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WIED Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anna M. Zajicek, University of Arkansas; Shauna A. Morimoto, University of Arkansas; Aparna S. Terdalkar, University of Arkansas; Valerie H. Hunt, University of Arkansas; Joseph J. Rencis, University of Arkansas; Rodica Lisnic, University of Arkansas

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Women in Engineering

AC 2011-1486: RECRUITMENT STRATEGIES FOR GENDER EQUITY:LESSONS FROM COHORT 1 AND COHORT 2 ADVANCE INSTITUTIONSAnna M. Zajicek, University of Arkansas Anna M. Zajicek is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Arkansas. Her scholarship has been devoted to the intersectional nature of social inequalities, discourse, and social change. She has been involved in interdisciplinary research projects examining successful strategies to institutionalize programs and policies aimed at the advancement of historically underrepresented groups in STEM disciplines. Her current publications focus on institutional transfomation, women in STEM disciplines, and the integration of an intersectional perspective in social science

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xuemin Chen, Texas Southern University; Lawrence O Kehinde P.E., Texas Southern University; Yuhong Zhang, Texas Southern University; Shahryar Darayan, Texas Southern University; David O. Olowokere, Texas Southern University; Daniel Osakue, Texas Southern University

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NSF Grantees

Civil Engineering Technology Page 22.1654.2(CIVT). Over 200 students are currently enrolled in the department. The student population iscomprised of about 76% African-Americans, and about 21% Hispanics. Female studentsconstitute 31% of the overall student population in the department.In order to strengthen the retention of recruited students, and in order to enhance the quality ofour instructional effort, we successfully secured the NSF HBCU-UP Targeted Infusion Grant.This grant has facilitated the conduct of a proposed project to be entitled “Development ofVirtual and Remote Laboratory for Engineering Technology Undergraduate Students”. A

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Karen M. Bursic, University of Pittsburgh; Natasa S. Vidic, University of Pittsburgh; Nora Siewiorek, University of Pittsburgh

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Corporation. She teaches undergraduate courses in engineering economics, engineering management, and probability and statistics in industrial engineering as well as engineering computing in the freshman engineering program. Bursic has done research and published work in the areas of engineering and project management and en- gineering education. She is a member of IIE and ASEE and is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Pennsylvania.Dr. Natasa S. Vidic, University of PittsburghMs. Nora Siewiorek, University of Pittsburgh Nora Siewiorek is a graduate student in the Administrative and Policy Studies Department in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh where she also received her M.S. in

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Futuristic Planning

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter J. Shull, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona

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Engineering Technology

students, alumni, facultyand industry representatives. To connect students to the hands-on nature of the EMET program,students in action—senior design projects, individual laboratories—are prominent. The peer-to-peer connection aids in information credibility.The EMET program coordinator meets with all sections of EDSGN 100—typically 10 in the falland 1 in the spring. The 40 minute presentation begins with a showing of the DVD. A brieflecture/question-answer follows that covers the two programs’ similarities and differences suchas  academic content,  types and range of jobs,  salaries,  job advancement,  hiring prospects or marketability,  companies that have hired our graduates, and

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Thinking About the Engineering Curriculum

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Mark H. Somerville, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; David E. Goldberg, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Kerri Ann Green, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Educational Research and Methods

identifying the strategic core, we discussed what topics and activities students couldchoose. The negotiable elements reinforce the strategic core, but give students autonomy topursue personal purposes and competencies. For example, students could choose to take thehour exams or they could choose to create design projects or education resources. Page 25.357.93.3.3 Create course structures To present the strategic core and the negotiable elements in a way that supportedstudents’ sense of competence, we required students to create three learning agreements thatwould replace the normal course syllabus. These learning agreements would be

Conference Session

Stops and Starts in the Development of Cooperative Education Programs

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ilka M. Balk, University of Kentucky

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

(UK), she is the Staff Adviser for the recently re-started Engineers Without Borders chapter, a group that plans, designs, and implements public service engineering projects, mostly in developing nations. In 2006, Balk also helped establish the German and Engineering program in the college, through which students can work, study, or conduct research in Germany. Under her direction, the College has established an exchange program with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. She is also leading a group of freshmen students on a five-week tour to Germany every summer. Before coming to Lexington in 2004, Balk served as a political consultant to candidates and campaigns in the Washington, D.C., area and for

Conference Session

Instrumentation Applications

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lash B. Mapa, Purdue University, Calumet; Avanish Reddy Vancha, Purdue University, Calumet

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Instrumentation

AC 2012-5108: DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS MODELING OF A HEATTUNNELDr. Lash B. Mapa, Purdue University, Calumet Lash Mapa is a professor in industrial/mechanical engineering technology at Purdue University, Calumet (PUC). His undergraduate and graduate degrees are in chemical engineering. He has several years’ ex- perience as a Chemical Engineer, Process, and Project Manager with European and U.S. manufacturing organizations. Currently, he is involved in the M.S. Technology program at PUC and has managed more than 30 Lean Six Sigma projects with manufacturing, service industry, and educational institutions.Mr. Avanish Reddy Vancha, Purdue University, Calumet Avanish Reddy Vancha is a master’s student in industrial

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CoED General Technical Session I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dirk Schaefer, Georgia Institute of Technology; J. Lane Thames, Georgia Institute of Technology; Robert Donald Wellman Jr., Georgia Institute of Technology; Dazhong Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sungshik Yim, Georgia Institute of Technology; David W. Rosen, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

categories: (1) service consumers, (2) serviceproducers, and (2) service managers. Service consumers utilize the services offered by theCBDM. Service consumers include, for example, students participating in distributed design andmanufacturing projects, researchers/engineers investigating a new design prototypes, orcompanies with geographically distributed manufacturing shops that need to manufacture thecomponents of a new product. Service producers provide human resources in term of intellectualcapital and labor that result in provisioning of useful services. For example, a laboratory assistantor production manager could be a service producer who installs a new set of devices andequipment into the CBDM and integrates these components to form a new

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ying Tang, Rowan University; Sachin Shetty, Tennessee State University; Xiufang Chen, Rowan University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

AC 2012-3380: EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS OF VIRTUAL REAL-ITY GAMES PROMOTING METACOGNITION AND PROBLEM-SOLVINGDr. Ying Tang, Rowan University Ying Tang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Northeastern University, P. R. China, in 1996 and 1998, respectively, and Ph.D degree from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J., in 2001. She is currently an Associate Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rowan University. Her research interests include virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and modeling and scheduling of computer- integrated systems. Tang has led or participated in several research and education projects funded by National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Transportation

Conference Session

Progress in Manufacturing Education III

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin L. Devine, Illinois State University; Corinne Zimmerman, Illinois State University

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Manufacturing

a research project in which we measured the effectiveness of avery low-cost robotics-related manufacturing outreach activity that was conducted withelementary school students. Existing educational robot kits such as LEGO® MINDSTORM®and Boe-Bot® were not used in this study in order to reduce costs and to allow the research teamto investigate an outreach activity that is easy replicate because it does not require programmingexpertise or special equipment to deliver.The principal investigators in this study were a faculty member from the Department ofPsychology with expertise in cognition and child development and a faculty member from theEngineering Technology program with expertise in manufacturing and industrial automation.Graduate and

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Innovatiive Methods to Teach Engineering to URMs

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jorge Crichigno, Northern New Mexico College; Ivan Lopez Hurtado, Northern New Mexico College

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Minorities in Engineering

. Note the projection for computer networks (network systems and datacommunications).The proposed model also targets retention, breaking up long-term goals (e.g., obtaining abachelor degree) into milestones, where a milestone can be the completion of the 4 courses in thearea of computer networks. By doing so, the model provides a safety net to students, who areable to acquire skills demanded by the job-market early during their studies. Moreover, theprogram helps in avoiding high dropout rates during early semesters, where institutions havehistorically experienced higher dropout rates because of lack in incentive for students and limitedhands-on experience. The model is also articulated with the 2008 ACM and IEEE ComputerSociety Guidelines for

Conference Session

Progress in Manufacturing Education I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack P. Eng...., Grand Valley State University; Val Hawks, Brigham Young University

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Manufacturing

AC 2012-3744: AN EDUCATORS VIEW OF TRENDS IN MANUFACTUR-ING EDUCATION: LEARNING FROM THE PAST TO PLAN FOR THEFUTUREDr. Hugh Jack P. Eng...., Grand Valley State University Dr. Hugh Jack is a Professor of Product Design and Manufacturing Engineering at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids Michigan. His specialties include automation, design projects, and internet application development.Dr. Val Hawks, Brigham Young University Val Hawks is the Director of the School of Technology at Brigham Young University and faculty mem- ber in the Manufacturing Engineering Technology program at BYU. He has a B.S. degree from Brigham Young University, a M.S. from Lehigh University, and a Ph.D. from Gonzaga University. He

Conference Session

Understanding Our Students I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald William Rhymer Ph.D., U.S. Air Force Academy; Richard T. Buckley Ph.D., U.S. Air Force Academy; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy

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Educational Research and Methods

-specific impact. For the control group,both instructors taught their class using traditional lecture (narration was not used nor directly referredto during class time.) Note that the key conceptual sections of the text were still referred to in thecontrol group classroom, where a main point of the author would be highlighted by the instructor andthe students would be asked to draw conclusions. However, per the aforementioned definition, thestudents did not participate in narration. The research sections used narration for 3-5 minutes at thebeginning of approximately half of the lessons, primarily during the first half of the semester (thecourse focused on project work toward the end of the semester).During narration, the randomly chosenstudent

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

xue zhang; Debbie Vogel, Sprint; Mahesh K. Banavar, Arizona State University; Shuang Hu; Andreas S. Spanias, Arizona State University; Photini Spanias; Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan, Arizona State University

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Computers in Education

university “ASU ID”) is customizable andincludes apps that we developed at our university from the ground up for STEM education. Wenote that previous attempts to create customized portals for universities have also been attemptedby mobile communications service providers to expand their student customer base on collegecampuses (example shown in Figure 1).The difference in our effort is that we include and customize not only the usualsports/entertainment and university service/access apps but we focus specifically on includingSTEM oriented apps (see Figure 2), some of which were created as part of an NSF project. Forexample we created an Android app for performing mathematical and signal analysis simulationson Android smart phones and tablets. We

Conference Session

Future Directions of Continuing Professional Development

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kim A. Scalzo, State University of New York; Edward G. Borbely, University of Michigan; Nelson C. Baker, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Continuing Professional Development

the New York State Education Department Office of Higher Education for several Institutional Capability Reviews for distance learning programs. Over the past five years, she has participated in an E.U.-U.S. project to develop international quality standards for continuing education centers. She is also a co-creator of the Bray-Scalzo Partnership Model for creating and sustaining successful partnerships. Scalzo is currently serving as a member of the Faculty Advisory Council for Teaching and Technology at SUNY and as Chair-elect for the Continuing Professional Devel- opment Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). She is also a member of the International Association of Continuing

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Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynn Albers, North Carolina State University; Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University

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Mechanical Engineering

Page 25.1159.2The type of active learning in this research project differs from that of Dr. Felder in that itinvolves the use of hands-on activities. The hands-on activities are models that give a three-dimensional shape to the experiences and concepts that we know. The models allow the studentto touch, feel and play so that they can first solidify their knowledge of the concept and thenconnect it to a potentially new experience and concept. The hands-on activities were designedfor use in the fluid mechanics classroom to have the student move; first by getting up to get thematerials and second by having them build the model.The inspiration for creating hands-on activities for an undergraduate Fluid Mechanics coursecame from working with North

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yi Guo, Stevens Institute of Technology; Shubo Zhang, Stevens Institute of Technology; Arthur B. Ritter FAIMBE, Stevens Institute of Technology; Hong Man, Stevens Institute of Technology

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

inSpring 2011. The course is a graduate ECE course, and can also be chosen by undergraduatestudents as a technical elective. In Spring 2011, we have 15 enrolment, of which there are 3undergraduate students. The course discusses advanced topics in autonomous and intelligentmobile robots, and we introduced the micro-robots as a special topic during the second half ofthe semester. We used a modified challenge-based pedagogy.In a typical challenge-based implementation, a complex problem (the challenge) is presentedto the students. Students then generate ideas based on what they already know and what theywill need to know to solve the problem. This step can be materialized using the case studiesdeveloped under the project. In the second step, students

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

James Rehg

program command syntax from various vendors is notcommon because it was not developed around any industry-wide standard. Therefore, programsare not interchangeable among PLCs from different vendors. The typical ladder logic languageprogram is developed without the program flow structure commonly used in programs developedwith the current higher-level languages like C or Java. As a result, programs can be verydifferent for similar projects; are often hard to read and understand; and are difficult totroubleshoot when automation failures occur. Currently PLCs are used to control a wide varietyof industrial control applications from simple discrete control of motors to position and speedcontrol of multiple-motor servo systems. The ladder logic

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2001 Annual Conference

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James Svoboda, Clarkson University

, copy theentire applet tag, verbatim, to the new html page. Second, copy the zip file into the samedirectory (folder) as the new html file. (More detailed instructions are available on the author’sweb site [6]. These instructions include a template for the new html file that already includes theapplet tag.)The Circuit Design Lab has been used successfully in two ways. First, in a lecture hall equippedwith appropriate projection facilities, instructors can demonstrate the operation and design of acircuit using the Circuit Design Lab. Second, the Circuit Design Lab, can be used as homeworkto prepare for a quiz that asks to design the circuit to satisfy typical specifications. For example,the Circuit Design Lab on voltage dividers prepares

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Lewandowski; Carla Purdy

and Computer Science (ECECS) Department at the University of Cincinnati, forexample, between 1993/94 and 1998-99, 75 students graduated with a Ph.D., but only threechose to pursue an academic career. To encourage and prepare potential future faculty, we havedeveloped a "Preparing Future Faculty" program in our department. We discuss the outcomes ofthis program, its potential for impacting projected faculty shortages, options for sustaining theprogram, benefits to graduate students, faculty, and undergraduates, and whether it should bemandatory in a high-quality Ph.D. program.1. IntroductionThe Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) program in the Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering and Computer Science (ECECS) at the University of

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2001 Annual Conference

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Saleh Sbenaty

helped the students in all sections to a great extent.The author is currently working with the TLC center at Vanderbilt to design self-assessmenttools that will be imbedded within the case to help the student with self-assessment.VII. AcknowledgementsThe authors wish to express their sincere gratitude to the National Science Foundation forproviding the means to execute this project, and to every member of the TEFATE and SEATECfamily.This project was supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation. Opinions expressed arethose of the authors and not necessarily those of the Foundation.SALEH SBENATYDr. Saleh M. Sbenaty is currently an Associate Professor of Engineering Technology at Middle Tennessee StateUniversity. He received the BS degree

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Stanley; John Hackworth

traditional basicelectronic courses taught in a traditional laboratory environment. Moreover, most of the studentsare working in industry as engineering technicians and have sufficient maturity to understandsome of the practical limitations of this approach.The software utilized is Multisim (Electronics Workbench), which has proven to be very user-friendly and easily learned by students working on their own. Email, a toll-free telephonenumber, and the transfer of circuit schematics and performance curves over the internet enhancethe faculty-student interaction. All of the experiments and projects parallel those offered in themore traditional course on the campus and include numerous linear and non-linear operationalamplifier circuits, timers and

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Nippert

problems. The major opportunity is that labexperiments can draw on any aspect of the curricula: control, thermodynamics, heat transfer, etc.A major concern, however, is that laboratory experiments may occur up to one year after theassociated lecture course. As a result students may require considerable review beforeperforming for some experiments. During the junior year course, most experiments arestructured, with a primary emphasis on analysis of experimental data. In the senior lab, studentsare expected to design the experiments themselves. Experimental design, which is a minorportion of the course, is more fully covered in Widener’s Senior Engineering Projects, which arerequired year long projects, taken by students in all disciplines. A large

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2001 Annual Conference

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Glenn Blackwell

faculty member and if the work will generally take place away from the campuslocation. Sabbatical leaves involving other criteria have been approved but most commonlythese criteria are followed. The requirement for an industrial position recognizes the Schools’mission of preparing students for successful careers in industry. The “away” requirement is totry to maximize the probability the faculty member will not be tempted to partake in “normal”on-campus activities such as faculty meetings!The author’s first sabbatical leave proposal, for the 1992-1993 academic year, was to spend ayear working as a Senior Project Engineer at Delco Electronics Corp. The involvement by theElectronics Manufacturing Development group at Delco was easy to solicit and

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2001 Annual Conference

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Michael Graham; Jan Puszynski; Anton Pintar; Jenna Carpenter; Michael Cutlip

courses.IntroductionThe Mathematics Association of America (MAA) has begun a major analysis of theundergraduate mathematics curriculum through the Committee on the Undergraduate Program inMathematics (CUPM). Two subcommittees of CUPM are involved in this study: Calculus Page 6.701.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationReform and the First Two Years (CRAFTY) and Mathematics Across Disciplines (MAD). TheNational Science Foundation is involved in this study through Project INTERMATH as part ofthe Mathematics

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2001 Annual Conference

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Stephen Stace; Janice Margle

expose students to more than the traditionalword processing and spreadsheet exercises and to make them aware of the relationships betweencomputers and music. This project is called Me and Comp Sc.Background An introductory 3-credit computer science course called CmpSc 100 is offered throughPenn State. Although it is not required as part of any curriculum, it does offer students theopportunity to improve their computer skills, or expand their knowledge base. The courseintroduces students to computers and computer applications such as word processing,spreadsheets, database management, business graphics, and communications5. The prerequisiteis two entrance units in mathematics. Students who take this course are, generally, from non-technical

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2001 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Roberts; Eric A. Cheek; Joseph Monroe; Samuel Owusu-Ofori; Ajit Kelkar

American-serving andHBCU institutions across the Southeastern United States.The College of Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University is designated as aNASA Research Center of Excellence in Aerospace Technology Development andpossesses a strong track record in undergraduate engineering education. Approximately14 North Carolina A&T State University faculty in the areas of science, mathematics,engineering, and technology faculty conduct research on supported NASA projects. In1998, the North Carolina A&T College of Engineering was recently selected as a site fora NASA Partnership Award for the Integration of Research into MSET UndergraduateEducation (PAIR). The North Carolina A&T NASA-PAIR program has been under thedirection

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2001 Annual Conference

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Patricia L. Fox; Stephen Hundley

helpful, while administrators will learn how to support faculty in theirquest to offer courses in these formats.II. Why Teach in Concentrated Formats?The Department of Organizational Leadership and Supervision (OLS) in the Purdue School ofEngineering and Technology at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)regularly offers case- and project-based courses in one-week intensive formats. These coursesare highly experiential, and require that students prepare in advance for the intense class, usuallythrough pre-work reading assignments. Additionally, several post-class assignments are required,and students submit their work several weeks after the class-meeting period concludes.Therefore, while the contact-hours related to the

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

David Voltmer; William Tierney; B. Garner

Figure 1. Figure 1 – Typical Solution Window for VEM 2.0VEM 2.0 in the Classroom and as a Study AidCurrently, VEM 2.0 is used in a classroom environment in which all students have laptops withMATLAB and network connections. Projection systems enable the instructor and students todisplay their solutions to the entire class. VEM 2.0 is most often used to supplement the numericand graphic methods emphasized in the introductory electromagnetics course. From theinstructor’s point of view, it is a delightful teaching tool. Page 6.1135.4 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Dick D. Desautel

Loop BS Each Course: Course Program Learning Objectives Journal CAM & PAM Survey? Focus Group Outcome Junior Surveys Notebooks Graduating Senior Survey Seniors Capstone Course Senior Project Exit Test? Alumni