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Mohamed I. Dessouky; Murali Krishnamurthi

teach to accommodate different learning styles of students in their courses. The four teaching styles have been accommodated in the course by the careful design of courseactivities, such as group discussions, videos, computer demonstrations, laboratory visits, guest speakers, andconceptual design projects. These activities are intended to supplement the traditional professor-dominatedteaching style which does not match the learning style of all students.5. COURSE ASSESSMENT One of the essential components of any good course design is its assessment mechanism, This includesdesigning proper assessment procedures and analyzing and interpreting the results appropriately. For the coursediscussed in this poster session, four different

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Raj Mutharasan; Alan Lawley

Laboratory,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 82, No. 4, p. 223, 1993. — . 45. D.H. Thomas and A. Lawley, “Drexel’s E Project: An Enhanced Educational Experience,” JOM, Vol. 43, No. 3, p. 32, 1991.6. E. Fromm, Gateway Coalition Conference, Gateway Engineering Education Coalition, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, October 1993.7. R. Mutharasan,. and A. Lawley, “Materials Processing: Science and Practice”, ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, p. 1044, (1995).AcknowledgmentThis project was supported in part by the Combined Research and Curriculum Development Program of NSF,Grant No. EEC-9315508.RAJ MUTHARASANRaj Mutharasan, the Fletcher Professor of Chemical Engineering at Drexel University

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Larry D. Goss

project for an antique farm windmill is described. Narrative is devoted to the detailsof reconstructing nineteenth century technology with twentieth century hardware and processes. Specialemphasis is placed on reverse engineering to determine the design of missing features and parts through use of acomputer-aided design application program.Keywords: restoration, reverse engineering, computer-aided design, history of technology.Introduction In August, 1993, I purchased the remains of a Flint & Walling windmill with the intention of restoringand erecting it on a suburban lot. The mill was originally equipped with a 10-foot wooden wheel and woodenrudder which had almost completely disappeared through weathering and neglect. Many of the

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John Krupczak

technology. The class was envisioned as a broad-basedsurvey course of technology in the same sense of art, history, or music survey courses. The course was toprovide students with an understanding of major technologies and related scientific concepts at levelappropriate to their projected career path. Considering the evolving nature of technology, one other objectivewas to establish the student’s ability to find and understand scientific and technological information withoutoutside assistance. Other objectives were an emphasis on hands-on experience. Some experience should be gained in useof tools, building things, and making things work. As much as possible, students should have exposure to theworkings of actual technological devices of

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1996 Annual Conference

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Mario G. Beruvides

University funded projects). This attimes does convert some individuals who are good teachers into poor ones due to the lack of time dedicated to theclassroom. A colleague once described a conversation he had with his department head at the time he was new tothe field. The older professor said to him, that as long as he showed up to class and didn’t kill any of the studentshe would be OK, so long as the publications and money were signiilcant. This of course is an exaggeration, butour work environments as professors is not too far off this mark. The question still stands, should we emphasize research to such a degree? As we saw in the quote by’Deming earlier, there may be some value to research in enhancing an individual’s abilities to become

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1996 Annual Conference

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Craig Gunn

writer’stechnical knowledge and also ability to convey that knowledge needed to be judged together, not as twoseparate entities. The decision was made to give graduate students in the Department of MechanicalEngineering the responsibility for doing the combined evaluation. Some of the 16 mechanical engineering Page 1.407.2 {bx~j 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.JRYRL:Tgraduate teaching assistants involved in the project had already been evaluating undergraduate writing. Theinitial comments made by these teaching assistants gave a good indication of how the project

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Robert Madar; David L. Huggins

costsavings down the road. They also view the purchases as essential to being current state-of-- art, and be able tocapture the projected markets that will develop. As the industrial/business base of our country changes from large corporate giants to the small andmedium size upscale organizations, delivery of educational packages will become focused to those universitiesable to have prepared for these changes. Continuing education components of most universities see this asessential for their ability to deliver programs to a few people, at a variety of locations economically. Residentinstruction will be close behind, particularly at those universities/colleges dispersed around regional or statewidelocations. Penn State is a university that

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1996 Annual Conference

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Constantine A. Ciesielski

or management functions by requiring courses in planning, scheduling,estimating, codes, contracts, and other basic construction sciences to prepare graduates for contributory rolesin the industry. However, studies have shown that there are skills needed by the industry not covered bythese basic courses. Communications skills are among these. Communications in construction management takes on various forms. One form of communications,meetings, plays a key role in getting work done. For a construction projec~ meetings begin early on in theconceptualization, feasibility, and design phases of a project. They continue through construction forprogress reporting, coordination and resolution of special issues. Even after construction is over

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1996 Annual Conference

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Karl F. Meyer; Stephen J. Ressler; Thomas Lenox

Session 1675 A Teaching Methodology that Works! Organizing a Class Stephen J. Ressler, Karl F. Meyer, Thomas A. Lenox United States Military AcademyIntroduction This is the first in a series of papers which describe a structured methodology for planning and conductingengineering classes. These papers are being developed in conjunction with a National Science Foundation-sponsored project entitled “Teaching Teachers to Teach Engineering”, establishing an annual

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Dennis Krumwiede; Chwen Sheu; Jerome P. Lavelle

cultures indicative of excessive hierarchy, rigidity, and a lack oftrust between management and labor are incongruent with TQM. Therefore, companies possessing this climatemust change in order for TQM to be successfully implemented. They also stated that such changes takesubstantial time (about 6 years). Management at the top levels of an organization are responsible for implementation of TQM. If topmanagement refi,wes to get involved and support the new philosophy, it will most likely fail. Top managementmust support this philosophy both monetarily and morally or TQM will probably not survive. 1 Here-in we findthe source of energy for all company-wide projects in industry (be they TQM implementation or anything else),management leadership

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T.C. Young; S.E. Powers; Norbert L. Ackermann; Anthony G. Collins

and Environmental Engineering, ClarksonUniversity, where he has been a faculty member since completing his Ph.D. at Michigan State University in1977. His teaching and research interests are in environmental engineering and address topics related to thetransport and fate of pollutants in aquatic systems.SUSAN E. POWERS received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering (1983) and M.S. in Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering (1985) from Clarkson University. After two years as a project engineer with Engineering Sciencein Syracuse, NY, she completed the Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering (1992) at the University ofMichigan. In 1992, Dr. Powers became an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering atClarkson University.ANTHONY G. COLLINS is

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Fred M. Young

education funding. Therefore, theinvestments must be made in technology that has a direct educational pay off with very little room for failure.The ideal low risk path would involve an evolution of traditional instructional methodology into the emerginghigher education environment of greater teaching obligations combined with students who may be time and/orlocation constrained. Mathcad appeared to offer some assistance along this evolutionary path at least for quantitativeengineering courses. A project of using Mathcad to prepare and distribute lecture notes for a senior/first levelgraduate course in compressible flow was initiated. Since the lecture notes existed in electronic form, the nextlogical step of using other software packages to

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William Davis; Joseph A. Heim

will be needed to extract data from hardwareused in the manufacturing system. Extracting information from a Programmable Logic Controller PLC or other Page 1.517.4 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedingsequipment requires coping with communication protocols used by the manufacturer of the product. Includingthis functionality is the ultimate goal; however, interfaces with this type of equipment will vary depending on thesituation.Curriculum The objective of this project is to create a situation that illustrates many of the techniques and processes thatgo on behind the scenes when

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Karl F. Meyer; Stephen J. Ressler; Thomas Lenox

the structure. Several differentbracing systems can be installed. These include X, K, and knee bracing (creating an eccentrically bracedframe, or EBF), as well as pieces of Styrofoam that simulate concrete shear walls. The different bracing typesare easily interchangeable. Thus, in class, the instructor can use the models to demonstrate how each systemachieves its lateral stability, and to illustrate the relative effectiveness of each system in controlling lateraldrift.K’NEX Building Set Often we have felt the need to model a particular structure, or perhaps just a portion of a structure, toillustrate a teaching point or to explain an upcoming design project. We have found an ideal tool for thispurpose--the K’NEX Building Set (Figure 9

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Aerospace Workspace: Current and Future 1

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ramesh Agarwal, Washington University

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Aerospace

14.754.6In the Introductory course on Aerospace Engineering, the issues of environmentalchallenges such as noise and emissions will be introduced in the context of current statusand projected increase in noise and emissions in next twenty five years due to three foldincrease in air travel (and as a result two fold increase in flying aircraft). If no newtechnologies are introduced and status-quo is allowed to remain, the aircraft emissionswill contribute about 17-20% to total equivalent CO2 emissions from all sourcesworldwide, which will not be acceptable because of worldwide efforts to reducegreenhouse gas (GHG) emissions due to their adverse impact on climate.We are also planning to introduce other green aviation technologies mentioned in

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Assessment and Continuous Improvement in Engineering Technology: Part I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xian Zhao, Inner Mongolia University of Technology; Joy Colwell, Purdue University, Calumet; Carl Jenks, Purdue University, Calumet

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Engineering Technology

-four courses required for the American B.S.degree are related to the technical aspects of the degree. A few of the Chinese courses deal withinternship or cooperative education at the end of the fourth year, whereas the American approachin a technology program is more likely to include a “Senior Project.” There is also militarytraining elective in the upper level curriculum of the Chinese curriculum, whereas the Americancurriculum has no mention of this line of training at all. Military training in China generallyconsists of a one week mandatory session, with the possibility of later taking an elective inmilitary training. Generally, those who go to college do not go into the military, and vice versa.The overall impression is that elective

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Our Future in Manufacturing: STEM Outreach

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Tom Brady, Purdue University, North Central

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Manufacturing

].As technology and computers have become pervasive in manufacturing, so too has the need formanufacturing employees to be technically proficient. Many high tech firms encourage andstrongly suggest that floor-level manufacturing employees have some type of college or technicalschool training.Manufacturing is the largest sector of the economy in the state of Indiana with approximatelytwenty one percent of the workforce employed in it. Major products manufactured in the stateinclude automobiles, trucks, engines, caskets, furniture, orthopedic implants, air compressors,bearings, steel, and pharmaceuticals.As a result of dire projections of manufacturing employee shortages, the Center for WorkforceInnovations(CWI), an agency of the Indiana state

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Assessment and Evaluation of Graphics Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Petros Katsioloudis, Old Dominion University

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Engineering Design Graphics

. Page 14.434.3In May 2002, the Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education in NorthCarolina State University’s College of Education received as a three-year grant (VisTE) from theNational Science Foundation to develop instructional units that utilize scientific and technicalvisualization. VisTE promotes technological literacy by attempting to link engineering,mathematics, science and technology concepts and promote technological literacy through theuse of scientific and technical visualization tools and techniques (Ernst & Clark, 6). The TECHknow Project was a National Science Foundation funded project that produced 20 instructionalunits based on technology problems issued by the Technology Student Association (TSA

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Contemporary Practices in Engineering Management Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Raymond Price, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Rose Mary Cordova-Wentling, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Engineering Management

. Understanding themselves andothers and being able to use that understanding to get better results in their interactions and in theirengineering projects is the ultimate objective. While there is certainly an intellectual and theoretical sideof the course, there is also a side of the course that demands practice, use, and skill acquisition. For manyengineering students the conceptual side is fairly straightforward, but the practice and skill building arequite foreign and somewhat daunting.While the topics of the course are described in Figure 2, the overall progression of the course follows askill development model outlined in Figure 3. The initial emphasis of the course on values results in thecreation of a personal mission statement that attempts to

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Engineering Education in Africa, Asia and the Mid-East Region

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Nyarsuk, University of Florida; Fazil Najafi, University of Florida; Nick Safai, Salt Lake City College

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International

Soil Mechanics III 3 Comp App of Civil Engg 1 Semester 9 General CE Elective*: Project All Track Courses 15 Construction Engineering 3 Irrigation & Drainage 3 Design of Structures 4 Foundation Engineering 3 Elective Course I 3

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Innovative and Computer-Assisted Lab Studies

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rafic Bachnak, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi; Mike Englert, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

in May 2005. He worked on the ROV boat project from Spring 2004 to spring 2005. Page 11.1452.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Wireless Loggers for Real-Time Data Acquisition and Analysis Rafic Bachnak and Mike Englert Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Corpus Christi, TX 78412AbstractData acquisition is a very important aspect in the engineering world of today. There isconstantly a need for new data to be logged and analyzed. This paper describes the use ofwireless data loggers in an application where data is transferred

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Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dan Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College

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Two Year College Division

for the Texas Alliance for Minority Participation program from 1993 to 2002, and is currently the Department Chairperson for Physics, Engineering, & Architecture. He has been involved in numerous initiatives to integrate the findings of physics and engineering education research with education practice. Page 11.1276.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 THE EDGE SUMMER PROGRAM IN ITS THIRD YEARThis paper presents the results of the third cycle of the EDGE (Early Development of GeneralEngineering) Summer Bridge Program that was initiated in 20031. This project was partiallyfunded by

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Software and e-learning in the ME curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Benson Tongue, University of California-Berkeley; Eric Lew, University of California-Berkeley

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Mechanical Engineering

2006-172: A WEB ENABLED STUDY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGBenson Tongue, University of California-Berkeley Benson Tongue is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his MS from Stanford University and his BSE, MA, and PhD from Princeton University. He taught from 1983-1988 at the Georgia Institute of Technology and has been at Berkeley since 1988.Eric Lew, University of California-Berkeley Eric Lew is an undergraduate student, majoring in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. His projected graduation date is May 2007

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Visualization

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nathan Hartman, Purdue University; Patrick Connolly, Purdue University; Jeffrey Gilger, Purdue University; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University

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Engineering Design Graphics

Research in the Purdue University College of Education. As Associate Dean he works to build research programs, infrastructure and faculty development mechanisms, and consults or advises on a large number of research projects from very diverse content areas. Gilger’s background includes an MS and certification in Clinical Child/School Psychology, and he holds an MA and PhD in Developmental Psychology with a specialty in Behavioral Genetics. Gilger’s scholarship is multidisciplinary spanning the clinical, educational and neuroscience disciplines. His teaching and research has tended to focus on normal and abnormal neuropsychological development, genetics, and the etiology of

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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

future. Important among these is theNational Academy of Engineering, which has recently completed its Engineer of 2020 project.The report on Phase I of the project was discussed by Russell et al. last year and will not befurther reviewed here.3 While Phase I focused on visions of the problems that engineers wouldbe asked to solve in 2020, Phase II of the study considered the implications of these futureconditions for engineering education. The Phase II report, published in 2005, contained 14recommendations on the education of engineers.4 The first two are very closely related toASCE’s PS 465 initiative and are quoted below: 1. The baccalaureate degree should be recognized as the “pre-engineering” degree or bachelor of arts in

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Standards Based Approaches to K -12 Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Levelle Burr-Alexander, New Jersey Institute of Technology; John Carpinelli, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Ronald Rockland, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Howard Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

2006-309: BRINGING ENGINEERING INTO K-12 SCHOOLS: A PROBLEMLOOKING FOR SOLUTIONS?Howard Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology HOWARD KIMMEL is Professor of Chemical Engineering and Executive Director of the Center for Pre-College Programs at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He has spent the past twenty-five years designing and implementing professional development programs and curricula for K-12 teachers in science and technology. At the college level, he collaborates on projects exploring teaching methodologies and assessment strategies in first year college courses in the sciences, engineering, and computer science.John Carpinelli, New Jersey Institute of Technology DR. JOHN

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Faculty Reward System Reform Duplicate Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dennis Depew, Purdue University; Niaz Latif, Purdue University; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina; Stephen Tricamo, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Duane Dunlap, Western Carolina University; Albert McHenry, Arizona State University; Harvey Palmer, Rochester Institute of Technology; Eugene DeLoatch, Morgan State University; Ronald Bennett, University of St. Thomas; Mohammad Noori, California State Polytechnic University; Jay Snellenberger, Rolls-Royce; Samuel Truesdale, Rolls-Royce

innovation at project level,program level, and policy level of engineering leadership responsibility in the practicingprofession.As a consequence, the National Collaborative Task Force will accelerate its leadership efforts asa major action item to begin to define professional scholarship, to build on work alreadypioneered at universities,7,8 to share best practice, and promote new professionally oriented unitcriteria for engineering and technology faculty across the United States in order to advanceprofessional engineering education in the national interest.5. Conclusions ─A Work in Progress for Planned ReformWhereas the current faculty reward system at universities largely reflects the value system andmission of universities for scientific

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Curriculum Development & Assessment in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adrian Miron, University of Cincinnati; Eugene Rutz, University of Cincinnati; Pradosh Ray, Tuskegee University

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Nuclear and Radiological

Analysis andEnvironmental Restoration. The first course focuses on elements of radiological engineering,pathway analysis, dose assessment, fuel cycle, and waste management. It is specificallydeveloped to set up the basis and convey the knowledge required for the second course.Juniors/seniors from biology, chemistry, environmental science, physics and all engineering Page 11.382.3disciplines are eligible to take this course. This course was developed in Fall 2005 semester andoffered at TU as a 3-credit hour elective course during the Spring 2006 semester.Alabama A&M University (AL A&M) is also participating in this project. Some of this

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alan Fisher, MVCS Science Advisor

also reassured that abuse of the internet would notoccur by young students getting into the wrong areas on the net).Several MVCS science club teams were region winners receiving trips to WashingtonDC, winning a total of over $50,000 in savings bonds and were among the top schools inthe country for the 1st two years of the competition. The boys 7th grade team designed a Page 11.804.5laser dust detector that could help save motorist lives in dust storms of the southwest andour 6th grade girls showed how pets could help lower heart rate and blood pressurereducing the risk of heart disease for people. Many other projects received recognition.Since the

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barbara Christe, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

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Engineering Technology

for issues d. an ability to apply creativity in the design ofidentified in health care technology as systems, components or processes appropriatedemonstrated in a senior project. to program objectives5. Function as a member of a 2-4 person team e. an ability to function effectively on teamsto complete a task in a timely manner.Demonstrate ability to organize work done byteam members.6. Identify, analyze and integrate the technical f. an ability to identify, analyze and solveequipment requirements with the needs of technical problemsmedical staff and patients as required in thedegree program’s courses.7. Write technical reports; present data and g. an ability to communicate