Conference Session

Why Industry Says that our Engineering Students Cannot Write

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey A. Donnell, Georgia Institute of Technology; Betsy M. Aller, Western Michigan University; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; April A. Kedrowicz, University of Utah

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

deal of debugging. Gragson tells arepresentative story of a chemistry laboratory class that was modified in an effort to promotegeneral improvement in student writing skills by offering extended instruction on report writingand better writing feedback on graded reports.9 To meet these goals, the number of projectreports was reduced from 10 to 4, and the instructors created from scratch a writing manual foruse in the course. An elaborate peer-review process was also implemented, along with a systemfor assuring that students actually performed their peer-reviewing tasks. This paper judgesstudent performance to be satisfactory, but large questions remain open; student retention of thewriting lessons was not assessed in subsequent classes or in

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Novel Approaches to Teaching Materials

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John A. Nychka, University of Alberta

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Materials

Page 22.1266.3concepts is an active process involving visual thinking; looking is not seeing, nor is seeingnecessarily believing, understanding, and being able to demonstrate knowledge. Upon viewing anew concept students often reflect about their own tacit knowledge and try to make a connectionto the new concept, thereby creating their own knowledge. Unfortunately, as educators we oftenassume we don’t have control, or even awareness, of such connections in each of our students’minds, thus it is exceedingly difficult to correct miss-steps along the way. However, by taking aproactive and creative approach, we can guide the visualization process through seeded commonexperiences generated in the classroom, study hall, or laboratory. Setting

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert W. Whalin, Jackson State University; Qing Pang, Jackson State University

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Minorities in Engineering

AC 2011-1399: SOLVING THE ENGINEERING PIPELINE CHALLENGERobert W. Whalin, Jackson State University - Dr. Whalin Associate Dean, Professor of Civil Engineering, and Director, Center of Excellence for Natural Disasters, Coastal Infrastructure and Emergency Management, College of Science, Engineering & Technology, Jackson State University. He is Director Emeritus of the Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS. He received his PhD in Oceanography from Texas A&M University in 1971 and is a Registered Professional Engineer. Dr. Whalin was Director of Army Research Laboratory (1998- 2003; Adelphi, MD), and Technical Director /Director of Waterways Experiment Station (1985-1998; Vicksburg, MS

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pavlos George Mikellides, Arizona State University; Chen-Yuan Kuo, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

involves more technical issues than those covered in a traditionalengineering analysis course, the teaching approach presented in this paper provides a broad, flexiblecontextualized alternative to cover technical competence that is different from traditional engineeringprograms which are made up of structured sequences of lecture-based and laboratory courses. Page 22.1389.2I. Introduction Project-based learning (PBL), or project-centered learning (PCL) to distinguish it from thepedagogy of problem-based learning1, was first adopted by Aalborg University in Denmark2. In a PBLcourse, students are given project assignments and they work in

Conference Session

Two Year-to-Four Year Transfer Topics Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erik N. Dunmire, College of Marin; Amelito G. Enriquez, Canada College; Kate A. Disney, Mission College, Santa Clara

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Two Year College Division

Conference Session

Advances in Communication Instruction

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Beth Bateman Newborg, University of Pittsburgh; Teresa L. Larkin, American University; Dan Budny, University of Pittsburgh

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

ofengineering and how engineering has impact on society. X University’s Physics 100embraces liberal arts-oriented approaches to understanding and liberal arts-orientedlanguage choices to maximize “non scientists’” understanding of scientific clarity,accountability, precision, and proof.With an emphasis on Newtonian Mechanics, Physics 100, Physics for the Modern World(PMW) is a foundation-level course within the sciences portion of the General Educationcore at X University. Many students who enroll in PNM are liberal arts majors and do soto fulfill their General Education requirements for the sciences. The course also has arigorous laboratory component. Students in this course are encouraged to engage in thelearning of physics in many ways. In addition

Conference Session

The Teacher as Manager: Best Practices for Culminating Design Experiences

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William P. Manion, University of Maine; Judith A. Hakola, University of Maine

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Civil Engineering

AC 2012-3868: CIVIL ENGINEERING CAPSTONE CONSULTANTS: FROMRFP TO REALITYMr. William P. Manion, University of Maine William P. Manion, M.S., P.E., is an instructor in civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maine in Orono. He has taught courses in materials, soil mechanics, computer applications, graphics, and project management since 1998. He has also performed laboratory research, worked for a heavy earthwork construction company, captained charter boats, and managed a land development project. Al- ways interested in new effective teaching strategies, he employs many different pedagogical methods and techniques.Ms. Judith A. Hakola, University of Maine

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Transportation and Geotechnical Engineering

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yusuf A. Mehta, Rowan University; Leslie Ann McCarthy P.E., Villanova University

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Civil Engineering

laboratory activities, students will identify known variables, NGoal 2 - Objective 3: The Civil Engineering Program at formulate key relationshipsRowan University will produce graduates who between them and solvedemonstrate the ability to identify, formulate, and engineering problems.solve engineering problems (ABET E). Outcome 2: Students will students learned the identify, formulate, and solve new pavement design problems in

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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J. Mendoza-Garcia, Purdue University and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana; Ida B. Ngambeki, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Lamis J. Behbehani, Purdue University; Demetra Evangelou, Purdue University, West Lafayette; P. Suresh C. Rao, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering and Public Policy

policy 17. Cassaza reinforced this idea: [Engineers]…“must understand that there are different audiences for which different techniques must be used”3 . Likewise, Dunn 13 made their students present their project to the external public, the Chicago Page 25.383.6Department of the Environment and to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a verydifferent audience to engineers.Finally, a further skill related with communication, is the ability to express opinions, relay facts,and articulate arguments clearly and concisely in writing. This skill is “substantially different[from] writing laboratory or design project reports” 4. This knowledge can

Conference Session

ECE Curriculum Improvement

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marcin Lukowiak, Rochester Institute of Technology; Andrew Meneely, Rochester Institute of Technology; Stanislaw P. Radziszowski, Rochester Institute of Technology; James R. Vallino, Rochester Institute of Technology; Christopher A. Wood, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Electrical and Computer

, received a M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science. While in industry, he worked in small and large companies doing product development and industrial research. His responsibilities included both hardware and software development at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Siemens Corporate Research, and AVL, including microcode for a graphics processor, real-time medical image processing, and data acquisition and communications protocols for semiconductor process control. Since 1997, he has been a faculty member in Rochester Institute of Technology’s Department of Software En- gineering, now in the position of Chair. His professional interests are in the engineering of software for real-time and embedded systems. He was a recipient of

Conference Session

Service as an Element of Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Pamela Dexter, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jane Hunter, University of Arizona; James C. Baygents, University of Arizona; Michael Gerard Thompson

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

in 1991, the same year he received a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Prince- ton University. He also holds an M.A. (Princeton, 1981) and a B.S. (Rice, 1980) in chemical engineering. For three years prior to joining the UA, Baygents was a Visiting Scientist, then a Research Fellow, at the Space Science Laboratory of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. In 1995, he received the Arizona Mortar Board Senior Honor Society award for outstanding faculty service. In 1997, he was awarded an International Research Fellowship by the National Science Foundation for study at the University of Melbourne. In 2009, he was recognized by ChEE and the College for Excellence at the Student Interface. He is a

Conference Session

Epistemic Research

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ji Hyun Yu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Johannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

, 34(1), 61-84.6. Bucciarelli, L.L. (1994). Designing Engineers, Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press.7. Florman, S.L. (1994). Existential Pleasures of Engineering, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press.8. Lin, C.-C., & Tsai, C.-C. (2009). The relationship between students’ conceptions of learning engineering and their preferences for classroom and laboratory learning environments. Journal of Engineering Education, 98(2), 193-204.9. Stevens, R.,O’Connor, K., Garrison, L., Jocuns, A., & Amos, D.L. (2008). Becoming an engineer: Toward a three dimensional view of engineering learning. Journal of Engineering Education, 97(3), 355–68.10. Turns, J., Atman, C., Adams, R., & Barker, T. (2005). Research on engineering student

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FPD II: Hands-on Curriculum in the First Year

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen W. McKnight, Northeastern University; Michael E. Pelletier, Northern Essex Community College; Paula G. Leventman, Northeastern University

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First-Year Programs

AC 2012-3794: A FIRST-YEAR ”INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING”COURSE AT A COMMUNITY COLLEGE USING HANDS-ON MATLABEXPERIMENT CONTROLProf. Stephen W. McKnight, Northeastern University Stephen W. McKnight received a Ph.D. in solid state physics from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1977 and had postdoctoral positions at Emory University and as National Research Council Fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory before joining the faculty in the Physics Department at North- eastern University in 1980. In 1988, he became an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and in 2001 was promoted to Professor of electrical and computer engineering. He has published more than 50 refereed

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adeel Khalid, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Aerospace

them the autonomy to choosetheir own project formulations and strategies, which in turn increases their motivation. Some ofthe past students projects include designing and building of wind tunnel models, 3-D aerospacemodels, variable pitch thrust measurement apparatus, flight simulation frame, water tunnel etc.All of these products become part of the aerospace laboratory to be used by future students.Project based learning at the individual course level is familiar in engineering education. It isused almost universally in capstone design and laboratory courses. There has been growingfrequency of project based learning approach in first year engineering courses and courses thatengage students in consulting projects [5, 7]. Because of its

Conference Session

FPD VIII: Crossing Bridges and Easing Transitions into the First Year

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Helen M. Doerr, Syracuse University; Jonas Bergman Arleback, Syracuse University; AnnMarie H. O'Neil, Syracuse University

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First-Year Programs

model thatis usable in a wide range of contexts. The central mathematical construct around which theinstructional sequence was organized is the understanding of average rate of change throughinterpreting, analyzing and predicting the behavior of linear and non-linear phenomena as theychange over time.The Model Development SequenceModel development sequences are structurally related tasks, beginning with a model elicitingactivity (MEA) and followed by model exploration activities and model application activities.These tasks are not step-by-step procedures (as often found in laboratory projects), but rather areopen-ended tasks that encourage students to express their own ideas about a situation and thenexplore and apply those ideas in other

Conference Session

Pedagogical Advancements in Engineering Management

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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S. Jimmy Gandhi, Stevens Institute of Technology; Brian Sauser, Stevens Institute of Technology; Brian E. White, Complexity Are Us - Systems Engineering Strategies; Alex Gorod, Visiting Fellow, University of Adelaide; Vernon Ireland, University of Adelaide

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

the the Systems Development and Maturity Laboratory (http://www.SysDML.com/), which seeks to advance the state of knowledge and practice in how we manage system lifecycles. He teaches courses in Project Manage- ment of Complex Systems, Designing and Managing the Development Enterprise, Advances in System of Systems Engineering, and Systems Thinking. In addition, he is a National Aeronautics and Space Ad- ministration Faculty Fellow, Editor-in-Chief of the Systems Research Forum, and Associate Editor of the IEEE Systems Journal.Dr. Brian Emery White, Complexity Are Us - Systems Engineering Strategies Brian E. White received Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in computer sciences from the University of Wisconsin, and S.M

Conference Session

FPD XI: Tidbits and Cookies

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jesse J. French, LeTourneau University; Paul R. Leiffer, LeTourneau University

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First-Year Programs

the future on the highlights of these handouts.) Page 25.1302.15 Appendix 4. Laboratory Activity SampleENGR1513 Fall 2011Engineering Lab #3 Dissection, Reverse Engineering, and RedesignBackground Dissection and Reverse Engineering are common components of the design process forworking engineers. In order to improve existing products or benchmark the state of the art,engineers often use dissection and reverse engineering. Dissection is the process of orderly disassembly of an object to its subcomponents.Implied in this process is that the engineer does not know exactly how the assembly

Conference Session

STS Perspectives on Engineering Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Department and the Secretary of the committee  Ronald H. Robnett, professor of Engineering and Business Administration and a fiscal officer in the DIC (MIT’s sponsored research office)  C. Richard Soderberg, a theoretically oriented mechanical engineer and head of that department  Julius Stratton, physicist and director of Research Laboratory for Electronics, the postwar incarnation of the Radiation Lab Page 25.1322.3Among the other items the committee discussed was an unsolicited letter from the head of thePhysics Department, John Slater, expressing his unabashed preference for a curriculum moresolidly

Conference Session

Technological Literacy and Technological Policy

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zachary Foltz, Iowa State University; Amanpreet Kaur, Iowa State University; William Henry Tushaus, Iowa State University; Christopher Sears Mikelson, Iowa State University; Brian Vincent Skalak; Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

Energy’sresponsibility as much as committees of both chamber of the United States Congress.The current Secretary of Energy is Dr. Steven Chu. Secretary Chu is a well-known scientist, whoreceived a Nobel Prize for Physics. Chu also educates the next generation of scientists as auniversity professor. Before President Obama appointed Chu to Secretary of Energy, Chu was adirector of a national laboratory of the Department of Energy. As Secretary of Energy, Chu’smain job is to implement President Obama’s energy plans [12].The current Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is Senator JeffBingaman, a Democrat from New Mexico. Senator Bingaman graduated with degrees ingovernment and law. After working for the Army Reserves and practicing private

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gamze Ozogul, Arizona State University; Amy M. Johnson, Arizona State University; Martin Reisslein, Arizona State University; Kirsten R. Butcher, University of Utah

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

analysis), and learning environment(i.e., instructional program). Further, the experiment was conducted in a laboratory environment,not in situ (i.e., classroom). Future research should examine the experimental design used in thisstudy in other instructional contexts, domains, and learning environments. A critical next step in investigating the influence of representation type andrepresentation guidance is to explore different sequences of these representations. As has beenshown in other domains, the use of concrete examples, followed by more abstractrepresentations, can be beneficial to transfer of knowledge to novel situations59 and that learnerstend to naturally transition from representing a domain in a concrete manner to a more

Conference Session

Tablets Large and Small

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Virginia Tech; Christopher B. Williams, Virginia Tech

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Computers in Education

availablecourse management software primarily to distribute course content (e.g., slides) to students. Inaddition, the software can be used to implement various instruction interventions including polls,electronic ink, and screen broadcast. Limited instructor training is available for the software.New instructors are encouraged to observe more experienced instructors classrooms for TPCincorporation strategies.The first-year engineering program consists of a two-semester course sequence. Each semester-long course is composed of one 50-minute large lecture (ranging from 75-300 students) and onetwo-hour, hands-on laboratory (approximately 30 students) each week. This research studyinvestigates a new instructor assigned to teach one of the large lectures (93

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Wunderlich

; ModelingPhysical Systems". The first case study is a required semester project; the second case study is alecture example. The third case study is also from a course taught to juniors and seniors inComputer Engineering and Computer Science at Elizabethtown College ("Digital Design andInterfacing"), and is taught as a lecture example with students given the opportunity to buildNeural Network hardware during the laboratory part of the course.II. Case study #1: Mobile robots in a constrained space1) Define problem: The following problem was assigned to three groups of four students in thecourse: "Simulation & Modeling Physical Systems" at Elizabethtown College: 1"Program a real-time controlled mobile robot to seek a light source in a four-foot by four

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

. the smoke to lift In 1972, Bowerman invented They named the objects. Thus, they waffle soles by shaping company NIKE, after created the first hot-air rubber in the waffle iron in the Greek goddess of balloon. his kitchen. His soles gave Victory. running shoes optimal traction. http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/inventorsA-H/bowermanknight.html Presence “Encyclopedia of Inventions” p.545b. Laboratory materialThe eight strategies are experienced by individuals and teams. We view team building andteamwork as

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

P. Kelly Joyner; Teresa Larkin-Hein

involved asking students to look beyondequations to investigate the relationship physics has to philosophy, history, literature, andWestern culture. Students were asked to think about what physics could teach them about theworld, about themselves, and about society as a whole. Although some assignments were givenwith the goal of satisfying the general goals of a typical college writing class, others werespecifically linked to physics and to science, in general.During the Fall 2000 semester, 2 lecture and 8 laboratory sections of Physics for the ModernWorld consisting of approximately 16 students in each were offered. Typical enrollmentsaverage about 120 students each semester in Physics for the Modern World. One of the 8laboratory sections was

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Badrul H. Chowdhury

include agricultural and wood waste, municipal waste, and landfill gas. According to theNational Renewable Energy Laboratories, biomass supplies 3 percent of total U.S. energy needs, Page 5.234.6almost 10,000 MW of electric generating capacity (1993 figures).3.2 Geothermal Geothermal energy is used both for power generation and for heating. In 1990, the U.S.had 62 geothermal electric plants generating 2,350 MW of electricity. Geothermal powergeneration requires high-temperature resources that are found mostly in the western part of thecounty. Low-temperature (meaning less than 130°C) sources are more widespread and can beused in direct-use

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

William C. Oakes; Ronald Wukasch; Richard Foretek; Jennifer Watia; Jeffery L. Gray; Leah H Jamieson; Edward Coyle

semester while juniors and seniors are encouraged to register for 2 credits. The upperdivision students are expected to serve as the technical leaders on the teams and thereby take onmore responsibility.Each student in the EPICS Program attends a weekly two-hour meeting of his/her team in theEPICS laboratory. During this laboratory time the team will take care of administrative mattersor work on their project(s). All students also attend a common one-hour lecture given each weekfor all EPICS students. A majority of the lectures are by guest experts, and have covered a widerange of topics related to engineering design and community service. The long term nature ofthe program has required some innovation to the lecture series as students may be

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Pamela Schmaltz; Kevin Schmaltz

degrees. In 1996, LSSU made the decision to phase outits BSEET and BSMET degrees. Now, LSSU offers Electrical Engineering, MechanicalEngineering, and Manufacturing Engineering Technology Bachelor of Science degrees toa relatively small undergraduate population of 300. The new EE and ME programs willbe evaluated by ABET in Fall 2000. The cornerstone of the Lake Superior StateUniversity engineering program lies in a very strong senior design experience thatinvolves inter-disciplinary student teams.3,4With the small number of students enrolled in the engineering curricula, LSSU is able toprovide an environment conducive to the development of student/instructor relationships.Class size is generally 15-30 students and enrollment in laboratories is

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Duesing; Morrie Walworth; Jim Devaprasad; Ray Adams; David McDonald

setting is in the laboratory sessions of engineering courses.The integration of soft skills in the lecture class is more difficult because of the amount oftechnical material that needs to be covered. Exercises in the lecture hours involving writtencommunications, oral communications, and teamwork involve large amounts of time making itdifficult to integrate with the lecture topics. In the lab meetings, however, such exercises can beincluded for the following reasons:x Lab sections typically have fewer students than in a lecture section.x Lab projects usually involve equipment and hence it is more convenient to simulate an industrial manufacturing setting.x There is a larger amount of time in a lab sessions for students to work on their

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Yixin Shao; Laura Walhof; Joseph J. Biernacki

students begin to develop knowledge and experience abouthow to explore open-ended questions. They should begin to expect that they themselveswill establish not only the experimental parameters for making their samples but also theparameters by which the samples will be tested. In this way, real-world scientific inquiryand design is being practiced rather than following step-by-step instructions withoutforethought to why they are doing what they are doing.In the real world, scientists and engineers face open ended problems on a daily basis. Forthat matter, this concept extends beyond laboratory science and into daily life. To besure, following instructions plays an important role in learning. The rather loose lookingset of procedural guidelines

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Sr., Buck F. Brown; Jr., Buck F. Brown

high-quality, realistic problems with accompanying resourcematerials. The PROBE Project is presently developing problems and materials in technology,engineering, mathematics, and science education. These resource materials include video ofvarious classes in transition from more conventional lecture/laboratory formats to that ofproblem-based instruction. Our intentions are to make these materials available to others fordirect use, modification as may be appropriate, or simply as models for materials developmentand application. Based on project experience to date, the availability of such materials isinstrumental in speeding the application of problem-based approaches. Of course, having high-quality problem-based educational materials that fit