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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Adriana Popescu

critically and effectively about scientific articlesin the students’ own area of research. By using the specific topics that the students chose to write about,the major tools for locating journal literature have been reviewed and discussed in detail.Internet search engines are the preferred starting point for conducting literature searches, with Google,being the favorite. Very few students however were familiar with Google Scholar, the tool developed byGoogle to search and index scholarly publications, such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, preprints,abstracts, and technical reports from all disciplines of research. While search engines can be valuabletools to quickly locate some needed information, it was pointed out to the students that they don’t

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Fani Zlatarova

respective major. The forms could be different, such as writing essays or even anethics code of conduct; analyzing case studies and presenting the results electronically; creating finalsolutions such as programs, drawings, diagrams, information systems, websites, etc.; and using softwareproducts or integrated packages and CASE tools. This type of project has been broadly explored byinstructors.[4, 5, 10] The feedback obtained from former students shows how useful these projects are andthey should be considered as an important part of the students’ academic work. 3Research-Oriented ProjectsThe second type of projects, the research-oriented

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Carol Siri Johnson

same resources as do wealthy schools. This isanother instance of institutionalized racism that is generally invisible to those who benefit. For example,at a recent Science Olympiad here at NJIT, I helped run the “Write It, Do It” competition, where one teammember, in a separate room, sees an object built of Knex™ and writes directions to recreate it. Thedisassembled Knex™ and directions are then brought to the next room, where the other team memberassembles it. As I was speaking to the kids who were waiting for directions, I discovered that most ofthem from the wealthy neighborhoods had been practicing with Knex™ for months whereas none of thestudents from the poorer neighborhoods had practiced with Knex™. Thus, the outcome of this contest

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Howard Kimmel; John Carpinelli; Rosa Cano; Angelo Perna

and practices; and• Build on teachers' current classroom experiences, as well as new ideas.Our current professional development efforts seek to improve and enhance teacher skills and knowledgein the content areas and in the implementation of standards-based lesson plans that include the assessmentand documentation of students’ achievement of those standards in their lessons. Our endeavors includethe preferred practices described for professional development, where we:1) Focus on planning and instructional needs, while extending the model over time as new skills are practiced in the classroom; and2) Create a peer learning community to assist teachers with planning and implementing curriculum.Peer-learning communities motivate teachers to

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Shaina Slonim; Richard Puerzer

entire faculty. Doing this supports an integrated curriculum. In “Fabulous Fridays”6, Susan Lord writes about what she incorporated into an optoelectronicscourse to measure the lifelong learning outcome. She had students explore areas in depth “by conductingliterature research including a paper and a presentation on a topic of their choice.” For a semester, Lordheld the last fifteen minutes of each Friday class open for students to lead discussions on an article theydistributed to the class on Monday. Lord also states that these ideas can be incorporated into any classthat must reach the lifelong learning objective.requirements When coming up with ideas, I had to meet certain criteria other than measuring the objective.One

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Deran Hanesian; Angelo J. Perna

students residing in or attending high schools in Newark, NJ. Asin the other programs, chemical engineering is only a part of the program and is alecture/ laboratory integrated experience. The lecture topics cover the theory ofexperimentation, statistics, units, dimensions, graphics, data collection andanalysis, oral presentation and report writing. The course also has a homework 3assignment component. The laboratory experience consists of experiments on thechemical engineering pilot plant size equipment. One aspect of the programinvolves the assignment of students to an intensive independent research projectin addition to their regular assignment. Students mentored by the authorsundertook intensive, six

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

John C. Giordano; J. Scot Ransbottom

, we seek to identify and value differencesamong our cadets and to leverage those differences to enhance understanding for the group. We also seekto help cadets to value the differences among their peers, subordinates and leaders. The need to produceleaders of character is a direct complement to the academic requirements. USMA’s educational process focuses on the development of the whole person. The academic, military,physical, and moral/ethical development of each cadet is accomplished through an immersive 47 monthexperience. The stated goal of the academic program [3] is to enable graduates to anticipate and respondeffectively to the uncertainties of a changing technological, social, political, and economic world. As aresult, the curriculum