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Engineering/Education Collaborators

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2004 Annual Conference

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Tamara Knott

Session 3130 Bridges for Engineering Education: Exploring ePortfolios in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech T. W. Knott1, V. K. Lohani1, O.H. Griffin, Jr1, G.V. Loganathan2 G. T. Adel3, and T. M. Wildman4 1 Engineering Fundamentals/ 2Civil and Environmental Engineering/ 3 Mining and Minerals Engineering/ 4Teaching and Learning Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityAbstractOne of the objectives of an engineering/education collaborative known as Bridges forEngineering Education

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Keshav Varde

Session 1535 Broadening Engineering Education through International Programs Keshav S. Varde College of Engineering & Computer Science University of Michigan-Dearborn Dearborn, MichiganAbstractIn recent years there has been a rapid move to globalize engineering profession throughoutsourcing product development, manufacturing and service. Nowhere has this been moreobvious than in automotive and computer/software industry. Realizing the need to provide someaspects of global education to engineering and computer science

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Engineering/Education Collaborators

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2004 Annual Conference

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Tom Thompson; Terri Fiez; Larry Flick; Edith Gummer

Session 3130 Enhancing Campus Collaborations Through Design Research in Engineering Education Reform Tom Thompson, Larry Flick, Edith Gummer, Terri Fiez Department of Science and Mathematics Education/Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State UniversityAbstractSuccessful collaborations are important to implementation of systemic reforms in undergraduateengineering education. Evidence for this exists with the formation of national coalitions ofengineering programs and campus collaborations between professionals in engineering andeducation. Electrical Engineering and

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Engineering/Education Collaborators

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2004 Annual Conference

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Norma Velasquez-Bryant; Gokhan Pekhan; Ahmad Itani; Pamela Cantrell

9.941.2engineering credit. Three 10-hour sessions were planned for the teachers that included half a day Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering EducationFriday and all day Saturday. Major tasks of the course included learning engineering content anddeveloping the engineering design modules, which included designing a java applet for thesimulation activity for the Web page. Teachers also received instruction in advanced assessmentstrategies and scientific inquiry pedagogy. Between session instruction and collaboration wasdone via the Web through WebCT. Teachers logged on to our class webpage and answeredweekly discussion

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Engineering/Education Collaborators

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jeffrey Connor; Vinod Lohani

will now beresponsible for improving engineering education and pedagogy within the College byundertaking scholarly activities in collaboration with their colleagues in other engineeringdepartments and experts in education psychology and pedagogy. The three key issues that theCollege and ENGE must address are: i) the need for faculty and administrators to betterunderstand the teaching and learning process so that they will be willing and enthusiasticpartners in change, ii) the culture for assessment within COE is poorly developed and lacks anexplicit focus on learning, and iii) the fact that the existing engineering curricula does not fullymeet contemporary standards as suggested by several decades of progress in understandingstudent learning

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Engineering/Education Collaborators

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2004 Annual Conference

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Zsuzsanna Szabo; Darrell Sabers; Reid Bailey

Session 3130 Integrating Education Students in the Assessment of Engineering Courses Reid Bailey, Zsuzsanna Szabo, Darrell Sabers Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering/Educational Psychology/Educational Psychology University of ArizonaABSTRACTMost engineering educators have several engineering degrees and no education degrees. Thissituation leads to well-meaning instructors without the knowledge necessary to most effectivelyteach their students. Meanwhile, education students frequently lack opportunities to applyassessment techniques learned in their classes. A collaboration between engineering

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Understanding Students: Cognition

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2004 Annual Conference

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Lawrence Genalo

is frequently centered on deliveringthe content to students instead of facilitating student inquiry during the learning process.Although many of the principles of constructivism offer promise in the development ofsuccessful learning environments, practical applications are often hard to incorporate into thecommon constraints of the school environment.1With the recent emphasis on “learner-centered” education in engineering education, a deeperunderstanding and application of Piaget’s work is in order. The purpose of this paper is topresent a model of an engineering/education collaborative program that is built on Piagetianprinciples and attempts to outreach to K-12 students to build their enthusiasm for engineeringand science. Thus, this paper

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Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Zhanmin Zhang; Susan Tighe; Gerardo Flintsch; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

9.564.1optimization. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for EngineeringSome of the components necessary to facilitate these developments include: 1. A strategic agenda for infrastructure management that guides the efforts, provides direction, and sets short, intermediate, and long-term goals and priorities. 2. Academic research programs focused on infrastructure management that are capable of conducting high-quality intermediate and long-term interdisciplinary research efforts. 3. A significant number of qualified graduate and undergraduate students interested in infrastructure management. 4. Funding

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Thomas Edgar; Joel Farber

the teaming aspect of the sharedprofessor/practitioner roles in teaching this class. The paper will look at the background and Page 9.1209.1nature of the course, the instructors, course structure and scheduling, practitioner’sresponsibilities and perks, the course as part of the comprehensive design experience (CDE) Proceedings of the 2004 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2004 American Society of Engineering Educationrequirements for ABET and finally, individual comments about teaming by the professor and thepractitioner.Course Background CE 5830

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Expert Advice on Instructional Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Felder

Session 1375 THE ABC’S OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION: ABET, BLOOM’S TAXONOMY, COOPERATIVE LEARNING, AND SO ON Richard M. Felder, Rebecca Brent North Carolina State University/Education Designs, Inc.If you are like most university professors, you were not taught anything about how to teach ingraduate school or when you began in your first faculty position. All you had to go on was howyour professors taught, but nobody taught them anything about teaching either. It doesn’t make alot of sense, but that’s our system. Teaching is too complex and too important a profession to let people do it

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Hazem Said

Society for Engineering EducationWhen a student selects a question, the application displays the question and the availableanswer as shown in figure 4.Figure 4: The student interface displaying an answer to a questionThe administrator interface which is accessible by the staff of the learning center providesa control panel to answer questions, edit answers, view feedback and add newadministrators as shown in figure 5.Figure 5: The instructor’s interface to the online learning centerProposed Collaboration among International ProgramsThe online learning center can provide a great tool for collaboration among institutionsaround the world. This can be applied to the area of computer programming or other areasin engineering education. Students from

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Marjan Zadnik

to creating planned change in tertiaryinstitutions: "identify the need for change, recognise the everyday realities of obstacles to Page 9.1184.1change, raise awareness of the issues and generate discussion, promote change on multiplefronts, provide expertise and support, and connect [the change] to accountability and rewards Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationsystems" (pp.13-15). These points provide sound advice for planning, monitoring, andmanaging the TQIP process across the Division and it

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Toshiyuki Yamamoto; Kazuya Takemata; Masakatsu Matsuishi

management system for thefirst time, the first lesson focused on learning how to use the collaboration functions. Page 9.541.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ø 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 4. The Hybrid Group Specific Learning ActivitiesFigure 5 shows the main menu of the collaboration in e-Learning. Figure 5. The Main Menu of the Collaboration in e-Learning. In addition to the links to group email, group discussion, chat and whiteboard, the menuincludes such items as brief explanations of the collaboration

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Carmen Boje; Nicolae Dragulanescu

, departing from or opposed to the usual/ established rules3 Polyvalent: having more than one valence or value4 Heuristic: having usefulness for scientific discovery Page 9.571.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationdevelop its own system of concepts, methods, laws, models, theories, terminology,procedures and standards concerning the information generation, transmission and use. Thereare now needs to build some bridges between

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Bahman Motlagh; Walter Buchanan; Alireza Rahrooh

the loop.1. IntroductionThe Department of Engineering Technology at University of Central Florida has been involvedin teaching control feedback concepts since its inception. Over the yeas this commitment hasevolved into a four-credit upper division course, EET4732. This course introduces analog controlsystems with the following topics; mathematical modeling and simulation, time and frequency Page 9.743.1response, stability analysis, analog controller design and implementation, and an introduction to “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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JoAnn Lighty; Holly Moore; David Richardson; Nick Safai

Building Bridges From the Community College to a University Engineering Education A Model for Collaborative Approach Dr. Holly Moore, Dr. Nick M. Safai, and Dr. David Richardson Salt Lake Community College Dr. JoAnn Lighty - University of UtahAbstract Salt Lake Community College’s Engineering Department and the four-year institutions of higher education in the state of Utah are involved in a uniqueeducational partnership. Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) students transferto the University of Utah (U of U), Utah State University, Weber State Universityand Brigham Young University – all of which provide ABET

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Information Integration and Security

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2004 Annual Conference

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J. Cecil

manufacture identified part designs using the Internet as the vehicle ofcommunication. Inter university student teams form design, planning and manufacturingteams for this innovative learning experience. They create IOEMs, which is then used asthe formal basis for collaboration and product development activities. Lectures andlaboratory modules were used to introduce students to information modeling methods anddistributed manufacturing concepts. Page 9.736.8 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

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E. Hirleman

, American Society for Engineering Education ‚ Increased study and work abroad participation by students. ‚ Increased exchange of first-rate US, Chinese, and German engineering students. ‚ Graduates of engineering programs at all partner schools who are better prepared to: - function in a global technical environment and relate productively to the challenges of a global marketplace - transcend cultural issues to collaborate effectively in diverse, international teams - incorporate best practices from global technical experience and a range of engineering and company cultures ‚ Development and demonstration of the GEARE model that can be adopted by other engineering

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

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Linda Katehi; Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Katherine Banks; John Gaunt; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman; Phillip Wankat

will not be available for use in the master’s degree plan of study.Core Graduate Courses in the School of Engineering EducationTable 2 lists potential core courses that would be offered to students in the graduate program.Table 2. Potential Core Engineering Education Graduate Courses Potential Required Courses Course Level Collaborating Faculty (3 credits unless otherwise noted) Overview of Engineering Sciences I EED 5XX Engineering faculty Overview of Engineering Sciences II EED 5XX Engineering faculty Supervised Teaching Practicum I EED 5XX

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Engineering Education in Muslim Worlds: Introductory Workshop

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sedki Riad; Mostafa Kamel

Page 1 of 23 Session Number Engineer ing Education in Egypt: Sur vey and Assessment Sedki M. Riad and Mostafa M. Kamel Pr ofessor , Vir ginia Tech / Pr ofessor Emer itus, Cair o Univer sity, and PfCE ConsultantAbstr actThis paper provides an overview of Engineering Education in Egypt. It surveys bothgovernmental as well as private institutions. The paper discusses the challenges facingEngineering education institutions in the country as well as critiques the new private universityexperiment that began in 1996. The paper also discusses undergraduate curriculum issuesthrough examination of samples of Electronic and Communication curriculum from some of

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Industrial Collaborations

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Ziegler

for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Copyright2004, American Society for Engineering Education.disciplines. The students then experienced concepts relating to automotive technologies bybuilding the roller coaster vehicle and studying the impact of various weights and designs on thevehicle as it progressed around the track. To further their multidisciplinary query into computersand electronics, students constructed a digital roller coaster speedometer, as a method todetermine the relative speeds of the vehicle at varying locations on the roller coaster track, andthe impact of vehicle design and weight on speed. Digital photography helped studentsunderstand the relationship between electronic schematics and digital

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Industrial Collaborations

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2004 Annual Conference

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Carol Considine; Paul Kauffmann

engineering technology curriculums and thus do not require a great dealof faculty time to prepare.These programs will help build and maintain relationships between engineering educators andindustry in our region and facilitate keeping our faculty current in their teaching fields.Participants are typically employed in industry and interested in developing new skill sets or Page 9.387.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationupdating existing skill sets. These classes serve industry requirements for

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Industrial Collaborations

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2004 Annual Conference

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James Smith; Scott Dunning

years with some out for as many as twenty years. Most had families with some“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”having children already in college. Their biggest concern was their ability to handle theadvanced mathematics used in the upper level EET classes. To ease the students into thecurriculum, the first course selected was one that was one that did not depend on differentialequations. Extra time was scheduled for recitation periods to focus on mathematics skills.Class ScheduleNext, a schedule had to be planned that would fit with the employees’ work schedules and fitwith instructor’s

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Industrial Collaborations

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2004 Annual Conference

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Willie Ofusu; Austin Asgill

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationWhile the understanding of active components such as transistors and passive components suchas resistors, inductors and capacitors was useful, the training of these graduates was not basedsolely on this. Training of these graduates was based rather on the modular and system levels.For this, the students were taught the functions and hence applications of the modules and theinterfaces needed to connect them together, taking into account the different standards employedin industry. The students were taught the various types of equipment needed to measure factorssuch as voltage and current levels, and frequency of

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Industrial Collaborations

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jerry Visser; Carrie Steinlicht; Teresa Hall

2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineeringinnovative business and technological development, but actually illustrate the great opportunitiesfor future growth especially in small-scale technology and knowledge-based industries.According to Manufacturing News, South Dakota had 1338 manufacturing companies in 2002with over half employing one to nine people and only seven firms employing more than 500people.6 In a state with just over 750,000 inhabitants, only 32,060 persons were employed inproduction or management occupations in 2002.7 This is roughly 10% of total state employmentas tracked by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Standards

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Judith Miller; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

AC 2004-463: A UNIVERSITY/PUBLIC SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP IN K-6ENGINEERING EDUCATIONJoseph Rencis, University of ArkansasJudith Miller, Page 9.122.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2004 Session 1793 A University/Public School Partnership in K-6 Engineering Education Judith E. Miller, Joseph J. Rencis Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester MA 01609AbstractMassachusetts introduced technology and engineering into its K-12 curriculum frameworks in2001. With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Worcester

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Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Linda Katehi; Leah Jamieson; Katherine Banks; Kamyar Haghighi; John Gaunt; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman; Phillip Wankat

agreement about what that means.• Confounding factors make cause-and-effect relationship between a treatment and an outcome difficult to prove and replicate.Wankat et al. goes on to cites a number of other professional issues including the low relativeimportance of the scholarship of teaching in promotion, past lack of funding for engineeringeducation research, and the necessity for multidisciplinary collaboration with non-engineers1. Page 9.79.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for EngineeringEngineering

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Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Yakov Cherner

that such dynamic linkingis an important feature in many effective educational software designs. The framework enablesdiverse components to co-exist while sharing resources on a computer.Simulations, virtual experiments, dynamic graphs, tables, streaming video, students’ notebooks,journals, e-mail and collaboration tools can be "plugged" together in desired configurations toallow them to collaborate thereby attaining added functionality. Page 9.792.1Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationFig. 1 The module “Plumbing

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Lewinski; William Hudson

Session Number 1793 Lethal Force Encounters - Yet Another Opportunity for Engineering Education William B. Hudson, William Lewinski Minnesota State University, Mankato Mankato, MinnesotaAbstractInterdisciplinary research at Minnesota State University, Mankato and the cooperation of TempePolice Department has made it possible to develop instrumentation and to establish baselineperformance metrics for the evaluation of human performance in extreme encounters. AMotorola MC68HC11 microcontroller board was adapted by two Electrical Engineering

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Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Krishna Vedula

science and engineering by creating doctoral programs, representing collaborations of researchers in nanoscale science and engineering, education, and cognitive and behavioral sciences. • Informal Science Education (NISE): This national effort is intended to foster public awareness and understanding of nanoscale science and engineering through development of media projects (film, radio, television) and exhibits. • Instructional Materials Development (NIMD): This effort is intended to support development of prototype instructional materials that promote student learning and interest in nanoscale science, engineering, and technology concepts for grades 7-12