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K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

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

. Page 10.1328.9 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThe TeachEngineering consortium encourages engineering faculty to submit their own contentfor publication in the digital collection. Thus, engineering faculty who have not previouslyparticipated in K-12 outreach can readily communicate their research passions by creating newcurricular materials that incite curiosity in the minds of youth and solidify in them a lifelonginterest in learning. Faculty who desire to become involved will use curricular templates asguides for creating TeachEngineering-compliant curricular units, lessons and

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

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Suzanne Brainard; Sheila Edwards Lange; Elizabeth Litzler

focused on both documenting differences in departmental climate forfemale faculty and graduate students, and discerning how those differences influence therecruitment, retention and advancement of women in STEM. Barber hypothesized that theclimate for women in STEM at the doctoral level leads them to change their minds about careers Page 10.308.2in STEM[21]. In other words, there is something that happens during the doctoral course of “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education”training that

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Ollis

knowledgeable in their own field of mechanical and electrical engineering,and also open-minded and interested in other disciplines as well. This resulted in an openatmosphere among the students, and made them more willing to explore the overlappinginterests between the College of Design and the College of Engineering. We haveobserved that in professional practice, there is sometimes a tendency for barriers to existbetween any two disciplines, with negative expectations of the aptitudes and motivationsof other disciplines than one’s own taking precedence over actual personal experience.By establishing links between related professions at the university level, the way is pavedfor more effective collaboration in the student’s future careers.Unexpected

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Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

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Edward Evans; Francis Broadway; Sandra Spickard Prettyman; Helen Qammar

self-authorship: Constructive-developmentalpedagogy. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press.Belenky, M., Clinchy, B., Goldberger, N. & Tarule, J. (1986). Women’s ways of knowing: The development of self,voice, and mind. New York: Basic Books.Clewell, B., Anderson, B. & Thorpe, M. (1992). Breaking the barriers: Helping female and minority studentssucceed in mathematics and science. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.Clewell, B. & Campbell, P. (2002). Taking stock: Where we’ve been, where we are, where we’re going. Journalof Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 8, pp. 255-284. Page 10.538.11Cobern, W. W. &

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Architectural Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Wang

Reforming Architectural Engineering Education in Taiwan: Contexts, Opportunities, and Concerns Tsung-Juang Wang Department of Architecture National Taipei University of Technology, TaiwanIntroduction Architectural education has traditionally included interdisciplinary courses to encouragestudents to improve their competency in fields related to the discipline areas (Erman et al.,2004:51, 52; Bronet & Schumacher, 1999:97, 100) and provide the basis for a wider vision ofthe field and its role in society. Architectural education has always struggled to fit thepreparation for practice demanded by professional

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

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2005 Annual Conference

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Susan Freeman; Beverly Jaeger; Maurice Aburdene

is also critical to build on each activity by usingthe students’ own ingenuity in discussions about the embedded lessons. Far broader strokes can be drawn inclass when the picture is not limited by availability and cost of materials or technological requirements.Much more of the complete picture can be seen and appreciated when each concept is separately definedand demonstrated for its own unique qualities or modus operandi, and then returned to the full scheme as awhole. Empty-handed demos can help contribute to the masterwork of engineering education.Additional Refer encesBransford, J.D., Brown, A.L., &. Cocking, R.R., Editors. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, andSchool, Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2000.Felder

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BME Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

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Roberta Berry; Jonathan Olinger; Paul Benkeser

Challenges and Opportunities in Ethics Education in Biomedical Engineering Paul J. Benkeser1, Roberta M. Berry2 and Jonathan D. Olinger3 Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University1 / Schools of Public Policy2 and Aerospace Engineering3, Georgia Institute of TechnologyI. IntroductionThe challenges of interdisciplinarity—integrating bioscience, biomedical, and bioengineeringknowledge and skills—are well known to biomedical engineering (BME) educators.Undergraduate BME engineering educators face the additional challenge of preparing theirstudents for diverse professional career paths in a

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Scott Danielson; Robert Hinks; Mark Henderson; Chen-Yaun Kuo; Chell Roberts; Darryl Morrell; Robert Grondin

Sectors to Strengthen Collegiate Education and Pursue Excellence in the Next Generation Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationof US Leadership in Science and Technology,” Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation,March 1986.Newberry, B and Farison, J. 2003, “A Look at the Past and Present of General Engineering andEngineering Science Programs,” Journal of Engineering Education, July 2003, pp.217-226.NRC 2000, How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School, National Academy Press,Washington, DC, 2000. www.nap.eduNRC, 1996, “From Analysis to Action, Undergraduate Education in Science

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Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

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W. Carlson

Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationrun flawlessly when built, it is clear that, like all inventors and engineers, Tesla ran intoproblems when it came time to convert his ideals into working devices. For our engineering students, then, Tesla's Strasbourg motor offers an importantlesson: the real world does not always function as we would imagine it should. Thenature of materials can often alter the ideal. In my view, this is a crucial lesson forengineering students to learn because so much of engineering is about moving ideas fromthe mind to the material world.Lesson Two: Create an Effective Illusion In 1884, thanks in part to the work he

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Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

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Rose Marra; Cherith Moore; Mieke Schuurman; Barbara Bogue

Page 10.1475.13 Experiences in College Engineering Project: WIE Directors.: Goodman Research Group, Inc.10. Bandura, A. (1997). Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company.Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education.11. Chen, G., Gully, S., & Eden, D. (2001). Validation of a new general self-efficacy scale. Organizational Research Methods, 4(1), 62-83.12. Pajares, F. (in press). Gender differences in mathematics self-efficacy beliefs. In A. M. Gallagher & J. Kaufman (Eds.), Mind the gap: Gender differences in mathematics. Boston, MA: Cambridge University

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Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Ward; Tonya Emerson

andAttitudes”, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 91, No. 1, pp 3 – 18[17] Prince, M., 2004, “Does Active Learning Work? A Review of the Research”, Journal of EngineeringEducation, Vol. 93, No. 3, pp 223 - 232TONYA L. EMERSON, Ph.D., P.E., Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, Director – First-Year ExperienceDr. Emerson is in her 4th year at CSU, Chico where she is the faculty advisor to SWE, ASCE and Minds in Motion.She is the newly appointed 1st-Year Experience Director for a program dedicated to improving student engagementfor all 1st year students. Dr. Emerson received the 2002 ASEE’s Glen L. Martin Best Paper Award and the 2003ASEE Gerald R. Seeley Fellowship. She recently received a Professional Achievement Award from CSU, Chico.MICHAEL

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Communication Skills in Aerospace Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Crossley; Melanie Thom; James Thom

Session 1602 Identifying Specific, Measurable “Skills” Perceived as Requisite for Graduating Aerospace Engineers Kimble-Thom, M.A., Thom, J.M., Crossley, W.A. Purdue UniversityIntroductionIn the last 15 years engineering educators and industry practitioners have attempted to identifywhat skills a graduating engineer needs to acquire during his/her undergraduate education inorder to be successful at design activities. The efforts to identify these design skills are hamperedby both the lack of precision in the terms used to describe design skills and by the

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Stephen B. Taylor; Darin W. Nutter; James A. Davis; Joseph J. Rencis

Freshman Retention Study in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arkansas Stephen B. Taylor, Darin W. Nutter, James A. Davis, Joseph J. Rencis Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701abstract Retention of freshman students has become a focal point for many engineering collegesthroughout the country. With many literary sources written on the retention of students inengineering programs, there are many references that address why some students leave withoutcompleting a degree and why other students stay to ultimately complete a degree. It is

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Changhong Lin; Ahmed Abdalla; Wayne Wolf

Session #1532 Operating System Concepts in Embedded Computing Wayne Wolf, Chang Hong Lin, Ahmed Abdalla Department of Electrical Engineering Princeton University {wolf,chlin,aabdalla}@princeton.edu Abstract Operating systems play an increasing role in embedded computing systems, thanks to advanced applications. The real-time operating systems used in many embedded systems provide real-time sched- uling, make

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Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Erdogan Sener

are required to do this whether we like it or not, and that there is a lot of qualitativejustification for these undertakings in terms of the enhanced qualitative results we undeniablyattain. Nevertheless, it is on my mind and probably on the mind of a lot of faculty in the PSETto see, even roughly, whether assessment can also be justified in the engineering economy Page 10.489.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and 1 Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationsense considering that assessment is really

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Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Lehman; David Stone; Mary Raber

year, 45% of the pre-collegeparticipants were from ethnic or racial groups underrepresented in engineering professions andover 60% were women.The primary goal of SYP is to encourage participating students to become academicallyprepared so that college can be a viable option for their future. The main objectives of theprograms are to: • allow participants to explore post secondary education academic pursuit options in MEST • offer career discovery in a hands-on/minds-on environment • provide access to technology, laboratory resources, expertise, and academic experiences not normally available to middle and high school students • help students feel comfortable in a university setting • encourage student interactions with peers

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Engineering in High School

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Sherwood; Stacy Klein-Gardner

Using BME to Teach High School Fluid Dynamics Stacy S. Klein1, 2, 3,4, Robert D. Sherwood, 41 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN / 2UniversitySchool, Nashville, TN / 3Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, VanderbiltUniversity, Nashville, TN / 4Department of Teaching and Learning, Vanderbilt University,Nashville, TNAbstractIn the VaNTH ERC, high school curriculum modules based in biomedical engineering (BME)have been developed. As part of this work a module on Hemodynamics has been developedbased upon design principles growing out of cognitive science research. Accompanied by afigure and an audio file, the module begins with a grand challenge

Conference Session

K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

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Eugene Ressler; Stephen Ressler

creating an authentic, engaging engineering designexperience; by offering the experience as a competition that will capture and hold students’attention; and by ensuring that the design experience is readily achievable by any student in thetarget population, while still presenting a challenge to those who are already technologicallyinclined.The Influence of Other Engineering CompetitionsUsing a national competition to promote science and engineering is by no means an original idea.The Science Olympiad, the FIRST Robotics competition, the Junior Engineering TechnicalSociety (JETS) National Engineering Design Challenge, the Future City Competition, andOdyssey of the Mind have existed for many years and have achieved considerable success.2-6Newer

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Samuel Craig; Maurice Aburdene

A Tool for Consolidating Results from Learning Assessment Samuel E. Craig, Maurice F. Aburdene Department of Electrical Engineering Bucknell University Lewisburg, PennsylvaniaAbstractWe present a process for quantifying and organizing the degree to which course and programoutcomes are achieved, using two Excel® spreadsheets. The first sheet shows outcomesestablished for a particular course and how their achievements are measured by several means. Italso shows the “mapping” of the course outcome data into the achievement of outcomes thathave been established for an entire program. The second spreadsheet

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K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

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Glenn Ellis; Catherine Lewis; Susan Etheredge; Thomas Gralinski

--increasedfrom 10% to 100%.-- The intention to teach engineering as part of course curricula increased from 55% to 90%.-- 100% of participants found the course "very useful."-- 95% of participants rated the course "excellent" (5% rated it "very good").-- 100% would recommend it to others.Specifically, we asked the elementary teachers to respond to and reflect on the pop-up bookproject. The protocol for this reflection was as follows:1. Reflect on your process during the pop-up experience: What were your challenges andconstraints? How did the Engineering Design Process apply to your work? What did you learn(concepts, skills, habits of mind, affects, etc.)? How might you apply, integrate, and/or use pop-ups in your classroom?2. Begin to draft a plan-of

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Architectural Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Suketu Shah; Gaurav Agarwal; Mohammed Haque

Session xxxx A Virtual Tour of Energy Conscious Architecture Mohammed E. Haque, Ph.D., P.E., Suketu Shah, Gaurav Agarwal Texas A&M University, Texas, USAAbstractAs technology rapidly changes, the importance of educating and training diverse populations ofcivil/construction engineering/science students becomes more critical. With the advances ininformation technology (IT) over the last decade, the traditional teaching format of having anindividual lecture to an audience has been supplemented, and in some cases, replaced by therapid development and implementation of new distance learning

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Trends in Engineering Economy

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Ristroph

Session 1139 Coach: A New System for Interactive Learning John H. Ristroph University of Louisiana at Lafayette AbstractCoach is an interactive learning system originally designed for engineering economics, and thenextended to be useful to other disciplines. It provides professors with a comparatively easy wayto implement computer-based tutorials, examples, or problem solving sessions. IntroductionInteractive learning systems encourage active learning, but they have proven

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Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kathleen Crowe; Kris Wood; Richard Crawford; Daniel Jensen

laboratory portions received highratings, the laboratories ratings were somewhat higher than those for the instruction. Althoughthe differences in responses seem relatively minor (3.86 for the instruction and 3.92 for thelaboratory) due to the large number of data points (>2000) and the small standard deviations, Page 10.165.2these differences in ranking lead to significant percentile ranking for these two different contentareas. These percentile rankings assume a Gaussian distribution of the data. The average “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Carol Hasenberg

Page 10.404.1being offered in scholastic year 2004-2005 at PSU. The remaining themes study Chaos & Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering EducationCommunity; The Columbia Basin; The Constructed Self; Cyborg Millennium; ForbiddenKnowledge; Meaning & Madness at the Margins; Pathways to Sustainability & Justice; and Sex,Mind & the Mask. Themes are developed by a team of three to four instructors and are teamtaught, with each of the instructors having the primary responsibility for a main session.Design & Society utilizes the problem posing method, discussion, and writing-intensive nature

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steven VanderLeest

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education1 http://www.asee.org/about/publications/profiles2 “Should We Mandate the Master’s?” ASEE Prism, v9, n1, September 1999, pp. 20-21.3 Bloom, B. S. Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: Handbook 1, Cognitive Domain. Longman, New York, 1956.4 VanderLeest, Steven H. “The Built-in Bias of Technology,” Proceedings of the 2004 American Society forEngineering Education (ASEE) Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, June, 2004.5 Gardner, H. Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. New York: Basic Books, 1983.6 Gardner, H. Intelligence Reframed. New York: Basic Books, 1999.7 Dienes, Z. and Altmann, G, “Transfer of implicit knowledge across domains? How implicit and how abstract

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Anderton; Karim Salman

the way our methodology is implemented. The CPU is implemented on anAltera FPGA/CPLD Flex10K device using schematic approach with the AlteraMAX+Plus II software CAD. The design was simulated and tested using Altera UP2board.IntroductionCPU design for engineering/engineering technology students varied widely in objectivesand approach1-7. For a long time, block diagrams of simple CPUs have been used inbeginning computer courses, mainly to allow students to visualize how a CPU functions.To meet this need, many textbook authors1,6,7 have devised simple CPUs at the blockdiagram level to illustrate how instructions are executed and data are manipulated.Obviously, omitting many of the circuit details allows an overall understanding that isusually

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Integrating Mathematics and Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jerome McCoy; Leslie Keiser; Michael Kessler; William Potter; Peter LoPresti; Donna Farrior; Shirley Pomeranz

Enhancing Interdisciplinary Interactions in the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences: Year I Shirley Pomeranz, Peter LoPresti, Michael Kessler, William Potter, Jerry McCoy, Leslie Keiser, Donna Farrior The University of TulsaIntroductionA team of faculty members in the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences at The Universityof Tulsa (TU) has begun work on a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Course,Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Project (Proposal # 0410653). This projectuses Interdisciplinary Lively Application Projects (ILAPs)1 as a vehicle for strengtheningconnections among the science, engineering, and mathematics

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Engineering in High School

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stephen Schleicher; Aubrey Hunt; Sean Brophy; Christopher Garay; Cynthia Paschal; Stacy Klein-Gardner

Teaching X-ray Imaging in the High School Physics Classroom: Safe, Hands-On and Inexpensive Instruction Christopher D. Garay1, Aubrey A. Hunt1, Stephen M. Schleicher2, Sean P. Brophy1, Stacy S. Klein1, 3, 4, Cynthia B. Paschal1, 4, 5 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN / 2Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, MO / 3University School, Nashville, TN / 4Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN / 5Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Nashville, TN A new hands-on curriculum developed at

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Communication Skills in Aerospace Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Helbling; Patric McElwain; Angela Beck; Ron Madler; David Lanning

Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationmaterial outside of one’s expertise, gaining insight from diverse viewpoints, providing outsidesupport for department internal review, and engaging in interdisciplinary scholarly activities suchas interdisciplinary research 4. These benefits also include more intangible notions such asfostering community across department boundaries and appreciating each other’s contributionsto student education.With these benefits in mind, the AE and HU/COM faculty chose to pursue collaborative teachingin three phases. First, as a test case a new writing course was developed and linked

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Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Norma Mattei

, Page 10.929.5they lost some of the personal interactions that occurred in the previous workshops because ofthe increased number of participants. In addition several of the meeting rooms were crowded “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering Education”with 100-120 participants. With this in mind, the 2001 and 2003 workshops were restricted toeighty participants conducting research in the areas supported by CMS, drawing more heavilyfrom the content of and the feedback about the 1995 and 1997 workshops.The 1995 workshop consisted of six formal sessions spread over a 2-1/2 day period and two half-day technical