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Byron Garry; Suzette Burckhard

) should:1. Pose significant questions that can be answered empirically2. Link research to relevant theory3. Use methods that permit direct investigation of the question4. Provide a coherent and explicit chain of reasoning5. Replicate and generalize across studies6. Disclose research to encourage professional scrutiny and critique11The National Science Foundation has funded engineering education coalitions that have lookedspecifically at teaching of engineering. One was the Center for Advancement of EngineeringEducation (CAEE). Their final report from 2010 states that engineering faculty need to beeducators who are capable of using the research on the student experience. “This involves notonly preparing tomorrow‘s educators with conceptions of

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Andy S. Peng; Robert Nelson; Cheng Liu; Ahmet Turkmen; Wei Shi; Jia-Ling Lin

part of the higher education systems[1]. Internettechnologies have had a significant impact on the recent development of engineering educationsystem[2]. In recent years, many institutions have deployed numerous online courses. Some ofthese online courses completely replace the need for traditionally in classroom courses. Whilethese online courses provide flexible scheduling and different learning experiences toengineering students, they generally lack the required interactive activities and precious face-to-face time between the course instructor and students. Meanwhile, the growth of computerengineering student enrollments coupled with budgetary constraints is challenging institutions toeffectively serve their students. Furthermore, the

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Majura F. Selekwa

decidedthe break the program into three levels with a total of ten modules as illustrated in Figure 1.The first level comprised of four modules that focussed on the basic elements of mechatronicsystems; students learned how the core prerequisite courses come into play in the developmentof mechatronic systems. In general, this level provided students with both a theoretical reviewof facts learned elsewhere in the prerequisites and simple practical activities that enhanced theirunderstanding of those theoretical facts; more emphasis was placed on major characteristics andlimitations of sensors, actuators, motion transmission systems, analog signal conditioners, anddigital logic circuits. Eventually students were introduced to the basic structure of

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Sousada Chidthachack; Mark A. Schulte; Forster D. Ntow; Jia-Ling Lin; Tamara J. Moore

the factors in PBL program, which contribute to effective learning of ABETprofessional skills?Data Collection and AnalysesProject-Based Learning (PBL) The PBL program is adapted from the Aalborg Model of PBL (Figure 1). Students combinelearning of technical information with the execution of engineering design projects. Theprogram model is 100% project based and does not include traditional courses. Enteringstudents are community college graduates or transfer students from other universities who haveall completed lower division requirements for a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering.The model has four semester upper division portion of a student’s education. Graduates of theprogram earn a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical

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Kevin Craig

a business point ofview and usable from a managing complexity point of view. Technological depth and non-technical breadth are essential for innovation to happen, as engineers need to grow professionallydaily.The two courses described in this paper – Electromechanical Engineering Systems (2nd-year) andMultidisciplinary Engineering Systems (3rd-year) – are required courses in the mechanicalengineering curriculum and have been developed and taught over the past two years. They eachconsist of two hours of class time and two hours of small-group (12 students per session) hands-on, hardware and software, studio sessions each week. They are each taught in the context ofmodern engineering practice and real-world problem solving following the

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Audrey LaVallie; Eakalak Khan; G. Padmanabhan

ASEE-NMWSC2013-0004 Impact of a Research Experience Program on North Dakota Tribal College STEM Student Retention Audrey LaVallie1, Eakalak Khan2, and G. Padmanabhan2 1 Faculty, Turtle Mountain Community College, Belcourt, North Dakota (e-mail: alavallie@tm.edu) 2 Professor of Civil Engineering, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota (e-mails: Eakalak.khan@ndsu.edu and g.padmanabhan@ndsu.edu respectively)Abstract Recent educational research shows that students who engage in research projects aremore likely to

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Majura F. Selekwa

. Typically, the topic is simplified by combining the common characteristicsof all microcontrollers and presenting them generically in a way that enables students to translatethose characteristics to various types of microcontrollers when needed to.1 IntroductionThe title of this article is deliberately exaggerated to stress on what needs to be done in theearly stages of the topic before students are exposed to any specific microcontroller classes. Thisinformation is not covered in a single first lecture only, but rather in the first two or three lectureson the subject. Today, there are many systems that are controlled using microcontrollers; such systems, bet-ter known as embedded systems, constitute the largest share of modern consumer and