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Software Engineering Course Content

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bruce Maxim, University of Michigan - Dearborn

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

testablerequirements for the serious game. Delivery of milestone documents (requirements, project plan,software quality, risk management, design, and testing) at the same time or before gameprototypes are delivered also helps prevent students from coding first and documenting later.Students should justify technology decisions and game feature decisions by considering (anddocumenting) the cost and benefit analysis for each alternative, rather than just including afeature that seems cool.Traditional software engineering documents are similar in structure to those used in the gamedesign industry. Our students find that it difficult to use a design document template that mightbe useful for a project involving the creation of a form fill-in database application

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Issues in the Professional Practice of Faculty Members in Civil Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrea Welker, Villanova University; Frank Falcone, Villanova University

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Civil Engineering

battalion, a SEABEE Regiment, and all Reserve CEC officers for the Atlantic Division of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command. He is a retired Captain in the Civil Engineer Corps (CEC) of the U.S. Naval Reserve. Page 13.1004.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Professional Practices in Civil Engineering: Meeting and Exceeding the New Civil Engineering Program CriteriaIntroductionThe emerging global nature of the worldwide marketplace for products and services coupledwith the exponential rise in technological advancement in the industrialized world has led to thenear-term, long-term, and

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Pedagogical Issues in Manufacturing Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jahangir Ansari, Virginia State University; Amir Javaheri, Virginia State University; Stephen S. Tompkins, Virgina State University; Keith Williamson, Virginia State University

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Manufacturing

AC 2008-2236: OUTCOME ASSESSMENT PROCESS IN A MANUFACTURINGENGINEERING PROGRAMJahangir Ansari, Virginia State University Jahangir Ansari is an Associate Professor of Manufacturing Engineering in the Department of Engineering and Technology at Virginia State University. He received his M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1979 and Ph. D. degree in Mechanical Design and Production Engineering in 1983 both from Seoul National University. He joined the faculty at VSU in 2002. He has over 18 years of industrial experience in different areas including shipbuilding and cement plant industries. His research interests include Structural Vibration, FEM, CAD/CAM/CNC, and Computer Integrated

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Looking at the ChE Curriculum

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Annette Jacobson, Carnegie Mellon University; Rosemary Frollini, Carnegie Mellon University; Susana Steppan, Carnegie Mellon University

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Chemical Engineering

comprise 57% of allstudents taking the courses in the past 30 years, a clear demonstration of the usefulness of thesecourses from the student perspective. Note that the course evaluations are not mandatory;students are encouraged to provide a response, but there is no method for insuring that thestudent evaluates the course.Industrial scientists and engineers familiar with the program were polled in 1998 regarding theiropinion of the CPS Program. This was a group of industrial scientists and engineers, includingsome CPS Advisory Board members and some alumni from industrial corporations; both groupshad hired students from our program. Their comments are summarized below: • “…our products and manufacturing technology must remain at the forefront

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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David I. Schwartz

Motivating Engineering Mathematics Education with Game Analysis Metrics David I. Schwartz Rochester Institute of Technology Department of Information Technology GCCIS, 70-2509 +1 585-475-5521 dis[at]it[dot]rit[dot]eduAbstractIn this paper, I develop a system for computational analysis of games that uses scoring functions tomotivate engineering mathematics education. Although many modern videogames have abandoned pointsas an archaic form of representing victory (or defeat

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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David I. Schwartz

Motivating Engineering Mathematics Education with Game Analysis Metrics David I. Schwartz Rochester Institute of Technology Department of Information Technology GCCIS, 70-2509 +1 585-475-5521 dis[at]it[dot]rit[dot]eduAbstractIn this paper, I develop a system for computational analysis of games that uses scoring functions tomotivate engineering mathematics education. Although many modern videogames have abandoned pointsas an archaic form of representing victory (or defeat

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

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David I. Schwartz

Motivating Engineering Mathematics Education with Game Analysis Metrics David I. Schwartz Rochester Institute of Technology Department of Information Technology GCCIS, 70-2509 +1 585-475-5521 dis[at]it[dot]rit[dot]eduAbstractIn this paper, I develop a system for computational analysis of games that uses scoring functions tomotivate engineering mathematics education. Although many modern videogames have abandoned pointsas an archaic form of representing victory (or defeat

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Global Engineering Education Initiatives

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Prashanth Jayaraman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Garrett Bradley, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Odis Griffin, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; John Dooley, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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International

one of thirteen engineering majors. This university has taken several initiativesin recent years to promote internationalization of campus. This paper presents summary ofvarious international activities introduced in the GE program during last 3 years and students’responses are analyzed. In addition, some innovative ideas, aided by latest technology, toenhance global education experiences for engineering students are presented.1. Introduction:The General Engineering (GE) (also called freshman engineering) program at Virginia Tech isbeing reformed as a part of a Department-Level Reform (DLR) grant from the NSF.“Engineering Exploration EngE1024,” is a 2-credit first semester course in the GE program. Thiscourse, required of all engineering

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Christi L. Patton

highlights of what did and didn’t work.BackgroundDegrees conferred from chemical engineering programs across the U.S. declined 34% between1997 and 20061 and The University of Tulsa (TU) has mirrored this trend. This same period oftime saw significant changes in the technology infrastructure at TU in the College of Engineeringand Natural Sciences. Every classroom was equipped with a computer console and display forinstruction. All engineering departments established computer laboratories for their students inaddition to the numerous facilities available to all students. WiFi was installed campus-wide.Two instructional laboratories were created with computers for up to 30 students.In 2007 and 2008, the public has watched the price for a barrel of oil

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Focus on Emerging Topics Around the World

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen Bursic, University of Pittsburgh; Kim Needy, University of Pittsburgh

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Industrial Engineering

American Society for Engineering Education’s Prism [3] magazine provides further evidenceof this trend. Most companies and organizations no longer conduct business from a regional oreven U.S. perspective, but rather from a global perspective. Because the IE field traverses boththe engineering and business world, it is particularly important that IE curricula provide studentswith this advantage.A challenge facing engineering educators is how best to take advantage of the global, flattened,technology-enabled playing field to improve engineering education, and as Friedman, and othershave proposed, enable the U.S. to retain its lead in innovation and university education andresearch. Further, to meet and exceed accreditation requirements, it is

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Civil Engineering Teaching Part Three

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanie Ivey; Anna Lambert, University of Memphis; Paul Palazolo, University of Memphis; David J. Russomanno, University of Memphis

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Civil Engineering

Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) YoungerMembers group. The Memphis Canstruction® competition is a unique, non-profit, multi-disciplinary design competition where high-school students interested in Science, Technology,Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields work in teams with science and math teachers,undergraduate civil engineering student mentors, and faculty members from local universities tobuild structures from unopened cans of food purchased through support of local consulting firms.Section 3: Educational Values, Professional Values, and Life-long Learning SkillsIn addition to ASCE student chapter mentors, each high school team is also provided aprofessional mentor from the Memphis civil engineering consulting community. Theprofessional

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FPD1 - Early Success and Retention

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jale Tezcan, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; John Nicklow, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; James Mathias, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Lalit Gupta, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Rhonda Kowalchuk, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

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First-Year Programs

: Page 13.182.11 What Makes a Difference? Frontiers in Education Conference, 1996. FIE'96. 26th Annual Conference., Proceedings of, 1996. 1: p. 78-829. Pierson, H.M. and D.H. Suchora, Freshman Engineering Drawing and Visualization at Youngstown State University. 2005 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition: The Changing Landscape of Engineering and Technology Education in a Global World, 2005: p. 2005.10. Brannan, K.P. and P.C. Wankat, Survey of First-Year Programs. 2005 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition: The Changing Landscape of Engineering and Technology Education in a Global World, 2005: p. 2005.11. LeBold, W.K., H. Diefes, and W.C. Oakes, Helping First Year Students Make Critical Career Decisions

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FPD7 - Global Warming & Sustainability for First-Year Students

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Blair Rowley, Wright State University; Kumar Yelamarthi, Central Michigan University; Thomas Bazzoli, Wright State University

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First-Year Programs

Research. He holds the MS in Nuclear Science and Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology. During his Air Force career he directed diverse research programs in modeling and testing of system performance, compositional mapping of submicron materials and machine translation of text. He was instrumental in establishing the college’s freshman program. Page 13.625.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Freshman Engineering Student Perceptions on Global WarmingAbstract Managing the problems that global warming is being forecast to cause requires the educatedattention of many

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Junichi Kanai

Engineering and Clinical AssociateProfessor in the department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at RPI. His researchinterests include engineering design process improvements and the application of IT technologies inengineering education. 7

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Junichi Kanai

Engineering and Clinical AssociateProfessor in the department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at RPI. His researchinterests include engineering design process improvements and the application of IT technologies inengineering education. 7

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Applications of Engineering Economy

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Robertson, Arizona State University; Michael Kozicki, Arizona State University; Slobodan Petrovic, Arizona State University

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Engineering Economy

AC 2008-1514: ASSESSING THE TRUE COST OF DELIVERING NANO-HYPEJohn Robertson, Arizona State University John Robertson is a Professor in the Electronic Systems Department at Arizona State University Polytechnic. He was formerly an executive with Motorola and now participates in many senior technical training programs with the JACMET consortium.Michael Kozicki, Arizona State University Michael Kozicki is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at ASU. His interests center on development of new non-volatile memory structures. He holds a number of key patents in this emerging area of nano-technology and has spun-off two companies.Slobodan Petrovic, Arizona State University

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Technical Capacity Bldg for Developing Countries & Service Learning

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vinay Kumar Domal, University of Western AustraliaUWA; James Trevelyan, University of Western Australia

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International

apparentsuperiority of Japanese firms in managing advanced technologies, and the quest to understandhow Japanese engineers have produced high quality and low cost products in less timestimulated comparative studies of engineers and engineering practice in advanced industrial Page 13.308.3societies17-25. Relatively few concepts developed in this literature have found widespread usein developing countries because the role of engineers and technical people is different incountries that are catching up26. In most of these studies there is a clear message: skill andutilization of engineers directly relates to labor productivity. Detailed comparisons ofproduction

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Sustainability and Engineering Courses

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Curtis Larimer, University of Pittsburgh; Michaelangelo Tabone, University of Pittsburgh; Matthew Mehalik, University of Pittsburgh; Kim Needy, University of Pittsburgh

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Environmental Engineering

AC 2008-2064: AN INTERNATIONAL UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHEXPERIENCE IN SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERINGCurtis Larimer, University of Pittsburgh Curtis James Larimer is a senior undergraduate majoring in Engineering Physics in The University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering. He expects to graduate in the spring of 2008 and plans to go on to pursue a graduate engineering degree.Michaelangelo Tabone, University of Pittsburgh Michaelangelo Tabone is a junior at the University of Pittsburgh majoring in Chemical Engineering. While in school, he works as resident assistant in on-campus housing, volunteers as a teaching assistant of Organic Chemistry, and has served as a paper reviewer for the

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Embedded Computing

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Holden, California Maritime Academy

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Computers in Education

students useful skills that will help distinguish themfrom other job candidates. Microcontroller technology is new enough that recent graduates cansuccessfully compete with more senior engineers who have never learned to design withmicrocontrollers.Microcontrollers are becoming ubiquitous in many modern products and machinery, due to theirability to perform complex electronic functions for low cost, and understanding how to use thesesystems is a valuable skill set for any engineer. While some projects will require an electricalengineer to implement the microcontroller design, having the ability to design simplemicrocontroller systems will give a mechanical engineer the ability to be responsible for theentire design of many mechatronic devices, as

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Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brenda Hart, University of Louisville; Veronica Hinton-Hudson, University of Louisville

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Women in Engineering

tabulations of U.S. Department of Education. 2006, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System.3 Engineering Workforce Commission, Engineering & Technology Enrollments: Fall 2005 2006, Washington, DC.BRENDA G. HART is Director of Student Affairs at the J.B. Speed School of Engineering. Her researchinterests include recruitment and retention programs for females and under-represented minorities as wellas activities for first year engineering students.VERONICA HINTON-HUDSON is currently an Assistant Professor in the Computer Information SystemsDepartment within the College of Business. Her research interests include Quality Engineering and appliedstatistics, Production Operations

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Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vijay Renganathan, Institute of International Education; Lester Gerhardt, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Peggy Blumenthal, Institute of International Education; Allen Greenwood, Mississippi State University

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International

continents and countries.As a result, US engineering schools are seeking ways to make the curriculum and theundergraduate experience more international, and to build opportunities for studentsand faculty to gain global perspectives. But we have a long way to go: according tothe Institute of International Education’s Open Doors 2007 Report, in 2005-06, only2.9% (about 6,500) of US study abroad students were studying engineering.Meanwhile, about 15% of all international students (or close to 90,000) who came tothe US for degree study were in engineering.2The figures below, generated using the Open Doors 2007 Report referencing currentand historical data on the percentage of students abroad in Science, Technology,Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM

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Instrumentation and Measurement: Innovative Courses

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gurinder Singh, Future Technology Devices International Ltd. (USA); Lakshmi Munukutla

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Instrumentation

AC 2008-1386: ENHANCING LABORATORY EXPERIENCE TO STUDENTS BYINTRODUCING USB CONNECTIVITY INTO LAB ENVIRONMENT USING FTDIGurinder Singh, Future Technology Devices International Ltd. (USA) Lakshmi Munukutla received her Ph.D. degree in Solid State Physics from Ohio University, Athens, Ohio and M.Sc and B.Sc degrees from Andhra University, India. She has been active in research and published several journal articles. She is the Chair of the Electronic Systems Department at Arizona State University at the Polytechnic campus.Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University Gurinder Singh brings almost a decade of experience in the electronics industry to his position as Senior Field Applications Engineer

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FPD5 - Teaming and Peer Performance

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Arlisa Labrie Richardson, Arizona State University

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First-Year Programs

Services in the NASA Center for Success in Math & Science at Estrella Mountain Community College, she utilizes her academic preparation and extensive engineering background to prepare students for successful careers in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields through student internships and summer research experiences. Page 13.1289.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Tinkering Self-Efficacy and Team Interaction on Freshman Engineering Design TeamsIntroductionIn the book Talking about Leaving, Seymour and Hewitt interviewed hundreds of

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Mechanical Engineering Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Greg Kremer, Ohio University-Athens

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2008-1040: RISK ASSESSMENT OF A MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGDEPARTMENTGreg Kremer, Ohio University-Athens Dr. Kremer is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Ohio University. He teaches in the Mechanical Design area and has primary responsibility for the Capstone Design Experience. His main research interests are Energy and the Environment, especially as related to vehicle systems, and engineering education, especially related to integrated learning and professional skills. Dr. Kremer received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 1989, his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of

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Assessment Issues in Environmental Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gayle Davis, United States Military Academy; Michael Butkus, United States Military Academy

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Environmental Engineering

Military Academy, the Department of the Army, or the Department ofDefense.”Bibliography1. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/ethics, accessed 15 January 2008.2. FM-1, The Army, 14 June 2005, http://www.army.mil/fm1, accessed 17 December 2007.3. Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology, Engineering Criteria 2000, ABET website,http://www.abet.org/eac, accessed 4 December 2007.4. National Council of Examiners For Engineering And Surveying, Fundamentals of Engineering Supplied-Reference Handbook, Seventh Edition, 2005, pp. 99-100.5. FM 6-22, Army Leadership: Competent, Confident, and Agile, October 2006,http://usacac.army.mil/CAC/CAL/FM6_22.pdf, accessed 14 December 2007.6. FM 27-10, The Law of Land Warfare, July

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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Jeffrey J. Heys

Engineering EducationThe term ‘wiki’ is a Hawaiian word meaning ‘quick’, but the term is used here to refer to aspecific type of website. The definition in this case, taken from Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org),is that a wiki is a website that allows visitors to add, remove, and edit content. It is frequentlyused as a collaborative technology for organizing information on websites. One of the mostcommonly cited examples is Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia whose entries can (normally) beedited by anyone using a modern browser such as Internet Explorer (from Microsoft), Firefox(from the Mozilla Foundation), or Opera (from Opera Software). Wikis are used forcollaborative or group projects for two main reasons: (1) they are easily modified (you do notneed

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Public Engineering of Engineering, K12 Standards, and Overview

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Welty, University of Wisconsin, Stout; Linda Katehi, University of Illinois; Greg Pearson, National Academy of Engineering; Michael Feder, National Research Council

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Illinois State University, and a technology education teacher at Central Catholic High School in Bloomington, Illinois. His professional activities have included directing several curriculum development projects for the State of Illinois, researching people's attitudes towards technology, working with public schools to enhance their technology education programs, and serving as a curriculum consultant for the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is currently an active member in the National Center for Engineering and Technology Education.Linda Katehi, University of Illinois Linda Katehi is the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois at

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Trends in Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nadia Kellam, University of Georgia; Ashley Babcock, University of Georgia; David Gattie, University of Georgia-Athens

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Women in Engineering

. Women and Science: The Snark Syndrome. Bristol: The Falmer Press, 1993.5. Seymour, E., & Hewitt, N. M. (1997). Talking About Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences.Boulder: Westview Press.6. Litzler, Elizabeth & Sheila Edwards Lange (2006). Differences in climate for undergraduate and graduatewomen in engineering: the effect of context. ASEE7. Moos, R. H. (2002). The Mystery of Human Context and Coping: An Unraveling of Clues. American Journal ofCommunity Psychology, 30(1), 21.8. Zeldin, A. L., & Pajares, F. (2000). Against the Odds: Self-Efficacy Beliefs of Women in Mathematics,Scientific, and Technological Careers. American Educational Research Journal, 37(1), 215-246.9. Bandura, A. (1985). Social Foundations of Thought

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International CIase Studies: Collabs, Exchanges & Interactions

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Borrelli, McMaster University; Susan Masten, McMaster University

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International

/technology/9d37485a9f492110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html10. Anonymous (2007, December) The Best Inventions of the Year – Health: The healing hand. Time Retrieved January 15, 2008 from: http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1677329_1678169_1678150,00.html11. Faculty of Engineering (2007, February 9) Engineering students develop life-saving CPR Glove. The Daily News. Retrieved January 16, 2008 from: http://dailynews.mcmaster.ca/story.cfm?id=449812. Anonymous (2007, April 4) Gallery: LFP Photos for April 4, 2008. London Free Press. Retrieved January 16, 2008 from: (http://lfpress.ca/cgi-bin/publish.cgi?x=galleries&s=gallery&p=1889&pg=3

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Dominic M. Halsmer

charitable organizations.22 It has become popular in some circles to emphasize abuses that have occurred under the guise of Christianity, but these must be weighed against all the good for which it has been responsible over the past two millennia. Engineers evaluate the utility of various scientific truths for potential useProceedings of the 2008 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 9 in the development of new technologies. This ability should also assist in their evaluation of the utility of various worldviews in solving the problem of life‟s meaning and purpose. It seems clear that the Christian