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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University; Arunachalanad Kannan, Arizona State University; Richard Newman, Arizona State University; Slobodan Petrovich, Arizona State University; Govindasamy Tamizhmani, Arizona State University

matter experts or SMEs (pronounced “smees”) who possessthe most 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

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Assessing the Efficacy of Nontraditional Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Continuing Professional Development

, he and colleagues at Project Zero have been working on the design ofperformance-based assessments, education for understanding, and the use of multipleintelligences to achieve more personalized curriculum, instruction, and assessment.(http://www.pz.harvard.edu/PIs/HG.htm)Principles of Good PracticeGardner’s seven principles help in developing Intellectual Curiosity in any given group ofindividuals. It is important to recognize that some learners may be curious to learn whenthey ‘see’ something interesting (Narayanan, 2007). Some others may be inclined todevelop curiosity when the ‘read’ about a new subject matter. Gardner suggests thatone should consider all the types of ‘intelligence’ if one wants to observe an individual’spotential

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The Ever-Changing Course

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gretchen Hein, Michigan Technological University; Jean Kampe, Michigan Technological University; Amber Kemppainen, Michigan Technological University

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First-Year Programs

… One School at a Time. Penguin Books, New York, NY, 2006.14. Michigan Technological University Reading as Inquiry, http://www.hu.mtu.edu/SummerReading/, accessed: January 19, 2009.15. Central Asia Institute, “Pennies for Peace”, http://www.penniesforpeace.org/home.html, accessed: January 19, 2009.16. Creighton, L., “An Earth Friendly Curriculum,” PRISM, January 2003, pgs. 42-43.17. Kemppainen, A. J., Hein, G.L., Shonnard, D.R., “A First-Year Engineering Experience in Sustainable Design” Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition. Pittsburgh, PA. June 22 – 25, 2008.18. Ashby, M., Shercliff, H., and Cebon, D., Materials: Engineering, Science, Processing and Design, Elsevier

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Multidisciplinary Design Constituents

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dugan Um, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi; Bahram Asiabanpour, Texas State University; Jesus Jimenez, Texas State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

an REU Site project because potentialapplications are exciting and research topics encompass a variety of disciplines, making theresearch naturally interdisciplinary. Key areas of research in which students can participateinclude mechanics, micro sensor/actuator design, electronics/control system design, designoptimization, and advanced micro-manufacturing. The integration of such research activity willresult in development of new technologies for automatic microassembly systems. A polymerbased electro-active grippers have been utilized for micro-parts gripping and assemblyoperations. An infrared vision system, as a position sensor, identifies and calculates the preciselocation and orientation of a microcomponent before manipulating it to

Conference Session

Writing Is Fundamental

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Beams, University of Texas, Tyler; Luke Niiler, University of Alabama

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Liberal Education

sourcematerials such as quotes, with little regard to how those materials support, constrain, interrogateor make problematic their arguments.” 21 Our review of data from surveys, interviews and focusgroup discussions revealed, in turn, that students were inclined to overrate their abilities aswriters. In addition, the attitude survey from that year reveals a marked decrease in thepercentage of students agreeing or strongly agreeing with the following statements: “Writing inEngineering courses helps me understand course material”; and “Writing plays an important rolein Engineering courses.”We ended our third-year report with a call for strongly articulated writing heuristics in theengineering classroom and indeed throughout the Engineering curriculum

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Sofia M. Vidalis; Joseph J. Cecere

major.IntroductionPartnership between an Educational Institution and Secondary Schools is not a new concept infostering learning among students. There are many universities that work closely with highschools to develop a relationship to help fit students’ needs. Universities and high schoolstraditionally maintained collaborations by including student job shadowing, outreach activities,faculty exchanges, and recruiting. The purpose of these partnerships is to expose high schoolstudents to the major so they can plan ahead to meet the needs of industries, governments,national laboratories, and the training need. The goal of any university engineering technology curriculum is to provide theinformation and skills so each student so they can be successful in their

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Environmental Engineering Curricula

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Montserrat Rabago-Smith, Kettering Univeristy; Jennifer Aurandt, Kettering University

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Environmental Engineering

AC 2009-772: INCORPORATION OF GREEN PRINCIPLES INTO ORGANICCHEMISTRY FOR ENGINEERSMontserrat Rabago-Smith, Kettering UniveristyJennifer Aurandt, Kettering University Page 14.728.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Incorporation of Green Principles into Organic Chemistry for Engineers Promoting environmentally responsible engineers and scientistsnecessitates the integration of green chemistry into the undergraduateengineering curriculum. In response to this need we have developed a pollutionprevention (P2), Green Chemistry, and Green Engineering course designed forundergraduate engineering students that have taken

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New Learning Paradigms I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rebecca Damron, Oklahoma State University; Karen High, Oklahoma State University

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Educational Research and Methods

students and teaching science to education professionals. Dr. High is a trainer for Project Lead the Way pre-Engineering. She initiated an engineering program at Stillwater Middle School. In the summer of 2008, Dr. High was part of a professional development workshop for 80 Northeast Oklahoma middle level teachers to develop integrated engineering curriculum. Page 14.1383.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Writing to Learn: The Effect of Peer Tutoring on Critical Thinking and Writing Skills of First-Year Engineering StudentsCritical Thinking

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Lizabeth Schlemer; Jose Macedo

local companies. The intent of thispaper is to describe the benefits and difficulties associated with this methodology. While specificclasses in this experience are typical of an industrial engineering curriculum, the lessons learnedand benefits could translate to other disciplines.Introduction The use of Project Based Learning (PBL) has contributed to Cal Poly’s reputation of“learn by doing” for many years. As part of the Industrial Engineering (IE) curriculum at CalPoly, students work in small groups with local companies on facilities related projects. Theunique aspect of these projects is that students from a senior class and students from asophomore class are partnered together to work on these industry based projects. These

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Thomas J. Impelluso

term memory after first beingproperly integrated, by working memory, into a mental structure that represents the schema ofthe material. However, the faculty of working memory has limits and this, unfortunately, canhinder learning, especially when many extraneous facts compete to challenge the cognitivelearning loads (which, in the case of programming, encompass text editing, operating systemsand compilers). CLT posits that there are three basic types of cognitive loads placed on alearner: • “Intrinsic cognitive load” was first described in 1991 [2] as the essential material to be learned. Accordingly, all instruction has an inherent difficulty associated with it and Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering

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Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace & Successful Graduates for a Flat World: What Does It Take?

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Romkey; Yu-Ling Cheng, University of Toronto

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International

and the Global EngineerIt is nearly universally acknowledged that the world is becoming increasinglyinterconnected, interdependent and integrated, and that technology is accelerating at anescalating pace. The interdependence of financial systems and world economies turned a“made-in-America” banking problem into a global economic crisis of historicproportions. Ease of travel allowed avian flu to spread from an isolated remote village inChina to cities around the world, and created a health crisis that brought Toronto to a nearstandstill. Global warming, global political unrest, global epidemics, global poverty –the challenges that future generations of engineers will be asked to address are global innature. Charles Vest31 urged universities to

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Multidisciplinary Design Constituents

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Phillip Wankat, Purdue University; Kamyar Haghighi, Purdue University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

programs. Since opportunities for student choice in courses increased motivation3, it isprobable that choice in curriculum will also increase motivation. In spring 2009, 2/3 of thestudents in IDE 301 had transferred into IDES/MDE from another program at the university.Some of these students, particularly those who developed broad interests3, would probably nothave stayed in engineering. Because adding a few students to an existing lecture course hasalmost no additional cost, the major costs are for the two core courses required for the MDEprogram, for the academic advisor, and for the program director – who also teaches in theprogram. By retaining students, these two programs earn much more in tuition than they cost

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Measuring Success of Graduate Program Components

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lynita Newswander, Virginia Tech; Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech

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Graduate Studies

engineering. She has an NSF CAREER and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) award for this work. Page 14.683.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 IGERT Funding and the Institutionalization of Interdisciplinary Graduate EducationAbstract Interdisciplinary graduate education is key to the preparation of tomorrow’s engineers,researchers and faculty. The U.S. National Science Foundation’s Integrative Graduate EducationResearch Traineeships (IGERTs) provide funding to train students in interdisciplinary scienceand engineering

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Engineering Design: Implementation and Evaluation

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cameron Denson, Utah State University; Nathan Mentzer, Utah State University; Jodi Cullum, Utah State University

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Educational Research and Methods

. Page 14.668.2NCETE Teacher Professional Development Positioning of the teacher as developer of lessons facilitates coherence with otherlearning activities occurring in each teacher’s classroom. Specifically, teachers can situate theengineering design concepts into their curriculum by crafting a lesson rather than attempting tofit a pre-packaged generic lesson into an existing and, perhaps, rigidly structured curriculum.The lesson development opportunities provide teachers with an active learning experience,wherein they first experience exemplary engineering design challenges as participants and thencreate design challenges. Formative feedback was provided by peer teachers and professionaldevelopers as the teachers developed the lessons

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Two-Year/Four-Year: From Articulation to Matriculation

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dan Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College

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Two Year College Division

credit in local school districts.The second change was the introduction of a in the Introduction to Engineering course.Promotion of the Program was further enhanced by the creation of a 30 minute “infomercial”about the EDGE Program that was presented for two weeks on the public access TV channel.However, the broadcasting was delayed until the last two weeks of the enrollment period and wedid not expect to see a significant impact on recruitment.This brings us to EDGE VI in 2008. The Program continued with the augmented ConceptualPhysics curriculum and the year around math engagement for qualified students. An updatedversion of the infomercial was broadcast weekly for the entire month of January. Building onthe successful robotics project

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nhut Ho, California State University, Northridge; Robert Ryan, California State University, Northridge

based on active experiential consistent with program goals and validated by learning methods program stakeholders 9. Enhancement of Faculty CDIO Skills 3. Integrated Curriculum Actions that enhance faculty competence in personal, A curriculum designed with mutually supporting interpersonal, and product and system building skills disciplinary subjects, with an explicit plan to integrate 10. Enhancement of Faculty Teaching Skills personal, interpersonal, and product and system Actions that enhance faculty competence in providing building skills integrated learning experiences, in using

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Been There, Done That: Advice for NEEs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Murray, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Elizabeth Cudney, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Suzanna Long, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Katie Grantham Lough, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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New Engineering Educators

AC 2009-551: WHAT NEW FACULTY NEED TO KNOWSusan Murray, Missouri University of Science and Technology Susan L. Murray is an Associate Professor in the Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Department at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. Dr. Murray received her B.S. and Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Texas A&M University. Her M.S. is also in industrial engineering from the University of Texas-Arlington. She is a professional engineer in Texas. Her research and teaching interests include human systems integration, productivity improvement, human performance, ergonomics, and engineering education. Prior to her academic position, she spent seven years working

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Technical-Capacity Building & Exporting of Higher Education to Developing Countries

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Russel Jones, World Expertise LLC

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International

Carnegie Mellon University. Purpose built state-of-the-art learning and teachingfacilities have been built for each university.Texas A&M University at Qatar offers undergraduate degrees in chemical, electrical,mechanical and petroleum engineering. It graduated two students in 2007 and a full classin 2008. It is beginning to offer two graduate programs, a Master of Engineering Degreeand a Master of Science Degree. The undergraduate curriculum integrates cutting-edgeand applied research with innovative classroom instruction to ensure that its graduates areequipped to assume leadership roles after graduation.Carnegie Mellon Qatar has offered undergraduate programs in Computer Science andBusiness Administration since 2004. It has recently added a

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Esteban Rodriguez-Marek, Eastern Washington University; Min-Sung Koh, Eastern Washington University; Michael Brzoska, Eastern Washington University; Claudio Talarico, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

, the operating money had to comeout of the existing EWU budget (an internal relocation). Many on campus were furious and, ofcourse, the BSEE program had to be approved by faculty committees. The administration wasextremely supportive of the BSEE effort and in the end EWU faculty committees did approve thenew program. Luckily, the HECB created opportunities for “high demand” fields to receiveadditional funding. This resulted in three new department faculty positions. Therefore, internalrelocations were kept to a minimum.III. Curriculum DevelopmentThe most important step in the planning of the electrical engineering degree was, obviously, thecurriculum. Before getting down to the actual four year plan, the Department sought help fromits

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Entrepreneurship Town Hall Meeting: Supporting University Priorities

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin Grimheden, Royal Institute of Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

with the ‘teacherless education’-example. This is anexample which could be characterized as ‘live experimenting’, meaning that the instructors areperforming an experiment with their students without either prior information or consent. In thepaper describing the experiment, the author provides all information necessary to reproduce thesetup, including the course curriculum and other info. Even if the experiment itself is a majoreffort to reproduce, the article could be used in education to elaborate a discussion abouteducation in creativity.ConclusionsOur ambition has been to find, investigate, evaluate and present what we have defined as rolemodels for education in product innovation, to serve as examples for our continuous work

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pramod Rajan, Auburn University; P.K. Raju, Auburn University; Chetan Sankar, Auburn University

universities with a very high percent of positive feedback on them.The graduate-level courses in the LITEE curriculum are a sequence of two classesthat act as a case study development project for students participating in theInternational Research Experience for Students (IRES). The first semester courseprovides an introduction to how case studies are developed. The second semesteris a fieldwork course in which the students actively work with industrial partnersin India to research a problem and turn the results into a multimedia case study.This paper discusses how the IRES program is conducted as a two-semestersequence at Auburn University. It also describes how a research problem at acompany was converted into a case study for implementation in a

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ERM Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nadia Kellam, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, The University of Georgia; Ashley Babcock, University of Georgia

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

is an important characteristic as it enables the system to evolve in response to changes within the system, e. g. the changes in relationships between agents and their resulting emergence, and to changes beyond the boundaries of the system, e. g. changes to the socio-technical landscape in which the enterprise of engineering education is embedded. Within engineering education, there are inherent links to professional practice and engineering education practice which have evolved in response to these changes. An example of this is apparent in the recent thrusts to include communication in the engineering education curriculum as a result of the inputs from industry and the profession1. One would be hard pressed to find

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DELOS Best Paper Nominations

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Rogers, United States Military Academy; Robert Rabb, United States Military Academy; Christopher Korpela, United States Military Academy; Ryan Ebel, United States Military Academy

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

take an institution-wide core curriculum in liberal arts, math and sciencethat comprises the first three semesters. For engineering majors, the majority of the courses inthe remaining five semesters builds the foundations in math, science and discipline specificengineering. Upperclassmen majoring in electrical engineering or mechanical engineering take aseries of three courses that define a concentration for their studies. Mechatronics is the centralcourse taken by students in their senior year who are concentrating in robotics or mechatronics. Itis also offered as an elective to students of all other majors who have taken the two prerequisitecourses, Dynamic Modeling and Control and Digital Computer Logic.The Mechatronics course objectives

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Project-Based Service Learning

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Swan, Tufts University; Mary McCormick, Tufts University

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Environmental Engineering

: theengineering curriculum must be expanded beyond technical skills to develop students’proficiencies in those skills traditionally considered “soft”; i.e. leadership, project management,teamwork, and communication (5).In chartering the Engineer of 2020 project, the NAE’s primary goal was to develop a curriculum Page 14.150.2framework that would provide engineers with the necessary skill set to “overcome futurechallenges” (15). This combination of skills will require engineers to integrate technicalknowledge with practical ingenuity to identify problems and develop solutions. ABETrecognized in the late 1980s that “effective preparation for engineers of

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ERM Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Snyder, Taylor University; Elise Romines, Taylor University; Rachel Dodge, Taylor University; Jason Kruegar, Taylor University; Travis Booth, Taylor University; Josh Gates, Taylor University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

previously, but also, because “they get to apply their knowledge to aninteresting project, launch a satellite to the upper reaches of the atmosphere and recover it. Thisis how the HARP program revolutionizes education: by providing classroom knowledge, andsimultaneously integrating it with real experience. This kind of experience is not as costly asmight first be expected: after an initial expense of $9,000 for a complete system, each missioncosts less than $300 total in consumables (balloon, helium, recovery vehicle operation, etc). In Taylor University implementation of the HARP program into its curriculum, studentsare enabled to experience every part of a truly professional research project. Once a specificproblem is identified, the

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Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Rabb, United States Military Academy; Andrew Biaglow, United States Military Academy; David Chang, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

engineering curriculum necessitated incorporation of controls engineeringcoursework in their program of study. An existing dynamic modeling and controls courseexisted between two departments: electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. With theintroduction of chemical engineers in the course, the chemical engineering specific lessons aretaught by a chemical engineering instructor. This organizational structure is important, allowingthe multidisciplinary faculty team to synchronize their efforts, bringing their individual strengthsand resources together for the course to promote student learning. The instructors engage inmeaningful dialogue concerning their assignments, lesson preparations, laboratory exercises, andtheir results. The

Conference Session

Space Systems Design

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Rooney, Saint Louis University; Mathew Roseman, Saint Louis University; Charles Shotridge, Saint Louis University; Jeffrey Aschenbrenner, Saint Louis University; Sanjay Jayaram, Saint Louis University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

insufficient methods for students to acquire hands-on experience in the scientific and technical disciplines necessary for space commerce and exploration. 2. Students have a hard time identifying relevant space systems hardware requirements while designing a real mission. 3. The National Research Council (NRC) committee believes that training students to design and build satellite and satellite instruments, gain hands-on experience with the unique demands of satellite and satellite systems environments and operations, and acquire early knowledge of systems engineering techniques is an extremely important investment to make[4, 5]. Founded by California Polytechnic State

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Developing New Instrumentation

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College; Yakov Cherner, ATeL, LLC; Edward Bigos, Springfield Technical Community College; Ted Sussmann, Springfield Technical Community College

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Instrumentation

context for science, engineering and technology investigations. He also proposed and implemented the pioneering concept of integrated adjustable virtual laboratories and designed easy-to-use authoring tools to create such labs. Dr. Cherner holds an MS in Experimental Physics, and Ph.D. in Physics and Materials Science. He has published over 80 papers in national and international journals and made dozens of presentations at various national and international conferences and workshops. Dr. Cherner has served as a Principal Investigator for several government-funded educational projects.Edward Bigos, Springfield Technical Community College Edward Bigos, a professor of Electronics/Computer Systems

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High-School Engineering Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mercedes McKay, Stevens Institute of Technology; Debra Brockway, Stevens Institute of Technology; Beth McGrath, Stevens Institute of Technology; Henry Harms, Stevens Insititue of Technology; Eirik Hole, Stevens Institute of Technology; David Janosz, NJTEA

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

means thatbetter understanding of potential “foreign” user communities and environments are needed.Students participating in the Introduction to the Core Concepts of Systems Engineering haveengaged in a first-hand experience integrating systems engineering and global collaboration aspart of an effort to increase the number of students who will go on to pursue engineeringeducation and careers and to provide them with workforce skills for the 21st century.Pilot Test DescriptionThe two major components addressed during the first year of the SAGE project were to 1)identify and develop the four systems and global engineering curriculum modules and 2) provideprofessional development on those modules to selected teachers who would then pilot test

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Professional Graduate Education and Industry

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina; Norman Egbert, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Roger Olson, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas; Eugene DeLoatch, Morgan State University; Mohammad Noori, North Carolina State University; Edward Sullivan, California Polytechnic State University; Joseph Tidwell, Arizona State University Polytechnic; Duane Dunlap, Purdue University; Stephen Tricamo, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Graduate Studies

the premier place in the world to innovate.” Rising Above the Gathering Storm Committee - 2006 National Academy of Sciences AbstractThis is the first of four invited papers prepared for the special panel session of the ASEE-NationalCollaborative Task Force for Engineering Graduate Education Reform. This paper presents an overviewof the initiative. The paper reaffirms the National Collaborative strategy that the present and futureindustrial strength of U.S. technology for economic prosperity and national security is ultimately reflectedin the strength and