencein real-time. Undergraduate and graduate students got the opportunity to becomeinvolved in organizing the conference, in writing and presenting technical papers to aninternational audience

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Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Virendra Varma

Session 1121 Innovations in Construction Engineering Education: Rudiments of a Senior-Level Topics Course Virendra K. Varma, Ph.D., P.E. Missouri Western State CollegeAbstractThere is an urgency for reform in engineering education. The new accreditation criteriaEC2000, and TC2K of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)for accrediting engineering and technology programs respectively, encourage innovationsin curriculum design. The criteria are outcomes-based, and non-prescriptive. However,there are constraints in what educational institutions can and can

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International Engineering Education II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Roberto Montoya

of the national productive sector, financial opportunities andstudents’ equal access to graduate programs, as well as the relationship between formaluniversity education and technical and technological education.Greater efficiency in the time required to educate engineers should be the result of a series ofstrategies and adjustments in terms of pedagogy, evaluation and learning, flexible curricula, Page 9.1228.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

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Ethics & HSS in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Shaw; James Gidley

careers as a calling from God in which they may glorify Him and love their neighbors, providing excellent engineering services in an environment of technological change. Objective 1: To develop in students a Biblical view of the world, their lives, and their professions, helping them to see their professions as a calling from God in which they may serve Him and in so doing may do good to others and have a transforming effect on society.The faculty of the College are also strongly encouraged to pursue the integration of faith andlearning within their own disciplines. Many students come to the College particularly to beeducated in such an environment. Encouraging students to think about the connections

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Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Salim Saherwala; Mohammed Haque

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ø 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationFormworks are subjected to maximum stresses for relatively short periods of time. Wood iscapable of absorbing large overloads if the stresses are of short duration, and this is true offormwork (Peurifoy, 1976). Lumber was once the predominant form material. But nowadays themost commonly used job-built concrete formwork materials include timber, plywood, andhardboard. Some of the most commonly used timber for concrete formwork are Douglas fir-larch, Douglas fir-South, Hem-fir, Spruce-pine-fir, and Southern pine. Plywood is commonlyused for sheathing or lining forms because it gives smooth concrete surfaces.As technology rapidly

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Robbie Goins; Kiel Locklear; Gregory Watkins; Chad Spivey

diffusion experimentsaboard the KC-135A. The students, from The University of North Carolina at Charlotteand the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, had varying backgrounds inchemistry, engineering technology (civil and mechanical), communications, biology, andbusiness. The team, pictured in Figure 3, learned in December 2002 that their proposalhad been accepted by NASA, with flights that would take place in May 2003. This wasthe first opportunity for either university to participate in the program, and all teammembers were proud to accept this honor.With the two institutions separated by 120 miles, the team faced numerous logisticalchallenges to the project. The schools held numerous meetings by video teleconference,and members had constant

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ronald Bennett; Debra Ricci; Arnold Weimerskirch

fostering personal growth and appreciation for lifelonglearning.The UST School of Engineering employs this philosophy to educate engineers and technologyleaders. We offer Bachelor of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering (BSME) andElectrical Engineering (BSEE); and Master’s degrees in Manufacturing Systems Engineering(MMSE), Manufacturing Systems (MSMS) and Technology Management (MSTM). We aim toproduce a new kind of engineer and a new kind of leader. By this we mean that our mission is toprovide a practical, values-based learning experience that produces well-rounded, innovativeengineers and technology leaders who have the technical skills, passion, and courage to make adifference. In carrying out our mission, we seek to excel in the

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Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Nicholas Harth; Matthew Barber; Andrew Spurgeon

1451at Amelia. This program is similar in nature to the one of the “small schools” at Hughes,but with a different focus than the Paideia Program. The MaST program emphasizesscience, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) skills by gearing each core subjecttowards a math and science theme. Amelia ranks below average for high schools in itsdistrict, and like Hughes, is on Continuous Improvement from the state, though Ameliahas met one more of the twelve indicators than has Hughes. Demographically, Amelia’sstudent body is 97.6% white, and 1.0% Asian and Pacific Islander. About 9.7% areeconomically disadvantaged and 9.8% have some disability.3. ExpectationsBecause this project came near the end of almost a semester of work with the respectivehigh