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Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Lehman; Asad Yousuf

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Session xxxxReferences1. “Practical Electronics for Inventors” by Paul Scherz McGraw-Hill 20002. “Student Manual for the Art of Electronics” by Thomas C. Hayes and Paul Horowitz Harvard,Cambridge University Press 19893. “Pros and Cons of replacing discrete logic with programmable logic in introductory digital logiccourses” by Kevin Nickels Trinity University ASEE Annual Conference Session 25324. “A Proven Different Approach to Teaching Linear Circuits” by Albert J. Rosa and Roland E. ThomasUniversity of Denver/USAF Academy Proceedings

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Mathematics Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Schmeelk, Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Branch

0 -0.5 -1 -1.5 -2 0 0.5 1 1.5Bibliography 1. Berglund, G.D., A Guided Tour of the Fast Fourier Transform, IEEE Spectrum, (July 1969), 41- 52. 2. Budrikis, Z. L., & Hatomian, M., Moment Calculations by Digital Filters, AT&T Laboratories Technical Journal, 63, No.2, (February 1984), 217-229. 3. Cochran, W. T., & Cooley, J., W., & Favin, D., L., What is the Fast Fourier Transform? Proceedings of the IEEE, 55, No. 10, (October 1967), 1664-1674. 4. Gabel, R. A., & Roberts, R. A., Signals and Linear Systems, Wiley, NY (1980). 5. Harris, F

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Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tom Thomas; Mohammad Alam

included a mid-semester survey, asurvey of student opinions of teaching and an end-of-semester survey for each course; aquestionnaire for graduating seniors at the conclusion of each semester; and annual surveys foralumni (limited to first through fifth year after graduation), and employers of graduates. Thenumerical tools included the subject-specific Fundamentals of Engineering Exam results (USAgraduates are required to take the FE exam, but are not required to pass the exam), and theannual performance of USA’s EE and CpE students in the IEEE SoutheastCON HardwareCompetition.Documenting compliance with other program criteria was more straightforward. Since therewere many similarities to the older ABET criteria for self-study, the requirements

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Manufacturing Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lenea Howe; Jr., Elijah Kannatey-Asibu

are emerging are not known. Page 10.1140.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThe opportunity that RMS design brought in teaching a systems approach to engineeringwas another important driver to our education plan. Due to the highly specialized andfocused relationship between students and their individual faculty advisors, studentstypically have little opportunity to develop the systems perspective in engineering. Theyhave limited experience in working with experts from diverse fields on a team to solvecomplex

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Useful Assessment in Materials Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Edward Goo; Maura Borrego

conceptualquestions. Data analysis is provided to begin to evaluate the effectiveness of this method,and future work collecting more detailed data and combining concept inventories withlecture sessions is discussed.Course-Specific Background and MotivationTable 1 outlines the topics included in University of Southern California (USC) MASC110, Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering. Unlike many introductorymaterials science courses, this course includes significant chemistry content andsubstitutes for the first-semester chemistry requirement for aerospace, mechanical,electrical and industrial engineering majors. A chemistry textbook is used9, and materialsscience concepts are introduced through laboratory activities and lectures later in

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Design and the Community

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2005 Annual Conference

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Leah Jamieson; Carla Zoltowski; William Oakes

– for example, a community service agency, museum or school, orgovernment agency and a faculty or industry advisor. A pool of graduate teaching assistantsfrom seven departments provides technical guidance and administrative assistance.Each EPICS team is vertically integrated, consisting of a mix of freshmen, sophomores, juniors,and senior and is constituted for several years, from initial project definition through finaldeployment. Once the initial project(s) is completed and deployed, new projects are identifiedby the team and community partner allowing the team to continue to work with the samecommunity partner for many years. Each undergraduate student may earn academic credit forseveral semesters, registering for the course for 1 or 2

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Warren

theory course. While they can demonstrate frequency-dependent behavior with analog circuits in the laboratory, they find it difficult to (a) conceptuallymap time-domain signal character to frequency-domain spectra and (b) describe the effect of a Page 10.976.1frequency-domain filter on the shape of a time-domain signal, even if they understand the Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Educationfundamental concept of a Fourier series. Finally, linear systems students find it hard to correctlyinterpret the

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Writing and Communication II

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Anderson; Jeanine Casler; Bugrahan Yalvac; H. David Smith; Gulnur Birol; John Troy; Penny Hirsch

(www.vanth.org) are concerned about how their innovative efforts to integratecommunication instruction into their classes can be promulgated throughout the curriculum.To investigate these problems and gather data to help us improve the teaching of writingthroughout the curriculum, our interdisciplinary committee--faculty from engineering, writing,and the learning sciences—collaborated to: (1) systematically gather information about the writing standards that engineering faculty want to support (2) discuss the standards with faculty in relation to preferred teaching methods (3) disseminate those standards through a websiteOur primary research question was to determine whether engineering faculty within and acrossdisciplines share

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Problem-Solving & Project-Based Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

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Taryn Bayles

., L.C. Schmidt, and P. Meade, “Student Focus Group Results on Student Team Performance Issues”, Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 89, no. 3, 2000, pp. 269-272. 16. Biernacki, J.J., and C.D. Wilson, “Interdisciplinary Laboratory in Advanced Materials: a Team-Oriented Inquiry-Based Approach,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 90, no. 4, 2001, pp. 637-640. 17. Besterfield-Sacre, M., M. Moreno, L.J. Shuman, and C.J. Atman, “Gender and Ethnicity Differences in Freshmen Engineering Student Attitudes: A Cross-Institutional Study,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 90, no. 4, 2001, pp. 477-489. 18. Seat, E., and S.M. Lord, “Enabling Effective Engineering Teams: A Program for Teaching

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Advancing Manufacturing Through Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

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Hakan Gurocak; Xiaolin Chen; Dave Kim

workshop helped the girls understand fundamentals of molding, polymerprocessing, and machining. All participants had a chance to operate manufacturing toolsin a real engineering laboratory. Page 10.983.7 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationAll students and staff pretended to run a manufacturing company called “Wazzu Corp.”There were three divisions in the company, the Plastic Molding division, PolymerProcessing R & D division, and CNC Machining division. In the ‘Polymer Processing R& D’ division

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Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tobia Steyn

complete the Felder Solomon Index of Learning Styles (ILS)[10] as part of courseactivities. This is followed up with a discussion of the outcomes of the ILS, and of the existenceof and diversity in thinking, learning and teaching preferences. The aim is to make the studentsaware of their own preferences and the need to develop functionality in their less preferredthinking and learning modes. External Internal learning learning Linear Global Logical Holistc

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sookram Sobhan; Noel Kriftcher; Nerik Yakubov; Alon Kadashev; Magued Iskander; Vikram Kapila

; Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”with insight for activities in future classes and in the long term allows them to becometechnology resources in their schools. Graduate fellows receive tuition remission, as well as a stipend, while undergraduatefellows receive a stipend. The fellows benefit by acquiring valuable teaching experience,improve their communication skills, and apply their knowledge and explore their creativity bybeing able to design lab experiments and demonstrations.3. Illustrative Sensor-Based Physics Experiments A key element of the RAISE project is the development of sensor-based lab experimentsthat demonstrate concepts in physics from an engineering perspective

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Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tina Hudson; Laurence Merkle; Joshua Holden; Richard Layton

Conf., Salt Lake City.2. MUPEC 2004 conference website, www.rose-hulman.edu/MUPEC2004/RICHARD A. LAYTONRichard Layton received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1995 and is currently an AssistantProfessor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. His interests include student teambuilding and laboratory curriculum development. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Layton worked for twelve years Page 10.1373.10in consulting engineering, culminating as a group head and a project manager. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

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Georgios Anagnostopoulos

programentitled Course, Curriculum and Laboratories Improvement (CCLI-EMD). Thetitle of the grant is “PROJECT EMD-MLR: Educational Materials Developmentthrough the Integration of Machine Learning Research into Senior DesignProjects”. The project partners are two major universities in Central Florida,Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) in Melbourne and the University of CentralFlorida (UCF) in Orlando. In addition to the two universities, there are two 2-yearCentral Florida colleges, Seminole Community College (SCC) in Oviedo andBrevard Community College (BCC) in Palm Bay.Project EMD-MLR is a “proof-of-concept” project focused on Machine Learning(ML), whose immediate objectives are i) the development of educational materialin the form of software

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Technology and Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

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Marijke Kehrhahn; Kelli Vallieres; Alexandra Bell; Nicholas Massa

faculty from five geographic regions across the US participating inProject Photon2, a National Science Foundation Advanced Technology Education (NSF-ATE)project aimed at increasing the number of educators across the US prepared to teach photonicstechnology.BackgroundCurrently 85% of all universities and colleges in the United States offer distance educationcourses, an increase from 62% in 19981. According to the National Center for EducationStatistics2, enrollment in online instruction courses has more than doubled, from approximately1,364,000 in 1998 to over 2,870,000 in 2001. One of the fastest growing forms of distance Page 10.872.1learning

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Industrial Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ken Wild; Constance Holden; Karen Horton

the Park during the spring term of 2004.Holden and Horton successfully proposed a three-credit service learning course to the Divisionof Lifelong Learning at UM to be offered as a Continuing Education (CED) course during thespring 2004 term. CED courses are open to all students. The course was numbered MET220and titled CAD Modeling of Archeological Structures. CED courses must be offered after 4:00pm. The course was scheduled in a computer laboratory four hours per week, Monday andThursday from 4:30 to 6:30. A three-credit CED course supports the faculty member overloadwith eight percent additional salary; by team teaching the course in addition to their regularclasses Horton and Holden each earned an additional four percent salary.Wild

Conference Session

New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

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Johannes Strobel; David Jonassen

engineering jobs, however, there is a general acceptanceamong most engineers that graduates will “really” learn how to be an engineer during thefirst year or two on the job. Rarely did practicing engineers recommend more engineering inengineering curricula. Rather, most of the engineers emphasized more instruction on clientinteraction, collaboration, making oral presentations, and writing, as well as the ability todeal with ambiguity and complexity. As two engineers opined: …it is kind of a sore spot with me that educational institutions teach when you do your work there is a right answer and a wrong answer. And in the real world it is never that way, there are many ways to do things and it is not a matter of getting a right

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Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Dick

Page 10.1091.2designing an imbedded system that would be used to implement a True RMS Voltmeter. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education v(t) vi A/D Converter microProcessor 7.23 voltsrms Displayv(t) is the laboratory voltage that is to be measured and vi is the sampled input signal.For this assignment, the sequence of samples, vi, will be drawn from a test file, and thedisplay will be the terminal window. This assignment can per presented to the students atseveral

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Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

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Timothy Keener; Anant Kukreti; Eugene Rutz

Environmental Engineering at theUniversity of Cincinnati (UC). He joined UC on 8/15/00 and before that worked 22 years at University ofOklahoma. He teaches structural engineering, with research in experimental and finite element analysis ofstructures. He has won major teaching awards and is internationally recognized in his primary research field.TIM C. KEENER Page 10.1380.9 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition 9 Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Tim C. Keener is a

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lennard Lema; Peter Baumann

suggestedwhich place design in the initial year to maintain interest 9, 10, 15, 17, 22, 32, 8, 9, 13, 15, 18, 26, or whichare laboratory-based 2, 4, 7, 12, or finally those which emphasize the development of problem-solving skills. 1, 4, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 22, 23, 24 Baylor University uses self-paced mastery of subjectmaterial as an interesting further refinement for a problem-solving course.24 During presentationof previous work1, interest was expressed in the team design project used in the introductorycourse at CCSU to reinforce several learned problem-solving principles and skill sets and toculminate the course with an experiential learning experience. This team project effort is similarin many respects to the Building Engineering Student Team

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Filsinger

Page 10.1371.3 Pipelined 5ns 13 65ns Table 3: Sample Performance Results for Previous Example Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationAs can be seen, a Pipelined implementation combines the short clock cycle length of the multi-cycle implementation with the low number of clock cycles found with the single-cycleimplementation. At least in the absence of branch and data hazards, the pipelinedimplementation represents the best of both worlds.Performance MeasurementThe goal of the laboratory

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New Program/Course Success Stories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Sauser

teaching the application of engineering principles, but behavioralskills in a team environment. Cowan showed the value of group learning in engineering coursescan halve the failure rate.2 Still, these courses are evaluated with traditional tools. McGourtystates that the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) criteria encourageinstitutional assessment efforts to focus on the measurement of student learning outcomes in asystematic and valid manner. McGourty goes on to state “few educational institutions have acomprehensive system for measuring program results in terms of student learning outcomes.”3One of the more common tools used to determine personal growth is through the use of self-assessment. The purpose of self-assessment is

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cheryl Willis; Susan Miertschin

Construction Management Technology, ElectricalPower, Information Systems Technology, Consumer Science and Merchandising, Logistics, andTechnology Leadership and Supervision. In addition, UH is recognized as the most ethnicallydiverse major research university with no single majority group in its student body. Thus, thestudent population served is heterogeneous with respect to a number of factors including priorcomputer experience. IST faculty members have chosen to use a variety of technologies thatsupport collaboration with students in the course. Technologies used with students include e-mailand discussion boards through the centralized interface provided by WebCT, Web logs, ad-hocnetworking using Tablet PCs in a Mobile Learning Laboratory, and

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Integrating Mathematics and Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome McCoy; Leslie Keiser; Michael Kessler; William Potter; Peter LoPresti; Donna Farrior; Shirley Pomeranz

Enhancing Interdisciplinary Interactions in the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences: Year I Shirley Pomeranz, Peter LoPresti, Michael Kessler, William Potter, Jerry McCoy, Leslie Keiser, Donna Farrior The University of TulsaIntroductionA team of faculty members in the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences at The Universityof Tulsa (TU) has begun work on a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Course,Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Project (Proposal # 0410653). This projectuses Interdisciplinary Lively Application Projects (ILAPs)1 as a vehicle for strengtheningconnections among the science, engineering, and mathematics

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Student Learning and Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Ossman

practical and challenging projects instead of writingresearch papers.Identifying and Recruiting Good Candidates for the ProgramThe ECET faculty teaching the freshman courses in introductory circuit analysis and digitalelectronics identify students through their scores on exams and their performance in lab. Welook for students who are willing to take the initiative in the laboratory, are inquisitive both inlab and lecture, and are mature and responsible individuals. When potential students areidentified, a meeting is arranged between the student and the faculty advisor for the ECEThonors students. The requirements of the program are discussed, questions and concerns areaddressed, and a general plan for completing the requirements is outlined. The

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Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Krahe

injury and death.Governments, industry, and user organizations have long realized that it is not sufficient to relysimply on the intelligence, cleverness, and integrity of individuals or organizations to produce Page 10.1123.1worthwhile software. Many sets of standards have been written to better control the process ofsoftware development. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright (c) 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationBy using a standards based approach to teaching software development, students are encouragedto take responsibility

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Raymond Winton

higherdegree of accuracy than the simplified models ordinarily identified in the classroom orlaboratory. And this paper has found a practical means to investigate aspects of devicebehavior from simulation that is more accurate and less complicated to implement than simpletheories or laboratory measurements.The capability to analyze devices is a demand item, since circuits of micron and sub-microndimensions are difficult to assess both before and after the fact, since the devices are onlyassessed as part of a test vehicle, which leaves the engineer at the mercy of the complexrelationships developed thereto. For example the level-49, BSIM3V3 model[3], as acceptedand continuous form simulation model as it may be, is an engineer’s nightmare, since

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Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Krueger; Ted Aanstoos; Ronald Barr

) outcomesThe Freshman Introduction to Engineering CourseMost engineering programs offer a freshman “Introduction to Engineering” course. The contentof this introductory course varies from program to program, and there is no well-acceptedcurricular model for it. Programs typically use this course for student orientation to theengineering field, to teach problem solving, for design projects and contests, for developingcommunication and professional skills, for developing computing and software skills, and forpotentially a host of other local interests. Some programs have also aligned this introductorycourse with an existing traditional engineering topic, such as engineering graphics, as is the casewith the UT-ME program. There is also an opportunity to

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Innovation for ChE Student Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Silverstein

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Educationspent per student on the project was intended to be 3-6 hours, not including training.Treating the project as a laboratory exercise, this corresponds to a lecture class time lossof 1-2 hours, which is typical during the AIChE Annual Meeting week.As part of the assignment, students were provided a grading rubric to make expectationsclear and to guide them on their writing. Newell, Newell and Dahm13 provide guidelinesfor rubric development appropriate to this sort of project. The rubric used in this projectis provided in Figure 2.Students are given creative freedom to define their objectives to take advantage

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Dolan

Page 10.834.1satisfy the University Studies Program, the college of engineering adopted the University Studies “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society of Engineering Education”Requirements into an integrated first year program. This allowed an opportunity to introduceglobal problem solving skills and introduce design early in the curriculum while meeting theuniversity requirements.Each fall the college of engineering offers 12 to 14 sections of ES 1000, Introduction toEngineering. Each section has 20-22 students and is taught by faculty members that are selectedfor superior teaching skills and an interest in first year