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Patricia L. Fox; D. Jan Cowan; Stephen P. Hundley

GREEN’s success.The GO GREEN CourseThe GO GREEN course was developed specifically for engineering and technology students toteach them about sustainable development by looking at best practices in business and industryusing real world examples. (For the purposes of this paper we will use the generally accepteddefinition of “sustainable development,’ which is to meet the needs of the present generationwithout compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.1)The GO GREEN course has three distinct parts: • A portion of the course is taught at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) an urban research university with nearly 30,000 students in Indianapolis, Indiana, prior to the trip to Germany

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Mariappan Jawaharlal

mechanisms.BackgroundThe Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, popularly known as the Rose Parade, is by far themost televised and most photographed single day annual event of its kind in the world.The first Tournament of Roses was staged in 1890 by members of Pasadena's Valley Hunt Club,former residents of the East and Midwest eager to showcase their new homes’ mild winterweather. "In New York, people are buried in snow," announced Professor Charles F. Holder at aClub meeting. "Here our flowers are blooming and our oranges are about to bear. Let's hold afestival to tell the world about our paradise."1 Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copyright © 2007, American Society

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Jeffrey S. Burmeister; Louise Stark

DevelopmentCenter, Inc., (EDC)1 have shown that hands-on science provides the process of discovery that willhelp to not only capture interest of young people that may not have considered science as an areaof interest, but also helps build on such skills as critical thinking, problem solving and teamwork. Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copyright © 2007, American Society for Engineering EducationHands-on exploration is many times termed inquiry or discovery learning. The studies conductedby CSE looked at the impact of inquiry learning, specifically in science instruction, which hasmoved from the presentation of purely textbook material to a much more hands

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J. C. LaCombe; E. L. Wang; M. Nicolescu; P. Rivera; B. Poe

experience working in interdisciplinary teams. Similarly, NASA is a leader in the useof remote operations in the form of telescience or telecontrol of robots because of the numerousspaceflight missions conducted each year. The Nevada Space Grant Consortium’s (NvSGC)student satellite program, NevadaSat, is one of the many national and international programswith student satellite programs [1]. Students participating in these types of programs typicallystudy and develop complex systems that span a range of tasks, with Earth-orbiting satellitestypically at the pinnacle. The approach taken typically uses a process of graduated steps inprogram complexity—the formula followed by other successful Space Grant Consortia such asthe University of Colorado, is

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workshop activities. Although a few individual seminars havebeen changed or refined over the eight years of ETW, the intent of the seminars remains thesame – to provide content and embedded activities that orient, motivate, inform, stimulate,demonstrate, apply, and assess. Table 1 is a listing of the seminars to be offered as part of the2007 ETW which is being hosted at Northern Arizona University in July. The ETW staffconsists of engineering and construction management faculty volunteers from across the U.S.who are scholars of teaching and learning and schooled in the philosophy and methods of ETW. Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copyright © 2007

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Cherian P. Mathews; Rahim Khoie

average students.IntroductionThere are a lot of recent articles in the literature describing the use of Tablet PCs for instruction.Anderson et al.1 discuss the use of Classroom Presenter (a presentation system that allows for inkannotation on electronic slides) in the engineering classroom. The benefits of digital inkannotation are described by Hulls2 and contrasted with other teaching methods. Wise et al.3present responses to student surveys that indicate that Tablet PC use by instructors can helpimprove student learning. The above-mentioned papers use subjective instruments (such asstudent surveys) to identify benefits of using the Tablet PC for instruction. The authors havebeen able to find very little in the literature that objectively

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Mariappan Jawaharlal; Cesar Larriva; Jill Nemiro

Copyright © 2007, American Society for Engineering EducationIntroductionThe School Robotics Initiative seeks to improve student and teacher learning in regional schoolsand prospective teacher learning at the university. It is based on the establishment and gradualexpansion of a network of regional schools that will develop robotics-learning programs linkedto Cal Poly Pomona technological resources and faculty in education, psychology, andengineering. The School Robotics Initiative is implemented as a problem-based curriculumapproach designed to enhance cross-curricular learning (with an emphasis on mathematics,science and writing) at the levels of elementary through high school.1 As it evolves, this effortwill involve industry and academic experts

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Teruni Lamberg

contentknowledge to effectively teach mathematics (Ball, 1997).1 Content knowledge is the conceptualunderstanding of the mathematics that teachers need to have in order to teach. Pedagogicalcontent knowledge involves understanding how children think and learn. Teachers who are ableto teach math effectively are able to bridge content and pedagogical knowledge. For example, astudent states that the fraction “ ¼” is smaller than “1/8” because “4 is smaller than 8.” In orderto teach effectively, the teacher must understand mathematically why ¼ is larger than the 1/8th .The content knowledge required to teach this concept involves understanding the concepts ofunit, unitizing, equivalency, partitioning and part-whole conceptions of fractions. Furthermore,the

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Mel I. Mendelson

for teaching nanotechnology have revolved around the basic sciences,i.e., physics, chemistry and biology. This is probably because basic research in nanotech is stillevolving. However, there are over 380 products currently on the market that usenanotechnology, and $30 billion worth of nano-products were sold in 2005 1.Scientists are now passing on the development of micro- and nano-systems to engineers forcreating new products. Engineers are beginning to design and manufacture micro-/nano-systems. Hence, nanotechnology is taking on an engineering approach. Now nanotechnology isbeing taught in some engineering departments of U.S. universities, and it requires a differentapproach when teaching it to engineering students. Since nanotechnology

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Wolf-Dieter Otte

1. W. Ted Mahavier et al.. A quick-start guide to the Moore method. http://www.discovery.utexas.edu/rlm/reference/quick_start-3.pdf 2. William S. Mahavier. What is the Moore method? http://www.discovery.utexas.edu/rlm/reference/mahavier1.html 3. G. Edgar Parker. Getting more from Moore. http://www.discovery.utexas.edu/rlm/reference/parker.html 4. Wolf-Dieter Otte. Example of a class web site. http://flagstaff.cse.nau.edu/Courses/CS499%20-%20Enterprise%20Web%20Computing/index.html 5. Apple Inc. iTunes-U. http://www.apple.com/education/products/ipod/itunes_u.html 6. UC Berkeley. iTunes-U Portal. http://itunes.berkeley.edu/ 7. Stanford University. iTunes-U Portal. http://itunes.stanford.edu/ 8

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integrate a broad range oftechnologies and skills. Students are given the opportunity to crystallize the ideas learned earlierand to implement comprehensive systems across an organization. The Master’s Research Projectfocuses on the research and selection of an appropriate topic on one of the research orapplications in the field of wireless communication systems. Each project is to be evaluated by apanel consists of five judges (normally two from university and three from industry) and gradedby “H” for Honors, “S” for Satisfactory and “U” for Unsatisfactory. Each group is responsibleto submit a final project report and make a 50 minute formal presentation. Following is the listof MSWC courses: 1. WCM601 Analog and Digital Communications

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Justin Reginato

fromsurrounding regions.Advanced topics in engineering management: introducing students to entrepreneurshipWhile introducing engineering students to entrepreneurship was the primary focus of the class,developing the course as an engineering course was key. Therefore, the tenor of the coursefollowed many other industrial engineering or engineering courses in that it focused on systemsanalysis or resource allocation. Peter Drucker was fond of quoting the nineteenth-centuryeconomist J. B. Say, stating “The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lowerand into an area of higher productivity and greater yield.”1 As such, the course was notpresented so much as a course on how to start a business, as entrepreneurship is often perceived,but

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Brian P. Self; Lynne A. Slivovsky; Kevin Taylor; Sema Alptekin

low cost.The CPE and EE are currently collaborating with the Mechanical Engineering (ME) Departmentand CCATC to create an Electronic Travel Aid (ETA). People with impaired vision can use acane successfully to navigate in a forward direction, but often have difficulties with obstacles ateye level and with detecting openings (such as open doorways) to their sides. A team of one EEand one ME student is developing an ETA using ultrasonic sensors to detect obstacles in frontand to the sides of the wearer. Upon sensing an obstacle or a doorway opening, this informationis provided to the user by means of a tactile belt (Figure 1). Vibromechanical tactors, which aresimilar to vibrating batteries in cell phones, can be placed circumferentially around

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Nhut Tan Ho

Conceiving — Designing — Implementing— Operating process. The crux of the CDIO Initiative is its Syllabus (see Appendix), astatement of undergraduate engineering education goals; and a set of 12 Standards designed tohelp achieve the goals (see Figure 1 below). The Standards address program philosophy(Standard 1), curriculum development (Standards 2, 3 and 4), design-build experiences andworkspaces (Standards 5 and 6), new methods of teaching and learning (Standards 7 and 8),faculty development (Standards 9 and 10), and assessment and evaluation (Standards 11 and 12).The Syllabus approximately corresponds to EC2000 Criterion 3 of the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET), but is more comprehensive. The Syllabus and Standardswere

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Amir G. Rezaei; Kyu-Jung Kim; Jawaharlal Mariappan; Angela C. Shih

total number of credits forgraduation. Most engineering curricula have become more intensive and thus students arerequired to spend more time for each subject. California State Polytechnic University in Pomona,California has one of the largest engineering programs in the US with over 4,500 undergraduatestudents. On the other hand, more than 84 percent of students at CPP are working during theweek [1]. In recent years, student attrition has been a problem for many engineering programsacross the nation such that a significant number of students drop out in their first- and second-year. As indicated in the EERP report on student attrition [2], the primary non-university relatedreasons students claimed for leaving their studies were the

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Ann-Marie Vollstedt; Michael Robinson; Eric Wang

results show that US students are falling behind their internationalcounterparts somewhere in the middle grades: “It (TIMSS and TIMSS-R) suggests that ourchildren do not start out behind those of other nations in mathematics and science achievement,but somewhere in the middle grades they fall behind.”2 When researchers compared theperformance of fourth graders in 1995 with eighth graders in 1999, they found that the relativeperformance of eighth graders in science and math was lower then the fourth graders. 1 TIMSS- Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copyright © 2007, American Society for EngineeringR also showed that US twelfth graders scored below

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Abu Rashid; Joko Sutrisno; Scott Cooper; Alan Fuchs

uniqueroute in the formation of highly directional and nanostructured materials. These structurespossess unique morphologies and are expected to allow the formation of submicron channels, ordomains, which will increase the conductivity of protons. The synthesized polymer issupramolecular because of hydrophobic / hydrophilic interactions between the sulfonatedpolyamide (hydrophilic) and the PBI (hydrophobic) segments. In Figure 1, the hydrophobic andhydrophilic regions of the polymer are shown. These polymers are expected to form “lameller” Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copyright © 2007, American Society for Engineeringor layered structures. Also

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remained fairly constant,1 though differentdepartments have increased steadily (such as Mechanical Engineering) while others have varied.The “Design4Practice,” or “D4P,” curriculum is a series of innovative undergraduate classes whichinvolve active learning laboratories for the students in each of their freshman, sophomore, junior andsenior years. The program objectives were developed in response to the call by industry forbaccalaureate engineers to possess a broader set of skills beyond their analytical and computer skills.This call was strengthened by the Engineering faculty’s observation of the students’ experiences insenior capstone design during the late 1980’s and 1990’s. These students, who had had no priorexperience with a design process

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M. R. Wilhelm; J. P. Mohsen

, American Society for Engineering Educationlevel accreditation criteria in the late 1980’s when it was last thought that ABET would allowdual-level accreditation in discipline. The baccalaureate degree programs remain accreditable atthe basic level today because EAC Criterion 9 says, in part, "Criteria for advanced levelprograms are completion of a program of study satisfying the general criteria for basic levelengineering programs. . ."[1]The template for all Speed School accredited programs is shown below. ACADEMIC PROGRAM TEMPLATE DIVISION OF PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL OF GENERAL ENGINEERING ENGINEERING DIVISION OF

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Kevin R. Lewelling; Kevin S. Woolverton; Michael C. Reynolds

project. Our selected project stressed management principles bycreating realistic budgets, Gantt charts, fundraising, advertising, and managerial interactions.Likewise, teamwork was encouraged by real-world time demands, task complexity, moderncommunications, and public visibility.2.0 Project objectives and outcomesThere were four main objectives considered in selecting the “Holiday Light Show” project whichintroduced first-year engineering students to the following concepts. 1) Exposing students tocommunication methods within the global business environment will better equip students forinternational offices and understand differences in multicultural ethics. 2) The second objectiveis to encourage creative thinking. As the pace and volume of

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Day W. Radebaugh

1 The Devil is in the Details: Why Engineering is an Inexact Science Day W. Radebaugh Assistant Professor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy Wichita State University Wichita, Kansas 67260AbstractOne of the main reasons cited for the choice of an engineering career is the desire toemploy an exact science. Most students of engineering distinguish themselves from thepractitioners of “soft” sciences, such as psychology, marketing, sociology or

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Christi Patton Luks; Laura P. Ford

studentslearn to model transient systems, develop transfer functions from those models, create blockdiagrams and P&IDs, and select components for simple feedback PID control systems. Thissecond course continues with tuning PID feedback controllers on physical systems and goes onto feedforward, cascade, ratio, and multivariable control systems. The textbook for the course isProcess Dynamics and Control1, and this text covers these control systems and tuning processesfor them. The course is set up as 1 hour of laboratory and 2 hours of lecture per week, onaverage over the semester.The class was scheduled to meet from 8:00 to 10:45 am on Tuesdays and Thursdays, taking uptwo 3-hour class slots. Lectures usually ran from 9:30 to 10:45 am. There were a

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Stephan A. Durham; W. Micah Hale; Seamus Freyne

Teaching Aids and Laboratory Experiments to Enhance Materials Learning Stephan A. Durham1, W. Micah Hale2, Seamus Freyne3 1 University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center / 2University of Arkansas / 3Manhattan CollegeAbstractMost civil engineering programs across the country require one course in materials and materialstesting. Many times these courses are structured to provide students the basic understanding ofthe production, properties, and behavior of common structural materials. Emphasis is oftenplaced on concrete, steel, and wood. This paper presents teaching aids and laboratoryexperiments that can be used

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Ken Barnard; Greg Stephens; Raju Dandu

build success. Next year we can planearlier, think bigger, and generate more support. Given more time, more communityorganizations would likely become involved. One suggestion would be to include them earlier inthe planning process. In conclusion it is our hope that our experience will help other college anduniversities promote Earth Day activities on their campuses across the nation.BibliographyAmerican Chemical Society, “Chemists Celebrate Earth Day”, Downloaded June 23, 2007http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=oca%5Cearthday%5Cindex.htmlAn Inconvenient Truth, Downloaded June 23, 2007 http://www.climatecrisis.net/Earth Day U.S. Government Portal, “Earth Day April 22, 2007”, Downloaded June 23, 2007http

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Ramesh V. Narang

companies have realizedthe tremendous benefits of understanding the basic principles of measurement variation withoutwhich it is impossible to implement six sigma.Six sigma is a quality-improvement tool that is designed to make businesses as successful aspossible. Its primary objective is to deliver world-class performance, reliability, and value to thecustomer. The tools of six sigma are applied within a framework known as Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC). In DMAIC, the measure phase establishes techniques forcollecting data about the current performance and how well it is meeting customer requirements[1]. Upon completion of this phase, the six sigma team expects to have reliable and accuratemeasurements for further analysis and

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Wei Zhang

learning outcome.1. IntroductionMost computer science and computer engineering programs have two or more computerarchitecture courses [4]. The introductory computer architecture course typically followsa programming course and a logic design course, which is often offered to sophomore orjunior students. The goal of the first computer architecture course is generally to providea basic introduction to the organization and input/output interface of a simple general-purpose microprocessor. More advanced architecture concepts and optimizations areusually provided in the secondary computer architecture course.Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

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Shannon G. Davis; Carol S. Gattis; Edgar C. Clausen

laboratory exercises. ThePartnership Program consists of three parts: 1) instruction at the institutes using a number ofhands-on activities that will be used in the classroom; 2) follow-up activities at the middle andjunior high schools and; 3) evaluation, both during and after the summer institutes.In evaluating Year 1 of the program, several important lessons were learned:• Arkansas Science Curriculum Frameworks are structured with minimal overlap from grade to grade, making it difficult to structure activities that fit equally well in each middle school grade levels.• Despite the imperative to directly align experiments with the Curriculum Frameworks, teachers and students thoroughly enjoyed experiments with an engineering theme.• None

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Lawrence Whitman; S. Hossein Cheraghi; Janet Twomey

commented that they have“really learned” the course content through the simulation. Through the existingproject the students develop a more thorough understanding of traditionalproduction systems concepts. The existing class project uses a simple, non-trivialfactory as shown in figure 1.Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 4Figure 1. Factory FlowMany students are unaware of issues beyond typical classroom lectures. Theexample used here is related to the idea of lean and green. The basic concept oflean and green manufacturing is for production systems to view pollution as

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Lawrence Whitman; Zulma Toro-Ramos; Steven Skinner

local and national industries. This paper describes the details of therequirements at WSU, the resources required, and the linkage to ABET outcomes.I. Introduction and MotivationThe College of Engineering (CoE) at Wichita State University (WSU) haslaunched a strategic initiative, Engineer of 2020, in order to prepare graduates foreffective engagement in the engineering profession in the year 2020. Thisinitiative is in part motivated by two reports from the National Academy ofEngineering, of the National Academies, entitled The Engineer of 2020 [1] and itsfollow-on Educating the Engineer of 2020 [2]. These reports, written by twogroups of distinguished educators and practicing engineers from diversebackgrounds, were developed in response to a

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hasintegrated stress concentrations and static failure into introductory finite elementundergraduate courses, graduate courses and industrial short courses. The authors havefound through experience that students and practitioners are not familiar with the stressconcentrations and static failure associated with these elements.1. IntroductionThe finite element method (FEM) has been used extensively during the past thirty yearsin industry and is now a standard engineering tool for both analysis and design. Years ofexperience with the method have shown that by understanding the fundamentals of thetechnique, real complex systems can be modeled with a high degree of reliability. It isimportant to emphasize, however, that the reliability of the process is