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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Dale E. Schinstock

Integrating Education in Mathematics, Physical Science, Engineering Science and Application in a Required Course Dale E. Schinstock Kansas State UniversityIntroductionThis paper addresses a common problematic scenario in engineering education through a specificexample of the overhaul of a required course in a mechanical engineering curriculum. Thecourse was designed with three major themes in mind: 1) often, less is more in the context of thetopical coverage and retention and understanding, 2) application of material and active learningare important motivating factors for the students, and 3) moving engineering application toearlier in the

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Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Paul Lagace; Earll Murman

Aircraft Systems Engineering is introduced as anillustration of content and pedagogy addressing lifecycle topics. Based upon several years ofexperience of participation in these programs and in offering curriculum, the authors put forwardseven observations to stimulate further dialog and progress on this topic.IntroductionUndergraduate subjects on aircraft design have been taught for many years in aeronautical oraerospace engineering departments, often as a capstone subject. A key pedagogical objective isteaching tradeoffs among disciplinary needs to meet system-level requirements. The focus isusually on preliminary design or prototyping. Aircraft, however, are complex systemscomprising many subsystems, and usually represent only one element in an

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Integrating Research into Teaching

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mary Johnson; Andrew Jackson

importance of the 5Smodel. Additional engineering tools are also being planned for cross-curriculum integration inthe near future.Introduction The race is won in the pits! Teams from the National Association for Stock Car AutoRacing (NASCAR), Indy Racing League (IRL), and Championship Auto Racing Teams, Inc.(CART) use the principles of 5S to improve their performance in an environment where extrafractions of a second spent during pit stops can mean the difference between victory anddisappointing defeat. This is clearly demonstrated by the fact that for the racing speeds at this Page 10.747.1level of competition (approximately 200 miles per

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Integrating Materials and Manufacturing

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gerald Sullivan

increasing theopportunities for feed back and feed forward of information between the two courses.7. Bibliography1. Strong, S. and Smith, R., Spatial Visualization: Fundamentals and Trends in Engineering Graphics, Journal of Industrial Technology, November 2001 to January 2002, 18(1), 1-62. Callister, W.D., Material Science and Engineering, an Introduction, 2002 John Wiley and Sons3. Dede, C., Salzman, M. and Loftin B., Science Space: Virtual Realities for Learning Complex and Abstract Scientific Concepts, Proceedings of VRAIS ’96, San Jose, CA, pp. 246-252.4. Kriz, R. D., Farkas, D., and Batra R. C., Integrating Simulation Research into Curriculum Modules on Mechanical Behavior of Materials: From the Atomistic to

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Integrating Research into Teaching

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2005 Annual Conference

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Toni Doolen; Rungchat Chompu-inwai

represent “inputs” and “outputs”respectively. An input is something that is changed by the process. Outputs are what theinputs are transformed to. Functions transform inputs into outputs. Arrows entering from thetop of the boxes are “controls” and arrows entering from the bottom are “mechanisms”.Controls restrict or guide the way transformation occurs. Mechanisms are actors (humans,machines) that perform the function. Figure 2 shows general elements in an IDEF0 model. An IDEF0 model consists of an integrated set of diagrams. Each diagram containsmore detail about a function and is linked to more general diagrams. The process ofdescribing a function in more detail is called decomposing a function. The more generaldiagram is called the parent

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Integrating Mathematics and Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Todd Johnson; Eric Key, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee; Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez; Dale Buechler, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

work is documented and further discussed in [5].DiscussionWe are currently looking at developing a zero-year curriculum for entering engineering freshmanstudents who are not calculus-ready. This pilot course, if successful, may become a mandatoryfreshman class for students ready for college geometry and trigonometry. For other students, itwould be available as an elective class.This pilot course mainly addresses retention problems of students who have poor mathematicalskills or who do not understand the important connections between math, science andengineering. Other educators have had success in integrating math and science classes [6, 7], butthese attempts have typically waited until the students are calculus-ready. The approach in ourpilot

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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George D. Gray

conference of the American Society for Engineering Education” 5 • Design Project I/IIThe laboratory component is an integral part of the CME program. Hands-on experiences areemphasized throughout the curriculum in various laboratory and lecture-lab courses. Studentsgain experiences in experimental methods in a number of laboratory course as well. Because ofthe hands on experiences and involvement with industry, the CME program has been involvedwith a number of regional and national engineering competitions. These include compositebridge building and solar car race competitions.The major contribution that this undergraduate CME program has

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Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Conrad Newberry

than twelve percent of the total aerospace work force [1]. The squeakywheel comprising airplane and space engineering graduate demands overshadows the missilecommunity needs wheel for specialized expertise in missile system design engineering.The paucity of missile engineering degree programs at universities within the United Statessuggests that the development of a model graduate missile engineering system design curriculumwould be of interest to both academe and industry. Accordingly, a model graduate missileengineering system design curriculum is presented for discussion.A model curriculum can be expected to provide a template for what should be an idealspecification of learning behaviors required in a given field of endeavor. These

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing and Integration

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sheng-Jen Hsieh

Automated Manufacturing System Integration Education: Current Status and Future Directions Sheng-Jen (“Tony”) Hsieh Dept. of Engineering Technology and Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Texas A&M University, College Station, TX1. IntroductionAutomated systems play an essential role in manufacturing, from assembling complex electronicdevices to mixing pharmaceuticals. Engineers must constantly design, maintain, reconfigure, andupgrade these systems to accommodate shifts in product design or manufacturing priorities.Their ability to rapidly complete such tasks is critical to maintaining our national economiccompetitiveness and security

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Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Lehman; Chung-Ling Huang; Muniyappa Venkatesha; Asad Yousuf

, simulators, communication programs, and systems integration environment to implement solutions. Hardware can include both hardware to download code from a PC via a serial parallel, USB or Internet connection. The most basic setup requires at least a serial cable as is used in the BASIC STAMP or BASIC STAMP II from Parallax Inc. There are a number of Third Party Tools provided by such companies as micro Engineering Labs, Inc that sell download hardware and software. Micro Engineering Labs, Inc also sells a basic compiler for the PIC[4]. Microchip Technologies Inc. provides an integrated development environment that also supports several C compilers. Hardware tools include PIC microcontroller boards for interfacing and testing. Several

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Leslie Collins; Lisa Huettel

- and upper-level classes, we will be able to introduce designprinciples into the curriculum at an early stage, improving the intellectual development of a largenumber of students.Our two introductory signal processing courses (the required Signals and Systems and theelective Fundamentals of DSP) will focus on the signal processing, rather than the signalprocessor and will not require an in-depth understanding of the DSP hardware or programmingitself. Rather, hardware implementation and direct programming of the DSP will be the focus ofa new senior-level design course. This vertically integrated approach has the advantage that bythe time a student reaches the design course, he or she will already be familiar with the hardwareand software and

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Current Topics in IE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jackson Denise; Charles Aikens

radical change. An integrated learning experience will replacedemonstrate-then-emulate methods. The focus will be on problem-based, cooperative, andservice learning exercises; research; information technologies; and faculty teaming.The design methodology described begins with the creation of a knowledge base consisting ofprogram learning outcomes, content elements, and teaching resources. From the knowledgebase, a process is implemented leading to a new modularized integrated curriculum that will beteam-taught, will include innovations in teaching and assessment methods, and will use graduateteaching assistants in a novel way. The paper is organized in four sections: making the case forchange, a proposal for innovation, a paradigm-changing

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Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Adams; William Manion

problems are not unique to the University of Maine, and the communication-intensivemodel by itself is certainly not a radical innovation in 2004. And yet, the overall plan may proveinteresting to others involved in such endeavors because of its structure and approach. Severalguiding principles marked the development of this plan: ‚ Department-based core competencies derived from faculty and alumni/employer surveys; ‚ Technical communications instruction embedded, reinforced, extended and assessed at each level of the curriculum; ‚ Deep levels of integration with engineering content; ‚ Multiple layers of support for engineering students; ‚ Extensive planning and design that recognizes constraints and content pressures, while

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Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mohamed El-Sayed; Lucy King; Matthew Sanders; Jacqueline El-Sayed

Education”2. P. Stiebitz, E. Hensel, and J. Mozrall, “Multidisciplinary Engineering Senior Design at RIT,” Proceedings, 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, UT, June 20-23, 2004.3. T. Dennis and R. Fulton, “Facilitating Distributed Collaborative Product Development in an Undergraduate Curriculum,” Proceedings, 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, UT, June 20-23, 2004.4. L. King and J. El-Sayed, “A Structure for Integration of Manufacturing and Mechanical Design Engineering Courses,” Proceedings, 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Nashville, TN

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Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gene Harding

curriculum.Jitter in the EET CurriculumIn-depth jitter analysis is much too complex to cover all at once in an undergraduate curriculum.The basics, however, are suitable for first and second year students. It makes sense to introducebasic topics in the first two years, then ramp up to more technically challenging subjects in thethird and/or fourth years of an EET program. Moreover, the early topics are worthwhile for allstudents, not just those planning to specialize in the digital arena. For instance, RF systemdesigners must contend with phase jitter in transmitted/received signals. By including jitterbasics in the underclassman portion of the curriculum, all EET students would be exposed tothose concepts. More advanced topics could be reserved for junior

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ET Curriculum & Design Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

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Alok Verma

universitieshave started offering both graduate and undergraduate courses in Lean Manufacturing.Physical simulations are often an integral part of these courses. Simulation based Leanenterprise concepts have been introduced in an undergraduate course in mechanicalengineering technology program at Old Dominion University. Results show increasedstudent participation and better understanding of Lean concepts. This paper examines the use of simulations as a pedagogical tool and studies theirimpact on student learning in an undergraduate engineering technology course. The paperalso discusses the assessment process to measure the impact of simulation-basedinstruction. An attitudinal survey has also been developed to assess the impact of thetraining

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Board; April Brown; Joseph Holmes; Hisham Massoud; Steven Cummer; Jungsang Kim; Michael Gustafson; Leslie Collins; Lisa Huettel; Gary Ybarra

planning grant for curriculumreform. The goals of our curriculum redesign are to maintain our curricular flexibilitywhile introducing a theme-based structure focused on major concepts and principles, andto integrate this theme throughout the core and the technical focus areas. This theme,Integrated Sensing and Information Processing, reflects the active research areas of themajority of the ECE faculty, and embodies key concepts of all components of ECEwithin a real-world framework. During the planning phase, we developed andimplemented an assessment plan and obtained baseline results, investigated modernpedagogical techniques and integration approaches, and defined a process for ourcurriculum redesign. In 2004, NSF awarded Duke a curriculum

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Larry N. Bland

leaders. [18] The EPICS program has functioned in parallel with traditional engineering programs andis not integrated into all programs. Students have the option of choosing either approach as they "Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education" 5pursue their engineering education. The University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML) recentlyreceived an NSF Department Level Reform grant to integrate service learning across the entireengineering curriculum. Their stated goal is “Integrate service-learning into the

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Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

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Hung Tao Shen; Amy Zander

aquatic biology, toxicology, relevant to the program ofstudy, and fluid mechanics relevant to the program of study; introductory level knowledge ofenvironmental issues associated with air, land, and water systems and associated environmentalhealth impacts; an ability to conduct laboratory experiments and to critically analyze andinterpret data in more than one major environmental engineering focus areas, e.g. air, water,land, environmental health; an ability to perform engineering design by means of designexperiences integrated throughout the professional component of the curriculum; proficiency inadvanced principles and practice relevant to the program objectives; understanding of conceptsof professional practice and the roles and

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Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

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2005 Annual Conference

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Daniel Fichana; Ann Marie Flynn; Robert P. Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater; Jim Henry

10471Abstract“Greening” the engineering curriculum is an important consideration for sustainable engineeringeducation from fundamentals to design in the 21st century. This paper describes the latestadvances in an educational project sponsored by the United States Environmental ProtectionAgency to integrate green engineering principles into the chemical engineering curriculum. Thisproject has engaged faculty from engineering schools across the country to develop web-basedinstructional modules to allow for the seamless integration for green engineering principles suchas risk concepts, green chemistry, mass and energy integration, life-cycle assessment intochemical engineering courses. Currently, faculty have contributed to chemical engineering

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Capstone/Design Projects: Information/Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sam Geonetta

primaryspecialization from one of three “tracks”, including Software Development, Networking, or WebTechnologies. BS learners also choose at least one secondary track specialization from one offive tracks, including Software Development, Networking, Web Technologies, Database orDigital Media. Co-op experience is a vital part of the curriculum; all learners work in alternatingquarters starting in their second year of study. BS learners co-op five quarters and AS learnerstwo quarters.1 In addition to co-op, learners at the College of Applied Science learn byexperience through the integration of intensive, hands-on activities built into the courses andthrough the Senior Design project completed in the final year of study.2 In the IT program, Senior Design

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

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Martha Ostheimer

time for attention to “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationstudent writing, even though, when questioned, these professors assert that such writing is crucialfor their graduates.Recognizing our graduates’ need for strong communication skills, the ECE Department beganteaching its senior-level capstone design courses as writing emphasis courses beginning in 1989.Writing projects integrated into these senior classes included a well-defined problem statement, adesign proposal, a status memorandum, an engineering notebook documenting the designprocess, and a final technical design report. The

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Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Moore; Mary Raber

The Enterprise Program at Michigan Technological University: A Professional Development Curriculum in Action Mary Raber, Michael Moore Michigan Technological UniversityAbstractIn 2000, Michigan Tech introduced The Enterprise Program (www.enterprise.mtu.edu), aninnovative and integrated learning experience that offers all students on campus, but especiallyengineering majors, an opportunity to learn through the process of starting and operating theirown businesses. Students participate in this program by pursuing either a twelve-creditEnterprise Concentration, or a twenty-credit Enterprise Minor.The Enterprise curriculum requires students complete a

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

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Fred Fontaine

Student Ownership of Education Plans: The New Electrical Engineering Curriculum at The Cooper Union Dr. Fred L. Fontaine The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and ArtIntroduction.Recently, The Cooper Union initiated sweeping changes in the undergraduate electricalengineering curriculum. As of the 2004-05 academic year, the first generation of students to gothrough this curriculum are sophomores.Students are given both the opportunity and the responsibility of becoming owners of theireducation plans. Strong faculty guidance is provided to ensure integrity, and is essential forcrafting well balanced plans of study. Flexibility in the curriculum, which

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tolga Duman; Cihan Tepedelenlioglu; Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola; Venkatraman Atti; Andreas Spanias

, these courses did not necessarily instill in studentsthe process of scientific inquiry, i.e., the ability to pose questions on emerging technologies, the eagernessto seek additional information that extends the class concepts, or the development of intuition thatultimately enables students to connect theory to trendy applications. This paper describes an effort that provides investigative experiences to UG students by exposingthem to appropriately packaged signal processing research results. This effort is structured in terms ofresearch modules that are taken by students across the curriculum. Modules are used in junior-level linearsystems and random signals courses and in senior-level DSP and communications classes. A new senior-level

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International Developments & Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

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A.K.M. Abdul Quader; Shamsuddin Ilias; Franklin King; Keith Schimmel

;TSU and was accompanied by the Project Director, Dr. Shamsuddin Ilias.• A total of eleven workshops were offered in Bangladesh as summarized in Table 2. Table 2: Workshops Offered by BUET-NCAT IDP Linkage Partnership Workshop Date Topic Title Participants 1 July 24-25, 2001 Integration of Pollution Prevention Topics 24 into the Engineering Curriculum 2 March 12-14, 2002 Environment Protection and Pollution 37 Prevention Issues and Initiatives 3 July 29-31, 2002 Environment Protection and Pollution

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Advancing Manufacturing Through Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

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John King; Dae-Wook Kim; Tom Stoebe

connection between manufacturingtechnology education, student career goals, and private sector demand. The goal of thePSCME has been to develop an enhanced manufacturing curriculum for manufacturingtechnology programs in high schools and in two-year institutions. PSCME works withhigh schools and community/technical colleges in Washington State to gather and reviewexisting manufacturing curricula, and to communicate with local industry leaders toclarify regionally developed industry skill standards and curriculum needs. This paperwill discuss this deliberate cooperation and the resulting development of a new,modularized curriculum model. Based on the curriculum research, 19 modules weredeveloped: Interpersonal Effectiveness, Introduction to

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Curriculum Development in Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Donald Richter

-Year Integrated Engineering Curriculum on Graduation Rates and Student Satisfaction: A Longitudinal Study,” in Journal of Engineering Education, January 2004.[2] Starrett, S. and M. M. Morcos, “Hands-On, Minds-On Electric Power Education”, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 90, No. 1, pp 93-99, January 2001.[3] Higley, K. A. and C. M. Marianno, “Making Engineering Education Fun,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 90, No.1, pp 105-107, January 2001.[4] Seymour, E. & Hewitt. N. Talking About Leaving: Factors Contributing to High Attrition Rates Among Science, Math and Engineering Undergraduate Engineering Majors. Final report to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation on an

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Que Nguyen; Jennifer Tafoya; Catherine Skokan; Barbara Moskal

interdisciplinary in nature8. The NationalScience Board2 has criticized currently available curricular material as follows, “Few[curriculum materials] introduce real-world interdisciplinary problems and serve as thefoundation for advanced placement courses, school-to-work transition courses, or the challengesof a liberal arts college education. Most innovative science curricula, for instance, seekcoherence, integration, and movement from concrete ideas to abstract concepts9.” These sameconcerns are echoed in the literature that addresses mathematics education.Each of the projects that are discussed in this paper are based on the philosophy that mathematicsand science are related subjects that should be taught through hands-on experiences. The

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Capstone/Design Projects: Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Andrew Vavreck; Rebecca Strzelec

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationthough, may well be the collaboration between art and engineering. As both programs evolve,joint efforts, begun with the FDM, will be one of the keys to success in both areas.Bibliography1. World-Wide Web URL http://cede.psu.edu/StudentGuide. Last Accessed December 16, 2004.2. World-Wide Web URL http://www.rhino3d.com. Last Accessed December 16, 2004.3. Liou, Frank, Venkat Allada, Ming Leu, Rajiv Mishra and Anthony Okafor. An Integrated and DistributedEnvironment for a Manufacturing Capstone Course. 2003 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 22-25,2003, Nashville, Tennessee.4. Hoekstra, Nicole. Tool Design and Concurrent Engineering Using Rapid Tooling Construction Methods. 2000ASEE