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management. Thismodule will include a tour of the Greensboro Solid Waste Transfer Station and Landfill. Thistour will give them the opportunity to see the items that could be recycled that are sent tolandfills. Using this traditional foundation for solid waste management and disposal, studentswill conduct a recycling audit for the campus. The two week module will include an analysis ofrecycling activities and the development of a plan for recycling on campus or a case study suchas recycling and disposal of Hurricane Katrina solid waste.Assessments 1. Index of Learning Styles Survey (ILSS) 2. Student Assessment of Learning Gains Instrument (SALG) 3. Student Reports/Presentations of Green Building Module 1, Water recycling (Module

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., Scales, K., Elzinga, J.D., Planning for Curriculum Renewal and Accreditation Under ABET Engineering Criteria 2000, Proceedings, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Seattle, WA, June 1998.6. SUCCEED Coalition, Elzinga, J. consultant, Curriculum Innovation and Renewal Manual: Stage Three Analyzing the Existing Curriculum Augmented Syllabus Method, Retrieved from, www.succeed.ufl.edu/content/oa-wkshp/products/curriculum/index.html7. ABET, Criteria for Evaluating Engineering Programs: Effective for Evaluations During the 2008-2009 Accreditation Cycle. Retrieved from http://www.abet.org/Linked%20Documents- UPDATE/Criteria%20and%20PP/E001%2008-09%20EAC%20Criteria%2012-04-07.pdf8

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plans, President Barack Obama urges the country to transform itsenergy system to make it greener and smarter. This project seeks to address such a challengewith contemporary courses on alternate energy harnessing and electric smart grid (ESG).A web search shows that many universities across the nation have been engaged in solar energyresearch. One of the goals is to improve physical properties of silicon cells to improve panelefficiency. Application of nanotechnology to improve the conversion efficiency of incominglight photons to electrical output has been a topic of high interest. Optical concentrators havebeen researched to improve panel efficiency. However, undergraduate courses that focus on thepractical design and implementation of solar

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David L. Soldan, Kansas State University; Noel N. Schulz, Kansas State University; Blythe A. Vogt, Kansas State University; Don Gruenbacher, Kansas State University; Rekha Natarajan, Kansas State University

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sophomore students. A major focus of this project will be to develop acceleratedcourses that allow the military veteran to complete these prerequisite courses in fewer hours thancurrently required. Some of the accelerated introductory level classes should be useable for both Page 22.729.5the accelerated bachelor’s and as prerequisites for the master’s degree.This part of the project is still in the initial planning stages and will use some of the results of theaccelerated bachelor’s program.Kansas State University and the Military EnvironmentKansas State University is near a major U.S. military installation, Fort Riley, and has more than60 years of

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. 10, off-resonancefrequencies randomly distributed between -50 Hz and 50 Hz. Student can observe the animationof all these spin vectors and the aggregated FID signals. In particular, this simulation is veryhelpful in explaining the divergence and refocus of magnetization on x-y plan in SE. Thisexercise is also very long, and it usually takes students two weeks to complete. Page 22.24.8 Figure 6. Lab 6 survey and assessment results.Lab 7. Brain activation detection in fMRI (image analysis)Student is given a functional MRI dataset containing one axial brain slice for 68 time samples.Each image is of 46 by 55 in size. The

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- ativity, engineering with developing communities, and community-inspired innovation. He has served the American Society for Engineering Education in numerous capacities, as a member of the Interna- tional Strategic Planning Task Force, the International Advisory Committee, and Global Task Force, and as Chair of the International Division. He actively serves Engineers Without Borders-USA, as a chapter co-advisor, education committee chair, and lead on EWB’s efforts to examine its educational impacts. He is currently leading several NSF-funded projects involving the design and assessment of service learn- ing in engineering education. He is co-author of several recently released books, including: Measuring the Impacts of

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levels graduates and MCC’sand HFCC’s reputation for innovation and educating highly-qualified technicians - and poolingtheir respective resources (i.e., their programs, faculty, facilities, location, and industry ties), aseries of activities are planned and carried out the stated objectives. They are as follows: Create an advisory committee to oversee the program. Integrate advanced energy storage curriculum with existing programs in WSU, MCC, and HFCC. Develop advanced energy storage specific courses, and deliver these courses. Create an advanced energy storage specialized laboratory. Develop and delivered a two-day short course. Develop and delivered workshops and seminars. Create internship and co-op opportunities, plant visits, and

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Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College; Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida; Marie A. Boyette, FLATE

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to trisect the entirecamp experience into pre-camp, camp and post-camp components.Pre-campAlthough making money is not the goal of most robotics camps, organizers must still collectmoney and must distribute those funds to meet the needs of the camp. This reality leads to thefirst decision. Is your summer robotic program(s) going to be operated by a not-for-profit entity,or is it being conducted to earn revenue? Revenue generating types of camps, a for-profitorganization, will include different planning, budgeting, and taxation concerns not discussed hereand our recommendation is to organize your camp within a not-for-profit structure. Either way,there are two general avenues for funds that camp organizers can pursue to assist in financing

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Zhigang Shen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Yimin Zhu, Florida International University

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complexissues in construction engineering and project management.Framework of case-based multidimensional virtual environment (CMVE)CMVE is purposefully designed for students to learn a set of core concepts related to complexsystems in the context of construction engineering and project management and to develop skillsto apply the core concepts in construction engineering planning and design. These core conceptsinclude system and subsystems (or autonomous agents), nonlinearity, causality, emergence, self-organization, hierarchical levels, and so on [7]. The conceptual framework of CMVE is shown inFigure 1. Conceptually, CMVE has two parts which serve different purposes: Modular Casesand Learning Scaffolding.Modular Cases: Modular cases allow students

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Steve Warren, Kansas State University; Xiongjie Dong, Kansas State University; Tim J. Sobering, Kansas State University; Jason Yao, East Carolina University

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unit provides buspower (+5 Vdc (0.2 A); +2.5 Vdc (0.1 A)), 8 analog inputs (14-bit, 48 kS/s), 2 analog outputs(12-bit, 150 S/s), 12 TTL/CMOS digital I/O lines, a 32-bit (5 MHz) counter, a digital trigger,multiple operating system support, and compatibility with LabVIEW, Visual Studio .NET, andNI-DAQmx drivers. The collection cost ~$225. Page 22.91.3 Figure 1. RASCL version 2 prototyping board.2, 9myDAQ Specifications. The authors had previously planned to incorporate the RASCL version2.0 unit into a suite of learning experiences in order to assess its effectiveness and to gaugestudent satisfaction with the tools. The move

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narrowed to two to allow for more in-depthwork on each one as well as a concentrated focus on critical thinking, part of the QualityEnhancement Plan required by University of Louisville’s SACS accreditation.Of importance to the committee was the inclusion of cases that did not always result in death anddestruction. Just as young people are motivated to study medicine by seeing the opportunities tosave lives, not read about the many ways they might cause loss of life; the committee felt youngengineering students might be turned off by studying only failures that result in loss of life orenvironmental destruction. As previously mentioned, a huge part of engineering is learning frommistakes and successes, and not all mistakes result in catastrophe

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trying to expand the benefit for a broader community nation-wide. Page 22.1663.63. Evaluation: 5 The following is the survey analysis based on the student survey in ELET 3451 Robotics Labin 2010 Fall. The student feedback indicate that the remote lab helped them in the study, andenhanced their confidence in the Engineering Technology program.4. Future Plan: This paper reviewed the first year activities for a collaborative NSF sponsored researchproject to develop remote and virtual undergraduate laboratories for Engineering Technologyprogram. In

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from primarily deductive practiceto an Information Communication Technology (ICT) enabled inductive teaching and learningenvironment. In addition to the multi-faceted inductive transformation plan, the specificinnovations that were proposed are to develop MSE education applications for the iPod Touchthat are designed to facilitate and support collaborative learning modules which target specificstudent learning objectives which are known to be challenging for many students in MSEcourses. It is hoped that the combination of specific learning objective targets within thosemodules, completed in collaborative groups, and supported by conceptually contained data,visuals, audio, and information from the iPod Touch, will lead to improvements in

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Ying Tang, Rowan University; Sachin Shetty, Tennessee State University; Xiufang Chen, Rowan University

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required by different learning circumstances are increasingly recognized ascritical for successful learners. Such awareness and monitoring processes are often refer to asmetacognition –“ the processes in which the individual carefully considers thoughts in problemsolving situations through the strategies of self-planning, self-monitoring, self-regulating, self-questioning, self-reflecting, and or self-reviewing” [1]. The contention of this research is thatmetacognitive awareness on the part of students can be improved through systematic and directinstructions on strategic thinking. To support that, three important metacognitive interventions,as detailed below, are carefully designed into the interactive game activities.• Road Map training

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Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Tuba Pinar Yildirim, University of Pittsburgh; Karen M. Bursic, University of Pittsburgh; Natasa Vidic, University of Pittsburgh

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point average (GPA). This suggests that development of modelingability may be constrained by the naiveté of one‟s personal epistemology. Finally, metacogni-tion, or „thinking about thinking,‟ has an impact on the development of modeling strategies ofstudents, when the impacts of four metacognitive dimensions are considered: awareness, plan-ning, cognitive strategy and self-checking. Students who are better at self-checking show highergrowth in their modeling abilities over the course of a year, compared to students who are lessproficient at self-checking. The growth in modeling abilities is also moderated by the cognitivestrategy and planning skills of the student. After some experience with modeling is attained, stu-dents who have enhanced

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(6)cost analysis.This paper will describe the design of the PSE. Future plans include conducting evaluations withstudents and adding student modeling to provide adaptive support for students.IntroductionAutomation has a profound effect on the way we do work. A U.S. Census Bureau report notesthat yearly exports in the flexible manufacturing category (equivalent to industrial automation)were $19.44B in 2006, a 10% jump from $17.61B in 20051. Moreover, monthly exports in theflexible manufacturing category were $4.06B in March 2008, a 0.5% jump from $4.04B inMarch 20072. This trend is likely to continue to increase as the manufacturing sector continuesto transform to a high tech, less labor-intensive and value added industry using

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Salahuddin Qazi, State University of New York, Institute of Tech, Utica, New York and Mohawk Valley Community College; Robert C. Decker, Mohawk Valley Community College

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Instructional MaterialFrom the outset, it was planned that any curricular materials developed by the project beincorporated into existing or planned courses in programs at both institutions. 9 These coursesincluded the Introduction to MEMS course at SUNYIT and the Introduction to SemiconductorManufacturing course at MVCC, but the team also anticipated interest in AFM on the part of theinstructors in related disciplines. As such, a strategy was pursued to provide the instructors ofsaid courses with deployable modules. The model used included a multipage narrative for facultymembers who may not be familiar with the specifics of AFM but acquainted with the generaltopics of visualization. This narrative detailed the history, theory, and operation of AFM

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Richard Chiou, Drexel University; Michael G. Mauk, Drexel University; Robin Kizirian, Drexel University; William Peeples, Drexel University

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the intensity of the light on the solar cell have been studied and analyzed. Thepaper discusses the steps taken and apparatus used for performing some quality controlmeasurements of solar cells. It is concluded with the future plans regarding the project.Structure of a Solar CellTo better understand the nature of our project it will be useful to briefly described the structureof a solar cell. Solar cells can be classified as amorphous, monocrystalline, or polycrystalline.Production solar cells are either made from silicon wafers or in thin-films using vacuumtechnologies. Silicon solar cells are the most common type of solar cell and are the type tested inthis work. The photocurrent reading from a solar cell under illumination from a

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Santosh Devasia, University of Washington; Jim L. Borgford-Parnell, University of Washington; Jae-Hyun Chung, University of Washington; Jiangyu Li, University of Washington; Amy Shen, University of Washington; Nathan Sniadecki, University of Washington; Junlan Wang, University of Washington

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Ashley Ater Kranov, Washington State University; Mo Zhang, Washington State University; Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho, Moscow; Jay McCormack, University of Idaho; Patrick D. Pedrow, Washington State University; Edwin R. Schmeckpeper, Norwich University

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theundergraduate engineering curriculum are: (1) an authentic performance task in the form of ascenario and prompts to elicit the ABET professional skills; (2) establishment of initial reliabilityand validity of the measurement instrument – the Engineering Professional Skills Rubric (EPSRubric) (Appendix A); and (3) a dedicated community of 40+ engineering faculty using directassessment to evaluate the efficacy of their own programs, and to plan and implementimprovement at both course and program levels.The EPSA method is a discussion-based performance task designed to elicit students’ knowledgeand application of the ABET professional skills. In a 45-minute session, small groups of studentsare presented with a complex, real-world scenario that includes

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Gwen Lee-Thomas, Ph.D., Old Dominion University; Autar Kaw, University of South Florida; Ali Yalcin, University of South Florida

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of discrete event systems, production planning and control, industrial information systems, data analysis and knowledge discovery, and engineering education research. He has taught courses in the areas of systems modeling and analysis, information systems design, production planning, facilities design, and systems simulation. He also co- authored the 2006 Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year textbook, Design of Industrial Information Systems, Elsevier. Address: Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, University of South Florida, 4202 E Fowler Ave ENB118, Tampa FL 33620-5350; telephone: (+1) 813.974.5590; e-mail: ayalcin@usf.edu

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James Boerio, University of Cincinnati; Dionysios D. Dionysiou, University of Cincinnati; Ian Papautsky, University of Cincinnati; Miguel Pelaez, University of Cincinnati; Mark Schulz; Christopher Huth; Vesselin N. Shanov, University of Cincinnati; Donglu Shi, University of Cincinnati

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were eight (8) students in the course and they were asked to fill out a questionnaire that is used in many courses in CEAS using a five-point Likert scale (strongly disagree = 1, disagree = 2, neutral = 3, agree = 4, and strongly agree = 5). The results are shown in Table 1 where the response for the students in Nanoscale Devices is compared to the responses by students in many other courses in CEAS. It can be seen that the responses of the students in Nanoscale Devices were quite positive, especially when compared to responses for other courses in the CEAS. For example, students responded favorably when asked to rate the course (question 5). Students were less favorable regarding the planning of the

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of these hires were justified by the strongengineering student enrollment numbers, produced by the existence of ABET-accredited degreesin the four major disciplines. Benedictine College has entered a memorandum of understandingwith UND, has established articulation agreements with each of the four UND engineeringdepartments, and has completed three semesters of offering both on-site engineering and DEDPcourses to BC students. Moreover, dual-degree programs have been published in the BC CourseCatalog for each of the four major engineering disciplines. After its first year of the agreementwith DEDP, the Fall 2010 BC engineering program enrollment consisted of ~20 sophomores andjuniors and ~25 freshmen.Five-Year, Dual-Degree ProgramThe plan for

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engineering skillsc. My interest in learning the subject matter of the courses.d. My commitment to being involved in community issues as an engineer.e. My ability to address complex, open-ended problems (typical of community projects)f. My ability to write and speak credibly as an engineer.g. My understanding of the value of teamwork in addressing community issues.h. My ability to plan and carry out a project for the community.i. My school pride.j. The likelihood that I would drop out of engineering.k. My view of the engineering profession in a positive way.21. Did your service-learning project(s) lead you to further action (for example,volunteering) with the community agency or organization your worked with, or thetopic/issue you worked on

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Review in an Engineering Design Course,” IEEE Professional Communication Society, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 264 – 279, September 2008. [4] Eschenback, E. A., “Improving Technical Writing via Web-Based Peer Review of Final Reports,” Proceedings, ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, pp. F3A1-5, 2001. [5] Brufee, K. A. “The Brooklyn Plan: Attaining Intellectual Growth through Peer-Group Tutoring,” Liberal Education vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 447-468, December 1978. [6] Smith, M.K., “'Jerome S. Bruner and the Process of Education,” The Encyclopedia of Informal Education, 2002. Available: http://www.infed.org/thinkers/bruner.htm [7] Harden, R.M., “What is a Spiral Curriculum?,” Medical Teacher, vol. 21, no 2, pp. 141 – 143, 1999. [8

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Reid Bailey, University of Virginia; Alexandra Emelina Coso, Georgia Institute of Technology; Heather T. Rowan-Kenyon, Boston College; Michael J Cabral, Virginia Commonwealth University; Joanne Bechta Dugan, University of Virginia; Marie F. Creager, University of Virginia

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amultidisciplinary team versus an interdisciplinary team. Faculty also will need to providethe structure and space in which this reflection can occur.Additional data collection about the first junior-year course is planned by the evaluationteam. We hope this additional evaluation work will show us what individual studentslearned from the experience and the course shaped the TLP students’ perceptions ofmultiscale design.Transporting the Technology Leaders Program to Other InstitutionsWith many of the major components of the TLP implemented at the University of theBlue Ridge, more effort has shifted towards transporting the program to other institutions.Transporting the program has been a significant goal since the program’s initialconception. Early

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Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Richard A. Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Misty L. Loughry, Georgia Southern University; David J. Woehr, University of Tennessee; Hal R. Pomeranz, Deer Run Associates

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interface more accessible to a broader audience.DEVELOPMENT OF MATERIAL FOR TRAINING VIGNETTESThe use of critical incident analysisThe development of training vignettes is a central strategy for this project. Our plan was to use acritical incident methodology to identify a wide variety of team behavior to include in thevignettes. Originally developed by Flanagan,1 the critical incident technique gathers specific,behaviorally focused descriptions of work or other activities. Bownas & Bernardin2 assert that “agood critical incident has four characteristics: it is specific, focuses on observable behaviorsexhibited on the job, describes the context in which the behavior occurred, and indicates theconsequences of the behavior.” Thus, a good critical

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Page 22.1567.7his or her own computer. Some students met virtually through the chat program or in personoutside of class to finish assignments or plan for upcoming tasks. Most of the students self-identified as prospective biomedical engineering majors. Preliminary results include the pre- and post-interviews that students completed on the firstand last days of their virtual internship. These interviews took the form of short-answer surveyquestions completed online. Our preliminary results with Nephrotex suggest that: Students made engineering content learning gains from the pre to the post interview. Students were able to solve engineering design problems better during the post interview. Most students enjoyed the

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Farrokh Attarzadeh, University of Houston; Deniz Gurkan, University of Houston; Mequanint A. Moges, University of Houston; Miguel Angel Ramos, University of Houston; Victor J. Gallardo, University of Houston; Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi

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tutor.” During each semester of the mentoring implementation, mentors invariably took on the role oftutors to satisfy student needs. Most documentation of these sessions alludes to more technicaldiscussions and review of concepts through concept mapping and other instructional strategies. Verylittle is actually said about any psycho-social issues (e.g. the difficulty of working and being in school,future career plans, life lessons, etc.) discussed during the meetings. It is unclear whether this situationrepresents a true challenge to the program or merely reflects the reality of what students in the programneed. It is equally unclear from the mentor documents whether this tutoring mode was more congruentwith the mentors’ range of experience

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present future plans.† This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation underInnovations in Engineering Education, Curriculum, and Infrastructure (IEECI) Grant No.093510. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material Page 22.573.2are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation (NSF).VESLL: Virtual Engineering ExperienceVESLL is establishing an online interactive learning environment designed to introduce studentsto engineering concepts through visualization and collaborative problem solving. Our long-termvision is to create a