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Innovative Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

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Chris Graunke; Jeffrey Will; Peter Johnson

.[12] V. S. Pantelidis “Virtual reality in the engineering classroom.” Computer Applications in EngineeringEducation, vol. 5, no. 1, 1997, pp. 3-12.[13] D. Tougaw and J. Will "Visualizing the Future of Virtual Reality" Computing in Science and Engineering,vol. 5, no. 4, July/August 2003, pp. 8-11.BiographiesPeter E. Johnson is an assistant professor in the mechanical engineering department at Valparaiso University. Hisresearch interests include engineering education, complex adaptive systems, virtual engineering, and thermalsystems.Jeffrey Will is an assistant professor in the electrical and computer engineering department at ValparaisoUniversity. He is director of the Scientific Visualization Laboratory, dedicated to promoting applications

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Industrial Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Anderson; Janice Singleton

laboratory facilities using their native language of Spanish. On a smallerscale, a difference in technical diction between the three parties involved was also apparent atthis stage. A Northrop Grumman specified tolerance of “one thousandth”, for instance, would beconstrued as “0.001 or 1.0 x 10-3 inches” by an engineering technology student or “0.025millimeters or 25 thousandths of a millimeter” by M. Torres engineers. The students often foundit difficult to properly phrase questions when addressing the industry representatives. Thiscommunication barrier was gradually improved through continued interaction. Additionally,research assistants often consulted published information as a means of troubleshooting CNC

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Tricks of the Trade for Teaching I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Rassa Rassai; Mensah Patrick; Jean-Pierre Bayard; Valerie Young; Joseph Tront; Edward Perry

notes or tutorials about prerequisite (butoften unmastered) material. If you give students tools to remind and reteach themselves, andencourage them to use them, then you help them develop as independent learners. Of course, theway that you direct students to these tools is important, particularly for the new engineeringeducator for who teaching ratings may be of particular concern. “Hmm, yes, to do this, you haveto remember how to calculate the pH of a basic solution. Here, let me show you a tutorial. Tryworking through this; I think it will help you. After you’ve been through it, come back if youhave some specific questions.” For chemical engineers encountering distillation in their seniorunit operations laboratory, point them to

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Energy Program and Software Tools

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kendrick Aung

Heat Transfer Coefficient in the Internal Combustion Engine,” SAE paper 670931.11. Patton, K. J., Nitchke, R. G., and Heywood, J. B., 1989, “Development and Evaluation of a Friction Model for Spark Ignition Engines,” SAE paper 890836.12. “CHEMKIN Database”, Sandia National Laboratory.13. Lea, R., Matsuda, K., and Miyashita, K., 1996, “Java for 3D and VRML worlds,” 1st Edition, New Riders, Indianapolis.BiographyVINOD MATHAM is a graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Lamar University. Hejoined Lamar University in January 2003 and is expected to receive his Master of Engineering Science degree inMay 2005. This paper is based on his Masters thesis.KENDRICK AUNG is an assistant professor in

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Raymond Winton

higherdegree of accuracy than the simplified models ordinarily identified in the classroom orlaboratory. And this paper has found a practical means to investigate aspects of devicebehavior from simulation that is more accurate and less complicated to implement than simpletheories or laboratory measurements.The capability to analyze devices is a demand item, since circuits of micron and sub-microndimensions are difficult to assess both before and after the fact, since the devices are onlyassessed as part of a test vehicle, which leaves the engineer at the mercy of the complexrelationships developed thereto. For example the level-49, BSIM3V3 model[3], as acceptedand continuous form simulation model as it may be, is an engineer’s nightmare, since

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Improving Statics Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ganapathy Narayanan

isdeveloped as a teaching program for analyzing determinate trusses and frames. Theimplementation and testing of such program is underway, and is expected to becompleted next year. Hence, no interface figure is available at this time for this paper. Inthe interim, the MATLAB script in Figure 5 can be used for 2D truss member forceanalysis using the method of joints. The student will use Figure 5 script for each joint onthe truss. Similarly, the MATLAB script in Figure 6 can be used for 3D truss memberforce analysis using the method of joints.Classroom Use of Statics Mini-programsThe statics mini-programs have been offered in the MET Statics course during the 2004Fall semester, as a set of optional virtual laboratory exercises. No special

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Don Millard

, audio and video will also be used to help teach scientificprinciples. Primary source materials, including articles, correspondence, laboratory notebooksand patents, are being used to research, develop, and produce multimedia materials presentingelectricity and its application to the technological development of products. The Museum’smoving image collection consists of more than 1800 films and video relating to the developmentof the electrical industry that often feature inventors discussing their discoveries. For example,Exploring with X-rays features Dr. William Coolidge (the inventor of the X-ray tube in 1913),discussing the history of X-ray research and development along with the scientific principlesbehind X-rays. Selected artifacts from

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Innovations in CE Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Piechota; Shashi Nambisan

engineering education, is the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) programat Purdue University (http://epics.ecn.purdue.edu) that partners undergraduate students and localcommunity not-for-profit organizations to solve engineering-based problems in the communityService-learning is a type of experiential education where the students learn through "real-world"experiences that meet a community’s needs4. In the engineering curriculum, other forms ofexperiential learning include projects, clinics, internships, laboratory classes, field trips.Moreover, service-learning promotes student understanding of the impact of engineeringsolutions in a global/societal context, a requirement in the Accreditation Board of Engineeringand Technology (ABET

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Fike

, the services that telecommunications provides will, inthe broad sense, be fundamentally the same, and the approaches will still combine bandwidth,electronic (or photonic) intelligence, and connectivity to implement them. If we can help thestudents to view systems from that perspective, we have done our job.Traditional Communications FundamentalsSo where are all of the fundamental topics that were formerly covered? They are now taught in aone-semester-hour laboratory that is part of ENTC 215. It was decided to utilize a modular, self-contained “Training System” produced by Degem Systems. This consists of hardware trainersand associated software, known respectively as the Modcom and TeleSim Training systems8.While the idea of a lab to provided

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Innovative Practices in NRE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Miller; Gayla Neumeyer; Matthew Schmidt; David Jonassen

learning in a chemical engineering undergraduate laboratory. IEEE Frontiers in Education, 350-354,3. Armarego, J. (2002). Advanced software design: A case in problem-based learning. IEEE Computer Society: Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training.4. Mitchell GG, Delaney JD. (2004). An assessment strategy to determine learning outcomes in a software engineering Problem-based learning course. International Journal of Engineering Education, 20 (3): 494-5025. Van Kampen, P., Nanahan, C., Kelly, M., McLoughlin, E., & O’Leary, E. (2004). Teaching a single physics module through problem based learning in a lecture-based curriculum. American Journal of Physics

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Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Krueger; Ted Aanstoos; Ronald Barr

. The grading distribution for the Lecture Assignments 500course is shown in Table 3. Most of the points are Final Team Project 500garnered in the laboratory setting where students work Tests and Final Exam 900individually on engineering and computers graphics Total 3180exercises, and take their tests. However, the large lectureallocates 1000 points for assignments and for a final team project, which is also assigned andmonitored in the large lecture. The rest of this paper focuses on the one-hour common large Page 10.130.3lecture, where the

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Computer Based Measurements

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2005 Annual Conference

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Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic

butstudents will benefit from using it once it has been completed. Making measurements to verify the modelincreases our understanding of the developed system.Measurement SystemIn the field of precise measurements, it is often desired to balance voltage differences. In the example thatwill be presented in this paper, a generalized circuit that operates in the audio frequency range is given (seeFig. 1.) Voltages V1, V2 V3, and V4 are node voltages derived from an impedance bridge. These voltages Page 10.925.1† Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory, Technology Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce

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Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

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2005 Annual Conference

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Fengfeng Zhou

-12education and cope with the rapid advancement in science and technology, the National ScienceFoundation has funded a number of research projects at dozens of universities nationwide. Oneof these projects is the Science and Technology Enhancement Program (STEP) currently beingconducted at the University of Cincinnati. Graduate and undergraduate fellows of Project STEPare placed in different secondary schools to work with math and science teachers. The mainresponsibility of a fellow is to develop and implement hands-on activities that are creative,engineering-focused, and technology-driven. Activities are incorporated into lessons,demonstrations, laboratory exercises, and field experiences. By doing these activities, studentswill experience authentic

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Integrating Mathematics and Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kelly Torres; Aimee Mostella; Alexey L. Sadovski; Carl Steidley

of Artificial Intelligence to Environmental Science, Long Beach, California, February 2003. 15. The MathWorks, Inc. 1998. Neural Network Toolbox for use with Matlab 5.3/version 3, The MathWorks, Natick, MA. 16. Campolo, M., Andreussi, P., and Soldati, A. 1997. River Flood Forecasting with a Neural Network Model. Water Resources Research, 35 (4), pp.1191-1197.Biographical InformationCARL STEIDLEYCarl Steidley is Professor of Computer Science and Chair of Computing and Mathematical Sciences. His interestsare in the applications of artificial intelligence, real-time computing, and robotics. He has had research appointmentsat NASA Ames Research Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, and Electro Scientific Industries

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Nirmal Khandan

INFORMATIONDr Nirmala Khandan holds the John Clark Professorship in the Civil Engineering Department at New Mexico StateUniversity. He received his MS and PhD degrees from Drexel University in Environmental Engineering. He hasreceived several awards for teaching and research. His current research is focused o n educational materialsdevelopment, teaching, and learning.ACKNOWLDGEMENT Page 10.330.5This work was supported in part by a grant from the Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement program ofNational Science Foundation. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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First-Year Design Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tonya Peeples; Julie Jessop

South Africa and the sustainable housing developmentsshe and her company are creating in their stead.Virtual Building AssignmentSince many engineers use simulation packages to design processes, plants, and pieces ofequipment, we introduced our EPSI students to one of these tools during theEmergency/Homeless Shelter Design Project. In this project, we wanted them to gain anappreciation for adequate materials for their shelter by completing a sustainable designassignment using the Energy-10 software. For the purpose of researching ideas, they were alsoinstructed to visit internet sites regarding building design such as the Oak Ridge BuildingInstitute18 and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory building site.12 Teams evaluated theenergy

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Innovation for ChE Student Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Silverstein

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Educationspent per student on the project was intended to be 3-6 hours, not including training.Treating the project as a laboratory exercise, this corresponds to a lecture class time lossof 1-2 hours, which is typical during the AIChE Annual Meeting week.As part of the assignment, students were provided a grading rubric to make expectationsclear and to guide them on their writing. Newell, Newell and Dahm13 provide guidelinesfor rubric development appropriate to this sort of project. The rubric used in this projectis provided in Figure 2.Students are given creative freedom to define their objectives to take advantage

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Charles Dolan

This challenge provided the students with a 3.5 volt high rpm electric motor, battery box and gear set and asked to design a vehicle to traverse an alluvial field in one of the groundwater hydrology laboratories. The challenge was tied loosely to the current Mars rover activity. The motor assured the vehicle was potentially underpowered to place a premium on light weight design and the students had limited knowledge of the alluvial conditions on the challenge day, since the lab was actively conducting research. Solutions ranged from an aerial vehicle suspended from helium balloons, to a hovercraft, to more conventional designs, Fig. 5-6. Approximately 25 percent of the teams succeeded in crossing the designated

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

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Susan Lord

limited availability of laboratory facilities, the enrollment is capped at eight students. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationessential for developing lifelong learning skills. Students chose topics ranging from organicLEDs to lasers in medicine to photonic crystals to free space communication systems. In thesyllabus distributed on the first day of class, the parameters of this project were described(presentation to class and written report: 6-10 pages typed, cover sheet, appropriatedocumentation of multiple references). To enhance the quality of the final product, interimdeadlines

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Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

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Barry Dupen

metallurgist, materials engineer, andmaterials laboratory manager, he joined Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) as an AssistantProfessor of Mechanical Engineering Technology. His primary interests lie in materials engineering, mechanics, andengineering technology education. Page 10.1226.11 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sohail Anwar

maximize the students’ ability to succeedacademically.Bibliography 1. Ssemakula, M. “Development of a Fully Online Course in Engineering Economic Analysis”, Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Annual conference. Session 3549. Available CD-ROM 2. Easton, R., and Stratton, J. “Distance Learning: Facts, Failures, Foibles, and the Future,” Page 10.445.10 Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Annual conference. Session 1648. Available CD-ROM 3. Ko, Y., Duman, T., and Spanias, A. “On-line Laboratory for Communication Systems Using J-DSP,” Proceedings of the 33rd ASEE/IEEE

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Course and Program Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sohail Anwar

., and Manian, R. “Distance Delivery of a Laboratory Based Controls for Manufacturing Automation Course – A Success Story”, Proceedings of the 34th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, October 20-23, 2004. Available CD-ROM 2. Lawrence-Slater, M. “On-line Learning: A Student Viewpoint”, Proceedings of the 32nd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, November 6-9, 2002. Available CD-ROMBiographySOHAIL ANWARSohail Anwar holds a Ph.D. degree in Industrial and Vocational Education from the Pennsylvania StateUniversity and a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington. Hecompleted additional graduate coursework in control theory and applied mathematical sciences at

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Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

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John McMasters

levels comparable to usual scientific research funding, theNational Science Foundation set out several initiatives. These included university coalitions,institutional curricular reform projects, laboratory/experiential learning grants, math /science/engineering/technology digital libraries, curriculum-research integration, and incorporatingresults from psychology and cognitive science. These programs have collectively changedinstitutional attitudes towards instruction and curricular improvements. Rather than fundamentalchanges or revolutions, enlightened practices educated by example have permeated the rewardstructure sufficiently to encourage faculty to undertake curricular innovation.One result of NSF funding was the creation of institutional

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Patricia Backer

aspresentation modules. During the summer session 1999, Version 2 was field tested in onesection of the class with 14 students. The students were randomly assigned to two groups:Group 1 completed the multimedia module on Unit 1 (The Nature of Science and Technology)and Group 2 completed the multimedia module on Unit 2 (Technology and Work). The summersession was organized into a one-week class with eight hours of class each day. Day 1 of theclass was devoted to Unit 1 and Day 2 of the class was devoted to Unit 2. On their randomlyassigned multimedia day, the students were sent to a computer laboratory where each studentwas assigned a computer and given a CD-ROM. They stayed in the computer laboratory and

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Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lawrence Feick; Larry Shuman; Katherine Thomes; Bopaya Bidanda

intellectual tools to relate past experiencesto future situations. In addition to their elective coursework, all students examine crucial issuesof global concerns, including those relating to environment, population, foreign policyinterrelationships and economics, in the context of the nations visited as part of a mandatoryGlobal Studies course. The ship is a campus where students work in a traditional classroomsetting, using the world as a laboratory from which 20% of the credit earned for a course isfulfilled. This integration of classroom and international fieldwork enables Semester at Sea toprovide a unique learning environment. Consequently, this requires a particular type of faculty;people who can relate well in this academic environment and

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The Citizen Engineer

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2005 Annual Conference

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Isadore Davis; barbara waugh; Charles Pezeshki; Lueny Morell; Tom Roberts

institutions (UPRM, Penn State University and the University ofWashington in collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories and industry) to developan undergraduate product realization/manufacturing engineering option the partnerscalled the Learning Factory, an outcomes-based undergraduate curriculum integratinglaboratory facilities and industry partnership. The Learning Factory was successfullyinstitutionalized at the three partner institutions by 1997. Under the leadership of AlSoyster and John Lamancusa from Penn State, the program had a significant impact atUPRM, on its faculty, students and partners. I was fortunate enough to lead thecurriculum development activity at UPRM and the system-wide outcomes assessmentstrategy.One of the most

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Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

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Larry Young; John Fernandez

who have a user-centered sensitivity. Seffah’s survey found the most critical generic skills that emerged from thesurvey were primarily related to writing, presenting, communicating, and working with clientsand end-users16.Seffah’s work and research at Concordia University in Canada has led to the creation of aHuman Centered Software Engineering Group7. This group seems to be in the forefront ofbridging the gap between human centered approaches and software engineering practices. Anexpansion of these efforts is needed throughout the research community so that more rapidprogress may be made to enhance methodologies to truly satisfy the end-users. From theclassroom laboratory experiences mentioned earlier, this human-centered focus appears to

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Capstone/Design Projects: Industrial ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Fanorious Chalkiadakis; Mohammed Fahmy; Recayi Pecen

power systems, Page 10.399.11modeling, circuit theory, microcontrollers, analog electronics, control systems, and laboratory development. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education

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

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2005 Annual Conference

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Skylar Stewart; Linda Ramsey; Julie DuBois; Jorge Roldan; David Mills

next time we held thecourse we should do only one session per week. On the other hand, the students felt that thesession length of 1 ½ to 2 hours was appropriate.Impact on Teaching FellowsIn reflecting upon the impact of this course, it is clear that we learned as much from thisexperience as did the students who participated. Foremost, educational research of this typevastly differs from the typical laboratory research we as graduate engineering students havebecome accustomed to. For example, when conducting educational research investigators mustunderstand that working in a K-12 environment requires a higher degree of flexibility, patience,and tolerance of unexpected chaos. An important outcome derived through the implementationof this

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Shana Smith

-206. Osberg, K. M. (1997). Spatial Cognition in the Virtual Environment. Human Interface Technology Laboratory,University of Washington, Retrieved June 10, 2002, from http://www.hitl.washington.edu/publications/r-97-18/. Pleck, M. H., Mcgrath, M. B., Bertoline, G. R., Browers, D. H. & Sadowski, M. A. (1990). Factors affecting theengineering design graphics curriculum: Past, present, future. Proceedings of the NSF Symposium on Modernizationof the Engineering Design Graphics Curriculum, Austin, Texas, 43-52. Sulbaran, T. & Baker, N. C. (2000). Enhancing Engineering Education Through Distributed Virtual Reality, 30thASEE/IEEE frontiers in Education Conference, October 18-21, Kansas City, MO, S1D-13 – S1D-18. Vandenberg, S