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Examining Problem-based Learning

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Diana Bairaktarova, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Demetra Evangelou, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Aikaterini Bagiati, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Jennifer Dobbs-Oates, Purdue University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2012-4098: THE ROLE OF CLASSROOM ARTIFACTS IN DEVELOP-MENTAL ENGINEERINGDiana Bairaktarova, Purdue University, West Lafayette Diana Bairaktarova is a doctoral student in engineering education at Purdue University. She obtained her B.S. and M.S. in mechanical engineering from Technical University in Sofia, Bulgaria, and M.B.A. degree from Hamline School of Business, Minnesota. Bairaktarova has more than a decade of engineering design experience, working as a Module design, and MMIC Test Engineer. Her research interest is in the area of developmental engineering, creativity, engineering design, and STEM education, and engineering ethics. Bairaktarova is currently working on a research project to study the ways

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Emerging Information Technologies

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Robert E. Efimba P.E., Howard University; Tori Rhoulac Smith, Howard University

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Computing & Information Technology

the field of structural design, and his research area is in finite element appplications to structural design and engineering mechanics education.Dr. Tori Rhoulac Smith, Howard University Tori Rhoulac Smith began as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Howard University in 2003. In this position, she served as an academic and research advisor, instructor for a variety of undergraduate and graduate engineering courses, and researcher on traffic engineering and engineering education projects. Feeling an overwhelming desire to work more directly on identifying and meeting the needs of increased recruitment, retention, and achievement of traditionally-underrepresented minority students

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Faculty Career Development

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Women in Engineering

completion rates of doctoral students and in diversifying the composition of engineeringdoctoral students and faculty. Page 25.1378.10References1 Wendler, C., B. Bridgeman, F. Cline, C. Millett, J. Rock, N. Bell, and P. McAllister. 2010. The Path Forward TheFuture of Graduate Education in the United States. Princeton: Educational Testing Service,2 Council of Graduate Schools. 2007. Ph.D. Completion Project: Program Completion and Attrition Data.http://www.phdcompletion.org/quantitative/book2_quant.asp3 National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Statistics. 2010. DoctorateRecipients from U.S. Universities: 2009. Special Report NSF 11

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Two-year Institutions Help Fill the STEM Pipeline

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George D. Ford, Western Carolina University; Robert Elliot Steffen, Western Carolina University; Robert Wayne Ford, Western Carolina University

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Two Year College Division

AC 2012-2968: UNIVERSITY FRESHMAN RETENTION IN NORTH CAR-OLINADr. George D. Ford, Western Carolina University George Ford is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Construction Management at Western Car- olina University. Ford worked for more than 15 years in the corporate world in plant engineering and environmental engineering positions and managed numerous construction projects as a Plant Engineer in the paper, plastics and rubber industries including warehouses, manufacturing buildings, and utilities infrastructures.Dr. Robert Elliot Steffen, Western Carolina University Robert Steffen, Ph.D., P.E., joined the Construction Management Department at Western Carolina Uni- versity in 2011 after working 10

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Learning and Assessment II

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Evan C. Lemley, University of Central Oklahoma; Baha Jassemnejad, University of Central Oklahoma

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Mechanical Engineering

thatstudents do while watching the PPR media. It should be pointed out that in this class, in addition to thePPR media and in-class sessions, the students also worked homework problems, took quizzes and exams,and carried out a computational-based project. So a lot of hands-on problem-solving took place. But the“passive” nature of these technologies brings up an important question: what is the most effective way for Page 25.1412.3students to learn to work heat transfer problems or other engineering problems? There has been muchpublished regarding active learning and discovery learning, which derive mostly from the constructivistmovement in

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; C. Stewart Slater, Rowan University; Zenaida Otero Gephardt, Rowan University; Mariano Javier Savelski, Rowan University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

engineering problem set includes over 50examples for a material and energy balance course mapped to individual course topics. Simpledemonstrations in drug delivery be effectively and combined with illustrative example problems.A small-scale V-mixer experiment is used to demonstrate a unit operation common to powdermixing in drug formulation. The demonstration integrates topics from particle properties todesign of experiments. A tutorial on life cycle assessment demonstrates how to use life cyclemodeling software and apply it to the manufacture of the active ingredient in aspirin.AcknowledgementsThis project has been supported by a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Centergrant, NSF grant #ECC0540855References1 Savelski, M.J., Slater

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Adaptive and Supportive Learning Environments

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shiran Zhavian; James P. Abulencia, Manhattan College

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Chemical Engineering, Minorities in Engineering

Rochester Institute of Technology [5]. It ispurported to be the only technical college for Deaf and Hard of Hearing students, and hasperformed research on best practices in this topic [6]. However, despite being part of atraditional institution, the institute remains separate from traditional students pursuingengineering degrees. Page 25.1037.3Methods The sophomore-level materials balance course was taught during the Fall of 2011with an initial class size of 42. The students met three times a week, at 55 minutes perperiod. For assessment, there were daily quizzes, two exams, and a comprehensive finalexam. There was no team project assigned this year. One of

Conference Session

Mechanics Concepts II

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Robert E. Efimba P.E., Howard University; Tori Rhoulac Smith, Howard University

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Mechanics

applications and engineering mechanics education.Dr. Tori Rhoulac Smith, Howard University Tori Rhoulac Smith began as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Howard University in 2003. In this position, she served as an academic and research Advisor, instructor for a variety of undergraduate and graduate engineering courses, and researcher on traffic engineering and engineering education projects. Feeling an overwhelming desire to work more directly on identifying and meeting the needs of increased recruitment, retention, and achievement of traditionally-underrepresented minority students in engineering disciplines, she shifted her career focus and now serves as an instructor and undergraduate

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CoED General Technical Session I

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Thad B. Welch, Boise State University; Cameron H.G. Wright P.E., University of Wyoming; Michael G. Morrow, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Computers in Education

IEEE Signal Processing Education Workshop, Aug. 2004. [6] T. B. Welch, M. G. Morrow, C. H. G. Wright, and R. W. Ives, “commDSK: a tool for teaching modem design and analysis,” ASEE Comput. Educ. J., pp. 82–89, April–June 2004. [7] G. W. P. York, T. B. Welch, and C. H. G. Wright, “Teaching real-time ultrasonic imaging with a 4-channel sonar array, TI C6711 DSK and MATLAB,” in Proceedings of the 42nd Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium, Apr. 2005. Also available in ISA Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation, vol. 41, pp. 370–375. [8] T. B. Welch, C. H. G. Wright, and M. G. Morrow, “Caller ID: A project to reinforce an understanding of DSP-based demodulation,” ASEE Comput. Educ. J., pp. 2–7, October–December 2006. [9] C. H. G

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Spatial Visualization

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sheryl A. Sorby, Ohio State University; Norma L. Veurink, Michigan Technological University

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Engineering Design Graphics

the College of Engineering and the former Department Chair of Engineering Fundamentals at Michigan Tech. Her research interests include graphics and visualization. She has been the Principal Investigator or Co-principal investigator on more than $7 million in external funding, most from the National Science Foundation for educational projects and is the author of numerous publications and several textbooks.Ms. Norma L. Veurink, Michigan Technological University Page 25.1172.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Spatial Skills Among Minority and International

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K-12 Teacher Professional Development

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

) generate knowledge and transform practice in middle andhigh school STEM education, (c) cultivate a world-class STEM workforce, (d) expand students’scientific literacy, and (e) promote research that advances the frontiers of knowledge in STEMmiddle and high school classrooms.We have engaged in this project for approximately 32 months. To date, we have trained fifty-three middle and high school STEM teachers who are now delivering the innovative STEMcurriculum that they created during a professional development summer teacher academy in theirmiddle and high school classrooms.The importance of teacher involvementThis STEM K-12 research is focused on teacher training as a precursor to curricular change forstudents in STEM because the integration of

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Innovations in Promoting Technological Literacy II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vazgen Shekoyan, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Todd Holden, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Raul Armendariz Ph.D., Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Helio Takai, Brookhaven National Laboratory; Sunil Dehipawala, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Dimitrios S. Kokkinos Ph.D., Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Regina Sullivan, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; George Tremberger Jr, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Paul J. Marchese, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; David H. Lieberman, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Tak Cheung, Queensborough Community College, CUNY

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

. Lieberman, Queensborough Community College, CUNYProf. Tak Cheung, Queensborough Community College, CUNY Tak Cheung, Ph.D., professor of physics, teaches in CUNY Queensborough Community College. He also conducts research and mentors student research projects. Page 25.1267.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012Technological literacy in required science courses for non-STEM students in acommunity college with extension to junior high school environmentAbstractTechnological literacy is an important outcome for a non-STEM student taking a requiredscience course to function effectively in our

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Physics Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Rose Annoni, University of St. Thomas; Adam S. Green, University of St. Thomas; Marie Lopez del Puerto, University of Saint Thomas

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Engineering Physics & Physics

undergraduate physics and engi- neering students on research projects in physical optics, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary applications of polarimetry.Dr. Marie Lopez del Puerto, University of Saint Thomas Marie Lopez del Puerto completed her B.S. in physics at Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, in Puebla, Mexico, and her Ph.D. in physics at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in Minneapolis, Minn. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Physics Department at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. Her research interests include the structural, optical and electronic properties of nanoscale systems, computational physics, and physics and engineering education

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2001 Annual Conference

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Ranji Vaidyanathan; Todd Anderson; Ray Umashankar; Ramesh Sharma; Marlene Platero; Greg Artz; Chris Choi; Al Ortega

workforce. A study of the unemployment levels andeducational attainment between 1970 and 1997 found that higher educational attainment offersgreater employment security, even for those who are fired, laid off or downsized [2].As recently as the 1950s, 20 percent of the workforce was professional, 20 percent was skilled,and 60 percent was unskilled. In contrast, by 1997, while professionals continued to be 20percent of the workforce, less than 20 percent are unskilled workers, while more than 60 percentare skilled workers [2 and references therein]. The US economy is projected to generate nearly19 million new jobs in a ten-year period from 1996 to 2006, or 14 percent on average increaseper year. Jobs requiring a bachelor’s degree will increase 25

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Thomas Hulbert; Robert B. Angus

enrollment of 30,000. In 1998 5% of higher education students were involved ine-learning; it is projected to increase to 15% in 2002. ASEE’s Distance Learning andContinuing Education catalog lists over 3000 courses. As technology continues to develop andexpand, the opportunities for off-site and distance learning will expand. Students will be Page 6.111.8 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationprovided yet another alternative to learn the right knowledge at the right time. Now theopportunity for labs

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Macy Reynolds; Joseph Untener

Thermodynamics Fluid Mechanics Senior Seminar Senior Project

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Gregory Kremer

discussions between several faculty members that alternately teach the Dynamicscourse. It has been implemented in a standard classroom setting, as a guide for students tofollow when doing homework problems and more extensive projects. In this case allassignments must follow the framework, and students must show their work for each of theapplicable steps. Additionally, because of the continuing trend towards the use of technology forsolving almost all engineering problems in industry, the framework was implemented in a web-based educational tool so that students can learn problem-solving skills in the mode that they willlikely be using those skills, i.e. on a networked computer. In both cases the usability and

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Hubert Smith

students interpreted the actual speed atthe break. Maximum lift coefficients ran from about 1.5 in the clean configuration to about 2.3with full 40 degrees of flap. While these results seem a bit on the high side, they are,nevertheless, in the ballpark area. Prior to offering the course, a student who was a licensed pilot,investigated all the experiments as a special project course. He found the CLmax to be 1.39 clean,and 1.74 with full flaps, more reasonable values. Because the stall speed is squared in thecalculation, very slight error in reading it results in considerable difference in CLmax.Power required measurements yielded fairly good curves in the higher speed range, but weredifficult to measure accurately at the lower speeds. It was

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Barry David

class in total. Once refined, the teamsembark on a number of tasks, delegated to individual members. These tasks include: creatingworking drawings, developing a detailed materials list, creating a working prototype, analyzingsimilar products on the market, developing a cost estimate along with profit projections andconducting a market survey of 100 people. Two to three weeks are allowed to complete thiswork.During presentation of their product engineering work, the teams distribute packets summarizingthe results. Class members listen to the presentations, discuss the information in the packets andask questions. The objective is to identify which one of the four or five products has the greatestpossibility for success. The task is not easy and

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William Jordan; Debbie Silver; Bill B. Elmore

: Project 2061. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 5. National Education Goals Report. (1993). Summary guide -- the national education goals report: Building the best. Washington, D. C. 6. Anderson, R. (1995). Curriculum and reform: Dilemmas and promise. Phi Delta Kappan 1, 33-36. Page 6.1107.8 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2001, American Society for Engineering Education” 7. Yager, R. (1991). The constructivist learning model -- towards real reform in science education. The Science Teacher, 58 (1), 52

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Fredrick Jones; Charlene Yauch

himself to the class [Calculus].” Working Physical and “Let us use CALCULATORS!!!! [Calculus].” Conditions environmental “…more comfortable seats…It is kind of hard to pay attention conditions of when you are squirming in agony in your seat [Calculus].” work, amount “Have a microphone for the professor [Calculus].” of work, “Build little television monitors on the back of all the chairs so that facilities they show what the professor is projecting [Chemistry].” available for “Build a sound-proof booth around every student so that each…can doing the concentrate

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Sanjeev Khanna; Christopher Jenkins

each semester. One primarygoal of the evaluation will be to obtain feedback that can be quickly implemented. Furthermore,students exiting the new courses emphasizing mechanics-materials links will be tracked in othermechanics courses with regard to their performance, percentage of students using such principlesin capstone design projects, undergraduate research, and percentage of students pursing graduatestudies in the area of mechanics and materials. Thus, the total impact of the developedcurriculum will be known clearly over a span of about 4-5 years.5. AcknowledgementThe authors acknowledge the support of the National Science Foundation under grant no. NSFDUE 9972394. Any opinions, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this paper

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Elliot Douglas, University of Florida

, “A Freshman Design Experience: Retention and Motivation”, Proceedings, ASEE Annual Conference, ASEE, 19963. Rizkalla, Maher E., Charles F. Yokomoto, and Carol L. OLoughlin, “A New Design-Oriented Approach for Freshman Engineering”, Proceedings, ASEE Annual Conference, ASEE, 19964. Courter, Sandra Shaw, Lymon Lyons, Susan Bolyard Millar, and Andrea Bailey, “Student Outcomes and Experiences in a Freshman Engineering Design Course”, Proceedings, ASEE Annual Conference, ASEE, 19965. Hiles, Kirk E., “A Project-Based Freshman Engineering Design Experience – FIRST”, Proceedings, ASEE Annual Conference, ASEE, 19976. Kallas, M. Nabil, Renata Engel, and Dhundy Sathianathan, “Teaching Design Skills in the Freshman

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Naomi Chesler; Mark Chesler

course, develop a syllabus or field project, prepare a research proposal, balance workoverloads, present an appeal to a faculty member or department chair, ask for an assignment Page 6.716.1change, learn the “unwritten rules” of the organization (e.g., dress codes, address titles, social Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationstyles and norms), etc. Mentors and protégés also may address psychosocial issues such as howto deal with difficult peer or faculty relationships or

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Corinne Darvennes; Sally Pardue

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education”Figure 1. Air track demonstration unit, 2DOF system set-up with motor input at leftmechanism. The signal was displayed on a Tektronix digital scope and projected onto the screenvia an overhead projector and camera system.Example demo: On a SDOF setup, we measured free response to a displacement input. Weasked the students to describe what they saw on the oscilloscope and they named the sine wave.Thus the harmonic response that is always assumed mathematically became real for them. Wemeasured period and demonstrated how to change this into natural frequency of the system.Informing the students of the mass, we

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Thomas Barnwell; Ronald Schafer; Joel Jackson; Douglas Williams; David Anderson; Monson Hayes III

to a web site. If anything, online students require moreindividual attention than traditional classroom students, especially if they are involved in hands-onlearning projects. We also feel that the benefits of online education, in many cases, justify theincreased cost. Finally, we believe that Internet-based education will continue to grow, especially Page 6.763.6 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationin the area of corporate training. As this field expands we must work closely with

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Salvatore Marsico

copyright act1 protects intellectual property that is “fixed in a tangible medium ofexpression2.” The intellectual property that is of concern for faculty is that of copyright and therights that flow from its ownership. The copyright protects original works of authorship such asnotes, texts, and multimedia works amongst others. As with any property the owner has certainrights and these rights are often referred to as the “bundle of rights”. The bundle of rightsincludes the rights to own it exclusively, exclude others from having or deriving any benefit fromit, and alienating it; that is, to convey to others any rights which you may have in the property.However, many faculty projects are considered “work made for hire”3 and as such are generallythe

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Leah Akins

projections from the U.S. Bureau of LaborStatistics “call for the number of engineering jobs to continue rapid growth, far outpacing jobgrowth for the labor force overall.”2Of further interest in this discussion is the trend in engineering technology (ET) education andspecifically for the associate degree programs. From the numbers provided in the Engineering &Technology Enrollments, Fall 1999 report3, enrollments for engineering technology programs arerelatively stable though still 4-5% less than they were in 1990. These programs are either losingan increasing number of students between the first and second year or the two-year degree istaking longer than two years for a growing population of students (see figure 1

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Carrie Girstantas; William Scherer

, Markov decision processes, systems engineering methodologies, andengineering education.1 Gorman, M., Richards, L., Scherer, W., and Kagiwada, J., "Teaching Invention and Design: Multi-Disciplinary Learning Modules," ASEE Journal of Engineering Education, April 1995, pp. 175-186.2 “ASEE Project Report: Engineering Education for a Changing World”, ASEE Prizm, December, 1994, 20-27.3 Masi, C.G., “Re-engineering Engineering Education”, IEEE Spectrum, September, 1995, 44-47.4 Ladesic, J.G., and D.C. Hazen, “A Course Correction for Engineering Education”, Aerospace America, May, 1995, 22-27.5 Richards, L.G., M.E. Gorman, W.T. Scherer, R.D. Landel, “Promoting Active Learning with Cases and Instructional

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William Sutton; Kathryn Laskey; Elbert White; Mark Houck

: GraduatingAccomplish other non-courseassessment instruments - OIA ã ã ã ã ã ã ã ã seniors will complete OIA Survey Each spring, at the completionSenior Project Self-Evaluations ã ã ã ã of Senior Design capstone courseAssess Program Outcomes A-F ã