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International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Radha Balamuralikrishna; Kurt Rosentrater

into engineering technology programs. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exhibition, Session 1348.15. Alford, E. and T. Ward. 1999. Integrating ethics into the freshman curriculum: an interdisciplinary approach. Proceedings of the 1999 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exhibition. Session 2561.16. Marshall, J. and J. Marshall. 2003. Integrating ethics education into the engineering curriculum. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exhibition. Session 1675.17. Davis, M. 1992. Integrating ethics into technical courses: IIT’s experiment in its second year. 1992 ASEE Frontiers in Education

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Writing and Communication II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa Rosenstein; Jeffery Donnell; Christina Bourgeois

years (2000-04). In an attempt to find ways to meet the ABET EC 2000requirement, ECE has utilized the two most prevalent pedagogical models of writing instructioncurrently available:• the genre-driven, stand-alone technical writing course offered through the English department, and• the integrated, discipline-specific approach based on Writing-Across-the-Curriculum (WAC) and Writing-in-the-Disciplines (WID) philosophies.Early on, ECE students were required to take a two-credit technical writing course intended togive them the requisite skills needed for the types of discourse they will practice in their majorcourses. This genre-driven, stand-alone course was offered through Georgia Tech’s School ofLiterature, Communication, and

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Zimmerman-Oster; Mohan Krishnan; Shuvra Das; Sandra Yost

interplay between mechanical and electrical principles that apply to agrowing number of industrial products and processes. Despite the importance of thisinterdisciplinary area, many of today’s engineering graduates are unprepared to functioncompetently in environments that require them to integrate electrical and mechanical knowledgeareas. In addition, engineers with better communication and teamwork skills are needed toensure 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 mid-nineties to integrate mechatronics-basedactivities at all levels of the undergraduate engineering curriculum at University of

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Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ficken; Subha Kumpaty

the positive influence of employing laboratorydemonstrations on student learning of System Dynamics concepts. Out of 120 students (in sixsections of 20) that have been introduced to mechanical, electrical and thermal systems vialaboratory demonstrations by the authors and their colleagues in Spring 2004, all contained onlypositive comments. Several commented that the course must be given an official laboratorycredit. It can be safely stated that the incorporation of laboratory demonstrations will continue toenhance student learning of System Dynamics at MSOE. The authors envision a follow-uppaper on the student reaction/feedback and the integration/implementation updates upon teachingthe class several times and assessing the overall impact in

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Judith Collins; Alysia Starkey; Beverlee Kissick; Jung Oh

students inEngineering Technology, Aviation (professional pilot, airframe and power plant), andTechnology Management. As other studies have found, tailored integration of course contentwith librarian partners causes significant differences in students’ use of high-quality informationresources. The results included an increase of over 200% in the search/retrieval numbers for asingle database compendium, Infotrac. We also documented significant gains in search/retrievalratios in the same database. Technical writing courses can be effective sites for implementingand assessing IL instruction, if tailored to the specific contexts of students’ disciplinaryprograms.Faculty/librarian partnership began with a joint review of literature in 2001, where we

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College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Hebrank; Glenda Kelly; Paul Klenk; Gary Ybarra

comprehensive inquiry-based lesson plans much earlier thisacademic year (within one month of classroom placement). Mid-year fellow surveys alsoreinforced the value of the hands-on demonstrations early in fellows’ training as well as the highpriority fellows placed on continuing to share and brainstorm lesson plans with other fellowsafforded by the supervised structure of the bi-weekly training meetings, suggesting theimportance of ongoing, year-long training.SummaryInquiry-based instruction has been found to be an important instructional modality for successfulteaching of technology, science and math integrated into all areas of curriculum sincedemonstrated impacts include reductions in gaps between advantaged and disadvantagedstudents in math and

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Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Watkins

ofengineering graphics.Developing the new curriculum from scratch allowed a fresh examination of engineeringgraphics education in the context of today’s computer driven society. One advantage wasavoiding the “we’ve always done it this way” mantra. An additional advantage was theopportunity to examine today’s computer based drawing, modeling, and design tools, and to plana curriculum around them, rather than integrating them into an existing course sequence.Significant thought and planning went into the effort, and included input from several sources.Major decisions were made on several key issues such as: Should any work be done with manualinstruments on the board? Is hand sketching an appropriate topic? Should some level of handwork (board or

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Measuring Perceptions of Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ochs

) program [Ref 2 and 3], the Design Arts (DA)curriculum [Ref 4], the Integrated Business and Engineering (IBE) major [Ref 5] and thecampus-wide entrepreneurship minor [Ref 6-9].B. Focus on standardsAligning curriculum with the Pennsylvania State Academic Standards [Ref 10-13]continues to be the focus of an intensive curriculum review process that includesrepresentatives of all stakeholder groups at Northwestern Lehigh. Futures II [Ref 14] wasoriginally developed to solve the challenge of assuring that all students would meet thestate graduation standards in Career Education and Work, Family and Consumer Science,and Technology Education. Previous to its implementation, student enrollments incourses related to these academic standards were entirely

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Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Pierre Larochelle

Tech was initiated. The purpose of this overhaul was to develop an experiencethat would serve to: (1) prepare students for the ME curriculum, (2) motivate students tocomplete their studies, (3) provide students with academic success skills, and (4)introduce students to the engineering profession. The format chosen to realize this goal isa yearlong sequence of two courses that freshmen take entitled Introduction toMechanical Engineering I (MAE1022 Fall, 2 credits) and II (MAE1023 Spring, 1 credit).This sequence is a project-motivated experience inspired by traditional capstone designcourses. In the fall students are taught basic academic success skills such as timemanagement, study skills, working in study groups, self-motivation, and goal

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NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Jeff Jackson

the development of nationally competitive grant proposals. Withmany components required for a successful grant proposal, it is important for a potential granteeto develop a set of best practices when undertaking grant proposal writing efforts.The author of this paper has written a successful NSF Adaptation and Implementation grantproposal [1] entitled “An Integrated Internet-Accessible Embedded Systems Laboratory” and asuccessful NSF Department Level Reform grant proposal [2] entitled “Developing a ModernComputer Engineering Curriculum Focusing on Embedded Systems.” The goal of this paper is tosuggest best practices for proposals for people considering writing similar grant proposals.Considerations include properly addressing program

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elias Faraclas; Catherine Koehler

, especially at the high school level, should focus on a curriculum thatlends to practicing the decision-making heurist in the context of any of these attributes. Axis &Allies by Milton Bradley is used as an example to apply the decision-making heurist.Introduction The National Science Foundation funded grant titled, de Vinci Ambassadors in theClassroom, the Galileo Project (NSF Project #DGE-0139307), at the University of Connecticut,aims to bring engineering education and experiences to high school level classrooms andcurriculum. Central to this goal, several curriculum units, termed modules, have been developedand deployed to participating high schools throughout the state of Connecticut. These modulesattempt to integrate some examples of

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Real World Applications

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark French

offered in response to requests by both students and outsideorganizations. Our students tend to be very interested in cars and often come us with abackground in modifying, racing and even building them. The potential for outsidesupport offered the possibility of creating an appealing course that would link a variety ofsubjects in a rigorous way. The student response was enthusiastic, so we think this is agood venue for highlighting how working with a complex system integrates subjectmatter from the entire curriculum1.Basic Structure of CourseThe course was developed with 12 distinct modules: 1. The Role of Automotive Motorsports in the Undergraduate Curriculum 2. History of Automotive Motorsports

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K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

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Malinda Zarske; Rene Reitsma; Martha Cyr; Nancy Shaw; Michael Mooney; Jacquelyn Sullivan; Paul Klenk

should be acomponent of basic literacy? Are you convinced thatengineering can be used as a vehicle for integrating scienceand math in K-12 settings, inspiring today’s youth to be theinnovators of tomorrow? Do you want to incorporateadvances in engineering and technology to spice up thelearning of science fundamentals? Are you and yourengineering students compelled to engage in K-12engineering yet don’t know where to start? Truth be told, doyou dream of a searchable, online collection of classroom-tested K-12 engineering lessons and hands-on activities thatexplore science and math in an age-appropriate, appliedfashion relevant to the lives of youth? If you do not knowfor which math or science that fourth- or eighth-grade

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Teaching Team Skills Through Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Harris; M. Bramhall; Ian Robinson; David Hick

, Bramhall, MD, Robinson, IM “Product Development: An Integrating Curriculum”, Keynote Paper and Address, 2nd Global Congress on Engineering Education, Conference proceedings pp 49-52, Wismar, Germany (2000).Biographical informationPROFESSOR MIKE BRAMHALLProfessor Mike Bramhall holds a Chair in Engineering Education in the Faculty of Arts, Computing, Engineeringand Sciences at Sheffield Hallam University and is the Faculty Head of Learning, Teaching & Assessment. He isalso the Associate Director of the UK Centre for Materials Education at Liverpool University. Mike is the Editor ofthe British Journal of Engineering Education.PROFESSOR IAN ROBINSONProfessor Ian Robinson is the Head of Undergraduate Studies in the Faculty of Arts

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Crimaldi; Daniel Knight

turbulence.These results add to the growing body of evidence supporting alternative instructional techniquesas effective methods for teaching engineering. Future research will expand upon the findings of this pilot study. This study will berepeated with a larger group of engineering undergraduates. In addition, the order of instructionaltechniques will be switched with the lab demonstration presented prior to the lecture.AcknowledgementsFinancial support for this project has been provided by grant # 0126842 from the NationalScience Foundation’s Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program.Bibliography1. Reynolds, O. (1883) An Experimental Investigation of the Circumstances which Determine Whether the Motionof Water in Parallel

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Dahm

Economics,” Journal of SMET Education, 4, 3&4 (2003).Biographical InformationKevin Dahm in an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He received his B.S. fromWorcester Polytechnic Institute in 1992 and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998. Hiscurrent primary teaching interest is integrating process simulation throughout the chemical engineering curriculum,and he received the 2003 Joseph J. Martin Award for work in this area.Ravi P. Ramachandran is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering atRowan University. He received his Ph.D. from McGill University in 1990 and has worked at AT&T BellLaboratories and Rutgers University prior to joining Rowan

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ELD Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara MacAlpine

Engineering + Information Literacy = One Grand Design Barbara MacAlpine Trinity University, San Antonio, TXAbstractUndergraduate engineering students in small institutions, like their colleagues in largeruniversities, need to be information literate, yet this is a skill that is not necessarily built intotheir curriculum. This paper will discuss a program that has been developed at TrinityUniversity to address first year engineering students in their initial design course. It will coverthe transition from largely lecture/demonstration-based instruction to a presentation that includesactive learning components. An emphasis on the importance of written

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Implementing the BOK - Can it Be Done?

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Meyer; Allen Estes; Ronald Welch

Committee is to define the expected relative contributions of theundergraduate and masters degree educations and to design curricula that support this.III. Why Get Involved NowThe United States Military Academy at West Point is a public university with a studentpopulation of approximately 4,000 undergraduates. Upon graduation, every student iscommissioned as an officer in the U.S. Army. USMA offers majors in 32 disciplines, six ofwhich are ABET accredited engineering majors. West Point confers only a bachelor’s degree andhas neither the ability nor the desire to start a masters program in engineering. The decision bythe West Point civil engineering program to join the curriculum design partnership effort wasbased on the following

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Programming for Engineering Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Hamilton

. The innovation we are prototyping in this projectcreates an applet-rich shared space whereby a pedagogical agent at each learner’s stationfunctions as an instructional assistant to the teacher or professor and tutor to the student. Theplatform is intended to open a series of new -- and instructionally potent -- interactive pathways.IntroductionThree different learning technologies and an intriguing opportunity to integrate them are at theheart of an educational research effort funded by the US National Science Foundation [1]. Eachin its own right is at the forefront of a particular research domain. Each has emerged andmatured over the past decade; and each has presented compelling and oftentimes movingopportunities to alter educational

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New! Improved! CE Accreditation Criteria

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Russell

education needs facing the next generation of civil engineerscannot be satisfied with a four-year baccalaureate degree. The necessary professional Page 10.529.2skills must be integrated in various courses throughout the curriculum, and must extendbeyond the traditional bachelor’s degree.Civil Engineering Education Reform – and the Body of KnowledgeToday’s world is fundamentally challenging the way civil engineering is practiced.Complexity arises in every aspect of projects, from pre-project planning with variedstakeholders to building with minimum environmental and community disturbance.Addressing this increased complexity will require understanding and

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Problem-Solving & Project-Based Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

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Karen High; Ben Lawrence; Cynthia Mann

a creative field of study. Students seeengineering as very mathematical and rigorous. Freshmen often look at the daunting curriculumand see an abundance of work with little or no reward. What is not apparent in the underclass-engineering curriculum is the amount of creativity that is necessary to solve industrial problems1.This becomes more apparent in advanced courses, such as senior design, but we must be able toretain students until that level. Additionally students feel that they will be attacking projects onan individual basis, as was the case for much of their high school experience. Once the studentsreach later classes, they realize that the norm is to solve problems in student teams.Students retained until graduation sometimes also

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Chouikha; Don Millard

. "Learning Styles and Teaching Styles in Engineering Education." Engr. Education, 78 (7), 674-681, 1988.18. Millard, D., Burnham, G., “SMET Learning Modules for an Electronics Curriculum” (DUE – 9950356) Final Report, National Science Foundation, June 2002.DON LEWIS MILLARDDr. Millard directs the Academy of Electronic Media at Rensselaer (2003 Premiere Award Recipient) and hasauthored numerous university and K-12 educational materials for mathematics, science, engineering and arts coursesthat are regularly accessed by a global population. He has participated and served as the PI on many research efforts,including NSF, DARPA, DoD and corporate-sponsored projects

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A through K and Beyond

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Norman Dennis

will require a diversion from many universities’ current definition ofscholarship. The end result of all these alternatives is that university administrators must buy-into this process of integrating practitioners, development of cross campus curriculums andredefining scholarship to insure the necessary faculty and programs are in place to insure successin delivering the BOK.The Ideal Faculty Member The heart of any institution and indeed any effort to implement the BOK is the faculty. Asa result, the CAP3 also saw a need to define the attributes of the teacher of the BOK. The whosection of the BOK, which is the real subject of this article attempted to define the principalcharacteristics of the ideal educator. The focus of CAP3 was on

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Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanislaw Maj; Anuradha Sutharshan; D Veal

Technology (IT) profession [15]. The alignment of an organisation’sinformation technology to its business strategies is a recurrent theme in IS research[6]. The increasing complexity of today’s business and IT environments makes itmore difficult for organisations to design an Enterprise architecture that supports thecompany’s business objectives and enables the IT staff to deliver applications thatalign with business goals.Enterprise Architecture is about understanding all of the different elements that go tomake up the Enterprise and how those elements interrelate. The InformationTechnology Management Reform Act of 1996, better known as the Clinger-CohenAct, refers to Enterprise architecture as "an integrated framework for evolving ormaintaining

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Best Zone Papers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Powell; Michael Kwinn

-based learning,2) work-based learning, and 3) connecting activities.This paper explores the uniqueness and nature of the Academy’s work-based education program,its’ purpose, the process for matching cadets with a participating agency, and follow-up feedbackfrom students. The feedback is used to assess the viability of the program for future students andincrease the value gained from the program for participating organizations. This paper providespractical guidelines for implementing such a program in any engineering curriculum to enhancea student’s engineering education and learning.An Integrating ExperienceThe academic program at West Point has evolved in response to the needs of the Army andtrends in higher education. The balanced offering of

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Computed Simulation and Animation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bugra Koku; Ali Sekmen

teaching an introductorycourse on Mechatronics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Middle East TechnicalUniversity. This course attracts students from multiple disciplines. Being offered at the thirdsemester, rather than focusing on theoretical aspects of different disciplines, this course focuseson the system integration aspect of Mechatronics systems and emphasizes this with hands-onlaboratory exercises and a semester project. The semester project requires the design andconstruction of a simple closed loop system. To make the programming aspect of these projectseasier, it is intended to develop the necessary software on a PC rather than an embeddedplatform. To facilitate this, a software package is developed. With the help of this

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Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shyi-Jeng Tsai; Pei-Fen Chang; Jiunn-Chi Wu

acquisition of outcome E and K, from theirviewpoint, is weaker. This means that we must change the contents of the after-class activity, andemphasize the logical control through LLWin® in an integral exercise unit.From the teaching actions, lecture and homework, most of the students have confidence inacquisition of the core competences A and G, as indicated in Fig. 11b. This means more than thehalf students by the survey considered good or very good in acquisition of competency tovisualize and analyze the kinematic problems graphically, as the results of question 4 and 7 of Page 10.475.12the questionnaire indicating. The reason may be explained

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Bradley Burchett

ASEE Annual Meeting 2005 Session # 3568 A Control Systems Lab Sequence Designed to Foster Understanding1 Bradley T. Burchett Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN 47803AbstractRose-Hulman Institute of Technology has a unique sophomore curriculum that culminates in amulti-disciplinary system dynamics course. Because of this curriculum, seniors entering theironly required control systems course in the mechanical engineering curriculum have

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Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Petlick; Alice Scales; Aaron Clark

with other topics.Analysis of the data found that participants’ institutions offer an average of 6.29 courses inengineering and technical graphics in a regular academic year. The combined total of courseslisted by the 48 participants who responded to this part of the survey was 302.When asked if they taught GD&T in their program, 68 % (or 35 participants out of the 51respondents) stated they did. Of these 35, 32% offered a separate course in GD&T and 65%integrated it into other courses. Three percent both integrated it into other courses as well astaught it as a separate course. The data revealed that these respondents offered an average of1.96 courses that included GD&T, with a range from one to five. The survey in 1998 survey,by

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MIND Education Trends

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2005 Annual Conference

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Dana Newell

homework and take finals for physics, chemistry, calculus and computer courses Page 10.271.3 Session 3170The curriculum was designed in collaboration with Intel Corporation and the Director ofCEDAR. The curriculum team was comprised of Dana. C. Newell, M.A., graduate andundergraduate engineering students (including former Summer Bridge participants), andthe program coordinator. Each student-instructor was responsible for the developmentand delivery of an assigned portion of the curriculum. The curriculum began withfundamental elements of team building, introduction to e-mail