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Web-Based Laboratory Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lars Håkansson; Ingvar Gustavsson; Henrik Åkesson

becarried out in order to use this instrument in a larger scale. Also implementation of the unusedfunctions on signal analyzer is necessary to get an apprehension of a complete instrument.AcknowledgmentThe project is sponsored by The Foundation for Knowledge and Competence Development. Page 10.1073.12 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationREFERENCES 1. J.S. Bendat and A.G. Piersol. Random Data Analysis And Measurement Procedures. John Wiley & Sons, third edition, 2000. 2. D. J. Ewins. Modal Testing

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Education Ideas in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Estell

worry about itsimplementation.Java provides a mechanism for incorporating DBC information from source code through the useof Javadoc3, a utility program distributed with the Java SDK that builds API documentation inthe form of HTML files from specially embedded comments contained within the source code ofthe classes that constitute the project. Javadoc has been used to generate the vast majority of APIdocumentation; in many cases, it constitutes the only documentation for a class. As it is part ofthe source code, responsibility for proper documentation rests with the programmer4;accordingly, it is incumbent upon the instructor to discuss the need for proper documentation, asbad documentation is just as severe an affront to software engineering

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Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

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2005 Annual Conference

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Doreen Lawrence; Barbara Oakley

franchises.and tend towards starting servicebusinesses. It has been projected that in 2010 more than half of all business owners willbe female- or minority-owned. 3 This is already a reality with the Kumon Franchisees(Fig. 3). Presently, 87% of Kumon franchisees in the United States and Canada areowned by women. Women in general cite three common reasons for becoming entrepreneurs. Theprimarily motivation, cited by 46% of women, is a desire to set their own hours.4Another major factor is frustration with the “glass ceiling” at big companies (23%).Additionally, a number of women say they saw a lucrative niche and decided to fill it(24%). Certainly, all of three of these common motivation for an entrepreneurial careerare satisfied with the Kumon

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Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tom Thomas; Mohammad Alam

as course content revisions, curriculum modifications, modernization of capstone design project requirements, and updating of laboratories. Always keep in mind that the reviewers are going to be specifically looking at the process of program improvement, and the documentation must show that the programs are improving.4. Find an ABET champion and reward him/her Although the entire faculty in the department should be involved in preparing for ABET accreditation, there should be one individual that is responsible for preparing Page 10.1145.7 the ABET self-study report. This individual should be conversant with the latest

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Interactive Technology in the Classroom

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2005 Annual Conference

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Trev Harmon; C. Richard Helps; Michael Bailey

be done to reduce the size of the resulting TIFF, itgreatly impairs readability and usability for the student.While MHTML is defined in IETF RFC 2557, which is currently classified as StandardsTrack,5,8 it was originally intended for use only in email. Since then Microsoft has expanded itsuse into its other Office products. However, due to this and the fact that Microsoft requires thatOutlook be installed on the system with its Inetcomm.dll,6,7 several students had a difficult timeaccessing these documents.Anecdotal Experiences Page 10.522.8One of the authors used tablet PCs for all homework and project report grading for a

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Assessment Issues in 1st-Yr Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Anita Mahadevan-Jansen; Christopher Rowe; Stacy Klein-Gardner

. Page 10.224.13 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering EducationSTACY S. KLEIN teaches high school physics courses at University School of Nashville, TN, and undergraduateengineering courses at Vanderbilt University. An active developer of new high school and undergraduate curriculathrough the VaNTH ERC, she is co-PI of the NSF-sponsored projects, "Biomedical Imaging Education: Safe,Inexpensive Hands-On Learning" and the Vanderbilt BME RET Site Program.ANITA MAHADEVAN-JANSEN received her Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Physics from theUniversity of Bombay, Bombay, India, her Master and Doctoral

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Jones; Karen Berger; Tamara Knott

arrive the day before the competition. Coaches and mentorstraveling with the team are anxious to find activities to keep the students occupied prior to thetournament. Since the state competition has been held in Blacksburg, home of Virginia Tech(VT), for each of the four years the FLL program has existed in Virginia, it is natural to takeadvantage of the strong presence of the VT College of Engineering and offer the FLLparticipants an opportunity to learn more about engineering. For the past four years FLLparticipants have had the opportunity to visit the WARELab2, a facility where the studentengineering competition teams have space to work on their projects, and/or attend a talk onrobotics in engineering delivered by Dr. Charles Reinholtz, a

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Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Martinazzi

., “Reinventing the Teaching of Statics”, 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT. 5. ABC News Primetime Live Video Collection, Segment Two, February 11, 1998.ROBERT MARTINAZZIProfessor of Mechanical Engineering Technology at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. B.S. AerospaceEngineering from the University of Pittsburgh, M.S. Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.Registered professional engineer. Interests include engineering economics, management and leadershipdevelopment. Worked as project engineer for Armstrong World Industries, does engineering management andleadership consulting work and presents seminars on effectiveness and leadership at both the individual andcorporate

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Women in IT Fields

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ken Yasuhara

high school system. In Proceedings of SIGCSE’05: the 36th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer Science Education.[11] National Center for Education Statistics. Digest of education statistics. http://nces.ed.gov/ pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2005025, 2003.[12] Irene F. Goodman, Christine M. Cunningham, Cathy Lachapelle, Meredith Thompson, Katherine Bittinger, Robert T. Brennan, and Mario Delci. Final report of the women’s experiences in college engineering (WECE) project, April 2002.[13] Denise G¨urer and Tracy Camp. Investigating the incredible shrinking pipeline for women in computer science. http://women.acm.org/documents/finalreport.pdf, June 2002.[14] Andrea Jepson and Teri Perl. Priming the pipeline. SIGCSE

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Pre-College and ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Cheng

controller’s functions based upon the given control systemspecifications. The GUI design method used in this project also demonstrates the feasibilities forimplementing other techniques in SISO control study using MATLAB-based programming andtools.Bibliography 1. Phillips, C. L., Feedback Control Systems, 4th ed. Prentice Hall, 2000. 2. The Mathworks, Manual of Simulink, Version 5, 2002. 3. The Mathworks, Manual of Control Tool Box, 2002. 4. The Mathworks, Manual of MATLAB, 2002BiographyFRANK S. CHENG is an associate professor in the Department of Industrial and Engineering Technology at CentralMichigan University. He received a M.S. degree and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Chenghas taught courses in

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Developments in Chem Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Holles

articles and extract criticalinformation. Finally, the faculty state that students have shown an improved understanding ofthe research process allowing them to get organized and more quickly proceed through thebackground research of their project. In line with the course goals, the students also state that the class has improved theirpresentation skills. The students also demonstrate enthusiasm for the lectures on copyrights,patents, and ethics. Finally, the students have indicated that the assignment they like the mostand learn the most from is the critical journal article review (assignment 7). Most students alsocite this assignment as most useful when performing future research.Conclusion Although this class has evolved in many

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rajesh Malani; Enno Koehn

” Koehn is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Lamar University, Beaumont, TX. Professor Koehn has served as the principal investigator for several research and development projects dealing with various aspects of construction and has experience in the design, scheduling, and estimating of facilities. In addition, he has authored/co-authored over 200 papers and presentations in engineering education and the general areas of civil and construction engineering. Dr. Koehn is a member of ASEE, AACE International, ASCE, NSPE, Chi Epsilon, Tau Beta Pi, and Sigma Xi and is a licensed Professional Engineer and Surveyor. RAJESH D. MALANI Rajesh D. Malani was awarded the M. Engr. Degree from the Department of Civil Engineering at Lamar

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Labs, Demos and Software in Mechanics

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2005 Annual Conference

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Richard Hall; Carla Campbell; Nancy Hubing; Timothy Philpot

generated at random (within broad limits).Consequently, each movie user gets a somewhat different experience each time they use thesoftware. Module development required approximately 200 man-hours total to develop bothmovies. Since all problems in both movies are dynamically generated, the need to periodicallyupdate the software is greatly diminished.References[1] Oglesby, D.B., Carney, E.R., Prissovsky, M., Crites, D., “Statics On-Line: A Project Review,” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 1998.[2] Zecher, J., “An Interactive Graphics Oriented Beam Analysis Program,” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 1996.[3] Hubing, N., Oglesby, D.B., Philpot, T.A., Yellamraju, V., Hall, R.H., Flori, R.E., “Interactive Learning Tools: Animating

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Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yong Yang; Andrew Bennett; Steve Warren

opportunity for a student to reworkcategories of problems until they receive their desired score. From an assessment standpoint, theresulting database offers opportunities to correlate module scores with scores received on otheronline modules, projects, or exams, where scores can be aggregated or associated with specificproblems. Cross-semester comparisons can also be performed. Additional parameters such ascompletion date/time, the number of attempts per module, the location of the student’s machine,and the time required to complete an exercise provide a rich information set for understandingstudent work habits. The ultimate goal is to close the assessment loop and improve coursecontent based upon previous semester analyses. Early surveys and

Conference Session

Course/Program Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Suguna Bommaraju

was administeredrandomly about 5 times over the semester. At the beginning of the semester one-minuteevaluations were administered every week and later spaced bi weekly (total 7). The assessmentof teaching effectiveness and learning was mostly from the student’s perception. Center for theenhancement of learning and teaching has helped tremendously throughout the project. As thisprogram was implemented for the first time, there was no external help either in terms ofteaching assistants or other faculty members.III.1 Weekly QuestionnaireAt the end of the class, students are asked to fill out a weekly questionnaire. These weeklyquestionnaires are conducted randomly throughout the semester. The number of studentsparticipated in these assessments

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New Electrical ET Course Development

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Zhang

Telecommunications Program at Western Car-olina University. Dr. Zhang’s research interests include Communications Theory, Wireless Networks, BandwidthEfficient Modulation Schemes, Signal Design and Information Coding, and Digital Signal Processing Techniquesfor Communications. Dr. Zhang is a member of IEEE and ASEE. KEN BURBANK is an Associate Professor and Director of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technologyat Western Carolina University. Dr. Burbank is active with IEEE, SME, and TAC of ABET, and strives to bringpractical engineering activities into the classroom. His current project is the development of a photonics programwithin the Electrical Engineering curriculum. ROBERT ADAMS is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Caroline Baillie

link between research, practice and teaching.AcknowledgementsI would like to thank the interviewees for their time and patience, Ference Marton, JonasEmanuelsson and the Dept. of Education and Educational Research, Gothenburg University, TheTrecentenary Foundation of the Bank of Sweden and the ‘AGORA’ project Wissenschaftskolleg,Berlin, for supporting this study.Bibliography1..J.Bowden, and F.Marton., The University of Learning Kogan Page, (1998)2.Driver, Rosalind/Asoko, Hilary/ Leach, John/ Mortimer, Eduardo/ Scott, Philip, (1994) “Constructing ScientificKnowledge in the Classroom”, Educational Researcher, 23, Issue 7, pp.5-123.JohnCowan Beyond reflection where next for curricula which concentrate oncapabilityin Baillie and Moore (Eds) (2003

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BME Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Roselli

Conference Session

Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sayward Touton; Cory McDonald; Amy Monte; Gretchen Hein

PeaceCorps volunteer. This service is considered the equivalent of seven research credits. Uponcompletion in the Peace Corps, M.I. students must defend a project report, rather than atraditional thesis, detailing their accomplishments as a volunteer. These students, from acrossthe country, were selected to be mentors in the GUIDE program because they typically havediverse interests and are service motivated. As the most academically experienced, the graduatestudents are the leaders of each group and responsible for mentoring both undergraduatestudents.Having just completed their first year in the GUIDE scholarship program, the second yearundergraduate students may have sophomore or junior status. They have exhibited a desire tocontinue an education

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Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2004 Annual Conference

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Keith Koenig; Viva Austin; Bryan Gassaway; Thomas Hannigan

or senior seminar project has provided a continual update of aportable wind tunnel system. This system was effectively used in classroomdemonstrations and student lab activities for fluid mechanics and aerospace engineeringclasses. The present requirement of all ASE 4721 laboratory students to design andimplement a complete data acquisition and control program for this wind tunnel system isan effective tool for gauging readiness of those students to move beyond rudimentarytraining received in ASE 4113. This task provides good motivation to all upper divisionstudents who are required to take these courses, and improves their confidence in theirabilities to perform incidental programming. Using a complex benchmark assignmentreviews those

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sean Holleran; Elaine Chan; Chad Rasmussen; Alan McGaughey

several advantages, such as more freedom in theirchoice of thesis advisor and project, and are more desirable candidates to admissionscommittees. The workshop consists of a panel made up of a variety of speakers who stressdifferent aspects of the fellowship application process. In 2002 the panelists included a financialaid coordinator from the UM Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department, two UMfaculty members who review grant applications for the National Science Foundation, arepresentative from the UM Sweetland Writing Center, and several UM graduate students who Page 9.217.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for

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ERM Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske; Janet L. Yowell; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan; Lawrence E. Carlson

tools is provided to the teachers to take back totheir classrooms. All such curricula will become available online in late 2004 through theTeachEngineering digital library collection.SettingOne aspect of our professional development workshops that appeals to teachers is theopportunity to come to the university and spend time learning away from their classrooms. Theteachers in our four-day workshops, for example, constructed hands-on engineering projects thatrequired resources not commonly found in a K-12 school, such as a CNC laser cutter. This was agreat new experience for most teachers. However, for teachers that were not local, commuting tothe university and paying for accommodations was a deterrent from attending. The newer two-day workshop

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Watkins; Joel Esposito; Matthew Feemster

. experiment results, critique the proposed simulationmodel, and then augment the model in an effort to improve simulation accuracy. In each componentof the project, the students utilized the WinCon real-time interface to actuate the robotic link and tocollect measurements from the numerous sensors embedded on the physical plant. In Section 2, weprovide a brief overview of the course objectives. In Section 3, a description of the WinCon real-time interface and the rigid-link, flexible joint system is presented. The modular laboratory exercisesare described in Section 4. In Section 5, the success of the sequence of laboratory exercises isquantified in the form of follow-up evaluation sheets completed by the participating students.2 Course Overview

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Interdisciplinary Approaches

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Creese

C. “Time-Based Break-Even Analysis and Costing”, 1998 AACE International Transactions,AACE International, Morgantown, WV pp. ABC.02.1-ABC.02.6.2. Robert C. Creese, “Time-Based Breakeven Analysis”, 1998 Joint Cost Management Societies Proceedings, pp.AACE.02.01 - AACE.02.07.3. Creese, Robert C. “:A New Break-even Analysis Uses Production Time vs. Quantity”, Modern Castings, March1996, p. 52-3.4. Hand field, Robert B., and Ernest L. Nichols. Introduction to Supply Chain Management, Upper Saddle River,NJ, Prentice-Hall, (1999), pp 53-4.5. Newbold, Robert C. Project Management in the Fast Lane-Applying the Theory of Constraints, St. LuciePress/APICS Series on Constraints Management, Boca Raton, FL. St Lucie Press (1998), 284 pp.Bibliographic

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Maintaining the Engineering Workforce

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Jacobson

guarantee for admission to the M.S. in computer engineering program.Increased marketing has led to increased off campus enrollment, which was to be expected butdoes pose a problem for the instructors of the courses. The two courses with the highest offcampus enrollments are Information System Security and Information Warfare, each withtypically over 60 off campus students. The former has several large projects which creates agrading increase for the instructor. The department has provided Teaching Assistants (TA) tohelp with the overload. Information Warfare has a lab component with one large “break-in” labthat lasts several weeks. Since the labs are all designed to be accessed over the internet the

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Recruitment and Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alan Price

the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering”spatially referenced data sets—i.e., data reference by location in space, described in terms ofshape, place, and relationship to other spatial data, and contains attribute information—ArcMap8.2 from ESRI 9 was used to analyze and present the results of the study.V. Research Methods and DatasetsThis paper is a descriptive and exploratory study of the early use of GIS at DeVry University,Pomona, to data mine using freely available California state educational data and DeVryUniversity historical student data. Data or information needed to complete the project

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Sharp, Vanderbilt University

Engineering Education23. Sharp, J.E., "Educating Engineers: Bringing the Real World into the Technical Communication Classroom,” The Catalyst, Newsletter of the Vanderbilt Chemical Engin eering Dept., Vol. 2, No. 2, Winter 2002/2003, p. 6.24. Reference 23.25. Reference 23.26. Sharp, J.E., "Evaluating Oral Presentations in Engineering Classes," Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education 1996 27th Annual Conference, pp. 994-997.27. Brickell, J.L., D.B. Porter, M.F. Reynolds, and R.D. Cosgrove, “Assigning Students to Groups for Engineering Design Projects: A Comparison of Five Methods,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 83, No. 3, July 1994, pp. 259-262.28. Sharp, J.E., "Teaching Teamwork Communication with Kolb Learning Style Theory

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Assessment & Quality Assuranc in Engr Ed

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jiangqiao Lan; Donghai Xie

methods and fostering of creativespirits.The concrete indicators are composed of the following: learning feelings/value feelings,teaching enthusiasm and organization and clarity, the mutual exchange of the groups,harmonious interpersonal relations, the breadth of knowledge, examination scoring andhomework, reading materials, the course quantity, the difficulty and logical structure[14].In 2001, we have undertaken “the Course Teaching Quality Assessment System”, which is theteaching reform project granted by Education Ministry of China. Such a system indicates thatdifferent assessment forms are made with various emphasis according to experts`, leaders

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Nontraditional Ways to Engage Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas O'Neal; Thomas Jacobius; Joseph Steig; Arnold Heggestad; Abigail Barrow; Phil Weilerstein; David Barbe

of Research. He serves on the boards of several Venture Funds and has been involved in multiple startups.THOMAS M. JACOBIUSTom Jacobius is Director of Interprofessional Studies and The IPRO® Program at Illinois Institute of Technology inChicago, Illinois. Tom received the B.S. degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Illinois Institute ofTechnology and the Master of Management degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Managementwith a concentration in marketing. He has established the interprofessional project (IPRO) team course requirementas IIT’s signature educational experience for students across all disciplines and professional programs and allacademic levels, and involving just as broad a range of faculty

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Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

mission of the Astronautics Department is to produce the world’s finest Air Force officerswho live our core values of integrity, service, and excellence and understand space. In keepingwith this mission, the Department has created the Space Systems Research Center (SSRC) andthe FalconSAT program1. Our philosophy of “Learning Space by Doing Space” is carried outthrough the SSRC. This center provides a facility in which our astronautics majors can design,assemble, test, and operate small, scientifically relevant satellites. FalconGold, FalconSAT-1,and FalconSAT-2 were the first spacecraft in a series of projects created by cadets. In recentyears, the program has expanded to include select management, physics, computer science, andelectrical