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Issues in Engineering Physics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James McNeil

withthe fundamental role and mission of the institution. CSM is a small, state-assisted, technicalresearch university whose mission is focused in energy, materials, and resources. The schoolhas about 3,000 undergraduates with 230 teaching faculty. While the school has a viablegraduate research program, the principal focus has traditionally been on the undergraduatecomponent. Of the 11 undergraduate degrees, 8 are in ABET-accredited engineering disciplines,including our Engineering Physics program. While still serving its traditional resourceindustries, today CSM has a diverse set of engineering and applied science programs. Althoughthe Mining Engineering major is a small fraction of our undergraduate student body, we areproud of the traditions

Conference Session

Integrating Research into Teaching

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2005 Annual Conference

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Nicole LaRocque; Terri Lynch-Caris

Integrating Physical Fitness Research into the Ergonomics Classroom Terri Lynch-Caris, Nicole LaRocque Kettering UniversityAbstractThe intent of this paper is to describe the integration of a research project into theergonomics classroom. The class evaluated a personal strength assistant device that ismeant to increase core and upper body strength. The entire ergonomics class of 19students worked on the group research project and final write-up. The experimentalgroup in the research project was comprised of members of the ergonomics class while acontrol group was assembled consisting of students outside the class. A strengthimprovement device was used for a maximum of five

Conference Session

Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

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2005 Annual Conference

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Fengfeng Zhou

scientific and engineering research and design practices that requirehigher-order thinking skills and problem-solving skills. This will enable students to develop abetter understanding of science and engineering and hopefully foster a desire to advance theireducation in a related field.The author, as a participant of project STEP, developed several modules to teach seniors atHughes High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. One of these modules was designed to strengthen andtest students’ knowledge about moment (torque) through studies of (mechanical) cranes. Theoverall objective of this module was to increase student interest in physics and engage them inthe learning process. To this end, technology related to cranes was introduced at the beginning.The

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Hata

toPlasma Physics, 2004.Biographical InformationDAVID M. HATAMr. Hata retired in 2003 after 32 years of teaching at Portland Community College in Portland, OR.During his tenure at PCC, he taught in the EET and Microelectronics Technology programs and served asPrincipal Investigator for seven National Science Foundation grants. He is a past recipient of ASEE’sChester F. Carlson Award and Robert G. Quinn Awards and past Chair of the Two-Year College Division. Page 10.397.9 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Web-Based Laboratory Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Olsson; Lars Håkansson; Johan Zackrisson; Ingvar Gustavsson; Henrik Åkesson

experiments1. However, physical experiments areimportant elements in science, engineering and technical education2. They allow learners toascertain if the laws posed by scientists like Ohm and Kirchhoff correspond with nature therebymaking it possible to study the limitations of these physical laws and other mathematical models.Physical experiments also enable learners to experience common differences between thephysical world and simulations based on relevant mathematical models. Hands-on experience isabove all of crucial importance for engineers working in the electrical domain in particular.Unfortunately, experiments are an expensive teaching method compared to simulations and othermethods of instruction. For safety and security reasons access to

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stephen Schleicher; Aubrey Hunt; Sean Brophy; Christopher Garay; Cynthia Paschal; Stacy Klein-Gardner

teaches high school physics courses at University School of Nashville, TN, andteaches undergraduate courses in engineering science at Vanderbilt University. An active investigator in thedevelopment of new high school and undergraduate curricula through VaNTH, she is co-PI of the NSF-sponsoredproject, “Biomedical Imaging Education: Safe, Inexpensive Hands-On Learning”.CYNTHIA B. PASCHAL – Dr. Paschal teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in biomedical engineering andconducts research in magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography. She is also Director of UndergraduateStudies in BME at Vanderbilt University and is co-PI of the NSF-sponsored project, “Biomedical Imaging

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Problem-Solving & Project-Based Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kathleen Harper; John Demel; Richard Freuler

Helping Students Recognize and Solve Different Problem Types in Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics John T. Demel and Richard J. Freuler First-Year Engineering Program Kathleen A. Harper Department of Physics The Ohio State UniversityAbstractIn the Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors (FEH) program (three parallel coursesequences in mathematics, engineering, and physics) at Ohio State, the faculty membersfrom these disciplines meet weekly and coordinate their teaching efforts so that topics arepresented in a timely fashion. The purpose of this coordination is to help the

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tadeusz Majewski; Hector Cervantes; K. V. Sudhakar

Session # INNOVATIONS IN TEACHING FRACTURE MECHANICS K.V. Sudhakar, Tadeusz Majewski, Hector Cervantes Department of Mechanical Engineering, Universidad de las Americas-Puebla, Santa Catarina Martir, Puebla 72820, MexicoAbstractAn elective course on fracture mechanics is planned to be introduced for the undergraduatestudents of mechanical engineering. At the present time, some of the topics on fracturemechanics are covered in a course on selection of materials. The present paper discusses specificteaching methods and relevant experimental

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Martin Johnston; Christopher Greene; Jeff Jalkio

Education, Vol. 90, No. 3, p 4238 Shooter, S., McNeill, M., Interdisciplinary Collaborative Learning in Mechatronics at Bucknell University,Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 91, No. 3, p. 339JEFFREY A. JALKIOJeff Jalkio received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and worked for severalyears in industry in the fields of optical sensor design and process control. In 1984, he co-founded CyberOpticsCorporation with Dr. Steve Case, where he headed research and development. In 1997 he returned to academia,joining the engineering faculty of the University of St. Thomas where he teaches courses in electronics,mechatronics, controls, and design.MARTIN E. JOHNSTONMarty Johnston received his Ph.D. in Physics from the

Conference Session

ET Curriculum & Design Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Alok Verma

, people quicklydiscovered their potential in improving other business functions within an organizationlike finance, human resource and contracting etc. When Lean principles are applied notjust to manufacturing but to all business operations both within the organization andacross all supply chains, a Lean enterprise is created. Page 10.999.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education1III. Physical Simulation as a Teaching Tool Physical simulations have a proven record as a teaching tool. Concepts often

Conference Session

Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

On Teaching and Assessing Engineering Innovation* Daniel Raviv+, Melissa Morris+, Karen Ginsberg++ + Department of Electrical Engineering ++ Department of Computer Science and Engineering Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431 E-mail: ravivd@fau.edu (561) 297 2773AbstractThis paper details data, analysis, and evaluation of one facet of innovation: ideation.Over the past six years college and high school students were exposed to several idea generationmethods in an

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

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Eric Hamilton; Gregor Novak; Evelyn Patterson; Brian Self

been used for adecade to help determine if students are really grasping the underlying physics principles; manydifferent engineering disciplines are now borrowing the idea of concept inventories. Just inTime Teaching (JiTT) is another concept that could greatly benefit the engineering educationalcommunity.Only recently has the JiTT concept been reported in the engineering educational literature(2,3).Freshman physics lays so much of the foundation for engineering dynamics that it only seemsnatural to borrow some of the innovative work done in physics education for mechanicspurposes. In order to help facilitate this process, we will first provide an introduction to the basiccomponents of JiTT and its underlying educational theories. Examples of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ferruzza

. Page 10.1120.1 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Educational goalsThe main goal of this exercise/simulation lab is to instruct students in an integrated set of tasksthat require an overall understanding of Newton’s laws and of kinematics together with basiccommon sense and the ability to put things together. Additional important goals come from thegeneral teaching philosophy in the Department of Physics and Engineering at ElizabethtownCollege, where one emphasis is to provide students with strong problem-solving skills, togetherwith experience, growth, and competence in the areas of

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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B. Sridhara

Session 1150 Teaching Engineering Fundamentals with a Project-Based Learning Approach B. S. Sridhara Middle Tennessee State UniversityAbstract Recruiting and retaining students in the Engineering Technology area has been a majorchallenge to many of us in the Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies (ETIS)Department at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU). In the Fall of 2004 the authoroffered ET 1840 – Engineering Fundamentals and teaching this class was a lot of fun. Topicssuch as total quality, engineering design

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Johan W Joubert; Dolf Steyn

Assessment as the driver behind operationalising operations research teaching Dr. AB (Dolf) Steyn & Mr. JW (Johan) Joubert University of Pretoria Pretoria, South AfricaABSTRACT: Assessment is often viewed as a nasty afterthought to quantify learning. A cycleof action research and repeated adaptations to a semester project course at the University ofPretoria in South Africa indicate that the assessment process does, in fact, guide and enhance thelearning experience. This paper reports on a case where a project was used to address relevancyissues of industrial engineering practitioners of operations research. A

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

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Akhlesh Lakhtakia; Christine Masters; Judith Todd

are the two junior partners of theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison in CIRTL. This center rests on the twin pillars of (i) the acceptance of teaching as a research process, and (ii) the creation of learning communities that favor teaching as a research process.CIRTL is committed to the development of a nationwide ethos whereby science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM) faculty members undertake the scholarship of teaching4,5in addition to discipline-specific research activities.CIRTL researchers are organized in nine different teams, one of which is focused on informalSTEM education. Informal education is an essential part of the post-PhD lifestyle, whether oneactually joins an institution of learning

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

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2005 Annual Conference

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June Marshall; John Marshall

Crucial Teaching Strategies for Engineering Educators Dr. John A. Marshall, Dr. June E. Marshall University of Southern Maine / Saint Joseph’s CollegeThe purpose of this paper is to identify and describe teaching tools and techniques thatwill help new faculty as well as experienced faculty become more effective teachers.Based on a review of the literature, the following excerpts have been divided into twomajor sections. The focus of the first section is the learning process, and the secondsection discusses innovative methods of teaching.Topics included in the “Learning” section include: 1) Focusing on Learning and NotTeaching; 2) Problem Based Learning; 3) Facilitating Group Learning

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elias Faraclas; Catherine Koehler

; Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”applications and GaN-based HFET’s for high power and high temperature applications. He is completing hisdoctoral studies as a National Science Foundation Galileo Fellow. Mr. Faraclas is also a Research and DesignEngineer at Instrument Manufacturing Company in Storrs CT.CATHERINE KOEHLER is a Ph.D. candidate in the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut. Herfield of study is in curriculum and instruction concentrating in science education under the direction of David M.Moss. Her dissertation work explores a pedagogical model of teaching the nature of science to secondary scienceteachers. She has taught Earth Science, Physics and Forensic

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zafer Gurdal; Jan Hol; Gillian Saunders-Smits

Session 1725 Innovative Teaching of Aircraft Structural Analysis and Design Courses - Mathematica in an Engineering Education Environment Gillian N. Saunders-Smits, Zafer Gürdal, Jan Hol, Aerospace Structures Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Delft University of Technology, Delft, The NetherlandsINTRODUCTION This paper reports on a new course on aircraft structural analysis and design in the secondyear of the BSc curriculum at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gustavo Molina

toolsfor teaching problem-solving. Diagrams naturally appear in problems involving physics becausesuch problems require the solution of geometric subproblems, but also because graphs serve asformal communication in science and engineering [6]. Humans often use diagrams when solvingphysics problems: Larkin and Simon [7] described the psychological and computationaladvantages of using diagrams in problem solving, among them (i) diagrams focus attention onelements relationships and they reduce search because related elements are usually closetogether, (ii) diagrams minimize unwanted information, (iii) they facilitate perceptual inferencesand recognition of problem-solving methods that may be applicable, and (iv) diagrams allowquick procedure checks

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yong-Kyu Jung

An Innovative Rapid Processor Platform Design for Early Engineering Education Yong-Kyu Jung Texas A&M University-College StationAbstractA new course for the early stage of digital design education is demonstrated. An innovativeusage of technologies and an effective organization of numerous subjects to leverage the currentclassroom practices are presented. In particular, the new course objectives and organization areexplained to provide an overall view and details of our rapid design process, as well as to achieveengineering educational goals for reducing a gap between the technologies used in industry andin academia. Expected

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tolga Duman; Cihan Tepedelenlioglu; Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola; Venkatraman Atti; Andreas Spanias

, and texts to transfer key concepts. Even though this process meets most of thetypical Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) objectives, it often fails to instillcritical thinking and does not necessarily motivate students to pursue graduate thesis-oriented research.In fact, the rigid lecture and text book structures in some of the Digital Signal Processing (DSP) classesoften fail to connect the concepts with applications and with application-driven research. Of particularinterest is the impact of the aforementioned education problems in the areas of signal processing forcommunications (SP-COM). A common observation from teaching the typical UG courses in these areasis that, regardless of the innovative teaching strategies

Conference Session

ET Curriculum & Design Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Blanton

curricula changed with the development of microwave during World War II. Morerecently, a uniform need for EM in certain engineering specialties has become less clear aselectrical engineering has expanded and become more diverse. Page 10.521.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering EducationWhile there is coverage of EM in traditional electrical engineering programs, the engineeringtechnology (ET) programs have been hesitant about teaching EM.3 In engineering curricula, theEM course is supported by math

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Loralee Donath; Nadia Craig; Nancy Thompson; Michael Matthews

environment for research learning to occur. The learners’ knowledgeconstruction process is aided by an environment of distributed cognition in which participants atall levels—experts, mentors, accomplished novices, and novices—teach and learn from eachother.4 The RCS addresses the development of communications abilities in a system ofdistributed cognition.Survey results of RCS participants are presented to provide an example of a way to incorporatecomplex systems study into the existing undergraduate engineering curriculum. Complexsystems study is defined as a new field of science that studies the collective behavior of a systemand how this system interacts with its environment. Complex systems study is laying thefoundation for a revolution of all

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mingle; Tom Roberts

courses.Yes, this is a description of an efficient knowledging bureaucratic system. Departments mustadapt to knowledge teaching if baccalaureate engineers are to survive in the knowledge age andnot be largely replaced by information handling computers. The knowledging process must beefficient for current society cannot afford an elaborate inefficient use of limited monetary re-sources. The process must be responsible to survive as a viable and pragmatic bureaucratic or-ganization.In this era of knowledging, the preeminent person to be named dean of engineering is aleader/administrator that has performed in the best, responsible manner for a number of years. Itis not the academic vice president’s selection of a “hot” research person as dean

Conference Session

Innovation in ChE Teaching

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Elly; Mordechai Shacham; Michael Cutlip

Israel where he has been since 1974. He received his BSc and DSc degrees fromthe Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. His research interest includes analysis, modeling and regression ofdata, applied numerical method and prediction and consistency analysis of physical properties.MICHAEL B. CUTLIP is professor emeritus of the Chemical Engineering Dept. at the University of Connecticutand has served as department head and director of the university’s Honors Program. He has B. Ch. E. and M. S.degrees from Ohio State and a Ph. D. from the University of Colorado. His current interests include software forengineering problem solving and educational delivery of coursework by the Internet.MICHAEL ELLY holds B. Sc. and MBA degrees from the Ben-Gurion

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Walker; Susan Magliaro; Michael Alley; Hassan Aref, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Alex Aning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Hayden Griffin; Mark Sanders, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech; Richard Goff; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jenny Lo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jean Kampe, Michigan Technological University

Center for the Advancement of Scholarship onEngineering Education (CASEE) to foster a climate of continuous improvement in engineeringeducation. Based on a survey of engineering education researchers, CASEE has identified thefollowing four focus research areas: i) identifying what engineering students should know andwhat engineering knowledge should contribute to broad technological literacy; ii) improvinghow engineering is taught, learned, and assessed; iii) improving diversity in engineeringprograms; and iv) encouraging the widespread use of educational innovations [4]. Further,CASEE has identified a number of research questions in a recent report. Some examples include:“Why are so few high school graduates well informed about engineering

Conference Session

Systems Approach to Teaching ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Myszka

have been sponsored by the National ScienceFoundation5, 10, 11 . These studies identify the concepts and skills essential forunderstanding and application of engineering mechanics.Also, in the past few years, many innovative pedagogical techniques for guiding studentsthrough engineering mechanics have been documented6, 7, 15, 16. The primary focus ofthese studies has been with engineering programs. Yet, a common assumption is thatthese techniques can also be implemented in engineering technology programs. Whilethis is true for many methods, some important differences exist.The traditional method of teaching Statics and Dynamics to engineering technologystudents is without using vector notation. A popular belief is that students are better

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein

State University in 1987. His research interestsinclude catalytic combustion systems, application of educational research methods inengineering classrooms, and facilitation of faculty development activities.CHRISTOPHER BROWN is a professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He received hisPh.D. in 1983 from the University of Vermont. He teaches courses on surface metrology, designand analysis of manufacturing processes, axiomatic design, and the technology of alpine skiing.He is the founder and director of WPI’s Haas Technical Education Center for CNC machiningand WPI’s Surface Metrology Lab. He is an International Director of the Society forManufacturing Engineers (SME), a corresponding member of CIRP (International Institution forProduction

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christy Moore; Billy Koen

Using the Engineering Method To Research and Write about Corporate Practice: A Model for Teaching Engineering Ethics O. Christene Moore, Senior Lecturer Billy Vaughn Koen, Professor The University of Texas at AustinIntroduction The pressure to include, if not emphasize, the importance of ethics in the engineeringcurriculum is one of the most perplexing challenges facing engineering educators today. For onething, it is difficult to decide where exactly to put ethics in the curriculum. With courserequirements that are already bursting at the seams, it’s hard, as Michael Davis suggests in hisarticle “Teaching Ethics Across the