Conference Session

Micro-/Nano-Technology Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nebojsa Jaksic, Colorado State University-Pueblo

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Materials

using ahydraulic servomechanism.Preliminary developmental efforts24, 25 in designing the carbon nanotube experiment emphasizedthe whole process including manufacturing and characterization. However, the time andequipment constraints were not adequately addressed. For example, an atomic force microscopein the Chemistry Department was used for material characterization. This created schedulingproblems and required additional time to learn how to use the instrument.Curriculum Context The Engineering of Manufacturing Processes is a required three-hour lecture two-hourlaboratory one-semester junior/senior course offered in the Industrial Engineering program at_______________. This course together with a computer-integrated manufacturing

Conference Session

Engineering and ET Relationships & Professional Development

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Lambrechts, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Engineering Technology

capabilities of new bachelor degree civil engineering graduates. Obviously, we mustwait to see how ASCE will address the 28 outcomes in view of under-graduate educationachievement. But it appears clear that the civil engineering bachelor’s degree graduate will nothave a level of technical skills that we ‘old-timers’ did. There will be more of the ‘soft- subjects’covered in under-graduate education. This is not to say that a Professional Engineer should nothave an appreciation and understanding for the numerous ‘professional practice’ topics, in factthey should. But why not gain this knowledge in post-under-graduate study? The simpleexplanation could well be that ASCE only has direct influence over the curriculum taught at theunder-graduate level.While

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Robin K. Burk

academic and their military professional training during their senioryear. Such integration supports the Academy’s overarching goal of producing “graduates who are able toanticipate and respond effectively to the uncertainties of a changing technological, social, political, andeconomic world”.4 To meet this goal, graduates must be able to “anticipate uncertainties, including 1challenges, problems, and opportunities” and to “respond effectively to uncertainties with confidence andreasoned judgment”.5All USMA graduates earn the Bachelor of Science degree after completing an extensive core curriculumthat includes 31 courses in both the sciences and the humanities. Beyond the core curriculum

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Robin K. Burk

academic and their military professional training during their senioryear. Such integration supports the Academy’s overarching goal of producing “graduates who are able toanticipate and respond effectively to the uncertainties of a changing technological, social, political, andeconomic world”.4 To meet this goal, graduates must be able to “anticipate uncertainties, including 1challenges, problems, and opportunities” and to “respond effectively to uncertainties with confidence andreasoned judgment”.5All USMA graduates earn the Bachelor of Science degree after completing an extensive core curriculumthat includes 31 courses in both the sciences and the humanities. Beyond the core curriculum

Conference Session

Sustainability and Engineering Courses

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Reisdorph, the GreenTeam Inc.

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Environmental Engineering

graduate course in Sustainability andInternational Standards. The course conveys the importance of voluntary internationalstandards, such as from ASTM International or the International Organization forStandardization (ISO), to sustainability. The curriculum uses an innovative experiential learningapproach whereby students research and develop a standard using the ASTM Internationalprocess. One driven student joined ASTM International and worked to see her class projectcatalyze the publication of ASTM E 2348 Guide for Framework for a Consensus-BasedEnvironmental Decision-Making Process.IntroductionIn 2004, the Oklahoma State University Environmental Institute established a graduate-levelcourse covering sustainability and international standards

Conference Session

Assessment of Engineering Technology Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jyhwen Wang, Texas A&M University; Alex Fang, Texas A&M University; Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Technology

for, and an ability to engage inlifelong learning. In most of the Engineering Technology (ET) programs, capstone projects aredesigned for students to utilize their technical knowledge, problem solving skills, and projectmanagement skills to develop a product or a system related to their discipline. This paper presentsa methodology of utilizing the capstone course as a vehicle to enhance and assess student’s lifelong learning skills. During the semester long course, one student team signed up to learn thesubject of adhesive technology that is not taught in the current curriculum. The student teamdesigned and built an adhesive test apparatus that can be used for outreach activities. Anotherstudent team was assigned to learn rapid prototyping

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University; Richard Newman, Arizona State University; Arunachala Nadar Mada Kannan, Arizona State University; Slobodan Petrovich, Arizona State University; Govindasamy Tamizhmani, Arizona State University

current hi-tech knowledge and skills. These experts are familiar with the recentadvances in technology, new processes, equipment, and industry “best practices.” To maintaincurrency with technology and produce work-ready graduates, SMEs are needed to help createand maintain curriculum that addresses key technologies and emerging industry trends. Topromote greater breadth of student learning, SMEs are needed to help integrate specific technicaltopics within core college curriculum—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.Teaming SMEs with faculty developers, instructional designers/developers (IDs) produces aneffective blend of unique abilities for scoping, structuring, and organizing technical informationin a way that facilitates

Conference Session

Sustainability and Environmental Issues

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kurt Rosentrater, USDA-ARS; Elif Kongar, University of Bridgeport

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

; Exhibition.49. Alford, E. and T. Ward. 1999. Integrating ethics into the freshman curriculum: an interdisciplinary approach. Session 2561. 1999 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exhibition.50. Marshall, J. and J. Marshall. 2003. Integrating ethics education into the engineering curriculum. Session 1675. 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exhibition.51. Davis, M. 1992. Integrating ethics into technical courses: IIT’s experiment in its second year. 1992 ASEE Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings, p. 64-68.52. Leone, D. and B. Isaacs. 2001. Combining engineering design with professional ethics using an integrated learning block. Session 2525. 2001 American Society

Conference Session

Innovative K-12 Engineering Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Michael Khoo, University of Southern California; Ellis Meng, University of Southern California; Joseph Cocozza, University of Southern California

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

expertise of an urban school of engineering, school ofmedicine and school of education. The BMERET program has provided middle schooland high school science teachers in urban settings with opportunities to engage withpremiere researchers in BME laboratory settings at a top tier research university. Withthe combined expertise of the BME scientists and education faculty, BMERET teacherparticipants are creating powerful curriculum to use in their middle school and highschool science classrooms. The teacher participants have experienced greater scienceteaching efficacy then their non-participant teacher peers, which may be as a result of thecollaborative RET experience. Sixth through twelve grade teachers have benefited greatlyfrom bringing the BME lab

Conference Session

BME Laboratories and Skills-Based Projects

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shahin Sirouspour, McMaster University; Pawel Malysz, McMaster University; Ali Shahdi, McMaster University; Ryan Leslie, Quanser Inc; Mahyar Fotoohi, Quanser Inc; Paul Karam, Quanser Inc

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Biomedical

are beginningto create undergraduate programs in biomedical engineering and developing new curriculums tosupport such programs. Medical Robotics is a Level 4 compulsory course in McMasterUniversity’s new established Electrical and Biomedical Engineering program. This paperprovides an overview of a laboratory component which has been co-developed by McMasterUniversity and Quanser Consulting Inc. for this course. First, the motivations for introducing aMedical Robotics course into the Biomedical Engineering curriculum and the desired learningoutcomes pursued by the proposed laboratory experiments are discussed. These are followed bya brief introduction of the hardware/software system used in the lab as well as detaileddescriptions of four

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Qing Li

to be the largest stumbling block causing dropout in the freshman year in engineering schools. Ohland, et.al. (2004) have showed that by relaxing the mathematics pre-requisite, there is an immediate positive effect ingrades in the subsequent semester. Currently, most first year engineering curricular cover several pure math andscience courses. Many freshman engineering students are thus led to perceive engineering as being an “pure”science because they do not see the relevance of these courses to their needs and interests in engineering(Besterfield-Sacre, et. al., 1998). Some researchers have proposed integrated curricula where science courses areinstructed together with engineering components (Schneck, 2001; Froyd & Ohland, 2005). It

Conference Session

New Ideas for ChEs I (aka ChE Potpourri)

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christine Kelly, Oregon State University; Edith Gummer, Northwest Regional Education Laboratory; Philip Harding, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

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Chemical Engineering

LaboratoryAbstractPresently there is a need to develop more effective ways to integrate experimental design into theengineering curriculum. To address this need, we are developing virtual laboratories that providestudents a capstone experience in which they can apply experimental design in a context similarto that of a practicing engineer in industry. In a virtual laboratory, simulations based onmathematical models implemented on a computer are used to replace the physical laboratory.However, as opposed to being constructed as a direct one-to-one replacement, the virtuallaboratory is intended to complement the physical laboratories in the curriculum so that certainspecific elements of the experimental design process are addressed. We have previously reportedon the

Conference Session

Faculty Attitudes and Perceptions

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Mativo, The University of Georgia; Maura Borrego, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Educational Research and Methods

solving physical problems.K-12 members’ perceptions seem to hinge on building an understanding and appreciation ofwhat engineering is and how it impacts society, and of preparing and motivating students tobecome engineers. Open-ended responses provided phrases like integrating STEM intoactivities, projects, presentations, scoring rubrics, and assessment shared across the members. Abroader view included educating both students and the general public on the importance of,process of and implementation of engineering in the world today. K-12 members also viewedengineering education as a research field of teaching and learning. Members of this group wereopen to the PhD in traditional engineering with interest in teaching or a PhD in education

Conference Session

Assessment of K-12 Engineering Programs and Issues

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noemi Mendoza Diaz, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica Cox, Purdue University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

(Boston Museum of Science)General Description: The Center’s goal is to integrate engineering as a new discipline in schoolsnationwide and to inspire the next generation of engineers and innovators. It offers curriculum,professional development, and partnership with industry, and school systems. The Center isresponsible for the following programs:Engineering is Elementary: Engineering and Technology Lessons for Children (EiE) is aimed toelementary level students. The program integrates engineering content with elementary scienceconcepts. “Each unit focuses on a field of engineering—for example, materials engineering,mechanical engineering, and environmental engineering—and includes a child's illustratedstorybook, lesson plans, and student

Conference Session

Service - Learning Projects

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heather Wright, Michigan Technological University; Linda Phillips, Michigan Technological University; James Mihelcic, Michigan Technological University

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Environmental Engineering

University. He is an elected member to the Board of Directors of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) and is currently the AEESP President. He also serves on EPA’s Science Advisory Board Environmental Engineering Committee. Dr. Mihelcic co-led several sustainability education initiatives at Michigan Tech including development of a new “Graduate Certificate in Sustainability” and an “Undergraduate Certificate in International Sustainable Development Engineering”. He is the lead author of one textbook titled Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering (John Wiley) (which has been translated into Spanish) and is the lead author for two additional books to be published

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K12 Teachers

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jodi Cullum, Utah State University; Christine Hailey, Utah State University; Daniel Householder, Utah State University; Chris Merrill, Illinois State University; James Dorward, Utah State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

paper reports the responses from participants in this unique workshopsession.BackgroundThe emergence of engineering as a school subject is in its infancy. The most importantengineering concepts and skills that students of differing interests and aptitudes shouldmaster are not well defined. State adopted curriculum materials, often the cornerstone of aprofessional development program, are still unavailable. To begin to understand theimportant features of an effective professional development program, NCETE focused itsefforts on engineering design as a content area in high schools. The rationale for thisdecision is that aspects of engineering design are shared by technology design as describedin standard 8 of the Standards for Technological

Conference Session

Measuring Success of Graduate Program Components

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Zhang, Western Carolina University; Ken Burbank, Western Carolina University; Brian Howell, Western Carolina University; Bill Yang, Western Carolina University; Yeqin Huang, Western Carolina University; Robert Adams, Western Carolina University

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Graduate Studies

categories:discovery, integration, application, and teaching 1. This is the well-known “Boyer’smodel of scholarship.” Since its inception in 1990, Boyer’s model has been widelydiscussed and debated, and the focus has mainly been on its impact on university faculty,especially their tenure, promotion, and reappointment (TPR) policies 2, 3.However, scholarships are not generated by faculty alone. Our students, especiallygraduate students, are an important integral part of the scholarship. They serve as abackbone of pure research (discovery), a vehicle of implementations (integration andapplication), and a bridge between faculty and the students, graduate and undergraduatesalike (teaching). Their efforts of generating and improving the quality of scholarships

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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jeffrey S. Burmeister; Kyle A. Watson; Maria Garcia-Sheets

who have an interest in math and science and want to explore engineering and its disciplines with the possibility of receiving college credit from JHU. As a summer course, the class is an intensive four-week experience where students actively participate in hands-on team activities including laboratory experiments and virtual internet-based simulations while attending college-level lectures related to these activities. Field trips to local companies that employ engineers and informational sessions on college and career choices are also integrated into the course schedule. In short, the curriculum links math, science, and engineering concepts to Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest

Conference Session

Focus on IE Principles and Techniques

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arun Nambiar, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Dale Masel, Ohio University

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Industrial Engineering

AC 2008-2680: TEACHING CONCEPTS OF LEAN MANUFACTURINGTHROUGH A HANDS-ON LABORATORY COURSEArun Nambiar, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez Arun received his Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India in 1997 and Master's Degree in Industrial Engineering from Ohio University, Athens, OH in 2004. He went on to receive his Doctoral Degree in Integrated Engineering (with an Industrial Engineering concentration) from Ohio University, Athens, OH in 2007. His research interests include production, planning and control of manufacturing systems, application of lean principles, study of discrete-event systems and cost estimation for various

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Controls Laboratories

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Brach, University of the District of Columbia; Ahmet Zeytinci, University of the District of Columbia

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

integral part of all engineering programs; in fact, it is not even a standard part of many Civil Engineering (CE) programs. Plane surveying, the determination of the location of points on or near the surface of the earth, is rapidly becoming a lost art in the civil engineering curriculum. This paper is not an attempt to resurrect surveying in the modern CE curriculum. It looks at surveying field work in an historical perspective; to highlight changes in the art of surveying and how they have impacted both the teaching and practice of surveying, and to point out conceptual features of surveying field work and show how selected activities were particularly suited to teaching fundamental concepts applicable to a wide range of

Conference Session

Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jay Porter, Texas A&M University; Joseph Morgan, Texas A&M University; Richard Scruggs, Texas A&M University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

senior-level students with an opportunity tolearn more about innovation and entrepreneurship. In their final year of undergraduatestudy, groups of three to four students come together as new start up companies thatcomplete the two-semester capstone design requirements by transitioning from an Idea toa fully functional Prototype (I2P). Most of these projects are now externally sponsoredby companies that are trying to increase their design bandwidth, jumpstart a new productidea, or in some cases become more involved with students to develop a better pipelinefor new hires. Intellectual property developed by these student companies is transferredto the Texas A&M System Office of Technology Commercialization that manages thelicensing of the IP to

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education Initiatives

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lauren Alexander, IAESTE United States; Cheryl Matherly, University of Tulsa; Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Larry Shuman, University of Pittsburgh

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International

acceptance of programs of less than six weeks, stressing the characteristics ofgood program design. These were: • Unassailable academic integrity • Integration into the curriculum Page 13.795.3 • Affordable program design • Good pre-departure orientation and preparation • Faculty buy-in and participation • Interaction with the host community • Incorporation of local language • Opportunities for cultural enrichment, and a faculty leader trained to provide on-site interpretation and support • A safe and secure environment • Competent, experienced staff • Delivering what is promised (meeting expectations

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Paul G. Ranky

Case-based Learning Methods with 3D Interactive Multimedia for Millennial Generation Engineering Students by Paul G. Ranky, PhD Full Tenured Professor, Registered and Chart. Professional Engineer, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, NCE, and the NJIT IT Program, NJIT, Newark, NJ 07102 Email: ranky@njit.eduAbstractMillennial generation students are interested in an integrated, simultaneouslyanalytical, computational, interactive, as well as practical, real

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Paul G. Ranky

Case-based Learning Methods with 3D Interactive Multimedia for Millennial Generation Engineering Students by Paul G. Ranky, PhD Full Tenured Professor, Registered and Chart. Professional Engineer, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, NCE, and the NJIT IT Program, NJIT, Newark, NJ 07102 Email: ranky@njit.eduAbstractMillennial generation students are interested in an integrated, simultaneouslyanalytical, computational, interactive, as well as practical, real

Conference Session

K-12 Engineering Outreach Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Powers, Clarkson University; Bruce Brydges, SUNY Potsdam; Gail Gotham, SLL BOCES; James Carroll, Clarkson University; Peter Turner, Clarkson University; Douglas Bohl, Clarkson University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

thinkingrequired for engineering majors. The net result has been the development of programs atnumerous campuses, many of which survive only for the duration of the initial funding sourceand then disappear. Like many schools, Clarkson University has traditionally had a few smalland isolated K-12 outreach programs. However, in 2004 with the establishment of its Office ofEducational Partnerships, it initiated a concerted effort to institutionalize its outreach efforts in amanner to increase the extent of these efforts, assess their impacts, and maintain the University’scommitment to area school districts for an extended period of time. As with our integrated

Conference Session

Institutional and Curricular Reform

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Gardner, Boise State University; Pat Pyke, Boise State University; Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University; Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Amy Moll, Boise State University

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Educational Research and Methods

grant period was initially four years, then extended to five, with noadditional funding.) Boise State University [enrollment 19,540 overall, 1,771 engineering],located in Boise, Idaho, is a metropolitan institution that provides affordable access to educationfor a diverse population of capable students, from National Merit Scholars seeking an urbancollege experience to non-traditional students balancing family, work and education. Most of thestudents are undergraduates and a significant portion are first generation and/or lower income.Our grant-funded initiative comprised a broad array of academic enrichment and support(internships, supplemental instruction, scholarships), curricular changes (integrated freshman andpre-freshman learning

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K12 Teachers

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Pelletier, Northern Essex Community College; Lori Heymans, Northern Essex Community College; Paul Chanley, Northern Essex Community College

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

engineering/technology content and context. Thecontent was aligned with the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks for Science andTechnology/Engineering and with the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks forMathematics and provided solid integration of key scientific and mathematical conceptswith the engineering design process. In this institute, participants explored the generationof electricity by the alternative energy sources of wind, water, and solar. Participantsengaged in lab activities, completed worksheets and visited a “Green Home” powered bya wind turbine and by both passive and active solar energy. During the fall of 2006, theparticipants met with the community college faculty to share their personally designedlessons and results.During the

Conference Session

Undergraduate Space Design and Project Courses

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sven Bilen, Pennsylvania State University; Brian Schratz, Pennsylvania State University

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Aerospace

foundation of the Lab. For the Lab to mature and Page 13.1253.8prosper, an adaptable strategic plan must identify priorities, deficiencies, and methods to addressthem. To this end, the students and faculty identified several key priorities deemed necessary toachieve the desired resources and capabilities. With the SSPL in its infancy, the key prioritiesfor the inaugural year centered on 1. providing an on-ramp for new students in order to develop an experienced workforce, 2. diversifying flight projects, 3. integrating the Lab with the Penn State curriculum, 4. interfacing with existing university research interests, 5. improving our

Conference Session

Learning to Communicate with Engineers and Non-Engineers

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leslie Potter, Iowa State University; John Jackman, Iowa State University; K. Jo Min, Iowa State University; Matthew Search, Iowa State University

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Liberal Education

professional skill integration, and assessment-driven continuous improvement.John Jackman, Iowa State University Dr. John Jackman is an Associate Professor in the department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at Iowa State University. His work in engineering problem solving has appeared in the Journal of Engineering Education and the International Journal of Engineering Education. He is currently investigating how engineers use and create information during the development process in order to improve their productivity and reduce development time.K. Jo Min, Iowa State University Dr. K. Jo Min is an Associate Professor in the department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems

Conference Session

STEM Pipeline: Pre-College to Post-Baccalaureate

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Smaill, University of Auckland; Elizabeth Godfrey, University of Auckland; Gerard Rowe, University of Auckland

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Educational Research and Methods

aquestionnaire. The key results of the teacher focus groups were: • Instrumentalist approach to study and module choices. • High demand for accountability in marking schedules. • Studying to a perceived “expected answer”. • Confirmation that NCEA had resulted in a more modular (i.e. less integrated) approach to learning. • Identification that the new NCEA Physics Curriculum places less reliance on mathematical ability. It was now not possible to achieve a pass in an NCEA module without being able to adequately answer “explain” type questions. This represents a major departure from previous curricular practice.Predictors of SuccessThe key factors that lead to success in this course were investigated by