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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Loendorf

engineering practice and education.Bibliography[1] Williams, R. Chronicle of Higher Education, January 24, 2003.[2] Olds, Barbara and Ronald Miller, “The Effect of a First-Year Integrated Engineering Curriculum on Graduation Rates and Student Satisfaction: A Longitudinal Study,” in Journal of Engineering Education, January 2004.[3] Starrett, S. and M. M. Morcos, “Hands-On, Minds-On Electric Power Education”, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 90, No. 1, pp 93-99, January 2001.[4] Higley, K. A. and C. M. Marianno, “Making Engineering Education Fun,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 90, No.1, pp 105-107, January 2001.[5] Seymour, E. & Hewitt. N. Talking About Leaving: Factors Contributing to High Attrition Rates Among Science

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Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

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Rachelle Heller; H. David Snyder; Catherine Mavriplis; Charlene Sorensen

rating of the activities and the entire workshop experience has been verypositive. Several months after the workshop, participants report increased confidence andnetworking, aiding them in their career development.1. IntroductionThe National Science Foundation (NSF)’s ADVANCE program seeks to “increase theparticipation of women in the scientific and engineering workforce through the increasedrepresentation and advancement of women in academic science and engineeringcareers.”1 With this goal in mind, we developed the “FORWARD to Professorship”workshop to address unmet needs of women seeking, interested in or occupying tenure-track assistant professor positions in science, engineering and mathematics (SEM). Thisworkshop was developed from a

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Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

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R. William Graff; Paul Leiffer

polynomials perform as their parameters are varied. Thephenomenon can be illustrated by asking the question: do artists learn to draw by lookingat pictures, or by trying to draw them?8. Technical experienceStudents, in general, have less previous hands-on experience when they enter asfreshmen. In comparison with students of the 1970’s very few have worked on a carengine or taken apart a radio. There are, of course, exceptions, but as the first author,(RWG), asks for a show of hands of how many students have siphoned gasoline orwater, each succeeding year the response is more meager. The authors spend a largeamount of time interacting with students on a one-to-one basis, and have seen a generaldecrease of experience with physical interactions with the

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ET Curriculum & Design Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Bilodeau

frequency w set to 6140 rad/s , the crest field Bset to 10 uT and coil cross section area A set to 4.9 cm^2 ( i.e. the cross sectional area of thewood dowel ) , and the computed result was approximately 500 turns. The students thenwound the solenoid search coil with 500 turns of AWG 30 magnet wire (enamel insulated).The 500 turns encompassed a linear distance of 5 cm, with two layers of overlapping turns.The stray capacitance of this solenoid coil resonated with its winding inductance to yielda resonant frequency in the 250 to 400 kHz band that was measured by the studentswhen first calibrating the B-dot probe ( i.e. a total of 8 probes were made, and all hadresonance somewhere in the 250 – 400 kHz range ). This parasitic resonance was

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Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

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2005 Annual Conference

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Nicole May; Marguerite Mohan; Marco Castaldi; Nada Assaf-Anid

, 2002, p 4593-4600.3. Farley, Earl T. Ernest, David L., Application of power generation modeling and simulation to enhance student interest in thermodynamics, Modeling and Simulation, Proceedings of the Annual Pittsburgh Conference, v 21, n pt part 3, Computers, Computer Architecture and Microprocessors in Education, 1990, p 1275-12794. Cengel, Y.A. “Intuitive and unified approach to teaching thermodynamics” Proceedings of the ASME Advanced Energy Systems Division, 36, 251 (1996).5. Lombardo, S., “Open-ended estimation design project for thermodynamics students”, Chem. Eng. Ed., 34(2),154 (2000)6. Tsatsaronis, George, Moran, Michael; Bejan, Adrian eds. Education in Thermodynamics and Energy Systems, American Society of Mechanical

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New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gul Okudan; Madara Ogot

., “Lessons from using TQM in the Classroom”, Journal of Engineering Education, April 1996, pp. 151-156.2. Felder, R.M. and Stice, J.E., “National Effective Teaching Institute Manual”, Proceedings ASEE Conference New Orleans, June 20-22, 1991.3. Anson, C.M., Bernold, L.E., Crossland, C., Spurlin, J., McDermott, M.A., Weiss, S., “Empowerment to Learn in Engineering: Preparation for an Urgently-Needed Paradigm Shift” Global Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 145-155.4. Seldin, P., Changing Practices in Faculty Evaluation, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1984.5. Mizuno, S. and Akao, Y., QFD: The Customer-Driven Approach to Quality Planning and Deployment. Tokyo: Asian Productivity Organization, 1994.6. ReVelle, J.B., Moran, J.W

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Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Pamela Maass; Kesa Black; Heather Storace; Anne Ranes; Dana Newell; Mary Anderson-Rowland

year, 568 (3.5%) women earned Master’sdegrees in engineering out of the 16, 045 total.1 And, 55 brave women (1.9%) were among the2,838 students who earned Ph.D.’s in engineering that year.1 In the Ira A. Fulton School ofEngineering, then known as the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 129 total women(8.5%) were enrolled in the School of Engineering as undergraduates and 32 (4.9%) were Page 10.1263.1enrolled as graduate students that same fall.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education

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Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Cowan

Architecture (ACSA) Technology Conference, Cambridge MA.2. Johnson, B.R., (2002). Virtuality and Place. ACADIA 2002. Design Machine Group, University of Washington.3. Gross, M., E. Do, R. McCall, W. Citrin, P. Hamill, A. Warmack, and K. Kuczun. (1997). Collaboration and Coordination in Architectural Design: approaches to computer mediated work. TeamCAD symposium on collaborative CAD Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center, Georgia Tech May 12-13, 1997. pp 17-24.4. Hui, S. C. M., Cheung, K. P. (1999). Developing a Web-based Learning Environment for Building Energy Efficiency and Solar Design in Hong Kong. Proc. of ISES Solar World Congress International Solar Energy Society, Jerusalem.5. Bentz, D. P. (2000). CEMHYD3D: A Three-Dimensional

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Curriculum: Ideas/Concepts in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mark Henderson; Gerald Gannod; Barbara Gannod

6 VIII. Embedded Systems 6 IX. Compilers 5 X. S/W practices 5 XI. Analysis 3 XII. Licensing/Copyright 2 XIII. Project management 2 XIV. IT 2 XV. Technical communication 0 XVI. Business 0 XVII. International

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Problem-Solving & Project-Based Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

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Neal Ninteman; John Natzke

MATLAB are utilized to aid in design. The students learn to enter data directly or program generating equations to create the graphs. By adjusting parameters they can quickly interpret the changes to max and min values, intercepts and trends, etc. to complete the design problem at hand. The skills learned are also applicable to their upcoming lab courses in physics and engineering. For example, one assignment involves using Excel or MATLAB to model a projectile’s path as a function of the initial parameters of launch velocity and angle, and analyzing and manipulating the graph(s) to achieve specified path conditions. • Computer Programming — The programming language of MATLAB is used

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Faculty Development II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jason Keith; Adrienne Minerick

Bacon, Boston, (ISBN: 0-205- 28159-1), 2000.16. Chesler, N.C., P.B. Single, and B. Mikic, "On Belay: Peer-Mentoring and Adventure Education for Women Faculty in Engineering." Journal of Engineering Education, 92(3), 257-262, 2003.17. Glazer-Raymo, J., "Shattering the Myths: Women in Academe." The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, (ISBN: 0-8018-6641-3), 1999.18. Babcock, L., and S. Laschever, "Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide." Princeton University Press, Princeton, (ISBN: 0-691-08940-X), 2003.19. McIlwee, J.S., and J.G. Robinson, "Women in Engineering: Gender, Power, and Workplace Culture." State University of New York Press, (ISBN: 0-7914-0870-1), 1992.20. Committee on the Advancement of Women Chemists

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Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

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Constantin Chassapis; Hamid Hadim; Kishore Pochiraju; George Korfiatis; Keith Sheppard; David Vaccari

Conference Session

Manufacturing Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lenea Howe; Jr., Elijah Kannatey-Asibu

Student in ME – U of M – ERC/RMS2003 - Betsabe Rodriguez – Applied IOE U or M2003 – Leonard Lightfoot – Applied EE – U of M2003 – Deandre Cole – Applied EECS – U of M2003 – Shaton Sanderson – MS Student in Info Sys – U of MThere are no reported recruitment statistics available from other REU programs.However, the SROP program in which our students participate has had impressiveresults. Of the 9,331 students who have participated in CIC summer programs (whichincludes the ERC/RMS Research Experience for Undergraduates students), 952 haveearned graduate degrees. 100 have Ph.D.’s, 625 have measter’s degrees and 227 haveprofessional degrees. You can see from Figure 3 the increase in participation that

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alisha Waller

. This is the common measure of diversity. In recent years, many people havebegun substituting the word “gender” for the word “sex” to represent the same concept. Sex isbiological, manifested in anatomy, hormones, and chromosomes, and naturally occurs in aprimarily dichotomous way. (I’ll leave the discussion of intersexuality to another paper.)Following the conventions of gender studies literature, I use the term “gender” to represent theidea which gives meaning to phrases like girly-girl, tomboy, 90’s kind of guy, manly man, bikerchick, frat boy, sorority chick, etc. Gender is socially constructed through national institutions,such as the media and education system, and through local interactions which reinforce certainbehaviors and punish

Conference Session

The Nuts & Bolts of TC2K

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2004 Annual Conference

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James Higley; Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

: Evolution, Not Revolution,” Quality in Higher Education,October, 1997. http://ex21.tech.purdue.edu/resources/qhe/Oct97.html.[3] Neff, G.P., Scachitti, S., and Higley, J.B., “Counting Down to 2004: Some Insights and Strategies for SatisfyingTC2K While There is Still Time,” Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Nashville,June 22nd -25th, 2003.[4] Neff, G.P., Scachitti, S., and Higley, J.B., “Counting Down to 2004: Some Insights and Strategies for SatisfyingTC2K While There is Still Time,” Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Nashville,June 22nd -25th, 2003.[5] Neff, G.P. and Roley, R., “Using the SME Certification Exam in TC2K or EC2000 Outcomes Assessment,”Proceedings of the ASME 2004 Conference for

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Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Linda Katehi; Leah Jamieson; Katherine Banks; Kamyar Haghighi; John Gaunt; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman; Phillip Wankat

Engineering(NAE) leadership2-4. In addition, the adoption of ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 hasintensified an interest in assessment of educational outcomes and promoted a recognition of theneed for changes in pedagogy to achieve the varied outcomes1.The National Science Foundation has supported educational scholarship in engineering since thelate 1980's through the Division of Undergraduate Education and the Engineering EducationCoalitions program. Today, NSF support for education reform that can be linked to engineeringis in excess of $200M per year. Such support "has increased the status of educational research infaculty performance reviews, improved its quality by demanding appropriate assessment ofresults, attracted additional engineering

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

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2004 Annual Conference

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R. Knox; K. Muraleetharan; G. Miller; D. Sabatini; Randall Kolar

Higher Education, p. A19, Feb. 9, 1996.11. Chen, J. C., M. Ellis, J. Lockhart, S. Hamoush, C. E. Bawner, J. G. Tront, “Technology in Engi- neering Education: What Do the Faculty Know and Want?” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 89, No. 3, July 2000.12. Ercolano, V., “From Sleep to Success 101,” ASEE Prism, pp. 25-29, Sept. 1995.13. Fink, L. D., “Learning Portfolios Create Broader Awareness of Educational Achievements,” Spotlight on Teaching (OU Instructional Development Program’s newsletter), 21(1), March, 2001.14. Fink, L. D., “Sooner City: An Experiment in Design Across the Curriculum,” Spotlight on Teaching (OU Instructional Development Program newsletter devoted the April issue to Sooner City), 20(2), April 2000.15

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hyun Kim

the problem definition,procedure, pertinent data, analysis of data, final results, and your comments or group discussionsand observations. The analysis may include diagrams, assumptions, and the applications offundamental principles. Follow the “Laboratory Report Writing” guidelines. The formal reportmust be typed on a word processor. Microsoft Word is preferred along with Excel. Computersand the software are available in the Engineering Computer Rooms. Informal reports emphasizethe results and require a less stringent format and neatness. They can be hand-written in pencil.Written reports are due one week from the date that the experiment was performed. All reportsmust contain the data sheet(s) with the instructor’s initials to receive

Conference Session

Minorities in Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein

over sevenyears at Morgan State University. The objective of this program are to (a) increase thenumber of students who participate in undergraduate research; (b) enhance student’slearning and commitment to their studies; (c) increase the number of students attendinggraduate schools; (d) and provide students with professional development training. Twohundred and thirty eight (238) students have participated in the program since itsinception. Out of the ninety-two participants since 1999 over 18% have gone on tograduate school.Introduction National concern have been expressed about the status of the U. S. science andengineering base-specifically the human talent, knowledge and infrastructure thatgenerate innovations and under gird

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering and More

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2004 Annual Conference

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Linda Katehi; Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Katherine Banks; John Gaunt; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman; Phillip Wankat

engineering.Therefore, in order to move the Freshman Engineering Program to a level of preeminence, wemust simultaneously address recruiting and retention issues (i.e., improve our capture rate of adiverse population of high achieving students and then retain them), as well as improve coursecontent, integration of content, and pedagogy. Pedagogical improvements in engineeringeducation have been facilitated by a large infusion of funding from NSF during the 1990’s,particularly for undergraduate programs.ConclusionIt is evident that there are significant and complex challenges to recruiting, retaining, educating,and preparing a highly diverse student population for not only future careers in engineering butalso life-long learning. The nature and culture of

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

JoAnn Lighty; Holly Moore; David Richardson; Nick Safai

. By 1905, in addition to mining, electrical, civil, and mechanicalengineering, courses in chemical engineering were added to the establishedSchool of Mines. In 1917 the name was changed to the School of Mines andEngineering. In 1946, the two schools were separated and the School ofEngineering was formed with four departments: Civil, Chemical, Electrical, andMechanical. In the mid-1960’s Bioengineering, Materials Science andEngineering, and Computer Science were added. The programs in Civil,Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical and Computer Engineering and MaterialScience and Engineering all hold ABET accredited programs. The Undergraduateprogram in Biomedical Engineering is a relatively new program which will moveforward with accreditation within

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BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Walsh

association with the existing 4+1 program,coupling the BS degree to a MS Engineering Degree with a specialization in BiomedicalEngineering.There are academic programs in Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at more than 80universities in the United States alone and many of these have undergraduate as well as graduateprograms. The vast majority of these programs are centered on the production of Ph.D.’s, M.D.’sand the generation of avant garde research. The need for a Biomedical Engineering programfocused on providing bachelors and applied masters graduates to the growing biomedicalengineering industry is acute. In addition, the need for a program focused on accomplishing theapplied research required to transform laboratory procedure into

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Engineering/Education Collaborators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tamara Knott

ourdesire for the ePortfolio to aid in program assessment we must likewise develop guidelines,procedures and evaluation rubrics. Presently a team of engineering faculty is working with theassessment coordinator for the University to address these issues. And already, the possibility ofproviding an ePortfolio for each of the 1500 entering freshman engineering students at VirginiaTech fall 2004 is being broached.Bibliography1. Paulson, L., Paulson, P, and Meyer, C, “What Makes a Portfolio a Portfolio?”, Educational Leadership, February 1991, pp. 60-63.2. Cambridge, B. L., Kahn, S., Tompkins, D. P., and Yancey, K. B. (Eds.). Electronic portfolios: Emerging practices in student, faculty, and institutional learning, Washington, DC: American

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Alam

Key Ingredients of Modern Electrical and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Programs M. R. Parker and M. S. Alam Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of South Alabama Mobile, AL 36688, USA1 (Session number: 1532) AbstractIn this paper, we discuss the evolution of modern North American Electrical and ComputerEngineering curricula designed to, among other things, satisfy guidelines consistent with ABETaccreditation as well as those required by the increasingly common constraints of StateArticulation. In the process of curriculum development, it is

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New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Doherty; Gerald Gannod

in exploring other markets. In their projects they were able toget a 75% rate of reuse while significantly reducing average product cycle time.National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and Raytheon. NRO was facing the prospect all gov-ernment agencies faced in the 1990’s, a reduction in their budget and staffing without a reductionin workload. One of the solutions they used was to incorporate a product line approach to thedevelopment of their satellite C2 software2, pages 443–483 . The NRO with assistance from SEI con- Page 8.1237.13tracted Raytheon to develop a package containing the core assets needed to develop any satellite Proceedings of

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Real-Time and Embedded Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

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J.W. Bruce

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society of Engineering Education8. M. Hedley and S. Barrie, “An undergraduate microcontroller systems laboratory”, IEEE Trans. Educ., vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 345, 1998.9. D.B. Kaufman, R.M. Felder, and H. Fuller, “Accounting for individual learning effort in cooperative learning teams,” J. Engineering Educ., pp. 133-140, 2000.10. D.L. Maskell , “Student-based assessment in a multi-disciplinary problem based learning environment,” J. Engi- neering Educ., pp. 237-241, 1999.11. W.J. McKeachie and G. Gibbs, Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teach- ers, 10/e, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.12. W.R

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Assessment Strategies in BAE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas J. Brumm; Larry F. Hanneman; Brian Steward; Steven Mickelson

 assessment results can help students to improveprofessionally, and help faculty to improve curriculum to help ensure student success in theengineering workplace. Page 8.1247.15“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Bibliography1 http://www.ddiworld.com/, January 14, 2003.2 Development of Workplace Competencies Sufficient to Measure ABET Outcomes. S. K. Mickelson, L. F. Hanneman, R.Guardiola, and T. J. Brumm. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition.3 Validation of

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Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Krueger; Theodore Aanstoos; Ronald Barr

activities and presents the results of thesepreliminary surveys, which universally showed a positive learning trend in the course.IntroductionThe freshman “Engineering Design and Graphics” course at the University of Texas at Austincontinues to evolve from its inception many decades ago. In its early days, and up until about1985, the course was primarily a drafting course that taught engineering students how to makemanual board drawings and how to solve spatial geometry problems. The advent of affordabledesktop computers ushered in a short-lived era of “electronic” drafting. In the 1990’s, theEngineering Graphics program at the University of Texas at Austin received a series of NSFeducation grants1-3 to develop a new graphics curriculum based on 3-D

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Multimedia Engineering Education,Distance, Service, & Internet-Based Approaches

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2003 Annual Conference

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Alan Adams; Nick Safai

. Figure 22. Seat acceleration at 0.06 second (Note: acceleration units in m/s2) Figure 23. Seat velocity at 0.06 second (Note: velocity units in m/s) Page 8.430.16 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 24. Seat global horizontal displacement at 0.06 second (units in meters)5. Multi-body Technique (MADYMO Simulation)A Multi-body seat and ATD were modeled as shown in Figure 25. This model consists of a rigidbody seat defined by planes, which are connected with

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Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

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Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

better educators. It gives us a deeper understanding about howstudents learn our subject matter best, which in turn better prepares them to enter their chosenfields. Page 9.855.10 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliography1. Bigge, M. L. & Shermis, S. S. (1999). Learning theories for teachers (6th ed.). New York: Longman.2. Gredler, M. E. (2001). Learning and instruction: Theory into practice (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill Prentice-Hall.3. Ref. 1, p. 3.4. Branoff, T. J