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2009 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

D. Weber; G. Reluzco; D. Kaminski; B. W. Bequette

Integrated Manufacturing; and a capstone course: Engineering Design andDevelopment.Program ComparisonsThe nature and scope of the PLTW and GK-12 programs are very different with someoverlapping ambitions. Both programs have a similar genesis as educators and professionalsrespond to the projected glut of American engineers within this generation. The PTLW solutionis to replace the school’s engineering programs, if any existed, with a franchised curriculum.Participating teachers and guidance counselors have mandatory training requirements, but arealso to provide feedback to the planning committee. The central organization is responsible forproducing advertising materials, setting teacher and student performance standards, and trackingthe college and

Conference Session

International Initiatives, Partnerships, Teaching Strategies & Collaborative Networks (IUCEE, IFEES, LACCEI.... )

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ivan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University; Maria M. Larrondo Petrie, Florida Atlantic University

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International

has established collaborative agreements with otherorganizations with the purpose of reaching its goals and accomplish its mission. The work doneand the immediate future plans are presented on this paper.Homologation Agreements for Student MobilityAn early very successful effort is the homologation of courses and programs. Homologationestablishes equivalencies between courses and credits to facilitate student mobility and studentexchanges. Through the discussions at Extended Governing Board meetings, InstitutionalMembers are encouraged to partner for the purpose of exchanging students and creating dualdegree programs. Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) have been signed betweenInstitutional Members that are active and functional because the

Conference Session

Sustainable-energy Education: Lessons Learned

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tom Ferguson, University of Minnesota, Duluth; Paul Weber, University of Minnesota, Duluth

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

forecasts. In additionto these results, this research will illustrate the implementation of such class projects, describecommon student strengths and weaknesses relative to energy conversion, and explain theimportance of defining appropriate prerequisites for a diversity of engineering majors.1. IntroductionEnergy touches every aspect of human behavior, spanning a spectrum of use that ranges frompowering the human body to satisfying creative and recreational needs. The complexity of itsvarious uses, forms, and means of transport is complicated further by the level of requiredinvestment, lengthy planning and implementation timelines, and public policies (includingenvironmental protection). Public awareness on energy is continuously shaped by the

Conference Session

Mathematics: Recruitment and Retention

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida; Cynthia Young, University of Central Florida; Cherie Geiger, University of Central Florida; Scott Hagen, University of Central Florida; Chris Parkinson, University of Central Florida; Alison Morrison-Shetlar, University of Central Florida; Tace Crouse, University of Central Florida; Paula Krist, University of Central Florida; Pat Lancey, University of Central Florida; Melissa Dagley-Falls, University of Central Florida; Pat Ramsey, University of Central Florida; Dahlia Forde, University of Central Florida; Anna Koufakou, University of Central Florida

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Mathematics

paper.The organization of this paper is as follows: Section 2 provides a comprehensive literaturereview that supports the strategies that the EXCEL program has chosen to increase retention inSTEM disciplines. Section 3 discusses the management structure of the EXCEL program.Section 4, emphasizes EXCEL’s educational plan, while sections 5 and 6 provide an overview ofthe EXCEL recruiting and retention activities, respectively. Section 7, one of the most criticalsections of this paper provides evidence that the EXCEL recruiting and retention strategies arebearing fruit. Section 8, outlines the efforts to recruit EXCEL students and faculty to participatein the EXCEL sophomore research experiences; this effort is not aggressively assessed, becauseit was

Conference Session

New Trends in CHE Education I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Hanyak, Bucknell University; Timothy Raymond, Bucknell University

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Chemical Engineering

Page 14.1144.4 Department about your strong technical background, you have been promoted to the status of provisional sophomore engineer. As a new sophomore chemical engineer in this program, your team of four members will apply problem-based learning to develop a chemical process and determine its process requirements for material and energy using the process simulator Aspen HYSYS. In addition, your team will manually set up and solve chemical processing problems using fundamental principles of material balances, phase equilibria, and energy balances, in order to learn how HYSYS does its calculations on process units. Also, your team will plan, conduct, and analyze experiments in the company's laboratory. Furthermore, as a

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education and Industry

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norman Egbert, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Eugene DeLoatch, Morgan State University; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina

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Graduate Studies

development simplydoesn’t work that way. Although basic scientific research is frequently needed in large,complex scale technology development and innovation projects, basic research is not theprimary forerunner of technology. Creative engineering projects in industry frequentlydrive the need for directed academic research efforts at universities, when necessary, orwhen anticipated, to gain a better understanding of the natural phenomena involved.As Sanders and Brown have pointed out: “The great discovery of our age is thattechnological innovation need not be haphazard. Industry and government have developeda new concept of planned and systematized innovation, founded on vastly expandedscientific and engineering efforts. These institutions are now

Conference Session

Panel: Effecting Change in Higher Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Priscilla Nelson, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Theresa Hunt, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Cherrice Traver, Union College; Pamela Eibeck, Texas Tech; Zulma Toro-Ramos, Wichita State University; Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University; Mary Roth, Lafayette College; delcie durham, University of South Florida

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Women in Engineering

advancingwomen within engineering and engineering education, maintaining that this will positivelyimpact the field at large, they also recognize that the distracting realities a difficult political andeconomic climate create inhibits the growth of programs dedicated to funding or focusing onsuch advancement.Workshop findings, outcomes, key ideasBesides being asked to participate as a panel discussant and to prepare and share metricsreflecting trends both national and local to their own institutions, workshop attendees were askedto summarize their issues and action items for each panel segment. These included questions onkey ideas taken from the panel and discussion, including prioritizations, actions attendees wouldtake home for work and planning

Conference Session

Project-Based Service Learning

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam Czekanski, United States Military Academy

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Environmental Engineering

thecivil war) shocked many of the students. The presentations and reading assignments conductedprior to the trip appeared to be sufficient, but in retrospect, additional readings should have beenassigned and discussed as a group to offer students a more comprehensive picture of thecomplexity of the issues faced by the indigenous people of Quiché.7 This education would havelaid a better foundation for the context within which we would operate throughout themonitoring process. Regardless of the insufficient preparation, the students adapted well andused their interactions as learning experiences and not as emotionally draining events that couldhave hampered the progress of the project. The group also adapted extremely well to an “ever-changing” plan

Conference Session

Software and Hardware for Educators I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rosario Gil, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Elio Sancristobal, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Sergio Martin, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Antonio Colmenar, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Gabriel Diaz, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Martin Llamas, Universidad de Vigo; Edmundo Tovar, Polytechnic University, Montegancedo; Alfonso Duran, Carlos III University of Madrid; juan peire, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Manuel Castro, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia

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Computers in Education

wishing to study in this new education plan. This mobility ofpeople might foster the economy and create jobs.This new model is voluntary and while it was initially accepted by the countries present inBologna, there have been countries that have signed up later and others who for country-specificreasons have been rejected. Page 14.1040.2Of course the adoption of this new model implies a number of negative aspects, thus eachprospective adopting country must weight the relative costs and benefits to reach a decision.The clear disadvantages common to most countries are: ̇ Economics implications of the change of the educational system of each

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Experiential Learning and Economic Development II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University; Moshe Barak, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Timothy VanEpps, Florida Atlantic University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

their own personality traits, become more motivated to develop a career plan, understandhow to best present themselves, and gain additional experience in making professional presentations withfeedback from fellow students.8. “Meetings Modules”: These modules will provide the participating students with the opportunityto participate in the College of Engineering and Computer Science student professional societies and beacquainted with University administrators as well as representatives from business and industry.Professional speakers will be invited to discuss trends in technologies, professional opportunities, and theworkplace. In addition, student participation will be facilitated through a variety of panel discussionswith representatives of

Conference Session

Exemplary Teacher and Counselor Professional Development

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Macon Beck, Purdue University; Heidi Diefes-Dux, Purdue Universtiy; Teri Reed-Rhoads, Purdue University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

engineering? When is a good time to have aworkshop for counselors? What is the best way to access counselors? These questions wereraised after a Purdue University recruitment team planned and held a workshop for schoolcounselors that no one attended.School counselors provide an opportunity to encourage students, particularly those with diversebackgrounds, to enter engineering. However, according to one source, school counselors spendthe majority of their time scheduling, testing, and shuffling papers; this leaves an estimated 20%of their time to advise students about their future career choices1. Students, on the other hand,have become less certain of their choice of major, and each year consistently more than 40%indicate that they need help with

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Salah Badjou, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Loutfallah Georges Chedid, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

software to control a mechanical apparatus. In addition, the graduates have excellentlaboratory and machine shop skills.A biomedical systems engineering specialization was established in the form of a concentrationwithin a well established electromechanical engineering program. The addition of theconcentration required only limited additional resources. The result is a high-quality programthat is competitive with other biomedical engineering programs offered in Massachusetts. Theprogram has attracted a substantial number of students, and has expanded opportunities for ourgraduates. The Electromechanical Engineering Faculty Committee8, composed of eleven facultymembers drawn from various disciplines, thoroughly researched, planned, and

Conference Session

Knowing Our Students, Faculty, and Profession

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brent Jesiek, Purdue University; Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech; Kacey Beddoes, Virginia Tech; Miguel Hurtado, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods

sense for how specific keywords were being used by authors. Of more than1800 unique keywords, approximately 70% (or 1260) were assigned to one or two categories.About 10% of these keywords were assigned to two categories. The researchers did notcategorize keywords associated with specific engineering disciplines, sub-disciplines, andtechnical topics, but plan to do so in future analysis.Findings and DiscussionNumber of Qualifying Papers by Source and YearAs summarized in Table 1, 815 of 2054 articles (or about 40%) in our data set qualified asresearch papers according to the criteria described above. Papers published in IJEE exhibit aconsistent upward trend, with the percentage of qualifying papers more than doubling from 31%in 2005 to 63%. In

Conference Session

Our Future in Manufacturing: STEM Outreach

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Winston Erevelles, Robert Morris University; Jennifer Parsons, Robert Morris University

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Manufacturing

institutions to launch or expand programs in short order. This infusion of resources enables institutions to build their infrastructure, subsidize its offerings, and even provide additional assistance for truly needy students. However it is incumbent upon the institution to develop and implement a realistic sustainability plan that will enable the continuation of programs beyond funding lifecycles. Networking with like-minded individuals and organizations is highly recommended. STEM outreach programs may be found at virtually every institution and institutions must network with affinity groups to glean/share best practices as part of their continuous improvement efforts. Tracking the responses of student and teacher participants in

Conference Session

Technological Literacy and K-12 Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Sanders, Virginia Tech; Thomas Sherman, Virginia Tech; Hyuksoo Kwon, Virginia Tech; James Pembridge, Virginia Tech

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, plan their work, and monitor their personal progress 4.26 12 Students learn job readiness skills, attitudes, and values 4.24 13 Students understand and use the technological design process 4.16 14 Students learn about job opportunities 4.09 15 Students explore many technologies 4.07 16 Students meet local, state, and national Technology Education standards 4.02 17 Students learn the properties of materials 3.59 18Technology Education Teachers’ Beliefs about

Conference Session

The Ever-Changing Course

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Thompson, University of New Haven; Jean Nocito-Gobel, University of New Haven

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First-Year Programs

amount oftime to the discussion period for each project. In addition, by improving some of the projectmethods using a system engineering approach, instructors have observed reductions in timepreviously spent in frustration by students approaching projects in a non-systematic way.Instructors gain some additional class time to introduce system engineering concepts byconsolidating a fuel cell project from a series of three experiments into a concurrent,multidisciplinary design project where the series of experiments now occur simultaneously inone class period, instead of in series over two class periods. In addition, the course objectivesand planned course outcomes do not change, only individual student outcomes are expected toimprove, as far as

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reid Bailey, University of Virginia; Benjamin Choo, University of Virginia; Heather Rowan-Kenyon, University of Virginia; Amy Swan, University of Virginia; Marie Shoffner, University of Virginia

thestudent newspaper, the Department of Parking and Transportation, the Systems and InformationEngineering Department, and members from the university’s track and field team. Following aretwo examples from the set of projects.Student NewspaperThe student newspaper has several dozen distribution boxes placed in high traffic areas aroundthe university. To improve distribution, the newspaper staff wants to know the time distributionof newspaper demand. This information is critical in planning when to recycle the remainingday’s paper and in determining how many papers are needed for each distribution box.The first-year engineering students were asked to build a system that could record when a paperwas taken from a particular distribution box over the

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computer-Oriented Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phil Rawles, Purdue University; Anthony Smith, Purdue University; Raymond Hansen, Purdue University; Jeffrey Sprankle, Purdue University

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Information Systems

curricula.Baccalaureate curricula were designed to allow students completing their Associate’s degrees ata satellite campus to transfer to the main campus and complete their Baccalaureate Degreecoursework.Known colloquially as the “2+2” system, this approach created a significant critical path concernin the networking degree plan of study. The satellite campuses do not have the faculty expertise,nor the space and funds to teach laboratory-based networking courses. As a result, all corelaboratory-based networking courses had to be delivered in the junior and senior years. Studentstook the majority of their non-core courses in the first two years, then took predominatelylaboratory-based core courses in their last two years.This created several curriculum design

Conference Session

Women in K-12 Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Porche, Wellesley Centers for Women; Corinne McKamey, Wellesley Centers for Women; Peter Wong, Museum of Science

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

engineering education. Onestrategy to increase women’s participation in engineering is to engage girls in science andengineering in K-12. In this paper, we examine high school students’ knowledge ofengineering careers and reports of recruitment as predictors of student aspirations forstudying engineering in college.A group of racially/ethnically, socio-economically diverse students from five urban highschools, with either a science-themed focus or a strong science department, participatedin a longitudinal study of retention and attrition associated with STEM outcomes.Preliminary results from 906 students were included in a series of logistic regressionmodels with plans for college study of engineering as the dependent variable. Knowledgeof

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Physics

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Franck, California Institute of Technology; Ted Yu, California Institute of Technology; Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux, California Institute of Technology; James Maloney, California Institute of Technology; Angela Capece, California Institute of Technology; Luz Rivas, California Institute of Technology

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Engineering Physics & Physics

. Others learned about the multi- disciplinary nature of science and engineering, and how many subjects are related to one another, which was a major goal of the physics curriculum. Students were also asked about the highest degree they planned to pursue, and both surveys showed everyone

Conference Session

Exploring Retention

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Freeman, Northeastern University; Beverly Jaeger, Beverly Jaeger, and Richard Whalen are members of Northeastern University’s; Richard Whalen, Northeastern University

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First-Year Programs

program by name such as “SpaceCamp – Sophomore year”, or “FIRST Robotics”.Now, what about the students who are not sure, the 1’s and 2’s? Since there are so few of these,the data is not very informative; however, their comments provide the most insight. Severalstudents stated that they like the courses and even find engineering interesting, but are not surethey love the field. They state that it will get them a good job, with high pay, or that they cantransfer or do other careers with an engineering background. One student stated being forced intoit by parents; another plans to change majors immediately. Several positive responses say theylike what they know so far, hope to find it interesting, but also realize that there are a lot of fieldsto go

Conference Session

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

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Anita Grierson, Arizona State University

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Two Year College Division

students to help build their pre-engineering programCochise Community College (Cochise), Sierra Vista, AZ (non-metropolitan communitycollege)Liaison – Richard “Bubba” HallThis project is in perfect timing with the recent progress made at Cochise College in developingan engineering program. Cochise has developed the foundations for its Running Start Academy. Page 14.335.7Essentially, they created a pipeline opportunity for local high school juniors to start down a pathto acquiring an associate’s degree in engineering. The plan is for these students to be able totake classes both semesters of the junior and senior years of high school and to be able

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

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New Engineering Educators

, left more time for student questions andinteractions; and limited course preparation time, when teaching courses for a second time ormore, to less than 1.5 hours of preparation for each hour of class.Based on this and additional research, the SUCCEED Coalition developed a model programdesigned to help new faculty in all aspects of their career, including effective teaching.1 Ateaching mentorship is part of their program. Ideally, the mentor and the mentee would co-teacha course with the mentor taking the lead on the course at first. The mentor and mentee meetbetween class periods to plan and to discuss the teaching in the last class. The mentee slowlytakes on the responsibilities of planning and teaching and making up and grading

Conference Session

Beneficial Case Studies in AEC Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Mitchell, Drexel University

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Architectural

?By the end of this project I will have visited 100% of the accredited architectural engineeringprograms in the United States (17 as of 1/2008 when visit plans were fixed). The surveytherefore is comprehensive in its population, although the sampling of that population isvoluntary rather than the ideal of a random selection. Because the response rate is high there is areasonable chance that this is close to a representative sample.When visiting the schools the faculty I interviewed were chosen by the department or programhead rather than me. The request to the visit coordinator was that they include those architecturalengineering faculty responsible for architectural engineering design, and also faculty offeringallied courses such as

Conference Session

Enhancing Recruitment and Retention in Engineering Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Winn, West Virginia University; Laura Winn, Waynesburg Central High School; Reagan Curtis, West Virginia University; Robin Hensel, West Virginia University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, higher salaries, and a higher standard of living for localresidents, and will reduce family and economic disparities.In pursuit of this goal for West Virginia residents, West Virginia University's (WVU) CollegeEngineering and Mineral Resources, along with the Colleges of Human Resources andEducation, and Arts and Sciences, embarked on a multi-intervention plan to attract high schoolstudents to STEM careers, and put more STEM graduates into the STEM career pipeline, with afocus on women and underrepresented minorities. The primary vehicle for this project is a STEPgrant through the National Science Foundation (NSF) which supports exactly this kind ofinitiative.One important part of WVU's Engineers of Tomorrow (EoT) project is

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Recruiting, Retention, Enrichment

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Environmental Engineering

diversity of these styles had been shown to optimize team performance. However, inboth 2007 and 2008 a full discussion of preferences for specific work tasks versus personalitystyle was not held. (This is a planned addition in the 2009 class). Many of the students in the Page 14.330.62008 class indicated that they had completed a similar personality inventory in their first yearprojects course. The projects course is a 3-credit class where students work on a single teamthroughout the entire semester. The projects course spends a significant amount of timediscussing effective teaming, personality types, etc.The teams for the first 2008 team project

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education: Developments, Implementations

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aurenice Oliveira, Michigan Technological University; Ivan Lima, North Dakota State University

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International

their pursuit of internships or participation in cooperative programs through cooperation with the regional industry, including multi-national and national companies, leading to sustainability of the program; Disseminate the knowledge acquired during the exchange to facilitate the establishment of other U.S. - Brazil University consortia of higher education.4. Project Planned PhasesThe project has several phases in its development, execution and long-term support. Thepreparation phase occurred in the first year of the project, Oct.2007- Sept. 2008. The executionphase is the phase the actual exchanges occur, Oct.2008-Sep.2011.a. Preparation phase:The goals of the preparation phase that started in October of 2007 and it is

Collection

2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ali Daneshmandnia

all time. Following are summary of few different measures that I think willimpact how we can recover effectively with no loss of data if a human error or equipment failurecaused one or more server in our LAN to malfunction or to shut down: - A through plan which identifies all mission critical application servers and the bulk of information that are updated constantly. The plan should be developed in a way that it addresses servers based on the balk of data and frequency of the server update. Some servers such as data base are constantly being updated while other servers such as DHCP may not get updated constantly. - Multiple solutions should be implemented such as local and remote

Collection

2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Paul Blowers

when students combine advice from several different sourcesabout curricular issues, for instance, and try to create a plan of action that is inherently againstthe intentions of the faculty. An example may be replacing a core course with one from anotherdepartment while also changing out another course that then leaves the student deficient in someof the content normally required to be mastered.Another problem that longitudinal advising avoids involves hearsay or partial information. It isnot unusual for students to partially remember some advising details from previous encounterswith faculty and then misuse that partial information. Oftentimes, too, students turn to theirpeers for information and get poor advice on important decisions

Collection

2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Pradip Peter Dey; Thomas M. Gatton; Mohammad N. Amin; Mudasser F. Wyne; Gordon W. Romney; Alireza Farahani; Arun Datta; Hassan Badkoobehi; Ralph Belcher; Ogun Tigli; Albert P. Cruz

. As a result they either tune out or never develop a deepunderstating of the materials and simply imitate mechanical operations and the essential analysisand arguments necessary to solve the problem. One common criticism of the PBL method is thatstudents may not recognize what might be important for them to learn, so the facilitator must beextra careful to assess each student’s prior knowledge. Another criticism is that instructorscannot cover as much material as the traditional method. Furthermore, the method is hard toimplement and there are different definition and interpretation of the strategy and the manner ofits implementation, within instruction, appears to be ad hoc. PBL requires a lot of planning andextensive work by the instructor