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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Christine Kelly

quizzes. The quizzes included the topics of cGMP, process validation, analyticalmethod validation, glycolprotein analysis, and change control.Comprehensive final exam.Student EvaluationThe undergraduate Bioengineering program at OSU is relatively new. Twelve studentsgraduated from the program in 2003, eleven students in 2004, and fifteen fourth yearBioengineering students completed this course during the fall 2004 term. Fall 2004 was the firsttime this course was included in the curriculum. Graduating students in 2003 and 2004 andstudents who took this course in fall 2004 rated themselves on their competency in programoutcome p, which states “the graduates of the OSU Bioengineering Program must demonstratethat they have general knowledge of

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tony Keller; Jeff Frolik

, ASME and SWE to give the freshman better insight into their program of study,and how to become involved in the engineering community, and to give students insight as towhat to expect in their future years at UVM. Guest speakers from industry discuss real worldissues. Throughout the semester case studies are presented emphasizing the importance ofinterdisciplinary collaboration and new technologies. An example is a guest lecture on the designof the Segway personal transport device. This product received unprecedented pre-launchpublicity and employs the latest in microelectromechanical (MEMS) devices thereby exposingfreshman students to topics typically left to graduate courses.Laboratory Component Table 2 provides an outline of

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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George Nowak; Barry Shoop; Lisa Shay

DELIBERATE LONGITUDINAL CURRICULAR INTEGRATION: TOPICAL LINKAGES AND CONCEPT REINFORCEMENT Barry L. Shoop, George A. Nowak, and Lisa A. Shay United States Military Academy, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, West Point, New York, 10996 U.S.A. email: Barry.Shoop@usma.eduAbstract. Students in many engineering programs feel that their educational experience consists of a series of isolated courses that build expertise in discrete topical areas. The only time these discrete topics are integrated is in a capstone engineering project during their senior year. Understanding how topics covered in one

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Mingle; Tom Roberts

Millennial Generation for the next two decades and will be ablend of self-controlled concrete/linear learners. Conversely, the younger faculty is of the XGeneration, which shows strong abstract/random thinking, individualism, and increasing prag-matism with aging. Further, the senior faculty represents the Boomer Generation whose virtuescharacterize individualistic, spiritual/moralistic, and uncompromising qualities. This clash ofgenerations will be a continuing challenge to the engineering education profession and is a primesubject of this paper.Traditionally, knowledge is obtained from selected information. Yet, in the knowledge age, abroader interpretation hastens this from a noun to a verb basis. The result is knowledging, whichwill allow the

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Interdisciplinary Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Harry Fox

of Lecture Topics and Laboratory Exercises in 15-Week SemesterWk Lecture Topics Laboratory Exercises 1 Basic concepts and terminology Computer-based tools for control systems 2 Types of control; mathematical Matlab (review of complex arithmetic) 3 foundations: Laplace transforms, Maple (includes Laplace transform) Page 10.190.3 4 introduction to modeling system dynamics. Simulink (DEQ models & simulation) Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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Thomas Walker; Susan Magliaro; Michael Alley; Hassan Aref, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Alex Aning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Hayden Griffin; Mark Sanders, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech; Richard Goff; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jenny Lo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jean Kampe, Michigan Technological University

Session 3255 Designing and Implementing Graduate Programs in Engineering Education O. Hayden Griffin, Jr.1, Alex Aning1, Vinod K. Lohani1, Jean Kampe1, Richard Goff1, Marie Paretti1, Michael Alley1, Jenny Lo1, Janis Terpenny1, Thomas Walker1, Hassan Aref 2, Susan Magliaro3, and Mark Sanders41 Department of Engineering Education/ 2 Dean, College of Engineering/ 3 Director, School of Education/ 4 Professor and Program Leader, Technology Education Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityIntroductionRecent years have seen an increasing awareness of the lack of training of the majority ofengineering faculty in topics involving

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

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Richard Goff; Janis Terpenny

. Page 10.406.4 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationIn addition to the above guest lecturers’ topics, several lectures were given by the authors. Inclass design activities were employed and online course research were given as homework.Extensive class discussion on design and course development tools also took place. Some of thetopics included: • Design process13 (including numerous topics from early through detailed design in customer need/requirements definition, concept generation, evaluation, analysis, and synthesis methods, etc.), • The House of Quality

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Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

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2005 Annual Conference

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Daniel Fichana; Ann Marie Flynn; Robert P. Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater; Jim Henry

corecourses from material and energy balances to plant design. In addition, faculty have developedmodules for multidisciplinary offerings such as freshman-level introduction to engineering andupper-level system dynamics and control. This paper will review some of the innovativemodules developed and show how they can be used in the chemical engineering curriculum.This educational project’s goal is to integrate green engineering concepts horizontally andvertically into the curriculum by taking existing courses and integrating topics as appropriatethrough examples, problems and case studies. Using green engineering principles at the start ofthe design process can lead to processes and products of a sustainable future.Support for this project is funded

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Current Topics in IE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jackson Denise; Charles Aikens

experience in improving the quality of engineering educationthrough the Engage freshman engineering program, which began as an NSF sponsored activity.Ignite will build on these experiences and also incorporate the findings and specificrecommendations of the Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the ResearchUniversity. Though discipline-specific, our intent is to develop a curriculum and pedagogy thatcan form the basis for a new generic template in undergraduate engineering education that can bedeployed on a national scale.Ignite’s reformed curriculum will enable the transition from the traditional model of looselyconnected individual courses to a modular structure of highly interconnected courses. Teachingmethods will also undergo a

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Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

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2005 Annual Conference

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Doreen Lawrence; Barbara Oakley

% Page 10.150.5 Total 100% 100% “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” Why Engineers Choose to Become Kumon FranchiseesCommon influences that cause engineers to consider any entrepreneurial career pathseem to be the same factors that influence engineers to look at the Kumon franchiseopportunity. Current leading factors include the dynamics of the general businessoutlook in North America today. Global competition is very intense and Americancompanies are responding to the pressure through restructuring the business, mergers

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Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

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Yong Yang; Andrew Bennett; Steve Warren

Department. As time progresses, an increasing percentage of linear systemsstudents (~50% in the most recent Linear Systems class) have also utilized the homeworkgeneration modules in earlier KSU mathematics courses. As implied earlier, the broad goals ofthis work are two-fold: (1) to provide computer-based education tools that improve learning and(2) to generate assessment data that can be correlated with data from present and previoussemesters. These data may shed some light on what mathematical knowledge students mostreadily retain and what topics require greater emphasis in prerequisite courses. This paperaddresses the first broad goal, describing how the online system is designed and summarizingstudent responses from its first two semesters of

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Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Joon Kim; Daniel Biezad

Constructing General Aviation Aircraft in the Aerospace Lab Courses Daniel J. Biezad, Joon Kim Aerospace Engineering Department California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoAbstractThe Aerospace Engineering Department at Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, is inthe midst of a dynamic experiment to revitalize its “hands on” approach to undergraduateengineering education by introducing aircraft manufacturing and fabrication “kits” into itslaboratory curriculum. The challenges and opportunities are many, and the most importantare discussed in this paper. They include the enormous difficulty of establishing a recurringlab syllabus for such an

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Nanomaterials for Learners of All Ages!

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jacqueline Isaacs

Undergraduate and Graduate Education Plan for theNanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-Rate Nanomanufacturing C. M. F. Barry, J. A. Isaacs†, J. L. Mead, N. E. McGruer†, G. P. Miller*, A. A. Busnaina† † Northeastern University / University of Massachusetts Lowell / *University of New HampshireAbstractThe academic partners in the Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN), an NSF-sponsoredNanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC), have created a comprehensive education program forthe Center. All three core academic institutions, Northeastern University (NEU), the University ofMassachusetts Lowell (UML), and the University

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Current Topics in IE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Veronica Dark; Frank Peters; Sarah Ryan; John Jackman; Sigurdur Olafsson

Session 1357 Engineering Problem Solving in Industrial Engineering Curriculum Reform Sigurdur Olafsson, Veronica Dark, John Jackman, Frank Peters, and Sarah Ryan Iowa State UniversityAbstractProblem solving is a major focus of the engineering profession, and upon graduation newengineers are faced with increasingly complex problems. Yet, existing engineering educationpractices often fall short in preparing students to tackle complex engineering problems that maybe ambiguous, open-ended and ill-structured. In this paper, we describe a newly developedlearning

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Current Topics in IE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Bryan Norman; Jayant Rajgopal; Bopaya Bidanda; Kim Needy

- UnstructuredProblem Solving that was piloted in the Summer 2004 Semester. Faculty and student assessmentof the course are reported and analyzed at three distinct periods – during the course, immediatelyupon completion of the course, and six months after completion of the course.1. IntroductionWe address a pressing issue in engineering education – how to develop a comprehensive,integrated industrial engineering curriculum that thoroughly prepares graduates not only forindustrial practice or graduate school, but also trains students to readily recognize and apply theirengineering background to solve problems, both locally and internationally. At the 2004 ASEEAnnual Conference, the authors discussed how we are revising the undergraduate IE curriculumat the

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Current Topics in IE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stuart Kellogg

Graduating SeniorsThe Kolb Learning Style Inventory is widely available and may be administered by anyone. Fora modest fee, the Kolb Learning Style Inventory can be completed entirely online. Since it isspecifically designed for assessing learning preferences, the Kolb Learning Style Inventory canbe packaged with material that includes instructional and learning strategies for specific learningpreferences. The Kolb Learning Style Inventory is perhaps the most widely used inventorycurrently in use in educational research.Cognitive Development and ScaffoldingWhile some researchers focus on an adaptive curriculum based on a student’s learningpreference curve, others suggest that a curriculum focused on the developmental aspects ofstudent learning may

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Current Topics in IE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ozlem Arisoy; Larry Shuman; Katherine Thomes; Bopaya Bidanda

for undergraduate engineering students to spend part of their education in aninternational setting has been greatly increased. However, traditional engineering education andengineering courses typically have not been conducive to ‘study abroad’ type environments.This paper presents a case study where a basic Manufacturing Systems course taught at a campusin the United States within an engineering program has been adapted for teaching as part of theSemester At Sea program. General guidelines for adapting such engineering courses for globalrelevance are also presented. Finally, we show that student learning and student satisfaction didnot suffer (but actually improved).BackgroundThe Semester At Sea Program operated by the Institute for

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Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

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Duane Dunlap

Session 1455Framework for Integrating Project-Based Learning, Experience and Practice in Professional Graduate Education for Engineers in Industry Leading to the Professional Master of Engineering D. D. Dunlap, 1 D. A. Keating, 2 T. G. Stanford, 2 A. L. McHenry, 3 E. M. DeLoatch, 4 P. Y. Lee, 5 D. R. Depew, 6 G. R. Bertoline, 6 M. J. Dyrenfurth, 6 S. J. Tricamo, 7 H. J. Palmer 8 I.T. Davis, 9 R.E. Morrison, 10 J. P. Tidwell, 11 K. Gonzalez-Landis, 12 J. O’Brien 13 J. M. Snellenberger,14 D. H. Quick,14 R. N. Olson,14 L. M. Coulson14 Western Carolina University 1 / University of South Carolina 2

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Mentoring Graduate Students

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jennifer Craig

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education”improve graduate student writing focus chiefly on the latter category: sentence levelerrors.But although advisors and students often categorize the difficulty as simply “badwriting,” writing problems in the thesis can be traced to several sources. Understandingthese sources can help prevent or resolve difficulties. First, with unsuccessful writers, weoften discover that the writing process is "back loaded." The discussion and research hasgone forward, but very little has been written until close to the end of the process. Sincearticulation and thinking are interdependent, this often means that

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Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

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T.G. Stanford; S.J. Tricamo; R.N. Olson; R.E. Morrison; P.Y. Lee; L.M. Coulson; K. Gonzalez-Landis; J.P. Tidwell; J. O'Brien; Isadore Davis; H.J. Palmer; Gary Bertoline; Eugene DeLoatch; Duane Dunlap; D.H. Quick; Albert McHenry; Jay Snellenberger; Michael Dyrenfurth; Dennis Depew; Donald Keating

education.” “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education”2.2 Investing in the U.S. Engineering Workforce for Tomorrow:The Driving Force for Transforming Engineering Graduate Education to Improve CompetitivenessAs Lester Thurow pointed out: “Technological leaders remain economic leaders; technological laggardsbecome losers.” 12 The generation of experienced engineers who have contributed to the vast majority ofdevelopments of U.S. technology since Sputnik is now retiring. By the year 2010, estimates indicate that30% of America’s domestic engineering leadership base will have retired, causing a “brain drain

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Developments in Chem Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Joseph Holles

education entails. Many facultymembers would agree with the statement that it is the student’s degree and not theirs. If thestudents understand what they must do to attain their graduate degree and take ownership of thatdegree, it will be more valuable to them. To encourage this concept, this class attempts to covermany topics important to graduate school success that are not covered in other formal courses Feedback: In general, feedback from both the faculty and students has been extremelypositive. Faculty member have specifically noted the students have indeed improved theirpresentation skills across the board thus meeting the original goal of this class. In addition, theyhave noted that students are better able to digest literature

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Communication Skills in Aerospace Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Crossley; Melanie Thom; James Thom

Session 1602 Identifying Specific, Measurable “Skills” Perceived as Requisite for Graduating Aerospace Engineers Kimble-Thom, M.A., Thom, J.M., Crossley, W.A. Purdue UniversityIntroductionIn the last 15 years engineering educators and industry practitioners have attempted to identifywhat skills a graduating engineer needs to acquire during his/her undergraduate education inorder to be successful at design activities. The efforts to identify these design skills are hamperedby both the lack of precision in the terms used to describe design skills and by the

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Curriculum Topics: Industrial ET/Industrial Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

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La Verne Abe Harris

A Learner-Centered Approach to Industrial Technology Education: A Case Study of a Multimedia Team Project L. V. Harris, Ph.D. Graphic Information Technology Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ 85212AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to present a case study of a university multimedia team project,taught as a learner-centered alternative and enhancement to a lecture-only traditional approachto industrial technology education. Creation of Flash movies integrated with interdisciplinarycontent can be used not only for student learning in an academic environment, but also fortransfer to the training of the industrial

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Mentoring Graduate Students

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steve Fisher; Stephen Thompson; Jed Lyons

Effects of Participating in a GK-12 Program on the Graduate Students’ Programs of Study Jed S. Lyons, Steve Fisher, and Stephen Thompson University of South Carolina – ColumbiaAbstractThe NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education program at the University of SouthCarolina supports engineering and computer science graduate students to serve as contentresources in local schools. This paper analyzes how participation in the GK-12 program affectedthe Fellows’ university research and program of study. Qualitative and quantitative assessmentdata were collected from the Fellows and from the Fellow’s advisors, evaluated and used toidentify intended as

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Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Paul Lagace; Earll Murman

Aircraft System Design Graduate Curriculum: A Lifecycle Focus Earll M. Murman, Paul A. Lagacé Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Engineering Systems Division Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139AbstractAircraft system design encompasses technical, social and lifecycle topics, and is suitable forgraduate studies at the masters level and beyond. Several degree programs in MIT’s School ofEngineering offer opportunities for students seeking subjects and degrees in this area. Theseprograms are summarized, and one subject on

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Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Conrad Newberry

, are difficult, if notimpossible, to assess or evaluate with any degree of certainty or accuracy. The missileengineering program presented herein is based upon three levels of educational objectives – fromthe very general to the very specific. A more detailed discussion of these objectives is presentedbelow.Curriculum SummaryThe missile system design engineering model graduate (master’s degree) curriculum,summarized below, has four major components: breadth, emphasis area, electives, and degreecandidacy. The designation AERO xxx is intended to be a generic designation, within thisdiscussion; the designation MISS xxx, ARO xxx, MSL xxx or some other notation could just aseasily have been used. The numbers in parentheses, following the course

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Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

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2005 Annual Conference

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Timothy Ward; Robert Busch; Abhaya Datye; David Kauffman

phenomenaThe morning exam is weighted heavily toward mechanics and also includes general topics inmathematics, chemistry and physics. The afternoon chemical engineering exam is weightedtoward traditional chemical plant processes. Are all of these morning and afternoon topicscovered in most chemical engineering undergraduate programs? No. Do most chemicalengineers even take the exam? No; some schools require the exam for graduation, but chemicalengineers most often obtain jobs that do not require professional registration. Do most chemicalengineering seniors and recent graduates who take the FE exam pass? Yes. (Note that NCEESis currently updating the topic areas and the number of questions in each, but there are not likelyto be any major changes

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Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

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2005 Annual Conference

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Nicole May; Marguerite Mohan; Marco Castaldi; Nada Assaf-Anid

anaerobically.The off-gas from that process will generate methane (CH4), which can be used as fuel. However,carbon dioxide (CO2) is also generated. In this gas mixture of CH4 and CO2, the latter is Page 10.260.2 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”considered a diluent and effectively lowers the energy content of the gas stream. One couldseparate out the CO2 from the stream, but the energy requirements are prohibitively high.The total power that can be obtained from the system is governed by volumetric flowrate

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Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ann Marie Flynn

students to bring anincreased awareness of green engineering concepts into industry upon graduation. The extent towhich this objective was successfully achieved is outlined in Table 2. Page 10.1291.14 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Table 2. Assessment and Course Modification AnalysisAssessment Tool Assessment Course ModificationsStudent rating of greened The average ratings for the problems Eliminate the problems from earlyheat

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Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

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2005 Annual Conference

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Milo Koretsky

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationAssessmentAn assessment survey was conducted to seniors graduating in June 2004. Possible scores rangedfrom a low of 1 (strongly disagree) to a high of 5 (strongly agree). A total of 28 students returnedthe survey. The results are summarized in Table 3. The overall response is encouraging. Ingeneral, students feel that the program in Microelectronics Processing Unit Operations enhancestheir overall learning (4.42/5.00). They also feel this program better prepares them for industrialpractice (4.58/5.00), coinciding with OSU’s College of Engineering’s mission to make students“work ready