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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

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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

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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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

Conference Session

Engineering/Education Collaborators

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2004 Annual Conference

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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

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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

Conference Session

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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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

Conference Session

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

Conference Session

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

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Rufus L. Carter; Amy G. Yuhasz; Misty Loughry; Matthew Ohland

in Education Conference, IEEE/ASEE, Reno, NV, October (2001).18. Van Duzer, E. and F. McMartin, “Methods to improve the validity and sensitivity of a self/peer assessment instrument,” IEEE Trans. Ed., 43(2), 153-158, May (2000).19. Version 1, received from Pat Meade at Frontiers in Education Conference, Reno, NV, October (2001)20. Seat, E., and T.P. McAnear, “Administering, scoring and debriefing Team Developer,” Proc. Frontiers in Education Conference, IEEE/ASEE, Reno, NV, October (2001).21. Crocker, L., and J. Algina, Introduction to classical and modern test theory, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., Chicago, p. 143, 157ff, (1986).22. McCaulley, M. H., Godleski, E. S., Yokomoto, C. F., Harrisberger, L

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Virtual and Distance Experimentation

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2004 Annual Conference

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Klaus Rütters; Bernardo Wagner; Andreas Böhne

Lernen mit Tele-Tutoring“, In: R. Schwarzer (ed.), MultiMedia und TeleLearning. Lernen im Cyberspace, Frankfurt, 1998, pp. 182-1966. Kiesler, S., Siegel, J., McGuire, T., W., “Social Psychological Aspects of Computer-Mediated Communication”, In: American Psychologist, Vol. 39, No. 10, October 1984, pp. 1123-11347. Mark, G., Grudin, J., Poltrock, S., E., “An Empirical Study of Virtually Collocated Teams“, In: Proceedings of ESCW`99, The 6th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, September 12-16, 1999, Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 159-1788. Prenzel, M., Kristen, A., Dengler, P., Ettle, R., Beer, T., “Selbstbestimmt motiviertes und interessiertes Lernen in der kaufmännischen Erstausbildung”, Zeitschrift für Berufs

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ken Alford

is also assigned to a faculty member who serves as the project advisor. If a projectis for an outside agency or organization, there will be an additional outside advisor who will helpdefine system requirements with the student project team.Shortly after the beginning of the fall semester, the computer science team members are exposedto the basics of project management and review the software development process in order toapply a discipline-specific framework to their project. In addition to answering to the instructorregarding how their system will be designed and built, each project team must work with theclient and advisor(s) for whom their system is being built. Project team members and their clientdetermine exactly what kind of finished

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

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Stephanie Cupp; Paolo Moore; Norman Fortenberry

Engineering Education, vol. 82, no. 4 (1993): pages 203-211.31. Greiling, Paul, and Frank Brady. "High-Tech Engineering Research in the 90's."National Conference on Outcomes Assessment. General Session #2. Washington, DC: American Society for Engineering Education, 1997.32. Cohen, Andy. "Evaluating Engineering Graduates in "Business Consulting." National Conference on Outcomes Assessment. Washington, DC: American Society for Engineering Education, 1997.33. Black, Kent. "An Industry View of Engineering Education." Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 83, no. 1 (1994): pages 26-28

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Georgiopoulos

separable.4.5 Teaching Material: Perceptron Learning Algorithm, Pocket AlgorithmThe perceptron learning algorithm is described in a sequence of steps below.Step 1: Initialize the weights and the bias converging to node i (i.e., the weights wik1 ’s for0 ≤ k ≤ K ). The weights are initialized to small random values. The value of the index p isinitialized to 1.Step 2: Present the input pattern x( p ) from the training collection.Step 3: Calculate the output of node i due to the presentation of pattern x( p ) , by using thefollowing equation: K  yi1 ( p ) = g (net i1 ( p )) = g ∑ wik1 x k ( p

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Best Zone Papers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mary Anderson-Rowland

. Engineering Workforce Commission of the American Association of Engineering Societies, Inc., Engineering & Technology Enrollments, Fall 2000, Washington, DC, 2000. 3. Engineering Workforce Commission of the American Association of Engineering Societies, Inc., Engineering Degrees & Technology Degrees, 2000, Washington, DC, 2000. 4. Sax, L.J.; Astin, A. W.; Korn, W. S.; and Mahoney, K. M., The American Freshman: National Norms for Fall 2001, Higher Education Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, December 2001. 5. Anderson-Rowland, Mary R.; Baker, Dale R.; Secola, Patricia M.; Smiley, Bettie A.; Evans, Donovan L.; and Middleton, James A., “Integrating Engineering Concepts under Current K-12

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Innovative Hands-On Projects and Labs

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2003 Annual Conference

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David Hall; Kelly Crittenden

. Nelson, J. D. and S. A. Napper. 1999. Ramping Up an Integrated Engineering Curri culum to FullImplementation. Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference, San Juan, PuertoRico.4. Nelson, J.D., S. Napper, B. Elmore, J. Carpenter, B. Deese. 1998. An Integrated Freshman EngineeringCurriculum. Frontiers in Education Conference, Phoenix, AZ.5. Hall, D., P. Hadala, and F. Roberts. 2000. Laboratory Exercises for Statics and Mechanics of Materialson a Shoestring. Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education Meeting, St. Louis,Missouri.6. Hyams, D.G. 1997. CurveExpert 1.3. http://www.ebicom.net/~dhyams/cvxpt.htm.Biographical InformationDr. David Hall is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Louisiana Tech University

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Aerospace Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Abdel Mazher

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Surya Mallapragada; Maureen Griffin; Mary Huba; Jacqueline Shanks; Kevin Saunders; Charles Glatz

sharing communication rubrics.This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under award:EEC-0087696. Page 8.1256.7 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationReferences1. Wilkerson, L. and Gijselaers, W. H. (eds). Bringing Problem-Based Learning to Higher Education: Theory and Practice. Jossey-Bass Pub., San Francisco, 1996.2. ABET Web Site 3. Barrows, H. S. Problem-Based Learning in Medicine and Beyond: A Brief Overview. pp. 3-12.4. Huba, M. E., & Freed, J. E

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gerson de Oliveira

construction of computer systems as the one used inthis research. The indistinct fulfillment of the academic space with advanced computerequipment and the aleatory introduction of educational softwares, does not guarantee theresults gotten here. It is necessary to have a very clear distinction between the educationalaims and the means to achieve them. According to the background acquired along thisinvestigation, we have to confirm that the computer systems are not part of the mentionedgoals, but they can – if correctly built – to become powerful means to execute them.Bibliography(1) ALTHUSSER, L. Ideologia e aparelhos ideológicos do Estado. Lisboa : Presença, s/d.(2) BIREAUD, A. Os Métodos Pedagógicos no Ensino Superior. Porto: Porto Editora

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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George List; Stacy Eisenman

Annual Conference Proceedings (2), pp. 2039-2043, June 25-28 1995.[6] P.S. Chinowsky and J.A. Vanegas, “Facilitating Interdisciplinary Civil Engineering Education through aLiving Laboratory,” Proceedings of the 1995 Annual ASEE Conference, Part 1(of 2), pp 596-600, Anaheim, CA,June 25-28, 1995.[7] S. Eisenman and G.F. List, “The Admiral Combs Design Retreat,” paper submitted to the 2003 Annual ASEEConference, Nashville, TN, June 22-25, 2003.[8] G.L. Fiegel and J.S. DeNatale, “Hands-On Geotechnical Engineering at the Undergraduate Level,”Geotechnical Special Publication 109, GeoDenver 2000 Conference ‘Educational Issues in GeotechnicalEngineering,’ pp 71-85, Denver, CO, August 5-8, 2000.[9] R.L. Kolar, K.K. Muraleetharan, M.A. Mooney, B.E. Vieux

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Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Karthik Ramani; Anderson David; Alexander Lee

instructordecides on the learning objectives, the sequence, the reading materials, and the evaluationprocedure. The classroom is a way of aggregating students and creating an effective distributionchannel for moving knowledge from the instructor to the student(s). The web model of learningand team-based project we have developed for ME444 is based on a different set of principles:Both the instructor and students are co-developers of the course and the learning experience.This pooling of knowledge is critical to creating an exciting learning experience, especially whenit comes to bringing the experiences of each student to the classroom, allowing cross-fertilizationto occur.Finally, our goal is to create frameworks and tools that are appropriate to the new

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Retention of Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

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Claire Lynne McCullough

Page 8.650.3 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education … has never been a threat to science or mathematics, because when we need more scientists or mathematicians, we import them, and science and mathematics lives on. That’s the way we, as a nation, have dealt for decades with SMET shortages…[The United States] imported scientists during World War II; math faculty in the 60’s from England (and questionably left England in a bad situation); graduate students since the 70’s; and faculty today. Yet now our quick-fix importation strategy fails us. We can’t

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Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

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W.B. stouffer; Jeffrey Russell

Session #2615 Too Liberal or Not Liberal Enough: Liberal Arts, Electives, and Professional Skills W.B. Stouffer and Jeffrey S. Russell Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-MadisonIntroductionA well conceived liberal arts education is essential to developing the professional skills neededfor 21st century engineering practice. Currently, the liberal arts comprise a component of mostundergraduate engineering curricula, though as a recent study indicates, not necessarily asignificant or well

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

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Staci Provezis; Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Larry Shuman; Siripen Larpkiattaworn; Obinna Muogboh; Dan Budny; Harvey Wolfe

,” Computer Applications in Engineering Education, September, 2002, 10(2), pp. 88-97.9. Besterfield-Sacre, ME, LJ Shuman, H. Wolfe, A. Scalise, S. Larpkiattaworn, OS Muogboh, D. Budny, RL Miller, and BM Olds, “Modeling for Educational Enhancement and Assessment.” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 2002.10. Ibid.11. Callison, R., D. Budny, and K. Thomes, “Simulated Conference Meets Academic, Advising, and Library Goals for Freshmen Engineering Students,” American Society for Engineering Education 2002 Annual Conference, June 2002, pp 1 - 23, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.12. Hein, TL and D. Budny, “Learning the ‘Write’ Way in Science and Engineering. 2001 IEEE

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Student Chapters - Formulas for Success

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2003 Annual Conference

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Russell Mills; Tonya Emerson

Session 3215 Student Chapters – An Adjunct to Engineering Education Tonya L. Emerson, Russell S. Mills California State University, ChicoAbstractNew engineering graduates are expected to possess an ever-expanding array of skills. Yet,classroom synthesis is not conducive to many of these proficiencies. Student professionalsocieties can help cultivate valuable interpersonal, professional and technical skills through avariety of extracurricular activities.The success of a student chapter can be as valuable as the curriculum in defining the quality ofan engineering department

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Women in Engineering: New Research

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2003 Annual Conference

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Donna Riley

takes away from quantitative instruction; on the contrary, it often provides bothcontext and motivation for students to pursue the quantitative aspects with more enthusiasm. Wemust remain steadfast in challenging the elevation of reductionism to the exclusion of integratedand interdisciplinary thought, and remind detractors that ABET and many engineering educationcritiques call for consideration of exactly these issues. A second criticism of hooks’s pedagogy is that the teacher loses control of the classroomwhen s/he adopts a classroom style (more) grounded in mutuality and respect. I have found theexact opposite to be the case – that students were “out of control” when I used a top-downteaching style because they weren’t taking

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New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2003 Annual Conference

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Heidi Diefes-Dux; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; Deborah Follman

experiences. Further, TAs are responsible for all of the grading forthe course. They need to be able to grade consistently but also be flexible to different problemsolving approaches. Prior to the start of each fall semester, the TAs attend a combination ofPurdue University Center for Instructional Excellence TA training modules and departmentspecific training modules.Course PoliciesHigh student enrollments necessitate a consistent course materials delivery system that is, for themost part, paperless. For the last four years, ENGR 106 has delivered materials using WebCT,Inc.'s course management system. This system offers a number of features that are ideal for alarge course. First, minimal training is required to build and maintain a respectable

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Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stephanie Velegol; Ronald Ziemian; Richard Zaccone; Richard Kozick; James Baish; Margot Vigeant

engineering:digital logic design and digital information processing. The digital logic topic was treated inconsiderably more depth, but the lab project helped to make the 0’s and 1’s that we discussed inthe digital information processing segment a “bit” more tangible.2.D. Engineering and SocietyThe final segment of the course was again similar to the previous version of the course, wherestudents in the large lecture typically spent the last few weeks of the class learning about ethicsand the relationship between engineering and society. The key difference was that this year theethics section was made more personalized than in years past by using laboratory sections fordiscussion of specific ethical situations and writing about the ethical implications of a