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Todd Mosher

anotherthree day course with 14 hours of instruction had 450 charts. This shear magnitude of materialwas actually cut down from previous efforts and reflects a broad diversity of subjects. Thismakes it difficult for the students to actually learn the material.Since the presentation approach fails to translate the technical knowledge into good coursematerial another analogy is needed. From this problem arose the author’s idea of comparing tosystems engineering and course design. Having seen the power of an analogy between coursedesign and planing a research project firsthand through the 1996 National Science Foundation’s 2Future Engineering Educators workshop at Carnegie Mellon

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Ingrid H. Soudek

specific stereotypes, it can be instructive when students "role play" theopposite sex stereotype, for example. When males are asked to imagine themselves in situationsthat females sometimes find difficult to deal with, and are asked to find ways out of the dilemma,they often show a new understanding of such situations. In the same way, females learn thatcertain dilemmas are faced by males as well as females, and this helps both genders to betterunderstanding.Fox Keller's stereotypes provide a good point of departure to talk about the specific issue ofgender and science. I have used her book, Reflections on Gender and Science, and while someof the students found it interesting, most of them lacked an historical and cultural perspective toappreciate

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Susan M. Lord

(OVL), total internal reflection (TIR), wave-guiding (WG), different types of emitters (DTE), and different color LEDs (LED). Detailedinstructions were provided as well as questions for the students. The OVL module illustratedhow light and plastic optical fiber can be used to carry a signal from one point to another.Students were encouraged to experiment with speaking into the transmitter and hearing theirvoice on the receiver. TIR allowed students to observe the law of total internal reflection and usethat to describe how a light beam travels in a fiber optic cable. WG showed students how amaterial such as water can be used to guide light, much like a fiber guides light intelecommunications. DTE had students compare a light bulb, a light

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Robert J. Radin; Joan Dannenhoffer

Figure 1 The “hands-on” approach can be done by an individual student or in small groups. When the exercise is done in small groups, the students with strong interpersonal intelligence learn by interacting with the group members. This also has a positive effect on the other students in the group since the students start teaching each other. If the group is made up of students with a variety of intelligences, then the concepts are reinforced in several ways. If the exercise is done by individual students, the students with strong intrapersonal intelligence can be prompted to reflect on how the equations relate to the physical model. An

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Barbara Tedesco; Sanford Bordman; Iftekhar Hasan

, personnelmanagement, and business strategy only superficially, if at all. Page 2.64.2 2 The impact of changes in the global business environment upon engineering education has been fully appreciated by NJIT. In order to provide engineering students with an integrated knowledge of engineering and management, NJIT has made some changes to its education programs. Instead of offering engineering students traditional economics and management courses which are taken with business and social science students - where an appropriate emphasis is reflective of

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Christopher G. Braun

(faculty/TA instructional time) 3. Working at different times or different locations is important 4. Will impact a large number of users 5. Adequate computers are available at the site(s) Table 2. Some key criteria for developing computer-based training modules.A general flow chart for our tutorials is shown on Figure 1. Tutorial modules are brokendown into short (10 min or less) sessions, each with clear set of objectives, moduleinformation and several interactive exercises. At the end of each module, the student maythen take the quiz. If the student’s score does not reflect a good understanding of thematerial then he or she will have to revisit that module again. User identification, scoresand other session information

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Erdogan Sener

ofcomputer-based simulations, multimedia, and similar undertakings, there is no substitute for thereal thing. Thus, the department is active in all areas of co-operative education, enrichment, andinternships to expose the students first hand to their fields and allow them gain on the jobexperience.Along the same line "service learning" in terms of engaging a diverse group of students inpractical undertakings to serve the community as well as the industry have been undertaken. 3. Despite their limitations in realistically reflecting the actual industrial picture, newtechnologies in terms of computer-aided instruction and tutoring, simulations, and multimediahave been utilized to their maximum benefit in an effort to bring the industry into the

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Ali Behagi

newly established laboratory, thestudents get acquainted with the high frequency components, computer-aided design, fabricationand testing of high frequency circuits using both distributed and lumped elements.5.0 Laboratory Experiments To give students some design experience, several laboratory experiments have beendeveloped. Following is a partial listing and description of the laboratory experiments.5.1 RF and Microwave Amplifier Design Today’s wireless and satellite communication systems require very tight amplifierspecifications especially with regard to noise figure, linearity, and distortion. The vector networkanalyzer and the spectrum analyzer are used to measure the amplifier S-parameters as well asgain, reflection

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Halvard E. Nystrom; Diego Rodriguez

subsequent to the live session. It allows for comments generated with further reflection, or from participants who did not have the opportunity to give their feedback during the live session. Page 2.155.6SUMMARYThis process assists engineering educators to design educational interactions that takes intoaccount educational and motivational objectives as well as available resources to utilizeappropriate methods and delivery media. As an example, the interaction between the Universityof Missouri - Rolla and the Cibertec Technological Institute is presented.This educational interaction is designed with two parts: asynchronous web-page

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James L. Neujahr; Herbert Seignoret; Gary Benenson; Ed Goldman

students gradually assume a collaborativerole with classroom teacher, discussing the learning process in the classroom with him or her,and developing collective strategies for facilitating the progress of the groups.Weekly meetings of the participating students provide opportunities to reflect on the classroomexperiences. One recurring theme has been the kind of information students need beforehand toengage in inquiry or design projects. Some students have argued that basic technical information— for example, about series and parallel circuits or gear ratios — should simply be presented,while others say that it can only be acquired through guided experiences. Another common themehas been the responsibility of teachers to prepare students for

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Taggart Smith

placed on issues both at the strategic and the operationallevels" (p. 79). Dr. Kocaoglu further stated that the foci of different programs varied with theregion being served, but generalized that "they all reflect on a discipline starting where IndustrialEngineering stops, and going up to a point where Public Policy starts." Page 2.174.2The Scope of Engineering ManagementIn detailing the dimensions of the field, Dr. Kocaoglu said that EM included basic and appliedresearch, developing, designing, and implementing the transfer of technology, as well as testing,marketing, and maintaining the technological life cycle, all of which seem to represent

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James C. Wood

agriculturalsociety and has had only slight changes to reflect the influence of the assembly linemanufacturing structure. This current model consists of isolated courses divided into isolateddisciplines and taught in semesters or quarters. This isolation has built barriers not only betweencourses but also in many cases between the faculty in the different departments that teach thesecourses. In order to improve the education of technicians, these barriers must be removed alongwith the isolation of the disciplines. Industry does not operate in an isolated compartmentalizedmanner, and employees expect the technician to be able to function in an environment thatrequires them to integrate the skills from many disciplines (mathematics, science,communications, and

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Mark J. Sebern

team building and cooperative effort,and often apply these lessons in the two-quarter “capstone” senior design sequence (CS-400 andCS-401). Even when a team fails, valuable lessons can be learned. One student, reflecting on suchan experience during a job interview, was told by the recruiter that his company “normally expectsa new hire to take two years to learn that.” Page 2.184.1The Bad NewsIn spite of many successes, CS-489 still had some problems:• Most students enter the course with little knowledge of the large-scale software development process.• Earlier versions of CS-489 had taken a survey approach in lecture, covering a

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Vernon W. Lewis

simple drafting class would cover this.It was noted that there were relatively fewer written comments from the remote locations thanfrom the on-campus group. Considering that the remote students were located in 10 locations,the majority of the written comments may reflect the opinions of students at only one or two of Page 2.187.2the locations. The written comments are not identified by campus or author in keeping with theuniversity’s privacy policy. Differences in Student Demographics At the Various SitesAt the beginning of the class, all students were requested to provide

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Carlos Aldana; Winston F. Erevelles

system.Various four-way valves are ganged together and derive the actuator, the gripper and theescapement. A nylon test strip is mounted at the upstream end of the feeder track and on top ofit. This nylon strip features three chamfered and precision-machined holes to receive thesteel-balls that are dropped by the actuator. The three holes reflect the three sizes -nominal (1/4”), oversized (9/32”) and undersized (7/32”) balls that the system is designedto handle. The function of the plate is to establish a one-to-one relationship between theparts being recirculated and the sizes of the holes in the strip. This provides students withthe opportunity to check the accuracy of their programming and experiment with thesettings of the set-point modules

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Wessel Koning

project and to achieve a universal approach a 5-phase projectmanagement prescription was introduced. This prescription is widely accepted among stu-dents and teaching staff in the department and resulted in noticeable more organization andmanagement skills.In spite of the University’s wide teaching con-cept is based on a specific philosophy and in away is contemporary it was an useful instrument to evaluate the EE project course. Theevaluation has resulted in a plan to improve the lab which is accepted to be carried out.Through a more professional and job-reflected approach student motivation and enthusiasmhas increased. This increase resul-ted in a higher technical level of the projects.7 Bibliographic information.1 Board of Governors

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Brian A. Alenskis

curriculumstructures and instructors’ credentials.[1] Among them, are: • A free-standing ethics course (required or optional), by technical or philosophy faculty • An ethics component within a free-standing “professionalism” course [2] • An issue for review within a senior project/thesis [3] • Integration of ethics throughout the curriculum [4] • Commingling ethical issues and problems in technical courses [5]While these approaches evolve around local constraints and preferences, they also reflect thecompromises made among somewhat conflicting methods. For instance, few technical curricula can easily incorporate a required ethics course, eventhough such status can highlight the importance of ethics. And yet, segregating the subject

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Willie E. (Skip) Rochefort; William F. Reiter; Milo D. Koretsky

with a remote manufacturing facility through electronic media. • provide a model for development of interdisciplinary student team activities that reflect a real design and manufacturing process 4) This project has grown from industry and university interaction. The formation of the PCB Design and Manufacturing Advisory Board, and the significant commitments of equipment and support from the industry ensure continued long term industry interaction. 5) This unique program that addresses a critical area of technology and educational reform will serve as a model and provide valuable materials for educational institutions concerned with similar issues.SUMMARYObjectives 1 and 2, to a large extent, have been met. The

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Gregory M. Dick

to the same (single) table of office hours. Maintenance of this single copy is automatically reflected in all syllabi. • Quizzes and Exams - are maintained electronically. They are protected from public access until they have been administered. Home page access to quizzes and exams, and their solutions, is then enabled. Students view the solutions to "close the loop" on the learning process. As successive offerings of the course occur, the "file" of quizzes and exams grows automatically. It is always available as a study aid for students. The normal logistics involved in collecting a set of quizzes and exams and transporting them to the library are

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John K. Estell

7 keeps a history of recent photocopier use byeach user. The monitor grants priority to those individuals who historically make the fewestcopies while other users are placed into lines that reflect their photocopier usage. In this examplethe users are separated into having short, medium, or long photocopying jobs. The lines aretreated in a similar manner as that used in the multilevel feedback algorithm, with the exceptionthat if a user is preempted by the monitor or makes fewer copies than expected, then the nexttime the person comes to use the photocopier the monitor can reassign the individual to adifferent line. Now that the various scheduling algorithms have been introduced to the students, theycan be revisited and explained

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Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

orlessening of the defined impacts. Again, evaluation of an improved environment is a primeobjective.Ultimately, an ISO Environmental Management System should reflect a commitment from topmanagement to meet the appropriate laws and regulations and for continual evolution of themanagement system. To meet these commitments, an organization must integrate the makingand implementation of continuous improvements into the global objectives of the organization.Primarily, the environmental management system should provide a means for an organization toreach its target goals through the structures, internal management, controls and documentedaccountability procedures. The mechanics for achieving these goals should involve a variety ofmeasuring and monitoring

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Ed Gohmann

haveexperience with the metric system of weight and length. The necessary physical concepts for Page 2.286.3understanding properties of materials are taught at the level of a first year physics course for non-engineering majors.The first two labs are designed so as to give all the students an equal level of lab skills. Forinstance the first lab involves determining the specific gravity of 8 objects by weighing and thenmeasuring volume by displacement of water. It is a relatively crude lab but serves to orient thethinking of the student toward observing, measuring and recording data with a brief introductionto reflecting on the purpose and results of

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Karen Frair; Karan L. Watson

their education;employers become more fully engaged in characterizing the skills and attributes required of the21st century engineer; faculty redefine their relationship to the students and to each other acrossdisciplines, and more directly address the building of student skills and attributes. The FC, firston our own campuses and then nationally by dissemination and replication, will establishimproved curricula and learning environments, attract and retain a more demographically diversestudent body, and graduate engineers who reflect the FC vision.Access and Equity for Underrepresented Groups and WomenThe Foundation Coalition members are developing curricula and academic environments at eachinstitution which are accessible and provide

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William Peterson

AppliedSciences, the Department of Manufacturing Engineering, was established in Muskegon.Although a Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering exists at the Kalamazoocampus, it does not offer a degree program in manufacturing engineering - its most closelyrelated bachelor Page 2.316.3degrees are in manufacturing engineering technology and industrial engineering. Theestablishment of a new department located in Muskegon (with offices in the HEC at MCC)places Western faculty on-site for teaching, student advising, and student recruiting andretention. It also allows for departmental policy and procedures to reflect the expectations of thecollege for

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Roger A. Messenger

the east and setsin the west at different times on different days at different latitudes. Black body radiation isdiscussed and why a 6800 K blackbody should make 1367 watts/m2 available at a distance of 93million miles is assigned as a computational problem. Air mass absorption and dispersion effectsare discussed as formulas for direct, diffuse and reflected components of sunlight are presented.At the end of this section, students have an appreciation that someone has spent a lot of timedeveloping a set of involved formulas based on solid geometry and a significant amount ofempirical data, and have a more quantitative feeling for the amount and composition of sunlightavailable at various locations during various times of the year

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Patrick L. Walter

, frequency response, and zero bias. When assessing testresults for both the acceleration and pressure measuring systems, 53 of 56 productspecifications provided to the students in the RFP were satisfied. ConclusionAfter completion of this first Capstone project, it is worthwhile to reflect as to how well itachieved its educational goals. To the extent that this project is representative of one thestudents might encounter in industry, they were able to successfully accomplish it. Thestudents gained valuable knowledge in project management and teaming. In addition totechnical challenges, the principal challenges they encountered encompassed equal divisionof labor and resolving personality conflicts. The students

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Phil Fabiano

important work activity,strategic and operational planning takes time. It is itself a major work activity for whichadditional time must be allocated.Despite its shortcomings, the ET planning activity has raised the awareness of the importanceand need for strategic and operational planning within the ET department. It has resulted in asolid foundation for continued planning. In addition, the "strawman" and team concepts provedto be good approaches to establishing an integrated plan reflecting the ideas and insights of allmembers of the department. Page 2.372.5References1. New Jersey Institute of Technology, "Educating Professionals For Leadership in A

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Lisa A. Wipplinger; Charles R. Bissey

pages about loading requirements. Now this type of code typically contains anentire chapter about loading requirements, and ANSI/ASCE has an entire document devoted toloading criteria.Conclusions from the reviews made while preparing this paper indicate loading information isnow more involved and comprehensive. Loading requirements have grown to such an extent thatloading fundamentals now need to be incorporated into the undergraduate course work. Thisincludes definitions, applications, and methods for calculations. The importance of this body ofknowledge is also reflected in the design specifications, such as the LRFD Manual of SteelConstruction.Professional PracticeIt is difficult to find structural engineers in practice who are not utilizing

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Philip J. Regalbuto; Page Ransom; Mary Morton-Gibson; Lise V. P. Esch

Technology core curriculum to meet future needs. One of the ways to improvethe Engineering Technology curriculum is to integrate key skills. In the Summer of 1996, fivemembers of the SCATE team from Trident Technical College were granted release time to reviseEGR 103 course content to reflect the new emphasis on team building, co-operative learning andcommunication skills that are in demand from industry and education.1 The remaining two teammembers were granted release time to study and develop assessment methods.Course revisionIn the revised version of this course some of the topics were retained: Units and measurements;graphing; calculator skills and treatment of significant digits are topics that elude theunderprepared student. Four additional

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Philip R. Dail

necessarily, although using as much technology as possible is desired. Reaching different learning styles means using techniques to reach visual as well as verbal, reflective as well as active, and the whole range of learning styles. Although at first this is a time-consuming development, the outcome is an enriched course for students and teachers.(4) Using email, bulletin boards, and list serves is an excellent means of increasing communication between students with each other as well as with the teacher. In some cases, teaching assistants could be available to answer questions electronically. The warning is to not forget that all students may not have easy access to computers. Teachers tend to assume all students are in close