Conference Session

Technology in the Physics Classroom

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gerald Rothberg, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

few might be useful. Table 1 summarizes the grades of all students having taken the course, 233 beforeintroducing the wireless technology and 298 after. At any one grade level the before and afterresults do not differ significantly. There is, however, a consistent shift of a few percent in gradesfrom F and D to C and A. The grading scale is not curved, it is absolute, and the gradeboundaries did not change during the project. The fact that grades have not declined, and mighthave improved slightly, despite the increased emphasis on concepts and increased reliance on the Page 12.170.3textbook is evidence of the benefits to me, the

Conference Session

The Critical First Year in Engineering Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dan Budny, University of Pittsburgh; Alaine Allen, University of Pittsburgh; Jessica Quarcoo, University of Pittsburgh

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Educational Research and Methods

student can select forthe first semester. This paper will discuss topics the freshman raised with their mentors and whatthe students think is important during the first year.Index Terms – Freshman Advising, Mentoring.IntroductionNumerous studies document the importance of educating new students about their new academicsetting [1 - 5]. Indeed, helping students anticipate and understand life changes can help theuniversity realize a significantly higher first-year student persistence rate [6]. For many years,university programs have incorporated these components via the implementation of pre-collegeorientation programs that include: 1. Raising the knowledge level of first-year undergraduate students with regard to lifestyle changes that can occur

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University; Daina Briedis, Michigan State University; Mark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State University; Timothy Hinds, Michigan State University

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Computers in Education

working subset of MATLAB,more than several “exposures” are necessary.For undergraduate students to be competent with MATLAB, repeated use in different contexts iscentral. An analogous exemplar suggests that direct transfer of expertise from one setting toanother is not to be generally expected.Consider the way that students learned to use and apply slide rules in the past. Before powerfulhandheld calculators or computer-based tools were widely available to engineering students, theyrelied on slide rules for doing assigned problems.1 Students mastered slide rule use in thoseformer times for two reasons. First, slide rules were in fact much simpler than tools likeMATLAB. Second, and more importantly, students used slide rules throughout their

Conference Session

Utilizing On-Line Technology in Entrepreneurship Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jay Porter, Texas A&M University; Joseph Morgan, Texas A&M University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

. Figure 1. AutoTune. Page 12.631.3This new process has since generated several successful projects achieved through themotivation and support of the undergraduate teams, including products for the consumer andindustry markets as well as systems to be used by the private and public sectors. An example ofthis success is Project Autotune where a student team designed and implemented a genericretrofit system that uses motors and a microcontroller to automatically tune an electric guitar.Upon graduation, the students briefed several companies on their prototype and found interest incommercializing their idea. While all of the students involved have since

Conference Session

Academic Boot Camp

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, Santa Clara University

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Minorities in Engineering

school, typically less than 1%.Also, there are many efforts aimed at recruiting minority students into engineering both at the Page 12.1071.2undergraduate and graduate levels. These efforts have had various levels of success in theireffectiveness in improving the enrollment numbers of minority students in engineering both at the Submitted to the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference June 24-27, 2007, Honolulu, Hawaiiundergraduate and graduate levels. In this paper, we do not focus on recruiting but on retention,graduation and career advancement.The reality

Conference Session

Emerging Information Technologies

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Pickard, East Carolina University; Philip Lunsford, East Carolina University; Chip Popoviciu, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

perform configuration and troubleshooting tasks 24hours a day, 7 days a week.Lectures for the course were conducted on campus in the College’s Global Classroom wherestudents could attend in person, view real-time web casts, or watch achieved versions of thelecture.The foundation for the lab portion of the class is the Cisco 2800 series and 2600 series routersthat are part of a standard Cisco Networking Academy CCNP equipment bundle.Students had to meet one of the following prerequisites in order to attend this pilot course;CCNA certification, Network + certification, or completion of Cisco Networking Academy Page 12.988.2CCNA semesters 1 – 4. In

Conference Session

FPD3 -- Professional Issues for First-Year Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Mathias, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Lalit Gupta, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Jale Tezcan, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Ronald Caffey, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Bruce Chrisman, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Chris Pearson, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; John Nicklow, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Ernest Lewis, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Rhonda Kowalchuk, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Kathy Pericak-Spector, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Hasan Sevim, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville

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First-Year Programs

is mainly due to the poor retention rates of 66% and 69% in the freshmen andsophomore years, respectively. The retention rates of the junior and senior students are muchhigher at 89% and 94%, respectively. The challenge, therefore, is to improve the freshmen andsophomore retention rates to 80% and 90%, respectively, so that the overall retention rateincreases from 37% to 67%. Table 1 shows the current and projected yearly and total retentionrates for SIUC College of Engineering. With help from a grant from the National ScienceFoundation, the retention of students in SIUC College of Engineering will be increased throughthe introduction of innovative academic and non-academic programs.Table 1. Current and Projected Yearly and Total Retention

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Lin, North Dakota State University; G. Padmanabhan, North Dakota State University; Scott Pryor, North Dakota State University; Dennis Wiesenborn, North Dakota State University

experience in American Society of Engineering Education conferences. Dr. Padmanabhan is a member of ASEE. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers.Scott Pryor, North Dakota State UniversityDennis Wiesenborn, North Dakota State University Page 12.974.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Introducing Native American Community College Students to Engineering through Hands-on Exploratory Projects Wei Lin1, G. Padmanbhan1, Scott Pryor2, Dennis Wiesenborn2 1 Civil Engineering, 2Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering

Conference Session

ChE: Assessment

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Terry, Brigham Young University; W. Vincent Wilding, Brigham Young University; Randy Lewis, Brigham Young University; Danny Olsen, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

time and effort spent on assessment is optimized.In 2003 the Middle States Commission on Higher Education published a valuable guide onassessment entitled, Student Learning Assessment: Options and Resources.1 This guidediscusses a variety of direct and indirect assessment tools, their strengths and limitations, andprovides insight for the development of assessment programs.Direct assessment measures are those which provide direct evidence that a learning objective hasbeen met. Such evidence demonstrates the degree to which a student has mastered a particularsubject, has acquired a specific skill, or developed a certain characteristic. These measures aremost commonly applied at the course or program level, but can also be applied at the

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments and Programs Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Lunsford, East Carolina University; John Pickard, East Carolina University; Chip Popoviciu, Cisco Systems, Inc.

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

. Page 12.1343.2DE Laboratory AccessThe main development effort in the course was to supply laboratory exercises for DE students.Our past experience offering advanced networking courses in a DE environment served as abasis for developing the lab exercises, the student access management, and the hardwareconfiguration.Labs were conducted on equipment located on campus. Equipment was accessible to studentsanywhere with an Internet connection via secure shell (port 22) using IPv4 through an accessserver running custom scheduling software as shown is figure 1. This access topology andscheduling software was already developed and used in our DE advanced IPv4 networkingcourses. Public Network Access Network

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amir Mobasher

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Minorities in Engineering

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention Topics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Women in Engineering

place an overt,and reflexive, emphasis on context in order to address relations of power embedded in theclassroom structure. Because “climate” is an elusive and tricky topic to tackle in engineeringeducation, our data incorporates voices from a range of professors to present a few perspectivesand practices that address this important issue.1. IntroductionWhile undergraduate engineering programs nationwide have made considerable strides toencourage greater numbers of women and minorities in the field, researchers are increasinglyinterested in identifying the variables that specifically relate to retention of students. The so-called, “leaky pipeline”1 example (students “switch” out of engineering to other majors) remainsimportant to consider: why

Conference Session

Digital and Embedded System Design

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Liang Hong, Tennessee State University; Md Hasanuzzaman, Tennessee State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

characteristics of these systems 1. Embedded systems are the fastestgrowing areas of computing in recent years. Over ninety percents of all processors are used inembedded applications, and almost every facet of modern life, such as cellular phones, TVs,video game consoles, GPS devices, network routers, cars and space shuttles, contains embeddedprocessors 2. This growing popularity calls for engineers with experience in designing andimplementing embedded systems. The educators must make available the necessary skills totheir students by incorporating the entire system design and implementation procedures, Page 12.1507.2including specifications and modeling

Conference Session

Women, Minorities and the New Engineering Educator

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Sharon Jones, Lafayette College; Jaime Hernandez, Texas State University-San Marcos; Rebecca Bates, Minnesota State University-Mankato; Robin Adams, Purdue University

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New Engineering Educators

studies linked to the ongoingscholarship in CAEE, created resources for dissemination, and refined leadership skills.The 2006 ISEE participants, or Scholars, were relatively new to engineering education researchwhen they began their ISEE year. Eighteen Scholars were selected from a competitive, nationalpool of candidates based on the strength of each Scholar’s application – including a proposedresearch project focusing on diversity issues – and the capacity of the proposed project to meetthe ISEE goals of 1) contributing to engineering education scholarship, 2) enhancing learningand local change, 3) facilitating coherence and expansion of the existing community, and 4)demonstrating engineering education scholarship as a professional endeavor

Conference Session

Innovative Mechanics Education Programs and Projects

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean Nocito-Gobel, University of New Haven; Gregory Broderick, University of New Haven; Samuel Daniels, University of New Haven; Michael Collura, University of New Haven; Richard Stanley, University of New Haven

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

most part, CE and ME students tookcommon core mechanics courses during the sophomore year, taught from a discipline specificperspective.However, like most engineering programs, mechanics courses offered first semester junior yearare discipline specific. CE students took CE312 Structural Analysis in which students learnabout the theory and application of structural analysis specifically applied to the analysis oftrusses, beams and frames. The first semester junior year for ME students begins with thetraditional core mechanical engineering course in Solid Mechanics (ME307), which includeselasticity and failure theories for combined stresses. Summarized in Figure 1 are the courses forboth the traditional and new curriculum for CE and ME students

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Tuesday Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Morgan, Texas A&M University; Jay Porter, Texas A&M University; Marc Lockard, Lockard and White, Inc

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

industry executive can be seen in Figure 1. Seated around this central area were theother teams that listened to the discussions and evaluated the educational benefit they receivedthrough the students’ questions. Figure 1. ELE Seminar Roundtable Discussion.The guest was encouraged not to use a lecture approach, but rather to interact with the studentteam in a question/answer/discussion process. It was the responsibility of the team to ensure thatthe speaker stayed on topic and that relevant questions were asked. During the one-hourseminar, other student teams observed the discussion and then provided peer evaluations basedon the overall quality of the seminar and the learning they extract from the discussions.Following the

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I - Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Frempong, State University of New York

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International

totalcapacity of 120Gb/s and 5.8 million simultaneous phonecalls.The 27850 km fiber communications ring network projectis the third of its kind since 1964. The first project wasSAT-1which was coaxial cable connectivity that linkedSouth Africa and Europe. SAT-1 was replaced with SAT-2in 1993. The SAT-2 was designed to work in tandem withan existing satellite system. Safe routing path was verycritical for the submarine fiber installation, as such,extensive planning and marine engineering was used toscan the ocean floor to identify areas of activity such asfishing, shipping, mining and etc.As indicated in figure-1 below, the SAT3/WASC/SAFE isdivided into two segments. The SAT3/WASC networksegment links Sesimbra in Portugal, Cape Town in SouthAfrica

Conference Session

Research Infrastructure in STEM Disciplines

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Cady, National Academy of Engineering; Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering

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Minorities in Engineering

. Wesuggest metrics by which to gauge progress in broadening participation.BackgroundThe Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering (CEOSE) of the NationalScience Foundation (NSF), has long encouraged the NSF to increase the diversity of its grantees,with the overall goal of including more women, underrepresented minorities, and individualswith disabilities than are currently present in the science and engineering fields. The NSF hassponsored workshops that focus on increasing participation by individuals in these groups in thefields of science and engineering[1]. More specifically, the CEOSE 2004 report to Congressincluded two specific suggestions targeting NSF grantees and the ways in which they approachissues of diversity [2

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Morteza Sadat-Hossieny, Northern Kentucky University

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International

foreignnationals in 2005.4The data collected in the study also indicates that nineteen percent of all the Science andEngineering faculty teaching in U.S higher education institutions and thirty six percent ofthe faculty in different engineering fields were foreign born in 2005. Page 12.349.3 Adopted from the National Academies1Data indicates that in 1966, seventy eight percent of Science and Engineering doctorateswere born in the US, and twenty three percent were born outside of US.1 In 2000, sixtypercent were born in US and thirty nine percent were born outside of US. In 2003,international students earned thirty eight percent of the doctorates in Science

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Holden, San Francisco State University; Juan Carlos Miranda, San Francisco State University; Jose Coto, San Francisco State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

AC 2007-1980: MICROCONTROLLER-BASED BRUSHLESS MOTOR CONTROLIN THE CLASSROOMMichael Holden, San Francisco State University Michael Holden is an assistant professor at San Francisco State University.Juan Carlos Miranda, San Francisco State UniversityJose Coto, San Francisco State University Page 12.1064.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Microcontroller-Based Brushless Motor Control in the ClassroomIntroductionThis paper explores the use of a commercial brushless motor control system (Figure 1) in agraduate controls class. The objective is to complement the students’ control design skills byteaching them to implement a

Conference Session

Laboratory and Internship Innovations in IT/IS

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Bailey, Brigham Young University; Michael Moore, Brigham Young University; Joseph Ekstrom, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

configuration for these hard drivesis a goal to have the drive configured so that it could boot any modern computer with no moreeffort that selecting it as the boot drive from a BIOS menu.To support web development, the system developed needs to support a variety of development,client, and server software. To accomplish this, the drives should run both Windows and Linux.This could be accomplished through dual-boot partitions, but would preferably be done usinghardware-level virtualization so that both operating systems could be operational simultaneously.Such simultaneous operation allows the student to use the host OS as a server system for testing,and the virtual OS as the client system, as shown in the rightmost system in Figure 1

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Eduaction - Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rahul Rai, Virginia Tech; Asli Sahin, Virginia Tech; Ashley Studd, Virginia Tech; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

focused on reactively managing component obsolescence, i.e., minimizing thecost of resolving the problem after it has occurred. Product obsolescence and its managementremains poorly understood in theory, and poorly addressed in practice. Governing principles andproven, teachable guidelines are needed for managing product obsolescence. These principlesa) Sony walkman b) e-filmproduct family c) Mobiblu Mp3 player Page 12.1508.4Figure 1. Examples of product family and piggyback products a) sony walkman product family b) e

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education III

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cordelia Brown, Purdue University; David Meyer, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

23 and 44. Finally,for the Fall 2006 trial, the cohort sizes for the TL and DPS divisions were 54 and 43,respectively. As documented in Table 1, the prerequisite course GPA of the TL and DPS cohortsdiffered by no more than 0.3 (on a 4.0 scale). One significant difference implemented Fall 2006 in the traditional lecture division wasincorporation of in-class, collaborative homework problems. We believe this prompted morestudents to choose the traditional lecture version of the course in this latter trial (relative toprevious trials), based on success achieved with this methodology in the pre-requisitesophomore-level (Introduction to Digital System Design) course the previous semester. Anothersignificant difference instituted Fall 2006 was

Conference Session

New Tools in Teaching and Learning Biomedical Engineering Concepts

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael VanAuker, University of South Florida; Joel Strom, University of South Florida; William Lee, University of South Florida

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

development. CVengineering education programs, whether defined as such or embedded in broader engineeringeducational programs include the following areas of study: underlying basic science issuesinvolving CV anatomy and physiology, fluid characterization and flow, systems engineering,materials aspects of prosthetic devices, sensor devices, MEMS technology, drug delivery,imaging, etc. The purpose of this presentation is to define the current state of CV educationalprograms in engineering. All biomedical engineering programs identified by the WhitakerFoundation were reviewed to determine the extent of CV engineering education. The goals ofthis analysis are: 1) understand the extent to which “cardiovascular engineering” is indeed anemerging engineering

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I - Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Riha, Iowa State University; Diane Rover, Iowa State University; Julia Apple-Smith, Iowa State University; James Melsa, Iowa State University

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International

highlights of a recent survey that was conducted to bettercharacterize the current state of international opportunities for engineering students, includingthe trends, general themes, and major exceptions.1 IntroductionThe value of an international cognizance, in the context of engineering education, has been thesubject of much research. A recent study, In Search of Global Engineering Excellence1,summarizes the large majority of these findings: The ability to live and work in a global community is — today — an important requirement for engineering graduates. They need to have broad engineering skills and know-how, and to be flexible and mobile, and able to work internationally.Regrettably, the fulfillment of this international

Conference Session

Preparing Civil Engineering Students for a Flat World

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carsten Ahrens, F.H. OOW

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Civil Engineering

European Council of Civil Engineers(ECCE) and the European Council of Engineering Chambers (ECEC) to describe and create acommon platform for civil engineers within the European Union (EU). These two non-profitorganizations represent about 800 000 civil engineers in 24 countries within Europe.One of their objectives is to provide the possibility for all European civil engineers to live andwork or to provide services in other EU member states. The basis for this approach is the EU-directive 2005/36/EC on Professional Qualification 1.The directive very much influences the education, formation and professional development of– not only – civil engineers and therefore led to “The Professional FormationFramework of Civil Engineers of ECCE/ECEC” that has

Conference Session

Project-Based Education in Energy Conversion

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margaret Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

EducationThermodynamics (ME680) during their fourth or fifth years. Like their peer institutions, RIT hasthe desire and requirement to improve curriculum structure, integration, and assessment. ME413 and 680 form a progression in course work into the study of Thermodynamics and,therefore, the courses are carefully integrated. This integration is achieved through a courseassessment process conducted by the faculty leads from both courses.The goal of Thermodynamics is to provide studentswith practical and relevant engineering science Table 1. Summary of Topics Exploredbackground in thermodynamics. The course also in Thermodynamics (ME 413)provides the groundwork for subsequent courses in Topical Areas

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley State College; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley State College

Tagged Divisions

International

five models for teaching embedded systems topics in universities andcolleges: 1. Offering courses mostly on software (Real-Time Systems) in CS and SE undergraduate programs (e.g., at Florida State University, Vanderbilt University, Seoul National University …). 2. Offering courses in CE and EE undergraduate programs which emphasizes the hardware aspects of embedded systems (e.g., University of Utah, Boston University, Carnegie Mellon University …). 3. Graduate programs in Embedded Systems Design (e.g., University of Essex, Carnegie Mellon University …). 4. Continuing education and training programs for the industry engineers (Nagoya University) 5. Offering a degree in Embedded Systems Engineering (e.g

Conference Session

Mathematics in Transition

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Callahan; Joe Guarino, Boise State University; Seung Youn Chyung, Boise State University; John Gardner, Boise State University; Amy Moll, Boise State University; Pat Pyke, Boise State University; Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University

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Mathematics

State University is 64%for engineering students, and 63% overall.1 This is low when compared with the nationalaverage2 of all four-year institutions, 69% and provides strong motivation for investigating waysto increase freshman success.This study focuses on helping students succeed in Precalculus, a 5-credit mathematics course, inwhich 84 first-semester engineering students were enrolled in fall 2006 (19% of the incomingfreshmen engineering class). An additional 37 engineering students classified as non-freshmenalso enrolled in Precalculus (transfer students, repeat takers, etc.). These 121 engineeringstudents were enrolled in ten sections of Precalculus which had an average enrollment of 33students per section, with engineering students thus

Conference Session

K-12 Engineering and Pre-College Outreach Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Piechota, University of Nevada-Las Vegas

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

: 1. To identify the phases of the engineering design process. 2. To design an engineering project and construct a physical model of the project. 3. To prepare a technical report for a design project and make an effective oral presentation that summarizes the project. 4. To recognize the importance of working in a design team. 5. To recognize the importance of the NSPE Code of Ethics and the responsibility of Professional Engineers.The textbook is Engineering by Design4 that is based on the five phases of the engineeringdesign process: 1. Needs Assessment 2. Problem Formulation 3. Abstraction and Synthesis 4. Analysis 5. ImplementationDescription of Hybrid CourseThe hybrid model consisted of distance