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Stephanie Goldberg

important goal is to keep students involved with the textbook. More class time will bespent referring to the textbook and database. Lectures and laboratories will involve the textbookwhenever possible. An interactive component may be added to the course requirements. Links tomanufacturers' data sheets, professional organizations and IEEE journal abstracts will be added tothe database.1. J. J. Bellon, E. C. Bellon, and M. A., Blank, Teaching from a Research Knowledge Base, Macmillan, 1992.2. R. D. Murphy, "Hypertext and the EET Student", in Proc. ASEE Annual Conference, pp. 69-70, 1992.3. A. S. Sedra and K. C. Smith, Microelectronic Circuits, Oxford University Press, 1998.Stephanie Goldberg is an assistant professor in the Technology Department at

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Rebecca K. Toghiani

for studying the phenomena. Supplies for this demonstration are modest: three large beakers, a stirring rod and about100-200 cc each of water, ethanol and toluene. Ethanol and toluene are commonly used inchemistry laboratories and thus are readily available on most campuses. For demonstrationpurposes, one can use food color in the ethanol or water to enhance the visual impact of thedemonstration. Before any mixtures are prepared, the students (in groups of two or three) areasked to discuss and hypothesize what will happen when they mix: 1) ethanol and water; 2)ethanol and toluene; and 3) toluene and water. The class is polled and their guesses are tallied onthe board. 50-100 cc each of water and of ethanol are mixed in a beaker. These

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William J. de Kryger; David A. Lopez

the group issufficiently large and technically diverse, two concurrent projects may be selected.The exchange project tries to tie into the academic strengths of the individual universities. Theacademic strength of VSU lies in their deep theoretical education. This is primarily due to theminimal amount of funding available for expensive, modern laboratory equipment. Since VSUhas such deep roots in theoretical education, the practical application portion of the project is ofparticular interest to the Russians. The strength of CMU is in the availability of advancedlaboratory equipment and the practical application of technical education to realistic problems inindustryAn important aspect of these projects, other than the obvious technical

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Kenneth L. Tuttle

extracredit and it allows the best students to stretch. The projects can be broken into smaller assignmentsor the project can be taken further if more experiments are conceived. The packet the students returnis nice, very impressive, especially the best students.DR. KENNETH L. TUTTLEDr. Tuttle graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1967 with a major option in Mechanical Engineering and wentto Oregon State University for an M.S. in 1974, and a Ph.D. in 1977, both Mechanical Engineering. After six yearsindustry experience, he joined the Naval Academy faculty. Currently an Associate Professor in the Department of NavalArchitecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering, Dr. Tuttle has served as Director of the Marine Propulsion Laboratories,taught

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Cliff J. Schexnayder; Avi Wiezel

, Page 3.158.3 4a significant improvement in the learning rate, an increase in course completion, and adecrease in overall course delivery cost, particularly when distance learning is involved.Internet ApplicationsThe Internet is transforming learning by removing the requirement that students be at thesame place as their laboratories, their mentors, or their collaborators. Data can beacquired from remote sites, teachers can advise from anywhere, and peers cancommunicate with each other from multiple locations around the world. Newopportunities for decentralized study go beyond telecommuting, which implies merelyconnecting two locations. Internet

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Thomas G. Stanford; Donald Keating

, faculty treated laboratory, clinical, andfieldwork experiences as supplementary learning activities that reinforced students’ mastery ofthe knowledge transmitted to them.”3 3. NEEDS-DRIVEN TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONAfter three decades, higher education at the engineering schools is still primarily tied to thesingular linear research model of science-driven technology development and the didacticapproach to professional education. There, the goals are viewed primarily as teachingundergraduates and, at the graduate level, as research for the discovery and dissemination of newscientific knowledge and the graduate education of future teachers and academic researchers. Atpresent, the graduate education of engineers has basically evolved

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Michael D. Murphy; Kristen L. Wood; Kevin Otto; Joseph Bezdek; Daniel Jensen

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Stephen R. Fleeman

credit hour is awardedfor each lecture hour. In contrast, two laboratory hours are required to produce one credit hour. These Page 3.233.6general guidelines are modified occasionally in unique course situations. -6-The class hours listed in Table 3 are given on a per-week basis. Each semester is 15 weeks long (notincluding final examination periods). Consequently, we must multiply each of the total class hours by 15.When the number of class hours is tallied, we obtain a total of 1,392 hours. While this seems to bewoefully short of the total training hours provided in Table 2, we must

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P. Hirsch; J.E. Colgate; J. Anderson; G. Olson; D. Kelso; B. Shwom

Consultants and is a current board member of the Association for Business Communication.JOHN ANDERSON is a Lecturer in the Writing Program at Northwestern University. In addition to being one ofthe EDC core faculty, he serves as Webmaster and instructional technology coordinator for the course.GREGORY B. OLSON is Professor and Associate Chairman, Department of Materials Science and Engineering,and Co-Director of the Materials Technology Laboratory at Northwestern University. Author of over 170publications in materials research and education, he is a founding member of QuesTek Innovations LLC, acomputational materials design company.DAVID M. KELSO is an Associate Professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department of NorthwesternUniversity's McCormick

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Michael D. Murphy; Kristen L. Wood; Daniel Jensen

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Robert (Bob) M. Anderson

homework scores, laboratory scores, etc.) can be uploaded; classaverages can be uploaded. Each student can thus know all his/her own scores and how his/herscores compare with the entire class.The secondary reasons for my selection of Mallard™ in no particular order are:1) Mallard™ is very user-friendly to students.2)Mallard™ is reasonably user-friendly to faculty and instructional developers.3)Mallard™ accommodates easy and clear integration of a traditional, public web site, the use of Page 3.11.3a newsgroup, and the use of e-mail.4) Mallard™ offers a very wide range of automatic grading policies that involve the number oftries permitted without

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Alice Agogino; Ann McKenna

. Cognitive apprenticeship: Teaching the craft of reading, writing, andmathematics. In Resnick (Ed.), Knowing, Learning, and Instruction: Essay in Honor of Robert Glaser, 453-494.Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum (1989).6. Special thanks to Julia Claeys for her demonstration of this activity. Original author unknown. Page 3.350.137. Special thanks to both the Synthesis Coalition and the Electronics Research Laboratory at UC Berkeley for theirdonation of old disk drives. 138. Yu, D. & Agogino, A., "Virtual Disk Drive Design Studio," CD ROM, Synthesis Coalition, 3112 EtcheverryHall, UC

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Marc A. Mesmer; Elizabeth A. Eschenbach

evaluation form. The students listed thefollowing categories as the most important: Attendance, Time on Project, Quality of Work,Communication with Team, Team Player, and Shows Initiative. Holter [6] develops a peerevaluation method for implementing a formal method to remove irresponsible team members froma team. Singh-Gupta and Troutt-Ervin [7] review literature on collaborative writing and discusshow peer review techniques can be used in group writing projects.Design Team Peer Evaluation ProcessThere are four course components of ENGR 111 that contribute to team building and the peerevaluation process: four one hour laboratories on team work, emails of weekly team progressreports, midterm evaluations, and endterm evaluations. This paper Ôs focus

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Rona Colosimo Warner; Paul J. Warner; Kim LaScola Needy

and suggestions for extendingthe model into other types of training. Page 3.431.12. Background2.1 The Manufacturing Assistance CenterThe Manufacturing Assistance Center (MAC) is an initiative of the University of Pittsburgh’sDepartment of Industrial Engineering. It is a 39,000 square foot technology transfer centerequipped with a highly skilled staff, training rooms, a computer laboratory, and a working, state-of-the-art factory. The center houses a 5-axis wire EDM (electrical discharge machine), a 4-axisdie sink EDM, a 2-axis CNC (computer numerical control) turning center, a 3-axis CNCmachining center, various CAM (computer aided

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James A. Liggett; David A. Caughey

. R. C. Reid, J. M. Prausnitz, & B. E. Poling, The Properties of Gases and Liquids, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1987. 6. A. H. Shapiro, Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Compressible Fluid Flow, Vol. 1, Ronald, New York, 1953.8. Biographical InformationDavid A. Caughey is Professor and Director of the Sibley School of Mechanical and AerospaceEngineering at Cornell University. He received his baccalaureate degree in Aeronautical andAstronautical Engineering from the University of Michigan and the Ph.D. in Aerospace andMechanical Sciences from Princeton University. Before joining Cornell, Dr. Caughey worked asa research scientist at the McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories in St. Louis, Missouri.James A. Liggett is Professor

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C. Faye; N.W. Scott; B.J. Stone

costoutside these set times. Tutors are also responsible for per page was $0.04.marking under the traditional system. Marking is made iii) Computer Laboratory: the idea of opportunity costsredundant in computer-based tutorials, where on-the-spot meant that expenditure on furniture (chairs and tables),marking is completed by the computer. However computer- lighting and cleaning were ignored. These costs should bebased tutorials have some additional costs: the expense of much the same for both traditional and computer-basedprinting handout

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Neima Brauner; Mordechai Shacham

packages enableundergraduate engineering students, with moderate statistical background, to carry out rigorousregression and statistical analysis of data. They are able to select the most appropriate correlation model and test its statistical validity using residual and confidence region plots. They cananalyze the quality and precision of the laboratory data by plotting one independent variableversus the others to detect hidden collinearity that may exist among the variables. Page 3.157.1Shacham et al (1996) had described a set of lectures and exercises that is used to introducefreshman engineering students to the basics of data modeling and

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Eric J. Addeo

corporation covering entire countries or, possibly, spanning the globe.2.0 Program DescriptionThe proposed program is made up of the following modules, some of which may be taught inparallel. In each module, there will be a mix of lectures, laboratory exercises, demonstrations,and case studies. Several business case studies will be included, which will expose students tothe needs of actual businesses, as well as the potential for innovative solutions. Page 3.87.2 2A) Overview of End User SystemsB) INT PrinciplesC) Technologies Shaping The

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Randall A. Yoshisato

graduate degrees particularly at the National Institutes ofStandards and Technology (NIST), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the variousnational laboratories and technology agencies. A doctoral degree is a prerequisite for virtuallyany faculty position at a four-year college or university. However, only a few hundred facultyopenings occur each year. Likewise government only hires a small percentage of the engineerswith graduate degrees. The vast majority of graduates will find employment in industry.Industry StakeholdersAdvisors should make sure that graduates have a practical understanding of general micro andmacro economics, particularly as it relates to the general cash flow situation in industry. Asshown in Figure 2, today’s company

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C. Faye; N.W. Scott

(always an academic staff member or high-quality postgraduateconsidered have been decided upon, estimating their dollar tutor), were held twice a week and again could last for up tovalue is a relatively simple exercise. one hour each. About 50 students were allotted in eachIt is when considering the ‘outputs’ of a tutorial system that session. The computer terminals could be accessed by studentsproblems arise for they are difficult to identify and even harder at any time the computer laboratory was open and a terminalto measure accurately. Some outputs can be measured with

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Katherine E. Scales; Michael S. Leonard; Donald E. Beasley

allocating the necessary resources to help accomplish thegoals. If an academic unit has not developed a strategic plan, it should do so early in thecurriculum renewal process. This will enable the subsequent stages in the renewalmethodology to proceed efficiently and to help the CDT develop program objectives whichcontribute directly to achievement of the goals of the academic unit.Curriculum renewal goals are changes that must be made in the academic curriculum tocontribute to the academic unit’s strategic goals. The curriculum renewal goals may include:desired subject area competencies, specific laboratory or classroom experiences, and/or theintegration of selected curriculum elements.Performance measures are established to evaluate candidate

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Alex Kirlik; Jennifer Turns

, discriminates at a level which is useful, etc.), and (3) refine the assessment methodology (e.g., improve portions of an instrument that were ambiguous to students and therefore not very useful).The remainder of this paper explores how a theoretically motivated and laboratory validatedassessment process, Structural Assessment, can be adapted to a classroom environment.Structural Assessment is a method targeted at structural knowledge, knowledge of therelationships among concepts in a domain, a method whose properties are being studied in thehuman factors and educational psychology communities, and a method which is simple to define.By combining the basic properties of Structural Assessment with a set of tools to design, executeand synthesize the

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Thomas G. Stanford; Donald Keating

contributed .3% , applied research 7.7% , and needs-driven creativeengineering development contributed 92%. Of this work, 49% came from industry, 39% camefrom U.S. Department of Defense government laboratories, 9% came from the universities, and3% came from other agencies.The lessons learned from Project Hindsight apply directly to civilian technology developmentas well. They indicate a need to establish an engineering education policy to enhance technologycompetitiveness for economic growth in the 21st century. The lessons learned are threefold. First,that technology progress in wartime or peacetime is accelerated by real needs and the flow ofnew ideas which help to create solutions to these needs. Second, that there are two primaryapproaches to the

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Narayanan Komerath

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Thalia Anagnos; Michael W. Jennings

laboratory space, documenting assessment of faculty quality and performance, and contacting employers who hirestudents from more than one program. Programs were assigned responsibilities for establishing missions, goals andoutcomes, preparing a report of what was currently being done, assessing the content of each undergraduate courseprovided by their program, determining where they could measure their students performance with respect to thedefined outcomes and implementing the first round of assessment.3.2 Obtaining baseline data for programs to get current status relative to assessmentThe surveys developed to obtain baseline data have been described in some detail in section 2.3. These surveys needto be completed for all programs in the COE, but