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2004 GSW

Authors

Ms. LaQuasha M. Morgan; Ms. Faye Moore,; Dr. David A. Kirkpatrick

concerns about the college experience in general andour department in particular. In addition, we have assisted another honor society oncampus by educating freshmen on the vast career opportunities of technology majors.In the future, we plan to take a leadership role in developing and sustaining a family-oriented atmosphere among the department faculty and students. The faculty in ourdepartment has strongly supported our new student recognition program. In this, we havestarted recognizing scholars who may not have the high GPA’s, but have a greatcommitment in the academic arena and have performed services to our department. Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas Tech

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2004 GSW

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren

understand how this topic was integrated into thecurriculum. Some students commented it depended on the class. Other comments aboutadding more “real world” experiences were also given by the students. This is clearly anarea in which the curriculum can improve. EGO 10 covers a similar topic, contemporaryissues. The students commented that exposure to this topic should be increased in thecurriculum. They also said some professors are doing a better job than others. The sureycould identify an opportunity to learn from faculty that are already incorporatingcontemporary issues into their classes. EGOs 11 and 12 generally reflect the confidenceand exposure to situations that the students experienced. The comments centered onpossible software packages that

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2004 GSW

Authors

Jim Farison

recognition as a ConstituentCommittee, the MECC now has additional resources available, including its listing on the ASEEwebsite and eligibility to host technical sessions at the annual conference. A call for papers waspublished in the September 2003 issue (page 55) of ASEE Prism. MECC also distributed itsCFP to its own informal mailing list and posted it on its new website.A full program with four technical sessions and a business meeting is scheduled for the 2004Annual ASEE Conference in Salt Lake City. The MECC schedule for that conference is: Monday, June 21 1171 7:00 - 8:15 am Multidisciplinary Courses and Assessment 1471 12:30 - 2:00 pm Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs 1671 4:30 - 6

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2004 GSW

Authors

Paul Ruchhoeft

,smart materials, bio-medical engineering and micro-medical systems, etc. These areasare considerably more “high-tech” than electrical circuit bread-boarding, antenna design,engine testing, HVAC systems testing and classic controls which are some of the hands-on technologies utilized in undergraduate laboratories and design projects. Also, some ofthese “advanced” topics are not taught as part of the core undergraduate curriculum, noreven as part of special electives. The issue is then how to provide exposure to theseemerging technologies to engineering students without introducing new courses. Wehave been attempting to solve this problem through our interdisciplinary capstone designcourse with the help of faculty working in these emerging

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2004 GSW

Authors

Wayne J. Zimmermann

Computer Science has taken the position implied 3. Placement service by this factor. Based on the belief that by 4. Course offering offering the appropriate courses retention would be improved we began the process of creating a 5. Faculty  small collection of courses designed to teach and 6. Laboratory illustrate the elementary concepts and viewpoints 7. Financial assistance related to engineering. For TWU this approach 8. Student’s desires seemed to be the best and most feasible for addressing the issues linked to retention. Since

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2004 GSW

Authors

Ronald Barr; Marcus Pandy; Anthony Petrosino; Barbara Austin

challenges) • Post-Test Group F (Trial) • Post-Affect Survey • Post-Outcomes Survey • Topics Matrix Description of the VaNTH Biomechanics Modules The objective of the VaNTH coalition is to develop a new set of instructional materialsthat emphasize the HPL learning theory. As part of the strategy, a modular structure for eachidentified bioengineering domain was implemented. In the Biomechanics domain, the threemodules listed in Table 1 were available for testing