Conference Session

Project and Model-Based Mathematics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sharlene Katz, California State University-Northridge; Bella Klass-Tsirulnikov, Sami Shamoon College of Engineering (formerly Negev Academic College of

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Mathematics

, specializing in topological vector spaces, as well as in the research on mathematics education at different levels. Page 12.1557.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Using Neural Networks to Motivate the Teaching of Matrix Algebra for K-12 and College Engineering StudentsAbstractImproving the retention of engineering students continues to be a topic of interest to engineeringeducators. Reference 1 indicates that seven sessions at the 2006 ASEE Annual Conference weredevoted to this subject. In order to be successful in an engineering program, it is recognized thatstudents must have a solid

Conference Session

Graphics and Visualization

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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La Verne Abe Harris, Arizona State University; Frederick Meyers, The Ohio State University

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Engineering Design Graphics

in 1993. The computer required 34 MB ofhard dish space and 8 MB of RAM for installation. This Windows version of AutoCAD was oneof the most successful releases.In 1993 SolidWorks Corporation was founded by John Hirschtick from ComputerVision.SolidWorks, a 3D CAD program is a midrange CAD market software that competes withPro/ENGINEER and SDRC I-DEAS, which is now Unigraphics NX.Figure 1. Engineering Design SoftwareENGINEERING DESIGN SOFTWAREThe decade of the 1990's introduced a plethora of engineering design graphics softwareapplications. Here is a list of some of the innovations from that decade:YEAR APPLICATION1991 Open GL for Windows NT1992 Autodesk's 3D Studio and Canvas for Windows 3D Studio version 2 for DOS AutoCAD Autodesk's

Conference Session

Innovation in Construction Engineering Education I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tulio Sulbaran, University of Southern Mississippi; David Marchman, University of Southern Mississippi

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Construction

, 40,000 injuries, and 52,000 property-damage-only accidents, at a total cost of $6.2 billion/year [Mohan & Gautam, 2002].Significant effort has been placed to further understand the potentially hazardous nature of workzones and several facts about work zones have been documented such as 1- Eighty-five percentof those killed in work zones are drivers or occupants, 2- Rear-end crashes are the most commonkind of work zone crash, 3- Roads with speed limits of 55 miles per hour or greater account forthe majority of fatal work zone crashes in 2001, 4- More than 50% of all fatal work zone crashesoccurred during the day in 2001, 5- More than twice as many fatal work zone crashes occurredon weekdays as on weekends; and 6- Fatal work zone crashes

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Norman Egbert; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina

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Graduate Studies

performing jobs classified asengineering. By 2006, that value reached approximately $150 billion.1, 2While not aninsignificant sum, an argument can be made that the actual value is much higher.Subjectively, the value could be equated to the public perception of engineering. Publicperception about most topics including engineering fluctuates. During the U.S. quest to put aman on the moon in the 1960s, engineering was recognized as a highly respected profession.Late in the 20th century, though, the desirability of engineering as a career or even as asignificantly positive contributor to society was questioned as job demand waxed and waned. Inaddition, the growth of technology was viewed by many as complicating their lives, andengineering was perceived

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark Schuver, Purdue University; Mark Smith, Rochester Institute of Technology; Duane Dunlap, Western Carolina University; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina; Joseph Tidwell, Boeing Co.

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Graduate Studies

. The mere presence of experienced professionals in the classroom is noguarantee of a high quality interactive learning environment; instead, strategies and practicesmust by put in place to create an environment that fosters collaborative knowledge sharing. Theuse of cohort groups is one such strategy.A “cohort” has been defined as a group of students who enroll at the same time and take coursesat the same time for the duration of their educational tenure [1]. Beyond the structuralimplications of this definition, Drago-Severson [2] refers to a cohort as a “tight-knit, reliable,common-purpose group.” A cohort can also be thought of as a simple form of a “learningcommunity,” a programmatic effort to create an academic and social community for

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jason Yao, East Carolina University; Loren Limberis, East Carolina University; Paul Kauffmann, East Carolina University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

/sciencerequirement, and laboratory activities. Encountered difficulties and opportunities are identifiedand improvement plans are described. I. INTRODUCTIONSome universities offer general engineering programs to help students who are “fundamentallyinterested in becoming engineers but are not ready to select one of the engineering degreeprograms”. [1] After finishing the required courses by the program, students choose anengineering discipline to continue their degree program. A few universities offer a Bachelor’sdegree in General Engineering. However, the definitions of “General Engineering” in suchprograms are vague and vary. The following two definition statements attempt to explain theterm: Definition 1: “General Engineering is unique because it

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cheng Lin, Old Dominion University; Alok Verma, Old Dominion University

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Engineering Technology

characteristics. Depending on thenature and location where each feature control frame is specified, interpretation on theapplicability of Rule 2 is quite inconsistent. This paper focuses on identifying thecharacteristics of a feature control frame to remove this inconsistency. A table is createdto clarify the confusions for students or designers, who can use it to justify theirapplications in the GD&T design.1. IntroductionGeometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) has been around in one form oranother since World War II. The need to define ever more complex part geometry and theneed to guarantee interchangeability of parts has contributed to its widespread use. Today,it can be found in nearly all manufacturing industries, from the very small

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tom Moran, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education

,noting that the single “A” grade was in English, and sarcastically suggesting that his son mightbetter pursue “literary engineering” rather than the real thing.1 Hickam finished his engineeringstudies and enjoyed a successful engineering career but he is best known for his “literaryengineering”, in particular a narrative of the rocket launching campaign he and his friends, all thesons of West Virginia coal miners, embarked upon in the shadow of Sputnik, a story brought tothe screen as the popular movie October Sky.Hickam is not alone. Engineering has provided a starting place for a surprising number of quitesuccessful creative writers, including poets, short story writers and novelists. These writer-engineers have won awards, gathered smash

Conference Session

K-12 Engineering and Pre-College Outreach Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eugene Rutz, University of Cincinnati

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

andtechnology to students.The collaborators began an investigative phase of the project to identify and evaluate materialsand curricula that were currently available and used by similar schools. In addition to disciplinespecific resources, the materials reviewed included:Project Lead the Way 4Tools of Discovery 5Teach Engineering 6Engineering Your Future 7Imagine 101 8Scientific and Technical Visualization 9The Infinity Project 10The review team was pleased to discover the significant diversity in resources to facilitate thenew program. The collaborators refined their review to identify the most appropriate materialgiven the following considerations: 1. Could be taught without significant, additional classroom materials 2. Would not require

Conference Session

FPD8 -- Introductory Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Darryl Morrell, Arizona State University

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First-Year Programs

offered in the context of a multi disciplinary engineering program, rather than as part of adiscipline specific engineering program or as a freshman level service course.1.2 Course Design ChallengesMany of the challenges in the design of the course stem from issues faced by all engineering Page 12.458.2freshmen. A significant fraction of students do not yet employ a systematic approach to problemsolving; most of the students cannot clearly articulate their problem solving approach. Students 1 Table 1: Student learning objectives. 1. The student employs a

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dennis Depew, Purdue University; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University; Mark Schuver, Purdue University; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina; Duane Dunlap, Western Carolina University

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Graduate Studies

professionally-oriented faculty who will be required to develop the professional curricula,educate professionals, and sustain the program: Current compensation for professionally oriented faculty in university non-tenure track positions is significantly less than comparable positions in industry (1/2 to 1/3). Base salary increases and the opportunity for performance based, periodic increases are required. Incentives to attract and retain high quality, experienced, professional faculty to colleges of engineering and technology must be created. Consider introducing performance based bonus options. Examples might include goals for achieving additional revenue

Conference Session

Teaching Design in Manufacturing Curriculum I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Priya Manohar, Robert Morris University; Cathleen Jones, Robert Morris University; Jon Radermacher, Robert Morris University

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Manufacturing

. Social commentators [e.g. 1)] havehighlighted the need for businesses to succeed in a global environment and as such theeducation system must attempt to create engineers with global perspectives. There areseveral solutions to achieve this objective such as internships, co-op programs, studentexchange programs, laboratory-intensive classes and the ever-popular Capstone SeniorDesign Project. This last and the most important topic of integrated design has beenreviewed 2, 3) and discussed extensively in literature and engineering educationconferences. There is considerable variability in the scope; breadth and depth of thesecapstone projects, the team size and composition and the time, and sponsors and budgetfor the projects. Some of these projects

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Duane Dunlap, Western Carolina University; Roger Olson, Rolls-Royce Corporation

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Graduate Studies

processmust enable the practicing engineer to develop facility with the new tools and technologies at hisdisposal. Such activities are within the psychomotor domain in the taxonomy of educationalobjectives. Hence, the professional education of practicing engineers is quite naturallycompetency based. Page 12.605.2 Figure 1: Categories in the Cognitive Domain of Bloom’s Taxonomy3. Curriculum Development – Establishing ObjectivesThe program of advanced professional education for practicing engineers has as its basisrecognition of the way that engineers grow professionally throughout their careers. The NationalCollaborative has

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jianxin Tang, Alfred University

AC 2007-345: MAGNETIC LEVITATION SYSTEMS USING ANALOG ANDDIGITAL PHASE-LEAD CONTROLLERSJianxin Tang, Alfred University Jianxin Tang, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Alfred University, Alfred, NY 14802. Education: • Ph.D. The University of Connecticut, Electrical Engineering, 9/84-9/89; • M.S. The University of Bridgeport, Electrical Engineering, 1/83-5/84; • B.S. Guangxi University (China), Electrical Engineering, 9/72-7/76. Areas of Specialization and Research Interests: • Power system generation scheduling • Digital Signal Processing. • Control and communication systems

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Yost, University of Detroit Mercy; Mohan Krishnan, University of Detroit Mercy

current version often break down, and chaos ensues. It isalso difficult for an instructor to find clear evidence of an individual’s contribution to the report.The typical document revision cycle for a student team goes something like this: 1. Student A creates a draft outline of the document in Word and includes a draft of the section for which he/she is responsible. 2. Student A e-mails the document to teammates, usually with some indication as to whose turn it is to revise the document (Student B). Problems arise if more than one person tries to revise the original document. In such cases, merging the changes from several revised documents is not always straightforward. 3. After adding other content and/or

Conference Session

Student Learning and Teamwork

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charlie Edmonson, University of Dayton; Donna Summers, University of Dayton

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Engineering Technology

meetings be held, meetingattendance requirements, how will meetings be conducted as well as performance andquality of work requirements for each team member. A team contract is important toestablish the norms of behavior expected by the team members early in the project andthe contract helps to reduce misunderstandings during the performance stage.Examples of Courses with Team ProjectsThroughout our curriculum, students learn project management and teamwork skills by Page 12.927.5actually doing a project. Each project has a sponsor, either a local business or a facultyor staff member on-campus. In some cases, simulated projects are used. Figure 1 is

Conference Session

Innovation in Construction Engineering Education II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tulio Sulbaran, University of Southern Mississippi; David Marchman, University of Southern Mississippi; Shelton Houston, University of Southern Mississippi

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Construction

a descriptive research methodology with a systematic literature review. Theresults presented in this paper could be used as the foundation for similar studies in other statesand it has the potential to directly benefit construction education by serving as an example ofgood practice in engineering educationIntroduction to Roadway FatalitiesThe United States (U.S.) heavily relies on the roadway infrastructure. As shown in Table 1 aconsiderable number of highway vehicle miles are driven every year. Unfortunately, the numberof fatalities is staggering with accidents becoming more frequent, resulting in situations as theone depicted in Figure 1. Figure 1. Crash Sample Picture [Public Roads 2004

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Crofton, Murray State University; James Rogers, Murray State University; Caitlin Pugh, University of Kentucky; Kenny Evans, University of Kentucky

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Electrical and Computer

-traditional student who attended most onlinelectures from work or home and a traditional student who attended online lectures on campus.Finally, we summarize these findings and discuss how the success or failure of the deliverymethod is directly related to student motivation.Description of Elluminate LIVE!®Elluminate LIVE®1 is an award-winning, web-based collaboration software that allows theinstructor to duplicate much of the benefits of a face-to-face lecture in an online environment.Features include real-time, online collaboration where both the instructor and students caninteract via an interactive whiteboard and/or through application sharing. Audio interaction,including simultaneous talking from multiple participants, is provided through full

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Physics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian Belu, Wayne State University; Alexandru Catalin Belu, Wayne State University

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Engineering Physics & Physics

computationalresources and time. Page 12.1547.2The paper is organized as follows. Section 1 of this paper is reserved for introduction andwe will sketch the finite difference methods, section 2 and 3 are reserved for thepresentation of the discrete formulation of mechanics and electrodynamics, and wereview some of the engineering applications of this approach in section 4. Thepedagogical implementation of such formulations is discussed in section 5, and the lastsection is reserved for conclusions, discussion and future work.1.1 Finite Difference MethodsThe finite difference methods was developed by A. Tom in the early 1920s under the title“methods of squares” to solve

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention Topics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rose Mary Cordova-Wentling, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign; Steven Thomas, Lockheed Martin Corporation

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Women in Engineering

AC 2007-355: WORKPLACE ENVIRONMENTS THAT HINDER AND ASSIST THECAREER PROGRESSION OF WOMEN IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGYRose Mary Cordova-Wentling, University of Illinois-Urbana ChampaignSteven Thomas, Lockheed Martin Corporation Page 12.1616.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 1 Workplace Environments that Assist and Hinder the Career Progression of Women in Information Technology AbstractThe purpose of this study was to develop an understanding of the workplace environmentcharacteristics that hinder and

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education-HDL

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jonathan Hill, University of Hartford

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Computers in Education

expanding opcode presented byTanenbaum2. The nod4 instruction encoding is formulated from Table 1. The headings IMP,IMM, DIR, and IND refer to implied, immediate, direct, and index addressing modes,respectively. The headings A, C, S, and X refer to the corresponding registers. The ‘–’ symbolmeans use of an item without a choice and ‘o’ means a choice among items. Instructionmnemonics use the nameR format where R may refer to a source or destination register.Instructions not ending with R either imply or otherwise do not refer to any registers. Page 12.438.5 Table 1: Instruction distribution

Conference Session

Teaching Innovation in Architectural Engineering II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Cowan, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis; Derek Ogle, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis; Megan Svarczkopf, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis

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Architectural

, 2007Seeking New Praxis and Pedagogy: Using Ethnographic Research Methods to Teach Architectural Technology within an International Service ContextAbstract Ethnographers rely heavily upon methodologies that require observation and participationin the social actions they attempt to document (Hume and Mulcock 1). Extending thesemethodologies to architectural technology education requires consideration of their tools of thetrade: reflection, videography and journalistic field notes (to name a few) (DeWalt and DeWalt2 ). In the particular instance described within this paper, these methods were applied to aninternational architectural technology course (an undergraduate directed study) that involved theevaluation of post earthquake housing

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Tech University; Nasir Ghani, Tennessee Tech University

, theUCSD/SDSU project represents a solid “proof-of-concept” of a remotely accessible RP facilityand provides a good reference for future related efforts.Current DevelopmentCurrently TTU and its project partner, Saddleback College purchased servers, network camerasand various accessories to give a Web-based access to their RP facilities. Both sites are passwordprotected and users can access these labs through their internet browsers. Any user can access thelabs and virtually see the lab environment and current works going on in the labs as can be seenin Figure 1. Page 12.1237.3 Figure 1: Rapid Prototyping Laboratory located at

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching and Learning

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benson Tongue, University of California-Berkeley

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Educational Research and Methods

climate of reduced resources and support infrastructure,where will students find their answers? Advising by faculty advisors is a catch as catch canproposition and is notorious for its uneven level of quality. Beyond the simple question ofexpertise, there is the problem of actually finding an advisor when needed.Our solution to this problem is an electronically available resource that’s accessible 24 hoursa day (assuming no network server failures, of course). Electronic learning has been an objectof steadily growing interest [1], [2], [3], [11], [12], and the present project falls within thisgeneral area - an expandable program that enables learning to progress at the user’s paceand convenience.The concern over education of this sort isn’t

Conference Session

Internet Delivery of Mechanics Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Steif, Carnegie Mellon University; Anna Dollar, Miami University

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Mechanics

each section in a modulesignal to students if additional studying is needed to meet learning objectives.1. IntroductionThere is an increasing demand for engineering education around the world, as well as increasingopportunities to leverage technology for this purpose. As one response, we are seeking to createa complete on-line introductory-level Statics course for novice learners. This project is part of awider Open Learning Initiative (OLI) at Carnegie Mellon University, supported by the Williamand Flora Hewlett Foundation, to develop cognitively-informed high quality on-line courses.With this Statics course we hope to increase the number of learners that can be reached(including independent learners), and to support other instructors with

Conference Session

Teaching Topics in Aircraft Manufacturing

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sergey Dubikovsky, Purdue University; Ronald Sterkenburg, Purdue University

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Aerospace

the highly technical positions in modernmanufacturing6. Figure 1: Testing of structural riveted joints on tension.The third component of the course is testing. As was mentioned before, students test severalstructural riveted joints on tension, and hardness testing of several samples of aluminum strips isperformed to learn about the effects of heat treatment. "Dog bones" samples are relatively simpleto make, but the effects of the property changes of aluminum alloy after heat treatment is not soeasy to explain. Students learn about different types of heat treatment, but most importantly, they Page 12.1166.4also discover

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xiaoqi Zhang, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Clifford Bruell, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Yexin Yin, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Praveen Jayaradu, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Mark Hines, University of Massachusetts Lowell

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Environmental Engineering

AC 2007-365: INTRODUCING NANOTECHNOLOGY INTO ENVIRONMENTALENGINEERING CURRICULUMXiaoqi Zhang, University of Massachusetts-LowellClifford Bruell, University of Massachusetts-LowellYexin Yin, University of Massachusetts LowellPraveen Jayaradu, University of Massachusetts LowellMark Hines, University of Massachusetts Lowell Page 12.973.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Introducing Nanotechnology into Environmental Engineering CurriculumBackgroundAs a result of the National Nanotechnology Initiative [1], substantial advances have been made inusing nanotechnology to generate nanomaterials with novel properties [2]. These materials andprocesses have or will produce

Conference Session

Teaching Ethics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

June Marshall, St. Joseph's College; John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

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Engineering Ethics

professional code cannot be developed before the personal code. The question thenremains, how do Engineering curriculums develop appropriate learning experiences tofacilitate the development of personal codes that will positively impact the professionalcode?The Call for Ethics Education for American ProfessionalsHistorically, Dewey believed that moral education could not be divorced from the schoolcurriculum. Rather, it should be delivered through all of the “agencies, instrumentalities,and materials of school life”.1 Ryan suggested that “the morals, values and ethics wewant students to learn should be identified by adults and taught by matching the topic andlevel of intensity to the students’ developmental level”.10 Direct teaching of these pre

Conference Session

Cognitive and Motivational Issues in Student Performance I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Steif, Carnegie Mellon University; Jamie LoBue, Carnegie Mellon University; Anne Fay, Carnegie Mellon University; Burak Kara, Carnegie Mellon University; Steve Spencer, Carnegie Mellon University

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Educational Research and Methods

problems; the control groupreceives instruction with the same examples as the experimental group, but without thequestions that induce body-centered thinking. Problems used for this study include thoseshown in Figure 1. The participant is asked to determine the loads (interactions or forces)acting on various bodies. All problems involve multiple bodies connected in various waysand require many critical concepts in statics. E F 2m E A D 30 cm 30 cm 40 cm 2m B

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators: Tricks of the Trade II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Marshall, University of Southern Maine; June Marshall, St. Joseph's College

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New Engineering Educators

. Page 12.867.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 In Search of Teaching Excellence: Tricks of the TradeThe purpose of this paper is to identify and describe teaching tools and techniques thatwill help new faculty as well as experienced faculty become more effective teachers.Based on a review of the literature, the following excerpts have been divided into twomajor sections. The focus of the first section is the learning process, and the secondsection discusses innovative methods of teaching.Topics included in the “Learning” section include: 1) Focusing on Learning and NotTeaching; 2) Problem Based Learning; 3) Facilitating Group Learning (PromotingAccountability, Linking Assignments, and Stimulating the Idea Exchange