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Wayne N.P. Hung; V. Jorge Leon

graduating engineers with necessary soft-skill and hard-skill to fit the global manufacturingscenario and to meet both short-term and long-term industrial needs. This paper presents therecent approach in manufacturing education at TAMU and compares it with other educationalprograms. 3000 Total 2500 Manufacturing # Laid-off Events 2000 1500 1000 500 0 Sep-95

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Aiman S. Kuzmar, City of Corpus Christi, TX

are generally supportive in thisregard in various ways. Many universities in fact request continuous teaching improvementsthrough their promotion and tenure process. Further, state and federal authorities have createdvarious programs to introduce and implement new ways of instruction to enhance undergraduateeducation. Various national organizations aim towards this objective. For instance, theAmerican Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) is fully dedicated to promote engineeringand engineering technology education.1 The ASEE convenes an annual conference andexposition exclusively for this purpose. The ASEE makes the creation and implementation ofnew effective teaching techniques and new teaching trends one of its conference topics

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Ross Kastor; Robert Askew; Richard Bannerot; Paul Ruchhoeft; Elena Poltavtchenko; Colley Hodges; Chad Wilson; Cari-Sue Wilmot

, American Society for Engineering Education“Writing Consultants,” or peer writing coaches, who provide one-on-one tutoring. TheseWriting Consultants are full-time students, primarily undergraduates, who havedemonstrated high aptitude in writing and leadership skills. In response to increasingfaculty interest in discipline-specific writing, the Writing Center created a Writing In theDisciplines (WID) program in Fall 2002. Staff in the WID program work with instructorsto intervene in courses across the campus in which communications skills are stressed.The rationale for the intervention is that general composition courses cannot adequatelyprepare students for discipline-specific writing. (More information on the UH WritingCenter and its WID Program

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

. Criterion 2 states that engineering degree programs must define a set ofeducational objectives, promote those objectives to external interests, and have in place amechanism to evaluate the success of their objectives. Although ABET was reluctant at first todefine what was meant by educational objectives, recent agreement has resulted in the followingdefinition: Educational Objectives are broad statements that describe the career and professionalaccomplishments that the program is preparing graduates to achieve several years aftermatriculation from the BS degree. Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005

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Amir Karimi

and these criteria(b) a process based on the needs of the program's various constituencies in which the objectives are determined and periodically evaluated(c) an educational program, including a curriculum that prepares students to attain program outcomes and that fosters accomplishments of graduates that are consistent with these objectives(d) a process of ongoing evaluation of the extent to which these objectives are attained, the result of which shall be used to develop and improve the program outcomes so that graduates are better prepared to attain the objectives.Criterion 3. Program Outcomes and Assessment: Although institutions may use differentterminology, for purposes of Criterion 3, program outcomes are statements

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Pete Hylton

design projects and their design review presentations.Thus the students leave their final semester with two things. They have a betterunderstanding of the inter-related nature of the various topics they have studied for fouryears, and how these topics fit into the overall design effort of a new project. They alsohave exposure to a new concept which is gaining popularity in the industrialenvironment, thus making them more marketable upon graduation. Implementation StrategiesRegardless of school or curriculum, TRM can be integrated easily into any CapstoneDesign Course. The TRM process consists of four phases, Risk Identification, RiskAssessment, Risk Mitigation, and Risk Management. The Risk Identification phase

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Vanessa Svihla; Ronald Barr; Marcus Pandy; Anthony Petrosino

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education(see later Table 7). The students then performed the challenge(s) posed on the CD in the form ofthe Legacy Cycle. After the completion of each topical area, the students took a post-test and apost-affect survey. Three times during the semester (Pre, Mid, and Post), a student outcomessurvey was administered. All tests and exercises were graded using uniform grading rubrics. Atthe end of the semester, the students also completed a final report that included a learningeffectiveness survey for each of the eight challenges and a matrix that mapped generalBiomechanics topics to the modules. Table 1 summarizes this methodology. Table 1: Summary of Classroom Instruction and Testing

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M.K. Balasubramanya

Session T3D3 Engineering ethics as part of the core course in professional ethics M.K. Balasubramanya Department of Physical and Life Sciences College of Science and Technology Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi AbstractProfessional ethics is taught as a required general education (core) course in manyundergraduate programs. We describe a model for collaborative teaching of professionalethics by a team that consists of (1) philosophers and (2) science and technologyprofessionals. The model requires the

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Daniel J. Burroughs

. Therefore, we do not wantto create a program where we further train students to use a specific set of tools. Whilethe students in our program are not focused on the theoretical side of engineering, they doneed a broad enough education to be able to apply knowledge from one situation and setof tools to another.This leads us to our four main goals of the program. First, for a graduating student to besuccessful, they must have a workable set of immediately applicable knowledge. Theymust have an understanding and familiarity with the basic tools of their trade. This canonly be obtained through hands-on training. Second, they must have broad enoughknowledge so that they may apply their skills in a variety of situations. Particularly insecurity

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Kevin M. Nickels

mainprogrammable hardware used for the course. Design entry using graphical components is done inthe beginning of the course, with the majority of the projects utilizing VHDL (Very High SpeedHardware Hardware Description Language). Projects relate directly to the course material, andinclude a VGA (Video Graphics Array - video game, a 10-instruction simple computer, and a line-following robot. The course ends with case studies of contemporary digital designs. In this paper,the topics added and dropped are described, along with potential and actual repercussions onstudent learning. Background and Context of CourseTrinity University is a small private liberal arts and sciences University in San Antonio Texas.The Engineering Science

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Yavuz S. Tunc; Malur N. Srinivasan

developing an introductory course on nanomaterials totraditional mechanical engineering students.Quantum MechanicsThe principle and importance of quantum mechanics is succinctly described in Todd’s QuantumIntro [4]. Quantum mechanics was developed because classical physics could not explain someexperimental results obtained at the atomic level. As opposed to classical physics, quantummechanics can describe the discreteness of energy, the wave-particle duality of light and matter,quantum tunneling, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and the spin of a particle. No doubt themechanical engineering students will have been exposed to these topics in elementary physicscourses, but in general, will not have had the opportunity to apply quantum mechanics

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Jim Farison

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Special Topics in Medical Imaging Research, a graduate course in BMEThe challenge the author faced in his desire to make this area of study available to Baylor studentswas how to package an elective course that would appeal to a sufficient number of students tojustify the course. After an initial offering in fall 2002 under the department’s EGR 4396 SpecialTopics in Engineering label, the current course, EGR 4353 Imaging Formation and Processing, wasapproved and first offered in fall 2004. While definitely not overenrolled, it did attract six students,sufficient to proceed in an initial offering. It is that experience that is reviewed in this paper, in aformat that is intended not

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Mythili Vajjalla; Kashinath Kumar; Enno “Ed” Koehn

experience in the design, scheduling, and estimating offacilities. In addition, he has authored/co-authored over 200 papers and presentations in engineeringeducation and the general areas of civil and the construction engineering. Dr. Koehn is a member of ASEE,AACE International, ASCE, NSPE, Chi Epsilon, Tau Beta Pi, and Sigma Xi and its registered ProfessionalEngineer and Surveyor. Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf- Southwest Annual Conference Texas A &M University-Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationMYTHILI VAJJALLAMythili Vajjalla is a graduate student in the Civil Engineering Department, Lamar University, Beaumont,TX. She has served as

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

whenGraduates Count-Measuring Graduation Rates under the High Stakes of NCLB, TheUrban Institute, Education Policy Center, www.ui.urban.org.2. Greene, J. P. and Forester, G. P. (2002). Public High School Graduation and CollegeReadiness Rates in the United States, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research,www.mahattan-institute.org.3. Alejandro Scalise, Mary Besterfield-Sacre, Larry Shuman, and Harvey Wolfe (2000).First Term Probation: Models for Identifying High Risk Students, 3oth ASEE/ASEEFrontiers in Education Conference, Oct 18-21, 2000, Kansas City, MO. Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005 American

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Chandrika Rao; Carol L. Binkerd

they learn in a classroom environment and its reflection in professional applications. In addition, this collaboration bridges the gap between academia and industry. This semester was spent towards building a positive working relationship with industry. As the course is offered only once a calendar year, we will implement the plans generated by these ideas in Fall 2005. Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Future Approaches: 1. Guest lecturers from local companies: Invite the project manager or a company representative to spend a

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

. Engineering Technology students are being asked to demonstrate problem solving andcommunication skills in addition to technical skills by their potential employers. TheAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology Education (ABET) has defined aset of accreditation criteria (3a-k) which identifies eleven requirements expected ofengineering graduates to fulfill industry expectations. It is therefore important to knowthe nature of active learning, the empirical research on its use and how faculty shouldmake the necessary paradigm shift in Engineering Technology education to preparestudents for 21st century markets.This paper will discuss the paradigm shift from teaching to learning. We will examinecommon methods and technologies in use and how this

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Pradeep Bhattacharya; Nikhil Modi; Fred Lacy

Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Future Work VISIEN Program Scientists Undergraduate Graduate & Students Students Researchers Module 1 Module 2 Module 3 Etching: Isotropic/Anisotropic Stress Gradients in Wafers Electrochemical

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Luciana R. Barroso; Jim Morgan

model in order to perform the analyses. Additionally, approximatemethods were brought back into the course, and the students are required to use them to evaluatethe results from the computer software package. This requirement is important in addressing amajor deficiency that many new graduates have: the lack of ability to evaluate whether thecomputer results make sense or someone committed an error in the input. Course materials(including projects); student acceptance and performance; and course assessment and evaluationwill be addressed in the paper. IntroductionThe many education conferences, workshops, and sessions on engineering education that havetaken place over the last two or three decades seem

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Chad A. B. Wilson

composition pedagogy to argue that engineering education can beimproved through writing. In other words, writing is a powerful tool to help teachstudents engineering concepts, not just grammar. This essay first outlines the theory andpurpose behind the use of writing in content courses such as engineering. It also discusseshow such methods improve students’ communication skills, as well as teach them theconcepts of the course. Near the end, the essay describes several strategies that use thetheories outlined. In this section, I suggest several writing assignments that can be gearedspecifically toward engineering education, such as freewriting journaling, and discussionboard posting. Introduction: Rethinking Teaching and LearningSamuel

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Jorge E. Navarro; Apolinar Zapata

coverage14 and lack ofcorrespondence to social and cultural expectations15. Abstract algebra, in particular, isdifficult to approach from a hands-on standpoint.This paper shows, by presenting two activities performed by Sophomore EngineeringTechnology students in the class of Advanced Analytical Math, that the active learningmethod is particularly appropriate for the topics of the application of calculus. This studyhas shown that when activities, such as these described in this paper, are performed bystudents themselves, they are more motivated and become active participants in thelearning process. Each activity encourages students to demonstrate their understanding ofcalculus concepts. It is suggested that each math educator consider the importance

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Rita Caso; Kristi J. Shryock; Jo Howze; Jeffrey Froyd; Arun R. Srinivasa

Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education “The problems in math have absolutely no significance at all. It’s purely an exercise.” [7]Third, engineering faculty at larger institutions, such as TAMU, generally lack knowledge of thefirst-year student experiences and content of first-year engineering, science, and mathematicscourses. Often to the extent that they are familiar with the content of the first-year engineeringcourses, they are critical of the content because it has little or no direct relevance for thedisciplinary subjects taught by the faculty members. Fourth

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Kenneth Van Treuren

highlighted the ME Lab course as it is currently taught at BaylorUniversity. It is a course which covers a variety of topics all designed to improve thelaboratory skills of the students and to satisfy ABET Criterion 3 outcomes. The course isvery time intensive and the students are asked to use their communication skills to a highdegree. Students are exposed to various laboratory methods of measurement of basicfluid flow, temperature and pressure. A variety of laboratory tools are used from basicmanometers to sensitive micromanometers, hot-wires, and calibration-quality pressuretransducers. The end result is increased student skills which leads to confidence in theirabilities as they graduate and pursue careers. Assessment tools are also discussed in