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1996 Annual Conference

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William D. Stanley; Alok Verma

purpose. The ODU engineering technology salaries and the EMC salaries are compared on a year-by-year basis inFigure 1. As most national studies show, engineering technology graduates tend to start at lower salaries than theirengineering colleagues, and this effect is definitely evident. One qualifier here is that most ODU ET graduates tendto stay in the Southeast where salaries are generally lower, while the EMC data reflect values from many highersalaried areas, e.g. California. 80000 - 70000 60000 50000 40000 30000 Years of Employment

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1996 Annual Conference

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Ph.D., Robert D. Borchelt

other on several specificperformance factors, and they know this from the beginning of the class, so team participation is often higherthan in typical project work. Nonetheless, despite the best efforts of the team leadership and peers, there arealways some students who don’t “pull their own load.” There are also always some students who carry morethan their “fair share” of the load. This is realistic though, and not unexpected. The student peer evaluationstend to reflect this well, and it is a component of the grading policy. The PLC topics (Figure 2) are presented in this class in order to form the basis for the control structurethat is normally used in the project. The students are exposed to PLC’s in earlier required classes, but

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1996 Annual Conference

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Major (Dr.) Robert F. Mills; Major (Dr.) Gerald C. Gerace; Dr. Byron M. Welsh; Dr. Bruce W. Suter; Dr. Andrew J. Terzuoli; Captain (Dr.) Richard A. Raines

, the US Air Force imposes extremely high standards and expectations on our programs. Thus most of our masters degree programs are approximately 72 quarter hours long of which 12 hours are devoted solely to thesis research. This gives our students much more breadth and depth than is normally expected for a masters degree. This will become apparent in section III where we discuss curriculum details. The instructional system development (ISD) model shown in figure 1 is the basis for ensuring our curricula is responsive to the needs of the Air Force and other employers of our graduates. (See references [1], [2], [3] for more details.) Formal and informal procedures are in place to ensure our curricula is continually updated to reflect

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1996 Annual Conference

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Roman Z. Morawski; Jerzy Woznicki; Andrzej Krasniewski

engineering);+ adaptability, which means that adjustments in curricula, reflecting advances in science and technology, and trends on the labor market, can easily be performed;+ existence of mechanisms that promote good teaching and good learning; + compatibility of the degrees and curricula with international standards.It should be observed that, to reach some of these characteristics, a significant investment is needed. Advances in some disciplines,such as information technology, are so rapid that just adapting the student laboratories to these changes requires tremendousamount of work and huge expenses. Other kinds of problems are associated with an extension of flexibility of the system. Forexample, with a large course offer, a significant

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1996 Annual Conference

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John A. Fillo

had only a bachelor’s degree with very littlescience beyond the sophomore year. To create the needed advanced technology to wage the war, Ph.D’s inscience were enlisted to work on undersea warfare technology, radar and nuclear weapons. Then there wasSputnik. Both World War II and Sputnik served as wake-up-calls to the universities to do something aboutengineering education, that is, a shift in the education of the engineering student to emphasize the scienceunderlying engineering. Not only courses, but research as well, reflected this change. Beginning in the 1970s through to the present, there was the realization or perception that America wasfalling behind Japan and other nations in manufacturing and in general, in relating science

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1996 Annual Conference

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W.E. Bair; P. Ng; D.M. Halsmer

;, :4 } 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘..qllllc,? . General Spacecraft Model In order to investigate the general principles which govern the motion of an arbitrarily shaped spinningspacecraft under thrust, it is advantageous to design a spacecraft model which can be easily modified to reflect awide range of inertia characteristics. The current design is based on the principle that the inertias of any arbi-trarily shaped body can be duplicated by the appropriate placement of eight specified corner masses of a rectan-gular parallelepipeds. Figure 1 illustrates this concept, and shows that these

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1996 Annual Conference

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Mario G. Beruvides

? -.Implications on Engineering Management The implications on engineering management of what was covered in the previous section are profound.We as a profession have noted the identity crisis engineering management is faced with. This is reflected in ourmearch and in our instruction. We may debate the values of different educational techniques, but ultimately it is,our mearch that drives our knowledge base. If we wish to influence our students (by our teaching) we mustexcite them (make them think) with our research Page 1.394.3

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1996 Annual Conference

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Ingrid H. Soudek

their research or design projects, they are introduced to thelarger context of science and technology through readings and discussions in the course. They are required toconsider that broader view when choosing the kind of project and specific topic on which they will focus theirwork. They learn to be more reflective about their chosen profession and senior project by asking questions abouttheunderlying assumption in our culture that all science and technology is progress in and of itself. The courseencourages the students to view engineering from different perspectives, for example, from history, sociology,anthropology, psychology, comparative literature and philosophy. The concept of “progress” is examined in thecontext of western culture

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1996 Annual Conference

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David F. Ollis; Ann Brown

writers often do better work when their readings reflect their special interests. Yet anthologies of such readings are rare for students in the natural sciences.(2) The second reason arises from our desire to minimize the “two cultures” mentality, so evident in both engineering and humanities Page 1.435.2 ?@2&~ 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘JHJ3: Icurricula. In Writing About Science(3), Elizabeth C

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1996 Annual Conference

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Stephen J. Ressler; Thomas Lenox

homework called the Special Problem (SP), which was assigned to the students every two to four lessons. He also changed the character of the design projects, making them more open-ended and more conceptually challenging. The impact of this change is reflected in the abrupt upward shift of the curve for Term 96-1. Though this result is preliminary (the term is in still progress, as of this writing), it clearly suggests that the course director’s changes have had the desired effect. Student preparation for class is once again at an appropriate level. The interim time survey graph for Term 96-1 is shown in Figure 5. CONCLUSION The EM364A case study illustrates the effective use of the time survey as a course development

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1996 Annual Conference

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T.C. Young; S.E. Powers; Norbert L. Ackermann; Anthony G. Collins

ago1. Accompanying and reflecting this growth of interest and evolution of concern hasbeen a parallel development of the scope of the discipline called environmental engineering. As Ray2 noted,"In the not so distant past, engineering students interested in the environment studied 'sanitary engineering'"and their proficiency was likely to be restricted to water and wastewater treatment. The Association ofEnvironmental Engineering Professors, however, has for some time considered environmental engineering toencompass a broader range of disciplines, including: water and wastewater engineering, air pollution controlengineering, solid waste engineering, industrial hygiene engineering, radiological health engineering,environmental impact assessment

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1996 Annual Conference

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Narciso F. Macia

beginning of the lab. This motivates the students to dosome preparatory/reflective work before they come to the lab. Often, they do not have all theanswers. This approach serves several purposes. Students develop an appreciation for the manycomponents necessary for a closed-loop control; they also recognize that closing a loop is not aseasy as they may have thought. Often students need to recognize that they do not know all of thefactors that affect the current problem. Many questions are open-ended. The first lab in this second category is presented as a problem given to a controlsengineer: an animation/special effects company wants a drive system that will move the jaw of aplastic figure proportionally to an electrical command signal. The

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1996 Annual Conference

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Yung-Nien Yang; Julius P. Wong; Anup Kumar; William G. Sullivan; Herman R Leep; Hamid R. Parsaei; Gerald J. Thuesen

protocol stack, e-mailprogram, FTP client, Telnet terminal emuiator, Archie client, Gopher client, WWW browser, news reader,and client and server of TALK protocol. I’his three-disk package is known as the ULNET, which alsoincludes an audio file player, viewer for GE and WE(3 files, movie player, and movie viewer. ‘“~he LJLNEI’collection will be revised periodically to reflect the current status of the Internet connection and usage. The study supporting materials include a detailed course syllabus and study plan, personalinformation manager, and package on how to contact the instructor. The personal information manager willinclude a calendar, address book, and “to do” Iist. The caiendar wili be used to remind the student of itemssuch as due

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1997 Annual Conference

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Barbara Tedesco; Sanford Bordman; Iftekhar Hasan

, personnelmanagement, and business strategy only superficially, if at all. Page 2.64.2 2 The impact of changes in the global business environment upon engineering education has been fully appreciated by NJIT. In order to provide engineering students with an integrated knowledge of engineering and management, NJIT has made some changes to its education programs. Instead of offering engineering students traditional economics and management courses which are taken with business and social science students - where an appropriate emphasis is reflective of

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1997 Annual Conference

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Christopher G. Braun

(faculty/TA instructional time) 3. Working at different times or different locations is important 4. Will impact a large number of users 5. Adequate computers are available at the site(s) Table 2. Some key criteria for developing computer-based training modules.A general flow chart for our tutorials is shown on Figure 1. Tutorial modules are brokendown into short (10 min or less) sessions, each with clear set of objectives, moduleinformation and several interactive exercises. At the end of each module, the student maythen take the quiz. If the student’s score does not reflect a good understanding of thematerial then he or she will have to revisit that module again. User identification, scoresand other session information

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1997 Annual Conference

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Erdogan Sener

ofcomputer-based simulations, multimedia, and similar undertakings, there is no substitute for thereal thing. Thus, the department is active in all areas of co-operative education, enrichment, andinternships to expose the students first hand to their fields and allow them gain on the jobexperience.Along the same line "service learning" in terms of engaging a diverse group of students inpractical undertakings to serve the community as well as the industry have been undertaken. 3. Despite their limitations in realistically reflecting the actual industrial picture, newtechnologies in terms of computer-aided instruction and tutoring, simulations, and multimediahave been utilized to their maximum benefit in an effort to bring the industry into the

Conference Session

Programmatic Issues in Physics or Engineering Physics

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reagan Curtis, West Virginia University; Braxton Lewis, West Virginia University; Wathiq Abdul-Razzaq, West Virginia University; Gary Winn, West Virginia University; Robin Hensel, West Virginia University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

students identify their own misconceptions.* Acknowledgement and Disclaimer: Page 14.1103.2“This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0525484. Any opinions, findings,and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the viewsof the National Science Foundation.”The pedagogical challenge for physics instructors is clear. Students come with pervasive deep-rooted misconceptions about how the most foundational physics principles work. Traditionalapproaches to moving students beyond these misconceptions

Conference Session

Sustainability in Engineering Curricula

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cliff Davidson, Carnegie Mellon University; Chris Hendrickson, Carnegie Mellon University; Scott Matthews, Carnegie Mellon University; Michael Bridges, Carnegie Mellon University; David Allen, University of Texas, Austin; Cynthia Murphy, University of Texas, Austin; Braden Allenby, Arizona State University; Yongsheng Chen, Arizona State University; Eric Williams, Arizona State University; John Crittenden, Georgia Tech; Sharon Austin, EPA

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Environmental Engineering

Engineering collection.AcknowledgmentThe Center for Sustainable Engineering is funded by NSF Grant DUE-0442618, and by EPAGrant Agreement X3-83235101. Although work in the Center has been funded in part by the Page 14.1183.4EPA, this paper has not been subjected to the Agency’s peer and policy review and thereforedoes not necessarily reflect the views of the agency, and no official endorsement should beinferred.Literature Cited:1. C.I. Davidson; C.T. Hendrickson; H.S. Matthews; M.W. Bridges; B.R. Allenby; J.C. Crittenden; Y. Chen;E. Williams; D.T. Allen; C.F. Murphy, S. Austin, Adding Sustainability to the Engineer’s Toolbox: A Challenge

Conference Session

Exploring Technological Literacy and Awareness

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Krupczak, Hope College; Kate Disney, Mission College

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Two Year College Division

award: DUE-0633277. Anyopinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those ofthe authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.Bibliography 1. Pearson G., and A.T. Young, editors, Technically speaking: Why all Americans need to know more about technology, National Academies Press, (2002). 2. Krupczak, J.J., D. Ollis, “Technological Literacy and Engineering for Non-Engineers: Lessons from Successful Courses,” Proceeding of the 2006 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference (2006). 3. Kuc, R.,” Teaching the non-science major

Conference Session

Successful Mentoring and Outreach Programs for Girls and Minorities

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Campo, Rice University; Stephanie Rice, Rice University; Daniela Rimer, Rice University; Brent Houchens, Rice University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

of theappendices. The high percentage of Hispanic mentees in the program reflects the schooldemographics. In the most recent data collected (in November 2008 at DREAM Day at RiceUniversity) 18.5% of the students spoke primarily Spanish at home, while 55.5% spoke bothSpanish and English. Only 22.2% spoke primarily English at home. Table 2. Gender and ethnicity make-up of DREAM mentees, by semester. African- Other Date Male Female Hispanic American Ethnicity September 2007 37.9% 48.3% 96.6

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carl Shek, Virginia Tech; Kathleen Meehan, Virginia Tech; Robert Hendricks, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

imagers were either blurry orpixilated when view on a laptop display.Lighting while photographing the hardware, particularly the breadboard, proved to be a difficultchallenge due to the reflective surfaces in several areas of the breadboard, the level of detail, and Page 14.960.4the various heights of the components. It was found that the best image quality was obtainedusing only room lighting without employing the camera flash when photographs were taken in atypical classroom environment (Figure 1). While there was some loss of detail, the imagesharpness was significantly improved over that obtained when the camera flash was used. Fig. 1

Conference Session

Contemporary Practices in Engineering Management Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raymond Price, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Rose Mary Cordova-Wentling, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Engineering Management

skills are and how they mightapply within the college of engineering. The definition of these skills was developed using a variety ofmethods: 1) in-depth literature review; 2) respected individuals or experts reflect on the skills they haveobserved in successful people and describe those skills (ABET, 2004; Illinois Leadership Initiative,2004); 3) a rigorous competency assessment was done that studied and documented the skills orcompetencies that differentiate average performers from outstanding performers; and 4) the application oftheoretical models (leadership and emotional intelligent) to specific skills and behaviors.Then we built out a set of desired skills using a combination of the approaches listed above. We startedwith the ABET skills

Conference Session

Two-Year/Four-Year Articulation and Cooperation

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacqulyn Baughman, Iowa State University; Steven Mickelson, Iowa State University; Mary Darrow, Iowa State University; Lora Leigh Chrystal, Iowa State University; Mary Goodwin, Iowa State University; Paul Castleberry, Iowa State University; Jennifer Garrett, Iowa State University; Doug Gruenewald, Iowa State University; Mani Mina, Iowa State University; Randy Jedele, Des Moines Area Community College; Harry McMaken, Des Moines Area Community College; Kevin Saunders, Iowa State University; Randy Smith, Des Moines Area Community College

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Two Year College Division

, and then to be reflective after the completion of their first semester at ISU.Both the pre and post-surveys are projected to be implemented in March 2009 as a joint effortbetween members of the SEEC Learning Village O-Team and Advising O-Team.ConclusionWe are looking forward to determining our impact on pre-engineering transfer students, andbased on preliminary evidence we are beginning to see indications of success. We hope tocollect and analyze all data during spring 2009 semester with the assistance of the Evaluation O-Team. This will allow our team to see the results of utilizing a holistic approach to createconnections between community college pre-engineering students and ISU’s College ofEngineering. These results will be used to inform

Conference Session

Innovation in the Civil Engineering Classroom

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yusuf Mehta, Rowan University

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Civil Engineering

methodology was utilized for other applications,such as All-way Stop Control Signalized Intersection and Two-Way Stop Control. Throughoutthis course, the author has extensively used the highway capacity manual not only as a designtool, but also as a way of to explain the theory behind the development of the design. Theoutline explained above reflects the methodology outlined below.Signalized IntersectionA step-by-step framework of explaining signalized intersection is shown in Figure 1 below: Explain terminology and parameters using HCM For example, the importance of Explanation of why the understanding the

Conference Session

Critical Thinking and Creative Arts

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Helen Donis-Keller, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Liberal Education

. Understanding the nature of the tools that weuse to communicate will enhance our ability to make the best use of the materials at hand,therefore we should become familiar with state-of-the-art technologies for digital capture andediting, and we investigate the scientific and engineering basis of seeing and hearing.Competencies directly addressed in this course are communication (visual, written, and aural)and life-long learning (researching and learning topics independently).the philosophy and main objectives for the course are embodied in the following specificlearning objectives:1. Learn how to make art that reflects enlarging of one’s awareness and communicates one’s intent. The major objective for each student in the course is to make art

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design Constituents

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maher Rizkalla, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

interest is reflected in the student body, and so, the primaryinvestigators for this particular project saw this as an excellent opportunity to create a researchproject that would be both academically useful, intellectually interesting, and have popularinterest based on these technologies.II. MURI Project Process and Assembled TeamThe process of MURI funded projects starts by accepting proposals from IUPUI campuses thatrequire different discipline backgrounds. After the reviewing process, the MURI screeningcommittee selects the best 8 to 10 proposals per semester for funding. The selection criterion isbased on the multidisciplinary aspects of the research team, the pre-requisite materials requiredby students, the clarity and values of the research

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Arlene Russell, University of California, Los Angeles; Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Warren Waggenspack, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Warren Hull, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; william Monroe, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Chester Wilmot, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

/CCLI.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (Division ofUndergraduate Education, CCLI-Phase II) under Grant No. 0817515. Any opinions, findings,and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and donot necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Page 14.553.7

Conference Session

Sustainable Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Oerther, University of Cincinnati; Cinnamon Carlarne, University of Cincinnati; Eric Maurer, University of Cincinnati; Regina Lamendella, University of Cincinnati; Sarah Pumphrey, University of Cincinnati

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Environmental Engineering

moreevenly distributed among diverse disciplines. Unfortunately, we are unaware of any suchprogram currently.ConclusionsA one-year-long learning exercise was undertaken wherein a student team tackled the complexproblem of recovering phosphorus from sewage and using the recovered phosphorus as afertilizer. The student team consisted of undergraduate and graduate engineering students aswell as seniors in environmental studies. The major hurdle to the success of this course was aresult of the diverse backgrounds of the students and may be reflective of an underlying need forimproved interdisciplinary training. Although the faculty members participating in the coursewere capable of providing a highly interdisciplinary environment for learning, it

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College

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Two Year College Division

refining our program model inorder to improve our ability to attract and retain more students in math, engineering, science, andtechnology.An overview of the application and enrollment history of the EDGE Program is presented inTable 3. The trend in student participation reflects an evolving focus on the composition of thecurriculum and the readiness of our target population. EDGE Cohort Year: 2003 2004 2005 Applications received 32 112 52 Students accepted into the program 20 62 35 Students enrolled in the program 20 58 26 Students qualified for

Conference Session

Software and e-learning in the ME curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benson Tongue, University of California-Berkeley; Eric Lew, University of California-Berkeley

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Mechanical Engineering

mechanical engineering offers, how the courses interrelate and how the material they’llbe learning will be reflected in future jobs. This paper will examine the workings of auser-driven, multi-modal program that attacks these issues in a combination of ways.3 Brief history and motivationYear after year the first author has heard similar questions. Questions such as “What coursesshould I take?” “I’m interested in becoming an automotive engineer - what electives wouldbe most relevant?” “The syllabus for ME 104 lists orbital mechanics. Why should I careabout this?” “What sort of jobs are there for someone who minors in vibrations?”These examples are typical of students who’ve already, for one reason or another, haveentered the mechanical engineering