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Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Nashwan Younis

so they learn the business aspect of communications. The use of audience-appropriate vocabulary, content, and style are very important elements in communication, which the co-op students can share with other students.Furthermore, the co-op students at IPFW submit a standard survey form regarding the learningoutcomes of the co-op work experience. The statements are divided into three categories: • Personal development learning outcomes • Professional development learning outcomes • Academic development learning conceptsTable 1. Learner outcome statements at IPFW Academic Development Learning Concepts S I N U Ability to compile information. Ability to analyze

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Larry N. Bland

A key activity was obtaining the purposive sample by identifying and gaining access toindividuals and schools who would become the subjects of this research. The selection processbegan by looking at private, Christian universities with an ABET accredited engineeringprogram. I was most interested in schools that had either grown rapidly or were regionallylocated. Cedarville University of Cedarville, OH created its engineering program and quicklybecame accredited in the early 1990’s. Over the next ten years, their engineering department "Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Edgar C. Clausen; W. Roy Penney; Cole E. Colville; Alison N. Dunn; Noor M. El Qatto; Crystal D. Hall; W. Brent Schulte; Christopher A. von der Mehden

Churchill and Chu8.Experimental Equipment List • Hartman Pro-Tech Model 1600 hair dryer, 1600 watts • 25 ¼ in x 22 in x 16 in cardboard heating box, used for heating the plates • 1 3/16 in thick Styrofoam® insulation, lining the cardboard boxProceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 3 • Wooden stand to hold and elevate the aluminum plate • 18 in x 12 in x 1 ½ in aluminum plate, with a black painted finish • Omega HH12 thermocouple reader • 1/8 in diameter x 12 in long sheathed thermocouples • Stopwatch, graduated in 0.01 s time intervals • 1 3/16

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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George D. Gray

of experience workingwith metals and now must begin working with composites. In this industry, one course does notfit all, because of such varying degrees of the knowledge base along with the specific applicationrequirements put forth by the industry users. Working with such dynamic materials andprocesses in conjunction with meeting the needs of designers and manufacturers will continue tochallenge educational institutions in the future.IntroductionThe vast world of composites has grown rapidly and significantly since its first large scaleapplications within the military sector during WWII and the late 1940’s and early 1950’s. Theunique combination of performance benefits offered by composite materials has now propelledits use into almost

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Roy A. McCann

’s. For example, the popular textbook 2by Fitzgerald, Kingsley and Umans1 was originally published in 1952. The sixth edition was re-leased in 2003, with a portion of the publisher’s summary statement as follows: “To a great extent, the fundamental concepts have not changed over the years since Pro- fessors Fitzgerald and Kingsley wrote the first edition of this text. As a result, significant portions of the material found in the fifth edition will be familiar to readers of the previ- ous editions. In recognition of this fact, coverage of the basics of these machine types has increased significantly in the

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Jason Weiss; Farshad Rajabipour; Thomas Schmit; Sebastian Fait

Engineering Materials Classes at PurdueThe School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University has long been dedicated to teachingstudents about engineering materials. This dedication began in 1883 with a laboratory for testingmaterials in the college of engineering [1]. In 1899, this lab was moved to the school of civilengineering and eventually became the foundation for CE 231 – Engineering Materials I and CE331 – Engineering Materials II. While these courses were referred to as the "Busting Labs" atthe turn of the century, since the 1960's these courses have strived to provide students with aProceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

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Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

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John McMasters

convergences or divergences of opinion may be considered reasonably representative of the Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ASEE 2005, American Society for Engineering Education.current state of affairs in relations between academe and industry in general, and ourobservations and opinions are offered in this context. Despite any differences in opinion, theauthors remain friends and share a mutual passion for enhancing engineering education.Industry PerspectiveConcerns about the future of engineering education were identified by many in the late 1980’sand early 1990’s. Many of the more pointed concerns expressed at that time related toundergraduate rather

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Systems Approach to Teaching ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gary Masciadrelli; Nicholas Massa; Gary Mullett

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Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Richard Schultz; Arnold Johnson

GUI Command ACK H&S Data Console Text Nav Data Inputs Pictures Nav Sensors Computer Config (GPS, IMU) Computer CPU

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Women in IT Fields

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steven P. Thomas

math classes, such as calculusand engineering concepts courses.Additional Education and TrainingIn addition to their college degree(s), all of the study participants had obtained additionaleducation and training to further their knowledge. The five subject areas most frequently pursuedfor additional knowledge included: leadership/executive development, 18 (72%); technical skills(e.g., computer programming, systems engineering, artificial intelligence, emergingtechnologies), 17 (68%); management development, 13 (52%); project management, 8 (32%);and finance, 8 (32%). The findings reveal that the additional education and training obtained bythe participants related mostly to leadership, business, technical skills, and interpersonal skills.The

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Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jo Howze; Jefferey Froyd; Kristi Shryock; Arun Srinivasa

described above and increase theinterests of Track B and C faculty members in the first-year engineering courses. In a completeimplementation, students in different sections of the first-year engineering courses may be doingdifferent projects, all of which meet the above specifications. Hopefully, a stream of projects cancontinue to be generated.AcknowledgementThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.0336591. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.Bibliographic Information1. Caso, R., Clark, C., Froyd, J.E., Inam, A., Kenimer, A.L., Morgan, J.R., and

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Lean Manufacturing and Integration

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2005 Annual Conference

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Patricio Torres; Matthew Stephens

that moves between provider and the user. Jacobs (2003) presents a formula to calculatethe number of Kanban card sets: Each container represents the minimum production lot size to be manufactured. Hence, the number of containers controls the amount of work-in-process inventory in the system. The number of kanban card sets is determined by the formula: k = expected demand during lead time + safety stock size of the container k = DL (1+S) . C Page 10.730.7 ( p. 432).Proceedings of the 2005 American Society

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Potpourri Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Van Wie; Kristin Wood; Robert Stone; Julie Linsey; Matthew Green

Functional Representations in Conceptual Design: A First Study in Experimental Design and Evaluation Julie S. Linseya, Matthew G. Greena, Michael Van Wieb, Kristin L. Wooda, and Robert Stoneb a The University of Texas at Austin/ bUniversity of Missouri-RollaAbstractFunctional modeling is an abstraction technique intended to help engineering designers performconceptual design. Functions are constructs that describe a transformation between an input flowand an output flow. A primary characteristic of functions is their independence from thephysical aspects of a device or artifact. In this sense, functions are form independent

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College Engineering K-12 Outreach III

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Carlsen; Robin Tallon; Phil Henning; Nicola Ferralis; Leanne Avery; Daniel Haworth; Elana Chapman

. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.6. LAVE, J. (1991). “Situating learning in communities of practice.” In L. Resnick & S. Teasley (Eds.), Perspectives on socially shared cognition (pp. 63-82). Washington, DC: APA.7. ECKERT, P. (1989). Jocks and burnouts: Social categories and identity in high school. New York: Teachers College Press.8. ECKERT, P., MC-CONNELL -GINET, S. (1992). “Think practically and look locally: language and gender as community-based practice.” Annual Review of Anthropology, 21, 461-490.9. LAVE, J., WENGER, E. (1991). Situated learning : legitimate peripheral participation. Cambridge England; New York: Cambridge University Press.10. STAR, S

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ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Lamancusa; Laura L. Pauley; Thomas Litzinger

Paper 2005-1462 Session 3266 Using the Design Process for Curriculum Improvement Laura L. Pauley, John S. Lamancusa, Thomas A. Litzinger Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Penn State UniversityAbstract This paper describes the process that was used to review and improve the MechanicalEngineering curriculum at Penn State University. The improvement process applied designmethodology to review the present curriculum, develop alternate curriculum models, andevaluate those

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Interactive Technology in the Classroom

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jennifer Amrine; Caroline Kayser; James Swanson

rate wasrecorded during the sessions. Non-engaged behaviors were marked using four different codes: S(Socializing), U (Uninvolved), W (Waiting), and C (Computer). S was used to describe asituation when two or more students were talking or engaging in some other form ofcommunication. U was used when a student was not paying attention, such as sleeping, staringoff into space, or working on something that was not related to the current class. W was markedwhen a student was waiting for something from the teacher, such as a handout or a topic change.C was used to describe when a student with a laptop was using applications other than SiliconChalk, such as email or instant messaging. The engagement rate was calculated from this data.An examination

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Board; April Brown; Joseph Holmes; Hisham Massoud; Steven Cummer; Jungsang Kim; Michael Gustafson; Leslie Collins; Lisa Huettel; Gary Ybarra

Theme-Based Redesign of the Duke University ECE Curriculum: The First Steps a) Leslie M. Collins, a)Lisa G. Huettel, a)April S. Brown, a)Gary A. Ybarra, b)Joseph S. Holmes, a)John A. Board, a)Steven A. Cummer, a) Michael R. Gustafson, a)Jungsang Kim, and a)Hisham Z. Massoud a) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708-0291/b)AcuityEdge, 437 Petty Road, Suite 201, Sanford, NC 27330Abstract. Historically, undergraduates in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) atDuke University have had ample exposure to theoretical foundations and

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Xiannong Meng; Luiz Perrone; Maurice Aburdene

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”mortar bank in two years since all your transactions are done by phone, ATM, or the World-Wide-Web. Even though you manage to avoid intense feelings of paranoia most of the time,there are moments when you just have to stop and wonder how much this technology has madeyou vulnerable to the evil that man can do. As you spend time worrying, scientists and engineers,like those that made all this exciting technology possible, are hard at work creating mechanismsthat may not make you safe in an absolute sense, but perhaps as safe as it can be managed. Someof these people have terminal degrees in their fields, Ph.D.’s and D.Sc.’s, though not all. Manymore of them, in fact, never went beyond a

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Useful Assessment in Materials Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Pierre G. Lafleur; Jean-Paul Bailon; Bernard Clément

chosen the self-directed learning version of the course obtain a finalmark higher than that obtained by the students who were taught in a conventional manner . Multi-variable analysis taking into account the GPA of the students, their level at their entry in theengineering program, the mark obtained in the common final exam and that obtained in quizzeswere performed in order to point out the most influencing factor(s). It appears that the differencein student’s success is mostly due to a better performance of the self-directed learning students inthe continuous evaluation by computerised quizzes, the other variables having a negligible effect.We conclude that the main cause of the higher success of the self-directed learning students in

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Beverlee Kissick; Alysia Starkey; Jung Oh; Judith Collins

retrieve”3. The Journal of Chemical Engineering Progress’ surveyof chemical engineers reveals that more than half of survey respondents are not able to find anduse appropriate information3.In engineering and other sciences, students may depend on textbooks for most of theirundergraduate learning, and many do not develop retrieval skills until their senior year orgraduate school3. Very little research has shown the attitudes of engineering faculty regardingbibliographic instruction (BI), but general guidelines have emerged in the last decadedemonstrating that context-sensitive IL instruction is critical.Since the 1950's, academic librarians have been integrating library or bibliographic instruction(now known as Information Literacy) into the

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BME Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

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Roberta Berry; Jonathan Olinger; Paul Benkeser

selected six coursesas venues, as described in Table 1. Separate problem-based learning (PBL) courses arepositioned in the first and second years. PBL experiences are incorporated into instructionallaboratories associated with third-year systems physiology and biomedical sensors courses. Thecurriculum culminates with a two-semester senior design course sequence, which is a naturalextension of the PBL experience. Course Experience(s) Location within Curriculum BMED 1300 Problems in BME I PBL problems 1st year BMED 2300 Problems in BME II PBL problems

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

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Akhlesh Lakhtakia; Christine Masters; Judith Todd

technologies mustintegrate a diversity of disciplinary concepts, multiple skills, communications across disciplinarylanguages, and a receptiveness to new schools of thought. When the Engineering Scienceprogram was conceived and founded in the 1950’s and the Department of Engineering Scienceand Mechanics Department was created in the mid-1970’s, the university unwittingly discoveredthe correct disciplinary mix for the 21st century. Somehow, in the last twenty years, this visionbecame obscured, only to be discovered again with the almost concurrent emergence of the bio-,info- and nano-techological revolutions. Now is the time to re-emphasize the value of

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Understanding Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Monica Cardella; Cynthia Atman

Frontiers in Education Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, 1995. 4. Aorshas, S, Verner, I. M., and Berman, A., “Calculus for Engineers: An Applications Approach,” Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Engineering Education, ICEE-2003, Paper No. 4607, Valencia, Spain, 2003. 5. McKenna, A., McMartin, F. and Agogino, A., “What Students Say About Learning Physics, Math and Engineering,” Proceedings of the 2000 Frontiers in Education Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, 2000, p T1F-9. 6. Anderson, C. W., Bryan, K. M., Froyd, J. E., Hatten, D. L., Kiaer, C. L., Moore, N. E., Mueller, M. R., Mottel, E. A. and Wagner, J. F., “Competency Matrix Assessment in an Integrated, First Year Curriculum in

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Katie Sullivan

Business School Press: Boston, MA. 8. Brelin-Fornari, J. Homsher, B., Sullivan, L. (2004). Kettering University’s Bioengineering Summer Program for High School Women. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Session 1505. 9. Baxter, L.A., & Babbie, E. (2004). The basics of communication research. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning. 10. Atkinson, P., & Hammersley, M. (1994). Ethnography and participant observation. In N.D. Denzin, & Y.S. Lincoln (1994). Handbook of qualitative research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. 11. Titscher, S., Meyer, M., Wodak, R. & Vetter, E. (2000). Methods of text and discourse analysis. London: Sage Publications

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Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tan-Yu Lee; John Dantzler; Robert Leland; Jim Richardson

]. Bandura, A., “Self-Efficacy”, in Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, 4: 71-81, V. S. Ramachudran ed., New York, Academic Press, 1994. [2]. Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., Cocking, R. R. eds., How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School, Expanded Edition, National Academy Press, Washington DC, 2000. [3]. Chi, M. T. H., Bassok, M. Lewis, M., Reimann, P. Glaser, R., “Self-Explanations: How Students Study and Use Examples in Learning to Solve Problems,” Cognitive Science 13, 145-182, 1989. [4]. Harding, T. S., Carpenter, D. D., Finelli, C. J., Passow, H. J., “The Influence of Academic Dishonesty on Ethical Decision-Making in the Workplace: A study of engineering students,” Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference

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Architectural Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Don Bury; Bruce Mutter

web-based dissemination strategy, plans for producing,marketing and distributing content and services will be scalable, cost effective,accessible, and appropriate for the academic setting. The project will enhance the currentstatus of engineering technician education through timely adaptation of content andtechnology, resulting in solid content and pedagogical preparation of AEC associatedfaculty and teachers returning to the engineering technology classroom.3. Project DescriptionBackground - Bluefield State College was established as a Black Teacher’s College byan act of the West Virginia Legislature in 1895 and was integrated after 1954. By the1960's, the college had a comprehensive four-year program of teacher education, arts

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College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thaddeus Fowler; Suzanne Soled; Laura Koehl; Anant Kukreti

overall impact, anevaluation plan was developed by the evaluation Fellow and the Co-Primary investigatorassigned to evaluation. The plan included formative and summative components and was drivenby the goals and objectives of the project.3 The constituents of the grant were identified as thefaculty, Fellows, teachers, middle and high school students, the university, and the state board ofeducation. A sample of the evaluation plan and its components is in Appendix 1. As can be seenin the chart it includes objectives, constituents, key questions, instruments, timeline, person(s)responsible and feedback. This was also organized into a timeline that mapped instruments andmeasures to the goals and objectives. A portion of the timeline can be seen in

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Vendor Partnerships with Engineering Libraries

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2005 Annual Conference

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Charles Paulsen; Amy Van Epps; Lisa Dunn; Jay Bhatt

Session 2541 Vendor Partnerships With Engineering Libraries Partnering with Knovel: Case Studies in Information Outreach Jay Bhatt, W. Charles Paulsen, Lisa G. Dunn, Amy S. Van Epps Drexel University/Knovel Corporation/Colorado School of Mines/ Purdue UniversityAbstractThe engineering library plays a critical role in initiating and maintaining the conduit betweenvendors of engineering information and the users of that information—faculty, students, andresearchers. Likewise, vendors play a key role in supporting library and faculty efforts topromote engineering

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Dantzler; James Richardson; Tan-Yu Lee; Robert Leland

concept study.Bibliographic Information[1]. Ashcraft, M. H., “Math Anxiety; Personal, Educational and Cognitive Consequences,” Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11 (5): 181-185, Oct. 2002.[2]. Bandura, A., “Self-Efficacy”, in Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, 4: 71-81, V. S. Ramachudran ed., New York, Academic Press, 1994.[3]. Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., Cocking, R. R. eds., How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School, Expanded Edition, National Academy Press, Washington DC, 2000.[4]. Chi, M. T. H., Bassok, M. Lewis, M., Reimann, P. Glaser, R., “Self-Explanations: How Students Study and Use Examples in Learning to Solve Problems,” Cognitive Science 13, 145-182, 1989.[5]. Choi, J. I., Hannafin, M., “The

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Measuring Perceptions of Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stephen Thompson; Jed Lyons

Journal of Engineering Education, 20/8, 372-378.11. Verner, I. M. and D.J. Ahlgren. 1997. Fire-Fighting Robot Contest: Interdisciplinary Design Curricula in College and High School. Journal of Engineering Education, 91/3, 355-35912. Carroll, D. R. 1997. Bridge Engineering for the Elementary Grades. Journal of Engineering Education, 86/3. 221-226.13. Poole, S. J., J.L. deGrazia, and J.F. Sullivan. 2001. Assessing K-12 Pre-Engineering Outreach Programs. Journal of Engineering Education, 90/1, 43-48.14. Neubert, J. J., C.G. Widstrand, A.M. Pumper, B. Swanson, and A.B. Ellis. 2001. Integrating Materials Science into the High School Chemistry Curriculum, Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual