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Tricks of the Trade in Research

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University

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New Engineering Educators

.” Page 11.850.3Secondly, it is important to remain organized and to communicate well in advance the student’sassigned article and presentation date. The author develops a syllabus for each semester outliningobjectives of the Journal Club, the schedule, and expected performance. The schedule ispublished on the lab’s website and updated to reflect any changes made throughout the semester[5]. More recently, this has been organized into a 1-credit hour directed individual study coursewith a full 5 point (A through F) grading scale. The students write a short 3-page report on theirresearch, including a literature review as a final project in the course. An excerpt from thesyllabus on course objectives and grading is included below.“Objectives

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education in ET

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Blake, Austin Peay State University

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Engineering Technology

could not expect some of thecourses we had required on the main campus to be offered successfully at the satellite location.We had to change our requirements to adapt to the new site. The changes included a reduction incalculus requirements (from ten to three credit hours) and elimination of a computer lab wherewe had introduced students to the EXCEL spreadsheet and other software.Some of the changes and cuts reflected a need to better align our requirements with engineeringtechnology, rather than engineering, requirements. However, the changes did cut some materialwe deemed valuable to our students. We added a new course, ENGT 3050 Problem Solving inEngineering Technology, where we would have a chance to cover this material. This is designed

Conference Session

Design Projects in Wind and Solar Energy

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Samuel Lakeou, University of the District of Columbia; Esther Ososanya, University of the District of Columbia; Ben Latigo, University of the District of Columbia; George Karanja, University of the District of Columbia; Wagdy Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia; Wilfried Oshumare, University of the District of Columbia

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

around the X-axis progressively from June 21 to December 21 in one direction andfrom December 22 to June 20 in the opposite direction.For a simple tracking system, the daily solar tracking is achieved by rotating the array about thesolar tracking axis Y, by equal incremental angular steps ∆ϕ = 150. It is to be noted that thisproposed angular step does not reflect the actual angular step to be performed every month. Infact, the angular step varies from month to month and is location dependent. The programmable Page 11.406.5nature of the proposed design can easily account for these variations. The number of angularsteps covered

Conference Session

Capstone Courses II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Donohue, University of Virginia; Garrick Louis, University of Virginia; William Scherer, University of Virginia; Michael C. Smith, University of Virginia; K. Preston White, Jr., Jr., University of Virginia; Peter Beling, University of Virginia

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Systems Engineering Constituent Committee

, Universidad de los Andes, andUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.Administrative staff members support the web-based administrative tools, faculty and studentactivities, SIEDS preparation and implementation for and contract and accounting requirements. Administrative ActivitiesJune – AugustDeveloping and staffing Capstone projects are the first tasks for each Capstone “cycle.” Projectstypically reflect the research and professional interests of the faculty advisor and are carefullyselected for their appropriateness for the Capstone experience based on the appropriateness ofthe topic, potential student interest, faculty interests, and funding availability. Once the projectsare set through a joint effort of faculty

Conference Session

Use of Technology in Teaching Mathematics

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Melinda Z. Kalainoff, U.S. Military Academy; Dawn E. Riegner, U.S. Military Academy; Matthew Deloia, U.S. Military Academy; Russ Lachance, U.S. Military Academy; Andrew Biaglow, U.S. Military Academy

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Mathematics

after only one examination. The statistical differences areinsignificant in most cases. We are encouraged by the fact that none of the sectionsappears to be lower than their peers. Future results that show additional graded events asa function of time will be very informative. We also place a considerable amount ofimportance on student attitudes as reflected in Table 1. The follow-up survey, to beadministered at the end of the semester, will tell us a great deal about whether we are ableto improve student attitudes toward use of technology.Question ResponsePlease rank the following in terms of your preference for solvingproblems. Pencil and paper

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FPD8 -- Systems, Nanotechnology & Programming

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Youssef Allam, Ohio State University; David Tomasko, Ohio State University; John Merrill, Ohio State University; Bruce Trott, Ohio State University; Phil Schlosser, Ohio State University; Paul Clingan, Ohio State University

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First-Year Programs

very broad multi-disciplinary project that appeals to manyinterests and this is reflected in the nanotechnology teaching modules contributed by a diversegroup of nanotechnology researchers from around campus.Nanotechnology is introduced in related readings and laboratory tours as well as a nominalexperimental component. Pre- and post-tests on nanotechnology concepts helped to gaugeincreases in student knowledge and understanding of fundamental nanotechnology topics. Pre-and post-surveys indicated the effects of the course on student interest and participation inresearch and nanotechnology-related issues at an undergraduate, graduate, or professional level.Efforts to expand the initial pilot implementation into a scaled-up regular course

Conference Session

New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ernest McDuffie; Elaine R. Milliam; Robert Kavetsky; Ronald Bennett; Eugene Brown

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Graduate Studies

, to join in an afternoon session ofdefining the critical components of effective leadership. Theywere able to join in small groups to discuss their own experiencesof working with inspiring, admirable leaders and the impact thoseleaders have had on them. By the end of the first day, the grouphad developed a full set of characteristics they felt reflected theideal leader of the future and were able to consider which of thesecharacteristics matched the image they would embrace for theirfuture.The following two days, students spent time individually, in smallgroups and as a large group, learning about their assessmentresults, synthesizing the data and developing a short and long-range plan of action. Through interpretations of the

Conference Session

Design for Manufacture and Industry

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Betsy Aller, Western Michigan University; Alamgir Choudhury, Western Michigan University; James Kamman, Western Michigan University; Jorge Rodriguez, Western Michigan University; Mohammed Elsamawal, Western Michigan University; Michael Desjardins, Western Michigan University

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Design in Engineering Education

-based course design trend reflects industrypractice, where teamwork has become the prevalent mode5. During this bidding process, studentsare required to seek out the faculty who presented the project, with the goal of both learningmore about the project and allowing the faculty to get a sense of the best team for the project.The course coordinator encourages students to ask faculty advisors questions about projecttiming, budget, potential funding, objectives, etc. In the case where the project has an industrysponsor, be that for commercial purposes or for non-for-profit organization, students are urged toask about sponsor expectations, additional or unusual time lines, and specific design constraints.Naturally, not all of these questions can be

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Research

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Simeon Komisar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Lupita Montoya, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Environmental Engineering

. Thefollowing weeks were spent refining the details of the design, building and subsequently testingand debugging the prototype. As the semester came to a close, design teams conducted the finalevaluations and demonstrations of their system design concept prototypes. Among issues toconsider, they reflected upon the design process and discussed how it impacts people in generalas well as any specific questions regarding their design. As Milestone 3, teams made final projectpresentations and submitted design documentation in the form of a written report. For those students who enjoyed this course experience, they could choose to continue theirinvolvement in similar projects by joining the Rensselaer chapter of Engineers for a SustainableWorld.Evaluation

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Trend in Construction Engineering Education II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul Chinowsky, University of Colorado-Boulder; Hyman Brown, University of Colorado-Boulder

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Construction

thetransformation source. The constructor must understand that responses to these requirementshave effects that are not limited to the level at which they originate. Rather, decisions made ateither end of the source spectrum can significantly affect the entire spectrum. For example, adecision at the organization level to enhance the reputation of the organization throughexceptional quality will be reflected at the task level through increased implementation times atcritical project phases.Constituent ModifiersEach project contains requirements that must be addressed during the transformation process.For example, each project has a unique site on which it located, and each project has specificinfrastructure integration constraints such as traffic, electric

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Industrial Collaboration & Applications in ET

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University; Donald Richter, Eastern Washington University

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Engineering Technology

engineering and engineeringtechnology whether it is electrical, computer, or mechanical. It would have been impossible toaccomplish this goal of offering a real world engineering education without the generousassistance of many organizations through a series of collaborative efforts.Conclusions, Reflections, and the FutureThe success of Eastern Washington University’s program to build and furnish a new buildingshows that the new paradigm of forming collaborative partnerships with all of the stakeholders inengineering and engineering technology has great merit. By utilizing this new approach to thereoccurring problem of funding engineering education Eastern Washington University was ableto build a new state-of-the-art facility for its programs. This

Conference Session

Approaches to K -12 Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leslie Wilkins, Maui Economic Development Board

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

diverse young technology professionals whograduated from local high schools on the subject of “How I Got My Start.” The final activity is avisit to the normally inaccessible observatories at the Maui Space Surveillance Complex, tenthousand feet above sea level atop Mount Haleakala.In its first year, Tech Careers employed a passive recruitment process to enroll interestedstudents. Sixty-six percent of participants were male, and most came from private schools orthose in wealthier districts. Anecdotally, they were also primarily Caucasian. In subsequentyears, gender equity recruitment protocols were implemented and refined so that now theparticipant population appropriately reflects the gender, socio-economic and ethnic diversity ofthe community

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Henry Sneck, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Donald Bunk, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Douglas Baxter, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

. Page 11.546.11ConclusionsThe evaluation of the effectiveness of a course like this is difficult for several reasons. First, thestudents have no bench-mark to use for their judgment of the course because its goals and itsdelivery are unlike any course they may have taken or, for that matter, will take. As with manycourses the long-term benefits cannot obviously be assessed in the short term. The students whotook this course will be tracked throughout their educational career to collect their impressions of“Discovery” as they reflect back upon it in the context of their subsequent education.Determining whether we have succeeded in our goal of helping students discover the professionof engineering will depend on the long-term tracking

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2006 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Warren Lewis, Oklahoma State University

ability to consistently provide product that meets customer and applicableregulatory requirements. In a quality lab environment, students or workers must able to repeat aprocedure accurately, as would be expected in a work setting. Unless the procedure is writtenout and followed, one is likely to get different results each time, which leads to poor quality.Moreover, unless plans are made for materials, there is likely to be a great deal of waste, whichleads to poor economic practices for both university and industry. Lesson #1: Quality of studentwork often reflects the professor’s expectation.In regards to safety, students, faculty, and staff need to know how to keep themselves and theirco-workers safe. The equipment, procedures, and chemicals

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2006 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Saeed Khan, Kansas State University at Salina; Beverlee Kissick, Kansas State University at Salina

X X X 100% become embedded in a global economy. 7. Globalization is a reality that we must all X X X X 95% deal with. 8. We should fear globalization unless we This statement on reflection was considered confusing and 32% will not be a part of further analysis prepare for it. X X 9. The Nike-Apple iPod product would not X X X X X 86% be suited for poorer countries. 10. Experiencing

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2006 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Robert Edwards, Pennsylvania State University at Erie – The Behrend College

Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education” 3on their research interests as they relate to the available projects. Iit does take additional effortby the faculty to make this a successful program. Fortunately, at PSB the industrially sponsoredsenior project program has been in existence for over 20 years, and has become ingrained in theteaching structure. Faculty has become accustomed to this additional load. A small amount ofcourse relief is given for participating as a faculty advisor, but this does not reflect the amount oftime involved in doing a good advising job. At a school that is just starting to use industrialprojects

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2006 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Rena Hixon; Steve E. Watkins; Sean J. Bentley; Marcus Huggans

a robotic car include: • Concepts of torque and load-pulling competitions, • Concepts of light sensing and line-following competitions, and • Concepts of sensing and control and precision competitions, e.g. which car can stop closest to a line. Proceedings of the 2006 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 6The first alternative could provide more emphasis on calculations and the latter alternatives moreemphasis on programming. The training would be adjusted to reflect the new concepts andcompetition tasks. Other types of robots and task are discussed in Lego literature.13IV

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Betsy Calhoun

storage into living space; a Trombe wall collecting heat behind a glass wall andreleasing the heat at night; or a sunroom that allows heat to move into living space behind orabove it. (Images) Given good exposure to the winter sun, all of these systems work passively.They also lend themselves to refinements of control and monitoring assisted by currenttechnology.The second most effective way to use the sun’s energy directly, after passive heating of abuilding, is to heat water. A black surface absorbs heat while a white one reflects heat. A hotwater collector can be as simple as a black plastic bag overhead that releases hot water onto aperson by gravity. Using this principle on a larger scale, I can imagine a series of black tanks on1 Strong

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Keith M. Gardiner

perfect student output is regarded as preferable to late and looking a little prettier, classgrading regimes reflect this.Key ethical matters that are brought before the students involve communication and diversity. Aquick personality test is administered to alert them to the vagaries of working on teams withdifferent individuals [10]. There are usually students from different cultures, and also from manydifferent parts of the US, there are loud-mouthed ‘expressives,’ highly motivated directed andinsistent ‘drivers’ (both the latter being characterized as ‘poor listeners’), the all- important‘amiables,’ and the ‘analyticals’ that never have sufficient data to reach a decision. They are allmade aware that ‘it takes all kinds’ to make an effective

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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LeeRoy Bronner; JERRY-DARYL FLETCHER

Software Engineering: Concepts and Techniques. In: Dutoit A, McCall R, Mistrik I, Paech (eds.) Rationale Management in Software Engineering, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, Germany, pp.1-48[8] Fischer G, McCall R, Morch A (1989) Design Environments for Constructive and Argumentative Design. In: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Wings for the mind, New York, NY, US, pp. 269-275[9] MacLean A, Young RM, Bellotti VME, Moran T (1996) Questions, Options and Criteria. In: Moran TP, Carroll JM (eds.) Design Rationale, Concepts, Techniques and Use, Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ, pp. 53-106[10] Schön D (1983) The reflective practitioner. How professionals think in action

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Frank Lanzer

Attracting Girls to Technology: Reach Them Before High School Frank Lanzer Anne Arundel Community CollegeAbstractToday, a technology company may “feel good” if 30% of their employees are women butmost will not be engineers. This reflects the facts provided by the National ScienceFoundation showing 35% of the undergraduates in science and math majors are women,while only 10% are in engineering. It’s no wonder that many girls and young womenperceive these fields as “for men”. Recent research shows attitudes and perceptions beingdeveloped early in the secondary education process.During this discussion, current statistics and research with

Conference Session

Visualization

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan Hartman, Purdue University; Patrick Connolly, Purdue University; Jeffrey Gilger, Purdue University; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University

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Engineering Design Graphics

paradigms suggested by Gardner12 and West13.There is a call for better measures of spatial skills and methods for improving spatial ability.While there are a limited number of studies that examine the effect of training on spatial ability,some have proposed that spatial ability has a biological basis; however, individual differences inthe ability are also reflective of environmental input. For instance, Miller and Bertoline14 suggestthat spatial ability develops over periods of time and is related to stages of a person’sdevelopment and various learning environments and types of life experiences. It has beenhypothesized that it is, in part, through these experiences that individuals tend to migrate towardscertain career paths, ultimately influenced

Conference Session

FPD6 -- Early Intervention & Retention Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Froyd; Xiafeng Li, Texas A&M University; Arun Srinivasa, Texas A&M University; William Bassichis, Texas A&M University; Jacque Hodge, Texas A&M University; Donald Maxwell, Texas A&M University

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First-Year Programs

engineering students, depending on their major. Students whohad elected to major in Aerospace, Biomedical, Civil, Industrial, Mechanical, or NuclearEngineering were assigned to Track A. Students who had elected to major in Computer orElectrical Engineering were assigned to Track B. Students who had elected to major inBiomedical, Chemical, or Petroleum Engineering were assigned to Track C. Content of the twofirst-year engineering courses in each track was modified to reflect the goals of faculty membersin departments associated with each track. However, if students changed majors, courses in anytrack are satisfactory for completion of the first-year engineering courses. For the initial pilot ofthe STEPS first-year curriculum in the 2004-05 academic

Conference Session

Use of Technology to Improve Teaching and Learning

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margherita Landucci, Liceo Artistico Statale; Fabio Garganego, Municipality of Venice

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Educational Research and Methods

Page 11.1201.17promoted to the second year, but simply reflects those classes that did have two years ofchemistry studies in their syllabus.Part 2, Stage 1 – Using CHICKA to learn the Language of ChemistryHere the computer game was introduced as a new tool of language acquisition to test if thetime required to learn the elements of the PT, the basic formulae and concepts could bereduced when compared to the same ability achieved through traditional, text-book methods.Stage 1 was therefore measured in quantitative terms (length of time occurred to learn).To measure the results, students were given two tests. These were similar in concept to thetests usually given to students at the end of the first term (14 weeks), however in this case thetests

Conference Session

Hurricane Katrina

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

W. Robert Story, Virginia Tech; Brian LeCroy, Virginia Tech; Christina Pace, Virginia Tech; Michael Palmer, Virginia Tech; Leigh McCue, Virginia Tech

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Ocean and Marine

information regarding the ship, neither the shippingcompany nor the classification society were prepared to discuss the naval architecture of thevessel, so approximations were formed. Based on the classification numbers and pictures of theship, an approximation of the hull was created in Fastship, a hull modeling software packagecreated by Proteus Engineering. A basic tanker hull was utilized as a starting point thenmodified using the parametric subprogram Fastgen.32 Using this application, a hull was createdthat very accurately models both the ship particulars and hull shape of the Sinar Andalas, as seenin the graphic below. The hull created reflects the displacement of the ship though neglects theparticular structures on deck, including the

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tammy VanDeGrift, University of Portland; Sheryl Burgstahler, University of Washington; Richard Ladner, University of Washington; Annemarie Poginy, University of Portland

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

disseminate the workshop model and key properties to other colleges and Page 11.1293.2universities so that engineering and computer science may attract a more diverse population. Weprovide evidence regarding the success of the workshop through students’ work, a case study,and analysis of program evaluation data.1. IntroductionEngineers and computer scientists build products for use by a diverse population; therefore, it issensible and necessary that engineers form a diverse population. Unfortunately, thedemographics of US students earning engineering degrees and those practicing as professionalengineers do not reflect the US population1. Among the

Conference Session

FPD6 -- Early Intervention & Retention Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Foor, University of Oklahoma; Susan Walden, University of Oklahoma; Tyler Combrink, University of Oklahoma; Lindsey McClure, University of Oklahoma; Deborah Trytten, University of Oklahoma

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First-Year Programs

have identified peer adviceas more valued by students than advice from formal sources.7 Students are, in some sense, morequalified than formal sources to give advice to undergraduate science, technology, engineering,and mathematics (STEM) students. Many counselors and advisors were not STEM studentsduring their undergraduate program. Faculty, while more often STEM students asundergraduates, are likely to have been elite students, who underestimate the challenges facingthe average student.The advice expressed by our 185 interviewees, most of whom are upper division, derives fromtheir actual lived experiences, reflecting on the challenges they have faced in the context ofsuccessfully negotiating an engineering curriculum. Most perceptions of

Conference Session

Approaches to K -12 Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carolyn Vallas, University of Virginia; Larry Richards, University of Virginia; Anaïs Miodek, University of Virginia

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

School of Engineeringand Applied Science. Initially, the MITE program was intended to serve as a preparation andrecruitment program for first-generation college students and minority groups in engineering,defined as: women, African-Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans. In 2002, the programwas renamed the Introduction to Engineering, reflecting a conscious decision to make theprogram more overtly inclusive of all demographic groups. The OMP continued to run theprogram and was officially renamed the Center for Diversity in Engineering (CDE) in 2004. Inaddition, in 2003, a new emphasis on hands-on engineering was introduced and material frominteractive engineering teaching kits was incorporated into the ITE program. This included theadoption

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2006 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Joseph J. Rencis; Hartley T. Grandin; William O. Jolley

to the vertical deflection obtained at the mid-span in 2b. Explain why you get the same solution. Do the beam elements reflect any sort of stress concentration effect at the supports? 2g Explain. Do you expect the relative percentage error for displacements and the relative percentage 2h error for stresses to be the same value, the same magnitude, or different? Why or why not? The three-dimensional beam element was selected for three reasons. First, toillustrate that three-dimensional beam elements can be used to model one-dimensionalspace problems. Second, to demonstrate the need to be mindful of the third direction (notexplicit), especially when the loading is

Conference Session

Novel BME Courses and Course Adaptations

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Conrad Zapanta, Pennsylvania State University; Keefe Manning, Pennsylvania State University

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Biomedical

, and neuroprosthesis. The instructors of these specificareas were consulted to determine how these scores can be improved for future class offerings.6. ConclusionThis paper has described the development of an artificial organ design course at the PennsylvaniaState University. The objectives of this course are to understand engineering design and problemsolving techniques, become familiar with various engineering issues surrounding the design ofartificial organs, understand the process of obtaining regulatory approval for artificial organs,and apply these techniques and knowledge to the design of artificial organs. The current offeringof this course in the Spring of 2006 reflects this continuous development.AcknowledgementsThe authors would