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Junichi Kanai

, March 2006, pp. 115-118.3. Engineering Accreditation Commission, CRITERIA FOR ACCREDITING ENGINEERING PROGRAMS - Effective for Evaluations During the 2007-2008 Accreditation Cycle, March 17, 2007.4. Kanai, J. and Steiner, M., “Effects of a Web-Based Collaboration Tool in Engineering Design Courses,” Educating Designers for Global Context, Proceedings of the 4th Engineering & Product Design Education, Salzburg, Austria, September 7-8, 2006, pp.385-390.Biographical InformationJunichi Kanai received his B.S. in EE, and an M.Eng. and Ph.D. in CSE from Rensselaer PolytechnicInstitute (RPI) in 1983, 1985, and 1990, respectively. He is currently Associate Director of the O.T.Swanson Multidisciplinary Design Laboratory in the School of

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David I. Schwartz

Motivating Engineering Mathematics Education with Game Analysis Metrics David I. Schwartz Rochester Institute of Technology Department of Information Technology GCCIS, 70-2509 +1 585-475-5521 dis[at]it[dot]rit[dot]eduAbstractIn this paper, I develop a system for computational analysis of games that uses scoring functions tomotivate engineering mathematics education. Although many modern videogames have abandoned pointsas an archaic form of representing victory (or defeat

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Yiming Rong

WPI and the HUST students learned much about how to communicate with the project sponsors, theprofessors, and their partners to ensure that the project objectives were clear. The team members alsogained an appreciation for the benefits of working in a diverse team. From the quotes of student saying and the professors’ observation, it is already clear that the programis providing the students with exceptional educational experience. All people involved have gained a lotfrom the program. The purpose of the WPI-HUST collaboration is to educate engineers who have the skills and attitudeto work effectively in an international setting. In addition to sponsoring projects to help develop aninternationally experienced workforce, the sponsors

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Rashmi Jain; Keith Sheppard; Elisabeth McGrath; Bernard Gallois

work collaboratively with students at otherlocations to design a solution to a complex problem. Students will be introduced to a systems-thinkingapproach that fosters team work, innovation and invention, effective communication, and other 21stcentury workforce skills. This effort will also benefit from and leverage a recent corporate donation ofPro/Engineer software to New Jersey schools. Students will make use of this state-of-the-art CAD/CAEsoftware tool to create sophisticated, 3D models of their designs and then use this tool to assemble a finalprototype based on all design components contributed by the project team.Systems Engineering Education ResearchIn spite of the growing interest in systems engineering and teaching of systems

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Joseph Robert Yost; Randy D. Weinstein

to explain the lecture and lab content delivered during the time spent with eachdepartment, and provide a detailed description of the end of the semester engineeringcompetition.IntroductionVillanova University is a Roman Catholic institution of higher education located approximately15 miles east of Philadelphia. The college was founded in 1841 by two Augustinian friars fromSaint Augustine’s Church in Philadelphia. Today the university has five degree grantingdivisions which include the Villanova School of Business, College of Engineering, School ofLaw, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and College of Nursing. The College of Engineering(CoE) was established in 1905 and is the second oldest degree granting division within theuniversity

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Bahram Nassersharif

, faculty, and administrators (for example, a walk through of the URIcampus in the year 2020). Immediate applications of the Discovery Center include: engineering designcourses; manufacturing reviews; architectural and engineering walkthroughs; collaborative engineeringscience courses (e.g., fluid dynamics); business data visualization and decision support; marketing, publicrelations, recruiting; virtual heritage, the arts; education and training; scientific visualization; solidsmodeling; and biomedical simulation.The Discovery Center was proposed to support engineering courses throughout the curriculum as well asthe freshman year experience. The foundations of engineering freshman courses (EGR 105 and 106)would use the facility to introduce

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Dean M. Aslam; Aixia Shao

thosewho have doctoral degrees in education research are less focused on the use of latest micro and nanotechnologiesin their everyday research work. Consequently, it has become difficult to develop research partnerships witheducation researchers particularly in the areas of latest micro and nano technologies. Nevertheless the future plansof the nano research reported in this paper include the development of active collaborations with educationresearchers for the formal conduction of education research.Acknowledgement This work was partly supported by the Engineering Research Centers Program of the National ScienceFoundation under Award Number EEC-9986866.References [1] Lipman, M. (1991). Thinking in education.New York: Cambridge

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NADIYE O. ERDIL; KOENRAAD E. GIESKES

. Adding Value: Learning Communities and Student Engagement. Research in Higher Education. v45 n2 p115-138 Mar 20047. Edwards K.E., McKelfresh D.A., The Impact of a Living Learning Center on Students’ Academic Success and Persistence. Journal of College Student Development. v43 n3 p395-402 May-Jun 20028. Dick, Phillip k. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? New York : Del Rey Books, 1968.9. Scott, Ridley. Blade Runner. Warner Bros., 1982.BiographiesNadiye O. Erdil, (B.S., Computer Science – M.S., Industrial Engineering) is a Ph.D. candidate in SystemScience at Binghamton University. She has been a teaching assistant for over four years in theEngineering Design Division Department which directs the program for freshman engineering

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Paul G. Ranky

pedagogical as well as advanced educational technology methodsand tools are discussed, and demonstrated to satisfy the above requirements forboth live and eLearning / distance learning (DL) classes.IntroductionThe objective of our case-based multimedia research, that the author has startedover 25 years ago, was to create a case-based / problem-based teaching andlearning curriculum for Millennial generation engineering and IT students. Inorder to satisfy the need of an integrated, simultaneously analytical,computational, interactive, as well as practical, real-world-focused, customizededucation, we have developed an advanced 3D web-enabled active-code caselibrary, supported by on-line features, DVD full-screen, as well as HD videos,and even by smaller

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Qing Li

Measurement of Characteristics of Engineering Students: What Has Been Done and What Needs to Be Done? Qing Li, Department of Educational Psychology, University of ConnecticutAbstractStudents’ characteristics not only determine their decision making in choosing college major, but also play asignificant role in influencing their educational outcomes. Therefore, study of students’ characteristics has beenone of the important topics in educational research across different subject disciplines. In the area of engineeringeducation, a considerable amount of research effort has been spent on the measurement of the characteristics ofengineering students. The measurement results have been applied to

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Barrie Jackson

The Role of Process Safety Management in the Chemical Engineering Undergrad CurriculumBarrie Jackson Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering Queen’s University, Kingston Ontario CanadaAbstractThis paper will discuss the role of Process Safety Management education in the Chemical EngineeringCurriculum.It is recognized that the core body of knowledge for a Chemical Engineer continues to grow, and therenever seems to be enough time to adequately cover it all, one has to consider which issues are moreimportant than others. Basic fundamentals such as the sciences and math are considered essential butthere is always a question about some of the peripheral subjects such as Process Safety Management.With the notorious incidents such

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Elif Kongar; Paul Kontogiorgis; Nancy L. Russo; Tarek Sobh

create anawareness of the skills and job roles required for future labor workforce demands in the engineering andtechnology services industry and argues that these current and future roles makes them more appealing towomen.Keyword: STEM, Women in engineering, U.S. Education, IT services, Service industries.1. IntroductionServices have surpassed agriculture and manufacturing as the leading contributor to gross domesticproduct in the world today. As the global economy has become more integrated, and the demand for aworkforce required to run service-focused organizations in an efficient manner grows, the level andvariety of skills needed in this new service economy have also changed and grown. Specifically; inregards to science, technology

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Adam Halstead; Jennifer Zirnheld

structure itself is half of aparabolic arch that is situated at water’s edge. A high-power pump forces the harbor-waterthrough the sculpture’s steel framework to expel it horizontally at the sculpture’s apex. The waterfalls back into the harbor in a parabolic path, thus “completing” the arch. The design andconstruction was a collaboration of engineers, artists, city-planners, and others.“Rainbow Sculpture” was utilized as a case-based learning project in an introductory engineeringcourse entitled “Engineering Solutions.” The course includes several different case studiesdesigned to cover a wide array of engineering problems. Our qualitative and quantitative findingsconcerning this project will be compared with the other projects to estimate its

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Linda Ann Riley; Charles Thomas

Secondary Education Act (ESEA)of 2002 established the Improving Teacher Quality Grant Program (Title II). Under Part B of Title II, agrant program that supports innovative mathematics and science partnerships between K-12 schools andinstitutions of higher education was established. The purpose of the partnership program is ultimately toimprove K-12 student academic achievement. Methods to accomplish this goal involve strengtheningsubject matter knowledge of K-12 mathematics and science teachers by partnering with Universityscientists, mathematicians and engineers. In addition, Title II, Part B encourages the development ofmore challenging mathematics and science programs at the secondary education level that would betterprepare students for

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Ashraf Ghaly

‘integrated’ approach to education. Specialization in onefield must be accompanied by the ability to collaborate with specialists in other fields. Innovative ideasoccur more and more at disciplinary intersections, and Union graduates must be prepared to engage in thiskind of collaboration.”To achieve these stated goals, Union offers an integrated education that takes its long-time commitment tothe liberal arts and engineering into the 21st century. This approach makes Union a magnet for studentswith primary interests in the arts, humanities, and social sciences who understand the importance of beingscientifically and technologically literate. It also makes it a college of choice for students who have aprimary interest in science, engineering, and

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A.E. Schuster; J.A. Sanchez; C.W. Swan; J.L. Durant; D.M. Matson

survey and sought funding for the initial trip. In the summer of 2006 five students alongwith a member of the Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty traveled to Arada Vieja. Throughcommunity meetings, individual conversations, water quality testing, and health survey, the project teamestablished a clearer picture of the community’s concerns and priorities. Based on the findings of theassessment trip, and taking into consideration the ability of the student EWB chapter, the project team andcommunity decided to implement a filtration system to improve drinking water quality.In the months following the assessment trip, students worked on the design of the filtration system anddeveloped an education plan to address factors such as system use

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Ryan A. Ebel; Donald S. Abbott-McCune; David Chang

Undergraduate Mechatronics Couse Design Project MAJ Ryan A. Ebel, United States Military Academy MAJ Donald S. Abbott-McCune, United States Military Academy MAJ David Chang, United States Military AcademyAbstractThere is a real need to educate our engineering students in the application of electronics, controls,mechanics, and software; this multidisciplinary initiative has led to the creation of an undergraduateMechatronics courses at the United States Military Academy (USMA) and many other universitiesaround the world. The focus of these courses is to emphasize application and hands on laboratory work ingeneral, and design projects in particular. This paper presents an

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John Hartke; Robert Kewley; Greg Kilby; Greg Schwarz; Gunnar Tamm

and fed to theelectrical engineer for consideration of the electrical energy generation and storage. The systemsengineering is including the information in his assessment of the measures of effectiveness. A cadet majoring in electrical engineering joined the project in the second year and was asked tofocus on the electrical energy generation and storage challenges associated with a practical laser system.This required the student to work in collaboration with the other team members as tactical scenarios andconditions under which the laser system would operate were identified and defined. For the electricalengineer, the required laser beam power was the driving specification for the electrical system. From a military application

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Diana Schwerha; Chang Liu; Sertac Ozercan; Tripura Vadlamani; Lev Neiman

Ohio University. In his freetime he enjoys reading, nature and learning new things. In the future he would like to concentrate in computergraphics and work on developing new human-machine interfaces utilizing 3D graphics.References[1] K. J. Crippen and B. L. Earl, "The impact of web-based worked examples and self-explanation onperformance, problem solving, and self-efficacy," Comput. Educ., vol. 49, pp. 809-821, November. 2007.[2] A. L. Packard and G. A. Holmes, "Prototype Features of a Statistics Homework Web-Site to AdviseInstructors about Student Progress," Int. J. Instr. Media, vol. 33, pp. 389-396, 2006.[3] E. Manalo and D. Leader, "Learning Center and Statistics Department Collaboration in ImprovingStudent Performance in Introductory

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B.M. Wright; C.W. Swan; D.M. Matson

in the highlands of northern Ecuador with student teams responsible forevaluating local conditions, providing education to local stakeholders, and assessing the impact of theproject on both the community and the team members involved in the project. Communication of surveyresults helped the village to identify municipal project priorities that would unify the community. Thissocial process, initiated by the student visit, resulted in successful attainment of a grant to construct awater filtration facility for the community based on the water quality sampling test results and on a pilot-scale technology demonstration of slow sand filtration.IntroductionThe Tufts University chapter of Engineers-Without-Borders (EWB)1-3 was founded with two

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Vicki V. May

multiple resources for an engineering course seems more authentic as it betterrepresents how the students will use resources and information when they are working asengineers, where they won’t have a single textbook with sections and examples for eachtype of problem they might encounter.ObjectivesAs an alternative to requiring a textbook for a senior-level mechanics course, the studentsare creating a set of notes as a class using the wiki function in Blackboard. Through thisprocess the students will:• Synthesize information from different texts and resources, and• Collaboratively create a set of notes that they can use for quizzes and the final exam (and later in their careers).In addition, I hope to eliminate the complaints about the textbook

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Abdelrahman M. Rabie; Rahman Haleem

officers, software developers, and projectmanagers.Models for Teaching Multi-languageHigh education institutions in several countries, are now preparing their students, the future workforce, tobe, at least, bilingually competent4. Their common goal is to equip students with the language skillsneeded to excel in a rapidly-changing and culturally-diverse global economy. The curricula are developedto prepare students both culturally and professionally in orders to enable them to socially live andfunction in globalize communities. Curricula that offer students the utilitarian aspects of language studyand a functional basic vocabulary in multiple career clusters (engineering, business, health, etc.). That iswhat is referred to , in this context, as

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Aasia Riasat; Syed S. Rizvi; Faraz Arain

1 Innovative Glass-Box Approach: A Better Way to Enhance Learning of Complex Dynamic Systems Aasia Riasat1, Syed S. Rizvi2, and Faraz Arain3 1 Department of Computer Science, Institute of Business Management, Karachi, Pakistan 2, 3 Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT aasia.riasat@iobm.edu.pk , {srizvi2, farain3}@bridgeport.edu 1 Abstract Due to increasing demand for simulation and

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M. Ali Montazer, University of New Haven

approach as wellthe value of applying knowledge, tools and techniques in real-life settings.The support provided by CCAT / NALI has been a great catalyst to establish and enhanceuniversity – industry collaboration. Everyone benefited from the collaborative workpresented in this paper. The industry sponsors of the projects especially benefited fromthis relationship by getting the results of the work compiled by the student teams withfaculty supervision at no cost to them. In mega organizations such projects are typicallydone by in-house engineers/analyst on their payroll costing the company a considerableamount. In the case of smaller companies such projects do not get done or in certain casesthey are done by consultants at significant cost to the