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Hardware Descriptive Language Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harry Franz, University of Houston-Downtown

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Computers in Education

the LabVIEW software, the basics of LabVIEW are taught within the ENRG-1403course. Fundamentals of LabVIEW and examples are given in both the classroom and lab.The ENGR-1403 students are also not required to have previous knowledge of programmablelogic and software. The students learn programmable logic controller software and hardwareapplications through the use of programmable logic controllers that are in the ENGR-1403course lab. Note that only smatterings of students in the ENGR-1403 course, mainly those thatwork in industry, do have some limited experience with programmable logic.A fire alarm system systems laboratory is used in the ENGR-1403 course with the lecture. Thisfire alarm signaling systems laboratory has programmable logic

Conference Session

Experiential and Service Learning

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Odon Musimbi, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara Moskal, Colorado School of Mines; David Munoz, Colorado School of Mines

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

attitudes with respect to community service than did students and that only minordifferences existed based on participants’ age and gender.The current research builds from this prior effort. In Bauer et al., data were collected in theMultidisciplinary Engineering Laboratory, EGGN250, a sophomore level course in the fall of2004. This course was selected because it was required of all students and it preceded the courserequirements within the Humanitarian Engineering minor. In other words, the existence of theminor and the courses associated with that minor would not yet have impacted the students’attitudes. Using the same instrument, data was collected in the spring of 2007 in a senior levelcourse, a time period when most of the original student

Conference Session

Student Learning Techniques & Practices in Engineering Technology

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University; Ryan Beasley, Texas A&M University; Ana Elisa Goulart, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Technology

. W. Johnson & R. Johnson, (5th Edition), Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1999.4. “Learning from Change”, edited by D. DeZure, Routledge, 20005. “Active Learning: Cooperation in the College Classroom”, D. W. Johnson, R T.Johnson, and K. Smith, Interaction Book Company, Edina, MN, 1991.6. “Self grading for improved learning”, M. Plett and D. Peter, AC 2007-523.7. “Self-Paced laboratory modules for engineering materials and manufacturing processeslaboratory course”, C. Skurla, AC 2007-1800:8. “On the Use of Students for Developing Engineering Laboratories”, B. Bidanda and R.Billo, Journal of Engineering Education, April 1995.9. “Assessment of multimedia and web-based instruction in a science-technology &society course”, P. Backer

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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Nikolay Kravchuk; Ryan Colquhoun; Ali Porbaha

Pendulum in the laboratory for earthquake engineering education. Theresponses of a single degree of freedom system with and without base isolation aremeasured simultaneously and compared for free and forced vibrations using theaccelerometers attached to the top of the model structures. The results showed thatthe maximum acceleration experienced by the structure was 0.23g and 0.57g with andwithout base isolation, respectively, and the damping of the system increased about 5times due to base isolation. The experimental tool developed here was implementedin an undergraduate course “Introduction to Earthquake Engineering”, and the resultsof student analyses are presented. Overall the base isolated system showed asignificant improvement in dynamic

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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R. Asmatulu; H. Misak; W. Khan

of Materials II Spring 2007,” University of Connecticut, 2007.17. Asmatulu, R,. Claus, R.O., Mecham, J. B. and S. G. Corcoran, “Nanotechnology-associated coatings for aircrafts” Materials Science, Vol. 43, No: 3, 2007, 415-422.18. Jaksic, N. “Nanoscience, Nanoengineering and Nanotechnology Education at Colorado StateUniversity – Pueblo,” Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 931, 2006.19. Feisel, L.D. and Rose, A.J. “The Role of the Laboratory in Undergraduate Engineering Education,” Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 121-130, January, 2005.20. Leva, A., “A Hands-On Experimental Laboratory for Undergraduate Courses in Automatic Control,” IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 64, No. 2, pp. 263–272, 2003

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Elif Kongar; Tarek Sobh

research associate in the Laboratory for Responsible Manufacturing(LRM) at Northeastern University since September 1999. She has also been employed as an Assistant Professor byYildiz Technical University till February 2006. Dr. Kongar is currently an Assistant Professor at BridgeportUniversity. Her research interests include the areas of supply chain management, logistics, environmentallyconscious manufacturing, product recovery, disassembly systems, production planning and scheduling and multiplecriteria decision making.Dr. Tarek M. Sobh received the B.Sc. in Engineering degree with honors in Computer Science and AutomaticControl from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt in 1988, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees inComputer and

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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David I. Schwartz

would be lost, a more complexmodel would offer greater insight into how a game changes state. Deciding which game components andstates should contribute (and to what degree) to a score needs further work. 8Finally, educators may wish to introduce mathematical concepts from a game design and analysisperspective. Ultimately, scoring could provide an essential link between theoretical fundamentals andsoftware implementations.7. AcknowledgementsI would like to express my gratitude to the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in Rome, New Yorkfor providing a Visiting Faculty Research Professorship for the summer of 2007 and a subsequentextension grant. Research into wargame design and development methods

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

David I. Schwartz

would be lost, a more complexmodel would offer greater insight into how a game changes state. Deciding which game components andstates should contribute (and to what degree) to a score needs further work. 8Finally, educators may wish to introduce mathematical concepts from a game design and analysisperspective. Ultimately, scoring could provide an essential link between theoretical fundamentals andsoftware implementations.7. AcknowledgementsI would like to express my gratitude to the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in Rome, New Yorkfor providing a Visiting Faculty Research Professorship for the summer of 2007 and a subsequentextension grant. Research into wargame design and development methods

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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B.M. Wright; C.W. Swan; D.M. Matson

Service learning as a catalyst for sustainable change in Ecuador B.M. Wright, C.W. Swan, and D.M. Matson Tufts UniversityAbstractThe student chapter of Engineers Without Borders at Tufts University allows students the opportunity ofservice learning while exploring sustainable solutions to real world problems. Interdisciplinary teamsresearch potential technologies and propose implementation strategies, conduct laboratory research at theuniversity on performance trade-offs, and then gain field experience by traveling to the target communityto develop personal relationships which support sustainable social change. One such investigation hasfocused on water quality

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Elif Kongar; Tarek Sobh

research associate in the Laboratory for Responsible Manufacturing(LRM) at Northeastern University since September 1999. She has also been employed as an Assistant Professor byYildiz Technical University till February 2006. Dr. Kongar is currently an Assistant Professor at BridgeportUniversity. Her research interests include the areas of supply chain management, logistics, environmentallyconscious manufacturing, product recovery, disassembly systems, production planning and scheduling and multiplecriteria decision making.Dr. Tarek M. Sobh received the B.Sc. in Engineering degree with honors in Computer Science and AutomaticControl from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt in 1988, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees inComputer and

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Elif Kongar; Tarek Sobh

research associate in the Laboratory for Responsible Manufacturing(LRM) at Northeastern University since September 1999. She has also been employed as an Assistant Professor byYildiz Technical University till February 2006. Dr. Kongar is currently an Assistant Professor at BridgeportUniversity. Her research interests include the areas of supply chain management, logistics, environmentallyconscious manufacturing, product recovery, disassembly systems, production planning and scheduling and multiplecriteria decision making.Dr. Tarek M. Sobh received the B.Sc. in Engineering degree with honors in Computer Science and AutomaticControl from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt in 1988, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees inComputer and

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

David I. Schwartz

would be lost, a more complexmodel would offer greater insight into how a game changes state. Deciding which game components andstates should contribute (and to what degree) to a score needs further work. 8Finally, educators may wish to introduce mathematical concepts from a game design and analysisperspective. Ultimately, scoring could provide an essential link between theoretical fundamentals andsoftware implementations.7. AcknowledgementsI would like to express my gratitude to the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in Rome, New Yorkfor providing a Visiting Faculty Research Professorship for the summer of 2007 and a subsequentextension grant. Research into wargame design and development methods

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tershia Pinder-Grover, University of Michigan; Sarah Root, University of Arkansas; Emine Cagin, University of Michigan

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Graduate Studies

Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2003, and her master of science degree from the University of Michigan in 2007. Both of her degrees are in electrical engineering. She is currently pursuing a PhD in electrical engineering at the University of Michigan’s Solid State Electronics Laboratory. Emine is currently serving as a mentor in the EGSM program. Page 13.998.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Preparing Graduate Students to be Successful as Teaching Mentors and as Future ProfessionalsAbstractGraduate student instructors (GSIs) – or teaching assistants – are a

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Golanbari, University of the Pacific; Rick Garlikov, Garlikov.Com

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Electrical and Computer

communications,and senior capstone design project courses, teaching laboratories and projects helpedimprove student participation, got the students actively involved and excited about theprojects and the material being taught, motivated the students to better master coursecontent and taught the students to learn to think and reason more clearly, accurately,relevantly, logically, rationally, ethically and responsibly.This paper discusses how the judicious, sensible and affable use of the Socratic Methodin the aforementioned educational settings facilitated the development of students whoare learning to possess the basic skills of thought and reasoning such as the ability to:identify, formulate and clarify questions; gather relevant data; identify key

Conference Session

Engineering and Math Potpouri

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Fong, National Institute of Standards and Technology; James Filliben, National Institute of Standards and Technology; Alan Heckert, National Institute of Standards and Technology; Roland deWit, National Institute of Standards and Technology

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Mathematics

Modeling and Analysis Group in the Statistical Engineering Division of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland. He earned his BA (1965) in Mathematics from LaSalle College, and PhD (1969) in Statistics from Princeton University. He joined the technical staff of NIST in 1969, and has more than 50 papers in refereed journals and 200 talks and short courses to his credit. In 2003, he became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.Alan Heckert, National Institute of Standards and Technology Alan Heckert earned his B.S. degree in mathematics at the Frostburg State University in 1978, and his

Conference Session

Distance Learning in ET

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Meral Anitsal, Tennessee Tech University; Ismet Anitsal, Tennessee Tech University; Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Tech University; Bonita Barger, Tennessee Tech University; Michael Allen, Tennessee Tech University

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Engineering Technology

comparisons. Students rate their progress on each course compared to other courses based ongaining factual knowledge, application of course materials to problem solving, and the ability toanalyze and evaluate ideas, creativity, and team skills. Further information can be found at:http://iweb.tntech.edu/ideaevaluations/IDEA%20Overview2.pptThe CoursesEngineering Technology – CAD for Technology CourseCAD for Technology course covers the 2D and 3D CAD techniques for industrial applicationswith laboratory experiences. AutoCAD 2006 software is used for the laboratory practices. Thisjunior level course has various teaching, assessment and practice components, and has thefollowing course management modules in the WebCTTM system. • Course syllabus and

Conference Session

Investigating Fuel Cells and Alternative Fuels in the Classroom and Lab

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Recayi 'Reg' Pecen; Faruk Yildiz; Kenan Baltaci, University of Northern Iowa

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

efficiency by presenting eachstep with encountered issues and solutions. It can be part of the laboratory experiments toinvestigate variety of viable energy sources by performing experiments. The response of thestudents can be collected if they have positive or negative intentions. Students worked in thesystem stated that the use of "real" data makes the programming concepts taught in lecture muchmore meaningful to them. For many of these students, this experience involves the mostintensive teamwork they have had to deal with in their educational experience. Page 13.360.7 H2

Conference Session

Instructional Methods and Tools in BME

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Geiger, Florida Gulf Coast University; Robert O'Neill, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Biomedical

levels of contact, including such things as classroom discussions; questions(both from the instructor as well as from the students); and active learning in small groups,including in-class exercises such as problem-solving, laboratories, small group discussions, etc.Interacting with students at these different levels (one-on-one, small group, classroom) offers theinstructor the opportunity to not only develop a positive rapport with his or her students, but alsothe ability to present the lesson material in a variety of environments, allowing the studentmultiple opportunities to absorb the information.One of the easiest ways to develop higher degrees of contact with students is to ask themquestions during the lesson. Questions can be used to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chetan Sankar, Auburn University; P K Raju, Auburn University

to solve such problems, and the processes used to solve theproblems. Thus, the goals of this project are to provide: • an intensive research experience for U.S. students working with partners at IIT Page 13.1301.3 Madras, a premier engineering institute in India , • experience in working as members of an international team for both the U.S. and IIT students, 2 • industrial research experience for the U.S. students working in industry research laboratories (Larsen and Toubro, Limited and

Conference Session

Beyond Individual Ethics: Engineering in Context

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education

beginning, and they show no sign of subsiding. PDI is alsotime-intensive for faculty, requiring more time in class, more time coordinating among multipleinstructors, and more time interacting with (motivated but demanding) students outside of class.Finally, PDI-type instruction and research faces subtle but pervasive prejudice by scholars withinboth engineering and STS. Written off by many as “applied” scholarship, design andinterdisciplinary design especially, is seen as “soft,” “non-rigorous,” or otherwise lowly asopposed to “hard,” “pure,” high-status laboratory-based research. While the question of therelative status of different ways of knowing, and engaging, the world is clearly beyond the scopeof the present analysis, it is relevant to

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teac

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Robert Culbertson, Arizona State University; Marilyn Carlson, Arizona State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

intended to facilitate connections between math and science and engineering. Theseconnections address three of the project's thrusts which are embedded in the courses and includethe following. One thrust is the deepening conceptual understanding of mathematical functionand its utilization in problem solving processes in math, science and engineering. Another is theapplication of inquiry learning techniques in both classroom practice and laboratory practice.The third thrust is the integration of math and science both through the contextualization of mathcontent and processes and also through enhancing mathematization of science phenomena anduse in predictive design tools in engineering design processes. These thrusts of function, inquiry,and

Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Applications

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory Nail, University of Tennessee-Martin

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Engineering Design Graphics

of Toledo. The author explains that, because of trends promoted bystate departments of transportation, his program opted to integrate GEOPAK © into designclasses. Specifically, GEOPAK © was integrated into a synchronized CAD laboratory whichincluded highway geometric design, and site and utility layout. A semester long project was usedas the vehicle with which the software was introduced to the students. The conversion fromquarters to semesters was the original impetus for the expansion of the CAD laboratory courseoffering. The prerequisite is a freshman level course which incorporates Microstation ©instruction. The author refers to the challenge of adequately exposing students to all of thecapabilities of GEOPAK © within the available 33

Conference Session

Professional Practice and AEC Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Dupuis, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Benjamin Thompson, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Lawrence Bank, University of Wisconsin - Madison; John Herridge, Autodesk

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Architectural

planning software tool. BIM tools(primarily REVIT Building/Architecture and Bentley Architecture) started appearing in the classprojects in the spring of 2006 and took hold firmly in the spring 2007 course. Students in theAEC Global Project Class generally had minimal exposure to these software tools (with theexception of AutoCAD and one of the structural analysis tools) before beginning the class. Inaddition to class trends, two of the authors attended a Building Technologies Workshop at OakRidge National Laboratory in February 2006 and a BIM in Structural Engineering Workshoporganized ay SEI/ACEC in July 2006.By the fall of 2006, the conditions and interest level among key faculty were sufficient to offer acourse at the University and the CEE

Conference Session

Programmatic Issues in Physics or Engineering Physics Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Winston Jackson, California Institute of Technology; Jennifer Franck, California Institute of Technology; James Maloney, California Institute of Technology; Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux, California Institute of Technology; Julian Rimoli, California Institute of Technology; Luz Rivas, California Institute of Technology

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Engineering Physics & Physics

program. He received his masters of science in physics from Caltech for his work in the field of nano-scale mechanical resonators. Before arriving at Caltech, he earned his bachelors of science in physics from the University of Florida.Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux, California Institute of Technology J. P. Ochoa-Ricoux was born in Mexico city in 1980. He obtained his B.S. in Physics Engineering with Honors from the ITESM (Monterrey Tech) in 2003. Since then he has been a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology, where he studies the phenomenon of neutrino oscillations in the MINOS Experiment at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He also served as a physics instructor for the

Conference Session

Undergraduate Space Design and Project Courses

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Debbie Mullins, Texas Space Grant Consortium; Wallace Fowler, University of Texas at Austin

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

– resulting in 131 mentor/team pairings since 2002.Research groups providing topics and mentors for the upcoming Spring 2008 are representativeof the units that typically work with Design Challenge teams: • Space Shuttle Systems Engineering and Integration Office • Constellation Program Office • University of Texas Center for Space Research with the JSC Exploration Office • Habitability and Human Factors Branch, Space Food Systems Laboratory • Biomedical Systems Branch, Systems Architecture and Integration Office • Propulsion Branch, Energy Systems Division • NASA Headquarters, Advanced Capabilities Division • EVA Technology Development Group, Crew and Thermal Systems Division • NASA Exploration Systems Mission

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Heun, Calvin College; Steven VanderLeest, Calvin College

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2008-2264: WHY A LIBERAL AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION ISNEEDED TO SOLVE THE ENERGY CRISISMatthew Heun, Calvin College Matthew K. Heun received his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was a staff engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California and a Senior Engineer at Global Aerospace Corporation in Altadena, California before joining the Engineering Department at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.Steven VanderLeest, Calvin College Steven H. VanderLeest is a Professor of Engineering and currently the Engineering Department Chair at Calvin College. He has an M.S.E.E. from Michigan Technological

Conference Session

STEM Pipeline: Pre-College to Post-Baccalaureate

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Trenor, University of Houston; Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

80% Apply experimental engineering/scientific tools (e.g., machining, oscilloscopes, 80% instrumentation, laboratory equipment) in engineering/scientific practice Increase perseverance 80% Recognize my strengths and weaknesses 80% Page 13.1372.11According to results from NESLOS, (1) eight participants stated that they spent 1 to 5 hours perweek with their faculty mentor, one stated they spend 6 to 10 hours per week, and one spent 21

Conference Session

Case Studies & Engineering Education Around the Globe

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adnan Zahed; Abdullah Bafail; Reda Abdulaal; Ali Al-Bahi

Tagged Divisions

International

objectives of engineering laboratories formulated in the 3-dayconference organized by ABET, with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in January2002.29 The workshop was concluded by a set of rubrics to evaluate design oriented students’lab work.30AAU failed to sell the idea of students exit portfolio to the 12 engineering programs. The ideawas to ask each student in one of the early courses to create a reflective portfolio subdividedaccording to ABET outcomes. The student will insert in each outcome divider reflected-uponartifacts, i.e. Drawings, designs, projects, presentations, or any other student work, thatdemonstrate mastering the corresponding outcome. The portfolio is kept by the student, updatedby the student by inserting new

Conference Session

Learning to Communicate with Engineers and Non-Engineers

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mieke Schuurman, Pennsylvania State University; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University; Christopher Johnstone, Pennsylvania State University

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Liberal Education

her work at annual conferences of ASEE, WEPAN, and CEIA, and published in the Journal of Engineering Education, the Journal of Language and Social Psychology, the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, the European Journal of Social Psychology, and the European Review of Social Psychology.Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University Michael Alley is an associate professor of engineering communication in the College of Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of The Craft of Scientific Presentations (Springer, 2003) and regularly gives workshops on engineering presentations for different institutions including Sandia National Laboratories, the SPIE, Los Alamos

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Dominic M. Halsmer

that the central truth-claims of a worldview be verifiable or falsifiable since claims that lack this characteristic cannot be investigated, evaluated, and critiqued, thus carrying little rational weight. „Testability increases a worldview‟s intellectual credibility. The concept of “testable truth” contains persuasive power.‟18 Engineers use several different methods for testing reality, such as theoretical calculations, computer simulations, and experimental testing in the laboratory. They typically look for good agreement among such methods before proceeding with a design- related decision. However, the approach to verification or falsification of worldview truth-claims can be somewhat different from that of verifying the