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William Jordan

service and not enough engineering. This is, in itself, an ethical issue. Ifwe are offering courses that get engineering credit without doing realengineering, we are being deceitful to our students. This is an issue that manyengineering programs have faced as some faculty are resistant to this new wayof doing things.Several papers were presented at the 2007 EPICS national conference thatattempt to alleviate these concerns about the real engineering content ofengineering service learning courses. Hefzy from the University of Toledo 2 andZoltowski from Purdue 3 made presentations about how to do service learningbased capstone design courses. Budny and Lund 4 from the University ofPittsburgh have written about how to use engineering service projects

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Marwan Al-Haik; Zayd Leseman; Claudia Luhrs; Mahmoud Reda Taha

work to peer review, the students results were presented at the American Society ofMechanical Engineers International Conference (November 2007, Seattle, Washington) 5. 3 3 indentations at 10Figure 1. Indentation of Human teeth enamel Figure 2. Indentation tests on the surface of enamel Summary As future scientists and engineers, students should be prepared to enter a workforce thatrequires knowledge of nanotechnology. Faculty members from two engineering programs areemploying their collective knowledge in nanotechnology to develop new experiments methods thatwill help introduce undergraduate students to this field of

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Arup K. Maji

Session 7-3 How Flat is the World? Arup K. Maji Civil Engineering Department University of New Mexico AbstractThere is a lot of discussion among engineering faculty and professionals on the implications of 1Thomas L. Friedman’s book “The World is Flat- A brief history of the twenty-first century” . Thefundamental issues are concerns regarding the large number

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Ian A. Gravagne; Kenneth W. Van Treuren

canflourish. A 2003 a survey of Baylor freshmen, a part of the National Survey of Student Engagement(NSSE), showed that Baylor students scored below the fortieth percentile on” Active andCollaborative Learning” and “Faculty-Student Interaction.2” In 2006, the NSSE showed similar Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of New Mexico – Albuquerque Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering Educationtrends. These findings were deemed unacceptable. Baylor has a rich history of teaching excellenceand, as a whole, is very student-centered. As a result of these findings a number of initiatives werebegun. One of the most significant changes

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Susan M. Bogus; Kerry J. Howe

move away fromdesign-bid-build to design-build. Design-bid-build is a traditional project delivery method wheredesign and construction services are separated from one another. This method of delivery canproduce problems due to a lack of communication between the design and construction components,as well as foster an adversarial relationship. The design-build project delivery method addresses thecommunication issue by placing the designers and constructors on the same team. This allowsdesign and construction to proceed concurrently, thus saving the project time and money. Becauseof the growth in design-build, it is important to expose students to this project delivery method.To introduce students to design-build, a new approach was devised for

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2008 GSW

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Chad E. Kennedy

engineering and engineering technology programs according to their associatedaccreditation boards with each institution vying for a leg up over the competition by creating“information rich” (a.k.a. information cramming) courses to meet certain teaching objectives.With ever increasing demands on the amount of content in a curriculum vs. balancing the creditload, it becomes a challenge of the faculty to include the fundamentals to a substantial level withminimal dilution, while simultaneously injecting new content to keep up with the increasingknowledgebase. Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of New Mexico – Albuquerque Copyright © 2008

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Farrokh Attarzadeh; Enrique Barbieri; Miguel Ramos

performance by enhancingsystemic coordination of academic resources. In addition, Dr. Ramos has served as a consultant in a varietyof contexts investigating a range of issues including program effectiveness, organizational communication,assessment and public policy, and research methodology.ENRIQUE BARBIERIHe received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University in 1988. He joined TulaneUniversity where he served on the faculty of the Electrical Engineering Department (1988-96) and was atenured Associate Professor and Chair of the Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Department Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of New Mexico

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George D. Gray

New Mexico – Albuquerque Copyright ©2008, American Society for Engineering Educationindustrial advisory boards as well as industrial support. Two significant physical issuesthat must be resolved initially are space and equipment needs to support hands-on realworld manufacturing activities. Qualified and experienced faculty is also vital for thisprogram to be totally successful and worthwhile for the students.Collective cooperation is vital when trying to initiate the development of acomprehensive manufacturing skills lab. Often, there are several labs scattered across theengineering programs that potentially could be utilized. However, the best case scenariowould incorporate all of the resources into one fully functional lab

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2008 GSW

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Jerry K. Keska

should be attainable somewhere on the Internet. Inselecting resources, two key issues are important: (1) the use of objective and accurate references,and (2) access to state-of-the-art information. Two of the most important sources of information inthis case are refereed journal papers and patents. The student’s limited subject knowledge, coupledwith a plethora of relatively accessible scientific (and pseudoscientific) information on the Internet,creates a situation, which demands the intense involvement of knowledgeable faculty during theteaching process. This includes defining rigorous criteria for the evaluation of quality resourcesbefore they are used in the learning and application processes. Due to the broad spectrum ofmaterials available

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2008 GSW

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Farrokh Attarzadeh; Enrique Barbieri; Miguel A Ramos; Mayuri Mahajan; Vishal Naik; Aditya Gupta

canhelp the curriculum remain current and in focus. IntroductionThe Capstone class in its present format can accommodate a maximum of 48 students.It is presently a one full semester long course. The students work in teams of four or elsea team of three students (due to enrollment issues). Students are provided the freedom tochoose their team members. Two student surveys are conducted during the start of the Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of New Mexico – Albuquerque Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering Educationsession – a self-assessment survey and a time block survey. The first survey is a

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Carolyn Muska; Benjamin S. Kelley; Leigh Ann Marshall

students and is the university’slargest professional component. In contrast, Baylor’s School of Engineering and Computer Science(ECS) has a relatively short history, and comprises around five percent of the undergraduatepopulation. ECS attracts the highest quality undergraduate students among the degree-granting unitsand is Baylor’s highest ranking academic unit as measured by U.S. News and World Report survey. Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of New Mexico – Albuquerque Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering EducationThe Office of Career Services is the university’s administrative unit charged with “enhancing thecareer

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2008 GSW

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Kenneth W. Van Treuren; Ian A. Gravagne

knowledge about energy and simultaneously to examine the social,political, and economic impact of energy-related decisions. Not only do engineers and scientistsneed to be smart concerning energy, but so do politicians, business professionals, journalists andhomemakers. Everyone will eventually engage energy issues on several levels – in personalfinancial decisions, as part of a local workforce consuming energy to provide a good or serviceto society, and as one member of the global population bearing the impact of energy on worldenvironments and economies. This desire to educate the students and general public led directlyto the proposal to develop an “Energy Room” at Baylor University. The Mayborn Museum ProjectThe