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Learning and Teaching Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Glenn Ellis; Alan Rudnitsky; Borjana Mikic

Session 2531 Getting the “big picture” in engineering: Using narratives and conceptual maps Glenn W. Ellis, Borjana Mikic and Alan N. Rudnitsky Smith College, Northampton, MAINTRODUCTIONThe Picker Engineering Program at Smith College is the first undergraduate program leading to adegree in engineering at a woman’s liberal arts college. The foundation and rationale for theprogram conceives of engineering as connecting basic scientific and mathematical principles inthe service of humanity. Thus imagined, engineering finds itself well situated at a liberal

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Jewell

of another country. However, there are still manyimprovements that can be made in our system to maximize the benefits to our studentsthroughout their careers as engineers or whatever related field they pursue.AcknowledgementsThe author would like to thank Prof. William Thomas, Director of the Union Collegeterms abroad program, for supplying data on terms abroad taken by engineers, as well asgiving a great deal of sage advice on how to develop and promote new foreign studyexperiences for engineers. Also, Prof. Ann Anderson, Chair of Mechanical Engineeringat Union College, provided data on students participating in the IVDS program.THOMAS K. JEWELLThomas K. Jewell is the Carl B. Jansen Professor of Civil Engineering at Union College. He is the

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Construction Engineering Advances II

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stuart Bernstein

?(check all that apply) a. □ Much of what I learn in my classes can be applied to what I do or intend to do. b. □ I enjoy correlating what the professor is teaching with what I am learning in the field c. □ Much of what I do in the field can be better understood as a result of what is being taught. d. □ I feel I know enough about some courses I could teach the class. e. □ The classes I am taking are not relevant to what I am doing or intend to do.Table 1. Question #14 from survey Number of Students Attitude Toward Classes by Year 30 25 20 Freshman

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Contemporary Issues in Manufacturing Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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William White; Marie Lee; Diane Schuch Miller

Session 1363 The Development of Manufacturing Case Studies William L. White, Diane M. Schuch-Miller, Marie D. Lee Lawrence Technological University/Wayne State University/Wayne State University In manufacturing engineering education, there is a need for problem-solving projects that reflect realissues to supplement or replace drill and practice problems. Authentic activities offer an opportunity to apply newknowledge and skills to manufacturing engineering problems, test theorie s, and draw conclusions in a safeenvironment with the help of their peers and mentors. Case studies add relevance and

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Curriculum Development in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

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Wayne Jones; Robert Wright

facilitates the student having the opportunity for exposure tohands-on activities tied directly to current technology or to the development of the nextgeneration of products.III. System ArchitectureA detailed system baseline configuration of the laboratory is given in Figure 1. The central focusis the four (4) virtual offices listed below with some of their salient features and capabilities: • Office A: Ethernet LAN. Various configurations and topologies. Fast/Gigabit Ethernet. Voice/video over IP. Multimedia applications. • Office B: Wireless LAN. LAN, Personal Information Machines (PIMs)/mobile terminals. 2G, 2.5G, 3G, 4G, IR. Voice/video over IP. • Office C: PBX - Hybrid

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tracy Volz; David McStravick

suggestions for improved students were required to write a short paper onreports. “Cold Fusion” (see the assignment in Appendix B). This topic was chosen because it was feltIn spring 2002, the first library research report that it would be new to these students andwas assigned on significant figures. The engage their interest. The students were askedstudents were required to write a report on the to report facts related to the incident and givedetermination of an accurate value for a an opinion regarding the culpability of the Coldfundamental constant (e.g. the speed of light). Fusion

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Trends in Nuclear Engineering Education II

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Prestwich; Fiona McNeill; David Chettle

programmefrom our undergraduate programme have already completed two of the required graduatecourses in the Health and Radiation Physics M.Sc. programme. These students thereforeneed only take 4 graduate courses to complete the requirements of the programme.This refining of the graduate programme has led to a concept of a new 5 year M.Sc.programme, where students can enter from High School. Our proposal is outlined below.The Combined ProgrammeThe plan is to offer a combined five year programme offering a B.Sc. Honours/ M.Sc. inMedical and Health Physics/ Health and Radiation Physics. Students will be awarded aB.Sc. Honours Degree in Medical and Health Physics upon satisfactory completion of fouryears of study. Students who maintain a B+ average in

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Watson; Hossein Salehfar; Arnold Johnson

the schoolof Engineering and Mines (SEM) at the University of North Dakota established a distanceeducation program to deliver Bachelor of Science engineering degrees to employees ofparticipating companies. This program was known as the Corporate Engineering DegreeProgram and has recently expanded into open enrollments and renamed the Distance EngineeringDegree Program (DEDP). Currently the DEDP offers the only ABET (Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology) accredited undergraduate engineering programs at a distance.The current DEDP delivery format includes videotaped lectures, static Internet Web pages ofhandouts, e-mail, and on-campus condensed summer laboratories. This delivery format ensuresthat each distance student receives the

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Understanding Students: Cognition

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2003 Annual Conference

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Donald Carpenter; Cindy Finelli; Honor Passow; Trevor Harding; Cynthia Finelli

intheir own decision to cheat.2b. VariablesConsequencesIn one part of the survey, three scenarios representing distinct contexts for cheating aredescribed. Those are listed here.A. “Imagine you are stuck on a problem during the final exam in a required class you are failing. You are considering looking at your neighbor’s exam. ” [Examination]B. “Imagine you are working on a homework assignment in a group and you are considering copying one of the homework solutions from another student in the group.” [Homework]C. “Imagine you are considering including references to articles you have not read in the bibliography of your term paper, just to increase the length of your bibliography.” [Term paper]For each scenario, respondents were asked

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Issues for ET Administrators

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2003 Annual Conference

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Roger Reynolds; Macy Reynolds

homework that might have remained undone, or done incorrectly. If only afew students had a problem, the instructor could write to the student directly with furtherexplanation of the material in question. This week in Tech Computation Lab, I found a lot of things difficult. I didn't quite get the understanding of Histograms and Filtering. The last assignment was long…For some reason, I don't understand the work when students teache it. That is why I don't understand filtering or histograms. But after asking (you) for help, I got the concept of Histograms...But other than that, I'm fine. So far I get what is going on in class, except for the B/C ratio. For some reason I have a hard time determining

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Program Delivery Methods & Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Ragsdell; Halvard Nystrom

Foundation Special Report, TheCarnie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Princeton University Press, 1985.2 Ragsdell, K., R. Davis, J. Petrikovitsch & V. Eller “Simulation in a Web-Based Asynchronous LearningEnvironment”, Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Engineering Education3 Hoberock, L., B. Koen, C. Roth and G. Wagner, “Theory of PSI Evaluated for Engineering Education”, IEEE Transactions on Education, Feb. 1972, 25-29.4 Felder, Richard M., “Learning and Teaching Styles in Engineering Education” Journal of Engineering Education, April 1988, 674-681.5 Ragsdell, K. “Total Quality Management”, 1994 American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Sept. 1994, 7(3),218-228.6 Ragsdell, K., “Quality in

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Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jill Lynn

Distance Education Options for Engineering Education Jill A. Lynn, Assistant Professor jalynn@pstindy.org Purdue University Aviation Technology at Indianapolis2003 ASEE Annual Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, June 2003ABSTRACT guidelines that must be adhered to in order to meet

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Mathematics in the Transition

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Cairns; Donna Farrior; Shirley Pomeranz

Session 2665 Experiences from the Tulsa Mathematics Equity Academy Donna S. Farrior, Shirley B. Pomeranz, Thomas W. Cairns The University of TulsaIntroductionThe Tulsa Mathematics Equity Academy (TMEA) has been held at The University of Tulsa forthe past 7 summers. The TMEA started as an outgrowth of our popular Sonia Kovalevsky HighSchool Mathematics Days. Over the past seven summers the directors of the program have triedseveral formats and different content. This paper will summarize our experience with a viewtoward offering tips on how to start a residential summer academy. The

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Using Web-Based Engineering Information

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2003 Annual Conference

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Nicole Clark; David Radcliffe

© 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”categories. As an incentive, members can go to a higher grade based on a combination of annualsubscription and a minimum number of new resources contributed over a 12-month period. (Thisis a form of loyalty scheme – like frequent flyers). The goal is to have members enter their ownmetadata as a strategy for making the continued growth of the Sustainability Knowledge Networksustainable.Consultancies provide a source of revenue and an opportunity to add to core SustainabilityKnowledge Network capabilities but at the cost of diverting resources from core activities.Therefore the team will take on consultancies that are either of (a) strategic importance to theproject and/or (b) add a key technology

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rufus Carter; Tim Anderson; Brian Thorndyke; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

approximations for the hypothesis of no overall group effect usingPillai’s Trace are shown in Table 7. To protect individual and institutional privacy, theSUCCEED universities have been randomly assigned a letter from A – I, and the degrees offreedom related to Pillai’s trace have been omitted. The null hypothesis is rejected with p <0.0001 for every institution, providing strong evidence for us to conclude that the CHE, OENG,SCI and NSCI groups differ significantly in at least one of the academic characteristics. Table 7: Pillai’s Trace of p-values for the Multivariate Omnibus Test. UNIVERSITY Pillai’s Trace, p-value A F=193.61, p<0.0001 B F=32.62

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Understanding Students: Cognition

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2003 Annual Conference

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Matthew Eliot; Angela Linse; Jennifer Turns

ownknowledge and goals) and the accessibility of the users (e.g., where are the users, is it possible tomeet face to face).Our current work in instructional development reflects these issues by representing one means tocollect information in order to characterize the users of instructional development. Our choice ofdata collection method reflects the following assumptions about faculty and their teachingactivities: (a) teaching, and particularly preparation for teaching, tends to be an invisible activityand one that is rarely discussed openly and (b) faculty have few opportunities to talk about theirteaching. Thus, our specific challenge was to find a window into the teaching challenges andconcerns of faculty.The GrantIn June of 2002, we received a

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Environmental Justice and Sustainability

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2003 Annual Conference

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Walter Weber; Deborah Ross; Angela Lueking

requirements of the traditional Master’s degree. Thus, the program is a template that can be applied to virtually any degree program. The ConsEnSus Program design was accomplished by identifying pre-existing courses with an environmental component. The approved courses—whether generic or department specific—are subdivided into three categories with respect to intellectual content: A. Environmental Law and Regulations; B. Environmental Assessment and Policy; and C. Environmental Science and Technology. Students must select courses from at least two of these three categories in completion of the twelve credit hours. The overall goal of the approved courses is to enhance the student’s environmental literacy and competency in

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Web-Based Instruction

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2003 Annual Conference

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Lauren Neal; Jr., Robert J. Clougherty; Ismail Fidan

Page 8.381.4 • Gradebook “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering Education” • Student Tools Figure 4: Twelve major WebCT Links created for MIT3060 Each link is described below.a. Syllabus The syllabus link connects student to a full syllabus for the course. The WebCT syllabusclearly states that nothing is committed to paper as can be seen in Figure 5. Paper copies of thesyllabus have not been provided in Fall 2002.b. Course Chapters The “Course Chapters” link allows students to access to a variety of course related materials.This web page is shown in Figure 6. The coverage of

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Lan; Karlene Hoo; Jason Williams; Harry Parker; Charles Smith; Theodore Wiesner

development in the following areas? a-k Rating Rating Mean ± SD Mean ± SD N=25 N=24Fundamental knowledge of ChE principles a 4.7 ±1.0 4.6 ±0.6Mathematical Skills a 4.2 ±1.0 4.4 ±0.8Ability to design and conduct experiments b 4.7 ±0.7 4.6 ±0.7Ability to analyze and interpret data b 4.7 ±0.8 4.9 ±0.5Ability to design systems and components as needed c 4.3 ±0.8 4.0 ±1.1Ability to work well in diverse or multidisciplinary

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Assessment & Quality Assuranc in Engr Ed

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2003 Annual Conference

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Swami Karunamoorthy

objectives andoutcomes were disseminated to all the constituents while the Program EducationalObjectives were published in University Catalog. The program learning outcomes weremapped to program educational objectives, college learning outcomes, and theappropriate accreditation criteria.The assessment process specifies methods used to collect qualitative and quantitative dataon a continual basis to determine how well the graduates satisfy the program learningoutcomes. In addition to regular quizzes, tests, homework, projects, and exams, theprograms were encouraged to use as many methods as possible from a suggested list ofviable assessment methods. The list includes (a) Industrial Advisory Committee, (b)Program Outcome Portfolio, (c) Graduating

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Teamwork, K-12: Projects to Promote Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Arvid Andersen

Session 1660 Diversity in cultures and teamwork Arvid Andersen Engineering College of Copenhagen, DenmarkAbstractEuropean countries have long and strong historical, cultural and educational traditions, whichthey all want to protect, preserve and defend. Simultaneously, there is a strong wish to jointhe European Union to cooperate and collaborate, and to develop together in a common causefor a strong competitive EU. International awareness, considerations, courage and concernare extremely important elements to take seriously, if we want to be up front in

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Improving Communication Skills in ME

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2003 Annual Conference

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Norman Asper; Bijan Sepahpour

Session 2166 UTILIZING TEAM BUILDING SKILLS IN ENGINEERIG PROJECTS Norman L. Asper and Bijan Sepahpour The College of New Jersey Department of Engineering Ewing, New Jersey 08628-0718ABSTRACTFundamental elements of Group Dynamics can be the basis for successful engineering projects.A tested process for selection of team members is presented. In case of national or regionalcompetitions, the potential for success of a small

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ET Design Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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Wagdy Mahmoud; Tom Timmermann; Bonita Barger; Ahmed Elsawy

-Based Interactive Coaching System for Team Skill Development”, ASEE2002-Session 1658. 7. J. Mills, “A Case Study of Project-based Learning in Structural Engineering”, Proceedings of the Amercian Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition. 2002. 8. J.E. McGrath and A. B. Hollingshead, “Putting the ‘Group’ Back in Group Support Systems: Some Theoretical Issues about Dynamic Processes in Groups and Technological Enhancements”, in Leonard M. Jessup and Joseph S. Valacich (eds.), Group Support Systems: New Perspectives (Macmillan Publishing Company, New York), pp. 78-96, 1993. 9. R.E. Rice, “Task Analyzability, Use of New Media, and Effectiveness: a Multi-Site Exploration

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Developing Young MINDs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Doreen Lawrence; Broderick Boxley; Chris Kobus; Barbara Oakley

Session 1170 Using the Kumon Method to Revitalize Mathematics in an Inner-Urban School District Barbara A. Oakley†, Doreen Lawrence††, Walter L. Burt†††, Broderick Boxley†††, Christopher J. Kobus† † School of Engineering and Computer Science, Oakland University/ †† Kumon, North America/ †††School District of Pontiac Abstract It is a compelling challenge to provide inner-urban K-12 students with the skillsnecessary for a career in engineering. A solid grounding in

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Teamwork, K-12: Projects to Promote Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stephen Silliman

Page 8.307.10participating in the classroom experience. Figures 4a,b show the mean responses to question 1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Figure 4: Comparison of student response at the beginning and end of the learning experience asexpressed both in terms of rank of importance to an engineering curriculum (“a” for the classroomexperience and “b” for the REU experience) and in terms of differential between questions 1 and 2(“c” for the classroom experience and “d” for the REU experience).for these two groups (including responses to both the

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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James Middleton; Cheryl Gengler; Antonio Garciq; D. L. Evans; Sharon Robinson Kurpius; Peter Crouch; Dale Baker; Mary Anderson-Rowland; Chell Roberts; Stephen Krause

andcurriculum needed to set up high school courses in this subject at their respective schools.MTI-trained teachers found this training to be very beneficial to their teaching. Their students(221 students at 7 high schools) reported that the courses: a) made them much more interested in Page 8.378.3a science career b) increased their enjoyment of laboratory activities; and c) helped them developProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright3 © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationtheir skills fo r working with equipment and in the laboratory

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Statistics in the CHE Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Milo Koretsky

. Page 8.595.7Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session 3513 a. Batch Process b. Continuous ProcessBoat of FreshWafers Etchant wafer in Spent Etchant Etchant

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Raising the Bar and Body of Knowledge

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stuart Walesh

outcome. 2. an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as analyze and interpret data. (ABET b) Commentary: Civil engineers frequently design and conduct field and laboratory studies, gather data and then analyze and interpret the results. Be able to do this in at least one of the major recognized civil engineering areas. Examples are traffic, geotechnical, and water quality investigations. 3. an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs. (ABET c) Commentary: Important design or design procurement elements are bidding versus quality-based engineer

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Instructional Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steven Cramer; Nancy Ciezki; Hussain Bahia

students areentering our classes with simple but powerful expectations; (a) I can, with reasonable effort,observe (see a visual image of) most complex behaviors and, (b) I should be able to do this atany time that I feel it is suitable for me, at any time I am ready for learning. (c) My time isvaluable. Teach me in a way that is most efficient for me. Cut to the most important things Ineed to know and convince me why I need to know them.Much has been written about distance learning and how degrees can be earned from offices andhomes. That is not what this paper is about. It is about optimizing time and learning with a mixof instructional delivery styles.This paper describes the first phase of a project to integrate visual and auditory tools in

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Pre-College Initiatives in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Lawrence Genalo

y og ce an bu og oi ra k ra gl gg ra d/ m lin m e y m go eNSES A. science as inquiry (K-4, 5-8) X X X X X · abilities necessary to do scientific inquiryNSES B. physical science X X X X X · position and motion of objects (K-4) · motions and forces (5-8)NSES E. science and