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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mel Cossette, Edmonds Community College; Thomas Stoebe, University of Washington; John Rusin, Edmonds Community College; Robert Mott, University of Dayton; Robert Simoneau, Keene State University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

2006-339: NATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER FOR MATERIALS TECHNOLOGYEDUCATIONMel Cossette, Edmonds Community CollegeThomas Stoebe, University of WashingtonJohn Rusin, Edmonds Community CollegeRobert Mott, University of DaytonRobert Simoneau, Keene State University Page 11.952.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006session number 1526The National Science Foundation has recently funded a project at Edmonds Community Collegethat will create a National Resource Center for Materials Technology Education. The objectiveof this project is to develop a clearinghouse of teaching materials for the broad field of materialstechnology. All materials considered for this Resource Center will

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James E. Kilduff, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Jong-In Han, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Environmental Engineering

application of environmental biotechnology requires professionals who have abackground in both areas. The undergraduate engineering curriculum has traditionallynot emphasized training in biological sciences, although many environmental engineeringcurricula have incorporated some engineering microbiology in concert with, or as aprerequisite for, wastewater treatment courses. In general, however, whereasenvironmental engineers have considerable engineering skills required for the design ofprocesses per se, have only a rudimentary knowledge of general biology andmicrobiology in particular. Growth in biology-related courses in the engineeringcurriculum is becoming more widespread, as chemical engineering departments begin toemphasize life science related

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Retention Issues

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andre Butler, Mercer University; Priscilla Hicks, Mercer University

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Minorities in Engineering

therecruitment, retention, and graduation of under-represented minorities and women inengineering, significant discrepancies still exist and much work remains.Over the past ten years at Mercer, African-Americans have comprised 17.1% of studentsenrolled in engineering, while women have comprised 31.1%, on average. In addition,African-Americans and women represent a sizeable fraction of each graduating class(14.8% and 32.0%, respectively). These numbers are higher than those observed in manyother engineering schools across the country. Five-year graduation rates for African-Americans (as well as other under-represented minorities) and women at Mercer,however, are more in line with observations at other engineering schools.The purpose of this paper is to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Frank Barnes, University of Colorado-Boulder

2006-1820: AN INTEGRATED UTILITIES MASTERS OF ENGINEERINGPROGRAMFrank Barnes, University of Colorado-Boulder Frank Barnes received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1954 from Princeton University and his M.S., Engineer, and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in 1955, ‘56, and ‘58 respectively. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Baghdad, Iraq in 1958 and joined the University of Colorado in 1959 where he is currently a Distinguished Professor. He has served as Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Acting Dean of the College of Engineering, and in 1971 as cofounder/Director with Professor George Codding of the Political Science Dept. of the Interdisciplinary

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Innovation in Teaching Engineering Economics

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ahmad Sarfaraz, California State University-Northridge; Tarek Shraibati, California State University-Northridge

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Engineering Economy

student learning in an engineeringeconomy course. Student attendance, student achievement, maintaining pace with the class andstudent learning were the four factors that were measured in this study.IntroductionA number of reports show that there are dramatic differences between today’s students and thoseof a few years ago1. Nowadays, we see a general decrease in student preparedness, an increase innumber of employed students, an increase in number of part-time students, and an increase in theage of students. Although there are some factors that cannot be influenced by instructors, we canenhance students’ success rate by increasing student engagement. By engaging students weexpect students to move from memorizing concepts, to explaining those same

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Curriculum for Green Materials

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Helen McLachlan, Granta Design; Patrick Coulter, Granta Design; Mike Ashby, University of Cambridge

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Materials

2006-1934: TEACHING STUDENTS ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTOF MATERIAL CHOICE IN DESIGNHelen McLachlan, Granta Design Dr Helen McLachlan is Granta's product manager for education. She also has a PhD in materials science from the University of Cambridge.Patrick Coulter, Granta Design Dr Patrick Coulter is a director at Granta. He also has PH.D. in polymer science from the University of Cambridge.Mike Ashby, University of Cambridge Professor Mike Ashby FRS is Royal Society Research Professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge and is a Visiting Professor of Design at the Royal College of Art, London, UK. His interests include materials selection in design, process

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Moral Development, Engineering Pedagogy and Ethics Instruction

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin Schmaltz, Western Kentucky University

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Engineering Ethics

2006-1556: ENGINEERING ETHICS INSTRUCTION AS AN INTEGRATEDPROFESSIONAL COMPONENTKevin Schmaltz, Western Kentucky University Kevin Schmaltz teaches thermo-fluid and professional component courses in Mechanical Engineering, including the Freshman Experience course, Sophomore Design, Junior Design and the Senior Project Design course sequence. Prior to teaching at WKU, he was a project engineer for Shell Oil, designing and building oil and gas production facilities for offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Page 11.563.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michelle Daniel, University of Cincinnati; James Allen, University of Cincinnati; Anant Kukreti, University of Cincinnati

to gain practical secondary teaching experience. In addition, the fellows alsoperform all grading and assessment of these activities. On occasion, the teachers will alsoadminister these lessons to help demonstrate alternative teaching and classroom managementtechniques. However, in this study, each lesson for which the data is presented was taught by aSTEP fellow. Project STEP believes that through effectively demonstrating the relevance ofmathematics and science topics through real-world issues and current community events, astronger student affinity towards these subjects can be achieved. This paper explores thedevelopment of student attitudes towards math and science topics on a gender basis. Sevenclassrooms of 11th grade math and science

Conference Session

CPD - Engineering Education K - Life

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kurt Becker, Utah State University

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Continuing Professional Development

2006-2371: SUPPORTING K-12 TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTTHROUGH THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENGINEERING ANDTECHNOLOGY EDUCATIONKurt Becker, Utah State University Kurt H. Becker, Ph.D is Interim Department Head in the Department of Engineering and Technology Education, College of Engineering at Utah State University. Areas of research include adult learning cognition, engineering education professional development and technical training. He is the co-project director for the NSF funded "National Center for Engineering and Technology Education" and the PI for the NSF funded "Communities of Effective Practice: A Professional STEM Development Model for Teachers of American Indian Students". He also

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods in IE Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Judith Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ron Billings, Georgia Institute of Technology; Garlie Forehand, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Industrial Engineering

2006-405: GEORGIA TECH IE WORKFORCE COMMUNICATION: COMPARINGSENIOR DESIGN STUDENTS' AUDIENCE ANALYSES TO THEIR CLIENTS'SELF DESCRIPTIONSJudith Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Norback is a faculty member and the Director of Workforce and Academic Communication in the J. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. Before arriving at Tech six years ago, she headed her own firm, the Center for Skills Enhancement. She conducted research and curriculum development on basic and communication skills for the U.S. Department of Labor, the National Skill Standards Board, and a number of universities. Since 2000, her research has focused on workforce

Conference Session

Faculty Involvement in International Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Russel Jones, World Expertise LLC

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International

2006-1269: UPDATING FOR ENGINEERING FACULTY MEMBERS INDEVELOPING COUNTRIESRussel Jones, World Expertise LLC Russel C. Jones is a private consultant, working through World Expertise LLC to offer services in engineering education in the international arena. He previously served as Executive Director of the National Society of Professional Engineers. Prior to that, he had a long career in education: faculty member at MIT, department chair in civil engineering at Ohio State University, dean of engineering at University of Massachusetts, academic vice president at Boston University, and President at University of Delaware. Dr. Jones is President of the Committee on Capacity Building of the

Conference Session

Course-based Approaches to Entrepreneurship Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anthony Joseph, Pace University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

important. Additionally, the dynamism in finance created by its challenging problems andthe availability of sophisticated algorithms and cheap computing power has attractedprofessionals from computer science, engineering, physics, and mathematics resulting in thegrowth of many vibrant interdisciplinary fields involving finance. In spring 2005, we developedan entrepreneurial financial computing course with the objective that individual student teamswould design and develop a commercially viable financial software product to satisfy a marketneed. Five purposefully and two adhocly designed E-teams were formed with students majoringin computer science, finance, mathematics, and management science. Each E-team worked on adifferent project. The course

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ashok Goel, Michigan Technological University; Hyun-Chan Cho, Korea University of Technology and Education

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International

2006-1901: TEACHING VLSI DESIGN AT THE KOREA UNIVERSITY OFTECHNOLOGY & EDUCATIONAshok Goel, Michigan Technological University Ashok Goel received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University in 1987. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Michigan Technological University. He is the author of a book “High-Speed VLSI Interconnections” published by Wiley Interscience in 1994. His research interests include nanotechnology circuit design and GaAs-based integrated circuits. He is a senior member of the IEEE.Hyun-Chan Cho, Korea University of Technology and Education Huyn-Chan Cho received his Ph.D. degree in Electronics

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce Berdanier, Ohio Northern University

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Environmental Engineering

water quality and wastewater treatment and is involved in outreach and support to K-12 teachers in the use of watersheds as tools in science education while maintaining an ongoing involvement in policy and research in the fields of Environment and Water Resources in the Middle East and Haiti. Page 11.1436.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 WATER RESOURCES EVALUATION FOLLOWING NATURAL DISASTER IN HAITIAbstractThis paper will present a case study of the impacts of a hurricane and the resultantflooding during June 2005 in Deschapelles, Haiti on spring box collection

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kari Clase, Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

biotechnology results in ever-expanding needs for college graduates who haveknowledge of life-science based products and processes. There have been numerousreports of current and projected shortages of human resources possessing the requiredknowledge in the growing industry. In order to address the gap between education andthe workforce, the Department of Industrial Technology has developed an academicminor in biotechnology being implemented in fall 2004.This interdisciplinary biotechnology initiative is the result of a partnership among theDepartment of Industrial Technology, the Department of Biology, and the Department ofPharmacy. The program is administered within the Department of Industrial Technology.The minor is taken while the student

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Josef Rojter, Victoria University of Tech.

2006-817: FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCES IN ENGINEERING CURRICULUM: THECASE OF CHEMISTRYJosef Rojter, Victoria University of Tech. Page 11.658.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Fundamental Sciences in Engineering Curriculum: The Case of ChemistryAbstractAs a response to concerns and suggestions of the Institution of Engineers, Australiaaccrediting the undergraduate curriculum in mechanical engineering, the Department ofMechanical Engineering at Victoria University of Technology (VUT) decided to incorporatechemical sciences into its undergraduate curriculum. The first semester of second yearmaterials technology subject was set aside to include

Conference Session

Professional Development/Scholarship & Service Learning

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Hall, Northwestern State University; Steve Schneiderman, Murray State University

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Engineering Technology

2006-79: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GUIDELINES FOR ENGINEERINGTECHNOLOGY FACULTYSteve Schneiderman, Murray State UniversityThomas Hall, Northwestern State University Page 11.1030.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Actionable Professional Development Guidelines for Engineering Technology Faculty“If you hold a theory strongly and confidently, then your search for evidence will bedominated by events that confirm your theory.”1 Consider how a person commences eachautomobile driving experience. Some enter the car then affix the seat belt then activatethe ignition; a logical sequence. However, most drivers are right handed; the ignition ison

Conference Session

Improving the Mathematical Preparation of Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark Inlow, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Mathematics

violations and IID violations are much more difficult to handle, theIID assumption is the more crucial of the two.In spite of this fact, we believe introductory statistics courses for engineers, and thecorresponding texts, neither adequately stress the importance of the IID assumption nor provideadequate tools for assessing it. Our belief is based on observing students in upper level statisticscourses unthinkingly apply IID analysis methods to data which is blatantly non-IID. We becameaware of the extent of this problem when students in an advanced statistics course, after spendinga week on time series analysis, blithely computed a confidence interval for the mean of thefollowing nonstationary data using the IID formula

Conference Session

Evaluation and Assessment of IE Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shantha Daniel, Iowa State University; Devna Popejoy-Sheriff, Iowa State University; K. Jo Min, Iowa State University; Leslie Potter, Iowa State University

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Industrial Engineering

2006-1882: ABET OUTCOME ASSESSMENT AND IMPROVEMENT THROUGHTHE CAPSTONE DESIGN COURSE IN AN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERINGCURRICULUMShantha Daniel, Iowa State University SHANTHA DANIEL is pursuing her doctoral degree in Industrial Engineering at Iowa State University. She has served as a graduate assistant in teaching as well as research including objective evaluation and outcome assessment.Devna Popejoy-Sheriff, Iowa State University DEVNA POPEJOY-SHERIFF is pursuing her master degree in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies with an emphasis in Student Affairs. She currently serves as the Academic Advisor for IE undergraduate students in IMSE Department.K. Jo Min, Iowa State University K. JO

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International Exchange/Joint Programs in Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito, Council of Researches in Education and Sciences

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International

11.1300.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 The importance of Collaborative work among Countries in Engineering Education Claudio da Rocha Brito, Melany M. Ciampi COPEC – Council of Researches in Education and Sciences Vladimir G. Zakharov, Irina A. Avenarius MADI State Technical UniversityAbstractA comparative analysis based upon recent international conferences held in Brazil shows thatmany opportunities have been created among researchers and teachers mainly in engineering andtechnology fields of exchange and cooperative projects with others from other Countries. Theobtained results are partial and may

Conference Session

FPD3 -- Professional Issues for First-Year Courses

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dwight Tolliver, University of Tennessee; Lauren Hines, University of Tennessee; J. Roger Parsons, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

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First-Year Programs

interdisciplinary teams1, 2. As a result, many engineeringprograms now devote a portion of their curriculum to team experiences and buildingcommunication skills. These activities are designed not only to equip students with theinterpersonal skills that they will need in their career, but to build self-efficacy and helpincrease retention3.The Engage program at the University of Tennessee was designed to be an integratedcurriculum that would “continue to teach essential skills, using techniques that improveproblem-solving ability, teach design methodology, and teach teamwork andcommunication skills,”4. The Engage program is a 12 credit hour, two-semester coursethat all first year students are required to take. The program was piloted in the 1997-1998academic

Conference Session

Assessing K - 12 Engineering Education Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dava Newman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Kristen Wendell

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

2006-1507: APPLYING K-8 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CURRICULA TOENGINEERING EDUCATION: WHAT CAN BE LEARNED FROM THEEDUCATOR RESOURCE CENTER AT THE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE, BOSTONDava Newman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dava Newman is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is Director of the MIT Technology and Policy Program and is a MacVicar Faculty Fellow.Kristen Bethke, Kristen Bethke is a doctoral candidate in aeronautics and astronautics and engineering education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Page

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Electromechanical & Manufacturing ET Curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raju Dandu, Kansas State University-Salina

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Engineering Technology

2006-482: DESIGN OF ENERGY EFFICIENT RECESSED COMPACTFLUORESCENT (CFL) DOWNLIGHT FIXTURERaju Dandu, Kansas State University-Salina Page 11.410.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Design of Energy Efficient Recessed Compact Fluorescent (CFL) Downlight Fixture Dr. Raju Dandu, Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering Technology Kansas State University at SalinaAbstractA recessed downlight is designed to address limited availability of energy efficient residentialand light commercial recessed downlight fixtures. This fixture is a non-conventional

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito, Council of Researches in Education and Sciences

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International

© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 New Strategies in Engineering and Technology Education – Seeding for Future Claudio da Rocha Brito, Melany M. Ciampi COPEC – Council of Researches in Education and SciencesAbstractCOPEC – Council of Researches in Education and Sciences has been looking for new strategiesof action for the next five years. The goal of its efforts is to provide new programs and projectsin Engineering and Technology for applications that encounter the real necessities of society.Brazil Superior Education has a history of success despite some problems of social and financialorder. And it starts with the creation of Public Universities in the many

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehrdad Razavi, McFarland Clinic, University of Iowa; Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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Electrical and Computer

2006-2330: FROM ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING TO BIOENGINEERING, WHATIS THE SHORTEST PATH? WHAT IS THE BEST PATH?Mani Mina, Iowa State UniversityMehrdad Razavi, McFarland Clinic, University of Iowa Page 11.653.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 From Electrical Engineering to Bioengineering What is the shortest path? What is the best path?Introduction or AbstractIn this paper we review a current issue in engineering education. How to address bio-engineering in engineering curricula? These days many engineering programs claim the wordbio-engineering in their titles. This paper examines the

Conference Session

Improving the Mathematical Preparation of Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elton Graves, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Mathematics

school with advanced placement credits in mathematics to take additional mathematicscourses beyond the courses required for their major.Creating courses and tracts of interestOver the past few years the Rose-Hulman Mathematics Department has made several changes toencourage students to take upper level mathematics courses. One of the major changes was tochange the courses required to get a degree in mathematics. Until the late 1900’s Rose had onlyone tract for a degree or major in mathematics. We have now split this into four different tracts.Our first tract is for the traditional mathematics major who wants to go to graduate school andearn and masters degree or doctorate in mathematics. This tract is not a tract that would interestmost

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol Mullenax, Tulane University

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Graduate Studies

2006-766: TO BE OR NOT TO BE - REVISITING AN ANALYTICAL METHODUSING DEMOGRAPHIC DATA TO PREDICT ASEE STUDENT CHAPTERVIABILITYCarol Mullenax, Tulane University Carol Mullenax is finishing up a Doctorate in Biomedical Engineering at Tulane University while also employed by Bastion Technologies as a project manager on the NASA Non-Exercise Physiological Countermeasures Project in Houston, Texas. Page 11.1342.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 To Be or Not To Be – Revisiting an Analytical Method Using Demographic Data to Predict ASEE Student Chapter ViabilityIntroduction

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Electrical ET Curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Neal Widmer, Purdue University; Richard Furtner, Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

logic gates.This paper proposes a process, using digital electronics as an example, which keeps a curriculumand its graduates current by prioritizing the skills which are most important to current employers.An attempt is made to sort out the vital digital electronics topics from the less relevant, and topropose the necessary topics for today’s students.IntroductionDigital electronics is an area in which rapid changes are occurring. Moore’s law has caused thediscrete-gate logic of the 70s and 80s to be superseded by multimillion-gate CPLDs, FPGAs, andASICs today [1]. Design methodologies for these large chips began with schematic entry designtechniques in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Schematic entry of digital circuits was largelysupplanted

Conference Session

Biology in Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul Schreuders, Utah State University; Brian Rutherford, Utah State University; Katrina Cox, Utah State University; Susan Mannon, Utah State University

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Biological & Agricultural

2006-1805: GENDER DIFFERENCES IN BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERINGSTUDENTSPaul Schreuders, Utah State UniversityBrian Rutherford, Utah State UniversityKatrina Cox, Utah State UniversitySusan Mannon, Utah State University Page 11.662.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Gender Differences in Biological Engineering StudentsAbstractDo gender differences exist in the interests and attitudes of biological engineering students? Un-dergraduate engineering students participated in a voluntary survey designed to help understandthis issue.First, to determine whether males and females received different academic preparation, prior toentering engineering, the survey examined

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saeed Foroudastan, Middle Tennessee State University; Lee Poe, Middle Tennessee State University; Olivia Dees, Middle Tennessee State University

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International

Foroudastan is involved with several professional organizations and honor societies, and has many publications to his name. He also holds U.S. and European patents.Lee Poe, Middle Tennessee State University Lee Poe is a research assistant for this paper at Middle Tennessee State University. He holds an undergraduate degree in Environmental Science and Technology, with a concentration in Energy Resource Management.Olivia Dees, Middle Tennessee State University Olivia Dees is a graduate research assistant for the Masters of Science in Professional Science degree program at Middle Tennessee State University. She has an undergraduate degree in Biology with an emphasis on plant biology and a minor in