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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Brandon W. Olson

encourage teams to work quickly and accurately. 6) Develop a more accurate means of assessing the student strengths that are used to organize teams. This will help to ensure that each of the teams enjoy a healthy composition of skills and experience. The educational advantages of team based learning, for students and instructors, more thanjustify the additional effort and planning required. The simple and relatively crude examplespresented here demonstrate that the approach is effective even with limited experience orsophistication. The recommendations and improvements, listed above, should help other newTBL instructors to recognize and avoid a few of the pitfalls and problems that result frominexperience. Students seem to

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Throne

the response of our model are shown.We were trying to have the second cart match a one cm step input. Page 10.643.16 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”AssessmentAt the conclusion of the course, the thirteen students taking the class were asked to completequestionaires designed by Rose-Hulman's Office of Institutional Research, Planning, andAssessment. These questionaires had two types of questions: survey questions and questionsabout the level of knowledge and confidence in various course

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Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Brett Hamlin; Gretchen Hein

favorable experience, but ata lower rate than the women.The Department of Engineering Fundamentals plans on continuing this survey to see if the trendschange over time. This research will continue to seek out the qualitative and quantitative factorsthat effect and/or enhance the success of women engineering students.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank the ENG1101 and ENG1102 students who voluntarily completethe optional questions each semester. They thank the Department of Engineering Fundamentalsfaculty for asking their students to complete the survey. Without the students and the facultyinput, this study would not have been possible

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TC2K Issues and Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Higley; Jana Whittington; Joy Colwell

not have the data necessary for a longitudinal analysis of this type. Work in this areais planned for the future.Assessing “Soft” Skills with Formative Assessments Page 10.230.5Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2150Soft skills, such as communication, teamwork, and diversity, have been assessed in a variety ofways. Part of the assessment includes traditional methods such as quizzes, tests andassignments. The

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Documenting Success

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steven Mickelson

purpose of assessing our learningcommunity initiative.Surveys. We have found surveys to be an easy, efficient, and effective way to gatherinformation from our learning community participants. A combination of forced answerLikert-type questions combined with open-ended questions provides us an opportunity toassess our target objectives and to gather meaningful reflective comments from thestudents. The data is useful for program planning on a semester-by-semester basis. Inaddition, we have maintained continuity in the survey tools, which has allowed us tocompare data from year to year.Focus Groups. We began using focus groups in the Fall 2000 semester as a method toaugment our survey data. Focus groups are a qualitative research method which

Conference Session

Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Susan Miller; Mara Wasburn

counterparts. Those who do enroll are far less likely toremain.12 Historically, some reasons that have been cited are lack of confidence in their mathand science abilities, and lower levels of self confidence and self-efficacy, resulting at least inpart from their lack of technological experience in college compared to men.18Students often fail to consider career-relevant decisions until shortly before they graduate. Thewomen students in this course are encouraged to create a personal road map to careerdevelopment and planning by which they can better navigate their subsequent semesters of workand study at Purdue.ProceduresThe following section describes the initial efforts of a study that we conducted to gauge theeffectiveness of our freshman seminar

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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

education. Their use is based onthe theory that meaningful learning is an effortful process involving the construction ofrelationships between the learner’s existing knowledge and new knowledge. They have beenused in a wide variety of ways including for assessment11, 12, 13, 14, as planning tools15, 16 and forproblem solving17, 18. Figure 1 illustrates a procedure reported by Ellis et al18. for using teacher-generated concept maps to organize ideas in engineering curricula. Based upon this approach wehave developed a concept map for philosophy of the mind that is useful for structuring AIknowledge and is developmentally appropriate for the high school classroom. The map wascreated by an interdisciplinary team of engineers, educators and

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hilary Lackritz, Purdue University; Laura Demsetz, College of San Mateo; Olivia Graeve, University of Nevada-Reno; Amy Moll, Boise State University; Elliot Douglas, University of Florida; Stacy Gleixner, San Jose State University

objectives and assessment tools createdalong with the lab exercises. Page 10.473.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThe overall goal is to develop a diverse set of modules such that faculty could choose themodules based on the learning objectives appropriate to their class and the technologies ofinterest to their students. Development work began in the summer of 2004. This paper willexplain the full plan for the three year project as well as provide detail on the development

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

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Fong Mak; Stephen Frezza

outcomes arerealized within the curriculum, and thus the mapping from the program outcomes and ultimatelyto the program curriculum becomes important. An effective assessment of the program outcomesincludes an analysis of the correlation of the program outcomes to the minimum course set thatcomprise the program curriculum.At Gannon University, we correlate the individual course objectives of all required electricalengineering courses to the program outcomes. With this correlation of each course’s objectivesto the program outcomes in place, we have a plan for how the program objectives will be met Page 10.1429.2within the curriculum. Thus, one

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ramachandran Venkatasubramanian; Brian Skromme

potential; the total electron and holeconcentrations; the excess electron and hole concentrations; the electron, hole, and total currentdensities (Jn, Jp, and J); the net (Shockley-Read-Hall, SRH) recombination rate (Rnet) as afunction of position; and the separate drift and diffusion components of the electron and holecurrent densities. Another sheet shows miniature, side-by-side versions of all these plots, so thatthe interrelationships among the various quantities can be more easily visualized. The abruptdepletion approximation is currently used for the electrostatic quantities, although we plan toincorporate the exact electrostatic solution as well in a later version. The currents and excesscarrier densities in the bulk regions of arbitrary

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Leslie Collins; Lisa Huettel

competitive in the marketplace, and tocontinue to attract the highest quality students, our faculty have developed new laboratoryresources for DSP instruction.Our goal is to develop a signal processing laboratory that will serve sophomore- through senior-level students in core, topic, and design courses. Many institutions have created DSP laboratoriesfor their ECE students, and we have adapted material that has been successfully used elsewhere.In typical DSP laboratories, upper-level students gain direct experience with programming DSPchips in order to solve engineering problems. However, our planned laboratory has twoinnovative aspects. First, we will integrate the laboratory vertically throughout the curriculum, toenhance or replace existing

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jeffrey Newcomer

time of lecture (before 10:00 a.m.) andthe textbook.Conclusions/Future WorkAt this time there are no significant changes planned for the MESH course. There will be someminor adjustments, but overall the course appears to be meeting its goals according to both as-sessment data and observation. As a result of the new structure with active learning assignments,students are engaged in the course and are developing a grasp of the material to the desired levelfor an introductory course. The six active learning assignments—task assessment, lifting as-sessment, work station design, interface design, OSHA standard report, and accident report—arethe heart of the course, and they are the reason that the course is able to meet its goals.Bibliography1

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Useful Assessment in Materials Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Edward Goo; Maura Borrego

the exam?” This level of analysis is tentatively planned for futuresemesters. Page 10.334.4 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationStatistical analysis was run using SPSS statistical software14. Pearson correlations (2-tailed significance) were calculated for all pairs of variables. Independent samples t-testswere employed to compare groups (In all cases students were split into just 2 categories,in part due to the relatively small sample size.). A stepwise linear multiple regression wasalso run to see if

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Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stephen Lancaster; Susan Walden; Teri Murphy; Deborah Trytten

: Falmer Press.18. Tobin, K., Garnett, P. (1987). Gender-Related Differences in Science Activities. Science Education, 71: 91-103.19. Morse, L.W., Handley, H. M. (1985). “Listening to Adolescents: Gender Differences in Science Classrooms. In L.C. Wlkinson and C.B. Marrett, eds., Gender Influences in Classroom Interactions, Madison, WI: Academic Press.20. Gallego, Juan C. (1995). A Survey of Native and Nonnative TA’s Office Hours: Importance, Attendance, and Content. Research in Education, Sept. 1997.21. Ware, N.C., Dill, D. (1986). Persistence in Science Among Mathematically Able Male and Female College Students with Pre-College Plans for a Scientific Major. San Fransisco, CA: Paper presented at

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Pedagogy

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sean Brophy

. Therefore, one optionis to construct several simple tutorials that students could use to learn about the program.Most students eventually figured out how to use the interface, but using simple onlinetutorials could reduce this learning time. Reducing the threshold for learning to use thistool may invite a number of students in a group to become more expert at using the tool.Finally, additional research needs to be done to explore how changes in students learningof thermodynamics compared to prior implementation of the course that did not useCequel. Think aloud protocols are planned to assess students’ ability to use graphicalrepresentations to predict system performance in several “what if” scenarios. Also,students from last year’s class, who

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Russomanno; Anna Lambert

in attempting to solve thesituations that have been encountered, and we detail new processes planned for the 2004-2008 project cycle. Page 10.1347.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationIntroductionThis paper presents the efforts of a multi-disciplinary leadership team comprised offaculty and staff members from six different disciplines as applied to the administrationof a National Science Foundation grant (DUE-0122950). The program is titled “AScholarship Program for Computer Science, Engineering, and

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Program Delivery Methods and Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

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Bruce Thompson

technically orientedpeople who would be potential students in the program. Once identified, events such as breakfastmeetings with groups of managers in these firms can be planned. Page 10.1312.8 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education B. Focusing the Vision The program has always suffered from an identity problem. Despite the name, it is not acombination of engineering and management. Nor is it limited to those whose interest is themanagement of engineering departments. While the

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

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Juan Lucena; Elizabeth Bauer; David Munoz; Joan Gosink; Barbara Moskal

given to attitudinal differencesbetween male and female students and among students in different age groups.I. IntroductionSince the Marshall Plan of 1947 and President Truman’s famous ‘Point Four’ of his secondinaugural address, United States foreign policy has stressed the importance of applying technicalknowledge to aid ‘under-developed’ countries2. This has resulted in more than five decades ofU.S. funding for humanitarian projects; however, because most U.S. engineers choose to work inthe corporate sector, few have made substantial contributions to the solution of the humanitarianproblems that face other nations. The few engineers who do work in U.S. aid and developmentorganizations must commit to the objectives of U.S. foreign policy

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Improving Statics and Dynamics

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2005 Annual Conference

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Phillip Cornwell; Richard Layton

Plane Motion 4.4.1 Velocity 4.4.2 Instantaneous Center of Velocity 4.4.3 Accelerations 4.5 Rotating Axis ProblemsAppendix A - Mass Moments of InertiaEngineering educators interested in trying this approach may request a free copy of this book andmay distribute it to their students. The authors would also be willing to share their course notes.A copy of the textbook can be downloaded from:http://www.rose.hulman.edu/~cornwell/courses/es204/Mechanical_Systems_Book.pdf.A lesson plan for a one-semester course with suggested reading using a more traditional textbookis shown in Table 7. The readings were chosen from Beer and Johnston4. The schedule shown inTable 7 is very similar to what was used before textbooks were developed for ES201

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ELD Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kiem-Dung Ta; Helen Clements; Kevin Drees

intraffic corresponding to students from this course. Librarians assisted students searching forinformation in the form of government documents and technical reports.Summary/RecommendationsThe plan is to continue to collaborate with the Engineering College and the English Departmentto further develop this instruction. As indicated above, the use of search examples relevant tostudents’ topics helped focus the audience, increase their participation and reduce some of thelecture content. The intention is to continue in this direction. For the spring 2005 semester, oneinstructor indicated her intention to assign a fact-finding exercise using print reference sources inaddition to the session taught by a librarian. Another idea is to have students

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K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

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Malinda Zarske; Rene Reitsma; Martha Cyr; Nancy Shaw; Michael Mooney; Jacquelyn Sullivan; Paul Klenk

(www.nsdl.org). TeachEngineering is a searchable, web-enabledcollection of standards-based K-12 engineering curricula, capitalizing on using engineering as avehicle for teaching science and math in K-12 classrooms. The collection was released in early2005, and includes more than 20 curricular units, more than 100 lessons and nearly 200 hands-onengineering activities developed by the partner institutions. Some of the curricular materials use“living labs,” student-friendly web portals to real and archived data from real-world systems foruse in math, science and engineering activities. We plan to markedly expand the collectionduring the next few years by including hundreds of engineering lessons and activities created bycountless engineers involved in K

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Writing and Communication II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Luke Niiler; David Beams

/computersFig. 1: Self-reported factors involved in freshmen students' choice of engineering as a major.Figure 1 clearly demonstrates that the majority of students planning careers in engineering wereattracted by the challenges of problem-solving and the exercise of creativity.Figure 2 shows the distribution of the 69 freshman responses to the question of the knowledgeand skills that they expected to develop in their undergraduate studies. The categories wereagain developed from the responses. These students listed a broad range of skills and knowledgethey expected to develop; the "soft" skills of teamwork and communication receivedsurprisingly-high responses. Since this was a mixed group consisting of both EE and MEstudents, the split responses

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Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Ciletti; Gregory Plett

) straight (even with mis-matched motors and treads), but still have the ability to turn. Students also use the light sensor to distinguish between multiple colors. Figure 6. Plan of final contest playing surface.The course culminates in a competition-based final design project coined “Robo-Challenge”.This semester’s design challenge is for each team to build and program a robot that will competeagainst robots from other teams in a game of “robot golf”. In a two-minute period, the robotswill attempt to collect golf balls positioned on the playing surface (see Figure 6) and place themin holes (2 points for putting it in the hole on the slanted surface on the side the robot started on,three points for the center hole, and –2 points

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Bringing Biology into Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Scott Schaffer; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Jenna Rickus; Matthew Verleger

, envisioned seven topics, each withcorresponding online learning modules. To allow for more rapid development and prototyping,Macromedia Flash MX 2004 was selected as the development environment of the modules andtheir associated architecture. To help with the data collection process, a PHP/MySQL databasewas connected to the Flash architecture. For the first iteration of the course, it was decided thatthree online learning modules would be developed. The remaining four modules are planned for Page 10.491.2later development based on the evaluation of the first three. Ion transport, phylogenetic Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for

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Mathematics Curriculum in Transition

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2005 Annual Conference

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Nathan Klingbeil

run of EGR 101 has confirmed thefeasibility of the course, with over 80% of the initial enrollment completing the course with agrade of “C” or better. Student perception following the first run of EGR 101 was alsoencouraging. On average, students confirmed that EGR 101 had increased their motivation tostudy both math and engineering, as well as their chance of success in future math andengineering courses. The ultimate effect of EGR 101 and the restructured engineeringcurriculum on student retention and success in core courses remains to be seen, and will beclosely studied in the months and years to come.Acknowledgements This work has been supported by a planning grant from the National Science Foundation,Division of Engineering

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Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

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Linda Strauss; Patrick Terenzini

development meets organizational realities: A conceptual framework for organizational change, examples, and recommendations. Personnel Psychology, 57 (1): 175-209. 4. Tinkelman, S. N. (1971). Planning the objective test. In R. L. Thorndike (Ed.), Educational measurement (2nd ed., pp. 46-80). Washington, DC: American Council on Education. 5. Adams, S. G. (2001). The effectiveness of the E-team approach to invention and innovation with multidisciplinary student teams. 5th Annual National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance National Conference. March 7-10, Washington, D.C. 6. Colbeck, C. L., Cabrera, A. F., & Marine, R. J. (2001). Assessing overall competence of faculty: EC

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Engineering Education Research and Assessment II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Glen Livesay; Kay C Dee

(Active-Reflective: n = 151; Sensor-Intuitor: n = 153; Visual-Verbal: n = 157;Sequential-Global: n = 143).Since the ILS was administered to the entire freshman class of engineering students, the learningstyles of a variety of planned engineering majors are contained within the data. The top threeintended majors were: 25% biomedical engineering, 18% undecided engineering, 13%mechanical engineering. Assessment of differences in student learning styles as a function ofintended major was not an objective of the current study, but the relative percentages of majorswere examined to verify that the sample obtained in this work was representative of a ‘normal’freshman engineering class at Tulane University. The percentage of female students included

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Xiannong Meng; Luiz Perrone; Maurice Aburdene

lack expertise in the topics and require additional training .The track approach fares well in following Bruce Schneier’s recommendation to treat “securityas a process, not a product” [5], especially when compared to the single-course approach.Azadegan et al. [1] present a very strong plan for an undergraduate track in computer securitythat has been in use at Towson University since 2001. While this track keeps the standard corecourses in the general Computer Science curriculum, it adds as many as five new ComputerScience electives (Introduction to Information Security, Network Security, Application SoftwareSecurity, Operating Systems Security, and Case Studies in CS) and one Math elective(Introduction to Cryptography). Judging by this list of

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Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Marie Flynn

perhaps Ecuador’s severest economic crisis of this generation, the governmentof Ecuador has come up with a plan to double its export of oil. Construction of a new, aboveground oil pipeline, the OCP (Oleoducto de Crudo Pesado, or Heavy Crude Pipeline) will makeit possible to open up vast new areas of the Amazon to oil exploration. Efficient transportation ofthe crude requires that the temperature of the crude remain above its pour point. Below its pourpoint of 35°C, the crude takes on a wax-like consistency. The crude enters the OCP at 70°C, thetemperature is monitored until it begins to approach its pour point (Toil ≈ 40°C), at which pointsteam is injected to raise the temperature of the crude back up to 70°C. This proposed pipelinewill pass

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

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sonia Sanchez; S. Khalid Latif; Elias Faraclas; Catherine Koehler; Kazem Kazerounian

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”plan, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), claims that American students are falling behind theirinternational counterparts in science and mathematics. As such, new high stakes testinginitiatives to “prove” that students are “learning” are being implemented at an alarming rate. Itis essential that students from the United States are competent in mathematics and sciencehowever, in today’s global economy it is increasingly important that our students are alsocompetitively competent with technology. Results from research conducted in the 1989 studytitled, Pupils’ Attitude Toward Technology, (PATT) [1] indicated that most students whoparticipated were unaware of the history and evolution of