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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Zheng-Tao Deng; Abdul R. Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

Systems Approach, industry’s wider acceptance ofcontinuous improvement techniques and a faster search, acquisition, utilization, adaptation, anddeployment of technological breakthroughs.Engineering has become more interdisciplinary and team-oriented than ever before. Industryhas demonstrated and supporting this new practice by re-organizing members of engineeringdivisions into production teams which focus on new projects, products or processes.Professional engineering societies as well as the National Research Council and theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology are amenable in supporting attention to acall to new “Best Practices” for engineering from industry (i.e. elements of a constituency).However, in established engineering

Conference Session

Curriculum: Ideas/Concepts in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kofi Nyamekye; Yildirim Omurtag

paper presents a new model for designing a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) program inengineering. The paper recognizes that changes in the global economy require a new approachfor producing Ph.D. graduates in engineering. Today, some major U.S. companies are beginningto realize that they can get top-flight research scientists offshore to solve their research problemsat substantially low costs. Compounding such problems is the lack of state budgets for fundingnew engineering programs in the emerging disciplines. Consequently, a critical need exists toaddress these critical issues facing the U.S. Ph.D. programs in engineering. The paper first givesan overview of the critical problems facing the U.S. engineering education, and then uses thedesign

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Josef Rojter

that was required in the workplace but not acquired in education.Johnson, Solomon and Florman noted that engineering graduates lackedcultural awareness and diversity needed for an effective engineering practiceand the enhancement of the profession [6][19][[20]. The acquisition through education of humanities and social sciencescannot be regarded just as an extension of knowledge capital. It providesprofessional engineers with means of new way of critical thinking and inquiry.Hudson in a study of humanities and engineering graduates found thathumanities students had highly developed divergent thinking skills whereasengineering graduates were more convergent thinkers121]. Divergent thinkerswere more effective in conceptualizing an issue into

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Holly Ault

Session 2238 A Comparison of Solid Modeling Curriculum Approaches Holly K. Ault, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering Department Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, Massachusetts 01609-2280AbstractMany schools have recently introduced solid modeling to their curricula in Engineering DesignGraphics. Some courses introduce solid modeling at the end of a traditional 2D CAD course,whereas others begin with the solid model. Some, but not all, of the concepts traditionally taughtin conventional drafting or CAD courses are necessary

Conference Session

Current Topics in IE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jackson Denise; Charles Aikens

Ignite: A New Paradigm for Curriculum Design and Deployment In Undergraduate Industrial Engineering Education C. Hal Aikens, Denise F. Jackson University of Tennessee – KnoxvilleAbstractThis paper describes a process for achieving major reforms to the undergraduate industrialengineering curriculum at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville (UTK). The work describedhas been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and has as its main goal thedevelopment of a new paradigm for baccalaureate engineering education. The model underdevelopment in UTK’s Department of Industrial and Information Engineering is called Igniteand will build on seven years of

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching and Learning

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Collura, University of New Haven; Samuel Daniels, University of New Haven; Jean Nocito-Gobel, University of New Haven; W. David Harding, University of New Haven

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

new curriculum was designed to provide students with a multidisciplinary perspective whiledeveloping basic engineering skills and fostering an understanding of basic engineeringconcepts. Each of the ten courses in the program were developed and are taught by faculty fromseveral disciplines. Course materials are intended to make students keenly aware of the highlyintegrated nature of the current practice of engineering. It was also expected that the novelprogram would prove to be attractive to a broader range of students than those drawn totraditional disciplinary programs. Finally, student retention was expected to be enhanced by thenew courses.Students who entered as freshmen in 2004 are currently juniors, taking courses in theirdisciplinary

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Hemminger; Ralph Ford

Session 1432 Digital Signal Processing in the Undergraduate Curriculum Thomas L. Hemminger, Ralph M. Ford Electrical and Computer Engineering School of Engineering and Engineering Technology The Pennsylvania State University at Erie, The Behrend College Erie, PAAbstractThe use of high-speed data acquisition and digital signal processing (DSP) technology hasbecome the cornerstone of many areas of electrical engineering. This is particularly true in thefields of communications, controls, intelligent systems, signal

Conference Session

Assessment in BME Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Mente; Marian McCord; Joni Spurlin; H. Troy Nagle; Susan Blanchard

Session 2609 Outcomes Based Curriculum Development in a New and Emerging Biomedical Engineering Program Marian G. McCord, Susan M. Blanchard, Peter L. Mente, H. Troy Nagle, Joni E. Spurlin North Carolina State UniversityI. IntroductionThe Biomedical Engineering program at North Carolina State University has been emergingsince the early 1990s, when it began as a graduate minor. In 1994, the Department of Biologicaland Agricultural Engineering (BAE) began offering the B.S. in Biological Engineering (BE) andincluded a concentration

Conference Session

The Impact of Curriculum on the Retention of Women Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto

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Women in Engineering

Curriculum Studies and is currently pursuing a PhD in higher education at OISE/UT. Research interests include teaching & learning in higher education, engineering education, first year experience, STSE in higher education and gender issues in science and engineering. Page 12.295.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007Attracting and Retaining Females in Engineering Programs: Using a Science, Technology, Society and the Environment (STSE) Approach Page 12.295.2 Attracting and Retaining Females in Engineering Programs

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New Pedagogical Approaches in Chemical Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University; Katharyn E. K. Nottis, Bucknell University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Thomas W Ekstedt, Oregon State University

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Chemical Engineering

. Nottis, Bucknell University Dr. Nottis is an Educational Psychologist and Professor of Education at Bucknell University. Her research has focused on meaningful learning in science and engineering education, approached from the perspec- tive of Human Constructivism. She has authored several publications and given numerous presentations on the generation of analogies, misconceptions, and facilitating learning in science and engineering educa- tion. She has been involved in collaborative research projects focused on conceptual learning in chemistry, chemical engineering, seismology, and astronomy.Dr. Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University Milo Koretsky is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Oregon State University. He

Conference Session

Curriculum and Facility Developments for Innovative Energy Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ali Zilouchian, Florida Atlantic University; Amir Abtahi, Florida Atlantic University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

particularly relevant to allfields of engineering and computer science.Sustainability leaders aim to integrate social, environmental and competitive financialreturns through their products, services, and public engagement. Their core purpose is tochannel their personal passion for innovation and design into viable enterprises thatpromote radically new, regenerative approaches in business, industry, education, andcommunity. In order to fulfill their vision, they engage all their stakeholders inresearching, designing, prototyping and mainstreaming innovative solutions that solveproblems while seeking to grow prosperity, celebrate community, and enhance the healthof all species for all time. By the end of the course, students can expect to:  Have

Conference Session

Pedagogical Advancements in Engineering Management

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

). Page 25.225.6 It is important that the aims and objectives of discovery approach are reflected in everyaspect of the learning environment created. The creative new approach should documentaccomplishments at the upper levels of Bloom's Taxonomy Triangle (Bloom, 1956 & 1976;Boud & Feletti, 1991). Scholars in the area of cognitive science and educational psychologyhave identified four features that clearly separate a problem-based curriculum from a traditional,topic-based curriculum (Nickerson, et. al. 1985).Assessment Procedure Assessment of the Discovery approach was carried out by the author using severalproven, well established and widely recognized tools (Rowntree, 1977). Sample quizzes, homework assignments

Conference Session

New Pedagogical Approaches in Chemical Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University

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Diversity

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Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #15996Enhancing Conceptual Testing with Technical WritingDr. Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University Dr. Matthew Cooper is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University where he teaches Material and Energy Balances, Unit Operations, Transport Phenomena and Mathematical / Computational Methods. He is the recipient of the 2014 NCSU Outstanding Teacher Award, 2014 ASEE Southeastern Section Outstanding New Teacher Award, and currently serves as the ASEE Chemical Engineering Division’s newsletter editor. Dr. Cooper’s research

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Macy Reynolds; Joseph Untener

technical reports in a few courses simply did not meetthe expectations of employers. This led to a new approach to integrate writing exercises andevaluation throughout the curriculum. One basic premise from the outset was that writing cannotbe limited to a few courses, but requires a thoughtful integration over a student’s entire educationin Engineering Technology. Blending writing formats with each course was achieved by aconstructing a matrix with courses on one axis and forms of writing on the other. The matrixensures that students will develop the writing abilities desired by the base of employers duringtheir tenure in the department.BackgroundIn 1998 the University of Dayton Department of Engineering Technology was re-evaluating andre

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Ilya Grinberg; Jack Waintraub

Session 1333 Innovative Approach to Curriculum Development in Electrical Power Distribution and Loading Ilya Y. Grinberg, Jack L. Waintraub State University of New York, College at Buffalo/New Jersey Center for Advanced Technological EducationI. IntroductionThe past three decades have witnessed a technological explosion in the fields of solid-stateelectronics, microprocessors, lasers, fiber optics, signal processing, fields that have come todominate the technical interests of college faculty and students. Because of this significant shiftto new technologies, the

Conference Session

"Modular" Learning

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qinghua He, Tuskegee University; Rong Zhang, Auburn University; Jin Wang, Auburn University; Frank Leonard Armstead III, Tuskegee University; Rong Zhu Walburn; Donald Ray Johnson Jr; Julius Lenard Taylor II, Tuskegee University Research Assistant

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Chemical Engineering

biofuel education in engineering. To help bridge this gap, we have been creatingeducational materials that systematically integrate biofuels technology into undergraduatechemical engineering curriculum. The modular approach we proposed aims to address some ofthe major obstacles of introducing biofuel education into chemical engineering curricula.1 IntroductionIt has been argued that advanced biofuel industry will have significant impact on U.S. economicrecovery and its transition to a sustainable green economy. The U.S. National Academies haveidentified renewable energy as a national scientific strategy aimed at replacing the oil-basedrefinery and transitioning to a green economy. 1 In addition, as shown in a 2009 BiotechnologyIndustry

Conference Session

ECET Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jerome Tapper, Northeastern University; Francis Dibella, Northeastern University; Walter Buchanan, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Technology

modernize itselectrical engineering technology program. During this time, the concept of the “lecture-lab”venue was conceived and utilized in the development of an Industrial Control Systems cadre ofcourses. Until this time, no such educational venue had existed at Northeastern. In order todevelop such a new and innovative program concept, resources would be needed that wereextremely expensive and well out of the reach of normal department budgets. In order to acquirethe appropriate resources necessary to realize such a new program, corporate sponsors would beneeded to assist in this matter. Major well-known corporate industrial control systemscomponent manufacturers were approached for resource support for this program. Since theinitial concept

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Xianfgu Zong; Marcia Fischer; Malgorzata Chranowska-Jeske; James Morris; Fu Li; Cynthia Brown; Agnes Hoffman

Taiwanese businessmen have recentlyindicated that they intend to send their children to IIIST.Higher education opportunities in China have attracted universities in many foreigncountries such as Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Britain, Singapore, Japan, etc. To datethere are very few American universities operating programs in China, though manystudents wish to study at American schools. Consequently, there should be goodopportunities for the future development of the PSU-IIIST program.MARCIA FISCHER is Assistant Dean for Enrollment and Outreach at Portland State University’s MaseehCollege of Engineering and Computer Science. Previously she was Director of Academic Services at OregonGraduate Institute of Science and Technology. She is an ASEE

Conference Session

Technical Session M1

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2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Nada Veskovic, Lehigh Carbon Community College

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Works In Progress

Paper ID #36353Work in Progress: Success and Retention Strategies for STEM GatekeeperCourses in a Community CollegeMs. Nada Veskovic, Lehigh Carbon Community College Nada Veskovic is an Associate Professor of Electronics at Lehigh Carbon Community College. She teaches a variety of electrical technology courses. Her interests include active learning approaches, peer learning, and strategies that focus on increasing retention and graduation rates. Before joining LCCC, she worked in the industry as an electrical engineer in project design and management roles. American c

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy Vanantwerp, Calvin University; Julie Anne Field Wildschut, Calvin University; Matthew Heun, Calvin University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON)

describes a lightweight approach to incorporate sustainability educationinto engineering curricula. The intention is to complement engineers’ technical knowledge andproblem-solving skills with a sustainability mindset. The first part of this paper describes asustainability designation for engineering majors. The second part of the paper describes the one-semester-hour seminar course that is the gateway to the designation. The third part of the paperdescribes the new textbook we developed to support the gateway course. Finally, the paperpresents some future developments and takeaway lessons. Because curricular design and studentexperience are inextricably linked, we discuss both in this paper.I. Sustainability designationThe engineering

Conference Session

Practice/Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Katherine Liapi

innovative building structures. Tensegrity structureshave offered an excellent opportunity to familiarize students, at an early stage, with theinter-dependence of structural, geometric and aesthetic problems in architectural designprojects;b) stress the importance of interdisciplinary approach in building design.This effort also falls within the author’s educational and research goal to explore andinclude analytic and experimental procedures and visualization methods that address thegeometric nature of buildings into the Architectural Engineering curriculum at theUniversity of Texas at Austin , as well as to promote new research towards the inventionof innovative building structures..AcknowledgmentsThe projects illustrated in the figures have been

Conference Session

NEE 1 - Innovative Teaching & Learning Strategies

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Alexander Mendoza-Garcia, University of Florida; Heather Maness, University of Florida

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Diversity

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New Engineering Educators

education and communi- cation, and minoring in higher education administration. Her research focuses on stakeholder (employers and students) evaluation for curriculum development and revision. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 WORK IN PROGRESS FROM FACE-TO-FACE TO ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: A Transition to a Learner-Centered ApproachAbstractHaving students in an online environment, either partially or fully, requires the instructor to learnnew knowledge and skills that are crucial to succeed in creating high quality online learningenvironments. In this paper, we (an engineering instructor who is learning how to teach in onlineenvironments and an

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jared Odom; Saeed Foroudastan

environmentally-positive implications, but also has financial gain.Engineering applicationsThe skills taught throughout the field of engineering cover an expansive ground. It is in thisarena that new technologies like desalination can be adopted and applied toward solutions ofenvironmental degradation. The balance of dwindling water resources and our ever-growingpopulation can be maintained through a collaboration of efforts exhibited by individuals of todayand tomorrow. Students of engineering can find prospects with this technology due to itsmultidisciplinary approach, whereby interests in other subjects such as chemistry and geologycan attain new measures of accomplishment. Besides the classroom, an understanding globalcommunity to share ideas

Conference Session

Grad. and Upper Level Undergrad. BME Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Magin; Christopher Comer; J Hetling

Session ???? A New Curriculum in Neural Engineering with Emphasis on Design of Neural Systems John R. Hetling, Christopher M. Comer*, and Richard L. Magin Departments of Bioengineering / *Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at ChicagoIntroduction. Academic and commercial research teams are currently developing a newgeneration of devices that will interact with, incorporate, and/or emulate living nervous systems.Neural prostheses to restore hearing, mobility or sight will offer a wider range of function;robotic devices will become more effective

Conference Session

New Trends in Engineering Management Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ertunga Ozelkan, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Agnes Galambosi, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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Engineering Management

AC 2008-1287: EFFECTIVENESS OF VIRTUAL REALITY APPLICATIONS INTEACHING ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT CURRICULUMErtunga Ozelkan, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Ertunga C. Ozelkan, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Management and the Associate Director of the Center for Lean Logistics and Engineered Systems (CLLES) at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte). Prior to UNC Charlotte, he was teaching as part of the School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. Before joining academia, Dr. Ozelkan worked for i2 Technologies, a leading supply chain software vendor in the capacity of a Customer Service and Curriculum Manager and a Consultant. At i2, he

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Innovations in ECE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John J. Burke P.E., Western New England University

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Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #7765Introducing a Business Acumen into an Engineering CurriculumDr. John J. Burke P.E., Western New England University John Burke received the B.S.E.E. degree from Northeastern University in 1984, and the M.S.E.E. de- gree from University of California at Los Angeles in 1986, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in 1993. Dr. Burke joined the faculty of Western New England University (WNE) in 2000 and since 2004 he has been an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering. Dr. Burke’s primary teaching inter- ests are Electromagnetics, Physics of Semiconductor Devices

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daria Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Gary Pawlas, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2010-2353: FIRST-YEAR AND CAPSTONE DESIGN PROJECTS: IS THEBOOKEND CURRICULUM APPROACH EFFECTIVE FOR SKILL GAIN?Daria Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado, Boulder DARIA KOTYS-SCHWARTZ is the Faculty Director for the Mesa State College-University of Colorado Mechanical Engineering Partnership Program and an Instructor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. She received BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Dr. Kotys-Schwartz has focused her research in engineering student learning, retention and diversity. She is currently

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Yi-Xian Qin; Partap Khalsa; Michael Hadjiargyrou; Mark W. Otter; Kenneth J. McLeod; Danny Bluestein

to develop a curriculum that achieves the goal of producing a graduate with vision andflexibility, faculty need to incorporate hands on learning, develop communication skills, andinstill a sense of creativity and innovation which the students will need throughout theirengineering careers (7). To these ends, we have developed an approach to curriculum deliverycomposed of what we call Contextual Learning Modules (CLM).Goals of the Contextual Learning Module ApproachThe goals of the CLM approach are:1) To integrate physical science, life science, and engineering in each module.2) To provide at least one "hands on" experience each day.3) To use the module itself as an implicit model of how to tackle complex problems (i.e. break them down into

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph A. Untener

Session 2248 Product Development In The Curriculum: One Clean-Sheet Approach Joseph A. Untener University of Dayton--Dayton, OhioABSTRACT The National Center of Excellence for Advanced Manufacturing Education has been established inDayton, Ohio with an award from the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Educationprogram in October of 1994. The primary goal of the program is to develop a curriculum with advancedmanufacturing as its focus. The curriculum will begin in the junior year of high school and extend to a two-year

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fred Fontaine

allows students topursue various areas of interest and undertake multidisciplinary projects, must be balancedagainst a rigorous foundation. Emphasis on project work, applications and professional practicemust be balanced against developing strong theoretical and analytical skills.This paper describes the new curriculum, the principles underlying it and the plan for itsdeployment. Although in many respects the Cooper Union is a unique institution, it is hoped thatour approach can provide a roadmap for curricular innovations in other engineering schools.An Overview of Electrical Engineering at The Cooper Union.The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is a small school located in lowerManhattan, with total enrollment in the range