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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Behnam Bahr; Kurt Soschinske; George Gray

EngineeringSeminar Series Lectures coordinated by the department for the university for which studentshave to attend. In these lectures, the department will have speakers for various engineering-related topics such as Ethics, Safety, Environmental and Global Warming and Globalizationissues, Energy considerations, Entrepreneurial Aspects of Engineering, EngineeringProfessionalism, Sustainability, Nanotechnology, and other scientific topics. The students willbe required to write summary reports on the above topics. Furthermore, additional lectures will include the review of the Fundamentals ofEngineering. Preparation of students to successfully pass the Fundamentals of Engineering exam “Proceedings of the 2007Midwest Section Conference of the American

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

William M. Baer

, they viewed using the work of others as a means to communicate their ideas better thanthey think they can.”11 Even when students know they should give credit to another source, theymay not know how to cite the source properly. Unfortunately, the other reasons for plagiarism show at least some conscious level ofunethical behavior. Procrastination is a trap that many students fall into. Failing to manage timewisely can lure the student who would not usually plagiarize to employ unethical practices tocomplete an assignment.12 Online paper mills with a six-hour turn around time provide atempting alternative to pulling the more traditional all-night writing session. Another contributing factor to plagiarism is a changing view of the

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Ramesh V. Narang

andlearning outcomes are given in Table 2. Each student writes a separate laboratory report usingand comparing the data obtained by all the members in the team.The text book on measurement variation is a well-known and commonly used in industry, that isthe Measurement Systems Analysis book popularly referred to as the MSA book [2]. The textbook used for GD&T measurements is given in [3].Some of the guidelines and established practices of business were discussed by senior personnelof a local A2LA-certified calibration laboratory. There were some sessions conducted by themTable 2: Metrology Course Content and Learning Outcomes. Course Learning OutcomesProcess and Measurement variation Inspecting size

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Wei Zhang

experience in leveraging the levels of computer abstraction to improvestudents’ learning outcome in the introductory computer architecture course. Furthermore, the instructor introduces how a computer works in a high-level viewbefore explaining any specific hardware component. More specifically, the instructorteaches students that the processor typically runs the following tasks: to fetch instructionsfrom the memory (which is treated as a black box for now), to decode the instruction, toexecute the instruction, to get the data from registers or memory, and finally to write backthe results into registers or memory. We find that such an approach can help studentsmake a smooth transition from the logic design and programming language courses to

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Christi Patton Luks; Laura P. Ford

IAB reviews other data as they consider making recommendations. We collect senior exitinterviews, alumni surveys, student surveys over the Program Objectives, student courseobjective surveys, faculty course objective surveys and course reports, and Fundamentals ofEngineering Exam results. All but the course objective surveys and faculty course reports willbe made available to the IAB to avoid overwhelming them with information. Proceedings of the 20007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 3The first IAB survey, given in Figure 2 in the Appendix, is for the Program Objectives and isdone in fall

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Lawrence Whitman; Zulma Toro-Ramos; Steven Skinner

communication skills; • be mastered in the principles of business and management; • understand the principles of leadership; • have a strong sense of professionalism and ethical standards; and • be lifelong learners.A number of noted engineering education leaders have responded and commentedon these reports. Butcher claims the reports call for, “ingenious leaders —ingenious engineers” and calls these engineers, “well-rounded RenaissanceEngineer”[s] [3]. Turns, Atman, et al., [4] use these reports as an input to what anengineer needs to know. Dym, et al. present how engineering education is beingchallenged to require students to consider additional design constraints required aspart of a “new fundamentals” [5]. In response to