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Scott Shepard

The Incorporation of Extracurricular Innovations into Engineering Technology Laboratory Components Dr. Scott Shepard Department of Engineering Technology University of Central FloridaI. IntroductionStartling advances in the laboratory components of a variety of undergraduatecourses in Physics, Chemistry and Engineering have recently become adaptablefor use in Engineering Technology. We will focus on laboratory modules thatutilize optics (originating from various scientific; Electrical Engineering; andChemical Engineering curricula) but the methods of applying our procedures toother laboratory components will also be discussed. Some

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Farouq Alhourani

Computer Aided Design & Graphics by teaching students with hands-on type of educational practices and laboratory exercises in the area of FMS. A MiniCIM 3.2 Amatrol has been selected as the equipment to teach FMS. This equipment is used to modify the curriculum and nine courses and labs in the IET department to enhance the students’ learning. The FMS project serves also as a starting point to accomplish a six-year development plan of the Manufacturing Laboratory in the IET department. The goal is to complete a fully Computer Integrated Manufacturing system in six years. The strategy used is aligning students’ class projects and/or students’ senior projects with the goals of the Manufacturing Laboratory. These class projects

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Seymour Blank; John Hudesman; Robert Armstrong; Ed Morton; Adam Moylan; Neisha White

needs of these under-prepared students have focused on teachingcontent courses together with a variety of academic/study skills strategies. These have met with limitedsuccess. Our department has recently (2005/2006 academic year) received a National Science Foundation(NSF) Course Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Phase I grant to apply “Self-RegulatedLearning” (SRL) to two engineering technology courses. SRL involves teaching students a new way ofunderstanding their learning process and how to monitor and manage it. The SRL process includes an on-going three-phase cycle: (1) planning, (2) practicing and (3) evaluation. During the planning phase,students assess prior performance, set goals and choose appropriate learning strategies

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Eric Granlund; Sohail Anwar

. This manuscript describes the instructional approach used to teach this project-based capstone engineering design course. Detailed information regarding the activities conducted in MET 210W is provided. Finally, the assessment techniques used in this course are described.IntroductionThe engineering education community has shown increasing interest in project-basedlearning approaches. The benefits of project-based learning include enhanced studentparticipation in the learning process, enhanced communication skills, addressing of awider set of learning styles, and the promotion of critical thinking.1 The authors feel thatthe use of engineering design and analysis projects provide students with a wider contextto the material

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Chong Shen; Zhongwei Zhang; David Lai

connection. For instance,hundreds of Java simulations were created at the National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU)Virtual Physics Laboratory. Many physics teachers use these Java simulations in their teaching. Holliday from the Western Carolina University recently implemented few Java Applets thatillustrate some of important concept of network by using animation. The applets and accompany-ing materials addresses four network concepts: packet encapsulation, packet fragmentation, errorcontrol and media access. All these applets has been applied to the class of computer network. Butthe AQM concept is not mentioned in this paper [10]. 33 Network simulation modelOur simulation package is based on the

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Justin Highley

)Department at the United States Military Academy (USMA) used the traditionalapproach of teaching thermodynamics and fluid mechanics as two separatesubjects. These courses, ME301: Thermodynamics, and ME362: Fluid Mechanicswere required classes for all majors, including Chemical, Civil, Environmental,Mechanical, and Nuclear Engineering, as well as Engineering Management. Thistraditional approach had two significant disadvantages. First, students often failedto see the commonality between these courses and believed the two subjects to beunrelated. This is because thermodynamics is often taught from an energyperspective, with focus on the first and second laws of thermodynamics, whilefluid mechanics focuses on mechanical energy and internal/external

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Erdogan M. Sener

1. Barcala, M., Ahmed, S.M., Caballero, A. and Azhar, S. 2003. The 4D-CAD: a powerful tool to visualize the future. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Structural and Construction Engineering, 23-26 September, 2003, Rome, Italy. Vol. 3, pp. 1979-1982. 2. Berglund, A., Mats, D., Hedenborg, M., and Tengstrand, A. 1998. Assessment to increase students’ creativity: Two case studies. European Journal of Engineering Education, March 1998. Vol. 23. Issue 1 pp. 45- 55. 3. Berver, E., Jerse J.O., Fowler D.W., and Wheat, H.G. 2003. Laboratory and field observations of composite – wrapped reinforced concrete structures. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Structural and Construction Engineering, 23

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Mark Miles; C.M. Chewar

encouraging inventive problem solving. This paper examines the effects of methods that allow students in an introductory level engineering course to use their creativity and inventiveness to solve problems, an approach referred to as inquiry arousal. The approach used in this research was to modify a certain number of laboratory requirements to allow the student to apply an open-ended problem solving approach to obtain a solution. The goal of the assigned problems was to allow the student some flexibility to be creative while demonstrating fundamental mechanics. The authors obtained data and evaluated the effects of this approach through grade performance and student feedback. This paper attempts to measure the effects that

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William E. Kelly; Theodore A. Bickart; Richard J. Forselius

built on the ABET requirement for engineering programs and NSS objective 11.The United States Standards Strategy (USSS) was recently released and it calls for expanded and strengthened efforts to assistuniversity and college programs in their efforts to educate students on standards and conformity assessment [3]. The USSS isessentially an update of the NSS.The ANSI CoE has been assisted in its work by a number of US standards developers including ASTM International (ASTM) , theAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the AmericanSociety of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Underwriters Laboratories (UL) and others. This effort has also had broad participation andsupport from federal