Conference Session

Engineering and Math Potpouri

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bertram Pariser, Technical Career Institute, Inc.; Cyrus Meherji, Technical Career Institute, Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

The MP4 file format is around 166MB (uses H.264, 30fps, 640x480)The intent of the H.264/AVC project was to create a standard capable of providing goodvideo quality at substantially lower bit rates than previous standards (e.g. half or less the bitrate of MPEG-2, H.263, or MPEG-4 Part 2),The video conversions were done using the free download from AVS Video Convertor 5.63The video lecture is on the web and can be seen by going tohttp://www.tcicampus.net/userfolder/bpariser and clicking on Video Lectures. Our students like the ideathat they can slow down the lecture, stop and rewind the lecture and go over it until they get it. Thelecture is well received and this TAC-ABET outcome objective has increase from 50% to 75

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Teams

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Durward Sobek, Montana State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

even moredifficult to evaluate. Over the past year, we have introduced a new course at the junior-level, “Introduction to Engineering Design.” The course focuses on the skills necessaryto complete a project in a multi-disciplinary team, and it will eventually be required forall engineering students as a precursor to their department-specific capstone designcourses. In a previous paper, we described our approach of using the engineering designprocess to determine the best solution to the problem of providing students with a multi-disciplinary educational experience in engineering at Montana State University.1In order to determine if our new course improves student performance in this area, wedeveloped a rubric for evaluating an individual’s

Conference Session

Emerging Technologies / Pedagogies

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eugene Rutz, University of Cincinnati; Chris Collins, University of Cincinnati; Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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Continuing Professional Development

services that integrate emerging technologies into existing and future curricula for distance learning, hybrid, and traditional courses, including the introduction of an online course management system, podcasting, use of wikis and blogs in education, and virtual world technologies. She currently manages the campus-wide podcasting and Second Life projects at the University of Cincinnati, and serves as the Second Life Ambassador for the Ohio Learning Network, a consortium of 80 colleges and universities in Ohio.Mani Mina, Iowa State University Mani Mina (SM’98) received the B.S. degree, the M.S. degree in physics, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Iowa State

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

Helen Chen, Stanford University; Krista Donaldson, Stanford University; Ozgur Eris, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Gary Lichtenstein, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; George Toye, Stanford University

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Educational Research and Methods

Overall Satisfaction with Collegiate Experience* Exposure to Project- --- Exposure to Project- Based Learning Methods Based Learning Methods (Group & Individual (Group & Individual Projects) * Projects) * Collaborative Work --- --- Style Satisfaction with

Conference Session

Measuring Success of Graduate Program Components

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nathan McNeill, Purdue University; Monica Cox, Purdue University; Heidi Diefes-Dux, Purdue University; Tenille Medley, Purdue University; Jeremi Hayes, Purdue University

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Graduate Studies

providepedagogical feedback to engineering laboratory graduate teaching assistants. The project beganwith use of the VaNTH Observation System, a direct observation instrument which providesfeedback about the extent to which an instructor’s interactions with students fit within thedimensions of the “How People Learn” framework, a model of effective teaching and learning aspresented in the National Research Council monograph, How People Learn: Brain, Mind,Experience, and School. Preliminary findings revealed challenges to the use of this instrument ina first-year engineering laboratory course taught by graduate teaching assistants. To provideinformation for the adaptation of this instrument for use in the laboratory environment and to aidin developing new

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bill Yang, Western Carolina University; Yeqin Huang, Western Carolina University; Robert Adams, Western Carolina University; James Zhang, Western Carolina University; Kenneth Burbank, Western Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

evaluated at the boundary on the side of subdomaintwo. Since dE/dx is proportional to the z component of H field, Hz, which is tangential to the TE mode: TM mode: β=13.370 um-1 β=13.315 um-1 Page 13.468.7 Figure 3: 1-D model of a multi-layer (5 different compositions, III-V semiconductors lattice matched to InP) planar waveguide model. Fundamental mode profiles and effective propagation constants for TE and TM modes respectively. (Student’s course project work)interface, the Neumann boundary condition Eq. (5b) correctly prescribes the physical boundarycondition requirement for the E field of TE modes

Conference Session

Writing and Portfolios

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anne Nichols, Texas A&M University

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Educational Research and Methods

ensure gooddesign and to obtain licensure, but is secondary to architectural design which is what attractsstudents to the profession.The integration of these subject areas within design through an architectural education has longbeen discussed and debated, as Comprehensive Design is an important student performancerequired for accreditation from the National Architecture Accrediting Board (NAAB).1Approaches to achieving integration have had varying levels of success, due, in part, to theoffering of these subjects as traditional lecture courses.2Within one such traditional lecture course in structural systems and planning, the graduatestudents were assigned a team project of a case study of an architectural building of their choiceto demonstrate

Conference Session

Novel Courses and Content for ChEs II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lawrence Decker, Wentworth Institute of Technology; William Hansen, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Robert Dewar, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Chemical Engineering

developed for the greenhouse for maximum loss, loss withpassive thermal storage added, loss with thermal blankets added and geothermal heatingrequirement. Our calculations have shown that the 7.5 KW solar voltaic system will provide theyearly electricity that we estimate will be required by the compressor, motors, controls, fans,pumps and lights of the greenhouse system with an ample safety factor.GCC has secured the required funding for the project and anticipates obtaining bids in earlySummer 2008. The goal is to complete construction in the Fall of 2008.project descriptionIn 2006 a preliminary design for a sustainable greenhouse for GCC was created. The project wasdesigned to allow the school to both practice and teach the concept of a highly

Conference Session

Computer Applications in Energy Courses

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Clayton Hochstrasser, The Ohio State Univ.; Joseph Werner, The Ohio State Univ.; Donald Kasten, Ohio State University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

developed in the project described in this paper are primarily for instructor use duringlectures to enhancing learning.The efforts presented here in this paper represent undergraduate students and faculty of anelectrical engineering program in a state university. Students always ask for more examples toillustrate the concepts presented in the classroom lectures. Whether their motivation for moreexamples is to just learn the mechanics of the problems without really understanding theprinciples involved or that the examples do reinforce their understanding of those principles, thefact remains, at least for these authors, that there is a need to illustrate numerical examples in theclassroom.Organization of effortAt our university, the College of

Conference Session

Computer and Electrical Engineering Technology Innovations

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

MADDUMAGE KARUNARATNE, University of Pittsburgh - Johnstown; Gregory Dick, University of Pittsburgh -Johnstown

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

undergraduates. The results from a student survey taken atthe end of the course to gauge the effectiveness of HDL and associated tools in learningdigital electronics are also discussed. The paper elaborates on advantages and disadvantagesof using HDL based circuit design in the undergraduate engineering technology curriculumas seen by students.Section I: Introduction:In the not too distant past, student assignments in digital design courses consisted primarilyof paper designs, or at best such as in senior design projects they were a large morass of SSIand MSI (Small and Medium Scale Integration) silicon devices plugged on to circuit boardsor wiring boards. More time was spent on debugging the connections and wirings than onactual design or in

Conference Session

Hardware Descriptive Language Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Hill, University of Hartford

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Computers in Education

presented in steps, with increasing levels of focus.First interrupts can be presented from an abstract point of view using a text book such asTanenbaum1. Next, the nod4 architecture provides a more deductive approach, wherestudents can study an example assembly language program that uses interrupts. The nod4project8 is a resource and many of the documents also include homework questions.Finally, students can study an actual implementation of nod4 and see all the fine detail,clock cycle by clock cycle, showing exactly how interrupts are invoked.The nod4 Microprocessor ArchitectureThe name nod4, pronounced "node four" refers to a computer architecture developed foruse in undergraduate projects involving computer architecture. The author7 provides

Conference Session

Micro-/Nano-Technology Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nebojsa Jaksic, Colorado State University-Pueblo

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Materials

laboratory experiments are typical examples of active learning.Depending on the course objectives, the laboratory experiments are either of a cookbook typewhere students follow a set of instructions and all produce similar results, an organized projecttype where the instructions are not precise and allow for some creativity, an open-ended projecttype where the course instructor has a reasonable knowledge of the final outcome, or researchwhere neither the students nor the instructor know the final outcome of the experiments. Thedescribed experiment falls in the organized project type category since the given instructions arenot precise. In addition, the steps whereby students analyze the obtained results, compare themwith the results obtained by

Conference Session

Sustainability in AEC and AEC Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jason Kirby, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Hilal Ozcan, Prairie View A&M University; Fouad Fouad, University of Alabama at Birmingham

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Architectural

continued and profound effect on the natural environment and society. Whileautomobiles have been traditionally blamed for energy consumption and polluting of theenvironment, buildings are the single largest contributor to the nation’s environmental andenergy-supply challenges. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports that buildingsare responsible for approximately half of all greenhouse gas emissions and annually consumeover seventy percent of the domestically generated power1. Energy consumption has increased30% in the past 25 years, and current projections indicate another 35% increase over the next 25years primarily due to population growth and increased industrialization.“Sustainable development” is a direct response to these concerns

Conference Session

Innovative Instructional Strategies

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martha Allen, Georgia College & State University; Amy Kelley, Georgia College & State University

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Mathematics

AC 2008-2711: CHALLENGES AND INNOVATIONS IN TEACHING LINEARALGEBRAMartha Allen, Georgia College & State University Dr. Martha Allen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Georgia. She received her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of South Carolina in 2001. She was selected as a 2001-2002 Project NExT National Fellow. Project NExT (New Experiences in Teaching) is a Mathematical Association of America program for new or recent Ph.D.s in mathematics. Dr. Allen is currently serving as co-director of the MAA's Southeastern Section NExT program. In 2005, Dr. Allen was the recipient of the university-wide

Conference Session

Innovative K-12 Engineering Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heath Tims, Louisiana Tech University; Galen Turner, Louisiana Tech University; Don Schillinger, Louisiana Tech University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

education faculty from Louisiana Tech University. The primary goal of theproject is to expose students from under-performing schools to mathematics, science,engineering, and literacy subject areas. Faculty members from the College of Engineering andScience have teamed up with the College of Education to develop engaging projects aimed atjunior high and high school students. These projects utilize K’Nex bridges kits as a means forproviding a hands-on learning environment. Building Bridges to the Future includes aspects ofteam and collaborative learning, as well as literacy in the teaching of math, science, andengineering principles.During the summer of 2007, 41 junior high and 54 high school students, from throughout thestate of Louisiana

Conference Session

Beyond Individual Ethics: Engineering in Context

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristyn Masters, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Sarah Pfatteicher, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

An example problem You are working in a lab on a project that involves the use of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) – your research project is to study cellular differentiation in order to better understand and control its mechanisms. You are NIH-funded, meaning that you are constrained to using only the federally-approved hESC lines. Unfortunately, these cell lines are pretty much unusable, and being constrained to these unusable cells greatly inhibits your research progress, which also significantly hinders your ability to make research advances that will help sick people. You know that others in the lab next door are working with private funds on newer, more usable hESC lines. You doubt that

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Hayne, The Citadel

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

difficult.Development OptionsA quick web survey of undergraduate digital systems design courses revealed two basic Page 13.251.2approaches, lecture and lab. Lecture courses taught hardware description languages and reliedheavily on logic simulation. They often risked becoming “programming” courses and strayingtoo far from the hardware they were trying to design. Lab courses also used hardwaredescription languages, but concentrated on implementation of multiple design projects. Thesecourses required extensive hardware support for testing of student designs. What was desiredwas a lecture course that also emphasized hardware, but without the time and expense of a

Conference Session

Sustainability in Construction Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Korman, California Polytechnic State University; Lonny Simonian, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

construction students to perform “hands-on” fit-up exercisesand test their performance.Introduction and BackgroundIn recent years, there has been increasing consideration given to integrated curricula by constructionengineering and management faculty and industry advisors. According to Hauck and Jackson3 eachproposal has tried to address core problems associated with an overly segmented curriculum and thelack of project based learning in different ways. A model proposed by Hauck and Jackson3 attemptsto teach construction management as a series of labs integrating the various constructionmanagement courses into an active, applied learning experience. Their integrated curriculumproposal for the construction management department is centered on the

Conference Session

Curricular Developments in Energy Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ray Miller, University of Cincinnati; Max Rabiee, University of Cincinnati; Elvin Stepp, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

quantitiesof machines under operating conditions. They are required to make observations of machineefficiencies under various loading conditions.In addition to taking courses in circuits, machinery and controls we feel that it is importantstudents be able to pull together much of what they have learned at the associate level so they seehow their knowledge can be applied to a real project. Topics of Applied Design is intended forthis purpose. The course serves as a capstone course at the associate level that requires studentsto apply the knowledge and analysis techniques they have learn thus far. Students work in teamson a project of some complexity such as a regulated power supply or RF circuit. The actualproject can be changed each time the course is

Conference Session

Learning about Electric Energy Conversion

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Rubaai, Howard University; Ramesh Chawla, Howard University; Joseph Cannon

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

switching control3 and impact control inrobots4. The relative effectiveness of bang-bang controllers versus linear controllers wasinvestigated by comparison to human behavior in an experiment which investigated the tendencyof human operators to behave in bang-bang fashion when controlling some high-order systemswhen a linear alternative was available5. It was concluded that for the class of systems forwhich fine motor control about the referrence is unnecessary, bang-bang control is moreintuitive and can be performed without sacrificing performance.In response to concerns that the study of control systems is too dependent on abstractmathematical theory and not enough emphasis on “hands-on” projects related to currentindustrial technology 6, an

Conference Session

Design Communications

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Jonassen, University of Missouri; Tamara Knott, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Richard Goff, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Page 13.1062.2text [4]. In that model, the design process includes problem definition based on clientstatement, conceptual design, preliminary design, detailed design, and designcommunication.In our research, we are attempting to scaffold meaningful conversations among designteams in order to improve the quality of their designs. While the construction of sharedknowledge occurs naturally in authentic work groups (project teams, scientificcommunities, etc.), the structure and methods employed in most university courses do notsupport these processes. Most instructional activities, such as laboratories and writingassignments, are individualistic. However, trends toward the integration of active andcollaborative learning methods in large

Conference Session

History and Future of Engineering Technology

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lawrence Wolf, Oregon Institute of Technology; Michael O'Hair, Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

1974. He was appointed as a dean at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, directing a joint project with MIT in Iran, after which he returned to St. Louis in 1975 as the associate dean of instruction. He headed the Department of Manufacturing Engineering Technologies and Supervision at Purdue University, Calumet, from 1978 to 1980, then served for ten years as the dean of the College of Technology of the University of Houston. After a sabbatical year working on the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Wolf became the president of Oregon Institute of Technology. He retired from administration in 1998, designated as a president emeritus. He

Conference Session

DELOS Best Paper Nominations

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Euan Lindsay, Curtin University of Technology

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

-edits the Australasian Journal of Engineering Education. Dr Lindsay was the recipient of a 2007 Carrick Award for Australian University Teaching. In 2005 he was named as one of the 30 Most Inspirational Young Engineers in Australia. Page 13.895.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Milestone – Based Assessment: An Alternative Strategy for Assessing Laboratory Learning OutcomesAbstractEngineering programs often feature units that contain a semester-long laboratory project, inwhich students complete an extended piece of work throughout the full duration of thesemester. The

Conference Session

Survivor: The First Few Years

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan Beasley, Texas A&M University; Ana Elisa Goulart, Texas A&M University; Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

previous work to extend or previouscontacts to build upon. Combined with a lack of experience, such freedom can be detrimental.For example, many projects may seem tempting or even urgent but it would be a mistake toperform a small amount of work in several areas without significant progress in any of them.Additionally, tenure-track problems are usually exacerbated by the fact that the faculty memberis new to the geographic location and starts with a limited social network. Regular discussions with peers in the same situation can accelerate the acclimation andthereby improve the chances of getting tenure.13-15 First, explaining and discussing anydifficulties often provides multiple approaches which can then be considered and debated.Second, and

Conference Session

Student Learning Techniques & Practices in Engineering Technology

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University; Ryan Beasley, Texas A&M University; Ana Elisa Goulart, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

work on course projects and seniordesign projects, where self-learning is critical. With the early exposure to the idea of self-learning, the students should be able to make a smooth transition from learningeverything from the teacher to learning everything on their own. This way, the life-longlearning habit is gradually cultivated. In addition to effective learning of the material andthe life-long learning benefit, learning-through-teaching also has some positive socialbenefits4: better adjustment to the college life, heightened social membership in college,improved social skills, and a positive attitude toward college. The students thus get thebest out the education program. As one gains more experience, the learning-through-teaching

Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Linda Ann Riley; Charles Thomas

meetings.First, due to the nature of our two-semester multidisciplinary senior design class, students from the highschool robotics class as well as the middle school science classes will partner with senior engineering andcomputer science students to experience the excitement of competition design projects. This year, amongother corporate sponsored projects, four senior design competition projects are included in the portfolio.They are the ASME Human Powered Vehicle, ASCE Steel Bridge, PEER Seismic, and WERCEnvironmental Engineering competitions. In each of these projects, direct connections between gradelevel and grade span expectations in the high school and middle school curricula have been identified.High school and middle school students will

Collection

2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Linda Ann Riley; Charles Thomas

meetings.First, due to the nature of our two-semester multidisciplinary senior design class, students from the highschool robotics class as well as the middle school science classes will partner with senior engineering andcomputer science students to experience the excitement of competition design projects. This year, amongother corporate sponsored projects, four senior design competition projects are included in the portfolio.They are the ASME Human Powered Vehicle, ASCE Steel Bridge, PEER Seismic, and WERCEnvironmental Engineering competitions. In each of these projects, direct connections between gradelevel and grade span expectations in the high school and middle school curricula have been identified.High school and middle school students will

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Linda Ann Riley; Charles Thomas

meetings.First, due to the nature of our two-semester multidisciplinary senior design class, students from the highschool robotics class as well as the middle school science classes will partner with senior engineering andcomputer science students to experience the excitement of competition design projects. This year, amongother corporate sponsored projects, four senior design competition projects are included in the portfolio.They are the ASME Human Powered Vehicle, ASCE Steel Bridge, PEER Seismic, and WERCEnvironmental Engineering competitions. In each of these projects, direct connections between gradelevel and grade span expectations in the high school and middle school curricula have been identified.High school and middle school students will

Conference Session

Faculty Attitudes and Perceptions

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Lord, University of San Diego; Michelle Camacho, University of San Diego; Christina Aneshansley, University of San Diego

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Science and Engineering project investigating persistence of women in engineering undergraduate programs. Dr. Lord’s industrial experience includes AT&T Bell Laboratories, General Motors Laboratories, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and SPAWAR Systems Center.Michelle Camacho, University of San Diego Michelle Madsen Camacho received her Ph.D. in Social Sciences (an interdisciplinary concentration in Social/Cultural Anthropology and Sociology) from UC Irvine in 2000. She was a Fulbright Scholar to Bolivia and was a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow at Cornell University. She held two postdoctoral positions at UCSD, a Researcher-in-Residence at the Center for US.-Mexican

Conference Session

Impacts of Public Policy on Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Richey, The Boeing Company; Paul Newton, The Boeing Company; Rick Stephens, The Boeing Company; George Backus, Sandia National Labs; Barry McPherson, Boeing - Learning, Training & Development

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

International Business from ESC Lille, Graduate School of Management. He is currently working on a Masters of Science in Program & Project Management, focusing on Aerospace Engineering and Learning Science research. He often represents Boeing internationally and domestically as a presenter and has authored PLM integration patents primary relating to advanced aircraft construction, PLM-CAD-CAM metrology and Learning Science research.Paul Newton, The Boeing Company Paul Newton Operational Concept Analyst, Modeling and Simulation Group Strategic Projects & Analysis, Phantom Works The Boeing Company paul.c.newton2@boeing.com 206-544-7641 As an Operational Concept Analyst for