Conference Session

Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics Instruction

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vladimir Sheyman, Wayne State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

experiments.Integration of the expression (16) in the limits from 0 to τ and from Xcr to X gives X = X eq + ( X cr − X eq ) exp(− χNτ ) (20)The solution of eq. (17) to determine the temperature of the drying material togetherwith conditions (19) and (20) is  y  a A*t   a  A*  t o − t  − B  a  f  y  − 1 −  f   y υ = υ1  −  − 1  (21) y  χNa   y   χ N (a − 1)  a −1   1  1   y  1

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Who Should Teach the BOK

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald Harichandran, Michigan State University

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Civil Engineering

, how does the department teach design courses to meet ABET needs? 3. Your recent hires (assistant professors) are listed below. For each person, please indicate: (a) The person’s potential to secure a P.E. license soon after tenure (b) The ability of the person to teach design courses in their disciplineIn general, department chairs indicated that there has been a change over time with respect tofaculty hiring practices and that the number of faculty with the ability to teach traditional designin on the decline. Nevertheless, the department chairs tended to be optimistic with respect to theability of their faculty to teach design courses and obtain the P.E. license. I paraphrased the re-sponse from them, reviewed degrees

Conference Session

Marketing Engineering to Minority Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Willie Ofosu, Pennsylvania State University-Wilkes-Barre; Ahmed Abdul-Rahman, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology; Emmanuel Nutsuklo, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology; Michael Brenu Osae, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

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Minorities in Engineering

AC 2007-626: INCORPORATING EQUATORIAL ENVIRONMENTALCONDITIONS INTO AN APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGYWillie Ofosu, Pennsylvania State University-Wilkes-Barre Willie K. Ofosu Dr. Willie K. Ofosu is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology at Pennsylvania State University. He teaches telecommunications, wireless systems, networking, optoelectronics and analog and digital electronic at the Wilkes-Barre campus. He is a member of IEEE, IEE (England), and a Chartered Engineer (CEng) of England. He is currently involved in international activities in cooperation with some faculty members at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana. He is an advocate

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics and Global Issues

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roobik Gharabagi, St. Louis University

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Engineering Ethics

., “Teaching Engineering Ethics a Case Study Approach”, Center for Study of Ethicsin Society, Western Michigan University.7. Joseph T. Bpcharth, “Contracts and Legal Environment for Engineers and Architects”, Mc Graw Hill8. Applied Engineering Ethics, Case of the Month Club, www.murdough.ttu.edu/FP.cfm.9. Alan D. Wilcox, “Engineering Design for Electrical Engineers”, Prentice Hall, 1990.10. B. Hyman, “Fundamentals of Engineering Design”, Prentice Hall, 1998.11. M.W. Martin, R. Schizinger, “Ethics in Engineering”, McGraw-Hill, 1996. Page 12.413.6

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Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Kean, California Polytechnic State University; Glen Thorncroft, California Polytechnic State University

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Mechanical Engineering

. Page 12.432.7 Table 1. Average GPAs for Students in Thermal Engineering, Grouped by Which Faculty Member the Students had for Thermodynamics (the prerequisite). GPA 95% CI n= Prof. A 1.4 0.5 19 Prof. B 1.9 0.4 28 Prof. C 2.1 0.3 43 Prof. D 2.1 0.4 22 Prof. E 2.2 0.3 17

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers – I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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R. Mark Nelms, Auburn University; Regina Halpin, Program Evaluation and Assessment

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

they were “doing”science, it is essential to provide the teachers an opportunity to discover for themselves how theteaching standards are applicable to their own teaching and classroom methods. Facultyplanning to implement a similar workshop should note that the programmatic design should startwith the appropriate teaching standards and the content should be selected to align with thestandards; not the reverse. The curriculum standards checklist used for the curriculum standardintegration portion of this workshop is given below.NSTA Content Standards, Grades 5 – 82Standard A: Science as Inquiry___Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry___Understandings about scientific inquiryStandard B: Physical Science___Physical and chemical properties

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mireille Battikha, Consultant

AC 2007-729: CASE-BASE FOR DELIVERING INTEGRATED EDUCATION WITHMULTIMEDIA DECISION-SUPPORTMireille Battikha, Consultant Page 12.346.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Case-Base for Delivering Integrated Education with Multimedia Decision-SupportAbstractThis paper illustrates the use of a multimedia case-based system designed to enhance the learningprocess by providing decision-support for integrated education in construction engineering aswell as with other engineering disciplines. Sections of digital videos related to constructionmethods and materials, schedules as well as design alternatives have been collected to

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula III

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado at Boulder

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Environmental Engineering

. Page 12.987.8Bibliography1. Hagenberger, M., B. Engerer, and D. Tougaw. 2006. Revision of a first-semester course to focus onfundamentals of engineering. ASEE. Paper 2006-1360.2. Hampe, M. and S. Wolf. 2006. How to provide first-year-students with a really good start into their studyprogram. ASEE. Paper 2006-1284.3. Elzey, Dana. 2006. Teaching Intro to Engineering in Context – UVA Engineering’s New Cornerstone. ASEE.Paper 2006-1574.4. Patterson, Kurt. 2006. Critical connections: a first-semester course in environmental engineering. ASEE.Paper 2006-1102.5. Carlson, L.E., J.F. Sullivan, A.J. Bedard, D.M. Etter, and A.R. Pleszkun. 1995. First Year EngineeringProjects: An Interdisciplinary, Hands-On Introduction to Engineering. ASEE. Session

Conference Session

Sustainable Engineering

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stanley Greenwald, New York Institute of Technology

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Environmental Engineering

economic development, the peak demand of the gridwill reach about 17512 MW by 2013 and will exceed its Dependable Capacity by 2007. Due to this, therewill b e a need for more power plants to supply the grid. Electric supply comes from a number of powerplants operated by the National Power Corporation and Private Independent Power Producers in theisland.Proposed Power PlantPresently, the Luzon Power Grid has enough power supply to energize its customers, one of which isQuezon City. The proposal to create a municipal Solid Waste power plant within the area of the city isnot intended to make the city independent in its power needs. Rather, the construction of the plant hopesto put more power on the grid as older power plants are retired with the

Conference Session

Teaching Innovation in Architectural Engineering I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allen Estes, California Polytechnic State University; Hector Estrada, University of the Pacific

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

adequate communication skills, and ABET specifically requires this as part of the outcomes assessment criteria. Admittedly, some universities include their communication courses on a larger list of electives that were included as humanities electives. • B: Humanities – most programs had some breadth requirement that included courses in political science, economics, history, psychology, sociology, etc. • C: Math and Science – these courses included math (calculus, statistics, differential equations), basic science (chemistry, physics, biology, ecology), and computer science where the emphasis is on programming or computer theory rather than CAD drawing or computer applications. • D

Conference Session

Aspirational Visions of Civil Engineering in 2025 & Policy 465

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Russell, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Gerry Galloway, Univ of Maryland; Thomas Lenox, American Society of Civil Engineers; James O'Brien, American Society of Civil Engineers

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Civil Engineering

humanities, economics, political science, language and/or interdisciplinary technical subjects is not in the best interest of producing engineers able to communicate with the public, able to engage in a global engineering marketplace or trained to be life long learners.” (NAE 2005)The CAP^3 is actively engaged on many fronts as the implementation plan for PolicyStatement 465 moves forward. Referring to the master plan and the description of thecurrent and on-going committee, we have five broad goals to accomplish over the nextfive years. The goals are: 1. Secure a state to adopt B+30 for the educational requirements to be licensed; 2. Publish the Second Edition of Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge by February

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II: Practical Perspectives on Teaching and Assessment

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luke Niiler; David Beams

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Liberal Education

, Salt Lake City, UT, June 20-23, 2004.2. J.S. Norback and J.R. Hardin. “Integrating Workforce Communication into Senior Design Tutorial.” IEEETransactions on Professional Communication, v 48 n 4 (December 2005): 413-426.3. N. Sommers and N. Saltz. “The Novice as Expert: Writing the Freshman Year.” College Composition andCommunication v 56 n 1 (September 2004). 124-149.4. E. Lindemann. A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers, 4th edition. Oxford UP, 2001.5. J. A. Reither. “Writing and Knowing: Toward Redefining the Writing Process.” College English 47 (October1985), 620-28.6. P. Hirsch, H.D. Smith, G. Birol, B. Yalvac, J. Casler, J. Anderson, and J. Troy. Establishing School-Wide

Conference Session

Cognitive and Motivational Issues in Student Performance I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dawn Williams, Howard University; Lorraine Fleming, Howard University; Marcus Jones, Howard University; Ashley Griffin, Howard University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

.” Donna furthercompares her work ethic to her American peers: “Like one of my American friends, hewas like, ‘Doesn’t matter’, you know, and I’m fighting down my B’s and getting B’s, anddoing everything that I can to not get a B….so when they say they’ll get a C whereas formost of us … C’s aren’t enough, …, we don’t want to even see that… You could tellbasically by their mentality in class and by the way they deal with work and assignmentsand stuff like that.”The acknowledgement of these differences was also cited by the African Americanengineering students. Morris, an African American civil engineering student discussedgender differences, but made special mention of African Caribbean female students.“…a lot of females don’t choose this major… So

Conference Session

Implementing the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge into Courses and Curricula

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Lynch, Dartmouth College; William Kelly, Catholic University of America; Manoj Jha, Morgan State University; Ronald Harichandran, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

global market influenced by geopolitics. Sterile re-sources are dealth with extensively in resource economics (e.g., e.g. Conradxxi Clark, xxii Neh-rerxxiii).Renewable Living Resources: In this category we include fisheries and forests, and living popu- Page 12.846.9lations in general. All share the possibility of multiple steady states, where harvesting balances Page 8 of 18growth. The search for good sustainable states involves the search for: a) control of the harvest-ing; b) monitoring mechanisms of the resource itself; c) a theory which explains natural variabil

Conference Session

Preparing Engineering Students for International Practice

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bob Lahidji, Eastern Michigan University; Jianhua Wang, Eastern Michigan University; Walter Tucker, Eastern Michigan University

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International

, March 5, 7). The insidious charms of foreign investment.6. Economist (2005b, March 5, 16). Rivals and partners.7. Mehlman (2004). Assistance secretary technology policy united states of commerceOutsourcing and the future of American competitiveness. Offshore.8. Bartels, F. L. (n.d.) Outsourcing markets in services: International business trends, patternsand emerging issues. Vienna: UNIDO.9. Bengtsson, L. (2001). Analysis of a learning dilemma. Outsourcing Manufacturing.10. Mehlman, B. (2005). Outsourcing and the future of American competitiveness11. Bryce, D., & Useem, M. (1998). The impact of corporate outsourcing on company value.European Management.12. Bardhan, A., & Kroll, C. (2003). The new wave of outsourcing. Fisher Center

Conference Session

Curricular Innovations

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2007-220: EXPERIENCES AND EXPECTATIONS OF DOCTORALINSTITUTION FACULTY COLLABORATING ACROSS DISCIPLINESMaura Borrego, Virginia Tech MAURA BORREGO is an assistant professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech and 2005 Rigorous Research in Engineering Education evaluator. Dr. Borrego holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University. Her current research interests center around interdisciplinary collaboration in engineering and engineering education, including studies of the collaborative relationships between engineers and education researchers. She was recently awarded a CAREER grant from NSF to study interdisciplinarity in engineering graduate

Conference Session

Two Year Colleges

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

Non-Hispanic, Black 5 Non-Hispanic, Black 4 Non-Hispanic, Black 2 Non-Hispanic, White 10 Non-Hispanic, White 8 Non-Hispanic, White 7 Page 12.1426.3 Table 1: Enrollment analysisProgram ResultsAll 29 students completing the 2006 Program received productive grades and college credit forboth courses. The distribution of final grades is presented in Table 2 below. Productive A B C D F W

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Stephen Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Eric Durant, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2007-596: UNDERSTANDING ABET OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOMESOwe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. Petersen is Department Chair and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He is a former Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories and received his Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and an ABET EAC program evaluator in Electrical Engineering.Stephen Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. Stephen Williams is Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He received the Ph.D. degree

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Visco, Tennessee Technological University; Saravanan Swaminathan, Tennessee Technological University; Lisa Zagumny, Tennessee Technological Univesity; Holly Anthony, Tennessee Technological University

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Educational Research and Methods

Swaminathan is currently working on his Ph.D degree in Chemical Engineering at the Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN 38505. His research is to critically evaluate the pure component parameterization methodologies in equation of state modeling and their effect on mixture phase predictions. He received his B.Tech degree from University of Madras (India) and his MS degree from Tennessee Technological University.Lisa Zagumny, Tennessee Technological Univesity Lisa Zagumny is Assistant Professor of Qualitative Research, Educational Anthropology, Foundations, Tennessee Tech University, Box 5042, Cookeville, TN 38505; email lzagumny@tntech.edu. Her research interests overlap with a concern

Conference Session

Aspirational Visions of Civil Engineering in 2025 & Policy 465

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Fridley, University of Alabama; Richard Anderson, Somat Engineering, Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

American Society of Civil Engineers supports the attainmentof a Body of Knowledge (BOK) for entry into the practice of civil engineering at the professionallevel.” To promulgate an aspirational vision, support Policy 465, and be successfullyimplemented, the civil engineering BOK must specifically define the knowledge, skills, andattitudes of the future civil engineer. This paper describes the inclusive process being used todevelop the second edition of the BOK expected for the future practice of civil engineering. Thesecond edition of the BOK (BOK2) builds on the first edition of the BOK, which was released in2004. The BOK2 is the foundation on which tomorrow’s civil engineering accreditation criteriaand individual program curricula will be

Conference Session

MIND - Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibironke Lawal, Virginia Commonwealth University

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Minorities in Engineering

. W., Parrott, S. A., Korn, W. S. & Sax, L. J. (1997). The American freshman: Thirty-year trends. Los Angeles: Higher Education Research Institute, UCLA.6. Vetter, B., & Baboo, E. (1989). Professional women and minorities: a manpower data resource service. 6th ed. Washington D.C.: Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology.7. AAUW (American Association of University Women). 2002. Tech-Savvy: Educating Girls in the New Computer Age. Washington, D.C.: American Association of University Women Educational Foundation.8. Cooper, J., Weaver, K. D. (2003). Gender and Computers, Mahwah, New Jersey, Lawrence Erlbaum.9. Oakes, J. (1990). Opportunities, Achievement, and Choice: Women and Minority Students in

Conference Session

Manufacturing Engineering Technology Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Furterer, East Carolina University; Sandra Furterer, University of Central Florida

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Page 12.906.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Instructional Strategies and Tools to Teach Six Sigma to Engineering Technology Undergraduate StudentsAbstractThis paper presents innovative instructional strategies and tools to teach Six Sigma toEngineering Technology undergraduate students. Six Sigma is an improvement methodologyfocusing on understanding and reducing variation in processes. Many students can easily learnand even apply the basic quality tools in a separate and non-integrated manner, but the realchallenge is to help the students learn and apply the tools of Six Sigma in a synthesized way toattain the true power of an integrated approach. This paper will discuss the

Conference Session

Critical Success Factors for Technopolis Creation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carmo D'Cruz, Florida Tech; Frank Kinney, Florida Tech; Vaidy Vaidyanathan; Tom O'Neal, University of Central Florida; Clifford Bragdon, Florida Tech; Dennis Kulonda, Florida Tech; Grisselle Centeno, University of South Florida; Jose Zayas-Castro, University of South Florida; Lynda Weatherman, Space Caost EDC

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Tech he was Executive Director of the Technological Research and Development Authority of the State of FloridaClifford Bragdon, Florida Tech Dr. Clifford Bragdon is the Dean of the University College at Florida Tech. He has extensive natioan and international experience in creation of Aeropolis communities.P.N. Vaidy Vaidyanathan, University of Central Florida Pallavoor N. Vaidy Vaidyanathan is the Assistant VP for Research at the University of Central Florida.Tom O'Neal, University of Central Florida Dr. Tom O'Neal is the Associate VP for Research at the University of Central Florida and the CEO of the UCF Technology Incubator.Dennis Kulonda, Florida Tech Dennis Kulonda is a

Conference Session

Building Knowledge Based Economies: the Role of Industry-University-Government Partnerships

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria M. Larrondo Petrie, Florida Atlantic University; Clement Sankat, University of the West Indies; Roberto Loran, Universidad del Turabo

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International

regional/international one. 7. There is a possibility of resistance to foreign scrutiny. 8. There is consensus that accreditation should allow mobility. There are various mechanisms for this, including signatory status of the Washington Accord. 9. There are two alternatives for achieving global recognition: a. Develop a national/regional accreditation system, and then sign an accord, b. Adopt an existing accreditation system (e.g. British or American) 10. There is a possibility of incest in national accreditation systems, especially in small countries. 11. There is a certain degree of difficulty in joining consortia such as the Washington Accord; even more so for individual countries. 12. Various

Conference Session

Curricular Innovations

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Manuel Jimenez, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Ana Nieves, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Cristina Pomales-Garcia, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez; Nayda Santiago Santiago, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; José Vega, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Vilma Lopez, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez

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Educational Research and Methods

Cornell University. The study was part of a research investigating the Page 12.197.4effects of wireless computing in collaborative learning environments. Two groups of studentsheard the same lecture; group A was allowed to open their laptops while group B was not.Immediately after the lecture a test of traditional measures of memory for lecture content wasperformed. Investigators found that students in group A suffered decrements in informationretention compared to those in group B. Statistical significant differences were found in therecall and total scores. However, differences only approach statistical significance in therecognition part of

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Meyer, Clarkson University; Dick Pratt, Clarkson University

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Liberal Education

outcomes, Clarkson University has adopted anoutcomes based set of graduation requirements. .The Clarkson Common Experience unifies eachstudent's learning in a major field of study with learning expectations that broaden the student'sunderstanding of our modern world. Graduates are expected to meet outcomes in fundamentalacademic abilities, in personal and social development, and in prescribed areas of knowledge.While some outcomes may be achieved in a single course, the Common Experience Curriculumidentifies four components that serve as common threads through multiple courses. These are:(a) learning to communicate effectively, (b) developing an appreciation for diversity in bothworking and living environments, (c) recognizing the importance of

Conference Session

Climate Issues for Women Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yong Zeng, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign; John R. Duncan, Clemson University

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Women in Engineering

inengineering? and (2) What are the factors that attract women to and help them to persist in acareer in engineering? The methods consisted of a search of related research to identify probablyfactors followed by qualitative interviews with program persisters and switchers. The mostfrequently cited factors were selected for inclusion in the interview protocol for the qualitativeportion of this study. They were: (a) faculty support, (b) class environment, (c) departmentenvironment, (d) attraction to another discipline, (e) parental encouragement, and (f) self-confidence. The result was an evaluation of the relative merits of the factors for persisters andswitchers. Additionally a new metaphor relating to force field analysis is proposed. Thismetaphor was

Conference Session

Engineering in Elementary Schools

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Holmes, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Jill Rulfs, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; John Orr, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

goals of the Partnership for ImplementingEngineering Education were achieved and will hopefully be used to assist many educators in thefuture as technology and engineering become increasingly important throughout the world.References1. B. Mathias-Riegel, “Engineering that’s elementary.” ASEE Prism, Mar 2001.2. E. Barney Smith, R. Miller, “Education by Design: Connecting Engineering and Elementary Education.” ASEE Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI, January 2006.3. J. E. Miller, J. J. Rencis, “A University/Public School Partnership in K-6 Engineering Education.” ASEE 2004 Annual Conference & Exposition.4. K. Bush, J. Gray, M. Holmes, K. Kosinski, J. Orr, L. Razzaq, J. Rulfs, , “How do you Teach Engineering in Kindergarten and First Grade

Conference Session

Teaching Innovation in Architectural Engineering I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gouranga Banik, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Architectural

ofteaching and effectiveness of professors. A research study was conducted in SPSU ConstructionDepartment to examine the teaching effectiveness. The spatial transferability of the facultyevaluation mechanisms, without regard to spatial socio-cultural differences, is discussed in thisstudy based on the collected data and following a thorough literature review and statisticalanalysis. The result of this study is the extension of the previous year study. It was found thatstudents’ GPA has direct relations with their perceptions regarding teaching evaluations.Students with higher GPAs are against missing lectures by faculty and disapprove the acceptanceof a lower class performance by faculty. Instead, they favor such course and faculty traits ashaving

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mieke Schuurman, Pennsylvania State University; Dennis Gouran, Pennsylvania State University; Laura L. Pauley, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

fourhighest rated competencies were organizing the communication, displaying sufficient generalknowledge about the topic, showing confidence, and adjusting to the audience. Manypublications have described competencies that students should acquire to become goodcommunicators 13, 14, 15. Based on the employer input and communication skills literature, webelieve that the following competencies are core to oral communications: (a) Content-development skills, i.e., competence in ideation generation, amplification, and organization; (b) Presentation skills, i.e., competence in generating interest, sustaining attention, using appropriate language, and being clear 14; (c) Receptive skills, i.e., listening and interpretive competence; and (d