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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Kicher; Frank Adamo; Dale Flowers

critical of thefirst. Finally, elements of the curriculum that are essentially 100% engineering or 100% businesswere designed by one professor from the appropriate discipline and are taught by that oneprofessor, since an integrated learning experience was unnecessary. For the technologyentrepreneurship track that is the focus of this paper, 30 of the 42 required credits for the degreeare of the integrated design type, reinforcing the close relationship that engineers and managershave in companies.The program accepted its first group of students in the summer of 2001, and offered only thetechnology entrepreneurship track to the first entering class. It was open to all engineeringdisciplines. The course described in this paper is a part of the

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Recruitment and Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tom Eppes; Peter Schuyler

Session 1149 Build It and Will They Come? Refurbishing and Restoring an ECET Curriculum Professors Peter Schuyler and Tom Eppes University of HartfordAbstractSince the 1990’s, nationwide enrollment in engineering technology programs has been declining.It has become increasing difficult to attract and retain students. A number of reasons have beenattributed to this trend including; outdated curricula, loss of manufacturing jobs, off-shoring ofjobs and a weak economy. As a result, competition to enroll students interested in theseprograms is

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ET Curriculum & Design Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

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Rafael Obregon; Kevin Hall

evolving from traditional paper-and-pencil to computer-based tools, and commercial software is allowing both audio and visua linformation capabilities to be integrated with conceptual maps. They emphasize the potentialbenefits of video and other audio-visual technologies in maintaining the student interest as wellas using the World Wide Web for students to engage in research activities. An on- line concept Page 10.1462.10map can potentially link together content areas to help fill “knowledge gaps” that students mighthave because of traditional curriculum structures or lack of practical experience. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for

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IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

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Erick Jones

the STEM curriculum: for exampleengineering in comparison to other non-STEM majors such as liberal arts or business.Engineering student attrition due to poor attitudes, perceived coursework difficulty, anddepartmental polices that effect this behavior are clearly concerns for engineering institutions. Lovitts (2001) suggests that more standardized quantitative measures for departmentalenvironments need to be created, and more appropriate quantitative measurements need to beapplied to studying STEM student attrition. There is a need to conduct objective longitudinalstudies that prevent attrition as opposed to the subjective retrospective studies done in the past.This study demonstrates a methodology that will begin to fulfill this need. The

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Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Ciletti; Gregory Plett

in thecurriculum. Other majors give students an early “feel” for their chosen area of study. We be-lieve that this lack of “feel” in our curriculum was leading to a misunderstanding of what engi-neering is all about, resulting in attrition.We decided to look at this problem as an opportunity. We moved the one-semester-hour fresh-man Matlab course to the junior year,1 which left an opening with which to do something con-structive. We saw this as an opening to excite students with engineering, give them an early fla-vor of problem solving and design, get them involved with other students, use technology tolearn technology and prepare them to design technology. Furthermore, we saw this as an oppor-tunity to pilot a course with balanced pedagogy

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Architectural Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Don Bury; Bruce Mutter

obvious and not so obvious challenges particular to the delivery of an ARETonline curriculum. We are critically analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of suchprogram delivery.Current Capability - The program offered by the BSC Department of ArchitecturalEngineering Technology has been designed to provide graduates with the technical andmanagerial skills necessary to enter careers in the planning, design, construction,operation or maintenance of the built environment. Graduates of the associate degreeprograms have strengths in their knowledge of the building, testing, operation, andmaintenance of building systems and possess the ability to produce and utilize basicconstruction documents and perform basic analysis and design of system

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Alvin Lester; Bruce Mutter

Applied Research and Technology (CART), this work describes the research processused to measure our capability to provide an online version of our program. Mid-careerprofessionals interested in completing degree requirements without having to attend on-campusclasses represent a new student target for our civil engineering technology program.Quality assurance is paramount. The paper addresses the development of this new deliverymethod. The curriculum is designed to operate in an interactive web-based environment forsubmission of coursework, concept diagrams, drawings, reports, and assorted forms. Classdiscussions, conferencing, forums and real-time project reviews will utilize current “chat-room”technology and newly emerging conference software

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Curriculum Topics: Industrial ET/Industrial Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mativo

. Lastly, the student will studysample modified materials such as alloys, composites and woods to determine theirdifference in behavior. A typical modified material will have “desired characteristics”that justifies the investment. Software integration would enrich this study with itsenormous bank of materials structure that can be easily accessed. The investigation inthis phase will provide an understanding about the basiccomposition and arrangement of a material and will aid inintelligent selection of materials.Example: Exercise # 1. Viewing materialsmicrostructure cross-section. A Microscope with at leastx100 magnification as shown in Figure 1 is a worthinvesting. The microscope is easily hooked up to a TVmonitor (to accommodate larger audiences

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Improving Mechanics of Materials

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jr., Hartley T. Grandin, Hartley T. Grandin,; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

AC 2005-1039: MECHANICS OF MATERIALS: AN INTRODUCTORY COURSEWITH INTEGRATION OF THEORY, ANALYSIS, VERIFICATION AND DESIGNJoseph Rencis, University of ArkansasJr., Hartley T. Grandin, Page 10.931.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2005 Session 1368 Mechanics of Materials: an Introductory Course with Integration of Theory, Analysis, Verification and Design Joseph J. Rencis, Hartley T. Grandin, Jr. Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Arkansas/Worcester Polytechnic

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Architectural Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Suining Ding

historicaland cultural reflection. This new pedagogy consents to the conclusion that engineering studentsneed some type of humanities based education.There are other case studies strongly support the conclusions of this integrated approach. Forexample, History of Science and Technology course taught in other institution is an excellentexample. It is an integrated approach to teach history in the engineering curriculum. Throughthis History of Science and Technology course, students will not only be able to identify eventsthat characterize the history of western science and technology, but also be able to think criticallyand comprehensively about the world that derived from these events. Many other universitieshave had this type of course in their

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Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Stier

Page 10.22.5inspection capabilities. The work stations are intended to be moveable to provide flexibility. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 2248Two conveyors will run lengthwise along the side of the workstations to facilitate larger scaleintegration. Figure one shows an example of the layout of the future integrated manufacturinglaboratory. Courses from the freshman level to the senior level will use the new facility. Eightcourses in the present curriculum will be impacted by this laboratory. A

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Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

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Madhukar Vable

BEM. Eachversion having certain advantages for a class of problems [31]. An efficient mesh refinementtechnique that can be used with any version of BEM has been developed [32] that for most prob-lems converges within two iterations to produce accuracies better than 0.1%. However, this meshrefinement technique is applicable to only homogenous materials. These algorithms have beenincorporated into program BEAMUP1 and form an integral part of automating the stress analysisprocess as described in reference [33]. The objective of the automation is to relieve the user of alldecisions related to the analysis process. The user need only describe the boundary value problemin two-dimension which will consist of x and y coordinates of boundary geometry

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Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

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Timothy Keener; Anant Kukreti; Eugene Rutz

”profession has long been recognized. The Engineering Criteria 2000 established by ABETprovide a clear and pragmatic indication of the benefits of integrating education and practice.Many of the program outcomes and assessments articulated by ABET in Criterion 3 can best bemet through this integration. The College of Engineering at the University of Cincinnati has a long and distinguishedhistory as a leader in engineering education having introduced cooperative engineering educationin 1906, and has maintained a mandatory cooperative education system ever since. Ourundergraduate programs span five academic years and include an average of six co-op quarters.With our cooperative education component, we are in a unique position to offer a five

Conference Session

Ethics Classes: Creative or Inefficient

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Magun-Jackson

great diversity in how institutions approach the task ofteaching ethics to undergraduate engineering students.4,5,6 Some curriculums require generalethics courses from philosophical or religious perspectives; others integrate ethics in existingengineering courses. While there is a standard focus and content for engineering courses (e.g.,thermodynamics and hydrology) there is no standard curriculum for an engineering ethics courseand it is often quite difficult for engineering educators who are focused on course content.The purpose of this paper and presentation is to propose a method that is pedagogically based onKohlberg’s stage theory of moral development7 that can implement the integration of ethics inengineering education and to provide a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Garcia Julio; Patricia Backer

laboratory content for Tech 167—Control Systems in line with theories of effectiveness in web-based instruction (Fisher &Nygren1; NSF23; Shiratuddin, Hassan, & Landoni2); (2) Develop multimedia lecture materials forthe teaching/learning of Tech 167—Control Systems using WebCT (Sharer & Frisbee3); (3)Revise the laboratory activities to integrate an electronics kit (consisting of data acquisitionhardware) so that students can complete them following the model established by Wang4 and (d)Integrate LabVIEW and Multisim in the Tech 167 class to provide the students with realistic,industry-based simulation experiencesIntroductionThe Department of Aviation and Technology at San Jose State University (SJSU) offers twobachelor’s degrees: BS in

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Christy Moore; Billy Koen

contributes to the field of philosophy. In the summer of 2004 we begana pilot study in the Department of Mechanical Engineering’s required EngineeringCommunication course that required students to research corporate practice and evaluateprofessional standards of behavior using the Engineering Method as an analytical tool. Page 10.1433.11 Davis, Michael, “Teaching Ethics Across the Engineering Curriculum,” The Online Ethics Center for Engineering andScience Case Western Reserve University: 2004. Caroline Whitbeck in her article “Undergraduate Education in Practical Ethics”2 suggeststhat whatever method we use, the important thing to

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steven VanderLeest

, Quebec, Canada, June,2002.12 Sacks, Arthur B., “Human-Environment Interactions: The Initiation of a New Curriculum”, Proceedings of theAmerican Society of Engineering Education Conference, Seattle, WA, 1998.13 Van Poolen, Lambert, “Towards a Christian Theory of Technological Things,” Christian Scholar’s Review, v33,n3, Spring 2004, p. 368.STEVEN H. VANDERLEEST is a Professor of Engineering at Calvin College. He has an M.S.E.E. from MichiganTech. U. (1992) and Ph.D. from the U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1995). He received a “Who’s Who AmongAmerica’s Teachers” Award in 2004 and 2005 and was director of a FIPSE grant “Building IT Fluency into aLiberal Arts Core Curriculum.” His research includes responsible technology and software

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Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Hunter

activelearning opportunities, promote efficient use of instructional time, and add an element of fun tothe classroom. Examples based on the movie Starman, Shakespeare’s play Henry V, and thesong The Wreck of the Old 97 are included.IntroductionABET criteria require engineering programs to demonstrate that their graduates have, amongother things, “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions ina global and societal context” and “a knowledge of contemporary issues.”1 These outcomes areusually addressed with curriculum requirements for courses in the humanities and socialsciences. However, without additional mechanisms for making a connection between thesecourses and the engineering profession, it is doubtful that most

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Integrating H&SS in Engineering III

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2005 Annual Conference

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Valerie Grash; Andrew Rose

universities attempt to accomplish this through a distribution of elective coursesin the humanities and social sciences, connections between the technical content of theengineering curriculum and the values and paradigms of the humanities and social sciences arenot typically developed or emphasized. Engineering students often do not appreciate theirhumanities and social science electives and have difficulty relating them to their education andcareer goals. In addition, incorporating additional liberal arts courses into an already crowdedcurriculum is difficult for many engineering and engineering technology programs.4 Similarly,students in the humanities, social sciences, and other non-science fields may not fully appreciatethe influence of science

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Integrating H&SS in Engineering III

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2005 Annual Conference

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Yuko Hoshino; Wayne Sanders

Page 10.684.1from all parts of Japan, most students come from nearby regions.“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005 American Society for Engineering Education”The college’s curriculum starts with preparatory courses in mathematics, physics, chemistry,and engineering, along with required liberal arts courses in the first year, and then proceeds tomore specific engineering courses. As for foreign language study, English is mandatory butGerman and Chinese may be taken as electives. KIT was the first college in Japan tointroduce engineering design (ED) education based on courses taught in the United States. Ithas become an essential part of the

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Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jerome Lavelle; Joseph Herkert

possess the skills to assume leadership roles in industry, academia, and government. Page 10.1489.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationWithin the College, degree curricula have been developed that combine technical and non-technical subject matter in an integrated fashion. The goal of the College is to graduate not onlyexcellent technical engineers, but engineers who have a sound foundation in effectivecommunication, and an understanding of the ethical and social context of engineering

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Integrating H&SS in Engineering III

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2005 Annual Conference

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Elisabeth Armstrong; Donna Riley

Page 10.323.2ethics. Ethics topics were integrated with both the course material and the life-cycle assessment Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Session 3661project. (For a more complete description of the ethics work in this class see [7].) Studentsfocused on writing an analysis of one of four case studies, using a draft model. Through peerediting students engaged all four topics. Case studies included: • “USAWAY” – adapted from the Harris et al

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Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Ward; Tonya Emerson

, written and oral communication, and studyskills are integrated into the programs. To benefit the reader on the possible programs andapproaches, a brief description of a number of programs are provided. Samples of individual,stand-alone, courses are described first. Later, the paper will look at integrated curriculums,which attempt to link key courses students take during their first-year to assist students inrelating and integrating the content of these core courses.First-Year Engineering CoursesCSU, Chico’s mechanical engineering department launched an experimental first-year designcourse in 1990 with the intent to improve persistence in the major by exposing first-year studentsto fundamental design concepts and to challenging group design

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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G Murphy; G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

The Integration of State Diagrams with Competency-Based Assessment G. Kohli, D. Veal, S. P. Maj and G. Murphy Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia g.kohli@ecu.edu.auAbstractHands-on units in Computer Networking technologies are increasingly popularamongst Computer Science students. However, to test the hands-on component it hasbeen found to be necessary to use Competency Based Assessment (CBA). The hands-on exercises can become outdated very quickly due to the rapid advancement oftechnology. To offset such effects the authors have developed an abstract high levelmodel to aid students’ conceptual understanding across a range of

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Daniel Walsh; David Gibbs

Session 1726 The Use of Complex, but Inexpensive, Thermo-Mechanical Processing to Illustrate a Range of Engineering Principles in an Integrated and Synergistic Manner Dan Walsh, Dave Gibbs California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoAbstractThe events that occur in metallic materials heated to high temperatures in the dynamicprocessing environment associated with an arc or beam welding operation can be used toillustrate a broad range of fundamental scientific and engineering concepts in a holistic manner.Moreover, the process and resultant weld are

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George Nowak; Barry Shoop; Lisa Shay

degree. Students often fail to appreciate the importance oflinkages within and among courses and subjects, and instead view their undergraduate educationas a series of disjoint and unrelated courses.Making conceptual linkages and transferring knowledge from one context to another is aparticularly important skill for engineers1. Engineers routinely are required to reduce complexproblems to simpler ones that they can understand and analyze using well understood principlesand models. Additionally, learning new information is more effective and efficient if the newinformation is framed within a known context and in fact, deduced from an establishedknowledge base. Deliberate integration of the curriculum that includes topical linkages andconcept

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

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2005 Annual Conference

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Nalini Bhushan; Glenn Ellis; Eleanor Ory

; they’re developingideas, philosophies, and theories about the nature of learning and learning environments.”1 Ellisand Andam9 present strategies for an integrative approach to teaching AI in the K-12environment. A key finding of their research is that integrating AI and philosophy of the mindcan appeal to a broader audience and result in high student interest and achievement. In thispaper we build upon Ellis and Andam’s work by presenting a conceptual framework that usesphilosophy of the mind to organize how students learn about AI. Our approach acknowledgesthat intelligence is a complex issue involving philosophical concerns that must be addressed inorder to develop intelligent machines.Using philosophy to organize AI content significantly

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Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Krueger; Ted Aanstoos; Ronald Barr

in the awareness of programoutcomes and their importance in the curriculum. Many students see them as overly generalizedstatements that have no bearing on the concepts they need to pass a given course. Thus,dissemination of the notion and value of program outcomes is a major hurdle for the faculty.This paper suggests that engaging students at the freshman level in the departmental programoutcomes is one strategy to foster a climate of their acceptance in later courses. Examples offreshman class assignments and projects that address specific program outcomes in a MechanicalEngineering department are presented.IntroductionIn the mid-1990’s, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) developeda new set of criteria for

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ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Lamancusa; Laura L. Pauley; Thomas Litzinger

Page 10.1432.7as the topic of a technical writing report in ENGL 202C6. Alan talked with other students,created a survey, and administered the survey in an ME senior level course. The results of the Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition ©2005, American Society for Engineering Educationsurvey and recommendations for curriculum changes are presented in Alan’s report. Hisfindings confirmed many of the objectives and ideas that the faculty had established: reducingthe number of courses each semester, better integration between courses, adding a junior designcourse, and integrating statistics into the ME instrumentation course. Laura Pauley has met

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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R. L. Kolar; K. Gramoull; T. R. Rhoads; R. C. Knox

(NSF EEC 9872505). Briefly,Sooner City is a comprehensive, integrated, infrastructure design project that is threadedthroughout the OU civil engineering curriculum, beginning in the freshman year.Freshmen are given a plat of undeveloped land that, by the time they graduate, is turnedinto a blueprint for Sooner City’s infrastructure. Among other things, the projectpromotes five outcomes not always addressed by traditional curricula, but which areemphasized by the NSF Engineering Coalitions and ABET 2000: team building,communication, leadership, design, and higher level learning skills. For practicalpurposes, the original Sooner City project was implemented in the context of thetraditional “course-dictated” curriculum. While this strategy