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2005 GSW

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M. M. Darwish; M. H. Akram; B. Green

through the class session. This is achieved mainly by small group exercises. At some point during the class, students have been told to get into groups of three or four and short question or problem is assigned to the groups. After a suitable period has elapsed teams are called to present the solutions. Calling on student than asking volunteers are essential to make sure all students are involved in the thinking process. • Analytical, critical and creative thinking is provoked. Students were asked to write a strategy to solution of a problem, or complete the solution of problem has been half worked by the instructor in the class, or asked to find alternative

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2005 GSW

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Tariq A. Khraishi

ways to challenge their students to go beyond basics learned in theclassroom. It is perceived that such experiments will instill more enthusiasm in studentscompared to traditional course delivery. References 1. National Research Council, 2000, “How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School,” National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. 2. Woods, D. R., 1994, “Problem-Based Learning: How to Gain the Most from PBL,” Publisher: Donald R. Woods, Waterdown, ON. 3. Edens, K., 2000, “Preparing Problem Solvers for the 21st Century Through Problem-Based Learning,” College Teaching, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 55-60. 4. Major, C. H., Palmer, B., 2001, “Assessing the

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2005 GSW

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Thomas J. Krueger; Ted Aanstoos; Ronald E. Barr

communicate in written, oral and graphical forms. (g)7. Ability to work in teams and apply interpersonal skills in engineering contexts. (d)8. Ability and desire to lay a foundation for continued learning beyond the baccalaureate degree. (i)9. Awareness of professional issues in engineering practice, including ethical responsibility, safety, the creative enterprise, and loyalty and commitment to the profession. (f)10. Awareness of contemporary issues in engineering practice, including economic, social, political, and environmental issues and global impact. (h, j)* Mapping to ABET (a) through (k) outcomes The Freshman Introduction to Engineering CourseMost engineering programs offer a freshman “Introduction to Engineering” course

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2005 GSW

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Kevin M. Nickels

Department at Trinity University is a unique one. We offer a broad-based curriculum with a grounding in the “fundamentals” of electrical, mechanical, and chemicalengineering, along with some specialization through disciplinary electives. Students earn a B.S. inEngineering Science, and customize their program with help from their academic advisor. Moredetailed information on the program is given in a paper by Uddin1.The “fundamentals” courses, required of all engineering majors, include (in the electronicsportion) Electric Circuits, Electric Circuits Laboratory, Electronics I, and Electronics I Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi

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2005 GSW

Authors

John W. Hansen

, informationtechnology, communications, design technology (engineering), the social sciences, and thetechnological systems. Through an integrated instructional design process the STEM CareerExpressway equips students with the science, technology, engineering, and mathematicsknowledge and skills required to prepare for high skill, high wage, and high demand majors andcareers. IntroductionTechnology Education, as the academic subject area responsible for developing the technologicalliteracy of Texas’ children, has a unique mission that goes beyond the preparation of students toenter the workforce. Success in the 21st century will depend on our students’ abilities to use,manage, design, and evaluate technology that fosters

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2005 GSW

Authors

Zhenyu Zhang; Yeshwanth Sampath; Dr. Rita Caso; Amy Collins

enrolled could predict 33.9%” more of the variancein fall semester GPA than the 6.5% that a combination of five student characteristicscould predict, and these factors, not including when schedule changes were made “couldsignificantly predict the odds of attrition beyond what the student characteristics couldpredict”15. MethodologyHypothesesHypotheses are developed to test whether significant academic behavioral differencesexist between the traditional and non-traditional engineering student segments. Thehypotheses serve to comparatively investigate academic behavior characteristics, whichare associated with success, across a set of population subdivisions. The population issubdivided by gender, race/ethnicity

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2005 GSW

Authors

Jignesh Rathod; Farouk G. Attia

with their individual quality assurance systemsrequirements. The existence of multiple quality systems for such suppliers may causelesser flexibility, more costs and delays in shipments, greater lead times, etc., all of whichare sources for reduced efficiency of the quality system standards.Similar to the concepts outlined in the ISO 9000 family of Quality Assurance Systems,the automotive manufacturers worldwide through an international task force haveformulated a unified quality management specification ISO/TS 16949: 2002, for theirsuppliers, based on the guidelines of ISO 9001 systems. Before developing this unifiedspecification, each of the manufacturers had their individual quality managementspecification for the suppliers to comply with