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Practice/Industry Partnership

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Katherine Liapi

to be studied in conjunction with structuralconfiguration, mechanical behavior, and technological and architectural expression and Page 8.741.4functionality. Deployable structures in this regard provide an opportunity to integrateinterdisciplinary approach to architectural engineering class projects or assignments. The introduction of a project that focuses on the design of a deployable structure in thecontext of the Advanced CAD Systems course, taught at the senior level, exposes studentsto the need for a holistic approach in the design of certain types of structures. Asmentioned earlier, concepts on architectural morphology, mechanism design

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Waddah Akili

ofequipping students, entering engineering, with the necessary tools to enable them to meet thechallenges ahead. In this paper, a proposed “prep-program” intended to bridge the gap, isoutlined and discussed.IntroductionEngineering education in the Arab Gulf States (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, United ArabEmirates, Qatar, and Oman) faces many challenges today. Changes in the externalenvironment (e.g. reduced funding, increased costs, demands by industry for well-seasonedgraduates, and rapid advances in technology) coupled with the quest for educational relevance,are pressuring colleges of engineering in the Region (the Arab Gulf States) to “rethink”engineering education and to undertake steps towards reforming the systems of education.There are

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jucain Butler

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Education5. Wright, R. A., B. E. Smith and C. Kravaris (1998) "Online Identification and NonlinearControl of pH Processes", Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research 37, 2446-2461.6. Brockman, J. B. (1996) “Evaluation of student design processes,” in Technology-Based Re-Engineering Engineering Education , Proceedings of Frontiers in Education FIE'96 26th AnnualConference, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, pp. 189-93.7. Johnson, E. W. and J. B. Brockman, (1998) “Measurement and analysis of sequential designprocesses,” ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 1-20.JAY B. BROCKMANAssociate Professor, Department of

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Cecelia Wigal

Society for Engineering Education”person has a feeling that some elements of a situation or process are problematic and henceworth exploring. The methodology moves from finding out about the situation to taking actionwithin it, and does so not by relying on experience but by doing some careful, formallyorganized systems thinking about the problem situation.10Socio-technical systems theory is used to define the behavior of organizations. Specifically, thistheory defines organizations as pursuing a primary task that can best be realized if their social,technological, and economic dimensions are jointly optimized.11 An application of this approachis DeGreene’s examination of how the human, behavioral and social subsystems affect and areaffected by

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Virtual & Distance Experiments

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jucain Butler; Jay Brockman

for Advanced ComputingResearch at the California Institute of Technology. His research interests includecomputer architecture, VLSI systems, and multidisciplinary design and optimization. Dr.Brockman was one of the developers of the college-wide Introduction to EngineeringSystems course sequence at Notre Dame, and served as course director 1999-2002. Page 8.1296.12Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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Ronald DeMara; Avelino Gonzalez; Annie Wu; Jose Castro; Ingrid Russell; Mansooreh Mollaghasemi; Marcella Kysilka; Erol Gelenbe; Michael Georgiopoulos

, civil engineering, and mechanical engineering. Currently, many undergraduate andfirst-year graduate students in the aforementioned fields do not have exposure to recent researchtrends in Machine Learning. This paper reports on a project in progress, funded by the NationalScience Foundation under the program Combined Research and Curriculum Development(CRCD), whose goal is to remedy this shortcoming. The project involves the development of amodel for the integration of Machine Learning into the undergraduate curriculum of thoseengineering and science disciplines mentioned above. The goal is increased exposure toMachine Learning technology for a wider range of students in science and engineering than iscurrently available. Our approach of

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Simulation Courses & BME Laboratories

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Ross Shonat

engage inbiomedical research involving animals, appreciate the important role of animal experimentationand, most importantly, empowered with the knowledge to make informed ethical decisionsregarding the use of animals in biomedical research.References1. Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs (2002-2003 Accreditation Cycle), Engineering Accreditation Committee, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc., Baltimore, MD, USA. URL: http://www.abet.org.2. Course URLs: http://www.wpi.edu/+bme/Course/BE3110 or through http://my.wpi.edu.3. Sherwood, L. (2001), Human Physiology: From Cells to Systems, 4th edition, Brooks/Cole, Pacific Grove, CA, USA.4. Blackboard Learning System and Blackboard Community Portal

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Rocco Ciccolini; Robert Barat

Session 2793 LASER DIAGNOSTIC ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX FLOW PATTERNS A New Chemical Engineering Experiment Using Applied Optics Rocco Ciccolini and Robert Barat Chemical Engineering Department New Jersey Institute of Technology University Heights Newark, NJ 07102ABSTRACTA simple, yet effective, undergraduate experiment has been developed in collaboration between

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Energy Project and Laboratory Ideas

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2003 Annual Conference

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Darrell Massie

Session 3233 Evaluating Energy Services Performance Contracts With Engineering Students – Learning From Real Projects Darrell D. Massie United States Military AcademyAbstract Most campus heating and cooling plants can provide a wealth of real life opportunities toeducators who teach energy topics. This can be accomplished by evaluating existing heating andcooling systems or by analyzing potential plant upgrade projects. A common method of obtaining funding to upgrade new equipment on campuses and otherinstitutions is through Energy Service Companies

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Teaching Design Through Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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James Bowen

. Bowen is an Assistant Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at UNC Charlotte. He received hisPh.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Bowen teaches MATLAB programming,hydraulics, aquatic chemistry, and water quality modeling. His research interests include water quality and eutro-phication modeling, model uncertainty analysis, and the microscale fluid motions around phytoplankton cells. Page 8.1236.10 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education

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Design for Community

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Susan Lord

, November 2002.(5) Engineering Criteria 2000, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), see http://www.abet.org(6) Jakubowski, G. (2002). Is there a role for ASEE in K-12 education? ASEE Prism, 11(5): 41.LEONARD A. PERRYLeonard A. Perry is an Assistant Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of San Diego. Heis the Coordinator/Advisor for the Walk On Water competition for the last two years. He earned his Ph.D. inIndustrial Engineering at Arizona State University, received his M.S. in Industrial Engineering from ClemsonUniversity and his B.S. from Ohio University also in Industrial & Systems Engineering. His research interests are inthe area of process improvement especially in the area of applied

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2003 Annual Conference

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Philip Parker

graduates from UWP. This paperintroduces the survey we created and analyzes and assesses the results.2 Creation of the SurveyThe primary intent of the survey was to determine the fraction of women graduates fromthe College of Engineering, Mathematics, and Science (EMS) at UWP who were retainedin the SMET (Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology) workplace. A varietyof questions using a variety of formats were used to help determine which factorsimpacted the decision of women to be retained in the SMET workplace.We investigated two groups of factors which might impact a woman’s decision to remainin a SMET workplace. The first group of factors dealt with determining the reasons thatsurvey respondents pursued a SMET degree in the first place

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Potpourri Design

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Barry Lineberger; Larry Stikeleather

Advanced Engineering Study. 5. MacGregor, J.F. 1990. A Different View of the Funnel Experiment, Journal of Quality Technology, Vol. 22, 255-259. 6. Gunter, Bert. 1993. Through a Funnel Slowly with Ball Bearing and Insight to Teach Experimental Design. American Statistician, Vol.47, Issue 4, 265-269. 7. Anderson, Mark J. and Patrick J. Whitcomb. 2000. DOE Simplified: Practical Tools for Effective Experimentation. Productivity, Inc., Portland, Oregon.BiographyLarry F. Stikeleather has been professor of Biological & Agricultural Engineering at North Carolina StateUniversity since 1985. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Biological & Agricultural Engineering in 1968 and worked18 years in industrial research

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Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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Byron Newberry; James Farison

Directory of Engineering Colleges – Profiles, http://www.asee.org/publications/colleges/default.cfm3. usnews.com Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs, http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/rankengineering.htm4. ASEE Profiles of Engineering and Engineering Technology Colleges , 2000 Edition, http://www.asee.org/colleges/part1.PDFBiographical InformationJIM FARISONJim Farison joined Baylor University in August 1998 as Prof. and chair of Engineering, after serving in ElectricalEngineering (64-96) and Bioengineering (96-98) at the U. of Toledo, including a period as Dean of Engineering(70-80). He holds BSEE, U. Toledo, MSEE and PhD, Stanford U., P.E. (Ohio, Texas), sr. member IEEE, ASEEcampus representative and

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Assessment in BME Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Peter Mente; Marian McCord; Joni Spurlin; H. Troy Nagle; Susan Blanchard

Session 2609 Outcomes Based Curriculum Development in a New and Emerging Biomedical Engineering Program Marian G. McCord, Susan M. Blanchard, Peter L. Mente, H. Troy Nagle, Joni E. Spurlin North Carolina State UniversityI. IntroductionThe Biomedical Engineering program at North Carolina State University has been emergingsince the early 1990s, when it began as a graduate minor. In 1994, the Department of Biologicaland Agricultural Engineering (BAE) began offering the B.S. in Biological Engineering (BE) andincluded a concentration

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Curricular Change Issues

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Elizabeth Godfrey

Session 2630 A Theoretical Model of the Engineering Education Culture: A Tool for Change Elizabeth Godfrey The University of AucklandIntroductionThe call for “a culture change in engineering education, ultimately to extend throughout theprofession” in the Australian Review of Engineering Education: Changing the Culture1 threw aspotlight not only on the need for change but the need for change in the culture. Inrecommending a “more outward looking culture attuned to the real concerns of communities”,better communication skills, and

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Multimedia Engineering Education,Distance, Service, & Internet-Based Approaches

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2003 Annual Conference

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Hesham Shaalan

Session 3660 Field trips: a teaching tool in an introductory course on Process Industry Hesham Shaalan, Ph.D. Engineering Technology Program Texas A&M University-Corpus ChristiAbstractThe Engineering Technology program at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi offers two B.S.degrees in Control Systems Engineering Technology and Mechanical Engineering Technology.Students in both degree programs are required to take an Introduction to Process Industry course.The main goal of this introductory course is to introduce students to the operations

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Multimedia Engineering Education,Distance, Service, & Internet-Based Approaches

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Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationas a model by other schools intending to offer a similar program.IntroductionAn advanced manufacturing program and laboratories can help the third world countries to beable to compete in the international market. This market is highly competitive especially for thecountries without advanced technology. It may be very difficult for these countries to sell theirproduct in the international market because they may not have mass production and as a resulttheir prices are not competitive. Even if their prices can be lower because of cheaper labor, theirproduct may not be able to compete with other products in the market because they may notfollow

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Multimedia Engineering Education,Distance, Service, & Internet-Based Approaches

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Shan Barkataki; Bolton Tom

://acad.stedwards.edu/~last/virtual_team_results.htm 14. Mead, R. N., (1996) “Industry-University Partnerships: The Wave of the Future?” Proceedings of the IEEE 1996 Australian Software Engineering Conference, Melbourne, Australia.15. Walker, W. H., Coleman S., Gaberell, M., (1999) “Incorporation of Project-Based Learning in an Environmental Engineering Course at The Ohio State University”, Proceedings of the 1999 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Charlotte, NC 16. Weinstein J., Gilchrist IV G., Hebsch, K., Stevens, J., (2002) “Providing a Real World Experience in the Teaching of Computer Technology”, Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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Multimedia Engineering Education,Distance, Service, & Internet-Based Approaches

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Alan Adams; Nick Safai

DEVELOPMENT OF NEW CRASHWORTHINESS EVALUATION STRATEGY FOR ADVANCED GENERAL AVIATION AND TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT SEATS A. ADAMS, H. M. LANKARANI National Institute for Aviation Research Wichita State University Wichita, KS 67260-0093, U.S.A. Dr. Nick M. SAFAI Engineering Department Chair Salt Lake Community College SLC, UT 84123, U.S.A.Aircraft seats have traditionally been designed to comply with static strength requirements.Aircraft seat dynamic

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Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

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CRISTINO CARBONELL; FE TABAMO; Clarita Guevara

Session Number: 1475 The ESTEeM Project: Collaborative Learning and Teaching of Engineering Mathematics at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Santo Tomas, Manila Cristino A. Carbonell, Clarita R. Guevara, Fe P. Tabamo Faculty of Engineering, University of Santo TomasI IntroductionInformation and Communications Technology (ICT) has largely changed the learningenvironment in today’s world. There are now several options presented in the learningenvironment on how easily and more excitingly knowledge can be acquired. Learninginstitutions worldwide have recognized the

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Mihalasky; Gina Boesch; Keith Sheppard

Session 2793 The Synergistic Roles of a Supportive Institutional Environment, Curriculum Development and a Student-friendly Business Incubator in Developing Engineering Students with an Entrepreneurial Orientation Keith Sheppard*, Gina Boesch** and John Mihalasky* *Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering ** Stevens Technology Ventures Incubator Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, New Jersey, 07030AbstractStevens Institute of Technology has been creating

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Benjamin Sill; Elizabeth Stephan; Matthew Ohland

Exercise Healthy Skepticism,” Chronicle of Higher Education, June 19, 1998.12 Meade, J., “Engineering Coalitions Find Strength in Unity,” ASEE Prism, 24 ff., September, 1991.13 Smith, Karl, “Active Learning: Cooperation in the University Classroom,” Faculty Forum, Clemson University,Clemson, SC, 1997.14 Tribus, M., “Education for Innovation,” Engineering Education, p. 421 ff., February, 1971.15 Travers, R.M., Essentials of Learning: The New Cognitive Learning for Students of Education, 5th Edition. NewYork: MacMillan, 1982.16 Jacobs, G., “Hypermedia and Discovery-Based Learning: A Historical Perspective,” British Journal ofEducational Technology 23(2), 113-121, 1992.17 Goforth, D., “Learner Control = Decision Making + Information: a

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Value Added Collection Management

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2003 Annual Conference

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Virginia Baldwin

subject areas Subject areas with the highest total number of titles selected were: TA – General Engineering … 64 title selections QC – Physics 38 title selections. Of these, 18came from departments other than Physics. TK – Electrical Engineering 18 title selections HD – Economic History 14 title selections. Thirteen ofthese came from "Management Departments". T – General Technology 11 title selections. From Table 3, a total of 38 subject areas are represented. Three departments vie forthe highest number of disciplines here as well, this

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Mathematics in the Transition

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William Robinson; Demetris Geddis; Adam Austin; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

students and teachersbenefited from using laboratory activities to demonstrate specific principles such as linearity andtrigonometric functions.1. IntroductionAs our society becomes increasingly technology oriented, we depend ever more upon a solideducational foundation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Dr.Robert Moses, Director of the Algebra Project, argues that proficiency in mathematics isrequired as a functional member of society: “In the Age of Computers, Algebra is a passport forpassage into virtually every avenue of the job market and every street of schooling.”[1]Trigonometric functions are also used throughout science and engineering. Unfortunately,research presented by Hsiu-Zu Ho describes a “math anxiety

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Assessment in BME Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Marian G. McCord; Susan Blanchard

signals were measured and processed; (9) Other technological innovations that affectedthis specialized area; and (10) Improvements that are needed in the future. Students writing abouta body system were asked to describe much of the same material in addition to the anatomy,physiology, function, and medical relevance of their topic.These term projects are being used to assess the following objectives and outcomes (Figure 1) forwhat graduates of the B.S. in Biomedical Engineering should be able to do, as well as certainABET Criteria (given in parentheses): • Objective 1, Outcome b: Identify contemporary clinical issues and be able to discuss potential biomedical engineering solutions. (3a, 3e, 3j, 3k, 8) • Objective 2, Outcome

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What Makes Them Continue?

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Daniel Knight; Jacquelyn Sullivan; Lawrence Carlson

included tailoring the curricula to attract a more diverse group of students,integrating the curricula to present a unified rather than compartmentalized view of engineeringscience and practice, and broadening the curricula to include an emphasis on the additionalprofessional skills needed to practice engineering.4-5 One area in which these changes have beenimplemented is in the introduction of entry-level engineering courses. A wide variety of modelsexist, ranging from a one-credit, voluntary introduction to engineering course at the University ofFlorida6 to fully integrated first-year curricula such as the 12-credit IFYCSEM program at theRose-Hulman Institute of Technology.6First-Year Engineering Projects CourseCU’s College of Engineering and

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Retention of Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

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Nadine Macauley; Edward Golovatch; Annita Alting; Ardie Walser

thus far by the School of Engineering at CCNY .II. ABET Preparation To receive accreditation, The Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology(ABET) has mandated that each engineering school in the United States develop a plan tosatisfy a criterion consisting of eleven (11) student learning outcomes and assessment.The SOE of CCNY’s plan in preparing for ABET consists of several main components(as well as, additional parts depending on the program) which are being implemented in acyclical process for continual program improvement. These components include: 1. Graduating Senior Surveys, in which individual students in the senior year (of the respective engineering programs under consideration) are

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Mathematics in the Transition

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2003 Annual Conference

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Kyria Alfaro; Michael Mooney

CurriculaVolcano Engineering is a 6-8 day curricular unit composed of seven obstacles described inTable 1. In Volcano Engineering, 8th grade students assemble into engineering teams anddesign a rover to obtain information from inside a volcano. Student teams are launchedinto the curricula by reading the following scenario: Several engineers at Volcano Engineering Inc. have been injured in recent years attempting to investigate volcanoes. They have been attempting to develop technologies that can predict the exact time of eruption and the severity of eruption so that nearby towns can plan accordingly. You are now given the responsibility of designing an automated rover to go into the volcano and do the work of a human

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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David Malicky

spatial tasks (d=0.30).At Georgia Southern university, Hughes11 examined course confidence for science, mathematics,and technology majors. While not specifically surveying engineers, this study is importantbecause it uniquely examines course confidence as a function of the gender of both student andinstructor. With instructors of either gender, women had significantly less course confidence thanmen despite similar GPAs (confidence differences of 0.2—0.5 on a 5 point scale). For femalestudents only, course confidence was 1. Negatively correlated to a male instructor showing favoritism to either male or female students (p<0.05, correlation coefficients -0.16 to -0.21). 2. Positively correlated to respect from male peers, in a class