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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Hietpas

Page 9.105.10Cradled Dynamometer Design. The cradled dynamometer was design by two mechanicalengineering students for their senior design project. The design consists of two parallel I-beamrails, with cross members, mounted on locking castors. Between the rails is mounted a 5 kW DCfield wound generator, with shafts extended out each end, to enable connection of motors ateither side. The generator is cradled with bearings at each side. A lever arm is mounted on thelower side of the generator and extended to a compression/expansion transducer, which isconnected to one of the I-beam rails. The output of the transducer is sent to an signal transducerand display unit (original equipment manufacturer, OEM). With proper calibration, students areable

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The Nuts & Bolts of TC2K

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2004 Annual Conference

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Randy Winzer

has always believed in a strong role for the industrial advisory committeeand has had one in place since the inception of the program more than 30 year ago. The marksof the advisory committee are exceedingly prevalent throughout our curriculum and program.The advisory committee has been evaluating student work in the form of capstone projects fromthe seniors for more than 2 decades now. We saw the constituent input mandates contained inTC2K as an opportunity to strengthen this already active group’s role within our program. Thepolicy and procedures document referred to earlier addresses this by including a sectionspecifically documenting the role of the advisory committee. That section is included below.“Policy and Procedures for EET

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Engineers & Engineering Education in Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, and Turkey

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2004 Annual Conference

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Lerzan Özkale; Fatma Küskü; Gülsün Saglamer

Üniversitelerinde Kadınların Konumu” (Position of Womenin Turkish Universities between 1980-1990), Unpublished project, in Zengin- Arslan (2002).[18] Sağlamer, G (2003) “Türkiye’de Kadın Hakları ve Yüksek Ögretim’de Kadın” (Women Rights and Women inHigher Education in Turkey), Speech delivered at Rotary Club’s 8 March Celebration, İstanbul.[19] Sağlamer, G (2000b) Women in Higher Education with Special Reference to Technology & Science : Turkish Case,June 20, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.[20] Abacıoğlu, Asuman, http://listweb.bilkent.edu.tr/kadin/2000/Mar/0047.html.LERZAN ÖZKALE, Ph.D., is Professor at the Department of Management Engineering, Istanbul TechnicalUniversity, Turkey. Her research focuses mainly on topics related to Integration

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IE Accreditation and Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Eleanor Nault; Michael Leonard

. L. Hammond, H. O. Merriman, and M. M. Provus. Educational evaluation and decisions making. Gall, M. D., W. Borg, and J. P. Gall. 1996. Educational research: An introduction. 6th ed. New York: Longman Publishers. First published by Itaaska, IL: Peacock, 1971.7 Frechtling, J. A. 1993. User-friendly handbook for project evaluation in science, mathematics, engineering and technology education. Arlington, Virginia: National Science Foundation.8 Frechtling, J. and L. Sharp. 1997. User-friendly handbook for mixed methods evaluation. Arlington, Virginia: National Science Foundation.9 McGourty, J., C. Sebastian, and W. Swart. 1998. Developing a comprehensive assessment program for engineering education. Journal of

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Abrar Khan; Shuhui Li

the significance of LabView and NI ELVISvirtual instruments as replacements of traditional instruments, and to understand the basic NI Page 9.409.3LabView and graphical programming concepts. This would develop students’ interests and Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationconfidence and give them a clearer understanding to use LabView and NI ELVIS formeasurement, analysis, and design of various electric and electronic circuits as well as moreadvanced design projects.3.1. Comparing

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Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Gearold Johnson; Thomas Siller

during World War II with design anddevelopment of weapons like the atomic bomb and radar defense systems, engineering came tobe more and more like applied physics. The Russian launch of Sputnik in December 1957accelerated the movement of the engineering curriculum toward applied physics. Until the mid1970s, few engineering programs contained any design projects and social courses in writing(composition) were confined to successfully passing, or having waived based on some “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004 American Society for Engineering Education

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BME Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Wagner; Daniel Cavanagh

Engineering EducationIntroductionWith the implementation of a new major in biomedical engineering at Bucknell University,faculty from the biomedical engineering program have become an integral part of theintroductory engineering course required of all first-year engineers. This course, ENGR 100Exploring Engineering, is designed to provide the students with an introduction to Bucknell’s sixengineering disciplines as well as overarching concepts such as engineering design, ethics andteamwork. This is accomplished by dividing the course into 4 components includinga group design project assessing wheelchair accessibility on campus, two student-chosen topicalseminars and the reading and analysis of engineering related books. As the topical seminars

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Computer Literacy Among Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

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Roli Varma

the Minority Engineering Math and Science orMEMS Project. However, scholarships alone are not enough; they need to be combined withother retention activities. For instance, minority students must maintain a specific course loadand grade level to keep the scholarship. This does not go well with non-traditional minoritystudents who have families to support. Further, CS and CE departments can take anunconventional approach to student retention by offering some financial incentives such astuition credit for students who are in their final year.Concluding RemarksMinority students have been taking advantage of opportunities available in IT by pursuingeducation in CS and CE against all odds. A significant number of them, however, end up leavingCS or

Conference Session

Learning Enhancements for CHE Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

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Polly Piergiovanni; S. Scott Moor

industry he returned to academia at the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley where he received a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and an M.A. in Statistics. He is aregistered Professional Chemical Engineer in the State of California.POLLY R. PIERGIOVANNIPolly Piergiovanni is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Lafayette College. She received a B.S.from Kansas State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Houston, both in Chemical Engineering. Herresearch interests include cell culture and fermentation , and the LEGO project. Page 8.557.10 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Walsh

project based learning. Laboratories, are expensive, but are an efficientvehicle to accomplish student learning. They are refreshing for many students, a welcomecounterpoint to lecture as they provide the challenge as they teach their lesson, rather than in adeferred quiz. Laboratories allow students to demonstrate outcomes mandated by ABET’sEngineering Criteria 2000. In well conceived laboratories students demonstrate an ability to: 1.Apply the tools of modern engineering and science to solve relevant problems. 2. Implementappropriate experimental procedures. 3. Handle data, draw and articulate conclusions. 4. Make “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Innovations in the CHE Laboratory

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2003 Annual Conference

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James Fenton; H. Russell Kunz; Suzanne Fenton

lab can be completed easily in two 4-hour lab periods. The experiment isalso suitable for use as a demonstration in a typical lecture course or as a hands-on project forhigh school students and teachers.Bibliography1. Thomas, S. and M. Zalbowitz, “Fuel Cells-Green Power”, Los Alamos National Laboratory, LA-UR-99-3231 (1999).2. Larminie, J. and A. Dicks, Fuel Cell Systems Explained, John Wiley & Sons, (2000).3. Hoogers, G., Fuel Cell Technology Handbook, 1st ed, CRC Press, (2002).4. Hirschenhofer, J. H., D. B. Stauffer, R. R. Engleman, and M. G. Klett, “Fuel Cell Handbook,” Fifth Edition, National Technical Information Service, U. S. Department of Commerce, VA (2000).5. Koppel, T. and J. Reynolds, A Fuel Cell Primer: The Promise and

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Technology for Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Billy Koen

period of abulia becomes more extensive) as students wait longer tobegin studying for the next unit and the effect of cramming becomes steeper in each subsequentinterval. Technically we are controlling student behavior by an external clock. If we teachstudents to complete projects in this way, we should not be surprised to learn that students exhibitthis behavior we have taught them as young engineers after they leave our classrooms. Page 7.26.4 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Expositio n Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education4.1

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Thomas Walker; Patrick Devens

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2003 Annual Conference

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Dyani Saxby; Saeed Foroudastan

cram interstates and highways full ofmore trucks, the effects will be devastating. The entire world is experiencing increasing healthcare costs and loss of life as a result of air pollution. It has not only hit hard in the U.S., but alsowith the rest of the world. India, one of the more densely populated countries in the world isexperiencing a jump in the amount of freight shipped by trucks as a result of rapidly increasingdemand. 18 One study showed that Asian cities are being hit the hardest with air pollution beingfive times greater than other industrial countries. Urban population in these nations is projected totriple from 360 million to over a billion in 2020. 5 Other nations are facing similar situations andmany are turning to railroads

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K-20 Activities in Materials Science

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2003 Annual Conference

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Hermes Calderon; Amilcar Quispitupa; Scott Kiefer

+: (½, ½, ½)Cl-: (0, 0, 0) (1, 0, 0) (0, 1, 0) (0, 0, 1)Coordination numbers are then for both ions equal to eight with the following ionic radii:rCs+ = 0.170 nm and rCl- = 0.181 nm. From the relation between the lattice parameter and theionic radii: aCsCl = 2·r Cs+ + 2·r Cl- = 0.405 nm.2.3 Other Crystal StructuresAfterwards, two more ceramic cubic structures, zinc blende (ZnS) and perovskite, are presentedand discussed. In particular, the CaTiO3 is of interest since a perovskite-related structure will beassigned as part of a team project, as indicated in the following section. In the case of CaTiO3the positions of the center of the ions in the unit cell are as follows:Ca2+: (0, 0, 0) (1, 0, 0) (1, 1, 0) (0, 1, 0

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Teaching Strategies in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

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Russ Poldrack; Richard Hoge; Randy Gollub; Mark Vangel; Ian Lai; Douglas Greve; Julie Greenberg

Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationMATLAB®, as well as the size of the data sets. Work is currently underway to transition thesimulation to a Web-accessible application using a conventional client/server model. The serverstores the data sets and performs the majority of the computations, while the client performs userinterface functions.We intend to make the Web-accessible version of the module available to the general public viathe Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN).32 BIRN is a consortium of universityand hospital research organizations concerned with neuroimaging data acquisition and analysis.The consortium’s initial projects are all focused on structural and functional neuroimaging data.They include a Web site

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Bill Elmore

many of the things theyreally want to do anyway, which is to have fun developing exciting new courses. In this case,the class is the research project. If the professor is successful, he can then turn this work into apublication. Before a professor jumps into the world of educational research, he needs to makesure his university will accept research of this type. Some universities do not recognizeeducational research as real research. Other universities may accept educational research, butstill want you to do some traditional research. This is the case at our university. The collegeleadership still wants us to do traditional research, but we are allowed to use educationalresearch as part of our overall plan.It is also possible to sometimes

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Assessment Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Ware; Charles Yokomoto; Maher Rizkalla

theirperformance on exam problems of increasing levels of difficulty. The results of this part of theNortheastern University project were presented at the 2002 Frontiers in Education Conferencebut not published in the proceedings. The results of the study may be obtaining by contactingyokomoto@iupui.edu.3.0 The Current StudyFor the current study, the authors used a subset of the items from Northeastern University study,selecting only those items that showed a marked difference between student responses andinstructor recommendation for best practice. The investigation was expanded to assessingstudents’ self-reported behaviors and heuristic beliefs at the start of the semester and at a point inthe semester after three exams had been given. In addition, the

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Haley; Calvin Mackie; Sundiata Jangha

Higher Education, “Top 100 Degree Producers,” Black Issues inHigher Education. 6/20/02, pp. 45-122.AuthorsSUNDIATA K. JANGHAMr. Sundiata Jangha is a doctoral student in Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Instituteof Technology. His research interests include prototyping, product development,engineering design education, computer-aided design, the design of complex systems andproducts, and engineering entrepreneurship. He is a member of ASME, ASEE, andNSBE. Sundiata is an ONR HBEC–FFP Fellow and a FOCUS 1996 Alumnus.ROBERT G. HALEYMr. Robert Haley is Director of Special Projects for the College of Engineering andSpecial Assistant to the President at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Mr. Haley is thefounder of the FOCUS program and continues to

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Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; David Oglesby; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

. degree from Cornell University in 1980, and a B.S. from theUniversity of Kentucky in 1979, all in Civil Engineering. Dr. Philpot teaches Statics and Mechanics of Materialsand is the project director of the U.S. Department of Education grant that supported this work. Dr. Philpot is theauthor of MDSolids – Educational Software for Mechanics of Materials.RICHARD H. HALLRichard H. Hall is an Associate Professor of Information Science and Technology at the University of Missouri-Rolla. He received his BS degree in Psychology from the University of North Texas, and PhD degree inExperimental Psychology from Texas Christian University. He is the director of UMR’s Media ResearchLaboratory, and his research focuses on Web Design and Usability

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; David Oglesby; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

InformationTIMOTHY A. PHILPOTTimothy A. Philpot is an Assistant Professor in the Basic Engineering Department and a Research Associate for theInstructional Software Development Center at the University of Missouri–Rolla. Dr. Philpot received a Ph.D.degree from Purdue University in 1992, an M.Engr. degree from Cornell University in 1980, and a B.S. from theUniversity of Kentucky in 1979, all in Civil Engineering. Dr. Philpot teaches Statics and Mechanics of Materialsand is the project director of the U.S. Department of Education grant that supported this work. Dr. Philpot is theauthor of MDSolids – Educational Software for Mechanics of Materials.NANCY HUBINGDr. Hubing is an Associate Professor in the Basic Engineering Department at the University of Missouri

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Trends in Mechanics Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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R.W. Carpick; K.W. Lux; Buck Johnson; Wendy Crone

more dominant roles. A new course innanoscale mechanics for engineering students was recently taught at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. This course provided an introduction to nanoscale engineering with a direct focuson the critical role that mechanics needs to play in this developing area. The limits of continuummechanics were presented as well as newly developed mechanics theories and experimentstailored to study and describe micro- and nano-scale phenomena. Numerous demonstrations andexperiments were used throughout the course, including synthesis and fabrication techniques forcreating nanostructured materials, bubble raft models to demonstrate size scale effects in thinfilm structures, and a laboratory project to construct a

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2001 Annual Conference

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Glenn Moffett; Thomas Hall

improving thetechnical aspects of Internet course delivery while still providing college credit for the students.The lessons that we learned through this pilot project are included in the remaining sections ofthis article.For development and management of on-line courses, Northwestern State University usesBlackboard 5 (an e-Learning software platform from Blackboard, Inc.). Blackboard is adequatefor the purpose, and it excels in some areas. Instructors can post information and assignments ina wide variety of ways. Students and instructors can communicate using discussion groups Page 6.324.2 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for

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2001 Annual Conference

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Rebecca Sidler Kellogg; J. Adin Mann; Ann Dieterich

Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education taken and the student had many complaints about consistent grading with different instructors using the rubrics. • The design students appeared to pay more attention to the criteria in the rubric when they were given the rubric well in advance of the assignment and asked to use the rubric to evaluate their own work prior to handing in the assignment. • Students in the design course were allowed to specify their own categories and criteria as part of their final report rubric. This flexibility was provided to account for the diversity in the design projects. Students often included additional information or work that was