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Barbara Blake Bath

transform space and their solution using k-space wavelets.The aim is to provide an efficient and novel technique to solve complicated electromagneticscattering problems. The latter have applications to the laboratory investigation of controlledelectromagnetic scattering experiments from materials, substrates, and other electromagneticdevices. The first phase of the project calls for the development of both Mathematica andMatlab code to compute the amplitudes of the scattered field from elementary surfaces where theresults can be compared with known analytical forms. The required mathematical backgroundincludes Linear Algebra, Wavelet Theory, basic notions of applied mathematics, programmingin C or Fortran as well as basic knowledge of Matlab

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John M. Dorosz; Ester B. Johnson

coordinators provide the new students a more detailedintroduction to academic and other campus resources such as employment and career explorationservices of the Career Development, the one-on-one assistance available through the centralizedTutoring and Learning Center of the Department of Learning Skills and Educational Opportunityas well as tutoring available through the College, and free student-run services provided to ensurepersonal safety and security on campus. Also covered early in the course are topics such as noteand test-taking skills, introduction to the computer-aided engineering laboratory, etc.A second key portion of the course deals primarily with the majors offered in the College. Aftera discussion of the kinds of work engineers and

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M. N. Borges; F. H. Vasconcelos; M. Lewis

to teach in a particular course structure andresources for laboratories, are examples of factors which demand fewer staff-student contacthours and less practical (hands-on) learning experiences. On the other hand: (a) the continuousexpansion of the content to be covered (with a soaring number of new topics and techniquesbrought into the curriculum); (b) the flexibility of the curriculum and options to be madeavailable to students and (c) also a more student-centered approach being recommended in highereducation requiring more staff time and more physical resources to run courses. Coursedevelopers are consequently responsible for designing a structure which takes account of bothsets of pressures. They are also urged to change the pedagogical

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Sr., Buck F. Brown; Jr., Buck F. Brown

, theWVEA began a quest to find key factors in new teaching methodologies. Concurrently, theAlliance began pursuing ways in which it might address broader, curricula reform issues. Duringthis process, it became evident that by modifying new and revolutionary (ideas in learningtheory)practices in medical school education, it might be possible to simultaneously address bothchange in teaching methodologies and curricula reform. In fact, it seemed that theserevolutionary practices might lend themselves well to multiple educational settings, levels andcontent areas. Therefore, the WVEA proposed that by adopting the PROBE project, faculty fromvirtually all of its institutions could participate in a cooperative venture to further pedagogical1 The Wabash

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Sohail Anwar; Roy Sheehan; Durel Hauser

. Designconsiderations are described and details of AK68 operation are discussed. INTRODUCTIONWhile teaching a sophomore level introductory course on microprocessors to the Penn State Altoona electricalengineering technology students, the authors of this paper observed that a significant amount of students’ laboratorytime was spent on an aspect of the exercises considered to be extraneous to the fulfillment of the laboratoryobjectives. The laboratory experience centered on elemental computer programming with a hardware emphasis. Toaccomplish this, exercises were devised involving a Motorola M68000 based small board computer and acorresponding commercially available cross-assembler.Although a major aspect of the

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Bahador Ghahramani

Corporation that are similar in theirrequirements. They all are based on five 8 week cycles sessions - 2 Winter, 2 Fall, and 1Summer. Their requirements are similar to the non-thesis programs consisting of 33 semestergraduate credit hours. These programs are mostly on site and convenient for the students toattend.MULTIMEDIA INITIATIVES EMGT has been a leader in transmitting and teaching its outreach courses through state-of-the-art multimedia technologies. These courses appear coast-to-cost via satellite TV,superimposed and projected against multimedia images. This multimedia technology relies on arevolutionary IBM Interactive Multimedia Classroom (IMMC). The IMMC system coordinatesand integrates a variety of multimedia components and allows

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Don M. Coleman; Arthur S. Paul

of programs and reduction of operating costs. The SCS program was first accreditedby Computer Science Accreditation Board (CSAB) in 1988, and it has maintained its accreditationto date.Institutions of higher learning teach computer courses in one or more of four general areas: (1)computer engineering programs are typically offered by computer engineering or electricalengineering departments and are accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology, Incorporated (ABET); (2) computer science programs are offered by computer Page 2.382.1science, electrical engineering, mathematics or general science departments, and these

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S. Gokhale; J. Aldrich

Concord Community Development Corporation (CCDC), teamed up for an innovative undertaking in community partnership. The pilot project involved the rehabilitation of an abandoned, three-room house located near the IUPUI campus. Students enrolled in a senior level design course elected to tackle this project in lieu of the traditional “Semester-End Design Project” required in the class. This paper will describe some of the lessons learned from this pilot project and attempt to provide a blue print for the integration of similar community projects into the engineering technology curriculum.IntroductionDr. Ernest Boyer, President of the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching, describesthe “New

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Karen Frair; Karan L. Watson

Engineering students and faculty take Several FC faculty have volunteered time and design activities to the 5th and 6th materials grade campuses at local schools TAMU Tours of campus and laboratory One FC faculty arranged with MEP and WEP activities for local community the tours and raised funds for the buses. centers serving 2nd through 4th graders. ASU Collaboration with girl scouts to WISE offer 1 week camps for 1&2, 3&4, and 5&6 graders.Middle School TAMU SWE one week residential camp FC

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Lisa A. Wipplinger; Charles R. Bissey

productive. They lack preparation in knowing how the computer and the software are used to do structural analysis. We need to teach them more about loads, how to prepare the information for the computer and how to interpret the output. Why don't you visit our firm and we will discuss this with you and share our ideas?”IntroductionThe introduction of the computer and the development of software for analysis and design hasrevolutionized every aspect of the structural analysis of buildings. Never before has there been atool for engineers that has been able to visibly demonstrate how building structures react undervarious loading conditions with varying geometries. Now, structural analysis using the computermakes it possible to see the

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Mark A. Pagano; Christine L. Corum

improvement inteaching effectiveness or student learning. The MET Department’s contribution to this effortinvolved a project that focused on a restructuring of the credit hour count in the existing plan ofstudy with an emphasis on overall reduction of hours required. Outcomes for this project havebeen summarized in another paper by Hutzel, et.al [5]. A second project involves planning andimplementation of a more comprehensive recruitment/enrollment development plan. Thetechnical staff is working on a third project aimed at standardizing and documenting laboratoryprocedures to allow smoother transitions when laboratory courses are taught by different facultyor with different technical support personnel.In general, the university community has

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Julie E. Sharp

the undergraduate laboratory, and why?"2) "How can we improve the design of this experiment?" 3) "What are common bad habits ofspeakers you have observed?" After explaining the topic, the instructor asks students to freewritefor several minutes. Then the students tell the class what they have written. The instructor actsas a scribe, writing down their summarized comments. I have used this assignment in mytechnical communication class with the third question. It usually results in one of the bestdiscussions we have all semester. The procedure gives students time to think about theirresponses and to use writing as a means of recalling stored information. More participation, evenfrom usually reticent students, is the result. This is another

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Wayne C. Christensen; Robert B. Roemer; Donald S. Bloswick

two basicways to include safety and health material in the engineering curriculum. One is by thedevelopment of elective and/or required undergraduate courses focusing on the engineeringaspects of product, system, and occupational safety. The second is the development of coursematerial which can be used by engineering faculty in "traditional" required undergraduate 8engineering classes. Rossignol and Hanes noted that the material to be integrated into existing 9classes can be in the form of lecture material, case studies, or laboratory materials. Dembesuggested that safety and health principles can be presented

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Robert Engelken

over ambition) by superiors/colleagues tend to decrease as one leavesthe first decade in academia. One begins to search for significant and lasting value/“return-on-investment” from one’s precious and always too little time and energy, rather than simplygenerating resume1 fillers, as are often emphasized in the first few years in academia. Onebegins to recognize that his/her “mission”, for better or worse, has been set in the field ofengineering “teaching, research, and service” and that part of the significance of one’s life will bein the true, lasting contributions in these areas, especially in the lasting effect that one has on thesubsequent lives of students. Balance (walking the razor’s edge between extremepositions/methods), maximum

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Yixin Shao; Laura Walhof; Joseph J. Biernacki

University and at schools with teachers andstudents ranging from middle school to high school age. Infrastructure Materials is partof a larger National Science Foundation-funded program called Materials World Modules(MWM). MWM is a series of modules which introduce students to importantcontemporary topics in materials science. Each module is a sequence of self-containedactivities which provide students with the background necessary for them to engage ininquiry through design.BackgroundWe are in the midst of major changes in both pre-college (K-12) and college leveleducation. It is becoming increasingly evident that the traditional approach to teaching—wherein a teacher provides a set of stimuli and reinforcements in an effort to elicitdesired

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Roman Z. Morawski; Jerzy Woznicki; Andrzej Krasniewski

student's skills through laboratory and design experience,use of computers, oral and written communication, qualifications and teaching load of academicstaff, facilities and their availability, administration procedures, information system andcounseling, admission procedures, internationalization of the curriculum, student performance,competence of graduates, and internal quality assurance procedures.There are, however, some features of the system of study, namely, diversity and flexibility,which - in our opinion - have an essential impact on the quality of education, but are rather rarelybrought into discussions on quality assessment. In this paper, we define diversity and flexibilityof the system of study and show a strong relationship between

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Martha E. Sloan

M. E. Van Valkenburg of the University of Illinois invited electricalengineering department heads to a meeting at Berkeley in February 1965. At this meeting theCOSINE Committee (originally called the Committee on Computer Sciences in ElectricalEngineering) was formed. Its main purposes were to assist electrical engineering departments indeveloping computer engineering and to reorient traditional courses to use digital computers.The committee published a series of reports on undergraduate courses and laboratory equipmentbefore dissolving in 1972 [13].IV. The Seventies Electrical engineering departments thus entered the 1970's aware of the need for computerengineering education--just in time to deal with microprocessors. By 1971

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John T. Bell

engineeringeducation. However before this new tool can be effectively applied, we must first learn itsstrengths, weaknesses, and optimal implementation. A series of VR based educational moduleshave therefore been developed, in order to explore the capabilities of this emerging technology. [ 1-7 ]The interested reader is directed to the listed references and to the laboratory web site athttp://www.engin.umich.edu/labs/vrichel to learn more details of the VR modules.The StudentsThere have been fourteen students involved in the project so far, including the current four whoare just beginning their involvement. Thirteen have been either Junior or Senior chemicalengineering students, and one is a

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Robert Underwood; Loren Douglas Poole; Barbara Blake Bath

. Page 2.288.1In the third class period, the students spend two hours working “Real Problems” from the various disciplines. In the problem sessions, the students work in teams to solve problems and then turn in a team solution at the end of the two hour period. The problems were collected through personal visits with professors or through email.. Students are not expected to “learn the science,” but only to be able to work through the mathematics. It is not the intent of these problems to teach material in other subject areas, but to use that material to help students make use of their mathematical knowledge. Often, engineering and science texts introduce a theory and jump to the formula without developing the mathematics

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Nicole Washington; Mohamad Parnianpour; Jared Walkenhorst

Session 2263 Development of a CAI for use in an Industrial Biomechanics and Ergonomics Course Nicole Washington, Mohamad Parnianpour, and Jared Walkenhorst The Ohio State University, Columbus, OhioAbstractMultimedia technology offers a more interactive approach to instruction than the traditional classroom lectures.Through computer-aided instruction (CAI), a number of teaching styles can be used that take into account thedifferent preferences of the students. The Biomechanics Tutorial program, is a CAI that incorporates audio, video,simulations, and graphics to: review concepts of

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Edward Pines

. As part of its manufacturingengineering education program, NMSU has developed partnerships with a variety of industrialfirms and two national laboratories. A telephone survey was made of human factors specialistsat the industrial partners. Respondents indicated a need for actual facility use. It was suggestedthat as much actual equipment and workplace experience as possible be built into the class.Additionally, a telephone survey was made of colleagues working in the ergonomics area. Thissurvey was undertaken to further develop the academic content of the course.A set of course objectives and topics were finally developed and discussed with the curriculumcoordinator. This agreed-on set of topics became the basis for the course syllabus

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Vincent Allen; Bruce E. Segee; Scott C. Dunning

: ($~P19~ implementation cost) / ($~P17~/yr) = ~P20~ year paybackBiographySCOTT C. DUNNING in an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology at the University of Maine,Orono, Maine. He teaches undergraduate courses in electrical machinery and power systems. He received the BSEEand MSEE from the University of Maine. He is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Maine. He iscurrently Chairman for the Executive Committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Maine(IEEE) and a Member of the Amercan Society for Engineering Education(ASEE).Dr. BRUCE SEGEE received a PhD in Engineering from the University of New Hampshire in 1992. He has been anassistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the

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Kevin S. LeBlanc; Bruce E. Segee

I/O card.In this way, a non-programmer can change the functionality of the application by changing aWord document and the programmers can develop the application without knowing the format ofthe Word document.3.2 Specific ExampleA current project at the University of Maine Instrumentation Lab uses OLE in a closed loopcontrol system. The project itself is a levitation controller designed for teaching aboutintelligent systems. The idea is to float an object at a constant height by pulse width modulatingan air blower. The control system developed to accomplish this is shown in Figure 2 below. Theobject floats between the array of infrared sensors. The infrared pair that trips, which determinesthe objects height, is monitored by the embedded

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Vincent Allen; Bruce E. Segee; Scott C. Dunning

SEGEE received a PhD in Engineering from the University of New Hampshire in 1992. He has been anassistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Maine since that time. At theUniversity of Maine he heads the Instrumentation Research Laboratory, an organization dedicated to research andteaching involving instrumentation and automation. Work in the lab includes the use of PC’s, PLC’s, and embeddedcontrollers for instrumentation, automation, and networking. Work also includes the use of fuzzy logic and artificialneural networks.SCOTT C. DUNNING is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology at the University of Maine,Orono, Maine. He teaches undergraduate courses in electrical machinery and power

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C. Dianne Martin; Edmund Tsang; Rand Decker

4,5,6,7, except thatservice learning provides the context for the design projects.The service learning project is carried out with the partnership of the Mobile County SchoolSystem and provides students enrolled in "Introduction to Mechanical Engineering" with real-lifecustomers in their design projects -- a team of two middle-school teachers. The students areinformed about a need in the community (the schools) for more resources to support hands-on ofmathematics and science in middle-schools in Mobile County 8, and they are tasked withdesigning and producing manipulatives/instruction modules that satisfy the need of their teachercustomers for implementing hands-on activities to teach mathematics and science.To make the process "real-world" like

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Janet K. Allen; Farrokh Mistree; Jennifer Turns

Professional Engineers found that whileindustry places a very high value on design and teamwork skills, the preparedness of theengineering graduates is very low [1]. Findings such as these are used to argue that engineeringstudents need more and qualitatively different design experiences than currently exist within thecurricula. Such experiences are supposed to provide students with the opportunity to solve openended problems, to work in teams, and to treat design in a more formal manner [2-4]. Inpractice, such experience-based engineering design education can be difficult to create andchallenging to sustain. Strategies and resources, including software resources, are needed tomake the teaching with such experiences more feasible.ME3110: Creative

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Dean R. Johnson; S. Hossein Mousavinezhad

: MATHCAD, MATLAB, MATHEMATICA, MAPLE, LABVIEW,engineering educators need to take special care in where and when to introduce theseengineering software packages to students. Historically, signal processing has beena subject where students have great difficulty in understanding the underlying principlesand visualizing often abstract concepts which are fundamental to this important andgrowing area. Authors have had experience in teaching courses and conducting research in theareas of signals & linear systems and digital signal processing and welcome thisopportunity to share these ideas with engineering education community. In Section II weshow specific examples of filter design methods and solution of difference equationsusing MATLAB and

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G. Frederick d'Almaine; Brian Manhire; Samuel O. Atteh

(See Figure 1 for technikon abbreviations) The foundation technikon qualification is the three-year National Diploma which pres-ently consists of 4 semesters of theoretical studies (i.e., lectures and laboratories on campus) fol-lowed by 2 semesters of experiential training at a cooperating accredited industrial employer. AtM. L. Sultan Technikon for example, the minimum theoretical component for the National Di-ploma in electrical engineering (heavy current) consists of 20 subjects at 5 contact hours perweek per subject. The highest level examinations are externally moderated by suitably qualifiedpersonnel from other academic institutions or industry. Certain subjects such as communicationskills and computer skills are compulsory

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Sheela N. Yadav-Olney; Jill M. Clough

Session 2325Competition -- a program that provides our students with the popularity of an athlete and therespect of an engineer.BiographiesJILL CLOUGH is an Associate Professor and Program Chair of Industrial Engineering atUniversity of Wisconsin-Platteville. She teaches courses in simulation, facility layout,fundamentals of industrial engineering, and introduction to engineering. Dr. Clough earned herPh.D. in industrial engineering from University of Iowa in 1993.SHEELA YADAV-OLNEY is an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at University ofWisconsin-Platteville. She teaches courses in manufacturing systems design, production andoperations analysis, engineering management, and engineering economics. She is alsoresponsible for the

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Peter Ludovice; Noel Rappin; Matthew Realff; Mark Guzdial

) which will facilitate student learning through construction of equation-based models and evaluation of those models executed as simulations. We have several specific objectives that wehope to achieve with DEVICE.• To teach chemical engineering modeling skills. Modeling is a skill that engineers use frequently in practice, but is rarely explicitly taught [1]. DEVICE is prefaced on the hypothesis that to support the learning of1 A version of this paper will appear in the ACM CHI97 Conference Proceedings. Page 2.189.1 modeling may require a different software architecture than that to support the professional