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David Lanning; Wahyu Lestari; Shirley Waterhouse

MechanicalEngineering (ME) degree program, which is new on the Prescott campus, will undergo its firstABET accreditation visit during the summer of 2010.The Prescott campus of ERAU might be thought of as a “teaching institution,” where emphasisin the undergraduate engineering programs is placed on faculty-student interaction, designexperiences, and hands-on laboratory learning. Design projects are sprinkled throughout thecurriculum starting from the freshman year1, culminating in a significant and intensive two-semester design, manufacturing, and testing sequence during the senior year2. Many of thesedesign experiences require students to spend considerable time in the machine and fabricationshop constructing test articles and additional time in the laboratory

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Eniko T. Enikov; Vasco Polyzoev; Joshua Gill

.: ABET, 2002. 7. Aburdene, MF and El-Sharkawy, M, “Integrated Engineering Workstations in Electrical Engineering Laboratories,” IEEE Transactions on Education, v. E-32, p. 404–408, 1989. 8. Kadlowec, J, Lockette, PV, Constans, E, Sukumaran, B, and Cleary, D, “Visual Beams: Tools for Statics and Solid Mechanics,” 32nd ASEE/IEEE Forntiers in Education Conference, Boston Mass., November 6–9, p. T4D-7 - T4D-10, 2002. 9. Felder, RM. “Reaching the Second Tier-Learning and Teaching Styles in College science Education”, J. of College Science Teaching, v. 23(5)p. 286-290, 1993 Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2010, American

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Kenneth W. Santarelli

newgraduates from other areas difficult. The model that is evolving provides only upper divisioninstruction from the degree granting institution. Upper division instruction is provided through theuse of interactive live-broadcast lectures and classes that combine students from the distant and maincampus locations. A regional university center hosts the laboratories required for upper divisionstudents and is centrally located with respect to the population distribution. This approach requiresthe development of partnerships with the region’s community colleges to provide the explicit lowerdivision curriculum that students require to meet their degree objectives.This paper will describe the model in its current state of evolution and report on its

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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Reza Raeisi; Sudhanshu Singh

37 Curricular Innovation for Real-Time Embedded Systems Course Reza Raeisi Sudhanshu Singh, Graduate Student California State University, Fresno Electrical and Computer Engineering DepartmentAbstractThe objective of this project is to experience and develop rapid prototypes of System-on-chip(SoC) using soft-core processor in the undergraduate laboratory. We will share the experience ona reconfigurable hardware-software co-design environment and µClinux embedded Real TimeOperating System (RTOS). A soft

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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Amelito Enriquez

areas examined, engineering has much lower online representation compared to others.One reason for this slow adoption of online teaching pedagogies in US engineering programs canbe attributed to the perception by some engineering faculty and administrators that onlinecourses are not equivalent in content and rigor when compared to the traditional, face-to-facecourses. This paper presents the results of a study comparing the performance of on-campus andonline students in a sophomore-level Circuits Analysis course in a public two-year institution. Inthis introductory course for all engineering majors, content is delivered simultaneously to on-campus students and online students (dual delivery mode) using a combination of Tablet PCfunctionality

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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Said Shakerin; Camilla Saviz

indicated that Pacific engineering students have a strong preference for hands-on and visuallearning. Current research in engineering education has shown that students' learning and theirability to retain concepts is enhanced when different learning styles are addressed, including theuse of visual teaching aids1, 2.The Introduction to Fluid Mechanics is a 4-credit core course for four of the seven engineeringmajors at Pacific, and has a laboratory associated with the course. The laboratory has a numberof experiment setups, ranging from small table-top units to measure fluid properties to an 18-footwater flume to study open channel flow phenomena. These experiments are augmented with in-class demonstrations used to help students visualize concepts

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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Lizabeth Thompson Schlemer; Faith Mimnaugh

means of instruction in engineering, while sportshave been around for eons. There have been many great coaches through the years that have writtenmuch on how to achieve success on the court or field. This paper discusses the ways in which theliterature on coaching has been used to influence teaching practices in a senior design course using PBL.The paper first reviews literature on the subject. Next the roles of both the coach and the instructor areexplored to draw parallels between coaching and PBL. This is followed by a discussion on techniquesused by some of the best coaches organized into three main areas: 1) Practice and games 2) Teamworkand individual performance, and 3) Feedback for individual improvement. Incorporated in the threeareas

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-line Streaming of Dynamics Class” Jeigh Shelley ........................................................................................................................................... 172“An Evolving Model for Delivering Engineering Education to a Distant Location” Kenneth W. Santarelli ............................................................................................................................. 192“Using Sports Coaching Techniques to Enhance Project Based Learning Instruction” Lizabeth Thompson Schlemer & Faith Mimnaugh ................................................................................. 207“Model Eliciting Activity for an Undergraduate Thermal Measurements Laboratory”* Paul van Bloemen Waanders

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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J. S. Shelley P.E.

thorough manner needed to be developed between 8 amMonday, when the vandalism was discovered, and 11 am Tuesday when the class next met.Options for content delivery included using a correspondence model, having another facultymember at the main campus teach the remote section, and moving lectures to a portable videoteleconference system. Having students study from the book on their own and completehomework and quizzes by correspondence was not an attractive option for this critical junior-level class. No other instructors were readily available to teach Dynamics on short notice for anunknown length of time without overloading their schedules. The portable video teleconferencesystem, while capable of broadcasting lecture, was limited in its ability

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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Craig Johnson

18 Work in Progress: Use of Video in Casting Education Craig Johnson Central Washington UniversityAbstractOur traditional casting course features both lecture and laboratory venues. However it is notedthat many students have never interacted with foundry equipment, and there is a significantlearning curve associated with the ability of a student to execute basic green sand foundryoperations. Education methods were sought to reduce this learning curve resulting in a series ofshort videos with subsequent incorporation into the curricula.In this study

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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Wangping Sun

a senior capstone project or service learning in the community abroad (such as finding water and sanitation solutions for a community that is having a high incidence of waterborne diseases; health surveys and health education for the local people). 8. Research abroad: the student travels to a laboratory abroad and conducts research under the guidance of a faculty member or research associate. 9. Faculty exchange: the faculty member from the home university teaches, or co-teaches a class of the students in the university abroad. 10. Distance learning: internet technology (web-conferencing, list-serv, emails, etc.) is used to create a virtual community for learning across cultural and national boundaries

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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Amelito Enriquez

college-level math courses. The Summer EngineeringInstitute is a two-week residential summer camp that offers participating students the opportunityto gain insight into the engineering academic program through a combination of lectures, hands-on laboratory activities, workshops and projects with engineering professionals. Preliminaryresults indicate success of both programs. Math Jam participants show improvement in the MathPlacement test. Almost all participants scored higher in the placement test compared to their pre-program scores. For sixty four percent of them, the improvement in their scores was highenough to place them to at least the next higher math class. Engineering Institute participantsshowed improved understanding of the

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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James Helbling

program is AerospaceEngineering (AE). Within the AE curriculum, there is a strong emphasis on laboratory anddesign work to prepare the students for senior capstone design courses.Students majoring in AE must choose one of two design tracks: aircraft or spacecraft. Theaircraft track culminates in a sequence of two (2) senior design courses: Aircraft Preliminary 298Design and Aircraft Detail Design. Likewise, the spacecraft track also has two (2) senior designcourses: Spacecraft Preliminary Design and Spacecraft Detail Design.In each of the Preliminary Design courses, students work in teams to design a conceptual aircraftor spacecraft from the ground