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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Don Bury; Bruce Mutter

The Architectural Engineering Technology Applied Research Assistant Program at the Bluefield State College Center for Applied Research and Technology Bluefield State College Center for Applied Research and Technology Donald G. Bury, and Bruce V. Mutter dbury@bluefieldstate.edu bmutter@bluefieldstate.eduAbstractThe paper highlights the development of the Bluefield State College (BSC), Center for AppliedResearch and Technology (CART), Applied Research Assistant (ARA) program to provideteams of Architectural Engineering Technology (ARET) students with in-house internshipexperience. The primary goal of the a ARA Program is

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Ethics Classes: Creative or Inefficient

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2005 Annual Conference

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Paul Griffin; Julie Swann; Robert Kirkman; Matthew Drake

Engineering Ethical Curricula: Assessment of Two Approaches and Recommendations Matthew J. Drake*, Paul M. Griffin*, Robert Kirkman+, Julie L. Swann* *School of Industrial & Systems Engineering + School of Public Policy Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0205AbstractIn this paper, we assess two approaches for delivery of engineering ethics: a full semesterethics course and an engineering course that includes a discipline-specific ethics module. Weuse the second edition of the Defining Issues Test (DIT) to measure moral

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ECE Lab Development and Innovations

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2005 Annual Conference

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Leonardo Estevez; Mark Humphries; Mukul Shirvaikar

Real Time Systems Laboratory Development Using the TI OMAP Platform Mark Humphries, Mukul Shirvaikar Department of Electrical Engineering University of Texas at Tyler Tyler, TX 75799. Leonardo Estevez Wireless Terminals Business Unit Texas Instruments Inc. Dallas, TX 75243.AbstractThe laboratory curriculum developed for a semester long senior-level elective course in RealTime Systems is presented. The projects were developed on

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Issues in Computer Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Quinn

Java Applets to Reinforce Fundamental Computer Science Concepts Michael J. Quinn School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Oregon State UniversityAbstractWe describe a set of 15 interactive animations developed for college freshmen taking a computerscience orientation course. The purpose of using the interactive animations is to improvestudents’ understanding of conceptual and procedural knowledge fundamental to the field ofcomputer science. The animations have been implemented as Java applets. We explain howintroducing applet-enabled activities into lectures has affected the classroom

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Teaching Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tori Bailey; Jonathan Gabrio; David Cannon; Helen L. Chen; George Toye; Larry Leifer

Using Wikis and Weblogs to Support Reflective Learning in an Introductory Engineering Design Course Helen L. Chen1, David Cannon2, Jonathan Gabrio, Larry Leifer2, George Toye2, and Tori Bailey2 Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning1/Center for Design Research2 Stanford University, USAAbstract An observation and a pedagogical challenge often found in project-based design coursesis that students see what they have produced but they do not see what they have learned. Thispaper presents preliminary findings from an NSF-sponsored research project which experimentswith the use of weblogs and wiki environments, two

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ronald Rorrer; Richard Sanders; Daniel Knight

Tapping Hidden Talent Ronald A. L. Rorrer1, Daniel Knight2, Richard Sanders3 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center/2Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory, University of Colorado at Boulder/3Department of Music and Entertainment Industry Studies, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences CenterAbstractWe have developed a summer program intended to tap the talent of high school students whohave the capability to succeed in college, but are currently not on a college bound path. Thecourses in the program consist of a merging of

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Manufacturing Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lenea Howe; Jr., Elijah Kannatey-Asibu

2005-2267 Successful Research Experience for Undergraduates Program (REU) – The ERC for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems ELIJAH KANNATEY-ASIBU, JR. Yoram Koren Lenea Howe Engineering Research Center for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109AbstractThe National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for ReconfigurableManufacturing Systems (ERC/RMS) was awarded an NSF grant for a ResearchExperience for Undergraduates (REU) program in 1997. The goal of the ERC in

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Innovations in CE Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Scott Hamilton

Peer Review: Modeling Civil Engineering Practice, Another Way To Improve Learning Scott R. Hamilton Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New YorkAbstractThis paper presents the initial results of a research project designed to foster in students the habitof checking their work for accuracy. The problem observed was that students seemed to regardtheir homework submissions as simply a product to be handed in, and the correctness of theirsolutions did not seem to concern them. This struck the author as the wrong approach ineducating

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Web-Based & Distance Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

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Yolanda Guran-Postlethwaite; David N. Pocock; David Dutton

is due, in part, to the fact that there has been substantial research dealingwith distance education, and the findings prove conclusively that distance learning is asgood as traditional education. Numerous published assessment studies comparing web-based vs. classroom-based instruction have concluded that e-learning courses comparefavorably with classroom-based instruction and enjoy high student satisfaction 1.Despite the widespread use of the Internet as a conduit for content-based curriculumdelivery, the availability of engineering laboratory courses remains moderate, andeffective distance delivery of engineering laboratory courses remains a challengingproblem to be solved 2. Currently, there are very few engineering laboratory

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Student Learning and Research

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2005 Annual Conference

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Saleh Sbenaty

of Mind Mapping proponents who say that:“this concept will improve learning and enhance performance.”IntroductionThe Mind Map is an expression of “Radiant Thinking” and is therefore, a natural function of thehuman mind. It is claimed to be “a powerful graphic technique, which provides a universal keyto unlocking the potential of the brain” [1, 2, 3]. According to Tony Busan who originated theconcept of Mind Maps in the late 1960’s: “A Mind Map is a powerful graphic technique, whichprovides a universal key to unlock the potential of the brain. It harnesses the full range of corticalskills – word, image, number, logic, rhythm, color and spatial awareness – in a single, uniquelypowerful manner. In so doing, it gives you the freedom to roam the

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Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Hunter

From Henry V to Starman: Linking the Humanities and Social Sciences to Engineering Kenneth W. Hunter, Sr., P.E. Tennessee Technological UniversityAbstractABET criteria require engineering programs to demonstrate that their graduates have, amongother things, “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions ina global and societal context” and “a knowledge of contemporary issues.” These outcomes areusually addressed with curriculum requirements for courses in the humanities and socialsciences. However, without additional mechanisms for making a connection between thesecourses and the engineering profession, it

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ERM Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Holt; Keith Williamson; Paul Kauffmann; Tarek Abdel-Salam

success. However, there are no studies that examinemeasures of quantitative performance in writing skills. This paper contributes to the literatureon distance learning performance and compares the writing skills of a sample of distancelearning and on-campus students in the Engineering and Engineering Technology Departmentsat a large urban university. Results of a junior level course and results of an exit-writing examare used to assess the writing proficiency of both on campus and distance students.IntroductionDistance education (DE) courses have become an important way of providing college leveleducation to a wider population, particularly those in areas remote to a university or collegecampus. The method of conducting DE courses is

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Innovation in Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

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Louise Green; Barbara Quintiliano; Andrea Welker

falseinformation; that they are experts at searching the Web; and that the large numbers of people thatuse the Web will make detection of falsehoods more likely (Thompson 2003, Profeta andKendrick 2002, Davis Herring 2001, Calvert 1999, and Tolppanen 1999). Manuel (2002) reportsthat 28% of freshman at California State University agreed that a “central internet authorityreviewed all Web information for its accuracy.” Furthermore, many students also have themistaken belief that the Web will provide all the information they may need in the course of theircollege career. Investigating their college library’s resources, whether print or electronic, neveroccurs to them. To them, it’s all on the Web, it’s all worthwhile, and it’s all free.These findings indicate

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Innovative ET Leadership

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2005 Annual Conference

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Arnold Peskin; Walter Buchanan

Articulation Partnerships with Accredited Non-traditional Programs Arnold Peskin/Excelsior College Walter Buchanan/Northeastern UniversityAbstract:Many Engineering Technology Students earn their degrees through the ‘2 plus 2’program model. The first two years are often spent in community colleges, but finding asuitable institution for completing the Bachelor’s Degree can prove to be a challenge.This is especially true for students whose personal circumstances inhibit them fromenrolling and completing their degree at a conventional school.Excelsior College was founded to make college degrees more accessible to qualifiedbusy, working adults. It focuses on what its students know, rather than

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Susan Wills; Mihaly Lenart; Peter Tarjan

Abstract: This report is on five years of our experience in involving primarily biomedical engi-neering students in the design, development of products with commercial potential. Twenty suchprojects have been completed, involving about 100 students working in self-selected teams.Each team develops technical, marketing and business plans, develops and tests its prototypesand submits a proposal to NCIIA for a grant. As of 2005, four such grants have been awardedand one U.S. Patent application has been filed.Our Technical Entrepreneurship program is five years old. It has been supported by two grantsfrom NCIIA. Grants from the National Collegiate Innovators and Inventors Alliance supportsprogram development in entrepreneurship and individual

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Program Delivery Methods and Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lucy Morse

FEEDS: From Technology to the Learner Lucy C. Morse University of Central FloridaThe Florida Engineering Education Delivery System (FEEDS) has been delivering engineeringgraduate courses, including four graduate engineering management programs, the last 22 years tohelp engineers and other industry professionals meet the challenges of obtaining a graduatedegree and new skills. In addition, for the last 14 years engineering technology courses anddegrees have been included. FEEDS operates under the policy guidance and direction of theFlorida Council of Deans, representing 11 private and public engineering colleges in the state.As FEEDS uses

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Abul Haque; Afsaneh Minaie

Segmentation Technique for the Learning in Recognition of the Two Handwritten Bangla Digits Using Counterpropagation Neural Network Abul L. Haque, Mohammed T. Siddique, Tanvir M. Khan, Imtiaz Ahmed Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, North South University Dhaka, Bangladesh ahaque@northsouth.edu tanvirnazrul@yahoo.com, n_tanvir@hotmail.com, Imtiaz_81@hotmail.com, Afsaneh Minaie, Engineering Department, Utah Valley State College minaieaf@uvsc.edu,AbstractWe are proposing a

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Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mark Sebern

Software Process: Applying Industrial-Strength Methods in Engineering Education Mark J. Sebern, PhD, PE Milwaukee School of Engineering sebern@msoe.edu www.msoe.edu/se/AbstractImproving productivity and quality in software development is one of the major concerns of thesoftware engineering discipline, as software systems grow to millions, and soon billions, of linesof code. Productivity and defect density levels that are considered very good today will beinadequate to keep up with this future growth. As a result, software development professionalsand

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Carol Lynn Alpert; Jacqueline Isaacs

Nano's Big Bang: Transforming Engineering Education and Outreach C. L. Alpert, J. A. Isaacs,* C. M. F. Barry,# G. P. Miller,§ A. A. Busnaina* Museum of Science, Boston / *Northeastern University / # University of Massachusetts Lowell / §University of New HampshireAbstractThe rapid emergence of nanoscale science and engineering as a focal point for a broad range ofgovernment and privately-sponsored basic research activities – intended to catalyze breakthroughtechnologies and commercially-successful advances in medicine, computing, materials,manufacturing and defense– is having a correspondingly influential impact on the

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Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Amitabha Bandyopadhyay

SESSION 1121 Interconnected Learning in Construction Management Technology Amitabha Bandyopadhyay Farmingdale State University of New York AbstractConstruction is an integrative process and thus construction industry needs professionals who arecapable of integrating knowledge from various areas. The construction educators must cultivatestudents' ability to bridge boundaries among courses taken from different disciplines. The LongIsland Consortium for Interconnected Learning was a multi-year, multi-faceted initiative funded bythe National

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Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

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Albert McHenry

Session 1455 Constructivism: The Learning Theory That Supports Competency Development of Engineers For Engineering Practice and Technology Leadership Through Graduate Education A. L. McHenry, 1 D. R. Depew, 2 M. J. Dyrenfurth, 2 D. D. Dunlap, 3 D. A. Keating, 4 T. G. Stanford, 4 P. Lee, 5 G. Deloatch 6 Arizona State University East1/ Purdue University 2/ Western Carolina University 3 University of South Carolina 4 / California Polytechnic State University 5 / Morgan State University 6

Conference Session

Curriculum: Ideas/Concepts in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Saeed Foroudastan

various vehicle teams.EVP is organized like a corporation with various branches representing the vehicle teams and amanagement team which oversees the financial and organizational end of the projects. Thecharter members of EVP (all engineering and engineering technology students from variousconcentrations) wanted to make the program available to students from different departments atMTSU. They created positions that could be filled by students from other majors within andoutside of the College of Basic and Applied Sciences. Business majors, for instance, run thefundraising ventures of EVP, while a journalism major serves as public relations officer for thelocal and college papers and physics majors lead research efforts. The sharing of duties

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Distance & Service Learning, K-12, Web & Work-Based Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

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Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

Session XX60 60 Years of Distance Education Experience Claudio da Rocha Brito, Melany M. Ciampi COPEC – Council of Researches in Education and SciencesAbstractCOPEC – Council of Researches in Education and Sciences has conceived and developed theTelecommunication Engineering Program, which contains in its curriculum the so called"Opportunity” - a time that student can spend having classes of other courses in other programs.Added to that they also have the choice of taking classes at distance of engineering coursesothers than the ones that are part of the program. The goal of this new kind

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Capstone/Design Projects: Industrial ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Dana Ingalsbe; Jess Godbey

Project-Oriented Capstone Course: Integrating Curriculum Assessment Utilizing Industry Partner and Student Input Dana Ingalsbe, Ph.D., Jacksonville State University Jess Godbey, M.S., Jacksonville State UniversityI. AbstractThe need for industry feedback concerning possible competency gaps in an IndustrialTechnology program was fulfilled in part by means of a senior-level capstone projectexperience. Students in their final semester of the program from a range of majors(industrial technology management, electronics technology, occupational health andsafety, and computer integrated manufacturing) were assigned to an array of industrialprojects at various manufacturers in the local area

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Integrating Mathematics and Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jerome McCoy; Leslie Keiser; Michael Kessler; William Potter; Peter LoPresti; Donna Farrior; Shirley Pomeranz

Enhancing Interdisciplinary Interactions in the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences: Year I Shirley Pomeranz, Peter LoPresti, Michael Kessler, William Potter, Jerry McCoy, Leslie Keiser, Donna Farrior The University of TulsaIntroductionA team of faculty members in the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences at The Universityof Tulsa (TU) has begun work on a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Course,Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Project (Proposal # 0410653). This projectuses Interdisciplinary Lively Application Projects (ILAPs)1 as a vehicle for strengtheningconnections among the science, engineering, and mathematics

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Anna Lambert; Aaron Robinson; Charles Camp; Jeff Marchetta; Laura Lackey; Stephanie Ivey

relates to levels of attrition and retentionof undergraduate engineering students. Most institutions track this data at the university level,meaning that university administrators are easily able to identify students who switch majorsfrom engineering to other areas or identify students who leave the university completely, butthere is minimal follow-up data provided at the college and department level.Our research examines the issue of first-semester attrition from the following perspectives: (1)the individual differences perspective: can data from a 10-minute psychological learning-stylesurvey distributed on the first day of class be used as a means of early-identification of first-semester engineering students who may not continue in engineering

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Diversity: Women & Minorities in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stephen Kuyath

Session 3148 Applying the Theory of Planned Behavior: Recruiting Underrepresented Minorities to Engineering and Engineering Technology Stephen J. Kuyath UNC Charlotte, Department of Engineering TechnologyAbstractThere is mounting evidence that the United Sates will soon experience a shortage of qualifiedhigh-tech workers that will jeopardize the country’s economic future. It is imperative that werecruit more women and minorities into engineering to prevent the anticipated shortage. Clearly,past recruiting strategies have had only

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Curriculum: Ideas/Concepts in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Swami Karunamoorthy

Session xxxx DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS IN UNDERGRADUATE LABORATORY EDUCATION Swami Karunamoorthy Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MissouriAbstractDesign of experiments is a necessary skill for a test engineer in an industry. In anyengineering program, it is an important learning outcome. In this paper, an emphasis isgiven to how this skill can be developed in undergraduate laboratory education. Someexamples are presented along with theoretical background that can be easily implementedin laboratory courses. It is a viable approach to give an exposure to design ofexperiments as

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International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Swami Karunamoorthy

Session xxxx DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS IN UNDERGRADUATE LABORATORY EDUCATION Swami Karunamoorthy Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MissouriAbstractDesign of experiments is a necessary skill for a test engineer in an industry. In anyengineering program, it is an important learning outcome. In this paper, an emphasis isgiven to how this skill can be developed in undergraduate laboratory education. Someexamples are presented along with theoretical background that can be easily implementedin laboratory courses. It is a viable approach to give an exposure to design ofexperiments as

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Mathematics Curriculum in Transition

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Gardner; Patricia Pyke; Amy Moll

Active Learning in Mathematics: Using the Supplemental Instruction Model to Improve Student Success John F. Gardner, Mechanical Engineering Amy J. Moll, Material Science and Engineering Patricia A. Pyke, College of Engineering Boise State University Boise ID 83725AbstractWith the support of the Hewlett Foundation’s Engineering Schools of the West Initiative,Boise State has implemented a program called Active Learning in Mathematics, based onthe model of Supplemental Instruction (SI). This paper reports on the progress andlessons learned in the first 3 semesters of ALM support for