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Technological Literacy II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Kurt DeGoede

): 95-99. 4 Krupczak, J (2001) Private communication, Hope College.Author Biography:KURT DEGOEDE earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2000 and iscurrently an assistant professor of physics and engineering at Elizabethtown College. Previously, he spent 3 years asa project manager at Ford Motor Company. He teaches courses in mechanics and general physics in addition to thecourse described here. His current research interest is in the biomechanics of injury. Page 9.1145.17 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition

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A Potpoturri of Innovations in Physics

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2004 Annual Conference

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Greg Mowry

intrinsically linear. Anotherimplication of Taylor’s theorem is that to first order, relative changes in a function are alwayslinear if f(1) 0. Taylor’s theorem also paves the way for the discretization of differentialequations. With the modern PC and software this opens up a host of applications that wereunavailable several years ago. Finally, Taylor’s theorem also provides the foundation for at leastone method of teaching calculus or calculus-based physics5.The ubiquitous Fourier Transform (FT) and its cousin, the Fourier Series (FS), provide thefoundation for an incredibly diverse range of subjects and applications. An understanding of boththe FT and the FS is essential to a solid foundation in physics and engineering. The FT pair(FTP) can be

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Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

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Fengfeng Zhou

civil engineering at the University of Cincinnati. His undergraduate majoris physics. He holds master’s degree in civil engineering. His dissertation research is to develop a computerprogram to simulate the elastoplastic behavior of endplate connections in steel building frames. He was an assistantprofessor at Shandong University of Science and Technology, China before coming to the USA. Page 9.1189.5KYLE ROUTZONG teaches Engineering Physics at Hughes High School in Cincinnati, Ohio.Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Copyright© 2004, American Society for

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A Potpoturri of Innovations in Physics

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jean Hertzberg

. Page 9.29.5Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering For the projects, students were given access to instructional and research flow facilities inthe College of Engineering in addition to the facilities associated with graduate student research(described above). These included an open channel flow flume in our Integrated Teaching andLearning Laboratory, a 6 inch diameter vortex ring generator driven by a loudspeaker, a 50gallon aquarium tank, and an Aerolab High Speed 0.5 m X 0.5 m cross section wind tunnel. Notall of these facilities had flow visualization techniques already developed for them. For

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Krupczak

. She teaches the Solid Mechanics I course at Hope College. Her research interests arein applied mechanics, fracture mechanics, and carbon nanotube composites.ROGER VELDMANRoger Veldman is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Hope College. He has a Ph.D in mechanical engineeringfrom Western Michigan State University. He currently teaches the CAD course at Hope College. Roger’s researchwork is in structural dynamics and modeling blast damage of structures.PAUL DEYOUNGPaul DeYoung is a Professor of Physics at Hope College. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from Notre Dame University.He teaches General Physics I at Hope College. Paul’s research areas are properties of rare isotopes and radioactivenuclei.PETER GONTHIERPeter Gonthier is a Professor of

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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Peter Wong; Stephanie Blaisdell; Paula Leventman; Anna Swan; Katherine Ziemer; Rachelle Reisberg

University. She has held management positionsat IBM and Allmerica Financial. She was President of a start-up software company before joining Northeastern.ANNA SWAN is an assistant research professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering atBoston University. Dr. Swan has an undergraduate degree in Physics Engineering from Chalmers University inGothenburg, Sweden, and a Ph.D degree in Physics from Boston University. Her current research is on lightinteraction with carbon nanotubes and high resolution self interference fluorescence microscopy.PETER WONG is a Research Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Tufts and Director of UniversityRelations at the Museum of Science (Boston). He received his BS, MS, and PhD in ME from

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Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Syed Ali; Marcia Rossi; M. Javed Khan

Turn on a FlightSimulator,’ Proceedings of the Hunstsville Simulation Conference HSC2003, Hunstsville, AL, Oct.30-31, 20039. Fostering Research on the Economic and Social Impacts of Information Technology: Report ofa Workshop http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/esi/ch4.html10. http://www.wideview.it/\11. http://www.avsim.com/hangar/utils/nav/MOHAMMAD JAVED KHAN is an Associate Professor of Aerospace ScienceEngineering and a member of the American Society for Engineering Education.He has a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University and holds aprivate pilots license. His experience includes design & development work on amultinational military aircraft program, aircraft field engineering and teaching. Hisresearch is focused

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Information Integration and Security

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2004 Annual Conference

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J. Cecil

Session 1658 Innovation in Information Based Manufacturing Engineering Education Dr. J. Cecil Industrial Engineering New Mexico State University Las Cruces, NM 880111. IntroductionThis paper discusses curriculum innovation in an emerging area of engineering, whichcan be described as ‘Information Based Manufacturing Engineering’ (INBM). The keycurriculum and research activities outlined in this paper are part of continuing efforts inthe department of industrial engineering at New Mexico State University (NMSU) todevelop a comprehensive

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Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Elsa Bruno; David Swanson; David Barnhart; David Richie; Jerry Sellers; Kenneth Siegenthaler

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering"BiographyDAVID E. SWANSON is a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force assigned to the U.S. Air ForceAcademy as an instructor of astronautics. Lt Col Swanson has a B.S. of Electrical Engineering from SouthernIllinois University, an M.S. in Operations Research specializing in Space Operations from the U.S. Air ForceInstitute of Technology and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado.KENNETH E. SIEGENTHALER is an Associate Professor of Astronautics at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Dr.Siegenthaler has a B.S in the Arts & Sciences from the U.S. Military Academy, a B.S. in Physics from theUniversity of

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Siddique Zahed; Chaturaporn Nisagornsen; Kurt Gramoll

. Kurt Gramoll, “Teaching Statics Online with only Electronic Media on Laptop Computers”, 1999 ASEE AnnualConference & Exposition, Charlotte, North Carolina, June 20-23, 19995. Yellamraju Vikas, Tony Romanello, and Kurt Gramoll, “Teaching Dynamics Online with only Electronic Mediaon Laptop Computers,” 2000 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, St Louis, Missouri, June 18-21, 20006. Chaturaporn Nisagornsen, “Implementation of Three-dimensional Visualization in Interactive Web-basedEnvironment for Engineering Education and Technical Training”, PhD Dissertation, The University of Oklahoma,2003.7. Chaturaporn Nisagornsen, Arun Arunachalam, Kurt Gramoll, and Hengzhong Wen, “Interactive Web-BasedTraining System at Tinker AFB: Environmental

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Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Stacy Hutchinson; Larry Erickson; David Steward; Lakshmi Reddi; Alok Bhandari

transformation processes (i) application of the principles of groundwater flow, contaminant transport, and the processes affecting environmental fate of contaminants in soil and groundwater systems to understand, evaluate, and design engineered geoenvironmental systems for the remediation of “real- Geoenvironmental world” contaminated sites; Engineering Design (ii) researching and using non-textual resources to solve problems; (iii) communicating progress and results in the form of written

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International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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Vera Galishnikova; Thomas Maleck; Paul Streng; Jason Merrill; David Prestel; Darren Mason; Ronald Harichandran

as ensuring the financial solvency of theprogram. Finally, we describe the benefit of multi-institution collaboration andtechnology exchange in student/faculty research and teaching, both within the Michigan Page 9.735.1region and with partner Russian academic institutions. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIntroductionAlthough the number of U.S. college students studying abroad increased to a record ofover 160,000 in 2001-2002, this number amounts to only approximately 1% of thenation’s

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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

today’s technology, utilizing and integratingcomputers within the control loop is essential. An innovative feedback control laboratory has been developed in the department ofengineering technology at University of Central Florida to fill this need. The laboratory isequipped with some of the most frequently used control systems in engineering and industry. It isdesigned to bridge the gap between theory and real-life problems, and to give the studentsvaluable hands-on experience to help them better prepared for their careers. A number ofpractical feedback control system experiments are being developed that will allow students anopportunity to develop appropriate transfer functions and control programs for closed-loopsystem with a computer in

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Entrepreneurship Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mark Barker; David Hall

Teaching Innovative Product Development Skills to Freshmen Engineering Students J. Mark Barker and David Hall Mechanical Engineering Program College of Engineering and Science Louisiana Tech UniversityIntroductionA new course of instruction has been developed and delivered on a pilot basis at Louisiana TechUniversity. The goal of this course sequence is to provide freshman engineering studentsselected tools essential to innovative product development and to provide them the opportunityto use these skills in a product development project.The development of this course of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ronald Bennett

and Sustaining Superior Performance, Simon & Shuster, 1998.Rackham, Neil, SPIN Selling, McGraw-Hill, 1988.Robb, Walter L., “Selling Technology to Your CEO”, Research Technology Management, 37(3), 1994.Wilson, Larry, Stop Selling, Start Partnering, Oliver Wight, 1994.Wilson, Larry, Changing the Game: The New Way to Sell, Fireside, 1987.Biographical InformationRONALD J. BENNETT is Director and Chair of the Engineering Programs at the University of St. Thomas. Heholds a Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering and an MBA. With a background of 20 years in industry, Bennettteaches and publishes on diverse topics including materials engineering, technical innovation, technology transferand engineering education. He is an EAC of ABET program evaluator

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Collaborative Programs and Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

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Nancy Levenburg; Paul Lane; John Farris

the student population during the regular academic year,we believe it would be prudent to re-administer the study during the fall or wintersemester.Implications for Future ResearchIt is the hope of the researchers that funding can be found to apply a very similar surveyto the whole student body at this university and then to expand to other universities. Is itpotentially true that we have been teaching entrepreneurship in all the wrong places? Ifthis study is born out by further studies that will suggest that we need to be looking forways to find entrepreneurs, and innovators, especially those who have physical productideas with which the engineering school can be so helpful.Reference 1. Sexon, D.L. and Bowman, N.B. (1983

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hassan Hassan

andinnovation for electrical and computer engineering research until they become comfortable withtheir own innate abilities to solve problems, come with new concepts, and design new systems.The instructor may implement this framework in all junior-level, senior-level, and graduateclasses that he/she teaches. However, there are many required and elective courses in whicheducation and research can effectively integrate. Such courses are the best candidates tointroduce creative thinking and problem solving approaches. At Lawrence TechnologicalUniversity, the author introduces creativity and innovation in courses such as Electronics,Microprocessors, Digital Control Systems, Digital Electronics, Computer Vision, Digital ImageProcessing, Digital

Conference Session

Computer-Based Measurements

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2004 Annual Conference

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Stephen Williams; Hadi Saadat

digital computers in the loop, one can readily generate C code from graphical simulation tools such as Simulink block diagrams for real-time controller implementation. This has provided the impetus for establishment of a real-time instructional control laboratory at Milwaukee School of Engineering. In this paper the development of this innovative integrated real-time control system laboratory will be described. Next modeling, simulation, controller design and implementation of a few typical laboratory experiments and projects of different complexity are presented. This paper also reports on Simulink modeling of the nonlinear inverted pendulum with some research results for different swing-up

Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

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2004 Annual Conference

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Anant Kukreti

Session 3215 Research Experiences for Undergraduate Students in Structural Engineering Anant R. Kukreti University of Cincinnati1. Introduction This paper describes the experiences provided in a five-year Site for undergraduate researchin "Structural Engineering" with a special focus on techniques to study the "Development ofEnhanced Materials, Structural Components and Structural Assemblages Used for SeismicPerformance Evaluation Studies." The Site was offered at the School of Civil Engineering andEnvironmental Science

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering/Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

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Amy Monte; Gretchen Hein

Environmental Engineering at Michigan TechnologicalUniversity. Amy teaches Foundations of Engineering I and II and Engineering and Science Applications in Pre-Calculus. Amy is also an academic advisor of students in Engineering Undecided and Biomedical Engineering.GRETCHEN L. HEIN - Gretchen Hein is a lecturer in the Department of Engineering Fundamentals at MichiganTechnological University. She received her BSME at Kettering University in Flint, MI and her MSE at PurdueUniversity in West Lafayette, IN. Prior to pursuing her master’s degree, she worked as a mechanical engineer atGeneral Motors Corporation. She received her Ph.D. from Michigan Technological University. Gretchen teachesFoundations of Engineering I and II, and Engineering and Science

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Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

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Roxanne Spray; Lori Donath; Nancy Thompson; Theresa McGarry; Elisabeth Alford

motivation leads to improved recruitment,retention, and student success. Systems of inquiry-based learning build authentic and productiveconnections among research, teaching, and learning to the benefit of students, faculty, andinstitutions.However, the field lacks concrete data on how theories of guided participation and distributedcognition work in the real teaching and learning situations of engineering research. A criticalquestion concerns how to define and identify the characteristics of the engineering researchenvironment as a “community of practice” that make knowledge accessible to novices.According to Lave, “communities make possible certain kinds of transformations ofunderstanding, identity, and knowledgeable skill, not simply changes of a

Conference Session

Innovations in Learning by Doing

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2004 Annual Conference

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Doanh Van

as Sr. Manager of Energy and Environmental Affairs for Pfizer, Inc. with global corporateresponsibilities. He is both a mechanical and environmental engineer with advanced academic training in both. Hehas over 20 years of industrial experience prior to joining academia (www.uu.edu/dept/engineering).DAVID WARD is Professor of Physics at Union University. Dr. Ward's research training is in computationalstatistical mechanics, but his current main interest is the improvement of physics teaching. He has been teachingphysics for 17 years and is keenly interested in bringing active learning into the classroom.DENISE THEOBALD ROBERTS has a Ph.D. in Engineering Science with Emphasis in Materials Science andEngineering. Her previous research involved

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Caroline Baillie

1793 Engineering Knowledge Building: The bridge between research, practice and teaching Caroline Baillie Integrated learning centre, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Queens University, OntarioIntroductionAcademic engineers appear to me to have parallel lives. They spend much of their waking hoursmeasuring, modelling, discovering, theorising and debating their ideas with colleagues. This, theycall research. They are learning new knowledge about the world they live in. The other part oftheir job involves teaching the students what they know about that part of the knowledge in theircharge. They are helping the students to learn knowledge which is new for them. Learning is infact the space in which these two

Conference Session

NASA Fellowship Program

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

Project to Promote Experiential Learning and Research in Multidisciplinary Teams for SMET Students”, Journal of SMET Education: Innovation and Research, July-December 2002. 2 Nagchaudhuri, A., and Bland, G., “UMES-NASA Collaborative Achieves Phase-I Mission Objectives” Proceedings of 2002 Annual Conference of American Society of Engineering Education, June 2002, Montreal, Canada CD ROM. 3 Nagchaudhuri, A. and Bland, G., “UMES-AIR: A NASA-UMES Collaborative Experiential Learning Project”, Proceedings of 2001 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 2001, Albuquerque, NM. CD-ROM. 4 ONSET Dataloggers http://www.onsetcomp.com and www.PASCO.com 5 MultiSpec© [Available Online]: http

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Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Tim White; James White; David Barnhart; Jerry Sellers; Kenneth Siegenthaler

course include orbital fundamentals, rocket fundamentals, andan introduction to space mission planning/operations. In addition to outside lecturers from thespace operations community, teaching aids used in the course include the following: 1. Large and hand-held orbital elements models, (“whiz wheels”) to illustrate orbital fundamentals; 2. Computer-based demonstrations such as STK to illustrate orbital characteristics; 3. Full-size examples and models of past and present satellites and rockets and their subsystems; 4. A demonstrational micro-satellite that has fully functional compartmentalized subsystems.The micro-satellite is particularly helpful in illustrating the physical concepts, components

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Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Nicholas Harth; Matthew Barber; Andrew Spurgeon

bedevoted to explaining the project through a PowerPoint presentation and handouts,assigning groups, determining power plants (plants would be drawn out of a hat), andwriting a Responsibilities and Materials List. The next two days, Thursday and Friday,would be devoted to online research in the school’s computer lab. The students would berequired to keep research notes with citation information for grading. Online researchwould be guided by the Fellows. Students would be given a list of websites (seeappendix) and questions from which to begin their searches. They would also be given abrief introduction to Boolean searches on such engines as Google and Yahoo. Bookresearch would be facilitated by the school librarian, who agreed to provide the

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Innovative Classroom Techniques

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Knox

Session 3213 Use of Online Tools to Improve the Teaching of Graduate Courses in Chemical Engineering Dana E. Knox Otto H. York Department of Chemical Engineering New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ 07102AbstractModern conveniences abound in the world today. This is sometimes not evident in graduateclassrooms. While innovative teaching techniques are often discussed in regard to undergraduatecourses, they seem to be less frequently seen in graduate courses. This is

Conference Session

Engineering/Education Collaborators

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2004 Annual Conference

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Tom Thompson; Terri Fiez; Larry Flick; Edith Gummer

meansdevelopment of a set of products or a high profile innovation that depends on focused effort andexternal controls that go away when the funding ends.4 This scientific approach to reform alsoseems to dominate undergraduate engineering education.5 An alternative to scientific methods ofevaluation is needed to address complex reform.Generally, researchers view collaboration as a positive force when dealing with complex issuesand change. There are examples of how K-12 schools have successfully negotiated complexchange through collaborative processes.3 A study of departmental culture in higher educationidentifies characteristics of departments that support effective teaching. Collaboration is wovenamong those characteristics.6 Informal collaborations are

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Teaching Experiences in OME

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jennifer Waters

Session 1478 The Atlantic Center for the Innovative Design and Control of Small Ships: Surface Effect Ship (SES) Test Program Jennifer K. Waters U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD 21402 USAAbstractThe Office of Naval Research (ONR) established the National Naval Responsibility (NNR) forNaval Engineering program in order to maintain and strengthen the United States expertise inNaval Architecture and Marine Engineering disciplines. The primary mission of the NNRprogram is to ensure the presence of a strong Naval Architecture and Marine Engineeringdiscipline in the

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ERM Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

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Susan Etheredge; Glenn Ellis; Thomas Gralinski; Domenico Grasso; Baaba Andam

for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright À 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationthe interest and imagination of the students from the start of the workshop. It challengedtheir preconceived notions of the traditional conception of the engineer and opened themup to considering and exploring the field of engineering in new, innovative, and lessintimidating ways. All students (from all disciplines) could easily and comfortably relateto the socially responsible mission and liberal arts focus of engineering education. Theythen became intrigued and poised to learn more.2. The teaching team of the workshop was truly interdisciplinary and represented the K-12 -College continuum: One