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Teaching Methods for the 21st Century: Part 2

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Savage, California Polytechnic State University

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Materials

Empirical Page 12.36.15Studies of Design Processes,” Int. J. Engng. Ed., Vol. 22, No. 3, 2006, pp. 519-532.3. Dym, C.L., “Engineering Design: So Much to Learn,” Int. J. Engng. Ed., Vol. 22, No. 3,2006, pp. 422-428.4. Lamancusa, J.S., “Design as the Bridge Between Theory and Practice,” Int. J. Engng.Ed., Vol. 22, No. 3, 2006, pp. 652-658.5. Dym, C.L., Agogino, A.M., Eris, O., Frey, D.D. and Leifer, L.J., “Engineering DesignThinking, Teaching and Learning,” Journal of Engineering Education, January 2005, pp.103-120.6. Savage, R.N., “The Role of Design in Materials Science and Engineering,” InternationalJournal of Engineering Education, Vol. 22, No. 5, 2006

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Teaching Methods for the 21st Century: Part 1

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Savage, California Polytechnic State University; Linda Vanasupa, California Polytechnic State University; Jonathan Stolk, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Materials

broader impacts of engineering, enhances systems thinking, reflects sustainable engineeringpractices, and helps prepare students to make an impact in the global community. Project-basedlearning approaches that emphasize student learning rather than instructor teaching may be a keyto successful development of “global engineers.” Evaluations of project-based courses showincreases in student motivation, problem-solving ability, communication and teaming skills,knowledge retention, and capacity for self-directed learning. Despite these reported benefits,curriculum-wide implementations of project-based learning are rare, probably partly due to thetraditional emphasis on technical content acquisition in upper-level courses and a lack of clearmethods

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New Tools in Teaching and Learning Biomedical Engineering Concepts

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vikki Hazelwood, Stevens Institute of Technology; Arthur Ritter, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Biomedical

personal value. Students werepersonally motivated to participate in the study.ConclusionStudent participation in a clinical research project is a very effective teaching tool; it providesgood training and motivation. Training effectiveness was reflected in the exit quiz results, joboffers to students, and student conduct. Student motivation was very high, and is reflected in theexit survey where 100% of the subjects reported that the project increased their interest andpersonal confidence in the clinical trial process. Motivation was further demonstrated by the lowattrition rate and in the increased activity levels of all groups. Page

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald Baier, Florida International University; Yong Tao, Florida International University

Education, 2007 An Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Teaching Approach for Engineering, in Conjunction with Architecture and Construction with Solar Decathlon ProjectAbstractThe delivery of knowledge at the university level, especially in colleges/schools ofengineering, architecture and construction, has generally been confined to the standardclassroom setting wherein subjects are taught in various courses confined to polarizedareas of study in fields such as “architecture,” “civil engineering,” “mechanicalengineering,” “construction management,” and so on. These individual disciplines, inturn, are then confined to segregated academic units, the “departments.” In effect, thisleads to the segregated development of design and

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Research Infrastructure in STEM Disciplines

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carlotta Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Cordelia Brown, Purdue University; Ingrid St. Omer, University of Kentucky; Stephanie Adams, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Michael Smith, National Society of Black Engineers

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Minorities in Engineering

AC 2007-2543: A SURVEY OF TEACHING STYLES AND CLASSROOMTECHNIQUES TO ENGAGE AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS IN THEENGINEERING CLASSROOMCarlotta Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyCordelia Brown, Purdue UniversityIngrid St. Omer, University of KentuckyStephanie Adams, University of Nebraska-LincolnMichael Smith, National Society of Black Engineers Page 12.139.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 A survey of teaching styles and classroom techniques to engage African American students in the engineering classroomThe purpose of this study will be to present the first phase of a long term study in the evaluationof

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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

resource allows instructors todistribute course information, lecture notes, handouts, papers, and laboratory data to students.Group pages are created to allow laboratory groups to communicate and transfer data to oneanother. The first author currently teaches a junior level civil engineering materials course at theUniversity of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center. This course has been taught withand without Blackboard™ assistance. The course CE 3141, Materials Testing Lab, is taughtmore effectively as a result of distributing course materials and data online. Laboratory groupsprocess data and develop laboratory reports without meeting through online groupcommunication and file download capabilities. This mode of delivering materials to

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Assessing Design Coursework I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Phillip du Plessix, University of Calgary; Graham Armitage, University of Calgary; Kara Chomistek, University of Calgary; Clifton Johnston, University of Calgary; Daryl Caswell, University of Calgary; Mohamed Nazir, University of Calgary; Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary; Diane Douglas, University of Calgary; Brigit Knecht, University of Calgary

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Design in Engineering Education

to the laboratory environment,where the students can be considered employees. The design laboratories are in and ofthemselves safe areas, with no prominent dangers. The proper safety equipment is available tothe students, and it is enforced that they utilize it whenever working with the tools. As Heathsuggests, these precautions mean nothing if a tool is being used improperly or unsafely7. Thiscan only be affected by giving knowledge to the individuals who will be operating the tools: thestudents. It has been emphasized for over twenty-five years that “training remains thefundamental method for effecting self-protection against workplace hazards” 8.Teaching students about the safety issues associated with designed projects is also an

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Mechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum Innovations

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vladimir Sheyman, Wayne State University

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Engineering Technology

Internet.IntroductionToday, educational institutions are increasing their use of the computer basedtechnology in the teaching environments1. There are various ways how to use thistechnology, but basically the computer-mediated learning can be used as single teachingmedium or it can be used in combination with traditional classroom experience2. Onlineclasses have advantages and disadvantages3 .This is actually means that there is not auniversal approach how to use the internet for education, especially for courses withlaboratories. There are still discussions how to utilize the distance education toundergraduates when the laboratories are involved4. Meanwhile some universities areusing the lab-based courses on the internate5,6,7,8. There is an indication of

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Topics Related to Assessments and Outcomes

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Helbling, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; David Lanning, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Ron Madler, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Darin Marriott, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Karl Siebold, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Aerospace

surprisingly little over the numerous decades in which it has been taught to aspiringengineers. Most instructors spend a portion of the lecture time teaching theoretical principles oftopics such as beam bending, superposition, and buckling, and the remaining time workingexamples on the board. Student assignments usually consist of additional problems solved withno more than pencil and paper. Most instructors may take students into the laboratory for aquick presentation or two, perhaps involving a tensile test or a demonstration in beam bending,but typically no more than this.Our Aerospace Engineering program has long attempted to have a strong laboratory componentand a “hands-on” approach to engineering education. Additional avenues of improvement in

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Development of Undergraduate Distance Education Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Frank Fisher, Stevens Institute of Technology; Hamid Hadim, Stevens Institute of Technology; Sven Esche, Stevens Institute of Technology; Robert Ubell, Stevens Institute of Technology; Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Continuing Professional Development

delivery is to provide the opportunity for a freshlook at how to teach the material, and indeed what to teach, which can at the same time alsobenefit our traditional curriculum. Participation in developing an online program offers thecorollary of an attractive vehicle for faculty development. New areas of nanotechnology andbioengineering may be introduced into the curriculum as a result of the re-evaluation of coursesthat is taking place as we consider the specifics of a design of the online undergraduate program.From an operational standpoint, students will need access to the appropriate suite of softwaretools and hardware with the equivalent functionality currently readily available and supportedwithin the on-campus computer laboratories. This

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Integrating Mathematics, Science, and Engineering

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jenna Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University

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Mathematics

on pre- and post-test performance of integrated sectionsonly (collected during the process of course revision as a formative evaluation) shows thegreatest improvement in laboratory safety skills, with data on mastery of course content varyingfrom discipline to discipline. While this likely reflects the fact the differing rates ofimplementation of the course revisions in each of the disciplines during the time frame this datawas collected, differences in use of graduate teaching assistants in the labs and the varyingdegree of training they receive also may be contributing to this behavior. Data collected thisyear, after full implementation of content revision, should provide a clearer picture of studentperformance.ConclusionTraditionally

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Effective Learning Innovations in Civil Engineering Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Akhter Hossain, University of South Alabama; Kevin White, University of South Alabama

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Civil Engineering

concretehas been added to Topic 7, which discusses the common properties of concrete and the standardtests to assess these properties. In addition, a discussion on shrinkage cracking of concretestructures, a common problem that affects the durability of bridge decks and pavement structureshas been added to Topic 10, which discusses the durability of concrete structures.CE 315: Civil Engineering Materials LaboratoryCivil Engineering Materials Laboratory (CE 315) is a co-requisite of Civil Engineering Materials(CE 314) course, and the two courses are taught as coordinated courses. While the lectures (CE314) introduce the students to the useful properties of common civil engineering materials, thelaboratory (CE 315) teaches them how to evaluate those

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2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Roy W. Melton

., “A laboratory approach to multidisciplinary freshman computer engineering,” 2006 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Conference, Ithaca, N.Y., USA, Nov. 17-18, 2006, available from http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Conferences/ASEE2006/ASEE%20Papers/Session%203/Paper_Melton.pdf.ROY W. MELTONDr. Roy Melton received B.E.E., M.S.E.E., and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from theGeorgia Institute of Technology. He is currently Lecturer of Computer Engineering at the Rochester Institute ofTechnology. During his graduate studies he worked as a teaching assistant as well as in Georgia Tech’s CERL andEASL laboratories. In addition, he has worked for AccuSentry and for IBM.

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Outreach Projects and General Energy Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Valentina Cecchi, Drexel University; Michael Kleinberg, Drexel University; Milo Tong, Drexel University; Bridget Kleinberg, Drexel University; Karen Miu, Drexel University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Annual Conference and Exposition, June 22-25, 2003.[11] National Instruments, SCXI-1001 User Manual, Texas, 1996.[12] National Instruments, NI-DAQ User Manual for PC Compatibles, Texas, 1995.[13] Likert, R. "A Technique for the Measurement of Attitudes" Archives of Psychology 140, 55, 1932[14] Redfield, R., Self, B., “New Approaches in Teaching Undergraduate Dynamics,” Proc. of the 2001ASEE Conference & Exposition, Albuquerque, NM. 2001[15] Kellogg R., Mann J., Dieterich A., “Developing and using rubrics to evaluate subjective Engineering laboratory and design reports,” Proc. of the 2001ASEE Conference & Exposition, Albuquerque, NM. 2001.[16] Boy Scout Merit Badge Requirement, Electricity [http://www.meritbadge.com/mb/043.htm]. 2

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Novel Applications of Computers/Software in Energy Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Liping Guo, University of Northern Iowa; Recayi 'Reg' Pecen

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

) software package is used toaccompany the teaching of a power electronics application course. PSCAD is a software packagefor power system simulations developed by Manitoba HVDC Research Centre1. Free trial andstudent versions are offered on the web site at www.pscad.com. This is especially attractive forstudents because they are able to download the software on their personal computer and work onthe simulation before or after the laboratory. PSCAD results are solved as instantaneous valuesin time, but can be converted to phasor magnitudes and angles via built-in transducer andmeasurement functions. This is very similar to how real system measurements are performed,such as rms meters and Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) spectrum analyzers. The

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Creating 'Materials' Awareness

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Bridge, Maine Maritime Academy; Barbara Fleck, Maine Maritime Academy

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Materials

can be contacted at john.bridge@mma.eduBarbara Fleck, Maine Maritime Academy Barbara Fleck is an Associate Professor in the Engineering Department at Maine Maritime Academy and a professional engineer. She began teaching at MMA in 1994 after working with several research and development groups, including Battelle Columbus Laboratories, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Sunpower, Inc. and Stirling Technology, Inc. She can be contacted at Maine Maritime Academy, Castine, ME 04420; 207-326-2103, or bfleck@mma.edu Page 12.648.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Engineering

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Design in the ECE Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yi Cheng, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Kathleen Hayden, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

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Electrical and Computer

flexible and powerful embedded system. Furthermore, theseboards can also serve as platforms to explore the SHC system design and testing. Wedecided to change an existing junior-level course in IBM-PC Interfacing [2] to anintroductory course in SHC, and offered it in fall 2006.2. SHC Lecture and Laboratory CourseThis junior-level hardware-software co-design course consists of a 4-unit lecture and aone-unit laboratory. Students attend a 65-minute lecture three times a week, and a 3-hourlaboratory course. The pre-requisites of this course are the two digital logic courses,which teach basic logic analysis, design and simulation using Verilog design, two C/C++programming courses, and one introductory embedded system course.2.1 Lecture CourseThe lecture

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Innovations in ECE Education I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ian Papautsky, University of Cincinnati; Ali Asgar Bhagat, University of Cincinnati

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Electrical and Computer

microfluidics and MEMS devices for chemical and biological assays. He was the teaching assistant for the Biochip Laboratory course discussed in this paper. Page 12.971.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Introducing Microfluidics to Electrical Engineers: An Integrated Problem-Based Learning ExperienceIntroductionMicrofluidics is a multidisciplinary field comprising of physics, chemistry, engineering andbiotechnology that studies the behavior of fluids at the microscale and the design of systems thattake advantage of such behavior. The behavior of fluids at the microscale differ from“macrofluidic

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ECET Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jerome Tapper, Northeastern University; Francis Dibella, Northeastern University; Walter Buchanan, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Technology

light. This lab could serve as a Page 12.113.4“pilot” test case for this venue. If it were to fail, there would be no great loss in dollars forinfrastructure development. However, if it were to be successful, a larger space would need to befound and remodeled to fit this unique new classroom/laboratory application.Course Popularity GrowsThe courses (two different ones that had been developed) were run in this space for about a yearas day program courses. Having taught many other courses, the instructor, Professor Tapper, hada great deal of prior experience teaching both lecture and laboratory courses, but never had heexperienced anything like

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jonathan Hill, University of Hartford

, 2007 Incorporating Studio Format into an Introductory Microprocessor CourseAbstractIn the fall 2002 semester I expanded an introductory microprocessor course by adding studiocontent and received very positive results. Studio format is a method of teaching engineeringmaterial, using cooperative learning and hands on activities. This course is a requirement for allof our electrical engineering and computer engineering undergraduate students. The coursepreviously did not have laboratory content and in expanding the course we chose studio as analternative to laboratory format. Unlike other uses of studio format, the lecture component wasretained as-is. In this case studio is scheduled separately

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New Engineering Educators: Tricks of the Trade II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Claude Villiers, Florida Gulf Coast University

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New Engineering Educators

author implemented more lectures in which heutilized the board more effectively. Doing so, he believed that this modification improved boththe student learning and instructor’s rating. Finelli et al.6 also noted that student feedback has themost positive impact of all on student ratings on teaching.Geometric design of Transportation facilitiesBoth graduate and undergraduate senior students were enrolled in this course. The mainobjective of this course was to teach the students the principles pertinent to the planning anddesign of transportation facilities and their applications in the design of functional and safesystems to satisfy the demands of the transportation industry. No laboratory tests were conductedin this course. Contrary to the

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Computer-Assisted Lab Studies

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lee Toderick, East Carolina University; Jingyuan Deng, East Carolina University; Philip Lunsford, East Carolina University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

7 35% Close faculty supervision and/or limited lab times 5 25% Other (please specify)* 2 10%*Two specific answers were given to this questionWireless capability will only be available in and around our new Technology Building. Studentswill have to register IP addresses and students who use the wireless will not be able to access ourcampus network.We began with teaching 802.11A; we now tone down the AP and use the available security toprevent unauthorized access.4. Would your capital budget support a shielded wireless laboratory environment includingwireless equipment and laboratory exercise supporting 12 students

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Computer Engineering Technology Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xuefu Zhou, University of Cincinnati; James Everly, University of Cincinnati; Max Rabiee, University of Cincinnati

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Engineering Technology

this paper is organized as follows: Section 2 discusses course development anddescribes the context, course objectives, references, and laboratory exercises. Section 3 presentsour teaching experiences and reflections and, finally, Section 4 presents conclusions.2. Course DevelopmentA. Context and ObjectivesWith the exception of this new course, there are a few existing courses in the ECET curriculumpertinent to communication techniques and networking. They include Electronic Communications,Digital Communications, and RF Communications together with Computer Networks and a threecourse sequence in Telecommunications.The first introduction to communications concepts occurs at the sophomore level in ElectronicCommunications. This course focuses on

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Effective Learning Innovations in Civil Engineering Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Blake Tullis, Utah State University; Steven Barfuss, Utah Stat University

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Civil Engineering

in the laboratory, the students are also able tosee the effects of pipe velocity and pipe pressure on diffuser port discharge efficiency.They also learn that it can be difficult to build a structure or device exactly like the outputof a computer program indicates. It is one thing to design a perfect widget, but another toask someone else to build it exactly as designed for a reasonable cost.Weir design: In some cases, a more inductive teaching approach is used as new topics areintroduced in the laboratory first. Students are given the opportunity to design, build, andtest a structure with limited knowledge of that specific topic. These design experiencesoften provide students with opportunities for discovery through both their successes

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Technology Literacy for Non-Engineers

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Ollis, North Carolina State University

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

Development of the ability to respond critically to scientific and technological issues in civic affairs . Understanding the interactions among science, technology and values.Course modification to include lab componentsWe adapted our “take apart” lab of consumer electronic and household devices to teachyoung engineers the both the vocabulary and modes of thought of their profession, inSpanish, and to demonstrate the lab to be an effective teaching tool in the class: Spanish:Language, Technology, and Culture”Following the format of our original product and process laboratory for engineeringstudents1 our language students worked in teams of four, beginning by researching thehistory and principles of their device, both in English and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Ollis, North Carolina State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

modes of thought of their profession, inSpanish, and to demonstrate the lab to be an effective teaching tool in the class: Spanish:Language, Technology, and Culture”Following the format of our original product and process laboratory for engineeringstudents1 our language students worked in teams of four, beginning by researching thehistory and principles of their device, both in English and Spanish. They used the deviceto evaluate its functionality and disassemble and reassemble it to study its optics,mechanics, and circuit boards. Subsequently, they presented their device to otherstudents, in Spanish. Thus, they furthered their knowledge of device, language, andculture. In doing so they derived all the benefits of the original language program

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Building Knowledge Based Economies: the Role of Industry-University-Government Partnerships

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aaron Ball, Western Carolina University; Duane Dunlap, Western Carolina University

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International

AC 2007-1528: A COLLABORATIVEUNIVERSITY-COLLEGE-INDUSTRY-GOVERNMENT TECHNOLOGYTRANSFER PROJECTAaron Ball, Western Carolina University Dr. Ball is an Associate Professor of Engineering and Technology within the Kimmel School at Western Carolina University. Dr. Ball served as the PI on three year funded project by Oak Ridge National Laboratory to help develop a new product with the collaboration of a College-Industry-Government partnership.Duane Dunlap, Western Carolina University Dr. Dunlap is Professor of Engineering and Technology within the Kimmel School and has the honor of serving as the Director for the Kimmel School and Associate Dean for the College of Applied Sciences at Western

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ECE Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jimmy Linn, East Carolina University

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Electrical and Computer

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the advantages, disadvantages, and applications ofsome innovative technologies in the classroom. I have chosen to concentrate on one suchtechnology in this paper. This technology is the use of computer based laboratory experiments inlieu of or to supplement hands-on laboratory experiments. I will focus on computer based labexperiments. The driving force behind this technology is to speed up student progress onlaboratory experiments and make the learning experience in the lab more efficient. I choose theelectrical field to concentrate my discussion because my background is in electronics and I havesignificant experience teaching electrical courses with accompanying labs. I will first give some

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Developing New Instrumentation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sean Brennan, Pennsylvania State University

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Instrumentation

education, graduate education, and graduate-level research. Ananalysis is offered of the different operational and educational requirements across thesedifferent levels of instruction. In many cases, these educational tiers present non-complementaryrequirements including different expectations on ease of use, durability, compatibility, softwarecomplexity, and performance. This work presents a laboratory development strategy that assistsin balancing research and teaching while simultaneously fostering new activity in both areas.IntroductionWhen faced with developing laboratory or research hardware across undergraduate, graduate,and research level applications, the historical solution at many educational institutes is simply topurchase and support

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Practice/Partnership/Program Issues

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mahmoud Alahmad, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Matthew Pfannenstiel, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Douglas Alvine, Alvine Engineering; Clarence Waters, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Architectural

andoutside building grounding measurements. Page 12.572.7C. Laboratory Environment – Teaching MethodsThis laboratory setting introduces the students to the production aspect of the industry andpromotes spatial awareness and equipment functionality. During the course of this lab, studentsalso further develop the ability to function in groups in a collaborative effort. According toRichard M. Felder, cooperatively taught students tend to exhibit higher academic achievement,greater persistence through graduation, better high-level reasoning and critical thinking skills,deeper understanding of learned material, more on-task and less disruptive behavior in