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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Elif Kongar; Tarek Sobh

research associate in the Laboratory for Responsible Manufacturing(LRM) at Northeastern University since September 1999. She has also been employed as an Assistant Professor byYildiz Technical University till February 2006. Dr. Kongar is currently an Assistant Professor at BridgeportUniversity. Her research interests include the areas of supply chain management, logistics, environmentallyconscious manufacturing, product recovery, disassembly systems, production planning and scheduling and multiplecriteria decision making.Dr. Tarek M. Sobh received the B.Sc. in Engineering degree with honors in Computer Science and AutomaticControl from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt in 1988, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees inComputer and

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Eileen M. Kowalski; Joe D. Manous

Education and Practice. 131:4, 218-222.7. Friesen, Marcia, K. Lynn Taylor, and M.G. Britton (2005) “A Qualitative Study of a Course Trilogy in Biosystems Engineering Design”. Journal of Engineering Education. 94:3, 287-296.8. Grigg, Neil S., Marvin E. Criswell, Darrell G. Fontane, Laurel Saito, Thomas J. Siller, and Daniel K. Sunada (2004) “Integrated Civil Engineering Curriculum: Five-Year Review”. Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice. 130:3, 160-165.9. Light, Richard J., Judith D. Singer, and John B. Willett (1990) By Design, Planning Research on Higher Education. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 296p.10. Newstetter, Wendy C. (2005) “Designing Cognitive Apprenticeships for

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Elif Kongar; Tarek Sobh

research associate in the Laboratory for Responsible Manufacturing(LRM) at Northeastern University since September 1999. She has also been employed as an Assistant Professor byYildiz Technical University till February 2006. Dr. Kongar is currently an Assistant Professor at BridgeportUniversity. Her research interests include the areas of supply chain management, logistics, environmentallyconscious manufacturing, product recovery, disassembly systems, production planning and scheduling and multiplecriteria decision making.Dr. Tarek M. Sobh received the B.Sc. in Engineering degree with honors in Computer Science and AutomaticControl from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt in 1988, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees inComputer and

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Hudson V. Jackson; Evelyn A. Ellis

futurepublications.ConclusionThe opportunities for PK-12 students to be exposed to engineering and its benefits to the world in generaland to each individual in particular are infinite. Through strategic planning and the creation of real-worldconnections, students can be inspired to consider engineering as a “normal” part of everyday living whichprovides a pathway for the development of creative ideas that can impact the world in both positive andnegative ways. Through “career imprinting,” PK-12 students can be encouraged to fully connect learningand living so they more intimately understand why what they are learning really matters. They will then,hopefully, choose to become engineers who are committed to making the world a better place to live,work, and play now as

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Bahram Nassersharif

publications.ConclusionThe design and implementation of this classroom has been both an exciting and challenging experience.We have stretched the limits of some the technologies for use in a classroom; for example, the number ofvisual displays, the distances for transmission high definition digital signals from the computer source tothe screens, etc.The response by professors and students has been very positive. Some faculty will be using all of thetechnology available to them as they change their instructional techniques while some will probably useonly the basic features of the classroom. One workshop has already been offered for faculty andadditional workshops are planned during the spring semester for faculty to maximize their use of thisclassroom.Many students

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

M. Ali Montazer, University of New Haven

regardless of size, budget and product mix.More recently, as a decision support tool, simulation modeling has also become aneffective and easy-to-use tool in implementing Lean / Six sigma programs. West Point, NY - ASEE Zone I 2008 ConferenceLean / Six Sigma ConceptsThe concepts of Lean / Six Sigma trace their origins in Industrial Engineering whereunderstanding the basics of production systems for planning, scheduling, and controllingproduction amounts and timing are fundamental to the discipline. In its simplestmeaning, Lean refers to efforts to eliminate waste in a system or a process, maintainingcontinuous improvement, and bringing greater efficiencies to the production operation.The paperback book by Womack et al (1991

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Bahram Nassersharif

publications.ConclusionThe design and implementation of this classroom has been both an exciting and challenging experience.We have stretched the limits of some the technologies for use in a classroom; for example, the number ofvisual displays, the distances for transmission high definition digital signals from the computer source tothe screens, etc.The response by professors and students has been very positive. Some faculty will be using all of thetechnology available to them as they change their instructional techniques while some will probably useonly the basic features of the classroom. One workshop has already been offered for faculty andadditional workshops are planned during the spring semester for faculty to maximize their use of thisclassroom.Many students

Conference Session

SPECIAL SESSION: Describing the Engineering Student Learning Experience Based on CAEE Findings: Part 1

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia Atman, University of Washington; Lorraine Fleming, Howard University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Ronald Miller, Colorado School of Mines; Karl Smith, University of Minnesota; Reed Stevens, University of Washington; Ruth Streveler, Purdue University; Christine Loucks-Jaret, University of Washington; Dennis Lund, University of Washington

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Educational Research and Methods

preparedness in each of these competencies corresponded to how theyperceived their relative importance. The vast majority of students felt at least fairly wellprepared in problem solving, communication and teamwork, but relatively few students felt aswell prepared with respect to contemporary issues and context35. Overall, student perceptions ofother important elements of design changed during their college years, with an increased focuson identifying constraints and iterating, and decreased focus on communicating, planning, andvisualizing36. Survey results indicated that nonpersisters report lower levels of confidence intheir math and science skills than persisters (as first-year and sophomore students32).Interestingly, international students from

Conference Session

SPECIAL SESSION: Describing the Engineering Student Learning Experience Based on CAEE Findings: Part 2

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Russell Korte, The University of Texas-Tyler; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; William Jordan, CRL-Stanford University

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Educational Research and Methods

throughput and scheduling, and planning for manufacturing flexibility. He received a PhD in Transportation Systems Modeling from Cornell University in 1982, an M.S. in Civil Engineering from Northwestern University in 1979, and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Syracuse University in 1976. He is a member of INFORMS and the Institute of Industrial Engineers. Page 13.94.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 A Qualitative Study of the Early Work Experiences of Recent Graduates in Engineering.AbstractAfter several years of demanding study, new engineers

Conference Session

International CIase Studies: Collabs, Exchanges & Interactions

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carmen Villa, Texas A&M; Jennifer Sandlin, Arizona State University

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International

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K12 Teachers

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brant Miller, University Of Minnesota; Tamara Moore, University Of Minnesota

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Impression (FI) - expressions of amazement, excitement, and impression over facilities and instrumentation found within SDSM&T and the greater Black Hills region. • Ownership (O) - expression of the research being a topic of expertise. A tone of authority and investment. • Understanding Research (UR) - a new or different understanding of the enterprise of research, i.e. logistics, reality, lack of glamour, etc. • Collaboration (C) - expression of future desires or plans of working with or utilizing university or research personnel. • Content Increase (CI) - expressions of increased content knowledge for the betterment of lesson delivery. • Procedural to Conceptual understanding (P-C

Conference Session

SPECIAL SESSION: Describing the Engineering Student Learning Experience Based on CAEE Findings: Part 2

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Turns, University of Washington; Jessica Yellin, University of Washington; Yi-Min Huang, University of Washington; Brook Sattler, University of Washington

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Educational Research and Methods

teaching decisions that they had maderecently: (1) a decision that they made during the planning stage of a class, and (2) an interactivedecision that they made “on the fly” during an interaction with students. In addition, we askedthe educators to provide background information about themselves, to define a teaching decisionin their own words, and to summarize their process for making decisions about their teaching ingeneral. In order to be consistent with the CDM method, we asked educators to choose decisionsthat were memorable, recent, and interesting to them. We found that for many of the educators, Page 13.1391.7the memorable and interesting

Conference Session

The Academic Environment

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica Young, Syracuse University; John Tillotson, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

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Women in Engineering

Conference Session

Programmatic Issues in Physics or Engineering Physics Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Glenn Ellis, Smith College; Mary Moriarty, Smith College; Gary Felder, Smith College

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Engineering Physics & Physics

: Variables by frequency and mean, (based on a scale of 1 to 5; SD=Strongly Disagree,SA=Strongly Agree)Post-Course Follow-upEarly data from the Fall 2007 semester indicates that the gains associated with the Physics andEngineering Problem Solving class may have resulted in only modest long-term gains in otherclasses. Nine of the 11 students (including two who planned to quit engineering before takingthe summer class) decided to enroll in the next-level core engineering class (EGR 270Continuum Mechanics) and achieved moderate success. One student received a grade of B, fivestudents received a C, and three received a D grade for the semester. It is not known whether

Conference Session

Professional Skills and the Workplace

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology; daniel ferguson, Illinois Institute of Technology; Elizabeth Howard, Illinois Institute of Technology; June Ferrill, Rice University; Lisa Getzler-Linn, Lehigh University

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Educational Research and Methods

-alone course,12,13 or integrated withinexisting courses or programs, with special modules.4 There is no compelling evidence aboutwhich of these strategies is more effective.PROJECT PLAN Page 13.544.3On the basis of such prior research, we have begun pilot-testing a strategy for developing anawareness of ethical issues by having students create a Code of Ethics for a project in which theyare engaged for a semester (or more). Our strategy involves integrating ethics materials into anexisting course structure, relying on the “regular” faculty with outside expert consultants.Wehave implemented versions of an intervention in three universities, with

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Golanbari, University of the Pacific; Rick Garlikov, Garlikov.Com

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Electrical and Computer

arerelatively difficult teaching goals. This paper proposes that it may be possible toaccomplish these goals by combining the use of traditional lectures with active andcollaborative learning and with the Socratic Method of directive questioning/reasoning,in which the instructor poses a problem and asks a series of directive, probing questions,to help students follow a particular approach to solving the problem.The directed questions contain useful information to assist students in (a) understandingthe problem, (b) devising a plan to solve the problem, (c) carrying out the plan, and,finally, (d) reviewing/extending the problem. In the last step [step (d)], students areencouraged to reflect and look back at the implications of the problem solution, what

Conference Session

At The Institutional Level

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Judy Loveless-Morris, University of Washington; Priti Mody-Pan; Robert Embrey, Highline Community College; Kali Kuwada, Seattle Central Community College; Marisela Mendoza, Columbia Basin College; Robert Olsen, Washington State University; Eve Riskin, University of Washington

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Women in Engineering

initialdevelopment phase of NW-ETEP in order to determine the most appropriate evaluation strategiesand to explore the most productive ways to embed these activities into the work plan from thebeginning. This long term involvement has helped build relationships between the sitecoordinators and evaluation team which makes the assessment process operate smoothly withless suspicion and distrust. Additionally, keeping the evaluator informed of changes in programdirection helps to make the assessment more effective since the recommendations can be moretargeted to current programming elements. A challenge to this process, however, is that theevaluator should still remain objective in order not to interpret data too creatively in favor ofpositive outcomes. The

Conference Session

Teaching Engineering and Public Policy

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Gillespie, Rowan University; Krishan Bhatia, Rowan University; William Riddell, Rowan University

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Engineering and Public Policy

efforts for PV by the NJCEP were extremely successful – there is currently a longqueue of customers waiting to apply for a rebate program. As a result, outreach for PV power iscurrently deemphasized by the NJCEP. Research on the application of micro-hydro power inNew Jersey is currently being planned. Table 2. Summary of the four main project activities 1. Clean Energy Symposia 2. Energy Audits 3. Anemometer Loan Program 4. Technical Support and Outreach Page 13.1060.5Continued funding through state

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Student Engagement and Motivation

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda Vanasupa, California Polytechnic State University; Trevor Harding, California Polytechnic State University; William Hughes, California Polytechnic State University

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Educational Research and Methods

cognition, motivation and behavior, guidedand constrained by their goals and the contextual features in the environment” as self-regulated learning or self-regulation5. Self-regulated learning consists of threecomponents: 1) metacognitive strategies (planning, monitoring and modifying one’scognitive development); 2) time-management on academics tasks; 3) employment ofstrategies to learn and understand material6. An attribute of self-regulated learning isone’s autonomy, or freedom to act independently. Because learning occurs within thelearner through interaction with environmental elements (e.g., socil interaction, learningtools), all learning is controlled by the learner, to some extent. That is, one’s developmentrequires that the learner choose

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Kornecki, ERAU; Thomas Hilburn, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott; Wojciech Grega, AGH; Jean-Marc Thririet, LAG; Miroslav Sveda, BUT

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International

) for the first two topicareas (Software Engineering and Digital Systems) are additionally assigned to either a Basic (B)or an Advanced (A) category. Please note that there may be more than one course in a specifictopic area on the same level.1. Software Engineering‚ Basic Level: programming and the discipline of software engineering, system/software lifecycle, project management and planning, requirements solicitation, methods and practices‚ Advanced Level: modeling and formal representation, architectural and detailed design with appropriate notations and tools, software construction, testing, quality assurance, and maintenance.2. Digital Systems‚ Basic Level: digital system concepts and operation, design of combinatorial and sequential

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Hrynuk, Clarkson University; Matthew Pennington, Clarkson University; David Illig, Clarkson University; John P. Dempsey, Clarkson University

12 Input and Output 13 Logical Operators and Functions 14 Planning Tools and Selection Structures 15 Lab 2 16 For Loops 17 While Loops 18 Exam 2 19 Additional Looping Concepts 20 Lab 3 Lecture 21 Lab 3 Week 1 22 3-D Plotting and Interpolation 23 Lab 3 Week 2 24 LabVIEW Introduction 25 LabVIEW Programming 26 LabVIEW

Conference Session

Use of Technology to Provide Civil Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean-Pierre Bardet, University of Southern California; Dennis McLeod, University of Southern California; Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Nazila Mokarram, University of Southern California

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Civil Engineering

courserelationship with the topics concept. They then enter the topic “dynamics”, and a semantic searchis performed, returning precisely the facts specifying the prerequisite courses for all courseswhose topics include “dynamics”. This is essentially analogous to a structured database search,where the database is semantically structured by the ontology. In this case, we get a verysignificant increase in accuracy; so that accuracy would likely in the high 90%s.We plan to experiment with the above approaches, providing both and allowing users to trythem, along of course with a traditional word-based search option. We will record the results(anonymously), and will analyze and compare the effectiveness of the two ontology-basedapproaches with the word-based

Conference Session

Materials Education Perspectives

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rajiv Asthana, University of Wisconsin-Stout

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Materials

was to prepare an educational resource to supplementformal instruction that offered deeper, stand-alone coverage of selected processing topics thanelementary textbooks that incorporate broader but shallower surveys arranged in an evolutionarypattern to establish the foundation of a class. The paper describes the author’s own experiencesin writing the book and addresses broader lessons learned.IntroductionThe World Wide Web and public libraries are replete with wonderful resources on how to write abook. The abundance of accumulated wisdom of well-published authors enshrined in suchresources undeniably is a valuable guide for beginners planning to tread an uncharted territory.This paper has a more modest goal: it describes the author’s own

Conference Session

Computer Education Management Tools I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sabina Jeschke, University of Stuttgart; Olivier Pfeiffer, Technische Universitaet Berlin; Thomas Richter, University of Stuttgart

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Computers in Education

pedagogical concepts to support teaching of mathematics for mathematicians, engineers and natural scientists - at the TU Berlin in 2001, as a research assistant at SFB609 in Dresden from 2002-2004, and is now part of the Team of the MuLF (Center for Multimedia in Education and Research) at the TU Berlin). In the past three years, Olivier Pfeiffer focused on the organization and coordination of the involved teams and contributed to several other eLTR related projects. He is also involved in the planning and application of future eLTR projects at the Berlin University of Technology and the local coordinator at the TU Berlin of the EMECW3 project. His research interest focuses on the

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics III

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Jordan, Baylor University

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Engineering Ethics

their projects.• We recommend that each trip include an exploratory component so that future projects can be planned without the expense of separate exploratory trips.• Given the health issues we faced, we recommend that some health care personnel come with any engineering group that is going to a rural site in East Africa. The potential for serious illness is too high to risk not having someone on site to be able to help us.There are some other issues that relate to making service learning a more important part of theElectrical and Mechanical Engineering programs at our university. One example would be tomake the projects technically more challenging, but also allow the students to get three semesterhours of technical elective

Conference Session

Innovations in Biological/Agricultural Education-II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Meyer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Biological & Agricultural

annualDepartment open house. The open house includes invited other students, alumni, faculty,administrators and potential employers. Team sizes are either two or three members. Theprinciples of Michaelsen, et al. (2004 and 2007) are considered in team group planning and Page 13.753.7facilitation. The final written term paper was graded according to the instrument shown inAppendix B. A brief summary description of selected projects for the years 2004 -2007 are givenbelow. The major pieces of electronic equipment are also given.1. Ultrasonic Measurement of Water Levels with an Embedded System (2007).The area of ground water and surface water

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan McGaughey, Carnegie Mellon University; Jeremy Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

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Engineering Technology

them to plan out future lectures. Students will also be able to catch errors or askcritical-thinking questions, and the instructor can even set up a reward system forinsightful student input. Thus, the notes will be in a dynamic state throughout thesemester, and they can be updated and reused in future course offerings or even for othercourses with overlapping material. Course notes can also easily be linked off of the maincourse schedule, and connections among topics can be emphasized by linking key wordsto related pages of course notes. Page 13.1402.53.3 Monitoring student progressWhen students are given assignments to contribute new material to

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suk Kim Chin, Australian Catholic University

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2008-1661: A STRUCTURED ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK FOR TEAMWORKSuk Kim Chin, Australian Catholic University Suk Kim Chin is a Lecturer in the Institute of Business and Informatics in the Australian Catholic University, Sydney. She graduated from the University of Technology (Sydney, NSW) with a PhD in Telecommunications Engineering and a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching and Learning in 2003. Her research interests include multicast technology, enterprise resource planning, and developing effective teaching models in engineering education. Page 13.111.1© American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Assessment of K-12 Engineering Programs and Issues

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noemi Mendoza Diaz, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica Cox, Purdue University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

(Boston Museum of Science)General Description: The Center’s goal is to integrate engineering as a new discipline in schoolsnationwide and to inspire the next generation of engineers and innovators. It offers curriculum,professional development, and partnership with industry, and school systems. The Center isresponsible for the following programs:Engineering is Elementary: Engineering and Technology Lessons for Children (EiE) is aimed toelementary level students. The program integrates engineering content with elementary scienceconcepts. “Each unit focuses on a field of engineering—for example, materials engineering,mechanical engineering, and environmental engineering—and includes a child's illustratedstorybook, lesson plans, and student

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Khalid Al-Olimat, Ohio Northern University

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Electrical and Computer

enables the Page 13.943.2instructor to custom design and individualize instruction and learner to “plan, execute, andmanage” his or her learning experience at the rate, place, and time of the learner’s choice.Folkestad and De Miranda11 have used multimedia through screen-capture to teach students howto use CAD software. They reported that students were unsatisfied with this instructional tooldue to its fast pace and the need to switch back and forth from the recorded lecture to the CADsoftware. In paper12 a new instructional tool was developed and the problems encountered inreference11 were solved by having a variable pace (slow, medium, fast