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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 4 - Innovating Engineering Education through Industry and Community Partnerships, Maker Spaces, Competitions, Research Initiatives, and Experiential Education

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Casey Thelenwood, Grand Valley State University; Paul D. Plotkowski, Grand Valley State University; Brent Michael Nowak, Grand Valley State University

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Diversity

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Cooperative and Experiential Education

-op program as students need some engineeringknowledge and skills before entering the workforce. As a result, the engineering curriculum wasdesigned so that engineering-specific courses were pushed earlier into the students’ academiccareers and general education courses were spread out more evenly over the course of theprogram. Recognizing that engineering professionals need to be able to write [16], [17] projectproposals, proposal development and technical writing was integrated into the secondcooperative education semester and well in advance of the senior design project.As enrollment in engineering programs grew, managing the volume of co-op placements andindustry projects became more challenging. Additional faculty were hired to manage

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Vascar Harris; Eric Sheppard

needs to look to resources such as the Industry-University-Government Roundtable for Enhancing Engineering Education16 (IUGREE). TheIUGREE has considered several topics for reform of engineering education. Among these arethe following: - Curricular content - Educational methodology - Implications of Information Technology - Life-long learning - Integration of education and research - Bridge building (industry-university-government)We conclude this paper with some possible teaching, research, and service developments for theAerospace Science Engineering Department.A. TeachingA new curriculum was developed in anticipation of the ABET Engineering Criteria 2000, andwas

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Beck

models are mounted on an electronic balance in the wind tunnel and themeasured drag force for each of the designs is compared against a “poor” rocket design withvirtually no streamlining, and against designs from the other competing design groups. Thispaper describes the authors’ experience with high school students involved in this hands-ondesign/build/test activity, as a means of introducing them to the principles of aerodynamicstreamlining, along with a presentation of some of the typical quantitative results.I. IntroductionThe emphasis on design, as an integral part of Engineering Education, has been on the increasefor more than a decade. In particular, considerable importance has been placed on theintegration of design, and design

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Grace Gius, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo; Ahmed Osman; Maggie Rose Nevrly, Cal Poly SLO; Benjamin David Lutz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Diversity

, DiPietro, Lovett, & Norman, 2010). The focus of this work-in-progress is tobetter understand how these factors manifest in the micro-level interactions that take place withinan engineering curriculum as part of an engineering design process. In this case, we areinterested in how gender composition might affect the ways engineering teams engage in andtalk during brainstorming activities.To do so, we developed an exploratory, mixed-methods study to examine potential factors thatmight influence ideation effectiveness for engineering teams. The present work is focused on ourqualitative codebook development related to the ways power manifests in conversation duringbrainstorming.Engineering Design Processes and Conceptual DesignThe engineering

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert (Bob) M. Anderson

with the factualbackground data of this experience, followed by some of the several issues that an early adoptermuch consider, some of the important lessons I learned, some of the emotions that I and mystudents experienced, and finally a couple of concluding comments. II. Factual BackgroundAll this experience is with EE201, Electric Circuits, a course that is required for students in theelectrical engineering and in the computer engineering curriculums at Iowa State University(ISU). This course has the very traditional content of a first course in electric circuits. Thetextbook is Electric Circuits, Fifth Edition, by James W. Nilsson and Susan A. Riedel, AddisonWesley, 1996. (I am told that this textbook

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce P. Johnson

, Northern Arizona State University and Montana StateUniversity. Based on our participation in spring, 1998, we have identified severaladvantages and some disadvantages that arise from participation in the consortium andthese will be the topic of this paper. More specifically, the paper discusses theexperiences associated with importing a videotaped course from another university for acourse the instructor typically taught. The justification was to provide a course-loadreduction so that the instructor could team-teach a new course in the department.IntroductionFor the spring, 1998 semester, the author was scheduled to teach two classes in thedepartment. The first was a senior-graduate elective in Integrated Circuit Engineeringand the second was a

Conference Session

Web-Based & Distance Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

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

learning environment: Operating lab-volt electro-mechanical system using web-based tools from national instruments” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, p 5599-5608.12. Goolsby, L.K. “Converting a traditional lecture/lab programming course to an online course “ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 2003, p 5371-5392.BiographiesYOLANDA GURAN-POSTLETHWAITE is a Professor Emeritus of Electronics at Oregon Institute ofTechnology. She is the program director of the Electronics Engineering Technology program for OITcampus in Portland, Oregon. Professional interests focus on analog integrated circuit design andengineering education improvement techniques. She is registered as a professional engineer in the state ofOregon.DAVID N. POCOCK is an

Conference Session

Metrology Laboratories

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Georgia Harris, National Institute of Standards & Technology; Christopher Grachanen, Hewlett Packard Company

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

content andcourses integrated into curricula that are already full. Attendance at the ICES conferencereinforced the need for us to work with other organizations to gain synergy of our efforts.Educational Measurement Kits. Hands-on experiments are a key activity that can be used in theclassroom to generate interest among students about measurements (and other STEM topics).The Outreach committee has been researching and reviewing possible measurement kits forNCSLI to purchase and share on a regional basis with our Outreach Ambassadors. An effectiveprogram of providing measurement-related activities and kits is already in place in the UnitedKingdom, sponsored by the National Physical Laboratory.Current Status and Insights: A review of possible kits

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Approaches to Encouraging Student Engagement

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Panagiotis Apostolellis, University of Virginia; Sitong Wang, University of Cincinnati

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Educational Research and Methods

excited about the UX design processand develop a deeper understanding about user-centered design and its value in softwaredevelopment. Considering the significance of appreciating the value of learning tasks inincreasing motivation and consequently engagement in learning [30], we emphasizeadditional life-long skills like communication, collaboration, and creative thinking. Ourultimate learning goal is to create the type of significant learning [35] that produces creativeproblem solvers that can think in integrative ways for solving real-world challenges, workingeffectively in teams and applying HCI skills in a variety of contexts. An array of differentactive learning tasks, inside and outside of classroom, were designed to achieve the

Conference Session

Introduction to Materials Courses

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Surendra Gupta, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Materials

slides on experimental principles and theory, (c) step-by-stepinstructions to use the equipment, (d) sample data and analysis, (e) a set of multiple-choicequestions, and (f) a student survey. At the beginning of each term, these instructional materialsare integrated into MyCourses, the online course management system developed by Desire 2Learn (www.desire2learn.com) for our institution. Thus, all lab instructors and students nowhave access to and use the same instructional materials.Assessment Rubrics and Design of Instructional MaterialsFor BSME curriculum to meet or exceed the accreditation criteria of the Accreditation Board ofEngineering and Technology (ABET), our department has developed a set of nine mechanicalengineering program outcomes

Conference Session

Launching Successful Academic Careers

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University

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New Engineering Educators

Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2010, American Society for Engineering Educationkey change needs to occur that allows you to view the proposal writing process as an iterativegame which in most cases yields stronger, better conceived, more scientifically solid researchideas. The whole process is a fun challenge that you sometimes win and when you lose, there isso much to learn from it – and after all, isn’t continual learning one of the attributes that drew usinto academia?Now, why do I feel qualified to write this paper 6 ½ years later? To be honest, I still battle thatimposter syndrome17. However, I earned tenure / promotion to Associate

Conference Session

Manufacturing Lab Experience

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hakan Gurocak

high level ofmanufacturing automation and design of smart products.Our Manufacturing Engineering curriculum contains a control systems course, ME375“Manufacturing Control Systems,” with a weekly laboratory component. We have been offeringthis course in a traditional way where students are required to attend lab sessions to conductexperiments with hardware. However, given the multi-campus university setting, we sharecourses with other campuses of the university. Since mid 1980s the university has beenoperating an interactive TV system called WHETS. This system links all campuses andfacilitates real time, two-way audio/video interactivity among classrooms across campuses. It isextensively used for distance delivery of lecture format courses

Conference Session

Architectural Division Technical Session 2

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charlie Setterfield, Sinclair Community College; Chad R. Bridgman, Sinclair Community College

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Diversity

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Architectural

Examiner, Setterfield balanced building code requirements with owner and contractor concerns. Setterfield teaches Autodesk Revit and its integration into analysis software, including Navisworks. Setterfield spearheaded a six-discipline IPD capstone resulting in student work that has been featured at various venues, including AU, the American Society for Engineering Educators and the League for Innovation in the Community College.Chad R. Bridgman, Sinclair Community College Chad currently serves as an Internship Coordinator for the Science, Mathematics, & Engineering Division at Sinclair Community College. Prior to managing the internship program he served as Aca- demic/Career Coach for Sinclair on a Department

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2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

John T. Tester

creating restricted access for each team member’s allocatedfile system ‘by hand’ or through scripts run on the network server; the file server is run andmaintained independently from WebCT Vista. Again, a future goal is to integrate a group-orientedfilesystem capability in WebCT Vista, thus eliminating the need for managing separate networksystems for a single course.ConclusionsPresented was an overview of the management of a large-enrollment, robotics-oriented course at thesophomore level in engineering. Mindstorm kits and accessories are the basic kits used by thestudent teams, and nearly all informational materials are presented online through web-basedsystems. The management of these kits, the classroom facilities, and the web-based systems

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Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. Vinarcik P.E., University of Detroit Mercy

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Systems Engineering

course of the exercise, thestudents matured the model, increasing its detail and complexity through organic growth. Thefinal outcome was a respectable fraction of the size of large, professionally executed efforts(such as the 30 Meter Telescope model still under development).The significant advantages in clarity, consistency, and overall integrity of a model-drivensystems engineering effort will be highlighted; an emphasis will be placed on derived workproducts (tables, matrices, and derived properties) and their ability to provide relevant content tostakeholders.The MS in Product Development (MPD) Program at the University of Detroit MercyThe MPD Program at the University of Detroit Mercy began in the late 1990s (the seventeenthcohort completed

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Lessons for New Engineering Educators

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

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New Engineering Educators

forth “linguistic intelligence,musical intelligence, logical-mathematical intelligence, spatial intelligence, and bodily-kinesthetic intelligence”3 to name a few. Gardener views intelligence as an individual’s abilityto solve problems or create products that are valued by society. The implication for teachingand learning is that instructors need to vary the inputs and have a repertoire of strategies forfacilitating learning. The more ways we find to process material, the stronger learningbecomes. We need to recognize there’s no “one best way.”Learning is enhanced in an enriched environment. The physical environment of the classroomis certainly important (aesthetics, climate, etc.), but so too is the learning environment that wecreate to get

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Zdzislaw Kremens

analysis.II.4. Co-op programs for studentsCooperative Education is an academic program that integrates classroom study with career-related work experiences. Co-op work experiences are paid, full-time, six-month positionsrelated to academic and career interests. Co-op is an optional and, in most cases, non-creditprogram. The CCSU program, the largest in Connecticut and one of the largest in New England,combines five months of on-campus study with six months of paid Co-op employment. Ourstudents gain the opportunity to apply textbook learning to on-the-job training. Throughparticipation in the Co-op program, students can graduate with up to two years of career-relatedwork experience and, possibly, with a job offer. Many Co-op students are offered

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerald Vogel; Rebecca Sidler Kellogg

required to integrate design throughout the entire curriculum. Design cannotbe made to fit neatly in a one-semester course at the end of an undergraduate education.There are also those that believe that design processes are particular to various industries andtherefore it would be overstepping boundaries to presume to teach such processes at theacademic level. While this may be true that at lower levels of abstraction where specificknowledge and details are important, at higher levels of abstraction it can be shown that the basicprocesses are quite similar across disciplines and domains.Others claim that engineering design processes are ad hoc and rely on creativity and experienceand thus should be addressed later during the student’s professional

Conference Session

Automation, Instrumentation, and Computer Simulations

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas E. McDermott, University of Pittsburgh; Renee M. Clark, University of Pittsburgh

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

working for Delphi. She completed her postdoctoral studies in engineering education at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Clark has published articles in the Journal of Engineering Education, Advances in Engineering Education, and Risk Analysis. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Improving a Flipped Electromechanical Energy Conversion CourseOur University’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department has offered an electivecourse in Electric Machinery for decades. With increasing focus on renewable energy and powerelectronics in the curriculum, we felt the need to modernize this course so that it provides a betterlearning experience and appeals to more students. Over a period of two

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Materials

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamad Dyab, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Payam Matin, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Yuanwei Jin, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

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Mechanical Engineering

23.1007.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Providing Learning Opportunities by Designing a Split Hopkinson Pressure BarSenior students are always challenged to apply their engineering knowledge and research skillsgained from an engineering curriculum toward design and implementation of challenging seniordesign projects. Split Hopkinson pressure bar is an apparatus that is used to study materialsbehavior under high speed deformation, where strain rate is very high. Hopkinson bars areusually custom made based on the needs of customers, who are mostly researchers in universitiesor research labs. In this work, the authors provided learning opportunities for

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Winthrop J. Aldrich; M. Catharine Hudspeth

generally reflectsthe enrollments of the campus: 70% engineering/computer science and 9% science/mathematics,with the remaining 21% comprised of community college students with an expressed interest ina technical field. Thus, the program is seen as a way to inculcate the cultures of collaborationand of technical excellence to increase the overall retention, academic performance, andgraduation of historically under-represented students in SEM majors. Because theoverwhelming majority of students attending Cal Poly Pomona commute, the campus haschosen to invest in an active and directed residential program for Quest in order to submerge thestudents in a collaborative, academic community.The Curriculum and Program Impact Upon Faculty The primary goal

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Engineering Libraries Division Technical Session 3: Technology

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul McMonigle, Pennsylvania State University

. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Engaging Engineering Students with Mobile Learning TechnologiesAbstractNew theories of education matched with new technologies have been rapidly transforming theway instructors teach and students learn. This paper documents one model an engineeringlibrarian has created to incorporate the ideas expressed in "connected learning pedagogy" and thetheory of constructivism (active, collaborative learning with the instructor as a guide andfacilitator) into instructional "one-shot" sessions designed to teach information literacy skills tocollege students at various stages of their careers. The sessions utilize electronic devices

Conference Session

High School Students Thinking and Performance

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kurt Henry Becker, Utah State University; Nathan Mentzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kyungsuk Park, Utah State University; Shaobo Huang, Utah State University - Engineering Education

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, Bulgaria, China, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, and Thailand. He has numerous publications in engineering and technology education.Prof. Nathan Mentzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette Nathan Mentzer is an Assistant Professor in the College of Technology with a joint appointment in the College of Education at Purdue University. Mentzer was a former middle and high school technology educator in Montana prior to pursuing a doctoral degree. He was a National Center for Engineering and Technology Education (NCETE) Fellow at Utah State University while pursuing a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction. After graduation, he completed a one year appointment with the center as a postdoctoral researcher.Dr. Kyungsuk Park, Utah

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Don E. Malzahn, Wichita State University; Lawrence E. Whitman, Wichita State University; Zulma Toro-Ramos, Wichita State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

assessments, teams met to develop a consensus evaluation of the workshop. Thisprovided an opportunity for the team to discuss their individual perspectives and develop aclearer understanding of the assessment dimensions. The average of all team’s consensusassessments determined the grade receive by the workshop presenters.The two exams in the course covered only material presented in the workshops (20% of semestergrade). Students took learning the workshop material seriously and performed well on the exams. Plan for Self-MasteryStudents developed their personal plan for developed from the compilation and integration ofwritings throughout the course. Each of these writings had been commented on and some sharedwith teammates. There were numerous

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division Technical Session - Interdisciplinary Capstone Projects, Pandemic Adapted Mechatronics Lab, Call for Change

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brett Rocha, United States Military Academy; Aaron Hill, United States Military Academy; Nathan Hedgecock; Skylar Franz, United States Military Academy; Mark Sallot, United States Military Academy; Morgan Ernst, United States Military Academy

Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) more effectively.More specifically the integrated team more effectively address ABET student outcome (5) “anability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create acollaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives” and (6)“an ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze, and interpret data, anduse engineering judgment to draw conclusions [1].” This paper addresses the benefits ofinterdisciplinary teams as evidenced by the United States Military Academy Steel Bridge Teamboth in terms of team performance and satisfaction of ABET student outcomes.THEORYThe driving factors which are required for a

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Keith M. Gardiner

welcomedstudents in 1984 and is now available on-line, and an Integrated Product DevelopmentProgram with both graduate and undergraduate sections.12,13Collaborative working in teams was a feature of the IBM Manufacturing TechnologyInstitute that was established in Manhattan in 1981 to revitalize the old-style IBMmanufacturing workforce.12 During the next decade teamwork started to become a featureof the K-12 curriculum and several competitions such as FIRST (For Inspiration andRecognition of Science and Technology) for 9-12 grades in 1992, and a Future CityProgram for 6-8 grades in 1993 were inspired.14 The imaginative and innovative skills thatare unleashed in contests of these types should not be suffocated (and destroyed) byexcessively prescriptive

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine; Carl Nelson Blue, University of Southern Maine

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

bodily-kinesthetic intelligence”3 to name a few. Gardener views intelligence as an individual’s abilityto solve problems or create products that are valued by society. The implication for teaching andlearning is that instructors need to vary the inputs and have a repertoire of strategies forfacilitating learning. The more ways we find to process material, the stronger learning becomes.We need to recognize there’s no “one best way.”Learning is enhanced in an enriched environment. The physical environment of the classroom iscertainly important (aesthetics, climate, etc.), but so too is the learning environment that wecreate to get students to use their minds well. An enriched learning environment is a settingwhere students are actively engaged in

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Mike Robinson; M. Sami Fadali; Ken McNichols

understand atomic structure. An example that may beused in a middle school physical science class is described in detail. In middle school physicalscience class, students may play a game that involves the entire class to demonstrate theirunderstanding of electrons, protons and neutrons in atomic models. The teacher must give priorknowledge of atomic structure and emphasize shortcomings of the model before the game beginssince the game emphasizes two-dimensional structures, electrons that are stationary in definedorbitals and atomic mass that is integral. The teacher uses squares of construction paper torepresent the three atomic particles. The symbol, name, atomic number and atomic mass areplaced on the squares of construction paper and posted on

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Pioneering Courses

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Tull, Lafayette College; Sharon Jones, Lafayette College

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Engineering and Public Policy

program are either interested in engineering management careers, or areusing the degree as a foundation for careers other than engineering. Because of the diversestudent interests, the course is designed to allow the students to understand the pervasive role ofgovernment in the technical arena, and the need to use/manage technology within that context.The emphasis of the course material is on the federal level, however international, state, andlocal differences are included. This paper presents the curriculum for EP251 and discussesinstructor observations about how well the course works for sophomore engineering students.The instructor is interested in feedback about the need for such a curriculum.IntroductionLafayette College offers a sophomore

Conference Session

Meeting ABET Requirements

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Bannerot, University of Houston

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

studentsurveys (an indirect measure) to determine the students’ opinions on their preparation for thecourse (Were prerequisites adequate?), their understanding of the material associated with thelearning objectives of the course, and their increased abilities in program outcomes which arespecifically addressed in the course. Example survey instruments and example compiled resultsare displayed and discussed. It is proposed that the results from such course level surveys can beuseful input to a comprehensive program assessment.IntroductionThe whole may be or may not be greater than the sum of its parts. However, when the whole isfound lacking, it may be difficult to identify the missing or faulty parts. So it may be with theassessment process associated