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STS Perspectives on Engineering Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

(New York, 1986); Stuart W. Leslie, Cold Warand American science: The military-industrial-academic complex at MIT and Stanford (New York, 1993); HenryEtzkowitz, MIT and the rise of entrepreneurial science (London, 2002).2 For an overview of the different American traditions, see Terry S. Reynolds, “The engineer in 19 th-centuryAmerica,” in The engineer in America: A historical anthology from Technology and Culture (Chicago, 1991), 7-26.2 Charles Riborg Mann, A study of engineering education (New York, 1918); Society for the Promotion ofEngineering Education, Report of the investigation of engineering education, 1923-1929, 2 volumes (Pittsburgh,1930 & 1934).3 Charles Riborg Mann, A study of engineering education (New York, 1918); Society

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Technological Literacy and Technological Policy

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Zachary Foltz, Iowa State University; Amanpreet Kaur, Iowa State University; William Henry Tushaus, Iowa State University; Christopher Sears Mikelson, Iowa State University; Brian Vincent Skalak; Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

form of energy has a much greater energy production/amount of resources used). Due tothese types of bias, there are myths abound when it comes to the arguments for and againstrenewable energies, as well as global warming.Take for instance Time’s Magazine, which published an article March 2008 entitled “The CleanEnergy Scam”. This article focuses on the increasing investment and production of bio-fuels.They proclaim that although bio-fuels are touted as a cleaner alternative to regular gasoline, theymay in fact have a more negative impact on the environment and economy. Their logic is asfollows: the government(s) provide subsidies to farmers willing to produce crops for bio-fuelproduction. Farmers not only provide more of their crop for fuel

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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James P Becker, Montana State University; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Richard A. Revia, Montana State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

). The voltage at the phototransistor’s collector is typically on the order of Page 25.1351.5100’s mV. The noninverting operational amplifier is used to raise the PPG signal to a couple ofvolts to trigger the audible indicator placed at the circuit’s output node.Table II attempts to concisely capture the connections between the PPG circuit and the standardcourse concepts. The two circuit elements of the PPG circuit that were not discussed in EELE201 prior to the introduction of the project circuit are the LED and the PT and thus requireadditional discussion as to how their introduction into the course may be justified. One of theconcepts

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Technology and Equipment to Improve IE Instruction

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leonardo Rivera, Universidad Icesi; Andrés López, Universidad Icesi; Andrés Calderón, Universidad Icesi

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

, No. 1, pp.7-24, 2010.3. W.L. Johnson, N. Wang and S. Wu: “Experience with Serious Games for Learning Languages and Cultures”, Proceedings of SimTecT Conference, Australia, 2007.4. V. Brezinka and L. Hovestadt: “Serious games can support psychotherapy on children and adolescents”, Proceedings of the 3rd Human-computer interaction and usability engineering of the Austrian computer society conference on HCI and usability for medicine and health care, 2007.5. M. Mayo: “Games for Science and Engineering Education”, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 50, No. 7, pp. 31 – 35.6. R. Van Eck: “Digital Game-Based Learning: It’s just not the Digital Natives who are restless”, Educause Review, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 17 – 30.7. D. Charsky: “From

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Projects in Alternative Energy

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José Colucci Ríos P.E., University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Efrain O'Neill-Carrillo, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Miriam del Rosario Fontalvo

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Global Sustainable Energy Infrastructure, November 2008, Atlanta, GA.[10] Hannigan. Environmental Sociology, 2nd Edition. London: Routledge, 2006.[11] R. Bañares-Alcántara. “Perspectives on the potential roles of engineers in the formulation, implementation and enforcement of policies,” Computers & Chemical Engineering, Vol. 34, No. 3, March 2010, Pages 267-276.[12] Colucci, J.A.; O’Neill-Carrillo, E.O.;Irizarry-Rivera, A. “Renewable Energy in the Caribbean, A Case Study from Puerto Rico” Chapter in Environmental Management, Sustainable Dev. and Human Health, ISBN 978-0- 415-46963-0, CRC Press, 2008.[13] O’Neill-Carrillo, E. Ortiz-García, C., Pérez, M. Baigés, I. Minos, S. “Experiences with Stakeholder Engagement in

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Technological Literacy and Technological Policy

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Boz Bowles, Louisiana State University; Paige Davis, Louisiana State University; Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University; Barbara A. Heifferon, Louisiana State University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

uploaded to a class blog. The formal assignment was to create a websiteexplaining some aspect(s) of German manufacturing and technology.Students toured as many sites as possible with cameras and camcorders provided by theCollege’s Engineering Communication Studio,10 documenting their excursions, with the specificintent of sharing them as a form of primary research. Typically, as shown in Figure 7, roles wereassigned (videographer, photographer) before each excursion, so that other students could focusmore on what they heard and saw. This division of labor worked well, and kept the focus ondocumentation of the trip through visual means. The videos were shared on the class blog, butwere also used later when the students composed their websites

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Capstone Projects and Experiential Learning

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Salahuddin Qazi, State University of New York, Institute of Technology; Robert C. Decker, Mohawk Valley Community College

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Engineering Technology

://nanoscaleworld.brukersxs.con/nanoscaleworld/forums/p635/1364.aspx27. Salahuddin Qazi, Robert Decker, “Visualization and Manipulation of Nanoscale Components Using Atomic Force Microscopes” Annual HI-TEC conference, San Francisco, CA. (The power point presentation is included in the conference proceedings of session 8D). July 2011. http://www.highimpact-tec.org/2011 conference-proceedings.php Acknowledgement The paper is based upon work supported, in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant DUE# 0737204. Any opinion, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of authors (s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. The authors would

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Considerations for the Collection Conscious Librarian

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter Zuber, Brigham Young University

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Engineering Libraries

. Page 25.1470.1224. Trueswell, Richard W. "User Behavioral Patterns and Requirements and Their Effect on the Possible Applications of Data Processing and Computer Techniques in a University Library.” Ph.D. diss., Northwestern University, 1964. Print.25. Allen Kent et al., Use of Library Materials: The University of Pittsburgh Study (New York: Marcel Dekker, 1979). Print.26. Slote, 65.27. Lucker, J. K., and S. J. Owens. "Weeding Collections in an Academic Library System: Massachusetts Institute of Technology." Science & Technology Libraries 6.3 (1986): 12. Print.28. Mosher, Paul “Managing Library Collections: The Process of Review and Screening” In: Steuart, Robert, et al., eds. Collection Development in Libraries: A Treatise

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Lessons learned

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ibrahim F. Zeid, Northeastern University; William L. DUPE Chan, Josiah Quincy High School; Kristina Buenafe, Josiah Quincy High School; Jessica Chin, Northeastern University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

orgummy bears and apply these to volume problems) [12].The technology teacher plans to continue to refine his implementation plan for thefollowing year. The project selection will possibly change due to a different interest ofstudents however, he continues to stress engineering-based learning and the engineeringdesign process. Page 25.1471.148 AcknowledgmentThis work is supported by the National Science Foundation under grant numbers DRL0833636. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.9 References1

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Methods, Cases, and Directions

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ted Eschenbach P.E., University of Alaska, Anchorage; Neal A. Lewis, University of Bridgeport; Yiran Zhang, University of Bridgeport

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

in 1975, and his master’s in civil engineering from UAA in 1999.Dr. Neal A. Lewis, University of Bridgeport Neal Lewis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Technology Management, School of Engineer- ing at the University of Bridgeport (Connecticut). He has more than 25 years of industrial experience, having worked for Procter & Gamble and Bayer. Along with coauthors, he has received the 2005 Ted Es- chenbach award for the best article in the Engineering Management Journal and the 2009 Grant Award for the best article in The Engineering Economist. Neal received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Missouri, Rolla (now Missouri S&T) in 1974, M.B.A. from the University of New

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Hey You: Effectively Engaging Students in the Classroom

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles E. Riley, Oregon Institute of Technology; Sean St.Clair, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering

it looked the way it did. This study set out to not only educate people about thestructure, but to see if that education would influence their impressions. The results of thissurvey suggest that knowing more about the structure did in fact make it more appealing in anumber of ways.In the future, the researchers are interested in using various aspects of the sculpture in a numberof different courses to determine if the sculpture, as a learning tool, can not only improve thedegree to which people think about technical, social, and environmental issues, but the degree towhich they can actually learn more about these issues. References1. Chou, K. & Moaveni, S. (2008). “Enhancing Global

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Topics in Computer Science and Programming

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Walter W. Schilling Jr., Milwaukee School of Engineering; Mark J. Sebern, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Computers in Education

Syllabus Week Day 1 Lecture Day 2 Lecture Lab Assignment(s) 1 Introduction Use Cases Java Refresher and Data Team Member Resume The Software Crisis Collection 2 Requirements System Behavior OO CASE Tool and Effort Lab 1 Report Domain Models Sequence Diagrams Estimation Contracts 3 Interaction Diagrams Assigning Responsibilities Project, Cycle 1: Lab 2 Report Analysis 4

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BME Course and Curriculum Development

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steve Warren, Kansas State University

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Biomedical

course session that introduces the rest ofthe class to the topic. The students are told to consider • the areas of biomedicine discussed the first day of class, • the subject(s) of interest that they wrote on their index cards the first day of class (index cards are distributed to students so that they can provide the instructor with more details Page 25.1262.6 regarding their interests and activities than are provided in the KSU online database), • the discretionary topic that they chose for Homework 1 (a medical device search where each student pursues information about a device of interest to them), and • the

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2001 Annual Conference

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Raul Mihali; Damir Vamoser; Tarek Sobh

Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationBibiography1. Aarts, E. H. L. , Lenstra, Jan Karel, Aarts, Emile L., Local Search in Combinatorial Optimization, Wiley-Interscience Series inDiscrete Mathematics and Optimization, 19972. Greene, Daniel H., Knuth, Donald E., Mathematics for The Analysis o Algorithms, Third Edition, Birkhauser, 19903. Dasgupta, Pallab, Chakrabarti, P. P., Desarkar, S. C., Multiobjective Heuristic Search: An Introduction to Intelligent SearchMethods for Multicriteria Optimization, Kaufmann Publishers; , 19994. Patrascoiu, Octavian, Marian, Gheorghe, Mitroi, Nicolae, Elements of

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2001 Annual Conference

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Karen Williams; James Hedrick

professions.Over the past decade several initiatives have sought to address this problem. For example theAssociation of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) launched Project 3000 by 2000 in 1991 in aneffort to increase minority enrollment in U.S. medical schools by establishing partnershipsbetween K-12 school systems, colleges, and health professions schools1. Initially the project wasvery successful; between 1991 and 1994 the number of minority applicants to medical schoolsincreased by 40% and the number of matriculants increased by 27%2. The mid-1990's, however,brought successful challenges to affirmative action. These included Proposition 209, which was

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2001 Annual Conference

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Edgar Conley; Linda Riley

. Page 6.709.9 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education6 Seymour, E. and N.M. Heweitt, Talking About Leaving-Factors Contributing to High Attrition Rates AmongScience, Mathematics and Engineering Undergraduate Majors, Final Report to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation onan Ethnographic Inquiry at Seven Institutions, Bureau of Sociological Research, University of Colorado: Boulder,April 1994.7 Tobias, S., They’re Not Dumb, They’re Different: Stalking the Second Tier. Research Corporation, Tucson, AZ,1990.8 Cross, K.P., “On College Teaching”. Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 82, no. 1, 1993, pp

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2001 Annual Conference

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Edward Lumsdaine

Protection (Patents) and Project Evaluation 35 Review of Session 5 work and out-of-class project development. 36 Protecting an invention through patents: UK and US patent laws. Patent searching. 37 The teams begin a patent search in the area(s) of their invention or project. 38 Peer contribution rating form. Tips on effective technical communication. 39 Sketching lab: Demonstration of complex sketching skills using the right brain. 40 Q&A. Teams complete a thorough patent search in the area of their project. Draft of report. Table 3c N1D041 Syllabus—Part 3: Marketing Your Idea or InventionSession 7 — "Selling" an Innovative Idea 41 Teams share the learning and insight gained from their patent

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2001 Annual Conference

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Linda Broadbelt; L. Catherine Brinson; Kathleen Issen; Brad Kinsey

details for upcoming sessions. The faculty advisor made finaldecisions regarding possible panelists, contacting them individually to describe the series, thetopic(s) and to invite them to participate. The coordinator also contacted a few potentialpanelists who were known personally. Four to six panelists from different engineeringdisciplines were obtained for each event. The faculty advisor served as both a panelist and Page 6.800.4 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationmoderator during the

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Narayanan Komerath

Attrition in Engineering”. J.Engg. Education, Vol.86, No.2, July 1997, p. 139-150.7. Demetry, C., Groccia, J.E., “A Comparative Assessment of Students’ Experiences in Two Instructional Formats of an Introductory Materials Science Course”. J. Engg. Education, Vol.86, No.3, July 1997, p. 203-210.8. Richards, L.G., Carlson-Skalak, S., “Faculty Reactions to Teaching Engineering Design to First-Year Students”. J. Engg. Education, Vol.86, No.3, July 1997, p. 233-240.9. Carlson, B., Schoch, P., Kalsher, M., Racicot, B., “A Motivational First-Year Electronics Lab Course”. Journal of Engineering Education, Vol.86, No.4, October 1997, p. 357-362.10. Hatton, D.M., Wankat, P.C., Lebold, W.K., “The Effects of an Orientation Course on

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2000 Annual Conference

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William C. Oakes; Ronald Wukasch; Richard Foretek; Jennifer Watia; Jeffery L. Gray; Leah H Jamieson; Edward Coyle

semester while juniors and seniors are encouraged to register for 2 credits. The upperdivision students are expected to serve as the technical leaders on the teams and thereby take onmore responsibility.Each student in the EPICS Program attends a weekly two-hour meeting of his/her team in theEPICS laboratory. During this laboratory time the team will take care of administrative mattersor work on their project(s). All students also attend a common one-hour lecture given each weekfor all EPICS students. A majority of the lectures are by guest experts, and have covered a widerange of topics related to engineering design and community service. The long term nature ofthe program has required some innovation to the lecture series as students may be

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William C. Oakes; Leah H Jamieson; Edward Coyle

in Community Service Program is availableat: http://epics.ecn.purdue.edu/ReferencesDahir, M. (1993). Educating engineers for the real world, in Technology Review, Aug./Sept. 1993, pp. 14-16.Engineering Deans Council and ASEE (1994). Engineering education for a changing world, report of theEngineering Deans Council and Corporate Roundtable of the American Society for Engineering Education.Available from the American Association of Engineering Education.Honnett, E. P. & Poulsen, S. J. (1989). Principles of good practice for combining service and learning: AWingspread special report. Racine, WI: The Johnson Foundation, Inc.NSF Coalitions Programs [Online]. Available: www1.needs.org/coalitions/index.html [1997, July 2].AuthorsEDWARD J. COYLE

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2000 Annual Conference

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Thomas Litzinger

scientific terms such as molefraction or specific fuel consumption without explanation or they included complex chemicalreactions. However, several teams did express the emissions in more meaningful units thang/kW-hr, such as total kg/year, or they normalized them to the baseline to show reduction withthe converter. In general, the technical discussion in the papers indicated that the studentsunderstood the basic operation of a catalytic converter, the effects of emissions on the humanbody and the environment, and the operation of small engines. Grades on the papers were 82and above with most in the 90’s. Page 5.97.10Summary of Assessment

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2000 Annual Conference

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Thomas Hall

computer simulation versus laboratoryexperience, and the sequencing of instruction, in teaching logic circuits.” Ph.D. diss., Iowa State University, 1989.Abstract in Dissertation Abstracts International 51: 96-A.6. Garren, Willard S. 1990. “An experimental evaluation of using computer-aided design simulations in teachingbasic electronics at the college level.” Ed.D. diss., North Carolina State University, 1990. Abstract in DissertationAbstracts International 51: 1141-A.7. Moslehpour, Saeid. 1993. A comparison of achievement resulting from learning electronics concepts bycomputer simulation versus traditional laboratory instruction Ph.D. diss., Iowa State University, 1993. Abstract inDissertation Abstracts International 54: 4413A-4414A.8. Hair

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James Globig

tolearn how to implement his ideas.Most of the buyers in the Robotics Division were ex-engineers and were in their 50's. Whilethey were engineers, many of them felt Megamation was causing Robotics to migrate too faraway from their technological strengths and were not shy about voicing their opinions. It wasclear to Butch that these " whining wienies" as he called them, simply weren't "on the team"and he was in the process of driving them out of the company or, as a last resort, terminatingthem when they could "not meet their numbers." The disadvantage of terminating themimmediately was that Robotics always had to provide an attractive severance package inexchange for the employee's signature on a document that promised they would not sue

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1997 Annual Conference

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Robert George; Allen Soyster; John Lamancusa

education coalitions.The faculty perspective is provided by Dr. John S. Lamancusa. He is a co-principal investigatorfor the MEEP project and the Director of the Learning Factory. Dr. Lamancusa is one of thebrave few in the department who regularly teach the capstone course. He also coordinates theacquisition of industrial projects for all the sections.Representing the administration view is Dr. Allen L. Soyster. Dr. Soyster, formerly the Head ofIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State is now Dean of Engineering atNortheastern University. He also has served as the Principal Investigator for the ARPA/TRPproject titled the Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership

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1997 Annual Conference

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Mumtaz Usmen; John Raad; Haluk Aktan

12Biographical InformationJOHN RAADHe holds BS and MS degrees from the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Wayne State University.He is currently employed as a structural engineer by Albert Kahn Associates, Inc. in Detroit, Michigan. He workedwith Dr.’s Aktan and Usmen in implementing non destructive testing techniques to the properties of civil engineeringmaterials course.HALUK AKTANHe is currently a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He obtained BS and MS degrees from theMiddle of East Technical University and the Ph.D. degree from University of Michigan in 1977. His currentresearch deals with the development and use of non destructive testing methods in structural appraisal and conditionevaluation. Specifically

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1997 Annual Conference

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Rose M. Marra; Thomas Litzinger

), 674 - 681.Flavell, J. H. (1976). Metacognitive thinking: The struggle for meaning. In L. Resnick (Eds.), The Nature of Intelligence Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.Kenney, P. A., & Kallison, J. M. Jr. (1994). Research studies on the effectiveness of supplemental instruction in mathematics. New Directions in Teaching and Learning, 60(4), 75 - 82.Lockie, N. M., & Van Lanen, R. J. (1994). Supplemental instruction for college chemistry courses. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 60(4), 63 - 74.Marshall, S. (1994). Faculty development through supplemental instruction. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 60(4), 31-40.Piaget, J., & Inhelder, B. (1958). Growth of logical thinking. New York: Basic Books.Widmar, G. E

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Herbert Hess

] R.G. Hoft, Semiconductor Power Electronics (New York: Kreiger, 1991), 0-89464-568-4.[38] J.G. Kassakkian, M.F. Schlecht, and G.C. Verghese, Principles of Power Electronics (Boston: Addison-Wesley, 1991), 0-201-09689-7.[39] E. Ohno, S. Kajima, T. Kawabata, K. Ikida, and H. Sugimoto, Introduction to Power Electronics (OxfordUniversity Press, 1988), ISBN 0-19-859338-4.[40] D.A. Bradley, Power Electronics (London: Chapman and Hall, 1987), ISBN 0-442-31778-6.[41] B.K. Bose, ed., Microcomputer Control of Power Electronics and Drives (New York: IEEE, 1987), ISBN 0-87942-219-X.[42] K. Heumann, Basic Principles of Power Electronics (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1986), ISBN 0-387-16138-4.[43] D.W. Novotny and T.A. Lipo, Vector Control and Dynamics of AC

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1998 Annual Conference

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C. Faye; N.W. Scott

terminal). questionnaire was given to faculty members, some of whom had used the UWA-CPCS tutorial system.d) Students enter answers that are always a number with units e.g. “3.2 m/s”. There were four main aims of the questionnaire:e) There are typically eight ‘lead-up’ problems in each set, 1. To obtain a comparison of the perceived quality of the two followed by two assessed problems. The assessed

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1999 Annual Conference

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Charyl Delaney; Alejandro Scalise; Larry J. Shuman; Harvey Wolfe

next year,based primarily on the coursework developed by members of the Foundation Coalition. As partof that pilot we are also planning to test the concept of inclusive learning communities to bettersupport our students outside of class[21].AcknowledgmentsThis research has been supported by National Science Foundation grants EEC-9872498,Engineering Education: Assessment Methodologies and Curricula Innovations and DUE-9254271, The Freshman Engineering Experience, and Engineering Information Foundation grantEiF 98-4. We also recognize Michele Bertocci and Obinna S Muogboh for their valuable assistance.References1 Seymour E. and NM Hewitt, Talking About Leaving : Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences, Westview Press, January 1997.2 Astin, AW