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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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John R. Chandler; A. Dean Fontenot

Page 10.441.1instructional technology courses that do not necessarily include concepts and skills that Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005 American Society for Engineering Educationdefine engineering. Increasing the number of students entering engineering colleges andinsuring that those students are successful in engineering disciplines depends, in manyways, on the role that higher education plays in providing engineering resources to K-12teachers.The Association of American Colleges and Universities’ National Panel Report, GreaterExpectations: A New Vision for Learning as a Nation Goes to College, notes that “Mostcolleges do not share with

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Teaching Design

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Tori Bailey; Jonathan Gabrio; David Cannon; Helen L. Chen; George Toye; Larry Leifer

Using Wikis and Weblogs to Support Reflective Learning in an Introductory Engineering Design Course Helen L. Chen1, David Cannon2, Jonathan Gabrio, Larry Leifer2, George Toye2, and Tori Bailey2 Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning1/Center for Design Research2 Stanford University, USAAbstract An observation and a pedagogical challenge often found in project-based design coursesis that students see what they have produced but they do not see what they have learned. Thispaper presents preliminary findings from an NSF-sponsored research project which experimentswith the use of weblogs and wiki environments, two

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Early College Retention Programs

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Brett Hamlin; Gretchen Hein

Session 2192 Does Gender Affect Student Perception of Engineering Courses in a Common First Year Program? Gretchen L. Hein, Brett H. Hamlin Department of Engineering Fundamentals Michigan Technological University Houghton, MIAbstractIn the fall of 2000, Michigan Technological University started a common first year program forall engineering students. In conjunction with the student course evaluations, the studentsanswered ten additional questions. These questions were used to

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ME Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Hakan Gurocak

16IV.1.b. Upper division ME curriculumThe upper division faculty completed extensive literature search to complete abenchmarking study to revise the curriculum. In light of this study, the rapidly emergingnew technologies, national [1 - 4] and global trends, input from regional industry anddesire to educate future engineers who are ready for the 21st century technologies, thefaculty recently finalized significant revisions to the mechanical engineering upperdivision curriculum. The program emphasizes fundamentals and provides flexibility inselecting a course of study through four technical electives. Students can either take anyfour elective courses, provided they meet the prerequisites, or they can choose to take aset of three related

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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Zdravko Markov; Todd Neller; Ingrid Russell

are listed below: • Enhance the student learning experience in the AI course by implementing a unifying theme of machine learning to tie together the diverse topics in the AI course. • Increase student interest and motivation to learn AI by providing a framework for the presentation of the major AI topics that emphasizes the strong connection between AI and computer science. • Highlight the bridge that machine learning provides between AI technology and modern software engineering. • Introduce students to an increasingly important research area, thus motivating them to pursue more advanced courses in machine learning and to pursue undergraduate research projects in this area.These objectives are accomplished through the

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Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

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Frederick Berry; Patricia Carlson

Calibrated Peer Review: A Tool for Assessing the Process as Well as the Product in Learning Outcomes Patricia A. Carlson† and Frederick C. Berry†† † Humanities and Social Science Department †† Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Terre Haute, IndianaAbstract: For about two decades now, engineering education has been in the process of re-inventing itself. ABET’s revised requirements, changing realities of the workplace, and thegrowing awareness of

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Assessment Issues in 1st-Yr Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mark Urban-Lurain; Taner Eskil; Marilyn Amey; Timothy Hinds; Jon Sticklen

Engineering and will soon complete his Ph.D. research in thearea of internet agent support for electronic commerce. Mr. Eskil has been instrumental in developments in theCollege of Engineering freshman gateway course in computational tools.An academic specialist in the MSU Mechanical Engineering Department, Timothy Hinds teaches undergraduatecourses in machine design and statics as well as advises senior engineering student teams working onindustrially sponsored capstone design projects. He also teaches a senior-level undergraduate internationaldesign project course and has taught graduate-level courses in innovation and technology management.Mark Urban-Lurain is Director of Instructional Technology Research and Development in the Division ofScience

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Terence Weigel

; Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering Education8. Weigel, T. A. (2004), “On-line Grading in Structural Engineering”, Proceedings of the ASEE Southeast SectionConference 2004, Auburn, Alabama.9. Weigel, T. A. (2005), “Assessing Proficiency in Engineering Education - Using 21st Century Technology”, inpreparation.TERENCE A. WEIGEL - Terry Weigel holds a PhD from the University of Kentucky and has taught course relatedto structural engineering and computer applications at the University of Louisville for 27 years. In addition to onlinegrading, his research interests include behavior and design of masonry structures, particularly as related to seismicloading. He is a member of ASEE, ASCE, ACI, EERI, SSA

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Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tom Thomas; Mohammad Alam

success ofgraduates from the USA ECE department is a successful career in engineering. All constituents Page 10.1145.9benefit from this outcome. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Bibliography1. Engineering Accreditation Commission, Criteria for accrediting engineering programs. AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology, Inc. Baltimore, MD, November 2000.http://www.abet.org/images/Criteria/eac_criteria_b.pdf2. M.R. Parker, W.A. Stapleton, T.G. Thomas, “Post-assessment evaluation of

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Developments in Chem Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Joseph Holles

approach of our department to addressthis problem was to require all incoming graduate students to give a formal department widepresentation during their first year. Unfortunately, this approach failed in short order since noone was responsible for ensuring that all students were indeed meeting this requirement. Assuch, another method was developed to ensure that our students were not only gainingexperience in preparing and delivering professional presentations, but they were also beingeducated on how to prepare and deliver these presentations. From this original focus onpresentation, the course has evolved to include other topics of interest to graduate students.Approach In the Department of Chemical Engineering at Michigan Technological

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tapas Das; Project Fellows; Louis Martin-Vega; Liz Hunnicutt; Grisslle Centeno; Geoffery Okogbaa; Cheriese Edwards; Ashok Kumar; Rajesh Ganesan

synergistic activities that willallow USF to become a nationally recognized leader in K-12 engineering education. The diversefaculty in engineering, education, information technology that have come together for thisproject and are sincerely committed to providing graduate Fellows and elementary teachers withexciting opportunities that will ultimately serve significant numbers of K-5 students, many ofwhom are from ethnic minority and low-income backgrounds.Ongoing Project Activities: The STARS project, after its inception in August 2002, hasachieved many milestones in building the University – School partnership. Some of the projecthighlights are presented in this section.The project initially started with four graduate Fellows and has now expanded to

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Engineers in Toyland - Come and Play

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Robert Bertini; Steven Hansen

problem solving strategies and disciplinary knowledge byplacing students in active roles as researchers and problem solvers confronted with ill-structuredproblems mirroring real-world situations.14 PORTAL allows projects and assignments to bestructured so students work cooperatively and collaboratively in small heterogeneous, flexiblegroups promoting team skills, peer teaching and interpersonal communication.15,16These enhancements will increase students’ exposure to a variety of teaching styles, improveintegration with the systems engineering courses, incorporate information technology anddevelop examples and projects using real transportation data. To complement collaborativework, some PORTAL-centered project will allow students to work

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Carlotta Berry

The Influence of Demographics on an Introductory Circuits Course Carlotta A. Berry Tennessee State UniversityAbstract This paper evaluates the performance of engineering students in an introductory circuitscourse during the period of Fall 2000 through Spring 2003 at Tennessee State University (TSU).TSU is a historically black university in Nashville, TN with an approximate enrollment of 9000graduate and undergraduate students with 500 full- and part-time faculty. The College ofEngineering, Technology, and Computer Science has an approximate enrollment of 1000students and 8 majors. This paper will

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Curriculum: Ideas/Concepts in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Swami Karunamoorthy

, D.E., “Theory and Design for Mechanical Measurements,” John Wiley and Sons, 2000. 3. Vardeman, S.B., Jobe, J.M., “Basic Engineering Data Collection and Analysis,” Duxbury, 2001. 4. Mason, R.L., Gunst, R.F., Hess, J.L., “Statistical Design and Analysis of Experiments,” John Wiley and Sons, 2003. 5. Metcalfe, A.V., “Statistics in Engineering – A Practical Approach,” Chapman and Hall, 1994. 6. Lipson, C., Sheth, N., “Statistical Design and Analysis of Engineering Experiments,” McGraw Hill, 1973.Biographical InformationDR. SWAMI KARUNAMOORTHYDr. Swami Karunamoorthy is the professor of Aerospace and Mechanical engineering at Parks College ofEngineering, Aviation, and Technology, Saint Louis University

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Assessment Issues in 1st-Yr Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Edward Evans; Sandra Spickard Prettyman; Helen Qammar

improve the economics and safety of future polyol processes. We plan to build a Page 10.21.8conventional polyols process in Ohio along the Ohio River at our Portsmouth facility to meet “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”demand in the Ohio Valley. Your team is to present a preliminary design using conventionalpolyols processing technology. We may need to license from BASF in particular their Pluracolproduct line technology. Along with creating a preliminary design, your team is to identify

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Integrating H&SS in Engineering III

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Elisabeth Armstrong; Donna Riley

processes as a means to display artifacts in theexhibit. The forensic floor was chosen to emphasize the revelation of what is normally hidden inprocesses and products – particularly laborers, their histories and their lives. Unlike ananthropological project, the artists sought neither to remain neutral nor to have everything hangtogether in a coherent manner. At the same time, the artists did not sensationalize their subject inan effort to make it as accessible as possible to a broad range of people. The project was a perfect meeting ground for all three groups, merging technology,culture, gender, activism, engineering, and art in multiple ways. The museum site itself oncehoused the Sprague Electric capacitor factory, but globalization

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Rodney Handy; Kevin Schmaltz; Robert Choate

. ASHRAE. 1992. ASHRAE cooling and heating load calculation manual, 2nd Ed. Atlanta: American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers, Inc.ROBERT CHOATERobert Choate teaches thermo-fluid and professional component courses in Mechanical Engineering, including theSophomore Design, Junior Design, the Senior ME Lab I and the ME Senior Project Design course sequence. Priorto teaching at WKU, he was a principal engineer for CMAC Design Corporation, designing telecommunication, datacommunication and information technology equipment.KEVIN SCHMALTZKevin Schmaltz teaches thermo-fluid and professional component courses in Mechanical Engineering, including theFreshman Experience course, Sophomore Design, Junior Design and the

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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Sheldon Jeter

presented.REFERENCESJeter, S. M., 2002, “Spreadsheet Default.xls for Setting a Convenient Default Graph”, the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, available on line at .Jeter, S. M., 2003, “Evaluating the Uncertainty of Polynomial Regression Models Using Excel”, Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Conference and Exposition, Knoxville, TN, June 2003.Jeter, S. M., 2004, “Spreadsheet Regress_04.xls Containing the User Form Poly_Regress.frm for Regression Analysis of Polynomial Models”, the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, available on line at .Taylor, B. N. and P. J. Mohr, 1999, “The NIST Reference on

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New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

A Digital Design Course Sequence for the Computer Engineering Area of Specialization in the Computer Science Department Afsaneh Minaie Reza Sanati-Mehrizy Associate Professor Associate Professor minaieaf@uvsc.edu sanatire@uvsc.edu Engineering Department Computing & Networking Sciences Department Utah Valley State CollegeAbstract:In our Computing and Networking Sciences (CNS) Department at Utah Valley State College(UVSC), there are four areas of specialization. The four areas of

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tristan Utschig

course within the pre-engineering program is discussed, the philosophybehind the design of the course in terms of how its computer application emphasis benefitsunderprepared students is discussed, and results in terms of student enjoyment and persistence inengineering are discussed.BackgroundThe pre-engineering program at Lewis-Clark State College began in 2001 through the Idahogovernor’s technology initiative. This program is designed to be a transfer program feeding intoother, four-year degree granting, state engineering programs. As such, 3/2 articulationagreements have been set up with Boise State University and Idaho State University, and similarefforts are under way with the University of Idaho. Because the pre-engineering program must

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Engineering Education Research and Assessment III

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2005 Annual Conference

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Wanda Dann; Stephen Cooper; Ashlyn Hutchinson; Barbara Moskal

Page 10.639.1a much needed programming component into computer literacy classes.3 The JABRWOC “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”research team seeks to reach these goals by developing and testing curricular materials thatintroduce programming to community college students using a unique, multimedia based objectoriented programming environment called Alice. Alice was developed by Dr. Randy Pausch,Carnegie Mellon Institute of Technology and is freely available on-line.4 Drs. Cooper and Dannhave developed a curriculum to accompany the Alice software, henceforth known as the Alicecurriculum

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Curriculum: Ideas/Concepts in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Randy Isaacson; Peter Goodmann

MentalMeasurement4. Hacker, D., Bol, L., Horgan, D., & Rakow, E. (2000). Test prediction and performance in a classroom context.Journal of Educational Psychology, 92(4), 160-170.5. Isaacson, R., & Fujita, F. (2001, April). The effects of goals,expectations, and self-efficacy on self-regulation and performance in college students. Presented at the Annualconference of the American Educational Research Association, Seattle, WashingtonAuthorsPETER E. GOODMANN, P.E. is an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology atIPFW. He earned his BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and his MSdegree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University. He has worked for 25 years in industry and

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Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Nashwan Younis

-academic setting, in the student forums, provides opportunities to change. The issue ofwhat students can do with what they have learned, which is relevant to the academic programs, isaccomplished in the cooperative education experience. The FE exam results give the opportunityto examine the curriculum. Using these non-traditional assessment tools enhances thecurriculum to make the student better equipped for the work place.IntroductionCurrently, many engineering professional societies are in the process of developing the body ofknowledge for their prospective professions. In 2001, the Accreditation Board for Engineeringand Technology (ABET) Engineering Criteria was implemented in which emphasis was onoutcomes rather than process. The criteria

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Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

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2005 Annual Conference

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Philip Parker; Jason Thrun

. A syllabus for the experimental section is provided in the appendix.As designed, this project has both global and local goals. The global goals are far reaching andaim at promoting engineering as a profession. The local goals are more immediate and focus onthe affect of the project on the faculty and the pre-service teachers.In a global sense, the project promotes technological literacy. Few would argue the importanceof a society that is technology literate, so opening a section of GE 1030 to non-engineeringmajors seems both worthy and appropriate. However, the project designers had a vision for theproject that would reach beyond the specific non-engineering majors who would be enrolled inthe class. Because the non-engineering majors would

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Philosophical Foundations, Frameworks, and Testing in K-12 Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Laura Nelson; Keith Williamson; Hassan Ndahi; Sharon Waters

of teaching” In Constructivism in Page 10.623.7Education (Eds Steffe, P. and Gale, J.) Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, Hillsdale, N.J.Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright©2005, American Society for Engineering Education6. Jarvinen, E. ( 1998) “The Lego/Logo Learning Environment in Technology Education:An Experiment in a Finnish Context” Journal of Technology Education 9(2)7. Konold, C. (1995) “Social and cultural dimension of knowledge and classroomteaching” In Constructivism in Education (Eds. Steffe, P. and Gale, J.) LawrenceErlbaum Publishers, Hillsdale

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DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Yin Chen; John Sharon; Constantin Chassapis; Sven Esche

Integration of Probabilistic Decision Making into a Junior Year Engineering Design Course Yin M. Chen, John Sharon, Sven K. Esche & Constantin Chassapis Department of Mechanical Engineering Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, NJ, USAAbstractDecision making is a very important aspect of the engineering design process. While many real-world decisions are made under conditions of uncertainty and risk, current undergraduateengineering curricula rarely include any principles of decision theory or use probabilisticmodeling and computational techniques. For example, while utility theory is a

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Teaching Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gustavo Molina

Use of Fuller-Polya diagram for teaching engineering problem solving in undergraduate design classes Gustavo J. Molina School of Technology, Georgia Southern UniversityAbstractOn teaching a sophomore Engineering design class the author emphasizes a problem solvingapproach to teaching which integrates through team-work design miniprojects. The three levelsof design-problem complexity, e.g., routine standard, poorly defined and open-ended creative-design problems, are introduced in a studio-lab classroom setting. The last two problem types arereadily solved by sophomores after they learn basic techniques. However, the routine single-answer standard

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DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Zafer Gurdal; Jan Hol; Gillian Saunders-Smits

Session 1725 Innovative Teaching of Aircraft Structural Analysis and Design Courses - Mathematica in an Engineering Education Environment Gillian N. Saunders-Smits, Zafer Gürdal, Jan Hol, Aerospace Structures Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Delft University of Technology, Delft, The NetherlandsINTRODUCTION This paper reports on a new course on aircraft structural analysis and design in the secondyear of the BSc curriculum at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gene Liao

Session Modeling and Analysis of Distortion in Metal-Inert-Gas Arc Welded Automotive Component Gene Y. Liao Wayne State UniversityAbstractThis paper presents the simulation of Metal-Inert-Gas (MIG) arc welded part distortion and itscorrelation with test for an automotive engine cradle. A Finite Element Analysis (FEA)-basedmethod is developed to predict the welding distortion. The developed technique has elastic-plastic constitutive material model with temperature-dependent material properties. The inherentshrinkage of weld and two

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Braun

the manual dexterity necessary to manipulate fragile samples precisely.3. Perform the following laboratory procedures: • Substrate Preparation Techniques • Polymer Film Preparation • Vacuum Evaporation • Device Characterization4. Exercise cognitive skills in order to complete each procedure correctly and produce a working device.5. Apply factual information and problem solving skills obtained from previous math, science and engineering courses to perform each procedure.6. Successfully operate the unique technology in the lab by functioning cooperatively in respectful, thoughtful, and knowledgeable teams.7. Practice excellent oral and written communication skills.Consider the above learning objectives in more