Conference Session

Curricula of the Past, Present, and Future

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University; Robert Pangborn, Pennsylvania State University; David Wormley, Pennsylvania State University

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Educational Research and Methods

, Page 11.3.10Proceedings of the 1996 Frontiers in Education Conference, Salt Lake City, UT.15 Liz Kisenwether and Jack Matson, Launching An Undergraduate Engineering Entrepreneurship Program,Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Montreal, Quebec. (2002)16 T.W.Simpson, D.J.Medeiros, S.Joshi, A.Lehtihet, R.A.Wysk, G.R.Pierce and T.A.Litzinger, IME Inc.- A NewCourse for Integrating Design, Manufacturing and Production into the Engineering Curriculum, InternationalJournal of Engineering Education, Vol. 20, No. 5, 2004, pp.17 Thomas Litzinger, Martin Trethewey, John Gardner, Integrated Design, Experimentation, Analysis and Life Skills(IDEALS) Courses, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Albuquerque, NM

Conference Session

Rethinking Aerospace Curricula and Learning

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Hannigan, Mississippi State University; Carrie Olsen, Mississippi State University; David Bridges, Mississippi State University; Keith Koenig, Mississippi State University

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Aerospace

problem-solving skills and proficiency in the use of techniques andtools that implement these skills.3. Develop design skills and integrate design throughout the curriculum.4. Develop proficiency in written, oral, and graphic communication.5. Introduce and develop an appreciation for the arts, humanities, and social sciences.6. Promote engineering ethics, personal integrity and responsibility, and professionalism.7. Develop teamwork and leadership skills.8. Instill a commitment to lifelong learning.The aerospace engineering program is accredited under the EC 2000 criteria by the EngineeringAccreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.The crux of changes to this long-standing program of aerospace engineering

Conference Session

Novel BME Courses and Course Adaptations

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Denis Enderle, University of Connecticut

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Biomedical

/dental schoolrequirements of one year of biology and organic chemistry in our curriculum. An additionalcourse in the curriculum like genetics, molecular biology or biochemistry would be an asset.Many universities are requiring engineering programs to reduce the total number of credit hours,while increasing the number of general education credit requirements. In the past year at theUniversity of Connecticut (UConn), we were forced to reduce the number of semester credithours in BME from 133 to 127 . This has caused us to rethink our curriculum and to optimizeour course offerings.Another consideration in a BME curriculum is ABET, the organization that accredits allengineering programs. ABET's Engineering Criteria 2000 allows programs to define

Conference Session

Standards Based Approaches to K -12 Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Levelle Burr-Alexander, New Jersey Institute of Technology; John Carpinelli, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Ronald Rockland, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Howard Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

schools with the flexibility to adopt either an engineeringcurriculum or integrate selected curriculum materials into other subject areas such as science.The incorporation of engineering in technology education curricula focuses on existing or Page 11.288.3planned pre-college engineering and technology programs. These programs provide a strongmechanism for incorporating cohesive, level-appropriate engineering experiences for K-12students. Typically, students enrolled in these programs are more interested in engineering andtechnology than their peers, and are strong candidates to study engineering as undergraduates.Incorporating engineering and

Conference Session

Installing & Assessing Technology Literacy Courses

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Ohland, Clemson University

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

prepare them to develop curriculum development in physics,engineering and math with the goal of increasing interest in STEM disciplines as well thedevelopment of curriculum that integrates science, technology and engineering topics with math,reading and writing.15In-service teacher development extends the reach of engineering colleges into classroomsengineering faculty and students do not visit directly. Michigan Tech offered an introduction toengineering workshop for in-service teachers that allowed them to participate in engineering Page 11.644.3explorations in civil, environmental, chemical, computer, electrical, mechanical, materials,geological

Conference Session

Moral Development, Engineering Pedagogy and Ethics Instruction

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna Riley, Smith College; Ida Ngambeki, Smith College; Lionel Claris, Smith College

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Engineering Ethics

pursue Page 11.1287.11new ideas that emerge from the integration of personal experience, technical content, andconcepts in ethics.References 1. Mattei, N.J. Is covering ethics in an analysis class effective? ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 2005, p 9069-9079. 2. Dyrud, M.A. Four reasons for including an ethics component in engineering classes. ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 2003 p 2317-2322. 3. Dyrud, M.A. Training faculty for ethics across the curriculum. ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 2000, p 6409-6415. 4. Riley, D., Ellis, G., and Howe, S. “’To Move People from Apathy’: A multi-perspective approach to ethics across the

Conference Session

Examining the Synergy between Eng'g Mgmt & Sys Eng

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Timothy Trainor, U.S. Military Academy; Heidi Hoyle, U.S. Military Academy

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Engineering Management

Important to Engineering Management USMA is not the only university in which the Engineering Management major is run by aSystems Engineering (SE) department. SE is a central theme in several of the top undergraduateprograms in Engineering Management. Three other undergraduate ABET accredited EMprograms (University of Arizona, University to Missouri at Rolla and Stevens Institute ofTechnology) are integrated with departments that have large SE or Industrial Engineeringprograms.4 Many other non-ABET accredited EM or hybrids of EM programs co-exist in SEdepartments. This phenomenon also occurs at the graduate level at many universities andhappens by design. This strongly indicates that an understanding of SE principles is critical tothe success

Conference Session

Standards Based Approaches to K -12 Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chris Merrill, Illinois State University; Vincent Childress, North Carolina A&T; Rodney Custer, Illinois State University; Craig Rhodes, North Carolina A&T

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

suffered from a lack of well designed, standards-based curriculum. Merrillstated that “An engineering thrust may create a clearer case why technology education shouldexist in the public schools.”2 There exists, however, a major stereotype that has to be overcome ifengineering concepts are to be integrated into technology education, and for engineers to take Page 11.762.2technology education seriously. Greg Pearson, a Program Officer with the National Academy ofEngineering, made the following statement regarding common perceptions of the two fields ofstudy. “Let’s face it, engineering is filled with elitists, and technology education is for blue

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Carol Shields

Engineering Our Future New Jersey Elementary School Carol Shields CIESE Stevens Institute of TechnologyAbstractEngineering is Elementary (EiE), developed by the Boston Museum of Science, is a set ofcurricula that integrate engineering and technology concepts and skills with elementary sciencelessons. Each EiE module contains lessons that integrate an elementary school science topic witha specific field of engineering and features hands-on activities that engage students in theengineering design process.Two modules, Water, Water, Everywhere (environmental engineering) and Catching the Wind(mechanical engineering

Conference Session

Preparing Engr Students for International Practice

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Juan Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Gary Downey, Virginia Tech

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International

global competencywill depend both upon their integration across the full range of the engineering curriculum,including in engineering science courses, and upon widespread acceptance among engineeringeducators of the importance of giving as much weight and time to problem definition as iscurrently given to problem solving.”Introduction We begin with a short quiz on problem definition in engineering. The quiz consists of twoquestions, one on international differences in what is emphasized in engineering work and oneon international differences in what counts as engineers. All are true. The first is an example from World War II. During the summer of 1940, British freighterswere sinking, victims of Nazi U-boats. Doubting its survival, the U.K

Conference Session

Promoting Scientific and Technological Literacy

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jan DeWaters, Clarkson University; Susan Powers, Clarkson University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

of a problem or project – students learn, and then apply, science content andskills that are relevant to their project or problem solution. The technique improves studentlearning and retention of science concepts, largely because students learn more when they areinterested and actively involved in what they are doing, and when they understand the relevanceof the material to their own lives.[8, 11]Recent developments in curriculum reform have also promoted the integration of science,technology, and mathematics in an effort to deviate from the traditional, compartmentalizedsubject structure and move toward learning situations that mimic the real world.[12-14] Thesereform movements promote the teaching and learning of science process skills

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohan Krishnan, University of Detroit Mercy; Shuvra Das, University of Detroit Mercy; Sandra Yost, University of Detroit Mercy; Kathleen Zimmerman-Oster, University of Detroit Mercy

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

addition, engineers with better communication and teamworkskills are needed to ensure U.S. competitiveness in today’s global economy.In order to address this competency gap a team of faculty members (consisting of faculty fromboth ME and EE departments) started work in the late nineties to integrate Mechatronics-basedactivities at all levels of the undergraduate engineering curriculum at University of DetroitMercy. These included a new senior level technical elective in introductory mechatronics alongwith mechatronic activities in freshman design and in the introductory electrical engineeringcourse for non-EE majors. This effort has been very successful, and now mechatronics activitiestake place in many pre-college programs that the school

Conference Session

Defining Technological Literacy

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Douglass Klein, Union College; Robert Balmer, Union College

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

implications of those technologies for theworld? This paper addresses the concept of technological literacy for 21st centuryundergraduates and proposes an agenda for a new liberal arts curriculum which we call“Converging Technologies” which emphasizes both “technology” and “literacy.”I. Introduction It is high time to address and bridge the historical gulf between engineering and theliberal arts in higher education. Both engineering and liberal arts educators should not merelyview this as an interesting sideline, but rather as an educational imperative in order to introducestudents to the new interdisciplinary ideas that are changing the landscape of global society, andto “minimize the threat of terminal incompetence.”1 How long can we produce

Conference Session

Approaches to Teaching Entrepreneurship

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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June Ferrill, Rice University; Lisa Getzler-Linn, Lehigh University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

to be different from business ownership, entrepreneurs seem to differfrom non-entrepreneurs in some of the ethical pressures they face. Given these reasons, wehave developed an ethics curriculum more geared to entrepreneurial students’ future needs.We base our curriculum on the Seven Layers of Integrity™ framework which has a practicalapplication underpinned by the theories of Cognitive Moral Development, Integrative SocialContracts, Moral Imagination and Bounded Moral Rationality. This curriculum will enableeducators to facilitate the exploration of ethics by their entrepreneurial students. No longerignored entirely or taught as an afterthought, such ethics training can give these futureentrepreneurs tools needed for ethical

Conference Session

Assessment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Meyer, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods

wide variety of peripherals integrated into a contemporary microcontroller (j,k).Subsequent curriculum changes (specifically, increased emphasis on embedded system design)prompted revision of the course learning outcomes as follows: 1. an ability to write programs for a computer in assembly language (e,k); 2. an ability to interface a microprocessor to various devices (a,c,e,k); 3. an ability to effectively utilize the wide variety of peripherals integrated into a contemporary microcontroller (j,k); and 4. an ability to design and implement a microcontroller-based system (a,c,e,j,k).Currently, in-lab “practical exams” are used to assess outcomes 1-3, while an embedded systemdesign “mini-project” (implementation of a turn-key

Conference Session

ChE: Innovation to Improve Student Learning

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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C. Stewart Slater, Rowan University; Mariano Savelski, Rowan University; Robert Hesketh, Rowan University

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Chemical Engineering

optional or something done at the end of the designprocess, since this course is usually both optional and at the end of their undergraduateeducation. A better method is to introduce these concepts throughout the curriculum [4] which helpsto emphasize that engineers should be using green engineering and sustainability throughout thedesign process. Implementing this integrated approach, in which students see green engineeringthroughout their four years of engineering shows the importance of this subject to the students Page 11.150.3and reinforces the need to employ this subject in industry. Both of these methods of educationshould be

Conference Session

Tools and Support for Software Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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J. Scott Hawker, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

. Page 11.1261.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 The Collaborative eNotebook: a Collaborative Learning and Knowledge Management TestbedAbstractWe envision an eNotebook, a software system that enables students and instructors to managetheir learning content across the software engineering curriculum, and to organize the content inmultiple ways. We also envision this as a Collaborative eNotebook, which students andinstructors use as they collaborate to create, share, and add to this content, and collaborate asthey create, share, and add to ways to organize the content. This paper describes the features of aCollaborative eNotebook; it describes a design that integrates existing technologies from

Conference Session

FPD2 -- Highlighting First-Year Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marc Christensen, Southern Methodist University; David Willis, Southern Methodist University; Scott Douglas, Southern Methodist University

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First-Year Programs

strongly on thestructure of the particular college or university’s curriculum. Many college engineeringretention studies agree that the first year of study is extremely important in determining ifa student will persist and graduate with an engineering degree4. In institutions that have acommon first-year engineering curriculum, it is possible to completely change the first- Page 11.71.3year experiences of all engineering students through the retooling of the commoncourses. At other institutions where individual departments offer first-year introductorycourses, curriculum changes must involve activities in multiple departments to besuccessful across the

Conference Session

Achieving the Civil Engineering Body of Knowlegde

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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C. Conley, U.S. Military Academy; Decker Hains, U.S. Military Academy; Scott Hamilton, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

faculty interaction. These events can be tied to specific milestones in the academic year such as start of the term, end of the term, FE exam, or tied to a holiday, an organization’s special project or just an opportunity to get students together.6. Host Branch/Section meetings: Allows students to interact with local professionals on their home turf and integrates them into professional societies. This also serves as a way for the local ASCE Sections and Branches to see what students are doing and to meet with them.7. Attend Branch/Section meetings: Provides an introduction to professional society activities.8. Organization business meetings: Gives students the opportunity to become involved with running an organization, running a

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2006 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Jung Oh, Kansas State University at Salina; Alysia Starkey, Kansas State University at Salina

information from multipledirections. Highly toned information literacy skills are the key to unlocking the potentialfor lifelong learning.How do we teach our students to be lifelong learners? This paper shares a glimpse of howa science course instructor, librarian, and the writing center staff have dialogued for acommon goal based on individual and collective teaching/learning outcomes. Scienceliteracy, information literacy and communication skills are crucial and criticalfoundations for students in Engineering Technology programs to become lifelonglearners. One of assignments from the University General Education course,Introductory General Chemistry, involves an integrated three-step process withdiscipline-specific pre-lab activity, general

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Division Poster Sessions

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Rufe, Eastern Michigan University; Gary Rodak, Eastern Michigan University; Scott Pollock, Eastern Michigan University; Mary Finkel, Eastern Michigan University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

University educationcomes into play. The university should incorporate the diverse operations of an enterprise intothe engineering/technology curriculum. This type of information is necessary for a new graduateto be able to relate to their co-workers and work in a unified fashion towards a company’s goals. Eastern Michigan University has a Manufacturing program that integrates the operationsof an enterprise into the engineering or technology curriculum of a student. The core classesgive the student solid background knowledge to refer to when the more specialized or capstonecourses are reached. The core classes include, of course, the math and science background which is alwaysnecessary for a technology student but also includes such

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Scott Shepard

industry makes thematerial advantageous for integrated photonics/electronics chips. Unfortunatelysilicon does not respond well to the optical wavelengths (around 1550nm) thatare presently used in the telecommunications industry – those wavelengths beingpreferred for the low dispersion and low loss frequencies of optical fiber. Thus,the interplay of: industry; cost; technology; and materials, becomes a part of thelaboratory component – even within this seemingly esoteric application.Similarly, the use an instrument which has novel error correlation capabilitiespermits novel experiments on eavesdropping attempts to thwart the quantumencryption. The same instrument however can also perform the functions of anormal Bit-Error-Rate detector – thereby

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Farouq Alhourani

Computer Aided Design & Graphics by teaching students with hands-on type of educational practices and laboratory exercises in the area of FMS. A MiniCIM 3.2 Amatrol has been selected as the equipment to teach FMS. This equipment is used to modify the curriculum and nine courses and labs in the IET department to enhance the students’ learning. The FMS project serves also as a starting point to accomplish a six-year development plan of the Manufacturing Laboratory in the IET department. The goal is to complete a fully Computer Integrated Manufacturing system in six years. The strategy used is aligning students’ class projects and/or students’ senior projects with the goals of the Manufacturing Laboratory. These class projects

Conference Session

TC2K Methods and Models

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Cottrell, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Bruce Gehrig, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Anthony Brizendine, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

multiple techniques and methods to “triangulate” performance, andthis paper will provide a comprehensive look at ICAP as well as the other techniques thatsupport continuous improvement. It will address the formal communication techniquesand channels established to integrate activities across organizational boundaries, and itwill describe an infrastructure that effectively engages staff and faculty and programconstituencies in the continuous improvement planning and implementation. TheEngineering Technology Department program represents a successful, holistic approachto systematically assess, evaluate, and improve the Department’s efforts in achievingprogram objectives and outcomes. The program at UNCC represents an approach toTC2K that not only

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Edward W. Chandler; Robert A. Strangeway; Owe G. Petersen

in program instruction, including the integration of calculus into engineering analyses • calculus-based instruction of physics topics within the curriculum • faculty with relevant industrial experience • courses with progressively increasing depth, such that courses early in the curriculum provide a consistent preparation for applied engineering studies later in the curriculum • incorporation of design into the curricula, consistent with engineering program objectives and outcomes • educational preparation that is required to successfully pass the FE exam • educational preparation that is sufficient for graduate studies, perhaps through the use of a graduate studies elective track within the

Conference Session

Capstone Courses II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

C. Stewart Slater, Rowan University; Mariano Savelski, Rowan University; Robert Hesketh, Rowan University

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Environmental Engineering

impact of green engineering on both R&D andmanufacturing in several chemical industries. This has been accomplished through industry-university partnerships with pharmaceutical and petrochemical companies. Several grants fromthe US Environmental Protection Agency have supported initiatives in green chemistry,engineering and design. These projects have the broader goal of supporting sustainability in thechemical industry.IntroductionToo often the teaching of a technical subject like green engineering is limited to an individualclass experience or one dimensional laboratory or design experience. The teaching of greenengineering in the curriculum is greatly enhanced by active participation of students throughoutthe curriculum and in real-world

Conference Session

Assessment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa McNair, Virginia Tech; Tamara Knott, Virginia Tech; Mary Leigh Wolfe, Virginia Tech; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

full range of academic goals that include assessment, advising, careerplanning, core-curriculum integration, and student-directed learning. In addition, while theprofessional skills outlined by ABET are intended specifically for engineering programs, theissues identified by ABET in fact apply to most, if not all, disciplines at the university. Page 11.390.2Assessment of student outcomes involves two key components—the definition of concrete,measurable outcomes and the development of methods and tools for assessing those outcomes.The first part of this paper describes a theoretical framework used to develop measurableoutcomes, illustrated with

Conference Session

Web-based learning

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alamgir Choudhury, Western Michigan University; Jorge Rodriguez, Western Michigan University; Sam Ramrattan, Western Michigan University; Mitchel Keil, Western Michigan University; Pavel Ikonomov, Western Michigan University; Abhishek Goyal, Western Michigan University

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Engineering Technology

2006-2136: A REMOTE LABORATORY FOR STRESS AND DEFORMATIONSTUDYAlamgir Choudhury, Western Michigan University Alamgir A. Choudhury is an assistant professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan. He earned his MS and PhD from NMSU(Las Cruces) and BS in mechanical engineering from BUET (Dhaka). His interest includes computer applications in curriculum, MCAE, mechanics, fluid power and instrumentation & process control. He is also a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Ohio and affiliated with ASME, ASEE, SME and TAP.Jorge Rodriguez, Western Michigan University Jorge Rodriguez is an Associate Professor in the

Conference Session

Assessing K - 12 Engineering Education Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dava Newman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Kristen Wendell

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

consider the usefulness of traditional science and technologycurricular materials for K-8 educators who are interested in addressing engineering contentstandards.This paper describes an analysis of selected K-8 science and technology curricula in the contextof teaching engineering. The set of curricula considered here is a convenience sample: an onlinedatabase of K-8 science and technology textbooks and teacher’s guides that have been reviewedby the Educator Resource Center at the Museum of Science, Boston, according to theirappropriateness for teaching about engineering. Each curriculum was previously evaluatedaccording to 20 criteria by the Educator Resource Center (ERC). These 20 evaluation parametersmeasure six key characteristics: coverage of

Conference Session

Successful Grant Proposals

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Houdeshell, Sinclair Community College; Shep Anderson, Sinclair Community College; Gilah Pomeranz, Sinclair Community College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

holistic view of their field.References Cited1. NCE/AME, A Novel Curriculum for the Associate Degree in Manufacturing Engineering Technology. 2000, Dayton, OH: Advanced Integrated Manufacturing Center.2. Anderson, S., Curriculum Assessment Checklist. 2002, Advanced Integrated Manufacturing Center: Dayton, OH.3. HEERG, Pedagogical Analysis of Learning Modules Developed Using the Module Architecture Model. 2003, University of California Berkley: Berkley, CA.4. Savery, J.R. and T.M. Duffy, Problem Based Learning: An Instructional Model and Its Constructivist Framework. Educational Technology, 1995. 35(5): p. 31-38.5. Savery, J.R. and T.M. Duffy, Problem Based Learning: An instructional