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Debra Larson

paperpresents a review of the two versions of the BOK, BOK1 and BOK2, and a comparison of theseversions to the undergraduate civil engineering curriculum at Northern Arizona University(NAU), which is benchmarked to the 2007-2008 ABET Criteria for Accrediting EngineeringPrograms2.BOK1In January of 2004, the ASCE published the BOK3 (known as the BOK1) that identified fifteenlearning outcomes, of which the first eleven came directly from Criterion 3 of the ABET Criteriafor Accrediting Engineering Programs, herein referred to simply as the ABET Criteria. Theadditional four outcomes addressed technical specialization, project management, construction,asset management, business and public policy and administration, and leadership and itsattending

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James Helbling

weakness in recent alumni surveys. The ABETcriteria require engineering programs to show that graduating students have computer simulationand experimental experience as well as communications and ethics skills and have demonstratedthe use of that skill set to enhance the technical content of their curriculum. The application-based engineering approach and team-teaching with communications faculty as a part of thesenior design experience certainly helps to fill these requirements, and the auditors whole-heartedly endorsed the process.Additionally, alumni surveys have shown a reversal of the previous trend showing dissatisfactionwith technical writing and project management skills acquired at Embry-Riddle’s Prescottcampus, as shown in the following

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Yusuf Ozturk; Emrah Orhun; Chris Bowerman

. The student mentor will be on a Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 391similar course of studies and will be able to act as a link with the peer group, offer adviceon expectations and help with language issues in class3.4 Promotion and DisseminationPartners will aim at raising awareness of the scope of the project and its aims withprogram management teams at undergraduate and graduate levels by briefings in theinstitutions. From project commencement there will be a project newsletter which is aimedat keeping the program in the view of students and staff

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Jesa H. Kreiner; Peter W. Othmer; Timothy W. Lancey

specializedsoftware which was purchased, if affordable, to support the design activities at theappropriate technical level of sophistication. The Air Cargo project utilized NASA Airfoildesign software and Simufoil, the Mini Baja utilized software for modeling of thesuspension of the vehicle and shock and vibration behavior of the frame. Every effort ismade during the conduct of this (and other) courses that the word processing, spreadsheets,Cad/Drafting, project management, internet communications and web browsing are in theinventory of the skills of our graduates. The car related projects represent ideal settings tolearn object related programming as software allows modeling of various physicalcomponents of the car: its engine, transmission, differential

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Tariq Qayyum

, Verilog HDL was used to design logic circuits. Detailed instructions wereprovided to students about creating source files, using Altera DE-26 board, compiling source file,making pin assignments for Cyclone II EPC35F672C6 device, and downloading compiled file tothe Altera DE-2 board.FPGA StructureFig 1: Silicon Wafer 2A Section of Programmed FPGAFig 2: Silicon Technology Evolution 3 Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 83 x3 f x1 x1 0

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Arun K. Datta; Jacqueline Caesar; Daphne Rainey; Stephen Cammer; Julie Schuman; Oswald Crasta

well as humanexpertise, required to support current and future discoveries in science and engineering. Thus, CIincludes supercomputers, data management systems, high capacity networks, digitally-enabledobservatories and scientific instruments, and an interoperable suite of software and middlewareservices and tools for computation, visualization, and collaboration1. The challenge is to integraterelevant and often disparate resources to provide a useful, usable, and enabling framework forresearch and discovery characterized by broad access and “end-to-end” coordination. NSF hassponsored projects to develop principles for the “design and evaluation of IT-enabled scientific"collaboratories," or "centers without walls" in which researchers can

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Claudia Lee; Andrew Zepfel; Nina Timberlake; Larry Grill; Sean Gallagher

) different infection methods on the same plant and B) injected infection on five leaves of two different plants.The result of the fluorescence macro imaging suggests that using the designed TMV plasmidwould give the highest yield if the plant tissue was harvested at 4-dpi. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 442DiscussionGFP as a quantitative reporter in live plantsLindbo (2007) had previously published on using the pJL TRBO vector to report the viralexpression in live plants. The amounts of GFP destructively extracted from plants were used tocompare the

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Kurt Colvin

, typically online. This paper describes the process andexperiences of the redesign of a systems engineering course into a blended course. To besuccessful, the redesign requires careful application of pedagogical concepts and continuousimprovement using an understanding of how students learn. This paper is a status report of anongoing effort.IntroductionWhile distance education programs have exploded in recent years, a new trend within the fieldhas emerged: blended or hybrid courses. A hybrid course builds on a traditional, face-to-facecourse incorporating online elements, using the same course management software thatunderpins courses taught entirely online. This model can appeal to a wide range of instructors,even those who are critical of online

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Pradip Peter Dey; Thomas M. Gatton; Mohammad N. Amin; Mudasser F. Wyne; Gordon W. Romney; Alireza Farahani; Arun Datta; Hassan Badkoobehi; Ralph Belcher; Ogun Tigli; Albert P. Cruz

lecture. Consequently, theyare expected to apply this information to a question on the examination. In this approach, I willask several probing questions which are designed to stimulate the students' understandingregarding design decisions, and possible side effects.4. AGILE PROBLEM DRIVEN TEACHING IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT) (Main Author: G.Romney)4.1 APDT in IT Focuses on Real-world ProblemsInformation Technology (IT) emphasizes synergistic solutions between technology, people andprocesses to successfully resolve enterprise computer problems. In the IT Management (ITM)program at National University, students learn that people, namely the client, drive thedevelopment process. IT professionals, with their knowledge, skills

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Raman Menon Unnikrishnan; Ricardo V. Lopez

the ECS Scholars Learning Community The ECS scholars LC has been in existence since 2006. Students participate in thisprogram only during the fall and spring semesters of their first year; they are not providedintervention after their first year at CSUF. The program is currently sponsoring its third cohort.The ECS Scholars LC is designed for FTF majoring in engineering or computer science aimed atreversing the unacceptably large attrition during the first year. ECS Scholars experience asmooth transition to college life by maximizing campus resources, opportunities for individualand community development, and on-going interaction with faculty, student affairsprofessionals, and peers from the College of ECS. The ECS Scholars LC offers

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Paul Blowers

have the ability to identify points of contact where longitudinal contact can beencouraged• to have the knowledge of how to remove impediments to longitudinal advising throughreconstruction of advising duties in larger programs with many staff members, or throughdirected contact with students in smaller departments• To have the ability to link student possibilities to exploratory activities that lead to self-determinationStudents in chemical engineering are generally very strong in academic abilities, but often havenot been exposed to a breadth of activities and possibilities that enable them to construct theirown paths. Sustained advising contact has led to strong statistically-based success of studentswho have progressed through

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Ranjan K. Sen; Pradip Peter Dey

  can  think  of  multiple  programs  running  at  the  same  time  where each may potentially impact behavior of the other directly (via altering common data) or indirectly (by blocking a resource resulting in the other programming not able to proceed or in deadlock) unless the input‐output relations is ascertained to be correct from both a spatial as well as temporal point of view. The  first  is  enforced  easily  in  conventional  memories  (Random  Access  Model)  but  the  later  requires ordering  discipline  generally  implemented  via  synchronization  primitives  similar  to  those  used  in operating system design.    Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference

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Lizabeth Schlemer; Jose Macedo

. She has developed good relationships with local industryand provides her students with opportunities to participate in real projects for real clients. She lives in Santa Maria,is married with three children. One of her daughters is a fourth year in the IE program at Cal Poly.JOSE A. MACEDO is an associate professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at CaliforniaPolytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. He received his Ph.D. in industrial engineering from LehighUniversity, an M.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and a B.S inmechanical engineering from the Catholic University of Peru. He has taught courses on statistical design andanalysis of experiments, quality engineering, work

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Gordon W. Romney

industry toward using Agile (“ease of movement”) techniques in programming andproject development has motivated the faculty at the National University (NU) School of Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 482Engineering and Technology (SOET) to introduce agility into pedagogy. Agile Problem DrivenTeaching (Dey et.al., 2009) as used in teaching IT is described in this paper.1.1 The IT Industry Evolution Toward AgilityIt has been fascinating to watch the evolution of IT project management (PM) from the rigidstructure of the 60’s through the early 90’s to the triple

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Phillip R. Rosenkrantz

demonstrate howeasy it is to create a data base in the process.IntroductionOne of the top objectives of the College of Engineering Administrative and AssessmentCommittees and after the last ABET accreditation cycle was to streamline and simplify datacollection and analysis processes. In 2005 the process of gathering together relevant data andanalysis in order to report by criteria and a-k designation was extremely time consuming formany programs. One of the main reasons for the large time requirement was that assessment dataand other reported information was in various forms such as hard copies and raw data reports.Subsequently entering data into a spreadsheet and performing analysis was very time consuming.The IME Department decided to re-engineer

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Kyle A. Watson; Ashland O. Brown

science andengineering pedagogy.Ashland O. Brown, University of the PacificAshland O. Brown is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of the Pacific inStockton, CA. He has held numerous administrative, management and research positionsincluding Program Director, Engineering Directorate, National Science Foundation; Dean ofEngineering at the University of the Pacific; Dean of Engineering Technology at South CarolinaState University; Engineering Group Manager at General Motors Corporation; PrincipalEngineering Supervisor, Ford Motor Company; and Research Engineer, Eastman KodakCompany. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and M.S.and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Connecticut

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David Lanning

failure to pass the prerequisite skillsexam can be a useful indicator for at-risk students.IntroductionThe Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering undergraduate degree programs at Embry-RiddleAeronautical University (ERAU) in Prescott, Arizona, are somewhat traditional four-yearundergraduate engineering degree programs. The Prescott campus of ERAU may be categorizedas a “teaching institution,” where the engineering faculty place emphasis on instructor-studentinteraction, design experiences, and hands-on laboratory learning.Student retention is receiving increasing interest at Embry-Riddle, especially in recent monthswith the troubled economy. This is not a unique position for a small, private, tuition-drivenuniversity such as Embry-Riddle. Many such

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Learning and Cognitive Load Theory to Enhance Computer Programming for Mechanical Engineers: Qualitative Assessment, Thomas J. Impelluso 70 15. A Junior Level FPGA Course in Digital Design Using Verilog HDL and Altera DE-2 Board For Engineering Technology Students, Tariq Qayyum 80 16. Design, Fabrication, and Analysis of Photodynamic Therapy Monitoring System for use in Esophageal Carcinoma, Gemunu Happawana, Amaranath Premasiri and Arye Rosen 89 17. SimzLab - Interactive simulations of physical systems for active individual and team learning, Richard K. Herz and Gregory E. Ogden

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possible sources of error.Finally, students were allowed to test their model’s ability to predict the projectile’s distance byfiring raw eggs at a picture of their professor (for a fun hands-on experience). Table III belowshows how the six MEA principles are met by the project.Figure 1: The Statapult, designed as a Six Sigma quality management training device available for purchase online. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 253 TABLE III THE CATAPULT MEA DESIGN

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Donna M. Schaeffer; Patrick C. Olson

experience is not credible? This is often witnessed in computerprogramming. What is the best approach to teaching programming? There have been groups thatadvocate that you use a language that is designed to teach programming. Others advocate that youteach a language used by a relevant community to help the students adapt to that community. Whilethis might seem minor – consider the idea that there are computing programs in existence in theUnited States that taught COBOL and only COBOL for more than twenty-five years. Also considerthe idea that there is a body of discussion about how COBOL is the worst language to use forteaching programming. Who was right is not a matter for this paper, however, the question “WouldCOBOL have been an introduction to

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Gordon W. Romney; Paul D. Juneau

manylocations (Stevenson & Romney, 2008). Three-factor authentication is used in data centers, highrisk financial operations, certification authorities and special research facilities in industry anduniversity research. In these instances, PKI and biometrics are frequently the selectedtechnologies with a characteristically much higher operational overhead.1.5 Agile Problem Driven Teaching UtilizedIn keeping with the Agile Problem Driven Teaching (APDT) pedagogy employed in the NationalUniversity (NU) School of Engineering and Technology (SOET) described by Dey (Dey et.al.,2009), and, specifically, the BS IT Management (ITM) program (Romney, 2009), the search forimproved authentication for smaller enterprises and select university settings was

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Richard K. Herz; Gregory E. Ogden

and university settings. He taught environmental science,chemistry and engineering programs at Pima Community College in Tucson for over 10 yearsand is currently coordinating the freshman engineering design course for the College ofEngineering at the University of Arizona in addition to managing the undergraduate laboratoryexperiences for the Department of Chemical Engineering. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference

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Frederick Harris; Gordon Lee; Stuart H. Rubin; T. C. Ting; Billy Gaston; Gongzhu Hu

305Learning [2], “digital competence” and ”learning to learn” are among eight key competences forcitizens in order to easily adapt to a rapid changing and highly interconnected world. The importance of computing and computers in engineering education has been knownfor several years and several educators have shared their experiences and activities in this regard.For example, in [3-5], engineering education researchers in the disciplines of civil engineeringand computational science have developed special software tools which enhance the academicenvironment. These computer-based instructional guides supplement the teacher in the classroomby providing design examples, additional practice problems in the computational aspects of thefield, and

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and Energy BalancesIn the sophomore material and energy balances course, there were a total of 94 students whofinished the course out of the 103 who began the course at the beginning of the Fall 2008semester. This course is the first core course in chemical engineering and is one of the twooptions engineering management students must take in order to meet their energy-basedcurriculum content requirements. Students in engineering management may take this courseduring their sophomore, junior, or senior years, while chemical engineers will be sophomores.A variety of instructional support tools were used in this course that had an impact on the use andevaluation of concept maps in student learning. These tools were primarily computer-based