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Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alisha Waller

Page 9.850.2outcomes, we have to understand thoroughly the research design and process which was Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationfollowed. Although we teach this level of explicitness to senior design teams, we have notpracticed it as a community in engineering education research. Let’s now consider each principleand the criteria and lessons it provides, keeping in mind that this paper is only one possibleinterpretation of the principles.Scientific Principle 1: Pose significant questions that can be investigated empirically Two important criteria are embedded within this principle

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Engineering/Education Collaborators

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2004 Annual Conference

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Norma Velasquez-Bryant; Gokhan Pekhan; Ahmad Itani; Pamela Cantrell

teachers. It was gratifying to see how muchpersistence all the teachers had as they grappled with difficult content until they understood.Another struggle all the teachers had was attempting to come up with a suitable topic for theengineering project within the modules. Most science at the secondary level is taught as purerather than applied, so it was difficult at first for the teachers to adjust their mind set to come upwith a suitable engineering project that fit with the science standards for which they areaccountable. One group thought they were on the right track as they began developing theirmodule on inertia and friction relative to movement of air, earth and water. The engineeringprofessors had to redirect their thinking to include a

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

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Robin Adams; Reed Stevens; Lorraine Fleming; Cynthia Atman; Sheri Sheppard; Theresa Barker; Ruth Streveler

Center.9. Light, R.J. (2001). Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds. Cambridge, MA: HarvardUniversity Press.10. Astin, A.W. (1997). Student Involvement: A Developmental Theory for Higher Education. In E.J. Whitt (Ed.)College Student Affairs Administration. Massachusetts: Simon & Schuster.11. Seymour, E., and Hewitt, N.M. (1997). Talking about Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences.Boulder, CO: Westview Press.12. Felder, R. (1995). A Longitudinal Study of Nontraditional Instruction in Engineering Education. ASEE AnnualConference Proceedings, 2,2291-2294.13. Felder, R., Felder, G., and Dietz, E.J. (1997). A Longitudinal Study of Alternative Approaches to EngineeringEducation: Survey of Assessment Results. Proceedings

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Programming Issues for Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Fernandez

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION CLOSES THE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING GAP John D. Fernandez, Ph.D. Texas A&M University – Corpus ChristiAbstractWith the pervasiveness of computers throughout our environment, there is a growing demand fordiligent Human Computer Interaction (HCI) education of graduate and undergraduate students toclose the gap left by software engineering education. This paper describes one approach toteaching HCI while requiring students to develop systems for various city, school, and universityorganizations. The benefits derived by the students and the clients receiving their services aremany. There is a wide range of opportunities for

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Industrial Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Sanders; Ken Morrison

employees (i.e., IEs) are viewed as non-value added activities by organizational leaderswho have adopted systemic changes in their production systems. Therefore, these leaders are lookingfor newly hired engineers who are tooled with understanding the holistic view of organizationalchange and offering new process designs and redefining new process functions in the context of awhole organization.Finally, according to our findings, we recommend that higher education institutions to reevaluate theirprograms in industrial engineering and include systems approach with the latest organizationaloptimization software applications in mind. We hope to continue our investigation and present amuch deeper research results in the changing role of IEs

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mary Ellen Litzinger; Barbara Bogue

. New York, NY: Henry Holt.11. Mead, G.H. (1934) Mind, Self and Society. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.12. Musil, Caryn McTighe. Gender, Science and the Undergraduate Curriculum: Building Two-Way Streets. Washington, DC: AACU, 2001. wee www.acu-edu.org/publications13. National Council for Research on Women, Balancing the Equation: Where are Women and Girls in Science, Engineering and Technology? (2001)14. Nelson, M.B. (1998). Embracing victory: Life lessons in competition and compassion. New York: William Morrow.15. Rosser, Sue V., ed., “Building Inclusive Science: Connecting Women’s Studies and Women in Science and Engineering,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 200016. Rosser, Sue V.ed., Teaching the Majority: Breaking the

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

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Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

the US. International students have beena means for responding to the need for diversifying the enrollment in many US universities: ifimmigration is limited, the numbers start to read uncomfortably low. Finally, with technically-minded international students now having good universities and improved work opportunities athome, they can take their US education and return home, leaving behind a US engineeringworkforce which will gray more rapidly with their departure, or else never leave home for theireducation, leaving US universities without their talents.It is in the interests of the engineering educators, as public leaders to participate actively in asustained and informed discussion of the composition and characteristics of the technical

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Cedric Walker; Carol Mullenax

students) based on student learning style as determined by theFelder online LSI. Strong preferences in any learning style were grouped together, with visuallearners subordinated to any other strong preference due to their large predominance. Studentswithout strong preferences were grouped as most convenient.Students were tasked with reverse-engineering the manufacture of Dippin’ Dots, a type of icecream available at specific concession stands. During the exercise, we circulated among thegroups and observed the style of work and informed students of their like-minded groupmembers. Sure enough, groups tended to perform to learning style. Dippin’ Dots were availableto eat during the exercise, and the class took place outdoors to facilitate the food

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Chris Papadopoulos; Adeeb Rahman; Josh Bostwick

Assessing Critical Thinking in Mechanics in Engineering Education Chris Papadopoulos1, Adeeb Rahman2, and Josh Bostwick3 Typically, mechanics education in engineering schools focuses on communicating explicit content to students, but deemphasizes the critical thought that underlies the discipline of mechanics. We give examples of the failure of students to apply basic principles of mechanics in solving problems. We develop assessment tools to measure critical thinking in student work, and how well mechanics textbooks engage students in critical analysis. Both tools focus on the treatment of three criteria that we judge to be fundamental, but which are commonly overlooked or

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Curriculums in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

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Nathan Klingbeil

courses (PHY 240-244, ME212- 213, CEG 220, EGR 153, ME 313, EE 301)?• How has the introduction of EGR 101 and the just-in-time structuring of the new mathsequence affected student proficiency in mathematics?• Has the introduction of EGR 101 and the just-in-time structuring of the new math sequenceenhanced student appreciation of mathematics in engineering (i.e., are they more excited aboutmath)? With the above questions in mind, the authors are currently working with WSU's Centerfor Teaching and Learning, Statistical Consulting Center and Institutional Research Office todevelop and implement both quantitative and qualitative assessment strategies which are tailoredto the goals of this program. Fortunately, data will be readily

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Tront

Session 1526 Initial Steps in Establishing a Community to Develop Engineering Courseware Joseph G. Tront1 Brandon Muramatsu2 1 Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA 2 University of California, Berkeley, CAAbstractEducational courseware modules are beginning to find broader use supplementing traditionalengineering lectures as well as distance learning classes. Developing high quality materialrequires a considerable amount of effort compelling faculty to share modules

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Innovative Teaching Methods in Engineering Economy

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2004 Annual Conference

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Kawintorn Pothanun; William Peterson

; Engineering Economic Analysis, Eight Edition, OxfordUniversity Press, Oxford, 2002. Most texts on Engineering Economics stress that thepractical purpose of engineering economics is that it empowers the engineer to makesound investment decisions 2. I kept this main concept in mind while teaching my firstengineering economics course. It is all about decision-making.Know Your StudentsI found it was very important to know my students. A useful technique that will assist inlearning the students’ names and more about them is to collect some basic information. Inthe very first class, I asked my students to send me an email containing basic informationabout them. It may include (1) name, (2) preferred name, (3) student ID, (4) hometownand state, (5) local

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Engineering Ethics Case Studies

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mark Manion; Eli Fromm; Jay Bhatt

courses called Engineering Ethics. Resourcesidentified in the guide are approved by the faculty-librarian team in charge of web development.The Guide is even more useful when access to the web site is provided from multiple locationssuch as from the Library’s site, the course pages and via online interactive course managementsystems such as webCT and Blackboard. With this in mind, a research guide to support Page 9.552.8engineering ethics in different courses and design projects was created. It is linked from the Main“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

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Naomi Chesler; Donna Riley

objectivity, observers typically tell a story in thepainting, relating figures depicted. Colors are interpreted to express emotion in universal ways(bright colors express happy feelings, dark colors express sad feelings, etc.). In the third stage,the viewer is aware of subjectivity in interpretation. In this case, art expresses individualized Page 9.1231.2feelings, as well as various aspects of experience or states of mind. The interplay of objectivity Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering

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Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Riggins; Bruce Mutter

paragraph and can be handwritten (however, typed reportscould be saved and used in writing the final report). The above requirements are minimal, andwere completed in teams.Computer usage was an obvious mandatory requirement in preparation of the final report, sincethese reports were later written in publishable form.The instructor assigned grades to the projects with the following attributes in mind: Page 9.249.17 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society of Engineering Education (1) Originality

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rose Marra; Cherith Moore; Mieke Schuurman; Barbara Bogue

Session 1392 Assessing Women in Engineering (AWE): Assessment Results on Women Engineering Students Beliefs Rose M. Marra, Cherith Moore,; Mieke Schuurman; Barbara Bogue University of Missouri – Columbia / The Pennsylvania State UniversityIntroductionWomen in Engineering (WIE) programs around the United States are a crucial part of ourcountry's response to the need for more women in engineering professions1. For Women inEngineering (WIE) programs to be maximally effective, they must have access to validatedassessment instruments for measuring the effectiveness of their recruitment and retentionactivities for women in

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rex Fisher

Engineering EducationIt may have been a mistake to score everyone independently. Competition among groupmembers for the highest peer and instructor rating was sometimes evident. Occasionally one ofthem would really shine while his or her team mates struggled. Felder and Brent suggests thatpromoting “positive interdependence” is the solution to this. By giving everyone on the team thesame score, the stronger ones are encouraged to help the weak ones. If a person thinks he canlook better if everyone else performs poorly, there is little incentive to lift the others up to ahigher level. 7It is also important to keep in mind that this was a third semester class. Giving first semesterstudents this much autonomy may not be as successful. They have spent

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Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Richardson; Dick Blandford

. Page 9.94.2 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education” • Rely heavily on projects as the primary teaching mechanism as opposed to the standard lecture/exam format. • Leave students with sufficient understanding to be able to design and implement a complex real-time embedded system.3.2 Course Objectives and OutcomesWith these guidelines in mind, the following course outcomes have been established: • Students will complete at least three projects involving aspects of a real-time operating system such as semaphores, interrupts, messaging, etc. • Students will complete

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Engineering Ethics Papers Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Lynch

of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exhibition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationgood and bad sides of technology, its productive and destructive sides. I saw this as anundergraduate and as an early-career professional.As a graduate student I began to love the deep foundational theory we preserve as engineeringscience – it addresses natural prenomena as diverse as atmospheric motions, microelectronics,and navigation, with explanatory power. This is the world of Gauss, Helmholtz, Markov,Kalman. We certainly need to instill in our students a love of theory which works and adisciplined commitment to it. But this too is neutral, a construction of the mind

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Rice; S. Michael Kilbey; Scott Husson; Graham Harrison; Douglas Hirt; David Bruce; Charles Gooding; Deborah Switzer

Undergraduate Engineering Students: Preliminary Assessment. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exhibition, ASEE, Montreal, Quebec, 2002.2. Switzer, D.M.; Bruce, D.A.; Gooding, C.H.; Harrison, G.M.; Hirt, D.E.; Husson, S.M.; Kilbey II, S.M.; Rice, R.W. Implementing and Assessing a Hierarchical Cognitive Model to Educate Engineering Undergraduates. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exhibition, ASEE, Nashville, Tennesee, 2003.3. Egan, K. The Educated Mind; University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1997.4. Goldberg, L.R. “International Personality Item Pool” http://ipip.ori.org/ipip/ (last accessed Jan. 7, 2004).5. Roedel

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Tang; Lynn Johnson

Session No. xxx Foundations of Engineering and Technology (FEST) Program Lynn E. Johnson, Michael Tang, Roxanne Byrne, Patrick Enright, Erica Johnson, Colleen Jorgenson and Terry Reeves University of Colorado at Denver Arapahoe Community College and Red Rocks Community CollegeIntroductionThe University of Colorado at Denver has teamed with Arapahoe and Red RocksCommunity Colleges to develop the Foundations of Engineering, Science andTechnology (FEST) Program. FEST intends to dramatically increase capabilities foronline and blended delivery of the core mathematics, engineering science, andinformation technology courses required for entry

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Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”create a greater awareness of communication, provide readership in the engineering area, and obtainfeedback that will be valuable to the writer. It is with these ideas in mind that graduate students inmechanical engineering were chosen to provide the means by which to accomplish the above tasks.RationaleGraduate students in MSU's Department of Mechanical Engineering have for many years beenevaluating the technical content of reports in a variety of courses. Using their own expertise theyread text, make appropriate comments on technical content, and suggest ways to improve thecontent material. The act of critiquing and correcting as a process is an integral part of the system. Itbecame

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering and More

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

noconnection to those upper level courses is provided. Within an educational mode that may seemto be the correct way to prepare students; but when carefully analyzed, that singular focus of thecurriculum may be incomplete. Most will agree that it is necessary to pique the interest ofstudents in their future careers with material that is significantly important within that career. It isnot enough to simply require courses that do not present specific connections to the future majorsand hope that these same students will continue in the engineering programs. It is with thatthought in mind that a new component of the Residential Option for Science and EngineeringStudents (ROSES) course was initiated in Michigan State University’s College of

Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

Undergraduate Research Experience The basic approach used in this REU Site is discovery through actual construction,experimental testing, observing and recording, synthesizing the data collected, andgeneralizations. This approach provides an opportunity for individual growth and challenge tothe young and inquisitive mind. Today civil engineers face the grand challenge of updating the nation’s infrastructure, whichis vital to its economy, security, and international competitiveness, and provide for expandingpopulations while maintaining a balance between cost and adverse environmental effects. Theyare asked to ensure that this infrastructure is reliable during natural disasters, because theconsequences of failure are staggering (1995 Kobe

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Richards

moreabout technology National Research Council: National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.5. Massachusetts Department of Education, (2001) Massachusetts Science and Technology/EngineeringCurriculum Framework, Malden, MA6. Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., and Cocking, R.R. (eds), (2000) How People Learn: Brain, Mind,Experience, and School, Expanded Edition. National Research Council: National Academy Press,Washington, D.C.7. Thier, H. D. and Daviss, B., (2001) Developing Inquiry-Based Science Materials: a Guide for EducatorsTeachers College Press, New York.8. Brooks, J.G., and Brooks, M.G., (1999) In Search of Understanding: The Case for ConstructivistClassrooms. ASCD9. Dunn, S. and Larson, R. (1990) Design Technology: Children’s Engineering The Falmer

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Thompson

Session Number 1793 A Value-Added Per spective on the College Ratings Br uce R. Thompson Rader School of Business, Milwaukee School of Engineer ingAbstract In recent years, various models have been developed to measure the quality of educational institutions. One group of models, particularly popularized by the U.S. News and World Report’s ratings of colleges and universities, along with specialized programs such as engineering schools, makes use of data such as that on incoming students and resources to rank the institutions. A quite different approach has become

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Visualization and Computer Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Study

University freshman engineering admission requirements. [on line] Retrieved September 19, 2003,from https://engineering.purdue.edu/FrE/resources_for/prospective/reqs[12] Virginia State University admissions requirements [on line] Retrieved September 28, 2003, fromhttp://www.vsu.edu/admissions/freshmen.htm[13] Gardner, H. (1983). Frames of mind: The theory of multiple intelligences. NY: Basic Books.[14] Ree, M.J., & Carretta, T.R. (1997). What makes an aptitude test valid? In Dillon, R.F. (Ed.), Handbook ontesting (pp. 204-219). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.[15] Mills, C.J. & Ablard, K.E. (1993) The Raven’s Progressive Matrices: Its usefulness for identifyinggifted/talented students. Roeper Review, Feb/Mar 1993, 15(3) 183-187[16] Harnisch

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

E. Hirleman

GEARE: A Comprehensive Program for Globalizing Engineering Education E. D. Hir leman 1, D. Atkinson 1, E. A. Gr oll1, J . Matthews1, L. Xu 1, B. Aller t 2, W. Hong2, A. Alber s3, S. L. K. Wittig4, Z. Q. Lin 5, and L. F. Xi5 1 School of Mechanical Engineer ing, Pur due Univer sity / 2Depar tment of For eign Languages and Liter atur e, Pur due Univer sity / 3Institut für Maschinenkonstr uktionslehr e und Kr aftfahr zeugbau, Univer sität. Univ. Kar lsr uhe / 4Ger man Aer ospace Center (DLR), Köln / 5School of Mechanical Engineer ing , Shanghai J iao Tong Univer sity GLOBAL ENGINEERING ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION (GEARE)AbstractThe

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter

Session 3449 Teaching Applied Electromagnetics to Engineering Technology Students J. R. Porter Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843Abstract In a world where computer bus speeds have increased beyond 1 GHz and wirelesscommunications/connectivity are common place, electronics and telecommunication engineeringtechnology (ET) graduates require an understanding of basic applied electromagnetic concepts.To address this issue, many ET programs now offer

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TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Gad-el-hak; Judy Richardson; John Speich; James McLeskey

instrumented to measure pressure and temperature using adata acquisition system. The additional experience gained would have to be balanced against theloss of simplicity.AcknowledgmentsThe authors would like to thank the National Science Foundation for its support of this projectunder the Grants for the Department-Level Reform of Undergraduate Engineering EducationProgram, NSF Grant # 0342865.Bibliography1 Vygotsky, L., Thought and Language. 1962, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.2 Vygotsky, L., Interaction between learning and development, in Mind in Society: The develoment of Higher Psychological Process, M. Cole, et al., Editors. 1978, Havard University Press: Cambridge, MA. p. 79-91.3 Norman, S., EPSS: A constructivist learning environment