Conference Session

Architectural Division Technical Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Cherif Megri, North Carolina A&T State University; Ismail Megri; Sameer Hamoush P.E., North Carolina A&T State University; Taher M. Abu-Lebdeh P.E.

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Diversity

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Architectural Engineering

) was suggested by Pegna in the late 1990s [4]. He proposesa new production system in layers of small masonry structures, consisting of depositing a layerof Portland cement, a reactive material on a layer of matrix material (silica), activated by watervapor. The first efforts to apply this new technology date back to the beginning of the year 2000,with the experiences of a large-scale automated extrusion and construction system calledContour crafting [7-13]. Contour crafting is a building printing technology being researchedby Behrokh Khoshnevis of the University of Southern California's Information SciencesInstitute (in the Viterbi School of Engineering) that uses a computer-controlled crane or gantry tobuild edifices rapidly and efficiently

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Grover; Terry Parker; Robert King; Joan Gosink

research in engineering systems. The Gourman Report ranks the CSMEngineering Division fifth among general engineering programs2. Primary goals of the programare to provide students with a solid foundation in engineering fundamentals, the skills to adapt torapidly changing and advanced technologies, and an aptitude for life-long learning. Uniquenessof the program is particularly evident with respect to its multidisciplinary span, heavyexperimental component, large credit-hour requirement, and use of advanced technologies.We recently replaced three traditional, closed, theory-verification laboratory courses in electricalcircuits, fluid mechanics, and stress analysis with the Multidisciplinary Engineering Laboratory(MEL) course sequence3. Two key

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg Waidley, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Jason Bittner, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

transportation professional.This paper will consider the observations and opinions of current employers of some of thegraduates of UW-Madison’s Transportation Management and Policy certificate program. Asurvey will be administered to willing employers and will attempt to quantify, though admittedlythrough a very small sample size, the employer’s thoughts regarding the relevant success of theTMP graduates in their current work environment and perhaps compare their success tograduates of traditional engineering or planning programs.BackgroundOur nation’s transportation system is a complex one. It consists of many modes, owned by manyparties, travels through many jurisdictions and impacts many people, communities, businessesand even ecosystems. Because our

Conference Session

CIT Division Technical Session #10

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua Gross; Kevin Coogan; Sarah Heckman, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Gabriel Silva de Oliveira, North Carolina State University at Raleigh

students be assessed within that model?MethodsBecause this research was partly motivated by software engineering hiring practices, whiteboardinterviews were adopted as the primary assessment mechanism. In a whiteboard interview, aninterviewee is asked to solve a challenging problem by explaining a solution verbally andvisually, using a whiteboard to demonstrate design and programming techniques. Despiteconcerns of bias [13, 14], whiteboard interviews have become a core part of the hiring process forsoftware engineers [15] because they are believed to represent a simplified model of real-worldchallenges.Research ProtocolA case study was conducted at a small liberal arts college in the Midwestern United Statesfocused on students from backgrounds

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yumin Zhang, Southeast Missouri State University; David K. Probst P.E., Southeast Missouri State University

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Engineering Physics and Physics

beginning ofthe degree programs. For electrical engineering majors, Circuit Analysis is a basic course, so weadopted a “pilot hole approach” for this course.In carpentry, it is not easy to drive a screw straight down into a piece of hardwood, and thus apilot hole can be drilled first for guidance. In addition, it can also effectively prevent the woodfrom splitting while driving in the screw. This technique can be transferred to teachingengineering courses: After a homework is assigned, at the end of the lecture the instructor cangive students 20 - 30 minutes to work on these problems in small groups. During this shortpractice session, students are instructed to discuss and write down the strategy to solve theproblems in a defined format before

Conference Session

Professional Papers

Collection

2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

Anna K. T. Howard, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Sally J. Pardue, Tennessee Technological University

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Professional Papers

faculty. Second, once these examples of artificialintelligence become widespread, their use will continue. And third, faculty will need to adjust. It hasbeen clear to the Engineering Education community for some time that our students’ learningoutcomes are better when we teach using research-based methods that have evolved beyond the1950s-versions of our classrooms. Just as the hand-held calculator in the 80s, the internet in the 90s,and cell phones in the 2000s changed the way engineering educators instructed and assessed, sotoday’s technology enhancers (some might say disruptors) require us to adapt. In this paper we willbriefly discuss the current state of AI in engineering classrooms and then discuss what we think canbe done to future-proof

Conference Session

Societal Contexts of Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Salim Elwazani

existing facilities, structures, and systems as subjects of engineeringactivity. Engineering facility addition, renovation, and maintenance undertakings continueto drive the profession, side by side new construction projects. While not all existingsubjects qualify as “heritage” subjects, the point is that heritage subjects are a significanttributary to the profession.Heritage is a link with the community at large. Historic structures, sites, and objects arean avenue for the engineering community to channel its civic obligations. “To support thesocial good of the society” is a stressed point in many engineering schools andprofessional associations. Curriculum courses, school community outreach programs,engineering firms’ practice undertakings, or

Collection

2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Frank G. Jacobitz; Thomas F. Schubert

a three-week time frame in Franceand Australia. While each of these courses, Topics in Fluid Mechanics and Advanced ElectronicCircuit Design, focused on its technical content, the desire for student understanding of thecultural environment and the impact of engineering solutions from a global and societalviewpoint were strong driving factors for each. The development of the two courses wasundertaken with the hypothesis that CIE courses can successfully be taught in an intersessionformat while providing an international experience to the students. In the second offering ofeach course, increased interaction with local industry was a goal. Assessment of the program wascarried out through typical course evaluations, student surveys, student

Collection

AEE Journal

Authors

Jenna L. Mueller; Mary Elizabeth Dotson; Jennifer Dietzel; Jenna Peters; Gabriela Asturias; Amelia Cheatham; Marlee Krieger; Baishakhi Taylor; Sherryl Broverman; Nirmala Ramanujam

of a technology. Several institutions in the United States are leveraging biomedical engineeringto impact global health through using human-centered design (Richards-Kortum, Gray, and Oden 2012;Oden et al. 2010; Malkin 2007). While interdisciplinary programs in global health have the potential to yield innovative solutionsfor the SDGs, the learners of engineering design comprise a relatively small pool of students. En-gineering design curricula have traditionally been taught in a capstone course in the final year ofcollege to engineering students (Todd et al. 1995; Zhan et al. 2018), the majority of whom are male(men received approximately 80% of all undergraduate engineering degrees awarded in the US in2

Conference Session

Engineering Transfer Issues: Two-year College to Four-year College

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kirsten A Davis, Virginia Tech; Andrea M. Ogilvie P.E., Virginia Tech; David B Knight, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

management, program assessment, university-industry partnerships, grant writing, and student development in the co-curricular learning environment with a special focus on recruiting, supporting, and graduating students from groups historically underrepresented in engineering.Dr. David B Knight, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University David Knight is an Assistant Professor and Director of International Engagement in the Department of Engineering Education and affiliate faculty with the Higher Education Program, Center for Human- Computer Interaction, and Human-Centered Design Program. His research tend to be at the macro-scale, focused on a systems-level perspective of how engineering education can become more

Conference Session

Educating Students for Professional Success

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Devdas M. Pai, North Carolina A&T State University; Robin Guill Liles, North Carolina A&T State University; Courtney Lambeth, North Carolina A&T State University; Prashant N. Kumta, University of Pittsburgh; Harvey S. Borovetz, University of Pittsburgh; Sarah K. Pixley, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine; Partha Roy, University of Pittsburgh; Jangannathan Sankar, North Carolina A&T State University

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Graduate Studies, New Engineering Educators, Student

eventual development of a continuum ofundergraduate, master’s and doctoral degree programs in bioengineering at the lead institution.Pitt and UC have long-standing and vibrant bioengineering degree programs. Further, the ERChas developed global research collaboration with the Hannover Medical School (MHH) inHannover, Germany, and a global education partnership with the Indian Institute of TechnologyMadras (IITM) in Chennai, India. As with all Gen-3 ERCs, the goal is to combine fundamental research and educationwhile focusing on innovation. This would include collaboration with small firms that engage intranslational research as well as international research partners, thus serving to prepare its

Conference Session

Supporting Students with Disabilities and Understanding Spatial Ability and Accessibility

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University; Lauren Fogg, Louisiana Tech University; Catherine Hendricks Belk, Clemson University; Katie Evans, Houston Baptist University; Mitzi Desselles, Louisiana Tech University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

instrument.Data analysis was carried out using R version 4.2.3 [21] and RStudio [22]. All statistical testswere conducted with the assumption of alpha equals 0.05. The repeated measures ANOVA andthe subsequent post hoc tests were completed primarily using the rstatix package, version 0.7.2[23]. Effect size is presented as Cohen’s d with 95% confidence interval. A commoninterpretation of Cohen’s d is small (d = 0.2), medium (d = 0.5), and large (d = 0.8) [24].ResultsDescriptive statistics are summarized by gender and program year in Table 2. Table 2. Means and standard deviations for PSVT:R and RMPFBT timepoint pre post Change

Conference Session

Improving Teaching and Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

H. David Smith; Cara Rieger; David Kanter; Robert Linsenmeier; Ann McKenna

-based as we havedefined it in this paper, adding learner-, knowledge-, assessment-, and community-centeredness.In the experimental pre-laboratory, the students did not initially receive the laboratory protocol.Also, the presentation of the astronaut challenge was followed immediately, without anylecturing or description of the laboratory protocol, by the presentation of the first of fourquestions important to solving the challenge, this question being: what factors do we need toconsider to solve the challenge? The instructor then had students brainstorm answers to thisquestion in small groups, and each small group reported out their ideas to the class. Theinstructor guided the discussion to insure that each group had an opportunity to present

Conference Session

Cooperative & Experiential Education Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rui Pan, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Johannes Strobel, Texas A&M University; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

Paper ID #10333Engineering Students’ Experiences of Workplace Problem SolvingDr. Rui Pan, Purdue University, West LafayetteDr. Johannes Strobel, Texas A&M University Dr. Johannes Strobel is Director, Educational Outreach Programs and Associate Professor, Engineering and Education at Texas A&M. After studying philosophy and information science at three universities in Germany, he received his M.Ed. and Ph.D. in Learning Technologies from the University of Missouri- Columbia. He worked at Concordia University, Montreal and has been the director of the Institute of P-12 Engineering Research and Learning at Purdue

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nick Lux, Montana State University; Brock J. LaMeres, Montana Engineering Education Research Center; Bryce E. Hughes, Montana State University; Shannon D. Willoughby, Montana State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

, technology integration, online course design and delivery, program evaluation, and assessment. Dr. Lux’s current research agenda is STEM teaching and learning in K-12 contexts, technology integration in teacher preparation and K-12 contexts, educational gaming design and integration, and new technologies for teaching and learning.Dr. Brock J. LaMeres, Montana Engineering Education Research Center Dr. Brock J. LaMeres is the Director of the Montana Engineering Education Research Center (MEERC) and an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Montana State University. LaMeres teaches and conducts research in the area of computer engineering. LaMeres is currently studying the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 1

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Krystal Corbett Cruse, Louisiana Tech University; Carl Boyet, Louisiana Tech University; James D Palmer P.E., Louisiana Tech University; William C. Long, Louisiana Tech University

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

. Eng. Educ., vol. 99, no. 4, pp. 371–395, 2010. doi: 10.1002/j.2168- 9830.2010.tb01069.x.[4] G. Lichtenstein, H. G. Loshbaugh, B. Claar, H. L. Chen, K. Jackson, and S. D. Sheppard, "An engineering major does not (necessarily) an engineer make: Career decision making among undergraduate engineering majors," J. Eng. Educ., vol. 98, no. 3, pp. 227–234, 2009. doi: 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2009.tb01021.x.[5] L. H. Ikuma, A. Steele, S. Dann, O. Adio, and W. N. Waggenspack Jr., "Large-scale student programs increase persistence in STEM fields in a public university setting," J. Eng. Educ., vol. 108, pp. 57–81, 2019. doi: 10.1002/jee.20244.[6] P. Dawson, J. van der Meer, J. Skalicky, and K. Cowley, "On the effectiveness

Conference Session

Enviromental Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alandra Kahl, Pennsylvania State University, Greater Allegheny

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Environmental Engineering

engineering are required to takedesign as a major course, but civic and community engagement is an elective course. Studentparticipation in the GTECH Strategies initiative was entirely voluntary. Our student pool isprimarily first year, first generation college students. As it is a small campus, the total number ofstudents involved in the project is not large (~40), and students are primarily freshman andsophomore level. The area, which used to be an industrial hub, has experienced significanteconomic hardship due to the decline of the steel industry. Exodus of industry from the area hasresulted in many parcels of vacant land in the area. The plots of vacant land are often eyesores

Conference Session

Reflections on the “Raise the Bar” Initiative (Part I) - Using a Decade of Experience to Chart the Future

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen J. Ressler, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

Statement 465: Academic Prerequisites for Licensure and Professional Practice.” American Society of Civil Engineers, June 2, 2010. Accessed at http://www.asce.org/Content.aspx?id=8376, January 10, 2012.8. Center for the Study of Higher Education. “Engineering Change.” Pennsylvania State University, College of Education. Accessed at http://www.ed.psu.edu/cshe/abet/ec2000.html, January 15, 2011.9. Ressler, S.J. “Assessing the Standards for Assessment: Is it Time to Update Criterion 3?” Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education, June 2010.10. Committee on Curricula and Accreditation. “Commentary on the ABET Engineering Criteria for Civil and Similarly Named Programs in the Context of the

Collection

2023 CIEC

Authors

MADDUMAGE KARUNARATNE; Christopher Gabany

: Digital and Electronics Laboratory 4. EE 0257: Analysis and Design of Electronic Circuits 5. EE 1541: Computer ArchitectureThese ABET assessments associated with the curriculum were selected in consultation with EEand COE Department faculty, and the Department IAC.Meeting ABET RequirementsMeeting ABET requirements and objectives demands an effort to teach ethics creatively. Theuniversity’s goal is to creatively address each component of ethics, assess the understanding ofeach term, and ensure every assessment elicits a unique exposure to the student. No less than 10creative and unique events are completed to teach engineering ethics. This results in a minimumof 20 documented ABET assessments centered on ethics for the EE and COE programs. A

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter W. Fisher; Carol Crowley; Connie Kubo Della-Piana

environmentalists, lumber company executives and lobbyists,lumber worker union representatives, individual lumberjacks, and local government officials,each presenting his side of the issue. The senator is particularly concerned because someenvironmentalists have told him that there is no need to cut big trees to get large pieces of woodany longer. New processes can use small, rapidly grown trees to make any size of "wood" piece.Another group has claimed that most of the really old, large trees are not being used in the U.S.,but are being sold to Japan at a high profit. On the other hand, lobbyists for the lumber industryand local government officials in the Pacific Northwest are threatening large layoffs of peopleand

Conference Session

Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ligia Carvallo; David Mikolaitis; Norman Fitz-Coy; Raluca Rosca

Flash presentation, so it ispractically impossible to remember exactly how much of a Flash movie someone has seen.Therefore it is important to keep each Flash object to a minimum of length, so navigation insideeach object is reduced to a minimum. This has the disadvantage of increasing the number ofobjects to be managed by AuthorwareThe delicate balance of large versus small files is also disturbed by the interference of 2 audiofiles when navigating to a new file/new scene in the same page of a Flash document. Figure 3presents such an example, where having the mouse rolling over any of the numerical keys startedan audio description of the corresponding menu, while pressing the key moved us to therespective scene in the movie and a new audio

Conference Session

Professional Development for Graduate Students

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Melissa Gavin, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Randy Mentz, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Lori M. Wedig, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Christine H. Storlie, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Eric Herbst, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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Graduate Studies

2017 as the Research and Compliance Man- ager overseeing research projects associated with assessment, student services, marketing, and faculty development. He supports grant writing activities, grant administration, and data analysis. He also over- sees compliance with regulations that affect programming and research administered by the Center for Distance Learning, the Continuing Education Institute, and the School of Graduate Studies.Lori M Wedig, University of Wisconsin - Platteville Lori Wedig works in the Center for Distance Learning (CDL) and is the Academic Advisor/Outreach Spe- cialist for the NSF STEM Master Scholars program and the Masters of Science in Engineering Graduate Scholars. She has worked

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas G Schmucker, University of Utah; Steven J. Burian, University of Utah

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Civil Engineering

Page 26.847.2paper discusses assessment of the top-down design of the course and assessment measures, howthis course fits into a larger BOK-inspired program (a structure that has been in place for nearly15 years), and presents the analysis of student products including direct and indirect methods.Background – University of Utah’s 3 Course Sequence that creates a Professional SpineIn the early 2000’s, the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University ofUtah refocused their undergraduate program to more integrally support professional skill setrelated outcomes. These outcomes included communication, public policy, business, publicadministration, globalization, leadership, teamwork, professional ethics and responsibility

Conference Session

The Challenges of Tech Transfer

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carmo D'Cruz, Florida Tech; Dr. Shoaib Shaikh, Nothrup Grumman Corporation

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Systems Engineering Constituent Committee

received excellent reviews from students, isbeing taught for a second successive semester at Florida Tech. This course is uniquely designedto leverage proven Systems Engineering principles, tools and practices that parallelentrepreneurship concepts and steps for high tech entrepreneurial success such as RequirementsEngineering, Competitive Analysis, Systems Modeling and Simulation, Product DevelopmentProcess Engineering, Project Engineering, Decision and Risk Analysis, Systems Integration,Performance Assessment, System Launch Considerations, System Life-Cycle Costing, QualityEngineering, etc.As part of the course and program requirements, students work in E-teams which can includeoutside technical experts as team members or advisors. The E-teams

Conference Session

DEED Technical Session 3 Capstone Design

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wilhelm Friess, University of Maine; Justin Lapp, University of Maine; Andrew Goupee

the departmentimplementing five distinct instructional modes defining how student teams interacted withfaculty. In this paper we first describe each of the modes and the reasoning that triggered theimplementation of that mode. We provide information for each mode related to six importantmetrics that a department may consider when implementing a capstone model: scalability,project diversity [9], student satisfaction, cost, consistency of the assessment process [9], andfaculty workload. The relative performance of the five modes across these metrics are comparedin the discussion. Recommendations and conclusions are then made. The information andrecommendations provided will allow programs to help determine the most appropriate capstonemodel

Conference Session

Aerospace Teaching and Learning II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Narayanan M. Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marilyn Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology; Brian German, Georgia Institute of Technology; Dolores S. Krausche, Florida Center for Engineering Education; Erian A. Armanios, University of Texas, Arlington

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Aerospace

Naval Ship and Development Center, Eglin Air Force Base, Bell Aerospace Textron, and EDS, among others. She served as the principal investigator and test director for infrared detectability assessments for the U. S. Navy’s Amphibious Assault Landing Craft Program, as editor for operations manuals for the Navy’s Special Warfare submarine delivery vehicles, and as associate program director for projects in electronic countermeasures and radar detection of submarine towed arrays. Her graduate studies in the area of high-resolution spectral analyses of Jovian decametric radiation, leading to a Ph.D. from the University of Florida, also included extensive field work in the installation and operation of observing stations

Conference Session

Educational & Professional Issues of Strategic Importance to the Civil Engineering Profession – and ASCE

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew K Swenty P.E., Virginia Military Institute; Brian J. Swenty P.E., University of Evansville

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Civil Engineering

to EAC-ABETaccredited civil engineering programs, there is an implied responsibility of civil engineeringdepartment heads to ensure that faculty who teach civil engineering design courses are licensedprofessional engineers. Licensed civil engineering faculty are knowledgeable about licensurelaws and regulations and are better prepared to educate students about this topic.Civil Engineering Curriculum SurveyA survey of 50 EAC-ABET accredited civil engineering program curriculums was conducted tocreate baseline knowledge of licensure education in programs. The programs included 31 publicuniversities and 19 private universities from 30 different states. A spectrum of schools wasselected including large and small civil engineering programs

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Johnson; Mike A. Littlejohn; Jr., Thomas H. Brown; Carl F. Zorowski

between all parties but it is recognized that face to face meetings and interactions will beboth useful and necessary. Overall program coordination and administration will be provided by North CarolinaState University and SRC in Research Triangle Park.Advantages and Benefits There are a number of advantages to begin this program as proposed. The probability of success will beincreased by beginning with a small precursor internship project activity this summer. The effort is small enoughto be easily managed while being large enough to demonstrate the program concept and test some features of anexpanded program. The experience gained will be invaluable for implementing the formal program and the riskassociated with the initial investment

Conference Session

ECE Curriculum Innovations

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Bunting, Oklahoma State University; Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State University; James West, Oklahoma State University

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Electrical and Computer

further detail below, address problems at both a local and national levelthat are being addressed jointly by experts in engineering education, assessment, and EM.There is a national need for reform of undergraduate engineering education; from a peak in 1987,B.S. degrees in electrical engineering dropped nearly 40% by 1998 [1] with larger declines forunderrepresented minorities and women. This decline is, to a large, part due to students’experiences with poor teaching- dry lecture and a lack of connection between laboratory andclass work [2]. Since engineering students often employ active [3] and sensory [4] learningstyles, a lecture-based curriculum focusing on legacy materials is not an effective method oflearning. By teaching electromagnetics

Conference Session

K-12 Activities

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dean Aslam, Michigan State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

; Vaughan, 1992; Lipman, 1991; National Research Council, 1996).2 Blumenfeld, P. C., Marx, R. W., Patrick, H., Krajcik, J. S., & Soloway, E. (1997). Teaching for understanding. In B. J. Biddle, T. L. Good & I. F. Goodson (Eds.), International handbook of teachers and teaching (pp. 819-878). The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.3 Lipman, M. (1991). Thinking in education.New York: Cambridge University Press.4 CTGV. (1992). The jasper series as an example of anchored instruction: Theory, program description, and assessment data. Educational Psychologist, 27(3), 291-315.5 Krajcik, J. S., Blumenfeld, P. C., Marx, R. W., Bass, K. M., Fredricks, J., & Soloway, E. (1998). Inquiry in project- based science classrooms: Initial