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Novel BME Courses and Course Adaptations

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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George Catalano, State University of New York-Binghamton

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Biomedical

2006-26: LIFE IN MOVING FLUIDS: INTRODUCING CLASSICAL FLUIDMECHANICS INTO BIOENGINEERINGGeorge Catalano, State University of New York-Binghamton Dr. Catalano is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He researches and teaches in the areas of engineering design, the fluid dynamics of the natural world and applied mathematics and is included in the Philosophers’ Index for his work in environmental ethics Page 11.896.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006Life in Moving Fluids: Integrating Classical Fluid Mechanics into an Undergraduate Bioengineering ProgramAbstractA new course that seeks to

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ChE: Curriculum Reform & Assessment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Turton, West Virginia University; Joseph Shaeiwitz, West Virginia University

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Chemical Engineering

2006-369: THE CHANGING CHE CURRICULUM – HOW MUCH CHANGE ISAPPROPRIATE?Joseph Shaeiwitz, West Virginia University Joseph A. Shaeiwitz received his B.S. degree from the University of Delaware and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Carnegie Mellon University. His professional interests are in design, design education, and outcomes assessment. Joe is an associate editor of the Journal of Engineering Education, and he is a co-author of the text Analysis, Synthesis, and Design of Chemical Processes (2nd ed.), published by Prentice Hall in 2003.Richard Turton, West Virginia University Richard Turton received his B.S. degree from the University of Nottingham and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from

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Knowing Our Students II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Todd Johnson, Washington State University

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Educational Research and Methods

2006-493: MEASURING CHANGES IN MOTIVATION AND LEARNINGSTRATEGIES: COMPARING FRESHMAN TO OTHER UNDERGRADUATESTodd Johnson, Washington State University Dr. Johnson is Assistant Professor in Educational Psychology. His primary teaching activity includes theoretical foundations of learning and instruction, educational statistics, educational measurement,assessment of learning, and program evaluation. He served as Co-PI on an NSF ?Bridging Engineering Education? grant called the CyberMentor (Mathematics and Engineering via New Technologies: Outreach and Recruitment) project. A major part of this grant was to promote and develop partnerships and interdisciplinary initiatives connecting education

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Henry Sneck, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Donald Bunk, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Douglas Baxter, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

chosen departmentalmajors. Perhaps more importantly they may not know what Engineers do as they ply theirprofession, and may have a misleading or unrealistic perception of their career choice.Engineering “Discovery” is a course intended for students entering an engineering curriculum.By using carefully chosen artifacts such as electric toasters and warm-mist room humidifiersstudents learn how engineers apply physics principles, most already learned in secondary school,in the design of such products. They observe the artifacts and sub-systems and theirinterconnectivity and speculate on the thought and problem solving processes used by practicingengineers in developing the product. A unique requirement is that students report their findingsusing

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Progress on Raising the Bar

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ernest Smerdon, University of Arizona; Stephen Ressler, U.S. Military Academy; James K. Nelson, University of Texas-Tyler; Jim O'Brien, American Society of Civil Engineers

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Civil Engineering

civil engineers will beequipped to handle the challenges of professional practice in the decades ahead.1 That paperreviewed ASCE Policy Statement 465 (PS 465), which promotes the attainment of a body ofknowledge deemed essential to the practice civil engineering at the profession level.. As part ofthis effort, the society developed a report delineating the body of knowledge (BOK) that futurecivil engineers will need to have. That report, published in 2004, is currently being updatedbased on extensive feedback from the initial BOK report.2 This revised BOK report should becompleted by the end of 2006.There are many organizations and technology experts who are deeply concerned about how theengineering profession will meet the challenges of the

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Assessment Methods

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Virendra Varma, Missouri Western State University

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Engineering Technology

2006-1374: INTERNALLY-DEVELOPED DEPARTMENTAL EXIT EXAMS V/SEXTERNALLY-NORMED ASSESSMENT TESTS: WHAT WE FOUNDVirendra Varma, Missouri Western State University Virendra K. Varma, PhD, PE, F.ASCE, is Professor of construction and Chairman of the Department of Engineering Technology at Missouri Western State University. He served as a Member of the TAC/ABET Commission from 1998-2003. He is a former President of ACI-Missouri, and a former President of the NW Chapter of MSPE (of NSPE). He has published and presented extensively. He is the Chair of the Construction Engineering Division of ASEE. He has held highly responsible roles in design and construction industry ranging from a project

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Trend in Construction Engineering Education II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Haiyan Xie, University of Arkansas-Little Rock; James Tramel, University of Arkansas-Little Rock; Wei Shi, University of Florida; Mei Lu, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology

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Construction

2006-2243: IMPLEMENTATION OF VIRTUAL STUDY GROUP AND ACTIONRESEARCH IN ONLINE CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT COURSESHaiyan Xie, University of Arkansas-Little Rock HAIYAN XIE, Ph.D., CPC Dr. Haiyan Xie received a BE and a ME in construction engineering and management from the Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, China. She also holds an MS in computer engineering, Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), from the University of Florida. Dr. Xie earned her PhD from the M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Building Construction at the University of Florida (UF) in Gainesville. She has multiple years of working experiences with construction companies in both the US and

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Innovative Instruction Strategies

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Schmeelk, Virginia Commonwealth University

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Mathematics

applications in allareas of research including medical research. A patient can be diagnosed as having ananeurysm by studying an angiogram. An angiogram is the visual view of the bloodvessels whereby the edges are highlighted through the implementation of edge detectors.This process is completed through convolution, wavelets and matrix techniques. Someillustrations included will be vertical, horizontal, Sobel and wavelet edge detectors.I. IntroductionTo help motivate this paper, we provide an introduction to some interesting problems inimage processing implementing matrix techniques, partial derivatives and convolutions.Section (2) provides an introduction to matrix and partial derivatives and how they areapplied to the pixels to obtain the gray level

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Roland Kempter, University of Utah; Cynthia Furse, University of Utah; Nick Safai, Salt Lake City College; Neil Cotter, University of Utah; Lee Brinton, Salt Lake Community College

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International

2006-1800: CHALLENGES IN CURRICULUM ADAPTATION ACROSSINSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION: INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONALSTUDENT TRANSFERRoland Kempter, University of UtahCynthia Furse, University of Utah Dr. Cynthia Furse Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Utah Dr. Furse received her B.S. in electrical engineering with a mathematics minor in 1985, M.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1988, and her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Utah in 1994. She is currently an associate professor at the University of Utah and has taught electromagnetics, wireless communication, computational electromagnetics, microwave

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Topics in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Marshall, North Carolina State University; Mohamed Bourham, North Carolina State University

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Nuclear and Radiological

2006-1877: NUCLEAR ENGINEERING FRESHMAN STUDENTINITIATIVES—LESSONS FROM NC STATE UNIVERSITYLisa Marshall, North Carolina State University In Fall 2001, Marshall became the Director of Outreach Programs for the Department of Nuclear Engineering at North Carolina State University. Her research interests lie in enrollment management and engineering education. She is a ‘geography of science’ doctoral student at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Before joining NC State University, she worked in enrolment management for several years at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.Mohamed Bourham, North Carolina State University Bourham joined the Department of Nuclear Engineering at North

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Zorica Suvajdzin; Miroslav Hajdukovic

of traditional text editors. To be effective, language-basedediting systems should offer a wide set of editing services, high qualityvisualization, and customizability.Design choice should find balance between two desires: desire tomaintain a linguistically accurate program representation; and desire tooffer user friendly, advanced, linguistically-driven editing services, toincrease user productivity. Specialized enhancements of the editingservices are important, but it is absolutely essential that they don'tmake things worse. Any intrusion on text editing must be balancedbetween user and tool, which can be very delicate.Although the research history shows that structure editors are a subjectof interest, there is no structure editor at the

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Information Technology in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kendra Foltz Biegalski, University of Texas; Victoria Pratt, University of Texas-Austin; Tomer Pintel, University of Texas-Austin; Sheldon Landsberger, University of Texas-Austin; Michael Whitaker, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Nuclear and Radiological

2006-1235: USING NONPROLIFERATION ASSESSMENT TOOL (NAT)SOFTWARE FOR TEACHING PROLIFERATION CONCEPTS ASSOCIATEDWITH THE NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLEKendra Foltz Biegalski, University of Texas Dr. Kendra Foltz Biegalski is a Research Engineer in the Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Program. She has fifteen years experience in nuclear engineering, nuclear and chemical analytical techniques, and two years of nuclear reactor operations. She has thirteen years domestic and international experience in scientific research and collaboration as well as two years experience in the teaching, training, and licensing of nuclear scientists and nuclear reactor operators. Dr. Foltz Biegalski specializes in nuclear data

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Monica Cox, Purdue University; Alene Harris, Purdue University

University Page 11.1422.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 VaNTH Observation System Component AssessmentAbstract- Since 1999, the VaNTH Observation System (VOS), a direct classroom observationsystem, has been used to collect data about classroom activities within bioengineering courses.Two components of the VOS, the Classroom Interaction Observation and the Global Ratings,specifically collect data about whether observed courses contain elements of the “How PeopleLearn” (HPL) framework, as set forth in the National Research Council publication How PeopleLearn: Mind, Brain, Experience, and School.1 VOS observers use

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Software Engineering Curriculum Components

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Harry Koehnemann, Arizona State University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

2006-1761: ADDING SYSTEMS ENGINEERING ACTIVITIES TO THESOFTWARE CURRICULUMHarry Koehnemann, Arizona State University Dr. Harry Koehnemann is an Associate Professor in the Division of Computing Studies at Arizona State University where he performs teaching and research in the areas of distributed software systems, software process, and modeling software-intensive systems. Prior to joining ASU in 2001, Harry worked several years as a software architect and software developer on software systems ranging from large enterprise applications to embedded control systems. Harry has also provided training and consulting services in software tools and technologies, software modeling, and software

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mel Cossette, Edmonds Community College; Thomas Stoebe, University of Washington; John Rusin, Edmonds Community College; Robert Mott, University of Dayton; Robert Simoneau, Keene State University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

2006-339: NATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER FOR MATERIALS TECHNOLOGYEDUCATIONMel Cossette, Edmonds Community CollegeThomas Stoebe, University of WashingtonJohn Rusin, Edmonds Community CollegeRobert Mott, University of DaytonRobert Simoneau, Keene State University Page 11.952.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006session number 1526The National Science Foundation has recently funded a project at Edmonds Community Collegethat will create a National Resource Center for Materials Technology Education. The objectiveof this project is to develop a clearinghouse of teaching materials for the broad field of materialstechnology. All materials considered for this Resource Center will

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Environmental Engineering Curricula

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James E. Kilduff, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Jong-In Han, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Environmental Engineering

application of environmental biotechnology requires professionals who have abackground in both areas. The undergraduate engineering curriculum has traditionallynot emphasized training in biological sciences, although many environmental engineeringcurricula have incorporated some engineering microbiology in concert with, or as aprerequisite for, wastewater treatment courses. In general, however, whereasenvironmental engineers have considerable engineering skills required for the design ofprocesses per se, have only a rudimentary knowledge of general biology andmicrobiology in particular. Growth in biology-related courses in the engineeringcurriculum is becoming more widespread, as chemical engineering departments begin toemphasize life science related

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Retention Issues

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andre Butler, Mercer University; Priscilla Hicks, Mercer University

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Minorities in Engineering

therecruitment, retention, and graduation of under-represented minorities and women inengineering, significant discrepancies still exist and much work remains.Over the past ten years at Mercer, African-Americans have comprised 17.1% of studentsenrolled in engineering, while women have comprised 31.1%, on average. In addition,African-Americans and women represent a sizeable fraction of each graduating class(14.8% and 32.0%, respectively). These numbers are higher than those observed in manyother engineering schools across the country. Five-year graduation rates for African-Americans (as well as other under-represented minorities) and women at Mercer,however, are more in line with observations at other engineering schools.The purpose of this paper is to

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Frank Barnes, University of Colorado-Boulder

2006-1820: AN INTEGRATED UTILITIES MASTERS OF ENGINEERINGPROGRAMFrank Barnes, University of Colorado-Boulder Frank Barnes received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1954 from Princeton University and his M.S., Engineer, and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in 1955, ‘56, and ‘58 respectively. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Baghdad, Iraq in 1958 and joined the University of Colorado in 1959 where he is currently a Distinguished Professor. He has served as Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Acting Dean of the College of Engineering, and in 1971 as cofounder/Director with Professor George Codding of the Political Science Dept. of the Interdisciplinary

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Innovation in Teaching Engineering Economics

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ahmad Sarfaraz, California State University-Northridge; Tarek Shraibati, California State University-Northridge

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Engineering Economy

student learning in an engineeringeconomy course. Student attendance, student achievement, maintaining pace with the class andstudent learning were the four factors that were measured in this study.IntroductionA number of reports show that there are dramatic differences between today’s students and thoseof a few years ago1. Nowadays, we see a general decrease in student preparedness, an increase innumber of employed students, an increase in number of part-time students, and an increase in theage of students. Although there are some factors that cannot be influenced by instructors, we canenhance students’ success rate by increasing student engagement. By engaging students weexpect students to move from memorizing concepts, to explaining those same

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Orlando J. Hernandez

Microcomputer Based Electronics: Using the C Stamp™ in Pre- Engineering, Technology, and Engineering Programs Orlando J. Hernandez The College of New JerseyIntroductionIn recent years, the issue of retention in Engineering Education programs has taken a forefrontposition relative to the issue of recruitment. Many efforts are under way to try to improveengineering education retention through programming as a form of collaborative learning [1].This paper describes the usage of a microcomputer platform that can serve both recruitment andretention purposes. This platform can be deployed in both secondary and higher education,including technology

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Curriculum for Green Materials

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Helen McLachlan, Granta Design; Patrick Coulter, Granta Design; Mike Ashby, University of Cambridge

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Materials

2006-1934: TEACHING STUDENTS ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTOF MATERIAL CHOICE IN DESIGNHelen McLachlan, Granta Design Dr Helen McLachlan is Granta's product manager for education. She also has a PhD in materials science from the University of Cambridge.Patrick Coulter, Granta Design Dr Patrick Coulter is a director at Granta. He also has PH.D. in polymer science from the University of Cambridge.Mike Ashby, University of Cambridge Professor Mike Ashby FRS is Royal Society Research Professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge and is a Visiting Professor of Design at the Royal College of Art, London, UK. His interests include materials selection in design, process

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Moral Development, Engineering Pedagogy and Ethics Instruction

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin Schmaltz, Western Kentucky University

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Engineering Ethics

2006-1556: ENGINEERING ETHICS INSTRUCTION AS AN INTEGRATEDPROFESSIONAL COMPONENTKevin Schmaltz, Western Kentucky University Kevin Schmaltz teaches thermo-fluid and professional component courses in Mechanical Engineering, including the Freshman Experience course, Sophomore Design, Junior Design and the Senior Project Design course sequence. Prior to teaching at WKU, he was a project engineer for Shell Oil, designing and building oil and gas production facilities for offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Page 11.563.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006

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2006 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Avery Schwer, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; James Goedert, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

@unomaha.edu E-mail: jgoedert@unomaha.eduABSTRACT The University of Nebraska’s College of Engineering in partnership with CatholicCharities Archdiocese of New Orleans is developing a HUD community design programfor New Orleans. The program is in the process of developing rehabilitation strategies for10 houses and documenting the process for future replication. Final drawings forreconstructing 10 houses will also be provided. The difference between the rehabilitationand the reconstruction process are defined. The most significant program contributionwill be 10 new final construction designs with 10 variations that can be replicated for anumber of sites. Each design and/or strategy will respond to environmental elements

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michelle Daniel, University of Cincinnati; James Allen, University of Cincinnati; Anant Kukreti, University of Cincinnati

to gain practical secondary teaching experience. In addition, the fellows alsoperform all grading and assessment of these activities. On occasion, the teachers will alsoadminister these lessons to help demonstrate alternative teaching and classroom managementtechniques. However, in this study, each lesson for which the data is presented was taught by aSTEP fellow. Project STEP believes that through effectively demonstrating the relevance ofmathematics and science topics through real-world issues and current community events, astronger student affinity towards these subjects can be achieved. This paper explores thedevelopment of student attitudes towards math and science topics on a gender basis. Sevenclassrooms of 11th grade math and science

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Carol Shields

Engineering Our Future New Jersey Elementary School Carol Shields CIESE Stevens Institute of TechnologyAbstractEngineering is Elementary (EiE), developed by the Boston Museum of Science, is a set ofcurricula that integrate engineering and technology concepts and skills with elementary sciencelessons. Each EiE module contains lessons that integrate an elementary school science topic witha specific field of engineering and features hands-on activities that engage students in theengineering design process.Two modules, Water, Water, Everywhere (environmental engineering) and Catching the Wind(mechanical engineering

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CPD - Engineering Education K - Life

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kurt Becker, Utah State University

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Continuing Professional Development

2006-2371: SUPPORTING K-12 TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTTHROUGH THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENGINEERING ANDTECHNOLOGY EDUCATIONKurt Becker, Utah State University Kurt H. Becker, Ph.D is Interim Department Head in the Department of Engineering and Technology Education, College of Engineering at Utah State University. Areas of research include adult learning cognition, engineering education professional development and technical training. He is the co-project director for the NSF funded "National Center for Engineering and Technology Education" and the PI for the NSF funded "Communities of Effective Practice: A Professional STEM Development Model for Teachers of American Indian Students". He also

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Xinzhou Wei; Kenneth Markowitz; Aron Goykadosh

An Introduction of RFID Data Protection Scheme Xinzhou Wei, Kenneth Markowitz, Aron Goykadosh xwei@citytech.cuny.edu kmarkowitz@citytech.cuny.edu agoykadosh@citytech.cuny.edu Department of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunication Technology, New York City College of Technology of the City University of New York, 300 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 ABSTRACT Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a promising technology that transmits theinformation of an object to be saved on the RFID tag wirelessly by using radio waves. RFID hasbeen used widely in industries, such

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Innovative Teaching Methods in IE Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Judith Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ron Billings, Georgia Institute of Technology; Garlie Forehand, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Industrial Engineering

2006-405: GEORGIA TECH IE WORKFORCE COMMUNICATION: COMPARINGSENIOR DESIGN STUDENTS' AUDIENCE ANALYSES TO THEIR CLIENTS'SELF DESCRIPTIONSJudith Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Norback is a faculty member and the Director of Workforce and Academic Communication in the J. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. Before arriving at Tech six years ago, she headed her own firm, the Center for Skills Enhancement. She conducted research and curriculum development on basic and communication skills for the U.S. Department of Labor, the National Skill Standards Board, and a number of universities. Since 2000, her research has focused on workforce

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Faculty Involvement in International Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Russel Jones, World Expertise LLC

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International

2006-1269: UPDATING FOR ENGINEERING FACULTY MEMBERS INDEVELOPING COUNTRIESRussel Jones, World Expertise LLC Russel C. Jones is a private consultant, working through World Expertise LLC to offer services in engineering education in the international arena. He previously served as Executive Director of the National Society of Professional Engineers. Prior to that, he had a long career in education: faculty member at MIT, department chair in civil engineering at Ohio State University, dean of engineering at University of Massachusetts, academic vice president at Boston University, and President at University of Delaware. Dr. Jones is President of the Committee on Capacity Building of the

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Erdogan M. Sener

are to be expected in the nature and technologiesof future infra-structural construction work and what a new curriculum torespond to these expected changes needs to look like to ensure competencyfor future students in such work in the future.The inventory of underground infra-structural constructed works in the U.Shas reached a distinct point which will govern the kind of construction workthat will dominate the scene in the coming decades. Sewer and storm-waterconstruction is a prime example. Even though new sewer and storm-water-drainage construction will continue at a slow but steady pace, at least forseparation of the combined-sewers in some major metropolitan areas,significant construction will also occur in relining, rehabilitating