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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Terence Weigel

number of other (heavier) angles on the project have been selected and thedesigner wishes to minimize the variation in angle size used on the project. In any case, the pre-processor can permit the student to proceed with a less than optimal choice, but it should explainthe ramifications of doing so. For example, if the student chooses to connect the short leg of theangle, a window such as shown in Figure 5 should popup, and the student could decide to changehis / her choice based on the information provided.Grader Extensions Plans for extensions of the grading systems include the following: • For design problems, add the capability to consider sections that might not be the lightest acceptable section, but could

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ilan Grave

bothworlds! Some sessions are thus held in a traditional lab routine, including preparation, prelabwork, calculation and design, prolonged circuit building and measurement in the lab, and post-lab final report with simulations and analysis. Sometimes the more advanced labs are allotted afull session of three hours, more so in the schedule of the “Electronics” course.The third decision point, which I’ll discuss only briefly, is the offering of a single course “CircuitAnalysis”, at a level fit for electrical engineers, for all engineering students at ElizabethtownCollege. This means that students who plan to graduate in any non-EE engineering disciplineprobably get a course at a substantially higher level than needed or required. We see this

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Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

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2005 Annual Conference

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Doreen Lawrence; Barbara Oakley

potential to learn andgrow. The goal of the Kumon Method is to provide eachindividual child with the tools, plans and guidance toachieve their true potential. Kumon uses a highly Fig. 1: Mr. Toru Kumon, Founderindividualized program that allows students to progress at Page 10.150.1 of Kumon Institute of Educationtheir own pace, working at their individual achievement Company, LTD. “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

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Tom Thomas; Mohammad Alam

constituencies • Incomplete process to achieving objectives (links to curriculum are not clear) • Incomplete process-oriented approach to evaluating achievement of objectives • Evidence of program improvement based on ad hoc processesPossible Issues for Criterion 3 • No evidence demonstrating one or more outcomes • Outcomes not assessed objectively • Anecdotal versus measured results • Reliance on course grades as assessment of outcomes • Over-reliance on self-assessment (e.g. surveys) • No systematic assessment process • No process or process not documented • Plans developed but not implemented • Little or no faculty support for the process • No evidence that assessment results are being applied to improve program • Changes

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Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Brian Resnick

process is true for programming. The programmer needsto experiment, to step back and look at the program, and then make improvements. It takes aminimum of three rewrites to make a program near perfect. Plan schedules accordingly.ShortcutsDo not worry about language shortcuts. For experienced programmers, the shortcuts are aconvenience and may provide for truly elegant expression. Newbie’s should record the shortcutin their notebook, and proceed with a style that provides the most comprehension. Page 10.1235.10 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Implementing the BOK - Can it Be Done?

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Robinson; Kevin Sutterer

areas such as publicadministration, engineering management, planning, and architecture combined with a B.S.degree from an ABET accredited program may meet the definition of specialization and satisfy Page 10.415.6 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationthe formal education component of the BOK.[1] Therefore, the acceptance of management /entrepreneurship courses to fulfill the specialization outcome of the BOK is not certain. Astudent completing the BOK compliant tract could earn an environmental

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jameson Wetmore

that shorter female drivers were especially at risk because they often sat close to thesteering wheel. At the same time, NHTSA called for parents to put all children age twelve andunder in the back seat, rather than just those infants in rear-facing safety seats. By the spring of1997, auto safety researchers had found that air bags took the lives of 3.5 children for every onethat they saved (12). The media jumped on the story and there was widespread outrage. Therewere calls for air bags to be ripped out of automobiles.Most engineers were frightened by this plan, however. They were certainly concerned about thefatalities, but they believed that air bags were saving many lives and that to abandon thetechnology would be a mistake. But there was

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BME Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

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Charla Triplett; Eugene Eckstein

Alliance adds significantly to this process by developing and sharing provenstandards that are readily transferred among the members and used by their students.Experienced coordinators share their expertise in creating resumes specifically for biomedicalengineering students, marketing materials targeted to industry, and best practices for internshipprograms.New coordinators learn which background courses must be in place for successful placementsand strong educational experiences; in part, they learn and share this information by discussionof what has worked for other campuses. These services are specific for the field of BME and areavailable only in a generic form from the typical “career-planning” office.Great returns come from the stronger

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Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mark Urban-Lurain; Taner Eskil; Marilyn Amey; Timothy Hinds; Jon Sticklen

innovation and technology management.MARK URBAN-LURAIN is Director of Instructional Technology Research and Development in the Division ofScience and Mathematics Education at Michigan State University. He is responsible for providing vision, direction,planning and implementation for using technology mathematics and science education and developed severalintroductory computer science courses for non-computer science students serving 2000 students per semester.JON STICKLEN is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at MichiganState University. He has had a strong research record in computer science research, specifically in knowledge-basedsystems. His main contributions have been in the theory and application of

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Norma Mattei

scientific and engineering advances. Theworkshops were held in Washington D.C. (Arlington, VA), most recently at the NSF Stafford IIConference Center adjacent to the NSF headquarters. The first workshop was held in the fall of1995. Subsequent workshops occurred every other year, with the next one planned for Septemberof 2005.The paper will first explore one reason why it is important to have a diverse engineering faculty.The general program for all workshops will then be outlined. Following this discussion are theresults of the pre-workshop and post-workshop surveys of the 2003 participants. The surveys’questions were selected to probe the participants about their knowledge of issues critical to theirsuccess as engineering educators. Comparison of

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Ismail Orabi; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

taken by engineering students in the new curriculum in which students areintroduced to engineering concepts using projects and hands-on-activities. Non-engineeringmajors have the option to take the project-based course or the more traditional version of thiscourse. When the project-based course was introduced into the curriculum, there was concern asto how non-engineering students would respond to the new format of the course.Background: Use of SurveysThe value of using surveys of engineering attitudes to help institutions evaluate their freshmanengineering programs has been documented3,4. Surveys provide the advantage of gatheringfeedback from a large number of students in a relatively easy manner. The assessment plan forthe first year of the

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Emin Yilmaz; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationengines. One can always remove alternate four ignition wires in the firing order and do themeasurement using four cylinders at a time.Educational Value of the Project 1. Using it as a Tool in Experiments: The old (ASYST based) data acquisition system is still being used in Strength of Materials and Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning experiments. The plan is to gradually convert old programs or rewrite new ones so that the most up to date hardware and software are used in all experiments. 2. Teaching Data Acquisition Techniques in an Instrumentation Courses: New data

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Mobile Robotics in Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Miller; Charles Winton

automated planning, robotics, andcommunications with automated systems, especially as applied to planetary exploration andassistive technologies. His education interests include robotics for exploring design and as a test-bed for the structuring of engineering teams. The kits used in the OU courses were purchased aspart of a grant from the Department of Education # R215K010122.CHARLES N. WINTONDr. Winton currently is Professor and Graduate Director of Computer andInformation Sciences at the University of North Florida. His researchinterests include AI robotics, cognition modeling and simulation, andmedical systems simulation. He has served as coordinator for theFlorida Region Botball Educational Robotics Program for Middle and HighSchools since

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Clive Dym; Anthony Bright

across the country. These recommendations actually called for asignificantly larger proportion of engineering courses (55 credit hours) in the curriculum at thenew college with a smaller humanities and social sciences component (32 credit hours)12. Clearlythe recommendations were not adopted.EvolutionIt was not until the advent of the first engineering faculty to the new college that the seeds wereplanted from which the truly distinctive philosophy of the Harvey Mudd Engineering programwould emerge. The first sign of a new path is the engineering program entry in the collegecatalog of 196211: “The engineering curriculum offers a fresh and exciting approach to engineering education. The course of study was planned in the belief that

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Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Diane Schuch Miller; Donald Falkenburg

ownskills, techniques, compare with and learn from others, and set goals for their future. Sharing Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationlessons learned makes possible the improvement of processes for subsequent investigations. Thisintegral component of the case design allow learners to reflect, summarize and solidify their ownlearning and structure it in a way that is meaningful to them [9].Guy [10] states that “the rich case allows students to gain safe experience in practicingfundamental skills needed in their careers: they need to plan and set up interviews and focusgroups, question

Conference Session

Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stephen Silliman; Mark Gunty; Leo McWilliams; Carrie Graf; John Uhran; Catherine Pieronek

conclusion that, because the two groups possess similar entry-level skillsand perform similarly well in class, other, less tangible factors impact retention. Adding thethree in-class surveys has allowed us to identify a number of areas of statistically significantdifferences between these two groups, including: their motivations for considering the study ofengineering; their pre-college engineering-related experiences; their initial post-graduate plans;and their concerns over roadblocks to completing the engineering degree.In developing and assessing retention efforts, these data help us to go beyond simply counting Page 10.945.1

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rajesh Malani; Enno Koehn

tomeasure and increase the performance of students in the public school system. At the universitylevel, tests given by independent professional organization such as the FE examination areutilized as a critical measure of performance. By law, each state school with an engineeringprogram must yearly report their pass rate on the FE exam to the Texas State Legislative BudgetBoard6. If the results do not meet a specific target, the reasons must be explained and plans mustbe developed involving the various steps that will be taken to achieve the target in future years. Itis recognized that the results on the FE examination only measure those graduates who attemptthe test. Nevertheless, it is utilized by the state as an indicator of the effectiveness of

Conference Session

Technology and Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Hug; Jason FitzSimmons

project. The first group of students usedthe web module as review and assistance with the completion of their first homeworkassignment. The second group of students accessed the web module, but only looked at andnever used it for review or completing their homework assignment. The third group of studentsneither looked at nor used the web module during the study. The authors planned on using thisthird group as a “control group by choice” because the students decided not to participate in theweb module part of the study. The data collected during the pilot study is shown below in Table1. Descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) will be used in this paper to analyze thedata from the research study. This is due to the fact the nature of

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Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yong Yang; Andrew Bennett; Steve Warren

curriculum, and long-term retention can be more of a factor forsome students than for others. This makes aggregate assessments of mathematics knowledgeretention difficult. This situation is exacerbated by the fact that student learning in LinearSystems is not simply a result of how much mathematical knowledge students retain: it alsodepends on the interpersonal dynamics between students and faculty and the resultant learningenvironment that these foster.To understand semester-to-semester retention of mathematics knowledge, improvements areneeded in two areas: (1) tracking systems for both homework and exams that offer bettergranularity than current systems and (2) formalized, consensus-based plans for how these datawill be acquired and stored so

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Computed Simulation and Animation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarangi Parikh; Joel Esposito; Robert DeMoyer; Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic

of this kind of assignment is that it not only brings together many engineering concepts, but italso truly promotes lifelong learning by pointing students to available resources. This was readilyobserved through the enthusiasm displayed by the students when they were presenting the paper theychose to the rest of their classmates.6 Survey and conclusionIn this section we discuss the result of student opinion surveys and discuss plans for future changes.6.1 Survey resultsAnonymous student evaluation surveys were administered to 80 students. Question Mean Std. (out

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New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

, Antares Group Inc., ReportSS, Sewage SludgeBS, Bio-SolidsACKNOWLEDGEMENTThe data provided by Mr. Jeff Chorlog, Mr. Albert Krause, and Mr. Charles Fender, at the UFphysical plant planning is valuable and their assistance and cooperations are highly appreciated.REFERENCES1. A.E.Green editor,Proc. International.Conf. on Co – Utilization of Domestic Fuels (CDF), Ed. Gainesville, Fl. Feb. 2004, published in the International Journal of Power and Energy Systems, 24, No.3, pgs,152 – 250.2. Green, A., E., Smith, Wayne. Hermansen-Baez, Annie., Hodges, Alan., Feng, Jie., Rockwood., Langholtz, Mathew., Najafi, Fazil., and Toros, Ulas . “Multidisciplinary Academic Demonstration of Biomass Alliance

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Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Head

beenlearned to this point and as the semester proceeds they become more adept at writing, working inteams, analyzing various versions of their crane design, and planning for the finalimplementation. One of the most unique aspects is that we will not allow the students to simplydesign crane structures until they hit upon one that works or over-design so that there is nopossibility of failure. Instead, their success depends on working with a limited supply ofmaterials and optimizing the design to lift the maximum amount of weight to a certain height in aset amount of time, using the lowest cost materials which have the least detrimental impact onthe environment.AssignmentThis is a complicated challenge for engineering students in the first semester of

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Simo Lehto

, pride,respect, trust, hope, love, excitement, and humor. The decisive factor in creative work is theinner energy of the people who do it.The demanding recipe described has been used for sending twelve persons to the moon andreturning them safely to Earth. It is the best-known way for succeeding in business, realizingpersonal dreams, and solving social problems.Changes of higher education in industrialized countriesSocial changes during the past decade have directly influenced the higher education includingEE. During the 1990s, the education systems of industrialized countries have undergone greatchanges. The first is the shift from elite to mass education. In Finland, national plans call forover 60% of the annual age group to be educated to the

Conference Session

Course/Program Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Suguna Bommaraju

improved throughout the course.Students’ feedback is very important for successful implementation of these writing assignments.The feedback must be taken as the course progresses and not at the end of the semester.Modifying the assignments and accommodating students’ suggestions is extremely useful toimprove the effectiveness of the teaching.There are plans to implement one short writing assignment per week (either web search or mockpresentation), biweekly one minute evaluation, and biweekly questionnaire in freshman and softmore level courses.BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION1. Johnson D. W., Johnson, R. T., and Smith, K. A. Cooperative Learning: Increasing College faculty Instructional productivity, ASHE-ERIC Higher education Report No. 4

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

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Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

challenged by applications of technology and rapidly changing working conditions, for example, medicine? • What are the best ways of making the debate heard at policy making levels?ConclusionAll these plans for the future are posited on the belief that engineers are key players in thecontinuing economic, social, and political progress of the world and in the stability and growthof the US economy. If immigration continues to undermine the participation of internationalstudents in US engineering programs, and if there is no foreseeable turn around of the negativeattitude of so many US students toward engineering as a profession, and if the news continues tobe saturated by stories about disappearing and disjointed jobs, with no mitigating steps taken

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Assessment & Evaluation of Graphics Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Aanstoos Theodore; Thomas Krueger; Ronald Barr

Sectioning C. Computer Gr aphics Modeling Applications Digital Analysis Animation and Simulation Presentations Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing Design ProjectsBibliogr aphy1. Barr, R. E., “Planning the EDG Curriculum for the 21st Century: A Proposed Team Effort,” Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 63(2):4-12, 1999.2. Meyers, F.D., “First Year Engineering Graphics Curricula in Major Engineering Colleges,” Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 64(2):23-28, 2000.3. Branoff, T.E., Hartman, N.W., and Wiebe, E.N., “Constraint-Based Three Dimensional Solid Modeling in an Introductory Engineering Graphics Course: Re-Examining the Curriculum,” Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 66(1):5-10

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Caroline Baillie

conducted theinterviews, and as such a mutual understanding of the issues discussed were possible. Thediscussion lasted between 30 – 60 min and questions were posed aiming at exploring theirunderstanding of the interface and current issues and phenomena of relevance to the field. Theinterviews took place in the laboratories of the interviewees or interviewer, or duringinternational conferences, where the two could meet mid-way between labs. They were semi-structured sessions, with probe questions planned, such as ‘What do you understand by the‘interface’ in composite materials?’. If the interviewee responded ‘ its bonding between fibre andmatrix’, then they were further probed with a question, ‘what , for you, is this ‘bonding’? Often asimple

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Catalano

who are outside their major departments. • A positive relationship has been established with industrial sponsors as they appreciate the grading schema and its strict enforcement. • Many of the issues raised in ABET’s EC2000 Criterion 4 such as the impacts of engineering on the environment, society and globally have been addressed • Students writing skills have been identified as extremely weak and concrete steps have been taken to address the weaknesses including the offering of a separate technical communications two-course sequence in the freshman year. In addition, plans are underway to include more opportunities for students to write in both the sophomore and junior years. Many

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2004 Annual Conference

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Meredith Knight; Christine Cunningham

picture containedboth tools and a hard hat, each code was counted once, counting for 2 occurrences of“images of building” in the overall sample. Table 7: Frequency of Images of Engineering Grouped by Themes Occurrence Thematic Grouping Images Included in Group of Image Tools, Hard Hat, Workbench, Safety Images of Building/Fixing 133 Glasses, Heavy Machinery Desk, Plans or Blueprints, Pen/ Images of Designing

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Eichinger; Mark Wilson; Anton Kruger; Marian Muste; Tao Xing

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationgreatly reduces the cost of setting up laboratories and makes remote individualized laboratoriesavailable where none existed before. Coordination of developmental efforts is suggested toinaugurate an outstanding instructional resource in fluid mechanics centralizing the bestexpertise and facilities available worldwide. The final set of experiments can be shared throughinter-departmental, inter-institutional, and international cooperation for curriculum upgrading,faculty professional development, external evaluation, and planning future developments.AcknowledgementsThe development of the