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Curriculum in Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology: Part II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Li Tan, Purdue University, North Central; Jean Jiang, DeVry University, Decatur, GA

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Engineering Technology

our teaching methods, which include real-time signalprocessing laboratories using low-cost DSP processors, and hands-on projects. We will alsopresent a course assessment and outcome, which will include how the students apply their gainedDSP knowledge to their capstone senior projects. Finally, we will address the possibleimprovement of the course content and associated laboratories.I. IntroductionDigital signal processing (DSP) technology and its advancements have continuously impactedthe disciplines of electrical, computer, and biomedical engineering technology programs. This isdue to the fact that DSP technology plays a key role in many current applications of electronics,which include digital telephones, cellular phones, digital satellites

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Bruce Dvorak; Dennis Schulte; Mary Garbacz; Shari Aldrich; David Admiraal; Julia Soulakova

this study: • A writing attitude survey to assess engineering students’ perspectives, reflections, and opinions about writing skills; • A basic writing skills test based on a similar test created by the UNL College of Journalism and Mass Communications to determine students’ ability to recognize correct grammar, sentence structure and punctuation, • A writing sample assessment rubric and methodology to systematically assess engineering students’ writing samples; • A technical oral presentation assessment rubric, with both individual and group components, to assess senior-level capstone oral presentations.The writing assessment tools were applied to freshmen, juniors, and seniors in the twodepartments. The oral presentation

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Ruhala, University of Southern Indiana; Paul Kuban, University of Southern Indiana

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

needed. Page 14.74.5ENGR 471 then sets up Senior Design, a capstone course were a real engineering project with amechatronics emphasis will be sought. Fall Semester – 1st Year Spring Semester – 1st YearENGR 101 – Engineering Orientation ENGR 108 – Introduction to Design (2dh)ENGR 107 – Introduction to Engineering MATH 330 – Calculus IIMATH 230 – Calculus I PHYS 205 – Intermediate Physics ICHEM 261 – General Chemistry ENG 201 – Rhetoric & Composition IENG 101 - Rhetoric & Composition I PED 1XX

Conference Session

Curriculum in Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology: Part I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Muhammad Hasan, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Technology

so,students are well informed about the choices they have for developing a working prototype fortheir capstone design project. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) provide a flexiblehardware platform to accommodate digital systems. FPGAs provide further opportunities forruntime reconfiguration that may be quite useful in applications requiring frequent changes insystem behavior. In addition to having the necessary background in digital systems design,students need a tool that allows them to easily model their design such that the design could beimplemented smoothly on FPGAs. Very High Speed Integrated Circuit (VHSIC) HardwareDescription Language (VHDL) appropriately meets that need. VHDL even enables IntellectualProperty (IP) cores to be

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New Trends in Graduate Engineering Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Descoteaux, Norwich University; David Muckerman, CH2M HIll; Scott Sabol, Vermont Technical College

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Graduate Studies

research project a student performs as part of the requirements to obtain a degree.Each student's thesis is the culmination of their research, creativity, and scholarship. At NorwichUniversity, the MCE program includes a six credit-hour course which is primarily the researchand production of a capstone project. Before the student begins this course they propose a topicand submit an abstract of their proposed research. Residency occurs after the completion of thiscourse, and during Residency each student presents and defends their capstone project in afashion similar to the defense of a thesis. This presentation occurs during Residency beforemembers of the MCE faculty and the other students.The students have the opportunity to learn both during

Conference Session

Writing Is Fundamental

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Beams, University of Texas, Tyler; Luke Niiler, University of Alabama

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Liberal Education

laboratory reports written by individualsor small teams. The work evaluated was thus principally the work of the EWI cohort. Thewriting samples evaluated in 2007-2008, however, consisted of senior capstone project reportsfrom seven design teams whose total membership was thirty students (seven from electricalengineering and 23 from mechanical engineering). Each team produced a preliminary designreport (known as a Primary Design Document, or PDD) at the end of the first semester ofcapstone design and a Final Design Report (FDR) at the end of the second semester. Thecurricula of electrical and mechanical engineering in the senior year at the University of Texas atTyler have few writing assignments outside of these capstone reports; it thus was not

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ping Ren, Virginia Tech; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Tech; Dennis Hong; Richard Goff, Virginia Tech

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Mechanical Engineering

robotics curriculum is presented in this section. The structure isorganized in a hierarchical manner from senior robotics course and projects to advanced graduaterobotics courses.Senior Robotics Course:Introduction to RoboticsCapstone Senior Design Projects, Robots-relatedNote: The capstone senior design projects on robot development can be used to apply theknowledge in introductory robotics courseEntry Graduate Robotics Course:Robotics Kinematics, Dynamics and ControlNote: This graduate course can also be used to recruit graduate students interested in robotics,but with different backgrounds. The requirements are higher than those of a senior level course.Such examples are shown in previous sections. The coverage can range from

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Robots in Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ryan Meuth, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Paul Robinette, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Donald Wunsch, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Computers in Education

AC 2009-162: INTRODUCING ROBOTSRyan Meuth, Missouri University of Science and Technology Ryan Meuth received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Missouri –Rolla in 2005 and 2007 respectively. He is currently a Computer Engineering PhD student at Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly the University of Missouri – Rolla). He works as a research assistant in the Applied Computational Intelligence Laboratory, contributing to research projects on optimizing the behavior of robot swarms, large scale optimization problems such as computer Go, and high performance computing methods utilizing video game consoles and graphics processing units. His

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Trends in Construction Engineering Education I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Philip Dunn, University of Maine

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Construction

CMTprogram builds mutual benefit with access to extended resources often not available in universitybudgets.Our program has an active and supportive industrial advisory committee. Participating membershelp in curriculum development and monitor the progress as the program expands. They providementoring opportunities, summer employment, and classroom assistance to enhance the learningenvironment. Many contractors open their active project sites to student groups to allow directobservation of the industry. We encourage professional networking and the industry encouragesstudent participation in the monthly trade meetings to give students greater understanding of theissues surrounding construction. This paper presents the structure of the industrial

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New Learning Paradigms I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Warren Hull, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Warren Waggenspack, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Lillian B Bowles, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; David Bowles, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Tiffany Walter Choplin, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

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Educational Research and Methods

for teaching these skills now engages the engineeringfaculty in a collaborative environment with resources drawn from within the College ofEngineering.We have used a variety of approaches to assess the success of our initiative, including studentevaluations, faculty survey, and an external advisory council. Our initial observations, drawnover a three-year period in Senior Capstone Courses, are that students’ understanding of thetechnical content has increased in the communication-intensive courses. It seems that students’efforts to communicate technical aspects of their designs, have required better understanding ofthese aspects, especially when the students are challenged during their oral presentations.Feedback from design review panels and

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Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Michalson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Gregory Fischer, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Taskin Padir, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Gary Pollice, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

the crux of the problem. Students tend to learn facts in their, inthis case Physics, classes but, like the researchers referred to in the above quote, they don’tnecessarily learn how those facts are relevant to their chosen discipline. This phenomenon wasactually observed during an internal bi-annual review of the capstone design projects in theElectrical and Computer Engineering Department at WPI where it was observed that studentswere having a difficult time synthesizing designs.3 To correct this problem, a radically differentcourse in ECE Design was developed to teach the fundamentals of designing electrical systemsto students at the end of their sophomore year. With this course we were able to reach studentsimmediately after foundational

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Crystal A. Powers; Donald M. Edwards; Dennis D. Schulte

car design and give a “rally cheer.”  Give a team-based poster presentation to a diverse audience.  Compete in the Incredible Edible Car Competition for points based on: distance, durability, design, creativity, edibility.  Write a team-based Executive Summary of their design project.The Edible Car Competition occurs during “E-Day,” an open house atthe end of the Fall semester where freshmen, senior, graduatestudents, faculty, and industry representatives participate. BSEN andAGEN alumni are present with their company/agency displays,seniors show their capstone design projects, and graduate studentspresent posters on their research projects. Faculty, staff, parents, highschool students, and the media provide a

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ERM Potpourri

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Julie Trenor, Clemson University

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Educational Research and Methods

types of methods, and different methods are needed to understand the complexitiesof the research environment. The qualitative data, acquired from students’ weekly journalentries, provided data to further enhance an existing National Engineering Students’ LearningOutcomes Survey (NESLOS), developed by the lead author and utilized in prior efforts 12, 13. Thestrength of the mixed-methods approach used herein is that such qualitative and quantitativetools can be used across project-based learning experiences (undergraduate research, industryinternships, capstone design, service learning, etc.), across engineering disciplines andengineering programs. Key findings are likely to be transferable across other engineering REUprograms as well as other

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Culbertson, Arizona State University; Michael Oehrtman, Arizona State University; Janice Meyer Thompson, Arizona State University; Josh Gardner, Arizona State University; Christopher Mehrens, Arizona State University; Dale Baker, Arizona State University; Stephen Krause, Arizona State University

, and mathematics in an NSF-funded Math-Science Partnership grant; serving as Director of the Master of Natural Science (Physics) program at ASU, including ASU’s Modeling Workshops and other summer courses; and leading a new summer research experience for forty math and science teachers project, funded by Science Foundation Arizona. He is also actively involved in a pilot project to provide a compact path to teaching certification for mainstream math and science majors. He has directed an NSF REU program in condensed matter physics, and he is actively involved in undergraduate education, including the teaching of the introductory courses for majors. His experience in teaching and expertise

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Ciaraldi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Eben Cobb, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; David Cyganski, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Michael Demetriou; Greg Fischer; Michael Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Fred Looft, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; William Michalson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Bradley Miller, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Taskin Padir, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Yiming Rong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kenneth Stafford, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Gretar Tryggvason, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; James Van de Ven, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

designs and the various technical topics are introduced as needed. Each ofthese courses includes elements of CS, ECE and ME. To add cohesion within courses, eachcourse in the unified sequence has its own focus, such as locomotion, sensing, manipulation, andnavigation. Students in the Robotics program also take other required and elective courses,selected from courses already offered by the various engineering departments. In addition, theprogram includes an entrepreneurship component to prepare future “entrepreneurial engineers.”6Like all majors at WPI, the program culminates in a capstone design experience wherein studentssynthesize their accumulated knowledge in a major project. The RBE program is designed sothat it can be accredited under the

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Engineering Courses for Non-engineers

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bradley Bishop, United States Naval Academy

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

. Page 14.1132.9The capstone activity for students in the course is to research and prepare a complete case study.The product is not, however, a written paper. The results of each 4-student team’s work arepresented across two full lecture days (100 minutes, total). Students are expected to bring theclass up to speed on the basics of the technology, to discuss its history and current state of theart, and to project and predict future improvements and applications using all of the toolsdeveloped during the semester.Students carrying out their semester presentations prepare and hand out notes and referencematerials just as an instructor would do. In a 20-24 students section (typical of this class), thesepresentations take up approximately three

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Outstanding Contributions to Mechanical Engineering Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hakan Gurocak, Washington State University, Vancouver; Linda Chen, Washington State University Vancouver; Dave Kim, Washington State University, Vancouver; Amir Jokar, Washington State University, Vancouver

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Mechanical Engineering

and indirect assessment of studentperformance, systematic data collection, assembly, analysis and evaluation. Furthermore, theprogram must demonstrate that there is a continuous improvement process in place. For newprograms or existing programs, transition to this new outcomes-based approach can be difficult.At many institutions the program outcomes are assessed using various rubrics. Course content ismapped directly to the program outcomes and student grades are used to show the level ofachievement of the program outcomes. Faculty course assessment reports are used to measureand document the program outcomes3,4,5. Capstone courses are where culminating projects aregiven to the students. Therefore, sometimes these courses are used either to

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Connolly, University of Texas, San Antonio; Kathy Schmidt, University of Texas, Austin; Javier Kypuros, University of Texas, Pan American

. Avanzato, R., “Mobile Robotic for Freshman Design, Research, and High School Outreach,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2000.10. Small, T., Hass, Z., et al, “A Sensor Network for Biological Data Acquisition”, Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, 2003.11. Wu, P., Kuo, C., et al, “Design and Implementation of the Remote Control Lab Using PDA”, Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education.12. Saad, A., “Mobile robotics as the Platform for Undergraduate Capstone Electrical and ComputerEngineering Design Projects”, Proceedings of the 34th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference

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Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bruce Gehrig, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Lyndon Abrams, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Deborah Bosley, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; James Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Stephen Kuyath, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

need to increase theinformation about engineering careers that school counselors give high school students.Moreover, the engineering topics and profession need to be presented in a socially relevantcontext [2, 3, 4].In order to reinforce the concepts presented, the TECT workshops have been integrated withengineering focused student summer camps currently being hosted by UNC-Charlotte as part ofa separate NSF project. The summer camps are used as a vehicle to allow the TECT participantsthe opportunity to experience the diversity of students within the engineering camps, observe thehands-on activities and classroom techniques used during the camps, and to practice skillslearned in the TECT workshop. The capstone practicum for the TECT workshop

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Aerospace Workspace: Current and Future 2

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michele Dischino, Central Connecticut State University; Nidal Al-Masoud, Central Connecticut State University; Peter Baumann, Central Connecticut State University; Zdzislaw Kremens, Central Connecticut State University; Viatcheslav Naoumov, Central Connecticut State University

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Aerospace

associate professor in the Department of Engineering, and teaches propulsion, aerodynamics, fluid mechanics, instrumentation and senior capstone design classes for engineering technology and mechanical engineering (including aerospace specialization) students. Dr. Naoumov has extensive aerospace experience, having worked with both the Russian and French Aerospace Agencies, and with the Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering Departments at the University of Tennessee (UT). While at UT, he supervised engineering students in the design and construction of lunar vehicles in the NASA Great Moon Buggy Race Project, and initiated the NASA Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities

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Knowing Our Students, Faculty, and Profession

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janel Sutkus, Carnegie Mellon University; Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Cynthia Finelli, University of Michigan; Trevor Harding

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Educational Research and Methods

U of M. She is a member of the Association for Institutional Research, the Association for the Study of Higher Education, and the American College Personnel Association.Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University Dr. Donald D. Carpenter is Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Lawrence Technological University (LTU). In this role, he is an instructor for several engineering courses (from freshman to senior level) that involve ethics instruction. Dr. Carpenter is also Director of Assessment for LTU and recently served as Founding Director for LTU’s Center for Teaching and Learning. Dr. Carpenter has conducted funded pedagogical research and development projects, has published

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Measurement Tools

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen Alfrey, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Elaine Cooney, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Educational Research and Methods

individually, and may be done in a labperiod, over the course of several weeks, or be structured as a capstone experience.Instructors usually observe the results of students’ work and evaluate projects based onthe specifications provided at the beginning of the assignment. As important as it is forstudents to meet the stated criteria, it is difficult to evaluate students’ critical thinkingwhen only seeing the end result of the process. Critical thinking is a reflective process; toassess it, we must “get inside the student’s head”. Students must self report what theirthought processes were and that must be done in the narrative form - either orally or inwriting. For convenience and assessment documentation purposes, having students writea reflective

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Entrepreneurship Education: Experiential Learning and Economic Development I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Claude D'Amours, University of Ottawa; Claude Laguë, University of Ottawa; Frank Mellor, University of Ottawa

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

). Page 14.580.2As it has been the case in the United States of America (re. Standish-Kuon and Rice 2002; Ochset al. 2001), Canadian engineering schools have responded to this call for action coming from theprofession that they serve in a variety of ways that include academic and/or extra-curricularcomponents: ≠ The Xerox Centre for Engineering Entrepreneurship & Innovation at McMaster University offers a Master of Engineering Entrepreneurship & Innovation degree (McMaster University 2009). That program allows students to develop their own start-up project at the same time that they complete the academic requirements associated to this degree. In 2007, two technology projects from the Xerox Centre were selected

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Communication and Collaboration

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julie Sharp, Vanderbilt University; Marilyn Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education

peer review for an in-class writing sample.It is gratifying to see students concentrating on the review process and even more gratifyingwhen peer evaluators make the same comments as the instructor.Group Dynamics ApplicationsSince group work is becoming ubiquitous in engineering classrooms as a method to preparestudents for professional work groups, peer review of the teamwork aspect of education isimportant as a way to circumvent potential problems and measure general productivity.Particularly in a group-oriented senior project class, peer review is necessary for accurateevaluation.Background and RationaleAt Oregon Institute of Technology, the civil engineering senior capstone project is a group affair.Even the faculty function as an

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Systems Engineering Programs and Curricula

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joanna DeFranco, Pennsylvania State University; Colin Neill, Pennsylvania State University

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Systems Engineering Constituent Committee

our campus itwas determined that over 50% incorporated at least one student team assignment and for the twopracticum capstones in the engineering programs the entire student assessment rested upon acollaborative effort. In a survey of instructors at eight engineering schools Felder6 found that24% always assigned a group project while another 52% assigned them in some courses. Whilethere are pragmatic reasons for such teams (reduced grading load) their use is grounded in thereality of the engineering profession: the vast majority of graduates will spend their professionallives working in teams. Furthermore, there is evidence that if the team forms a cooperativelearning group, the learning of the individual team members is enhanced9,12.Despite

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Instrumentation and Measurement Innovation

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angel Gonzalez-Lizardo, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico; Carlos Serrano-Salvat, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico

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Instrumentation

technology and innovation, he specialized in electronics, communications and control system. Carlos participated in three summer work experiences with Abbott Laboratories as part of his professional development. Because of his contribution to the company he was allowed to participate for three consecutive summers, when one was the established rule. During his last year of college he was offered the opportunity to work at the Plasma Engineering Laboratory at Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. His capstone design final project in the electrical engineering program, was to create a computer program to perform the processes for measuring and analyzing plasma parameters. This application

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Multidisciplinary Design in the Classroom

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa McNair, Virginia Tech; Chad Newswander, Virginia Tech; Eloise Coupey, Virginia Tech; Ed Dorsa, Virginia Tech; Tom Martin, Virginia Tech; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech

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Design in Engineering Education

Committee for Wearable Information Systems and has served as general chair and program co-chair of the IEEE Computer Society's International Symposium on Wearable Computers.Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is an assistant professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co-directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center. Her research focuses on communication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, and design education. She was awarded a CAREER grant from NSF to study expert teaching practices in capstone design courses nationwide, and is co-PI on several NSF grants to explore interdisciplinary collaboration in engineering

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Entrepreneurship Education: Assessment and Integrating Entrepreneurship into the Curriculum

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Melissa Grunow, Lawrence Technological University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

motivation for being a leader.Again, comparison yields a shift in perception. Upon completion of the course, the studentscompleted a course evaluation survey to aid the course developer in determining if the course ismeeting the university’s leadership education goals. In addition, the students completed a peerassessment of leadership skills and characteristics near the beginning and at the conclusion of thecourse. The peer assessment yields some shifts in leadership development. Finally, as a finalassessment at the conclusion of the final team course project, the students completed a peerperformance evaluation, and the results are reported.1. IntroductionEntrepreneurshipLawrence Technological University (LTU) has offered students entrepreneurial

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Frontiers in Engineering Economy

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Philip Brach, University of the District of Columbia; Ahmet Zeytinci, University of the District of Columbia; Pradeep Behera, University of the District of Columbia

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Engineering Economy

wide-spread impact on engineering projects, particularly public works. Compounding thissituation is the already inadequate funding for addressing the rebuilding of the nation’s aginginfrastructure.With the thrust to give more consideration to the social impact of engineering works and theimportance of inculcating these aspects into engineering education, this paper articulates apossible case study that could incorporate economy principles and a national fiscal problem intothe engineering curriculum in either an economics course or a senior capstone or ethics course.Using a subject from current events can demonstrate to students how engineering economicprinciples can be used to assess public policy alternatives. An ancillary aspect of this

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Engineering Ethics: Using Case Studies

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Didier Valdes, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Erika Jaramillo Giraldo, University of Puerto Rico; Jorge Ferrer, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; William Frey, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

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Engineering Ethics

integrateresearch ethics into the graduate curriculum in science and engineering. Funded by the NationalScience Foundation, this project has developed four workshops directed toward graduatestudents to provide them with decision making tools for reaching ethical decisions. Theworkshops which build upon one another, (1) help graduate students become aware of issues andproblems in research ethics, (2) outline a method of moral deliberation to help them analyzeproblematic situations, (3) provide students with tools and practice in analyzing real world ethicscases in the research context, and (4) offer a capstone activity in which the students give posterpresentations on a case connected to their research interests.This paper focuses on the third of the series