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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Arthur Heinricher; Brian Savilonis; David Spanagel; Robert Traver; Kristin Wobbe

-1-provide a solution, and that great problems will be solved only through the efforts of many smallsolutions coming from many disparate directions.There is a national trend toward more active, project-based learning in engineering education thathas been (slowly) gaining momentum for more than 40 years. (See Felder, 2004.) A recent, andwidely publicized, illustration of the trend was the creation in 1997 of the Olin College ofEngineering. The Olin Foundation made a $300 million investment to establish a new college ofengineering that would integrate project work in all four years of the new curriculum.(Somerville, et al, 2005).For almost 20 years, there has been significant investment by the National Science Foundationintended to increase

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Roy T.R. McGrann

. In these courses, Solid Edge 3 is used. First-year studentsare also introduced to the design process through two projects. In the first semester, they perform areverse engineering team project and, in the second semester, there is a team conceptual design project.In the curriculum of the mechanical engineering department at Binghamton University, the Computer-Aided Engineering course (ME 481) was a technical elective until 2004-5. The course is now requiredin the first semester of the third year. The prerequisites for the course are the mechanics courses(statics, dynamics and solid mechanics). This course is the initial course in an upper-division four-semester design sequence. It is followed in the second semester of the third year by the

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Joseph Robert Yost; Randy D. Weinstein

. The first programs within the CoE were Civil Engineering and Electrical 1Engineering. Today there are four degree programs in Chemical Engineering (Che), Civil andEnvironmental Engineering (CEE), Electrical and Computer Science Engineering (ECE) andMechanical Engineering. All programs offer BS and MS degrees through the respectivedepartments. A five year program that combines the BS and MS degrees is also available in alldepartments, and an interdisciplinary PhD degree is administered and offered through the CoE.The CoE offers a common freshman year to all incoming students (Table 1). As can be seen inTable 1, the first year curriculum includes two semesters of calculus, two semesters of

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Dean M. Aslam; Zongliang Cao; Cyrous Rostamzadeh

] Barrows, H.S. (1985). How to design a problem-based curriculum for the preclinical years. New York: Springer.[19] Azuma R. A Survey of Augm.ented Reality. PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 355-385, 1997.[20] Osberg K. Spatial Cognition in the Virtual Environ., Technical R-97-18. Seattle: Human Interface Technol. Lab, 1997.[21] Rizzo AA, Buckwalter JG, Neumann U, Kesselman C, Thiebaux M, Larson P, and van Rooyen A. The Virtual Reality Mental Rotation Spatial Skills Project. In CyberPsychology and Behavior, 1(2), pp. 113-120, 1998.[22] Pantelidis, V. S. Reasons to Use Virtual Reality in Education, VR in the Schools 1(1), 1995. URL: http://www.soe.ecu.edu/vr/reas.html