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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Courter, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Joan Kwako, University of Wisconsin-Madison; John Wright, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Deanna Byrnes, Lawrence University; Thatcher Root, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clif Conrad, University of Wisconsin-Madison

through the lens of“teaching-as-research.” We define “teaching-as-research” as “a deliberate, systematic,and reflective use of research methods to develop and implement teaching practices thatadvance the learning experiences and learning outcomes of students as well as teachers.”The graduate course is designed to promote the development of those skills and habits-of-mind, along with the knowledge base associated with high-quality teaching, learning, andassessment. Within the graduate course, students participate in a micro-course, aninnovative adaptation of the traditional micro-teaching experience. The uniquecomponents to our approach are both the teaching-as-research model and the authenticachievement model

Conference Session

Approaches to Emerging Topics

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ron Madler, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott; Phillip Anz-Meador, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott; Karl Siebold, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott

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Aerospace

and their relationship with major courses taught, in one form or another, atany university or college supporting a space engineering or physics program. In Table 1.1 ourcourse level is indicated, as appropriate, by degree plan year, e.g. “3” indicates a Junior-levelclass.The intention of this paper is to stimulate the usage of problem solving techniques which canraise the awareness of space debris and give interesting, realistic examples for the classroom.Section 3 contains a non-exhaustive list of examples which illustrate that the field of space debrisis very complex and interdisciplinary requiring, as it does, an integrated understanding ofdynamics, mathematics and statistics, design best practices, the space environment, and evenspace

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Achieving the Civil Engineering Body of Knowlegde

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald Welch, U.S. Military Academy; Allen Estes, U.S. Military Academy; Fred Meyer, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

-Long Learning) and Outcome 14,(Business and Public Policy). The assessment for business and public policy was downgraded.The initial rating was based on averaging the assessment of business knowledge (sub-Level 1)and public policy awareness (almost Level 2). A new interpretation indicates that Level 1 abilityis needed in both areas. Future USMA curriculum revisions will require more emphasis onbusiness practices and issues.After the Curriculum committee recommended the use of 3 levels mentioned above, CAP3established the Competency Committee to study and recommend the best method of assessingthe outcomes. After much debate and research into alternative methods by the CompetencyCommittee, it was decided that the Curriculum Committee suggestion

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Examining the Synergy between Eng'g Mgmt & Sys Eng

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wade Shaw, Florida Tech; Muzaffar Shaikh, Florida Tech; Carmo D'Cruz, Florida Tech

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Engineering Management

), Space ApplicationsTechnology Outreach program (SATOP), Technology Research and Development Authority ofthe State of Florida (TRDA), the Alumni Entrepreneur Alliance, The Space Coast EDC and otherlocal organizations, have seen increasing attendance and have become an increasingly importantnetworking and discussion forum for local entrepreneurs, inventors, business service providers,investors, students and faculty.Two NCIIA grants, totaling about $40K for Florida Tech have been central to the rapid increasein entrepreneurial participation by undergraduates in the College of Engineering. One of thegrants funded entrepreneurial multi-university wireless senior design projects, while the othersupported a series of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Faculty Involvement in International Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark Henderson, Arizona State University

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International

universities. Henderson is co-director of the research center Partnership for Research on Spatial Modeling (PRISM; prism.asu.edu) and the undergrad transdisciplinary design studio entitled InnovationSpace (innovationspace.asu.edu). Page 11.1027.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Offering Global Competency in Engineering Education: The Results of a Symposium on Global Engineering EducationAbstractGlobal Competency is a desired quality in engineering graduates today. Global EngineeringEducation to produce such graduates comes in many sizes and styles. Some universitiesconcentrate on sending

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ismet Anitsal, Tennessee Tech University; Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Tech University

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International

controlled viaWebCT. It is a requirement to have a University WebCT access code to fully access this website.This paper will present an international online delivery success story accomplished in thesummer semester of 2005. Since authors were able to teach their regular campus courses fullyonline from an international distance the objective of this paper is to present both courses andtheir delivery mechanisms with the advantages and disadvantages. Some of the studentcomments and concerns will also be discussed and best practices will be provided. CAD for Technology CourseCourse DescriptionThis junior level design course covers industrial design practices using AutoCAD software [3].Its prerequisite is the ‘Fundamentals

Conference Session

Capstone Courses II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Borchers, Kettering University; David Rinard, Steelcase, Inc.; Trevor Harding, Kettering University; Terri Lynch-Caris, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

selection, and computer tools. Page 11.1327.54.) Process design and improvement. Students will be introduced to methods of identifying the most damaging part of the process flow through material and energy balances. Common practices for reducing energy consumption and waste will be discussed. In addition, strategies for environmentally sustainable product packaging and delivery will be presented.5.) End-of-use strategies. This module addresses strategies and challenges associated with reducing the environmental impact of a product after it has been used by a consumer or business. Discussion will focus on re-use, remanufacturing

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jared Berrett, Brigham Young University

psychology of learning and technology. He currently is a faculty member at Brigham Young University in the Technology Teacher Education program where he teaches heavily, serves as the Graduate Coordinator, and mentors numerous undergraduates in research projects. He is happily married, has 6 children, and loves to learn. His research interests are in technological literacy and engineering in the k-12 setting, teaching pedagogy that promotes higher order thinking skills, and creativity. Page 11.569.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 ENGINEERING and Technology IN THE ELEMENTARY

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricio Torres, Purdue University; Matthew Stephens, Purdue University

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Manufacturing

increaseprofit in production. Modern operations managers recognize the tremendous advantage ofapplying innovative and advanced techniques that would increase productivity and customersatisfaction. Tomorrow’s managers are being educated at universities today. Implementingbusiness processes analysis and improvement methodologies should be considered an importantcomponent of this education. Six Sigma methodology offers a comprehensive body ofknowledge to aid with such process improvements. This paper suggests a road map for implementation of a graduate course in Six Sigma.Students would start by acquiring the basic cognitive skills and mastering the necessaryunderlying concepts and theories. These theories are then put into practice through a

Conference Session

Approaches to Teaching Entrepreneurship

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Minnie Patel, San Jose State University; Anuradha Basu, San Jose State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

further incentive to participants, prizeswere secured from local companies like Apple, Adobe, and Microsoft. Prizes were awarded forthe best exhibits, the best elevator pitch, the best written summary, and for the People’s Choice Page 11.703.4of the best displayed idea.The Fair was organized by SJSU’s Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship (SVCE), auniversity-wide organized research and teaching unit housed within the College of Business.When the idea was first floated in Spring 2004, it was greeted with enthusiasm by all the facultymembers contacted in Engineering, Industrial Design, and Sciences and the organizingcommittee for the Fair

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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International

. “Engineering Education for a Changing World,” Engineering Deans Council and ASEE, 1994.15. “Engineering Education: Designing an Adaptive System,” National Research Council, 1995.16. “Restructuring Engineering Education: A Focus on Change,” Division of Undergraduate Education, National Science Foundation, 1995.17. “Shaping the Future: New Expectations for Undergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology,” Advisory Committee to the National Science Foundation, Directorate for Education and Human Recourses, 1996.18. “Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology,” National Research Council, 1999

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sajay Sadasivan, Clemson University; Deepak Vembar, Clemson University; Paris Stringfellow, Clemson University; Carl Washburn, Greenville Tech; Andrew Duchowski, Clemson University; Anand Gramopadhye, Clemson University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

to the use of advanced technology in solving interesting human-machine systems design problems. Page 11.166.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Aircraft Maintenance Technology Education: Integrating Asynchronous Technology and Virtual RealityAbstractThis paper describes a research program with an objective to develop and implement aninteractive virtual reality (VR) model of the aircraft inspection maintenance process forasynchronous delivery. Existing approaches have not been able to mimic accurately thecomplexity of the aircraft maintenance process, reporting limited transfer

Conference Session

Computing Curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Akram Al-Rawi, Zayed University; Azzedine Lansari, Zayed University; Faouzi Bouslama, Zayed University

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Information Systems

Information Systems, Hi-roshima City University, Japan. He joined Zayed University, UAE, in August 2000. Currently, he is a Professor of Information Systems, Zayed University, UAE. His research interests include Neuro-fuzzy modeling and control, Signal processing, and IS curriculum design and development. Page 11.787.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Integrating IT Certifications in Networking Courses: Cisco CCNA Versus CompTIA Network+AbstractCurrently, industry and government need a workforce with the latest technical skills in order toremain globally competitive

Conference Session

Sustainable Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Ciocci, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg

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Environmental Engineering

strides to reduce environmental impact. The morerecognizable the entity is to students, the more evident their example is. Many organizationsinclude environmental awareness as part of their web sites, so it is not difficult to find who isdoing what. A lesson in critical thinking can ensue when students research further to find if theweb statements are in fact true as judged by unbiased sources. Many recognizable companiesand agencies are deeply involved in environmental improvement; their accomplishments serve asexamples for young engineers.ENVE 430 is intended for both senior-level undergraduates and graduate students. From thestudent assessments of course objectives, the undergraduate students who took the course as atechnical elective were

Conference Session

Approaches to K -12 Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ayyana Chakravartula, University of California-Berkeley; Barbara Ando, Lawrence Hall of Science; Cheng Li, University of California-Berkeley; Shikha Gupta, University of California-Berkeley; Lisa Pruitt, University of California-Berkeley

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

-appropriate literature and assessment activities designed to measure the children’s learning to atarget audience of LHS visitors, children ranging in age from 4th to 5th grade who visit themuseum. This final project has enormous potential for learning for both the undergraduatestudents and the younger children. The undergraduate students are given the unique experienceof determining how engineering lessons can be most effectively presented while the youngerchildren are exposed to interesting engineering research and applications in a format that isdesigned to attract and hold their attention. The lively interaction between undergraduates andthe visiting children is a rare opportunity for a diverse group of youth to interact with Universitystudents

Collection

2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Keith M. Gardiner

oranother to some ethical basis, customs, rules or traditions. Examples used in a ‘new’ mandatoryfirst year “Practical Engineering” course (Engineering 5 first offered in 2003) are described [5].Examples with greater complexity and subtlety are used as assignments and for class discussionin an undergraduate junior/senior course (IE334, Organizational Planning and Control). Finally,in several graduate courses in the program that the author directs there is appreciable focus onissues that have unavoidably ethical content affecting the global commons, marketing, facilitiesdesign and location, design, sustainability, and human resource development and cultural issues.First yearThe course, Engineering 5, is scheduled every semester to afford the

Conference Session

Engineering Education & Capacity Building in Developing Countries

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard; Alice Abreu, OAS; Marta Cehelsky, InterAmerican Development Bank; Teofilo Ramos, Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey; Daniel Marcek; Russel Jones, World Expertise LLC; Luiz Scavarda Do Carmo, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro; John Spencer, Microsoft Corp.; Jorge Yutronic, Conicyt - Chile

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International

are strategic for attaining global competitiveness in knowledge economies, such asmechatronics, industrial design, biotechnology, and information technologies, among others.Furthermore, Monterrey Tech has adopted a philosophy of world-class quality that not onlyaffects its graduates, but also allows the institution to influence and assume the leading role ineducation in Mexico, backed by its international programs for transferring the knowledge,experiences and cultures of work of the world’s foremost universitiesResearch and technological development are pivotal activities. Through its research centers andnational and international network of researchers in disciplines that have been defined as apriority, Monterrey Tech generates knowledge by

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chetan Sankar, Auburn University; P.K. Raju, Auburn University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

engineering graduates.1.2. Impact of LITEE Case Studies on Engineering Education Realizing the importance of addressing these requirements, we formed the Laboratory forInnovative Technology and Engineering Education (LITEE) in 1997. A review of literaturerevealed that the teaching methodologies of lectures, experimental laboratories, design projects,case studies, games, and internships were all likely to achieve the requirements. An analysis ofthe application of these methodologies to meet the requirements, along with the results from pastevaluations of the use of case studies in engineering classrooms, indicated that the case studymethodology was the best candidate for bringing real-world issues into engineeringclassrooms11,3. We obtained

Conference Session

Meeting ABET Requirements

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Bannerot, University of Houston

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Mechanical Engineering

ability to design a thermal system and component to meet desired needs improved my ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering thermal problems improved my ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice, improved my knowledge of contemporary issues related to thermal/fluids issues improved my understanding of the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context. My understanding of the following subjects was adequate preparation for this course

Conference Session

Where are We Going? The Future of Civil Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allen Estes, U.S. Military Academy; Ronald Welch, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

practical experienceduring the pre-licensure and post-licensure periods.One of the next crucial issues associated with this initiative to raise the bar in civil engineeringeducation is, “Who should teach the BOK?” Currently, the model is that all tenured faculty musthave a Ph.D. and if they are teaching a design course, they need a professional license orequivalent education and experience. It is extremely difficult to find a faculty member who is anoutstanding researcher, has extensive academic credentials, and possesses experience inprofessional practice. What is the ideal combination? Must the person teaching design havemore than just the minimum number of years of practical experience necessary to sit for the PE?Or should these faculty have

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology; Mike Pennotti, Stevens Institute of Technology; Dinesh Verma, Stevens Institute of Technology

Engineering Management (SEEM), Schaefer School of Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology. He concurrently serves as the Scientific Advisory to the Director of the Embedded Systems Institute in Eindhoven, Holland. Prior to this role, he served as Technical Director at Lockheed Martin Undersea Systems, in Manassas, Virginia, in the area of adapted systems and supportability engineering processes, methods and tools for complex system development and integration. Before joining Lockheed Martin, Verma worked as a Research Scientist at Virginia Tech and managed the University’s Systems Engineering Design Laboratory. While at Virginia Tech and afterwards, Verma continues to serve

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Schleter, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Richard Bennett, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

has been an inefficient one which involvedstudents writing solutions on paper, turning the papers in, instructors grading the papers, andreturning the papers back to the students to provide for feedback and evaluation. This process isvery time consuming for a large class, the resulting feedback is generally minimal, and it isdifficult to control copying. This paper will discuss the issues, advantages, and disadvantages ofa custom web-based homework system designed to replace the traditional paper-basedhomework system. This custom system implements most features found in other web-basedsystems such as creation and management of problem libraries, scheduling of assignments,presentation of the problems with randomly assigned parameters for each

Conference Session

Effective & Efficient Teaching Skills

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Hamilton, U.S. Military Academy

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New Engineering Educators

may not be a term that we liketo associate with educational methods, it does capture what is required. The author's use of theterm “marketing” reflects the practice of providing explanations to students to persuade andmotivate them to engage fully in this or any educational methodology. When trying to changestudent behavior in a course, sometimes doing the right thing for the right reasons is simply notenough. - Be prepared for failureExpect designing a methodology to improve student learning to be like all design, an iterativeprocess. The author was convinced that what he was doing was the right thing to do for manyreasons, chiefly the link to professional practice and the value in improving student learning.Unfortunately, even with the

Conference Session

Women & New Faculty Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Miertschin, University of Houston; Carole Goodson, University of Houston; Luces Faulkenberry, University of Houston; Barbara Stewart, University of Houston

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

imperative.This paper examines factors that impact the effective use of student self-reports of learningachievement for improving curricula and programs. Areas to be addressed include the following. • How can faculty effectively participate in a student self-assessment process? Are there advantages that accrue to the student when the educator uses this technique? • What factors impact the validity of implementing this technique? Under what conditions and in what situations is it appropriate to use student self-assessment scores? • An example of institutional use of student self-assessment is presented. The example includes a description of how an instrument was designed and how it is being administered. The development

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tammy VanDeGrift, University of Portland; Sheryl Burgstahler, University of Washington; Richard Ladner, University of Washington; Annemarie Poginy, University of Portland

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

full of hundreds of cellular automata that can be made into interesting behaviors. As mentioned earlier, to actually program a behavior it takes an understanding of Wolfram’s numbering system for two state automata. There are many beautiful designs that can be created from very simple rules. • Tactile Maps: One of the more interesting projects in recent years is taking color maps of the university campus and processing them for printing on an embosser so that they can used by blind students and visitors to the campus. This is actually a very large research project, but pieces of it were done in the Game of Life workshop. Types of processing that had to be done include replacing one color by

Conference Session

Computer ET Curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Honchell, Purdue University; Gregory Palmier, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

amount of material for implementation of complexhardware/software systems, however the use of performance modeling to analyzecomputer design alternatives has not made its way into the undergraduate curriculum [3].The literature review process involves four methods of finding literature relevant to theproblem, purpose, significance and methodology for the study. The first goal of thisliterature review is to find resources that are relevant to the understanding of computersystem benchmarking, modeling, and analysis as a tool. While there are many resourcesavailable to computer architecture design, resources applicable to the understanding ofthe computer benchmark, modeling and analysis topics themselves are researched. Thetopics of these resources

Conference Session

Introductory Materials Engineering Courses of 2020

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology; Melissa Zaczek, Rochester Institute of Technology; Cory Hoffman, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Materials

failure mechanisms based on fracture surfaceanalysis, microstructural analysis, and a basic stress analysis of the incident that caused failure.Students are responsible for sectioning, hardness testing, metallographic sample prep, andbackground research on the component and/or material. All project deliverables, including thefinal summary report, consist of presentations made to their peers in lab.Feedback from students indicates that they find the project to be a valuable part of the course.The students make noticeable improvements in their presentation skills over the course of thequarter. In some cases, the in-lab presentations lead to discussions of different failure modes orloading scenarios among the students. Interviews with graduating

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hamid Shahnasser, San Francisco State University; Wenshen Pong

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

has become a much more critical course forengineering schools. Since high school graduates generally do not have much knowledge about orcontact with the engineering profession, the first course in engineering should prepare them forfuture challenges. After an extensive research of many different approaches to the introductoryengineering course [1-4,7-13], we decided on an approach that is best fitted to our students,institution and community.Introduction to engineering courses have been taught in many institutions in ways that students aregiven opportunities to tackle real engineering problems [14,15]. The centerpiece of our course ishands-on projects that inspire student interests in engineering and offer positive experience inteamwork. They

Conference Session

Ensuring Access to K - 12 Engineering Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taryn Bayles, University of Maryland-Baltimore County; Ted Foster, University of Maryland-Baltimore County; Dean Sheridan, Glen Elg High School, Howard County Public Schools, Maryland; Carolyn Parker, George Washington University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

and mentoring awards and the 2006 USM Regents Award for Collaboration in Public Service.Ted Foster, University of Maryland-Baltimore County Ted Foster, Ph.D. is Assistant Dean of the UMBC College of Engineering and Information Technology, where he coordinates accreditation activities and directs graduate programs in Systems Engineering and Engineering Management. Prior to coming to UMBC, he had a 36-year career at Westinghouse and Northrop Grumman, managing research and advanced development in microelectronics and microwave technology for modern radar systems.Dean Sheridan, Glen Elg High School, Howard County Public Schools, Maryland Dean Sheridan has been an engineering design

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce Berdanier, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

water quality and wastewater treatment and is involved in outreach and support to K-12 teachers in the use of watersheds as tools in science education while maintaining an ongoing involvement in policy and research in the fields of Environment and Water Resources in the Middle East and Haiti. Page 11.1436.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 WATER RESOURCES EVALUATION FOLLOWING NATURAL DISASTER IN HAITIAbstractThis paper will present a case study of the impacts of a hurricane and the resultantflooding during June 2005 in Deschapelles, Haiti on spring box collection