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David A. Rogers

Teaching Technology and Society David A. Rogers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering North Dakota State University Fargo, ND 58105-5285Abstract - The technology and society course explores the place technology has in society andthe various viewpoints held concerning technology. It considers the benefits and problemstechnology creates. A fundamental problem is that of establishing a basis for making valuejudgments. A typical course includes the impact of the media, weapons and warfare, energy, theimpact of human culture and government, and the reaction of the natural environment to

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Kris G. Mattila

method that assists peopleto remember names: name association. In that method the person employing it usessome characteristic or distinctive feature of the individual to assist them in rememberingthe name. In the technique presented in this paper, used to remember constructionterminology, it can be the individual who defines that term, the definition that waspresented by the individual or the relationship to other terms that assists in rememberingthe term. Results of using this technique are compared to a traditional lecture methodusing the same terms. Discussion of the technique, an alternative to traditional lecture, ispresented.Course BackgroundCE3332, Fundamentals of Construction Engineering, is a three credit class open to sophomoresthat is

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Robert M. Nelson; Benjamin D. Braaten

with a wide range of interests have foundthe course helpful, including those interested in electronics and high-speed circuit design, bio-medicalengineering, antenna theory, microwave engineering and electromagnetic interference/compatibility.The course typically begins with a review of fundamental concepts in electromagnetics, and thenvarious analytical solution methods are examined. The majority of the semester is then devoted toexamining various computational methods, including both frequency- and time-domain methods. Amajor revision of the course is presently underway, which will include expansion into a two-semestersequence. Selected details of the current course offering are described below, and plans for the newtwo-semester course

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James E. Hertel; Amy J. Hamlin

questionstargeted by our study are more focused toward learning where and when students move out oftheir originally planned major.A third study at Frostburg State University (Soysal, et al., 2003) looks at the enrollment profile oftheir first year classes from 1997 through 2002. [3] From this they were able to determinemigration out of either electrical or mechanical engineering programs. The work, however,measures a relatively small sample (about 40 students per year) and does not track the otherengineering majors.As such, a research gap exists that this study aims to fill. The scope of this paper is to observe,not necessarily analyze. To be clear, at the time of this writing we are not looking to answerquestions regarding students underlying motives for

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Richard Smith

. In practice,information security engineering involves a life cycle starting with requirement analysis,progressing through design analysis and deployment, and repeating the cycle following aperiod of system monitoring and incident response. A fundamental activity in the practiceof information security engineering is the assessment of security perimeters that divide asystem into more-trustworthy and less-trustworthy components. This type of analysis isapplied at every level of an information security system to yield an overall assessment ofits security. Perimeter assessment requires that a student learn fundamental features ofcomputer systems at the hardware, operating system, application, and network level. Thisyields a coherent curricular

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2007 North Midwest Section Meeting

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Matthew Roberts; Philip Parker; Christina Curras; Michael Penn; Max Anderson

cover funding is-sues, the fundamentals of community planning, as well as the relationship between the qualityand availability of the infrastructure and economic development.Another suggestion was that the civil engineering graduation requirements be modified so thatstudents would use their general education classes to pursue a “theme.” For example, stu-dents could graduate with a theme in government by taking several general education courseson government and public policy. Other suggested themes were: Ethics Business Management Geography International Studies Engineering History Proceedings of the 2007 ASEE North Midwest Sectional ConferenceThe goal of the theme requirement would be to help students

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Kurtis G. Paterson

engineeringeducation. The strengths of the technology play well to two educational approaches: (1)focused multimedia mini-lectures, which students can review at their discretion, and (2)case studies in the form of mini-documentaries. Both approaches serve well asmotivational tools in the PEL learning cycle, and could resuscitate sagging studentinterest in reading textbooks. As such, they should be designed as one component in abalanced course offering, not as a class substitute.The development time is a clear obstacle. In addition to the production and post-production time requirements, there are considerable time requirements in mastering adiverse set of supporting skills: software applications, web authoring, script writing,videography, sound, and lighting

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Zhanping You

engineeringresearch; therefore a course in the application of DEM was designed and offered. Thecourse is unique because this is one of the few courses in the nation and DEM is anemerging technology in numerical methods. This course is also innovative due to theextensive faculty-students interaction during the lectures, computer lab work, and studentprojects. In addition, the DEM application in student research projects has been verysuccessful in the past few years. The DEM was applied in soil compaction, aggregatecompaction, and asphalt mixture modeling simulation. The research work at otheruniversities was reviewed and summarized. In order to introduce the advances of theDEM to the graduate curriculum, some materials such as soil, sand, and asphalt