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William J. Kelly

A Distance Education partnership between Villanova and IT Sligo in Graduate Biochemical Engineering William J. Kelly Department of Chemical Engineering Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19473Recently, Ireland has become a hotbed of research and manufacturing in the PharmaceuticalIndustry. A unique partnership was created betweenVillanova and IT Sligo (Ireland), wherebyIrish graduate students pursuing an MS in Biopharmaceutical science and Villanova graduatestudents pursuing an advance engineering degree can take two Villanova classes together viaDistance Education (DE) technology. These two classes focus on upstream and

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Leslie Guadron; Alen M. Sajan; Olivia Plante; Stanley George; Yuying Gosser

-requisites Chem-103 and 104 or Bio-101 and 102. The lessons learned from ourpractice are:a) Engineering students are interested in the research topics in genome science. In all pilotclasses, 45%-55% of attendees were engineering majors, including biomedical, chemical,electrical and environmental engineering, as well as computer science.b) To offer the genomics education course to engineering students, starting from freshmen andsophomores, it is necessary to start from the Central Dogma, and then introduce protein structurevisualization and homology modeling. Through the project on protein structure analysis andmodeling, the students learned to illustrate a protein function with its structure by using theProtein Databank and the Pubmed literature

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design playsa prominent role – ABET Criterion 3c states that “engineering programs must demonstrate thattheir graduates have an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs.”However, engineering programs typically only offer engineering design experiences duringfreshman and senior year [1, 2]; with little explicit engineering design education duringsophomore and junior years while students are taking engineering science courses [3-5]. Thus,students’ opportunities to practice and learn design methodology are sporadic and disparate.These fragmented curricular experiences hinder student retention of knowledge related toengineering design, making them ultimately unprepared for jobs in design [3, 6-9]. If, aspsychologist

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Dean C. Millar

Engineering Education in the Next Decade A Proven Professional Development Program to Supplement Required Engineering Technical Coursework. Goal: Enhanced Success of Students’ Careers and Engineering Schools’ Accreditation Dean C. Millar Assistant Dean, School of Engineering University at Buffalo, SUNY AbstractStatement of Need:For students- Engineering undergraduate students are well prepared with engineering theory andfundamentals when they graduate but generally lack broader professional success skills

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M. Nazrul Islam

efficient teaching methodology which not only presents the material in aninteresting way but also gets the students involved into the topic. It includes interactive power pointpresentation slides with lots of animation and illustrations. The author does not depend only on theelectronic media but also uses traditional white/black board for further elaboration and explanation.However, the main focus is given on the involvement of the students through a number of activities in andoutside the classroom.IntroductionEducation is the process through which we transmit our knowledge, experience, skills and valuesto our future generation. For this purpose, we bring them to the academic institutions whichinclude schools, colleges and universities. To make the

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Andrea L. Welker; Leslie McCarthy; John Komlos; Alfred Fry

sources that are available to the general public (i.e. preliminary list of key Web sources). Student records search progress using words used to RefWorks. describe the topic, and submits a plan/timeline to perform the required research3 In Student

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Keith M. Gardiner

15) from the text. They must then prepare presentations toinform the rest of the class what they discovered adding their own conclusions andrecommendations. Meanwhile the course continues for fourteen nominal three hour meetingswith analysis of relevant current events, engineering and manufacturing systems topics. Studentsare told that they are being regarded as analogous to employees in a factory where they mustcollaborate to generate discoveries and learning with the final product being a „publication-ready‟ technical report.8 In this vein students are encouraged to offer items on discussion forumsand to develop “Discovery” presentations (or book reviews etc.) to enliven the classroom Fall 2010 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference

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Kevin Dahm

include:1) Establish specific goals and educational objectives for the degree program. Thesemust encompass 11 outcomes2 (designated “A-K”) identified by ABET as essential forall engineering programs.2) Measure the degree to which graduates of the program are attaining the goals andoutcomes3) Use the data collected in step 2 to identify opportunities for improvement, and modifythe program accordingly4) “Close the loop” by assessing whether the changes led to improved attainment ofdesired outcomes1According to Dr. Gloria Rogers3 the most difficult part of the process, and one whichmost engineering programs do not do well, is “identification of a limited number ofFall 2010 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 15-16, 2010, Villanova

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Gary P. Halada

communication skills, and the need for engineers to understand theimplications of their work in a broader socio-economic context.2The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) has emphasized theimportance of these issues, including them in multiple ways in the prescribed set of StudentOutcomes.3 These are what well-educated engineering students are expected to know at the timeof graduation. Of special importance to the topic of this paper are the following outcomes(c,d,f,g,h,i, and j):“Engineering programs must demonstrate that their students attain the following outcomes: (c) an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realisticconstraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical

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Orla S. LoPiccolo

studentspreferred modality.3 Teaching a lecture course that is not supplemented by a laboratorycomponent may offer a few challenges to „doing is understanding‟ and hands-on kinestheticlearning if the subject matter is a topic such as the construction of a foundation, or an energyefficient wall to roof detail. Other than incorporating field trips to construction sites and modelbuilding – which time may not permit – the use of videos, slides and construction details prevail.Over the course of their college education, engineering students in lecture style classrooms areshown visual aids to enhance spatial thinking in a variety of forms and from many sources.Spatial thinking is “the mental manipulation of objects and their parts in 2D and 3D space.”4One type

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Allison L. Felix; Joel Z. Bandstra; William H.J. Strosnider

8 0.2 6 80 Avg. Teacher Results 15.4 87.0 85 Program Assessment Seventeen students attended the Environmental Engineering Design Academy, 10 male and 7 female. Eight of the attendees (47%) came from the county in which the University is located or the four surrounding counties, eight attendees (47%) came from Pennsylvania outside the local region, and 1 attendee (6%) came from Maryland. Three of the attendees (18%) would be among the first generation of college graduates in their families. The Environmental Engineering Design Academy is assessed with information about the number of participants matriculating to the University by

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Amy Fleischer; Aaron Wemhoff; James O'Brien; Ani Ural; LeRoy Alaways

are female outreach programs in mechanical engineering necessary?The 17.8% percent of bachelor’s degrees in engineering awarded to women in 2009 was thelowest percentage in fifteen years and caps seven straight years of decline from a high of 20.9%in 20021. Mechanical engineering as a discipline draws even fewer women with a scant 11.4%of 2009 degrees awarded to women1. However, many engineering disciplines show significantfemale enrollment and graduation rates. The engineering disciplines with the highestpercentages of degrees granted to women include environmental engineering (44%), biomedicalengineering (37%), and chemical engineering (35%)1. These figures are in stark contrast to notonly mechanical engineering (11%) but also computer

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Bill Lorenz; Pritpal Singh

, ethical and social justice considerations. This is a truly distinctive approach to our 1 Fall 2010 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, Villanova University, October 15-16, 2010program compared to existing, more traditional programs. To ensure the breadth of understanding thatwe wish to impart to our students, the core courses were structured so that the first two coursesprovide the technical education and the third course provides the broader context (although this is alsowoven into the first two courses as well).Our new inter-disciplinary Master’s degree in Sustainable Engineering was launched in December2010. The program is available to all engineering and science disciplines and is