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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tia Sharpe; Robert Maher; James Peterson; James Becker; Bradford Towle

otherwise become discouraged while taking the traditional physics,calculus, and chemistry prerequisites.1,2,3The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Montana State University(MSU) has developed and implemented a new laboratory experience in EE 101, our requiredfreshman-level introductory course, as part of an ongoing course and curriculum evaluationprocess. Students in EE 101 now work on a custom autonomous robot kit, assembling theelectronics and chassis components step-by-step with soldering irons and hand tools, whilegaining an understanding of basic laboratory instruments, measurement procedures, and circuitconcepts. The students learn to work both independently and with a partner to complete theassembly, measurement, and

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Elizabeth A. Stephan; Benjamin L. Sill; Matthew Ohland

described the pedagogical approaches used in these curriculum materials andhow those approaches were used in both sensor and non-sensor versions of the laboratories toisolate the benefit of using the sensors in the classroom.1 The pedagogical equivalency of thesensor and non-sensor versions is an assumption that underpins the research design.2 This paperfocuses on updates to one of the parallel (sensor / non-sensor) laboratories, the development of anew parallel laboratory, and the extension of what we have learned about using the sensors in theclassroom to exercises that cannot be designed as parallel laboratories because they cannot beconducted without the use of real-time sensors.Ongoing laboratory developmentThree lab modules are presented in

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Setoodehnia; Ali Kashef; Mark Rajai; Akbar Eslami

the real world of industry with hands on experience simultaneously with theeducation they receive at school.IntroductionCooperative education (co-op) has come a long way since its inception in 1906, but this journeyis far from over [1]. As our global market changes to more competitive state of affairs, theco-op educators need to encourage more employers to develop quality co-op programs. Thiscan be done successfully with some innovative approach among high schools, universities andindustries. The high school students or teachers can go for work-based learning experiences inindustry and get credit during the summer. This could be through an internship /apprenticeshipprogram at the universities or two-year colleges. This will help students make

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Innovations in CE Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Peter Rojeski; Cindy Waters

. Maintaining thosememories is an issue. Research in the field of memory demonstrates that how quickly andreliably students recall depends on; activation or how long since they last used the informationand strength or how well they practiced it. Standard departmental practice dictates passing aSenior Exam similar to the Fundamentals of Engineering exam, and completing a Senior Designproject. Data from several years of administering pre-tests of pre-requisite material clearlyindicate that student retention declines rapidly over time. A researched technique for memoryimprovement is Preview, Question, Read, Self-Recitation and Test or “PQRST”. This techniquepertains to our strategies. Our department has adopted two strategies to combat this loss

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Raymond Winton

to device simulation iseither an assumption or is passed along to other parts of the curriculum. Device physicsusually demands a great deal of overhead and can dwell on anything from thermodynamics tofield theory. And the devices themselves can range from two-terminal non-linear resistances tofour-terminal transistors. Use of SPICE to illustrate performance characteristics of devices arenot uncommon in the circuits courses, but are uncommon in the semiconductor devicescourses.Most of the instructional framework and time commitment given to semiconductor devices issubmerged in the mathematical expositions necessary to describe the physics of the device [5].This is particularly true for small-dimension devices where high-field effects [6-9

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Giles; Donald Roberts; David Mitchell; Anthony Richardson

students are given a brief introduction to each of the programs of study.Student teams then work towards competition in two autonomous robot contests, withconstruction and programming of the robots taking place during the remainder of the course.Robotics has been used for integrated educational experiences at many institutions. CarnegieMellon University6,8 offers robot-building contests for freshman in their introduction to electricaland computer engineering course. MIT offers an undergraduate course where Lego™ buildingblocks7 are used as the basis for robot-building projects. For their honors fundamentals ofengineering course, Ohio State incorporates a robot-building experience where students are givena budget to purchase parts that enhance

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wei Lin; G. Padmanabhan

enable teachers to absorb new materials and allow them to incorporate them in their lesson plans instead of simply giving them lesson plans developed for them and ask them to teach.3. A net work with tribal college as a focal point is critical for improving STEM education in Indian Reservations Participating in middle and high school STEM education by university professors may be considered as an effort to achieve vertical integration of STEM education aimed at attracting more students earlier into the STEM disciplines. To implement such a program in Indian Reservations has to overcome several difficulties, including sparsely distributed student populations, lack of exposure to new technologies, limited school facility and

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Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Rowe

Measure What You Value: Developing Detailed Assessment Criteria for Engineering Capstone Projects John W. K. Rowe Sheffield Hallam University, UK.AbstractAn important area of development in the UK and other systems of higher education over the lastdecade has been the wide spread use of specific statements describing the intended learningoutcomes students achieve, in contrast to using syllabus content to define courses and programs.In measuring how well students have satisfied an intended learning outcome one approach is touse developed assessment criteria that specify qualitatively, by level of achievement, studentperformance. Writing

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Doucette; Gunter Georgi

the optimal route, but at the same time is notoverwhelming to the student. It can also be the basis for a lively design competition.BackgroundAs part of its membership in the NSF Gateway Coalition, Polytechnic devised an “Introductionto Engineering” course required of all students in the Freshman year, with most students takingthe course in the first term. The charter of the course is to provide a “hands on” approach toengineering to complement the theory they are learning in their other courses, and also to givethe students a better idea of what engineering is. A major component of this course is a term-longdesign project. Early in the term, the student is presented with a range of options for projectsincluding the design of a house, several

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Lynn Alpert; Jacqueline Isaacs

design ofengineering education and outreach programs aimed at university, K-12, and public audiences.This paper examines the nature of this influence as well as the opportunities and challenges itpresents to education and outreach professionals, in light of current trends in STEM education.The authors are involved in a collaborative effort to devise strategies to tackle some of thesechallenges through the design and development of the education and outreach aspects of theCenter for High-Rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN), an NSF-sponsored Nanoscale Science andEngineering Center (NSEC). Close collaboration among CHN’s science, engineering andsocietal implications researchers, university and K-12 educators, and science museum publicengagement

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

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Miguel A. Padilla; Timothy J. Anderson; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

affected by such an academic phenomena. It is intuitive that a student’sacademic success prior to leaving engineering (such as grade-point average) has some impact onwhether they leave engineering as well as that student’s post-engineering academic success. Infact, many research studies have explored these relationships. In a landmark study, Astin showedthat majoring in engineering had a negative effect on both grade-point average and chance ofgraduation.1 Seymour and Hewitt documented a three-year study in which they interviewedstudents about their decision to leave the sciences.2 While there were no major differencesamong different types of institutions in regard to the problems described by their students,students at all types of institutions

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International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

Education • Applicable curriculum and teaching methods should ultimately become learning-style based and personalized to address and respect diversity.The practice of incorporating some or all of the elements listed above in an “engineering” coursein which one is already faced with the problem of too much material in too short a time isdaunting. But the challenge is exciting to any instructor who wishes to “humanize” the teaching(and learning) process, and reconcile within himself/herself that: he/she is teaching studentsrather than “unloading” teaching material in accordance with a time schedule.Examining the Literature on Meanings and Substance of Active Learning:It is difficult to come to grip with all the cited definitions and

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New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

-26.6 48.0 7.41 0.5, 4, 6(BIG-biomass integrated gasification, blend-syngas - NG, CC-combined cycle, CHP-combinedheat and power)IMPLICATIONS OF THE ACE-AGIR ANALYSES In the spirit of the scientific method, Green and Feng (2, 23) have analyzed a large body ofeconomic “data” for biomass-fueled technologies given in the AGIR. They have representedthem quite accurately by an empirical Equation [6] that uses only 3 adjusted parameters for eachtechnology. The equation seems reasonable in that it confirms the economic and efficiencyadvantages of scale (power level) usually seen by utilities. Furthermore the equation can extendthe usefulness of the AGIR report to examine the influence of electricity prices or power levelsand fuel costs

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lason Watai; Arthur Brodersen; Sean Brophy

perform necessary labprocedures. This can lead to an over dependence on the instructor for information, which canresult in frustration for both students and instructor. A lot of lab time is often spent waiting forinstructor assistance, which can result in student loss of interest, motivation, and focus on the laband its objectives. Also, students may have little or no understanding of how and where the labconcepts and principles can be applied in real world problems. Therefore, an alternativeapproach to physical lab instruction is desirable. Innovations in technology provide several waysto improve lab instruction. For example, students could prepare for labs through on-line pre-labtutorials and quizzes that explore the lab principles and test

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Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Youssef Shatilla; Adnan Zahed

participation in summer training programs for the Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education students as well as to providing an opportunity for the Faculty members to professionalize their experience. Accreditation process has positively encouraged innovation both in curriculum development and in teaching methods. One example of it was the adoption of two compulsory courses (IE201 and IE202) for all engineering students in the new curricula. This course involves interactive learning for instilling among the students notions like life-long learning, working

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Philosophical Foundations, Frameworks, and Testing in K-12 Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Wicklein; David Gattie

to the subject. Whilealmost 80% are satisfied with their own instructional methodology, over half (53.2%) are notsatisfied with current instructional materials. Most (87.4%) do not identify any constraints toincluding engineering design content in their curriculum, but only half (54.2%) are aware oflocal or state approved courses or curricula that focus on engineering or engineering design (seeTable 2).Teachers expressed confidence that an engineering design curriculum focus would add value tothe field of technology education by: clarifying the focus of the field (93% agreement);providing a platform for integration with other school subjects (96.7% agreement); elevating thefield to higher academic levels (92.7% agreement); improving

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Philosophical Foundations, Frameworks, and Testing in K-12 Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sonia Sanchez; S. Khalid Latif; Elias Faraclas; Catherine Koehler; Kazem Kazerounian

proposed in this document, providesa means for comprehensively integrating technology and engineering content within theframeworks of existing mathematics and science curriculum. Resistance to change in apredominantly traditional high school setting is a hurdle that must be overcome in order forthese frameworks to be implemented in secondary school classrooms. Resistance to change isnot an easy task to overcome as Evan[13] articulates. From that start of their educationalexperience, preservice teachers’ training and teachers’ continued professional developmentmust be the catalyst to drive this new pedagogical paradigm. EEF provides the context to guideteachers’ of science and mathematics into inquiry based lessons using relevant social issues

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State of the Art in 1st-Year Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Brannan; Phillip Wankat

Table 11. Clearly,mathematics preparation is an area of major concern. As in any tabulation from an open-endedquestion, the percentages for specific areas would undoubtedly be higher if respondents had beengiven a box to check.Since the first-year curriculum was the major interest of this survey, the survey included a veryextensive list of possible first-year courses for both first and second semesters. Respondents Page 10.1188.13were asked to check the appropriate courses taken by first-year engineering students, and list thecredits and hours per week for the courses. They were not asked to indicate which department Proceedings of the

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Philosophical Foundations, Frameworks, and Testing in K-12 Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Nelson; Keith Williamson; Hassan Ndahi; Sharon Waters

Table 1. Professional Development Seminars for teachers and graduate fellows One of the underlying themes of the GK12 project is to transform the university’sculture to view outreach to public schools as an integral part of graduate education, andas a necessary step in ensuring that the nation produces a well-trained and educatedpopulation for excellence in science, engineering and mathematics innovation.9Consequently, in developing the teacher-graduate fellow professional developmentseminars, a multi-disciplinary faculty team of faculty PIs were selected from at least onedepartment in four of the University’s colleges including Business, Education,Engineering and Science. The goal was to broaden faculty participation as much aspossible

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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A. Lambert; D. J. Russomanno; P. Palazolo; S. Ivey

-dimensional solutions to these problems can be provided best by acoordinated, integrated team of educators, students, and employers working together tomaximize results.6,7 One study described the multi-disciplinary approach succinctly as atype of “bridge program” between attrition and retention of students, meaning that eachmember of the team functions as an integral component in guiding STEM students tosuccess.8One such example in the planning stage involves the overlapping premises of theexpectations of the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) E: 2020 report and theexpectations of industry employers. Specific objectives target students, educators, andindustry employers with the following goals: • To meet national needs through increased and

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Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Berry; Patricia Carlson

rating and the average of ratings from all three peer reviewers.III. CPR and the Assessment of Learning through WritingCPR -- as an advanced form of educational technology -- partners both with the student and withthe instructor to foster learning. In this project, through the vehicle of CPR, we were able toimplement assignments that fully utilize the “writing across the curriculum” (WAC) pedagogy [3- 6], without overly increasing the workload for instructors. Furthermore, CPR’s ability both toelicit and to report qualitative and quantitative peer review helps to make formative assessmentan integral part of instruction. And, the data collected by CPR during the student’s process ofengaging the

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Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Gosink; Catherine Skokan

Professor of Electrical Engineering at Colorado School of Mines.Her research interests include engineering applications of geophysics, curriculum development, and K-12 outreach.JOAN GOSINKJoan Gosink is an Emerita Professor and former Director of the Engineering Division at CSM, the largestdepartment or division in the School. Under her direction, the Division received various accolades, includingdesignation as a Program of Excellence from the Colorado Commission on Higher Education. The program alsoexpanded to include Masters and Doctorate degrees and an undergraduate specialty in environmental engineering.Dr. Gosink twice served as a Program Director at NSF, and is an experienced ABET evaluator

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Capstone/Design Projects: Industrial ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fanorious Chalkiadakis; Mohammed Fahmy; Recayi Pecen

phases.Phase 1, a feasibility study for the wind and water resource availability, which was completedlast year. Phase 2 is an ongoing design and construction of the entire mechanical systems, whichbegan in September 2004 and is to be completed by May 1, 2005. The final phase (Phase 3)includes the following: (1) completion of wiring of the electrical systems in power house; (2)analysis of the occupational safety and health administration (OSHA) rules as applied to theproject, (3) operation of the hydro and wind system; (4) completion of field test measurements,and observation of daily average power readings; (5) collecting data on environmental savingsand air quality improvement; and (6) report of results to the Black Hawk County ConservationBoard and

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Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Xiaoguang Yang; Chika Nwankpa; Valentina Cecchi; Karen Miu

beginswith a brief overview of the experiment in Section 2. In Section 3, various parts of the relevantpower hardware are presented along with the measurement and digital control hardware. TheDMS interface between the students and the distribution system is illustrated in Section 4. Then,an outline of the experiment is addressed in Section 5, followed by conclusions.2. Overview of the Network Reconfiguration Experiment The network reconfiguration experiment provides students with hands-on learningexperience concerning load balancing and loss reduction techniques through a series ofexperiments on different distribution systems. The experiment was developed within RDAC.RDAC consists of a three-phase, 4-wire, 43.2 kW reconfigurable distribution

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Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon Kurpius; Dale Baker; Chell Roberts; Stephen Krause

curriculum. Three case studies were developed todescribe the effect of the course on four categories that emerged from the data -Reflections onPractice, Changes in Practice, Intentions to Change Practice, and Change in Knowledge.DesignThe study was a component of a graduate course in science education supported by a NSFBridging Engineering and Education grant. Created and taught by a team of faculty fromeducation and engineering, the course was a follow up to a previous “bridging” course and wasdesigned to address students’ expressed need for a greater emphasis on integrating DET into theK-12 curriculum. The class met weekly in an industrial engineering lab with access to a widerange of materials, tools, and technical assistance. The course

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Implementing the BOK - Can it Be Done?

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Robinson; Kevin Sutterer

-based design philosophy that are hallmarks of thecivil engineering program at Rose-Hulman there were to be no changes to the current curriculumto accommodate the development of the BOK compliant tract. To maintain the integrity of thecivil engineering program, all engineering courses within the current curriculum must be taken atRose-Hulman. Additional courses included in the BOK compliant tract to achieve specializationmay not necessarily be limited to courses offered at Rose-Hulman. Our intent is not to modifythe current curriculum but to offer an alternate tract within the current curriculum that wouldallow for students with sufficient off-curriculum hours to take the additional courses required forspecialization. In addition, we prefer to

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Wildman; Kumar Mallikarjunan; Mark Sanders; Jeffrey Connor; Vinod Lohani

an Art Education masters/licensure program. The other four have done very well;three will teach in spring 2005, while the fourth has taken a leave this academic year. Becausethe demand for licensed Technology teachers is so remarkable, each of these graduates will havean endless number of teaching positions/opportunities from which to select. Virginia’s teachingreciprocity with 48 states means this “seller’s market” is a nationwide phenomenon.Contemporary framework for undergraduate engineering pedagogy Page 10.649.4BEEVT investigators launched a number of data collection activities with objectives to analyzechanges in GE curriculum and

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yong Tao; W Bao; R Moreno; Marc Zampino; Yiding Cao

so I22 can make improvements. When I submit design oriented projects, I am given the opportunity to evaluate the design through simulation and/or23 prototyping testing.24 Open-ended design projects allow me to be more creative in my solutions. Open-ended design projects force me to investigate and explore engineering science material in an independent25 manner. I get more motivated to learn and practice my engineering skills through project work as opposed to formal26 examinations. The MME curriculum does a good job of integrating the material in two or three core courses when I do major27 projects.28 I enjoy team projects and feel they are effective for

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College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske; Jacquelyn Sullivan

College — The roles of an upper division service-learning course, such as OutreachCorps, in the overall college-wide curriculum lies in its interdisciplinary nature, in itsrequirement that students integrate subject matter from a wide range of prior courses, and that thecourse itself has embedded assessment to ensure that it is challenging. The Outreach Corps classfurther fits into the college curriculum because it advances science and math through engineeringin the K-12 setting, and it aligns with the national priority of boosting the nation’s science,mathematics engineering and technology workforce.For Undergraduate Students — This course provides an upper-division service-learningexperience that puts junior and senior engineering students in a

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Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Feldhaus; Kenneth Reid

Electronics (PLTW) Additional Elective such as an Computer Integrated Internship Manufacturing (PLTW) (Pre-Calculus rep. Addl Math Elective for Honors diploma)Table #4: Sample Course Sequence for Core 40 Page 10.219.10Students interested in completing the Core 40 curriculum have the option (under theDirected Electives section) of taking “at least six credits in a logical sequence from a “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for