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Retention of Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

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Nadine Macauley; Edward Golovatch; Annita Alting; Ardie Walser

College of New York since 2001.NADINE MACAULEYNadine Macauley holds a Bachelor and Masters degree and is an ABET accreditation specialist at theSchool of Engineering of the City College of the City University of New York.ARDIE D. WALSERArdie D. Walser is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Acting Associate Dean of theSchool of Engineering at the City College of the City University of New York. Dr. Walser is presently theDivision Chair of the Minorities in Engineering Division (MIND) of the American Association ofEngineering Education (ASEE). He was the treasurer of MIND from 1996 to 1998, and the MIND ProgramChair from 1999 to 2000. He has collaborated in the creation and direction of numerous facultydevelopment workshops

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Assessment in BME Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman; Monica Schmidt

, J., Cocking, R., How People Learn –Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, National Academy Press, 2000 JACK WASSERMAN Jack Wasserman is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Science where he has taught in the biomedical option. He is currently the Coordinator for the Biomedical Engineering Degree Program. He is the winner of 7 teaching awards and is a Fellow for the Center for Undergraduate Excellence and a Fellow of the Interactive Technology Center. RICHARD JENDRUCKO Richard Jendrucko is the Associate Department Chairman and professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Engineering and Engineering Science

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Teaching Strategies in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

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Joan Walker

construct a map with a predetermined list of concepts. Such amanipulation may enhance our ability to more quickly assess the validity of mappropositions and failures to link associated concepts, and thus provide timely, valuablefeedback to the instructor and students about students’ conceptual development.(This work was supported primarily by the Engineering Research Centers Program of theNational Science Foundation under Award Number EEC9876363. The authors extendmany thanks to the students and faculty who graciously gave their time.)Bibliography1. Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., & Cocking, R. R. (Eds.). (1999). How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.2. Collins, A. M., & Quillian

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Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

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2003 Annual Conference

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CRISTINO CARBONELL; FE TABAMO; Clarita Guevara

. Page 8.1135.3 The view of the Information-Processing theorists that the mind is a computer cannot be ignored. It hypothesizes that the human brain has three kinds of memory: the sensoryProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Conference and Exhibition2003, AmericanSociety for Engineering Education registers, the short-term memory (STM) and the long-term memory (LTM). The model describes information entering the brain as follows: anything a person senses will enter into his STM if attention was given upon reception, and if processed within 5 to 20 seconds, may enter into his LTM and remain there for a long time or maybe lost if not regularly used. Thus, the

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Mathematics in the Transition

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2003 Annual Conference

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Kyria Alfaro; Michael Mooney

assisted the teachers when necessary. AE fellows alsoconducted assessment of student attitudes, student content knowledge, and teacherperspectives. The paper will chronicle the implementation of each curricular unit andreport on teacher and student experiences.2.0 Adventure Engineering OverviewAE strives to (1) improve interest in and attitudes towards mathematics, science andengineering; (2) improve concept learning in science and math; and (3) provide a minds-on, hands-on, meaningful and enjoyable experience. The AE program involves thedevelopment and implementation of single day to four-week adventure-driven engineering-based curricular units for grades 4 through 9 science and/or math classes. Given adesignated time period and concepts

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Professional Graduate Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Stanford; Duane Dunlop; Donald Sebastian; Stephen Tricamo; Donald Keating

Session 1455 Growing the National Innovation System: Assessing the Needs and Skill Sets for Innovative Professional Graduate Education Defined by the Tasks and Responsibilities of Engineer-Leaders in Industry S. J. Tricamo, 1 D. H. Sebastian, 1 J. M. Snellenberger, 2 D. D. Dunlap, 3 D. A. Keating, 4 T. G. Stanford 4 New Jersey Institute of Technology 1 / Rolls-Royce Corporation 2 Western Carolina University 3/University of South Carolina 4 AbstractThis is the second paper in the special panel

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Chris Gwaltney; Mark Valenzuela

broad education necessary tounderstand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context.”2 In response, thecivil engineering program at UE has as one of its published program outcomes the following:“Students will understand the importance of involving the public in civil engineering projects.”A survey of the literature reveals that other civil engineering programs have recognized the needfor public-minded students. McCuen3 has implemented a one-credit course open to students inthe Engineering Honors Program at the University of Maryland focusing primarily on the issue ofleadership. The course has one lecture on public policy-making and uses papers by Tribe4 andSchott5 as foundational readings. Cleary and Sun6 at Rowan

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Raising the Bar and Body of Knowledge

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ernest Smerdon

more diligent attention to engineering education and what is expected in the profession.Why Change?The old axiom, “Don’t fix it if it isn’t broke” is often on the minds of those considering howmuch education/learning is the minimum for engineering practice at the professional level.Those of us who are educators constantly look at what is best for our students over their entirecareers. Professional societies must look at what is needed to determine how its future memberswill be best served. That is what ASCE is doing in its Policy Statement 465 AcademicPrerequisites for Licensure and Professional Practice initiative. The policy states the following:“The ASCE supports the concept of the master’s degree or equivalent (MOE) as a prerequisitefor

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Merredith Portsmore; Melissa Pickering; Chris Rogers

classroom, it is important for STOMP students to understand thecurriculum standards outlined for the appropriate grade level, and subsequently highlight thoseconcepts in the classroom projects. As the standards for each age vary, the one concept that isconsistent for all ages is the engineering design process. The classroom projects are executed inthis structured process, so that the students develop the habit of (1) identifying the problem/task;(2) outlining/designing the solution on paper; (3) constructing and testing the solution; (4)analyzing the results of the tests, and then discussing how to make improvements for futuredesigns. With these four steps in mind, the teacher and STOMP student can require the kids tokeep an engineering log, where

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Manufacturing Systems Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Linards Stradins; Richard Rothaupt

Session 2482 A Complete Approach to the Capstone Experience Dr. Richard Rothaupt, Linards Stradins University of Wisconsin-StoutAbstractUniversity of Wisconsin-Stout is founded on the educational principle that people learn best bydoing. This principle is expressed in Stout's philosophy of a "Hands On-Minds On" education.This philosophy works well with the "Art to Part" concept of the Manufacturing Engineeringcapstone course sequence. This concept of having engineering students actually design, buildparts and fabricate machines in an undergraduate program is not new

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Hamilton

level many of these students will have had an Introduction to Engineering course,usually during their freshman or even pre-freshman year. It is also at the sophomore level thatthese students will be taking their mechanics courses, courses in Statics, Dynamics and Strengthof Materials that are often required by several disciplines. As a result students could reach thejunior level having little or no interaction with the civil engineering faculty. With this in mind itbecomes imperative that a point of contact be inserted during the sophomore year. The solution currently employed by Boise State University is to require a one (semester)credit seminar where students are introduced to historic projects and persons having to do withthe civil

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rachel E Collins; Christopher Foreman; Matthew Ohland

requests. This system was disabled in 2002 as a result of the data gathered on studentpreferences in 2001 and because of the predictability of student preferences as discussed later.The Registration SystemThe General Engineering Tour Registration System consists of three modules. The three modulesare respectively designed to perform the following functions: • to download data from the Registrar’s database on the mainframe and populates a table in a smaller database dedicated to tour registration; • to allow students to register for tours, review their tour schedules, and change their minds about which tours they want as often as they wish; • to enable administrators to monitor registrations, record

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Current Environmental Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ishrat Mirzana; Ali Ansari

architecture” andenergy-efficient buildings (6). Although this was the original impetus, what evolved in the formof The Natural House Project soon became a fascinating adventure in teaching and learning. The Page 8.1097.3realization emerged that, in their mind, everyone has a “dream house”. We are all natural“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”architects. We build elaborate models of things in our minds, combining art and science, functionand form, possibility and reality.It occurred to us that the idea of a “dream

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Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Wilburn Clouse

ideas into a business venture.This research is part of an ongoing research project between the Entrepreneurship EducationForum at Vanderbilt University and the School of Engineering Tennessee TechnologicalUniversity (TTU) to investigate ways of developing teams to think creatively andentrepreneurially. This is part of TTU's NSF grant on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Thispresentation will report on the activities related to developing cross-discipline entrepreneurshipteams and the process related to taking ideas for the mind to the market place. Project objectiveare as follows:Project Objectives1) The introduction of the idea of an Entrepreneurship Team2) The development of an Entrepreneurship Team3) The development of a series of activities

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Assessment in BME Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Chad Washington; Alene Harris

Session 2609 FORMATIVE FEEDBACK: PROVIDING BIOENGINEERING PROFESSORS WITH QUANTITATIVE MEASURES OF THEIR TEACHING Alene H. Harris, Ph.D. Department of Teaching and Learning, Peabody College at Vanderbilt University Chad W. Washington Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University Abstract. The purpose of this work is to determine the effects of formative, quantitative feedback to bioengineering professors on the teaching of their lessons. For the past three years, members of the assessment thrust

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Learning and Teaching Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Matthew Parsek; Chris Riesbeck; Gulnur Birol; Ann McKenna

Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationfollowed the pedagogical guidelines outlined in the HPL framework and engaged students inchallenge-based problem solving. Engineering faculty worked collaboratively with educationfaculty to structure academically rigorous learning experiences based on sound educationalprinciples.We described details of our collaboration and highlighted several components that led to thesuccess of our collaborative effort. Specifically we note the importance of on-goingcommunication and regular meetings to share expertise and sustain momentum. We alsoremained flexible and open-minded about the types of learning activities that were developed.Flexibility and compromise were strategies that were necessary to

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Teaching Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Burt Swersey

Session 2125 Teaching Innovation and Entrepreneurship Through Design in Inventor’s Studio Burt L. Swersey Mechanical, Aerospace, Nuclear Engineering William Foley Decision Sciences & Engineering Systems Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteInnovation and entrepreneurship are two words that are often put forward as goals forengineering education. Although most of our students will not start new companies upongraduation we can prepare them to act in an entrepreneurial manner within

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Duane Dunlap

professionally oriented graduate educationto be more relevant to the needs of the practicing profession in industry to ensure a strong U.S. engineeringworkforce. This paper suggests a framework of guidelines for curricular design of innovative master,doctoral, and fellow level professional graduate programs crafted to meet the career-long needs ofengineering professionals in industry and guided by the incorporation of five major attributes of high-quality graduate programs that positively affect the growth and development of working professionals. Theguidelines are based on the functional requirements, tasks, and responsibilities that engineering leadersencounter throughout their professional careers. The paper presents a new vision for shaping

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New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ronald Krahe

Session 3275 Teach Less Better Ronald P. Krahe, P.E. Associate Professor of Engineering Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeAbstractWhat are we trying to accomplish? Many of us feel the pressures of adding more and more material tothe curriculum. Just keeping up with technology can be a challenge in itself. At the same time, business,industry, and society are telling us that our teaching is vastly overrated, irrelevant and ineffective.Several interesting approaches have been suggested in literature to address

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Student Teams and Active Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

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Daniel Raviv

hands-on activities includemore than 250 different 3-D mechanical puzzles, games, mind teasers, LEGO® Mindstormscompetitions, and design projects, each of which illustrates principles and strategies ininventive/innovative problem solving. (Please see some of the puzzles at:http://www.ee.fau.edu/faculty/raviv/teach.htm). These activities allow for self-paced, semi-guided exploration that improves self-esteem and encourages questioning and daring. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education* This work was supported in part by the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), and in

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Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

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W.B. stouffer; Jeffrey Russell

During the 2002-2003 Accreditation Cycle, (www.abet.org/images/Criteria/2002-03EACCriteria.pdf).Adelman, C. (1998). Women and Men of the Engineering Path: A Model Analyses of Undergraduate Careers, US Department of Education, Washington, DC.Allenby, B. (2000/2001). “Earth Systems Engineering and Management.” Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Technology and Society Magazine, 19(4), 10-24.Bella, D.A. (1990). “Existentialism, Engineering, and Liberal Arts,” Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering, 116(3), 309-321.Bloom, A. (1987). The Closing of the American Mind. Simon and Schuster, Inc. New York, N.Y.Bolding, K. and Bauman, E. (1999). “Integrating Engineering into a Freshman Liberal Arts Curriculum

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

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Toby Boulet; Joe Iannelli; Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman; Richard Bennett; Arnold Lumsdaine

8.1302.11Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education.Bibliography 1. Apple, Daniel & Krumsieg, Karl, Process Education Teaching Institute Handbook, Crest Software, Inc. 875 NM Grant Avenue, Corvallis, OR 97330, (2000) 2. Arter, Judith, McTighe, Jay, Scoring Rubrics in the Classroom, Corwin Press, Inc., 2001 3. Donovan, M., Bransford, J., Cocking, R., How People Learn –Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, National Academy Press, 2000 JACK WASSERMAN Jack Wasserman is a professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering where he

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Mechanical Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

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Blace Albert; Wayne Whiteman

- Frequency Response Techniques - Desired Transient Response • Bode - Reduce Steady-State Error • Nyquist - Achieve Stability - State-Space Techniques/Pole Placement Figure 1. Course Mind Map Page 8.729.4 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”ProspectusTable 1 shows a detailed prospectus of the proposed

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jackie Sullivan; Daniel Knight

Session 1392 Women’s Manufacturing Workshop Series that Supports Inclusiveness and Skill Building in Undergraduate Engineering Education Beverly Louie, Daniel W. Knight and Jacquelyn F. Sullivan Women in Engineering Program/Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory and Program College of Engineering and Applied Science University of Colorado at BoulderAbstractDuring the past six years, pre-semester assessments of student skills have revealed a lack of hands-on experience by women students in the First

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Integration vs. Compartmentalization

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2003 Annual Conference

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W. Carlson

3was able to capture it in a notebook entry. I phrase this proposition as duality to suggest that there are two pointsabout human thinking. First, as argued above, thinking involves the process ofusing representations to convert sensations into reliableknowledge—representing is knowing. However, once we have createdrepresentations out of the sensations, we able to continue thinking by changingand altering the representations in our mind. We are able to take action in theworld because we can use knowledge to represent the world in a variety ofways—knowing is representing. This proposition applies obviously to engineering. For the most part,engineers do not wrestle directly with the forces of Nature (Unli ke Superman,they do not

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Jewell

to 1996Union’s engineering curricula were not set up with terms abroad in mind. Since theprograms are relatively small, most required and elective courses in the major are onlyoffered once a year. Therefore, it took very careful planning and advisement to allowstudents to go abroad without seriously jeopardizing their chances of finishing in fouryears. Union also bucks the national trend in that most of our students actually graduatein four years.Students who were successful in juggling their schedules invariably came back from theirforeign study saying it was well worth the effort, and many said that it was a lifechanging experience. However, it took the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET) Engineering Criteria 2000

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Douglas F. De Boer

intended.ConclusionEngineers need to be sensitive to the aesthetic aspects of their work. This is necessary for thepublic appreciation of the work done. Engineering lab reports provide one opportunity to givestudents feedback on aesthetics. Furthermore, modern word processors have raised the barfor what is considered acceptable. In response, engineering educators should sensitizestudents to the basics of typography and aspects of it that are unique to SMET writing. Figure 1. Typefaces are allusive. What does each typeface remind you of?Citations[1] J.H. Kok, Patterns of the Western Mind, Sioux Center, IA: Dordt College Press, 1998, p. 209.[2] Public Broadcasting System, Building Big, “Bridges,” TV broadcast October 2000.[3] C. Seerveld, Rainbows for the

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Potpourri Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mark Thompson; William Riffe; Laura Rust; Brenda Lemke; B. Lee Tuttle; Henry Kowalski; Douglas Melton; Lucy King; Jacqueline El-Sayed

Session 3425 Building a Process for Establishing an Interdisciplinary Design and Manufacturing Freshman Course Lucy Siu-Bik King, Ph.D., William Riffe, Ph.D., B. Lee Tuttle, Ph.D., Henry Kowalski, Ph.D., Brenda Lemke, M.S., Jacqueline El-Sayed, Ph.D., Douglas Melton, Ph.D., Laura Rust, Ph.D., Mark Thompson, Ph.D. Kettering University, 1700 West Third Ave, Flint, MI 48504-4898 (810) 762-9500AbstractCollege freshmen, though they may be registered in the engineering programs, do not alwaysknow what discipline best suits their

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Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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K Muraleetharan; Gerald Miller; Dee Fink; Robert Knox; Randall Kolar; David Sabatini; Baxter Vieux; Michael Mooney; Carolyn Ahern; Kurt Gramoll

, “Sooner City – Design Across the Curriculum,” Journal of Engineering Education, 89(1), 79-87, 2000.20. Lamb, Y. R., "Tinkering with the Education of Engineers," NY Times, Section 4A, pp. 7, April 2, 1995.21. Leake, W., "Most Likely to Succeed," ASEE Prism, p. 9, April 1993.22. McWilliams, G., "Coming off the Drawing Board: Better Engineers?" SIAM News, pp. 17, 23, November 1993.23. Michaelsen, L., et al., editors, Team-Based Learning: A Transformative Use of Small Groups, Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003.24. National Research Council, How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, National Academy Press, 374 pp., 2000.25. Pfrang, E., "After 11 Years

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International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ronald Kander

Statistics Computer Science Mechanical Engineering Technology Education Electrical Engineering Microbiology Theoretical & Applied Mechanics Environmental Engineering Molecular Biology Theoretical Biology Managing such a diverse program is surprisingly easy; primarily because of the energy andenthusiasm exhibited by the faculty and students alike. Furthermore, we consciously emulate thecooperative team environment that we are trying to foster in our students in every aspect ofcurriculum development, course delivery, and departmental administration.Contribution to Engineering Education: We must keep in mind that the goal of the