Conference Session

Assessing Perceptions of Engineers and Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Olga Pierrakos, Virginia Tech; Michael Alley, Virginia Tech; Pavlos Vlachos, Virginia Tech

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

girls. The purpose of the program is to introduce participants toengineering and related technologies through various hands-on activities, laboratories, andpresentations. Student Transition Engineering Program (STEP) is a five-week orientation programfor new students entering Virginia Tech's College of Engineering. Students participate in anintensive academic program during the summer prior to their freshman year. Hypatia, a learning community for first-year women engineering students, is a programdesigned to bring together students in a residential environment to provide encouragement andsupport in their pursuit of a career in engineering. Galileo, a learning community for men in engineering, is a program designed

Conference Session

Retention Issues

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Phyllis Tedford, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi; John Fernandez, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

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Minorities in Engineering

worked as a Clinical Laboratory Scientist for over 20 years before earning her Master's Degree in Computer Science. She is interested in developing successful methods of recruitment, retention, and placement of students majoring in computer science. Page 11.344.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006Computer Science Recruiting and Retention of Undergraduates to Meet the Needs of the Business CommunityINTRODUCTIONAvailable information from a variety of governmental and private sources indicate anincrease in the demand for computer science (CS) and information technology (IT)professionals in the

Conference Session

Revitalizing Cooperative Education and Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Stwalley, Purdue University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

practical experiences available at Purdue, it seemed to makesense to utilize the original mission of the university to classify the types of experiences. Purdueis one of the first Land Grant universities, with engagement, research, and traditional academicgoals. Students at Purdue can gain practical experience in service learning projects throughEPICS, research projects through employment in on-going laboratory projects with faculty, andwork experience through employment with various university partner organizations. It wasdetermined that we would use the term “experiential education” to describe this larger spectrumof practical experience. Unfortunately, Co-Op does not adequately describe all of the types of traditional workexperience

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Melissa Sumpter, Purdue University; Deborah Follman, Purdue University; Mica Hutchison, Purdue University

completecourse homework and laboratory assignments, excluding assigned projects. (Note: aresponse explicitly referring to a student’s understanding of an assignment, e.g. “Iunderstand the homework”, was categorized as Understanding/ Learning since thestudent did not discuss actively working the homework.) When asked what influencedtheir efficacy beliefs, student responses included: “Completing the lab tasks”, “Ability todo CHIP homework [timed online homework program where students submit theiranswers on a weekly or biweekly basis]”, “I do the work”, or “I do well on thehomework”. These responses suggest students’ self-efficacy beliefs to be boosted whenthey are able to successfully work or complete assignments or other tasks given to them.In other

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tom Roberts, Kansas State University; John Mingle, Kansas State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

regularly seek the traditional discipline specific graduates.Cross -domain EducationLearning is often divided into two cognitive bases. First, is the concrete basis where the accentis on “hands on” operations. Data is obtained via the senses at laboratory or site locations. Thiswas the traditional approach to engineering problem solving in the industrial revolution and theearly information age of the cybernetic revolution. The proof was a “hands on” usable product.The second cognitive base is the abstract where the solution includes much in the form of ideasand perceptions. In the current cybernetic revolution, this abstract form for engineering solutions

Conference Session

Evaluation and Assessment of IE Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shantha Daniel, Iowa State University; Devna Popejoy-Sheriff, Iowa State University; K. Jo Min, Iowa State University; Leslie Potter, Iowa State University

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Industrial Engineering

definition and solution generation. Much of their work throughout the semester isaccomplished during the six hours of laboratory time that they have scheduled each weekAn hour lecture period held most weeks provides the students with relevant projectinformation, as well as various other topics pertinent to their future roles as engineers.The intent of the lecture is mainly to reiterate the importance of the economic feasibilityof solutions, to raise awareness about how the “people component” of projects is criticalbut also unpredictable, and to make the point how challenging yet essential it is toconstantly consider realistic constraints throughout the design process. Global,economic, environmental, and societal constraints are some of those

Conference Session

Introductory Materials Engineering Courses of 2020

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stacy Gleixner, San Jose State University; Elliot Douglas, University of Florida; Olivia Graeve, University of Nevada-Reno (Eng)

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Materials

Bridge Decks”, Intl. SAMPE Technical Conf., p. 2903 (2004).10. K. C. Chen, B. London, L. Vanasupa, T.T Orling, and L. Christensen, “Travelogue from the Materials World: A First Week Laboratory Activity”, ASEE Annual Conf. Proc., 3664 (2004).11. W. D. Callister, Fundamentals of Materials Science and Engineering: 6th Edition, John Wiley and Sons, (2001).12. PRIME website: http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/sgleixner/PRIME/13. M. Alley, M. Schreiber, and J. Muffo, “Pilot Testing of a New Design for Presentation Slides to Teach Science and Engineering,” 35th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conf., T1A-1 (2005).14. S. Krause, J.L. Decker, J.L. Niska, T.L. Alford, and R. Griffin, “Identifying Student

Conference Session

Digital System Design

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Loui, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign; James Longino, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign; Craig Zilles, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

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Electrical and Computer

offered by theDepartment of Computer Science. Both courses are sophomore-level courses that are requiredfor the departments’ undergraduate majors. The two courses cover almost identical material:representation of information, both combinational and sequential circuit analysis and design, andcomputer organization and control. Both courses use the same text3, but they are not jointlyoffered, primarily due to their large enrollments of 200 and 120 students per semesterrespectively. In both courses, students attend three hours of class every week; two hour-longlectures are taught by faculty and one hour-long recitation is taught by graduate teachingassistants. Students complete schematic-capture and simulation-based laboratory assignments ona bi

Conference Session

Engineering for Social Justice

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles Schreier, University of Dayton; Carl Eger, University of Dayton; Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton

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Liberal Education

laboratories, theystill can not provide the understanding gained through actually engaging with technology in itsworking environment. Taking fundamental theoretical concepts and applying them to real lifeengineering problems helped to solidify the students’ understanding of those fundamentals. Inmany ways this validation parallels the value attributed to undergraduate internship and coopprograms as well as other experiential learning experiences. The ETHOS experience providedthe participants with an increased awareness of how engineering impacts the daily lives of peoplein all societies.Another common outcome that the ETHOS experience provided to the participants was anunderstanding of another culture. Furthermore, most students indicated that the

Conference Session

Engineering Education & Capacity Building in Developing Countries

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Jane Parmentier, Arizona State University; Haritha Mogilisetti, Intel; N.K. Kishore, IIT, Karagpur; Uma Devi Sundararajan, National Highways, India; Krutarth Mehta, Arizona State University; Rajeswari Sundararajan, Arizona State University

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International

. One such example of this is the IIT Kharagpur’s initiative to ‘adopt’villages in its vicinity and bring information technologies to these villages to create awarenessand interest amongst the villagers. Another example is IIT Kharagpur’s agricultural and foodengineering departments which are setting up a laboratory on food processing technology toassist rural people.Educators need to work on the development of more tools, workshops and online offeringsshaped by ongoing feedback from program participants. The Indian curriculum is to be modifiedto help students develop the required thinking skills they need to participate and succeed in theknowledge based economy. Private companies and educational institutions need to collaborateon developing

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Erdogan M. Sener

1. Barcala, M., Ahmed, S.M., Caballero, A. and Azhar, S. 2003. The 4D-CAD: a powerful tool to visualize the future. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Structural and Construction Engineering, 23-26 September, 2003, Rome, Italy. Vol. 3, pp. 1979-1982. 2. Berglund, A., Mats, D., Hedenborg, M., and Tengstrand, A. 1998. Assessment to increase students’ creativity: Two case studies. European Journal of Engineering Education, March 1998. Vol. 23. Issue 1 pp. 45- 55. 3. Berver, E., Jerse J.O., Fowler D.W., and Wheat, H.G. 2003. Laboratory and field observations of composite – wrapped reinforced concrete structures. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Structural and Construction Engineering, 23

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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William E. Kelly; Theodore A. Bickart; Richard J. Forselius

built on the ABET requirement for engineering programs and NSS objective 11.The United States Standards Strategy (USSS) was recently released and it calls for expanded and strengthened efforts to assistuniversity and college programs in their efforts to educate students on standards and conformity assessment [3]. The USSS isessentially an update of the NSS.The ANSI CoE has been assisted in its work by a number of US standards developers including ASTM International (ASTM) , theAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the AmericanSociety of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Underwriters Laboratories (UL) and others. This effort has also had broad participation andsupport from federal

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Chong Shen; Zhongwei Zhang; David Lai

connection. For instance,hundreds of Java simulations were created at the National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU)Virtual Physics Laboratory. Many physics teachers use these Java simulations in their teaching. Holliday from the Western Carolina University recently implemented few Java Applets thatillustrate some of important concept of network by using animation. The applets and accompany-ing materials addresses four network concepts: packet encapsulation, packet fragmentation, errorcontrol and media access. All these applets has been applied to the class of computer network. Butthe AQM concept is not mentioned in this paper [10]. 33 Network simulation modelOur simulation package is based on the

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Mark Miles; C.M. Chewar

encouraging inventive problem solving. This paper examines the effects of methods that allow students in an introductory level engineering course to use their creativity and inventiveness to solve problems, an approach referred to as inquiry arousal. The approach used in this research was to modify a certain number of laboratory requirements to allow the student to apply an open-ended problem solving approach to obtain a solution. The goal of the assigned problems was to allow the student some flexibility to be creative while demonstrating fundamental mechanics. The authors obtained data and evaluated the effects of this approach through grade performance and student feedback. This paper attempts to measure the effects that

Conference Session

Curricula of the Past, Present, and Future

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yvonne Ng, College of St. Catherine; Lori Maxfield, College of St. Catherine

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Educational Research and Methods

toincorporate the Curriculum of Connections, but it is not the only one and may not be the mosteffective one for a given institution’s system.PCM provides a language to describe how educational objectives, instructional strategies, andassessment relate back to the overarching criteria required by a system. For example, thetraditional engineering program can be described and analyzed as follows: The Core and Practice curriculums are taught in the first years with science, math and computer science requirements. Engineering Core and Practice are introduced in the sophomore year through introductory courses and laboratories. Design classes and co- ops, which students attend in the last years, provide environments that require

Conference Session

Leadership and Administration in ET

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harvey Lyons, Eastern Michigan University

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Engineering Technology

additional expertise relevant tothese newly emerging areas’. ‘Mechanical engineering curricula should be reviewed andrevised in light of these emerging areas. Curricula should include new material on atomicand molecular physics, quantitative biology, comprehensive (organic) chemistry, microfabrication and modern computing’. ‘Mechanical engineering laboratories should bereviewed and revised in light of these emerging areas’.Corresponding ArticlesThe following technical articles discussed the demands and trends of the engineeringgraduate and changes in curriculum.The Prism, in an article entitled ‘2020 It’s Sooner Than you Think’,(9) notes that ‘thefuture engineer must be prepared to work in a time in which what we now consider to beengineering is

Conference Session

Promoting Scientific and Technological Literacy

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jan DeWaters, Clarkson University; Susan Powers, Clarkson University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

more engaged as a resultof the project-based learning, and feel that they can understand the “big picture” of scienceprocesses better than ever before. One teacher stated and another agreed that on the middleschool level, the students may not be specifically improving their understanding ofmath/science/technology, but are more excited about it. Most consistently indicate that thestudents love the hands-on approach to learning, and note that the program helps studentsbecome more comfortable operating in the science lab and using laboratory equipment. Severalteachers have noted an improvement in students’ ability to integrate various subject material,noting that many of them have opened up to math/science/technology in a way they were notdoing

Conference Session

International and Sustainability Perspectives and Women in Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alicia Abadie, Louisiana State University; Ann Christy, Ohio State University; Marybeth Lima, Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge

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Women in Engineering

spouses handle running the home. The social pressures and responsibilities of motherhood greatly exceed those of fatherhood especially in the early years of childhood. It is a solid societal belief in this country that infants need their mothers more than their fathers. This doesn’t change in any way for women who have careers of equal or greater intensity than their husbands.Respondents were asked if they had experienced gender related salary inequities. Eleven percentreported that they had, 78% reported that they had not, and 11% did not respond. When askedabout laboratory space inequities (e.g., the MIT study), 11% of respondents reported that theyhad experienced space inequities, and 89% reported that they had not

Conference Session

FPD1 -- Implementing a First-Year Engineering Course

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Tech; Odis Griffin, Virginia Tech

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First-Year Programs

Program for the New Millenium,” ASEE Southeastern Regional Conf, April 6-8, 1998, Orlando, FL.[5] Goff, R.M. and Gregg, M.H. "Why Hands-on Design? A First Year Hands-on Design & Dissection Laboratory", 1998 Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) National Design Education Conference. Long Beach, CA September 21-23, 1998. Proceedings are on CD. Page 11.657.14[6] York, S. C., “Providing early design/build opportunities to Freshman Engineering Students”, Proceedings of the ASEE 2002 Annual Conference and Exposition, June 16-19, 2002, Montréal, Quebec Canada.[7] Lo, Jenny, Richard M. Goff

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FPD2 -- Highlighting First-Year Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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First-Year Programs

engineering design is to build a course out ofactivities that are woven around a well-established process in order to allow students toexperience design rather than just listen to how it is supposed to work. It is well known throughresearch and practice that incorporating learning activities into a course better facilitates thestudent learning process as compared with more passive approaches2,6,13,14,15. First-yearengineering design courses typically include standard design-and-build projects, designcompetitions, laboratory projects, and other projects that span many weeks. These projects areactive and hands-on, but are often relatively self-contained and separate from the exercises ofpresenting a design process and becoming familiar with other

Conference Session

Assessing Perceptions of Engineers and Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sharon Kurpius-Robinson, Arizona State University; Dale Baker, Arizona State University; Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Chell Roberts, Arizona State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

innovative education in engineering, including a Materials ConceptInventory, and also in adapting design, engineering and technology concepts to K-12 education. He is currentlyworking on an NSF sponsored MSP developing courses for high school teachers connecting math, science andengineering.CHELL A. ROBERTS is an Associate Professor and industrial engineer who conducts research in design, robotics,and engineering systems. He is Director of Engineering Development at ASU and has led the redesign of thefreshman engineering design curriculum and also founded the Integrate Manufacturing Laboratory. He received hisPh.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Virginia Tech in 1991. He has a MS in IndustrialEngineering and a BA in

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Baca, University of Missouri-Rolla; Steve Watkins, University of Missouri-Rolla; Ray Luechtefeld, University of Missouri-Rolla

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

2006-1136: PATTERNS IN TEAM COMMUNICATION DURING A SIMULATIONGAMEDavid Baca, University of Missouri-Rolla DAVID M. BACA received his B.S.. from the University of Missouri – Rolla in Architectural Engineering in 2005. He is currently a graduate student in Engineering Management at UMR. His research interests include organization change and transformation.Steve Watkins, University of Missouri-Rolla STEVE E. WATKINS received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas - Austin in Electrical Engineering in 1989. He holds an M.S.E.E. and a B.S.E.E. from University of Missouri-Rolla. He is currently a Professor at UMR and Director of the Applied Optics Laboratory. His research interests include optical

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FPD7 -- Service Learning

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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First-Year Programs

innovative educational materials as part of the Laboratory for InnovativeTechnology and Engineering Education (LITEE). This paper describes the project goals,summary of some of the case studies that have been developed, methods to integratethese case studies with theoretical materials, and evaluation of implementing thesematerials in freshman engineering classrooms. Page 11.842.4Establishing Project Goals Information technology is essential for solving critical national problems in areassuch as science and engineering, the environment, health care, and governmentoperations; but new fundamental understanding is required to make optimal

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FPD6 -- Early Intervention & Retention Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Light, University of Washington; Laura Girardeau, Washington State University; Jennifer Beller, Washington State University; Greg Crouch, Washington State University

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First-Year Programs

Technology, and was formally a Jr. Researcher in the Laboratory for Interactive Learning Technologies at the University of Hawaii. She is co-author of several publications on collaborative learning.Jennifer Beller, Washington State University Jennifer M. Beller, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology in the Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling Psychology at Washington State University. She is co-author of six ASEE proceeding papers, including one that won the ASEE Best Conference Paper.Greg Crouch, Washington State University Greg Crouch is associate professor of chemistry at Washington State University. In addition to organic chemistry research, Greg’s

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd Johnson, Washington State University; Reid Miller, Washington State University

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Educational Research and Methods

ways.For the field of engineering education, there has not been an embracement in the use of onlineeducation. Following an extensive review of engineering online programs, Bourne, Harris, &Mayadas31-32 found that a large number of them were available for master’s level, but there werefew bachelor’s degrees. A reason often noted to not developing engineering courses online is thechallenge of replicating hands-on laboratories over the internet, even though a great deal ofmodule development has been done in this area31-32. For these same engineering educationresearchers, they recommend that field of engineering learn more about methods for blendedlearning (in-class and online), different pedagogies for teaching and learning in onlineengineering

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech

Technology, Teaching and science education, engineering or Initiatives Learning Laboratory higher education Assistant or Ph.D. South Dakota School of Mines, Backgrounds in all areas of engineering Associate professor, First Year Experience and science will be considered STEM education research Associate Professor, Ph.D. Arizona State University, Ira A. Earned doctorate in engineering or Engineering Fulton School of Engineering closely related field Education* Assistant or Ph.D. Stony Brook University, Doctorate in science and technology Associate Professor

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ECE Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rocio Alba-Flores, University of Minnesota-Duluth; Fernando Rios-Gutierrez, University of Minnesota-Duluth

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Electrical and Computer

typically constrained laboratory budget,since the cost of development of a platform for a mobile robot can become fairly expensive asthe complexity of the sensors and control system are increased, it can reach thousands of dollars.In our case, early in the development process, this was a limitation that we had to work with.First, we try to establish which would be the best approach to follow in order to keep the cost ofthe robotic platform within the limits of the budget assigned to this class. Next, in order to reducethe implementation costs we decided to use as much devices and systems that we already hadavailable in our labs, such as sensors, electronic devices, laptops, microcontroller cards anddebugging, simulators, programming, and analysis

Conference Session

Moral Development, Engineering Pedagogy and Ethics Instruction

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kirsty Mills, University of New Mexico

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Engineering Ethics

policy, spoke of nanotechnology’s geopoliticalimplications. Two further lecturers were invited to explore the routes by which nanotechnologymoves from the laboratory into society. The first, a faculty member and co-founder of ananotechnology start-up company, described the constraints and opportunities of the nanotechsmall business experience. The second, another faculty member, described the universityresearch process, and the extent to which this is shaped by societal forces such as fundingprocesses, safety considerations, collaborative interactions, and so on.Perhaps the most unique speaker was a philosopher from the Deaf community, who talked of theimpact of technology in that community. (The ‘Deaf community’ is a sociocultural grouping

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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International

on traditional lectures; Page 11.1257.8 • Increased emphasis on experiential learning through properly designed laboratory experiments to teach engineering principles and verify theoretical work raised in the classroom; • Stress on: life-long learning, systems thinking, organizational management, teamwork and group problem–solving skills, and cultivation of leadership skills; • Focus on design issues of relevance to the Region, involving life-cycle economics, environmental impact, utilization of locally available resources, maintainability, and conformity with

Conference Session

Civil Engineering in the Classroom

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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Civil Engineering

applications and limitations oftechniques,” but the development of philosophies, methodologies, and skills is best served by thecase method. Cases are used to extend the learning experience beyond the classroom exercisesand laboratory experiments. Shapiro states that “the case method is built around the concepts ofmetaphors and simulation.” Each case is a metaphor for a selected set of problems or issues. Intheir analysis and discussions, students are expected to simulate the information processing anddecision-making skills of managers or engineers involved in the case. Cases require students toconsider multiple factors and to integrate information from various sources. Thus, cases, invarious forms, are one solution to the widening discrepancy between