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2005 GSW

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Tariq A. Khraishi

Session F1A4 \Evaluating the Educational Experience in a New Introductory Finite-Element Analysis Course for Mechanical Engineering Undergraduates Tariq A. Khraishi Mechanical Engineering Department The University of New Mexico AbstractThe author’s home department has recently changed its undergraduate curriculum to keep up-to-date with industry and professional demands. In particular, a new finite-element course is now arequired class in a sequence of five design courses

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2005 GSW

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Charles D. Parker; B. Neal Whitten

of students do not go into pure research or academia. There issignificant need to include practical experiences and components into the engineeringcurriculum3. Unfortunately many engineering educators do not have the necessarypractical experience to relay this to their students or the practical experience theeducators do possess has become outdated. PREVALANCE OF LACK OF PRACTICAL EXPERIENCEOnce a professor has gained a faculty position it can be difficult to obtain new practicalexperience. Tenure-track faculty members are most concerned with meeting therequirements for tenure prescribed by their university. Most tenure requirements call forteaching, research, and service. In an ideal world faculty should perform work in allthree areas4

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2005 GSW

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J. M. Duff

intellectual property is a legal entity, itsmisuse is both a legal and ethical concern. Additionally, the fields of engineering andtechnology use IP as economic capital, so there are practicable business considerationsthat are beyond the ethical and legal.The important question is: what is the future of engineering and technology professionsas a generation of digitally-tuned students assume positions where decisions aboutintellectual property are made daily? Can we expect these individuals to makeappropriate professional decisions without specifically addressing the issue in ourcurricula? This legal and ethical issue is related to a general concern about cheating.Misappropriating intellectual property in the form of information (quotes, references

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2005 GSW

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Terry Kohutek; Arun Srinivasa; Andrew P. Conkey

integration between engineering, science, andmathematics. Students needed to understand more clearly the roles of models and analyticalperformance predictions in the engineering design process. To address these opportunities, aprototype of a new first-year engineering course that builds on prior curriculum initiatives isbeing offered in the 2004-05 academic year. The prototype is project-based in that two projectsform the core of the syllabus. Further, specifications were developed to aid in tailoring projectsto meet the goals of the class. These specifications include defining time constraints for studentsand faculty; acknowledging the range of abilities of the incoming students; satisfying the needsof downstream faculty members, course instructors

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2005 GSW

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Jeffrey Froyd; Donald A. Maxwell

integration between engineering, science, andmathematics. Students needed to understand more clearly the roles of models and analyticalperformance predictions in the engineering design process. To address these opportunities, aprototype of a new first-year engineering course that builds on prior curriculum initiatives isbeing offered in the 2004-05 academic year. The prototype is project-based in that two projectsform the core of the syllabus. Further, specifications were developed to aid in tailoring projectsto meet the goals of the class. These specifications include defining time constraints for studentsand faculty; acknowledging the range of abilities of the incoming students; satisfying the needsof downstream faculty members, course instructors

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2005 GSW

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Aiman S. Kuzmar, City of Corpus Christi, TX

Engineering Education, Vol. 92, No. 1, pp. 57-63, January 2003.3. Foulds, R., Bergen, M., and Mantilla, B., Integrated Biomedical Engineering Education Using Studio-Based Learning, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, Vol. 22, Issue 4, pp. 92-100, July/August 2003. Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering Education4. Major, C., Implementing Problem-Based Learning in Undergraduate Education, The Journal of General Education, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 235-334, 2002.5. Navaz, H., A New Approach to Teaching Undergraduate Thermal/Fluid

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2005 GSW

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

a comprehensive set of individual and teamcommunication projects.In the capstone course teams of four students work on individual projects submitted byindustry and faculty. In the past the team had jointly prepared and submitted a variety ofreports throughout the semester. In the new format each team member is madepersonally responsible for one oral and one (different) written report. These reports mayinclude a proposal, a progress report, or a technical report, and these two assignmentsnow represent 15% of the individual’s course grade. The team is still responsible forpreparing five written planning reports, a final technical report, a final oral presentation, aposter, and an extended abstract. To help students prepare these documents

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2005 GSW

Authors

Sami Tannous

the faculty,several goals could be achieved from using JiTT: 1. Motivate students and focus their study process. 2. Make the classroom more active by engaging the students in the lecture. 3. Recognize students’ needs for self-focusing on study. 4. Help students understand why what they learn matters. 5. Create conditions that enable students to succeed in their learning activities or processes. 6. Create a classroom environment that promotes a mastery orientation focused on the development of knowledge and mastery of material and skills. 7. Provide students with opportunities to discuss issues in classroom and be proactive in lectures. 8. Help students read course material and complete assignments efficiently and

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2005 GSW

Authors

Sarah J. Smith

should consider authoring and implementing scenarios for staff. Thisis an exceptional mechanism to cultivate desired behaviors in new faculty as well asaddress issues that could have had a more appropriate response or resolution. Suggestedethical scenarios for instructors of higher education are listed in Appendix 2. Breaches in Ethics: the Student PopulationProfessors may have many hypotheses regarding why students experience breaches inethics or choose poorly. Academic pressures, trouble at home, lack of moral basis… thebest way to assess a student population is to involve them in the process. A fun methodto accomplish this goal is to develop a “Top Ten” ethics list.The text, “Enforcing Ethics” was written to support ethical

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2005 GSW

Authors

Amir Karimi

the faculty on a regular basis to ensure that the program outcomeswere being met. A set of faculty members were assigned to each course to evaluate the courseoutcomes on a continual basis and their recommendations were used to make courseimprovements. This paper will discuss the assessment process for each course and theprograms. It explains how assessment data were collected, analyzed, and used in theenhancement of the undergraduate programs. It also describes the management of the assessmentprocess. Lessons learned from our assessment experience will be described in the paper. IntroductionThe Division of Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) was establishedin the College

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2005 GSW

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Rosa Jeanette De Leon; Randall D. Manteufel; Alfred Vitela

Session F2C1 Evaluation of LEED Green Building Rating Potential for the Engineering Building at the University of Texas at San Antonio Rosa Jeanette De Leon, Alfred Vitela, Randall D. Manteufel Department of Mechanical Engineering and Biomechanics University of Texas at San Antonio AbstractThe U.S. Green Building Council in October 2004 issued the Leadership in Energy andEnvironmental Design for Existing Buildings, a green building rating system for existing buildingswhere previously criteria has been only for new building

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2005 GSW

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Vanessa Svihla; Ronald Barr; Marcus Pandy; Anthony Petrosino

Engineering EducationThe participation of this class was partof a much larger educational researchconsortium, the NSF-sponsoredVaNTH Engineering Research Centerfor Bioengineering Education.1 Theobjective of the consortium is todevelop a new generation of teachingmaterials and novel approaches for theeducation of bioengineering students.The pedagogical motivation for theconsortium is based on the widelypublicized book “How People Learn”(HPL) by Bransford, et al.2 The HPLteaching framework presents thelearning material as a series ofchallenges that are posed through a Figure 1: The Legacy Cycle Framework.3Legacy Cycle.3 The Legacy Cycle(Figure 1) methodically marches the students through the challenged-based material. Key stagesin the