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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anirudh Roshan Sriram, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Karthik Ramani, Purdue University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

1987, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1991, all in Mechanical Engineering. Among his many awards he received the National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Initiation Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the Ralph Teetor Educational Award from the SAE, and the Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from SME. In 2006 he won the innovation of the year award from the State of Indiana. He serves in the editorial board of Elsevier Journal of Computer-Aided Design and ASME Journal of Mechanical Design. In 2008 he was a visiting Professor at Stanford University (computer sciences) as well as a research fellow at PARC (formerly Xerox PARC). He also serves on the Engineering Advisory sub-committee for the NSF IIP

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First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynn K. Byers, Quinnipiac University; Justin W. Kile, Quinnipiac University; Corey Kiassat, Quinnipiac University

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First-Year Programs

students. The course provides career and technicalinformation on the four engineering disciplines offered at Quinnipiac University. The followingfour questions are investigated: Is there a correlation between a student’s initial desire to pursuea specific engineering major and their actual and perceived knowledge of that engineeringdiscipline? For those students who are interested in and knowledgeable about a specificengineering discipline, does the introductory course strengthen that interest? For those studentswho are unsure about what specific engineering discipline to choose, are the students more likelyto be interested in a specific engineering discipline at the end of the course? Does theintroductory course increase students’ knowledge

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K-12 and Precollege Engineering Curriculum and Programming Resources, Part 2 of 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pramod Rajan, Laboratory for Innovative Technology & Engineering Education (LITEE); P.K. Raju, Laboratory for Innovative Technology & Engineering Education (LITEE); John Timothy Gill, Lee-Scott Academy

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

learningabout the concept of design process. Page 24.694.2IntroductionThe problem of student motivation persists even today in the K-12 level of education and is afactor in issues such as student underachievement and retention7. Students have made realacademic strides in most states, but no state is on track to getting all students the STEM skillsthey need to succeed in college and career. Low-income and minority students lag farthestbehind. Over the past decade, almost $3 billion has been invested in educational technology. In2012, more than $1 billion was raised for educational technology to improve student motivationand learning processes8. With the investment in technology and the need

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First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kerry Meyers, Youngstown State University

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First-Year Programs

peers which is critical to student success incompleting an engineering degree.IntroductionImproving opportunities for higher education for low-income, minority, and urban studentsremains a critical issue in engineering education1, increasing the access to engineeringeducational opportunities of these key populations will have a significant impact on balancingthe shortage of qualified engineers in the U.S. which is important for global competitiveness.Further, engineering educators are tasked with changing traditional ways of educating engineersand broadening the exposure of K-12 students to engineering careers, requirements, andopportunities 2. With the wide range of research citing the need to transform traditional lecture

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Distance Learning in Engineering Technology

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rigoberto Chinchilla, Eastern Illinois University; Oyindamola O. Idowu, Waukegan Schools District 60; Thomas C. MacMullen, Eastern Illinois University

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Engineering Technology

, serves at numerous departmental and university committees at EIU and has been awarded several research grants in his career. Dr. Chinchilla is a book author and has published several peer reviewed technical papers during his tenure at EIU. rchinchilla@eiu.edu Tel: 2175818534Mrs. Oyindamola O Idowu, Waukegan Schools District 60 Oyindamola Idowu, MSc. in Technology, Eastern Illinois University, is the current Network Adminis- trator for Waukegan School District #60. She worked as Graduate Assistant in the Telecommunications Laboratory at Eastern Illinois University from Aug 2011 – May 2013. She has a B.Tech. degree in Com- puter Engineering from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Nigeria. Oyindamola is also a Cisco

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Teaching Statics

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carisa H Ramming P.E., Oklahoma State University; John J. Phillips P.E., Oklahoma State University

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Mechanics

as Statics. A student’s success inthese courses can be a crucial factor in their decision to stay or leave STEM education. It is thebelief of many that if students can be properly engaged in the learning process early on in theireducation career, with theories and concepts being successfully taught to students, they will findthe course relevant and enlightening, and will be more likely to continue along their chosen pathof education. One problem that arises is determining what is meant by ‘properly engaged’, andhow this can be accomplished in the short amount of time we have with students in our courses.Introductory STEM courses provide the building blocks for student success in later courses, andin the Fundamentals of Engineering (F.E

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Materials Division Technical Session 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yalcin Ertekin, Drexel University (Tech.); Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.); Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.)

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Materials

processes, machine tool accuracy characterization and enhancement, non-invasive surgical tool design and bio-materials applications. During his career, Dr. Ertekin published papers in referred journals and in conference proceedings in his area of research interest. He has also been PI for various NSF research projects including NSF-TUES and MRI programs. Dr. Ertekin is an active member in the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), and currently serves as a chair of Philadelphia SME Chapter-15.Dr. Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.)Dr. Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng.) Page

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First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; William Travis Horton, Purdue University

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First-Year Programs

early in theiracademic careers, report increase motivation to remain in engineering. The challenge ofengaging students as early as their first year is that students can become overwhelmed. Whilethe experience can be very positive, when students are adjusting to college life and course loads,the additional variable of an experiential learning environment can be foreign and sometimes Page 24.782.4overwhelming. In addition, while the vertical integration allows mentoring of younger students,older students do not always embrace the mentoring roles. The results have been bimodal withfirst-year students in the program having either very positive or

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Materials Division Technical Session 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kumar Vikram Singh, Miami University; Fazeel Khan, Miami University

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Materials

this GUI based module and associated exercises areaimed at instilling skills in computer modeling of materials, which means that this training willallow students to use more advanced material models, in the graduate level courses and also laterin their professional careers, to predict deformation behavior. It is envisioned that developinglearning modules in a single platform, i.e. Matlab interactive GUIs, exempts students fromrepeated exercises in software familiarization and allows the development of skills in simulationand validations methods that will commute well even to different future work environment and Page 24.793.4resources.Overview

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Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yakut Gazi, Texas A&M University

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Educational Research and Methods

the value of heutagogyin academic versus workforce development environments in science, technology, andengineering. Page 24.830.2Andragogy, Self-Directed Learning, and HeutagogyAndragogy is a theory that holds a set of assumptions about how adults learn. Accordingto American Council on Education, adult learners are learners over the age 25 and oftenreferred to as non-traditional learners. These individuals usually have additionalresponsibilities such as family, career, military or community and are seeking a degree oreducational offering to enhance their professional or personal lives (American Council onEducation, n.d.)[1]. According to National

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Programming, Simulation, and Dynamic Modeling

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin Reed Campbell, Robert Morris University; Luis E. Monterrubio, Robert Morris University; Tony Lee Kerzmann, Robert Morris University

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Mechanical Engineering

Paper ID #8825Laboratory Development for Dynamic Systems Through the Use of Low CostMaterials and ToysDr. Benjamin Reed Campbell, Robert Morris University Ben Campbell holds a BS in physics and MS in electrical engineering from Penn State and a PhD in engineering from Robert Morris University. For the first decade of his career, he worked as a laser engineer at the Penn State Electro-Optics Center. In 2011 he joined Robert Morris University as an Assistant Professor of Engineering. He has been supporting RMU’s biomedical engineering program and also teaching dynamics, circuits, and introduction to engineering. Since

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Teaching Approaches for Ethics

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Raridon, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Deborah K. Nykanen P.E., Minnesota State University, Mankato; Marilyn C. Hart, Minnesota State University- Mankato; Winston Sealy, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Engineering Ethics

need to be able to address with ethicalresponsibility at the forefront of their designs. The learning approach asked students to identifypotential ethical problems and solutions to the real world exploration project that they wereexamining.During the spring 2013 semester, scholars examined ethical issues by examining case studiesfrom career fields related to their majors. Before reviewing the case studies, the idea of ethicswas introduced to the class through a required reading during the Winter Break preceding thesemester. Students read “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, a book documenting thediscovery and now widespread use of the “HeLa” cell and the ethical dilemmas involved

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Aerospace Division Technical Session 3

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adeel Khalid, Southern Polytechnic State University (ENG)

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Aerospace

. Edward D. McCormack, ‘The Use of Small Unmanned Aircraft by Washington State Department of Transportation,’ Research Report Agreement T4118, Task 04, prepared for Washington State Transportation Commission, Department of Transportation, June 2008 3. Suman Srinivasan, et. al., ‘Airborne Traffic Surveillance Systems – Video Surveillance of Highway Traffic,’ VSSN’04, ACM 1-58113-934-9/04/0010, New York, October 2004 4. Southern Polytechnic State University Honors Program [http://www.spsu.edu/honors/] 5. Raymond B. Landis, Studying Engineering: A Roadmap to a Rewarding Career, Discovery Press, 3rd Page

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Experiences in Engineering Community Engagement

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marybeth Lima, Louisiana State University

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Community Engagement Division

Parks Association, which makes me eligible for liabilityinsurance.OutcomesSix-year retention rate data was collected from the time that the service-learning component ofthe course was fully implemented (1999) until 2007 (students take the course as second semesterfreshmen, and so began their college careers in Fall 2006, representing the latest date at which 6-year retention rate data is available). The overall retention rate of the cohort is 60.5% (244/403)--this percentage represents the students who graduated with a B.S. in biological engineering.There exists limited data for the course before it was taught using service-learning, but for theyear prior to the implementation of service-learning (or active learning), the retention rate was26

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanna Tsenn, Texas A&M University; Daniel A. McAdams, Texas A&M University; Julie S Linsey, Texas A&M University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

correlated with an individual’s accomplishment level. With high self-efficacy, a studentwill use more cognitive and metacognitive strategies and be more likely to select challengingtasks due to their self-confidence. Upon encountering a problem, an individual with higher self-efficacy is often willing to put in additional effort and is more persistent in solving the problem.The continued effort, persistence, and perseverance will increase the likelihood that the studentwill be successful in accomplishing their task.Many reports have indicated that more engineers with strong design skills are needed. Self-efficacy is important because it is a large influence on career choice. If the engineeringcurriculum effectively develops good design engineers

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Issues in Computer Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Quinn

experience. Wepresent evidence that the use of these animations has significantly improved the performance ofstudents on exam questions.IntroductionComputer science majors at Oregon State University take a course called Computer ScienceOrientation during the first term of their freshman year. The class meets for about four hours perweek: three 50-minute lectures and one 80-minute recitation. The primary goal of the ten-weekcourse is to introduce students to some of the major concepts in computer science. In this respectit resembles CS100B in Computing Curricula 2001.1 However, the course also has secondarygoals of teaching basic university survival skills, introducing career options, and giving studentssome experience solving problems as members of

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Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

SMET majors were: 1) non-technical majors offered a better education, 2) loss of interest in science (engineering notmentioned), 3) rejection of technical careers, 4) poor teaching, 5) ineffective faculty3. Severalcharacteristics of lower level courses were identified which drive away SMET majors, large andimpersonal classes, failure to stimulate and engage students, emphasis on lower levels ofBloom’s Taxonomy1 particularly memorization (knowledge and comprehension) with noemphasis on the higher levels of learning (analysis, synthesis, critical reasoning or evaluation),fragmented course offerings where there is no indication of engineering relevance or relation toeach other4. The National Science Foundation and others have identified several

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EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

JoDell Steuver; Donna Evanecky

Management,16, 2. Emerald Group Publishing, Ltd..,186-204(19)24. Turk, W. (September-October 2004). Management fad of the month: can they all work? Defense A T & L. http://www.dau.mil/pubs/dam/09_10_2004/tur-so04.pdf retrieved on December 23, 2004.DONNA EVANECKYDonna Evanecky started teaching as an assistant professor for Purdue University School of Technology in 2001 afteran eight-year career in the field of quality management. She teaches Organizational Behavior, Managing Change,Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Occupational Health and Safety and Team Development for the Department ofOrganizational Leadership and Supervision at the Kokomo campus.JODELL STEUVERJoDell K. Steuver is an Associate Professor in the Department of Organizational

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Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Samples

with a group where you can contribute but notbe totally in charge. In charge means more work (see Grants below). Look for Career Awardsand other developmental awards that require less technical, so that expertise can be ramped up.Proposals take time, have suspense dates and can be very discouraging when they don’t work.Hook up with a mentor to get things started. Submit proposals for modest amounts, unless youhave some unbelievable talents, or your university requires a fixed number of dollars per year.Finally, work with your thesis advisor when you can to continue a relationship that has worked.Grants: Once you get money from a proposal there is a lot to do. Meetings to decide ondirection and reports to keep the funding agency informed. You

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Technology and Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Kadlowec; Dexter Whittinghill; John Chen

Engineering and Science, Wiley Series in Probability and Mathematical Statistics, New York, 1989.4. Mazur, E. Peer Instruction: A User’s Manual, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1997.5. Mehta, S.I., “A Method for Instant Assessment and Active Learning,” J. of Engr. Educ., 84:295 (1995).Biographic InformationJOHN CHEN is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He has been a faculty member since 1994,when he began his career as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at North CarolinaA&T State University. He joined Rowan University in his current position in 1998.JENNIFER KADLOWEC is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Rowan University. She began asan Assistant Professor in 1999 after

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Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Parker; Jason Thrun

be pre-service teachers, their experiencesin this introductory course could potentially affect their future teaching. Moreover, through theirexperiences in the course, these future teachers could gain some insights into the engineeringprofession that could help them advise their future students who might be interested inengineering. In this sense, this project has the potential to: • further develop the pre-service teacher’s technology literacy and therefore the technology literacy of their future students and • further develop the pre-service teacher’s understanding of engineering as a profession and thereby promote engineering as a desirable career for their future students.This project also has some significant

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Programming for Engineering Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kishore Sirvole; Jennifer Mullins; Jeff Kaeli; Jason Snook; Hayden Griffin; Vinod Lohani; Jenny Lo

engineering courses and careers. Over the past severalyears, the first-semester engineering course has evolved from a somewhat traditional problemsolving, graphics, and programming course to a format that emphasizes early design andrealization, collaborative learning, and highly interactive classroom environments [9-12]. One oflearning objectives of EngE 1024 is to develop and implement algorithms that focus on objectoriented approaches. As indicated earlier, due to joining of Computer Science department,computer science bound students are now required to enroll in EngE 1024 starting Fall 2004.This event transformed how programming is taught in EngE 1024, switching from MATLAB toan object-oriented language (Alice). The primary problem with the

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Design Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Pastirik; Michael Robertson; William Singhose; Joshua Vaughan; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

for your future career, you will develop a machinethat performs some of the basic functions of such a spacecraft. Figure A1 shows the simulatedspace environment in which your device will perform. The area is a hexagon divided into threezones, one of which will be assigned to your team. Each zone consists partly of a home zone andpartly of a gravity zone. At the center is Mars. It rotates along with its two moons, Deimos andPhobos. These orbiting moons are a menace to your device. If you come into contact with them,they will likely take your machine along with them. Your device should try to perform thefollowing four tasks: 1. Collect Mars Samples. On the surface of Mars will be various pieces of Mars®. Your machine should collect

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Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tobia Steyn

of the students which covers the full term of theiracademic careers. The data in Figure 6 shows, by year of entry into the 5YSP: • the number of graduates; • the number of re-registrants in 2004 and • the number of students that registered for the first time.Of the 117 students who registered for the 5YSP in 2000, 54% re-registered in 2004. Of the 2000POC students, 70% re-registered in 2004 whereas 34% of the other 5YSP students re-registered.These figures show that the POC students have a significantly higher retention rate than the other5YSP students.At time of writing, final data on the performance of the 4YSP and other 5YSP students whoenrolled in 2000 is not available. Only preliminary data of the POC students is available

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Aminul Karim; Yakov Cherner; Ahmed Khan

buildon these skills students’ knowledgebase. But in this day and age, the exponential growth oftechnology has imposed new demands on students and educators. To achieve success in learningand in pursuing a successful career, a student in the 21st century needs to attain proficiency inscience, technology, and culture, in addition to the reading, writing and calculating skills. TheDigital-age literacy requires students to gain understanding of information in all its forms: basic Page 10.802.1literacy, scientific literacy, economic literacy, technological literacy, visual literacy, informationliteracy, multicultural literacy, and global awareness

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Education Ideas in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Estell

importance of documentationOne of the major concepts to be conveyed to students is that program development is usually notperformed in isolation. Due to their size and complexity, modern applications require teams ofdevelopers; accordingly, classes have to be written such that they can be understood by variousconstituencies: those who write the class, those who use the class, those who extend the class,and those who maintain the class. Additionally, students need to be aware that, upon entry intotheir first job, their place will be on the lowest rung on the career ladder, and in that position theywill often be asked to implement, not design, functionality for a portion of an application. It iswithin this context that the topics of Design by Contract

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First-Year Design Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ryan Owen; Robert Knecht; Abel Feltes

, theDesign (EPICS) Division prepares them for careers in the engineering disciplines. This projectsatisfies the following objectives of the Design (EPICS) Division mission: ♦ To develop and demonstrate creative engineering technologies ♦ To build effective teams of engineering students ♦ To communicate design products to a societal marketThese skills must evolve from practice centered on a project they solve as a team. The Versatile Weather Station Challenge provided an exciting environment for students to Page 10.104.9develop not only their engineering skills but also their creative and critical thinking

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IE/EM Skills in Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Matson; David Elizandro; Jane Fraser

Program Objectives that characterize the “career and professional accomplishments that the program is preparing graduates to achieve.” 2. An articulation of Criterion 3 a-k Program Outcomes that support one or more Program Objectives and reflect the students’ technical competence and understanding of engineering at the time of graduation. 3. An assessment process for Program Objectives and Outcomes.In Criterion 2, Program Objectives characterize program graduates within the first few yearsafter graduation. According to the Criterion1, accredited programs must have: (a) detailed published educational objectives that are consistent with the mission of the institution and these criteria (b) a process based on the needs

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Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tina Hudson; Laurence Merkle; Joshua Holden; Richard Layton

Conf., Salt Lake City.2. MUPEC 2004 conference website, www.rose-hulman.edu/MUPEC2004/RICHARD A. LAYTONRichard Layton received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1995 and is currently an AssistantProfessor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. His interests include student teambuilding and laboratory curriculum development. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Layton worked for twelve years Page 10.1373.10in consulting engineering, culminating as a group head and a project manager. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Thomas; Mohammad Alam

success ofgraduates from the USA ECE department is a successful career in engineering. All constituents Page 10.1145.9benefit from this outcome. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Bibliography1. Engineering Accreditation Commission, Criteria for accrediting engineering programs. AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology, Inc. Baltimore, MD, November 2000.http://www.abet.org/images/Criteria/eac_criteria_b.pdf2. M.R. Parker, W.A. Stapleton, T.G. Thomas, “Post-assessment evaluation of