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Marybeth Lima

us to think about as many problems that we would encounter as we could. Knowing where most of our problems would be caused us to brainstorm about how to solve those problems. Our brainstorming led us to the Internet and other sources such as facility services and animal experts to get more ideas and to polish up or throw away the ones we had. This project showed us how engineering works and it actually stimulated our minds. This is a great way to learn when compared to reading the same sort of thing from a book or mindlessly working problems over and over again.* Overall, I enjoyed and thought that the tiger project was a good idea for this class. I think this was a very difficult project though

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Peter A. Koen; Pankaj Kohli

to use computers for communication, analysis and design (repeat as item 4).4. Ability to function on multi- 9. Effective team skills.disciplinary teams.5. Ability to identify, formulate 10. Ability to develop innovative approaches.and solve engineering 11. Exert high levels of effort, strives to achieve goalsproblems. Effective problem solving. (repeat as item 6).6. An understanding of 12. High professional and ethical standards.professional and ethical 13. Mature, responsible and open minded with a positive attitude towards life.responsibility.7. Ability to communicate 14. Effective listening skills.effectively

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Robert A. Hall; Mark W. McK. Bannatyne

some technical specialty; almost the same percentage (27.3 percent) merely wanted to obtain some kind of diploma. Ranking in third place was the desire to defer military service (15.2 percent). Bearing in mind that women comprise one-quarter of the respondents, this figure will be much higher. Fourteen percent of the respondents cited acquisition of social status as their motive for enrolling in the higher education institution, and almost the same percentage stated that the profession of engineer offers the chance to engage in creative activity (13.6 percent); fewer than one-tenth (9.1 percent) believed that the engineer s

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Renecia Jones; Kerric Bennett; Ganelle Grace; Bala Ram

demonstrates that students are activities, letters from mindful of the socio economic community service status of others. organizationsGlobal Context of documentation that study of industrialEngineering demonstrates the student’s engineering in other countries, understanding of the impact of list of relevant seminars and engineering in a articles global/societal context. Page 3.594.4Lifelong Learning

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Henry W. Kraebber

Session 2247 Using the World Wide Web to Support Teaching in Manufacturing Engineering Technology Henry W. Kraebber Purdue University, Mechanical Engineering TechnologyAbstract: The Internet is a modern wonder of the computer age. The number of people usingthe Internet is doubling every few months. The growth is remarkable, unlike anything seenbefore in the computer age. It has tremendous power to provide students with a wealth ofinformation and communications opportunities. The question for engineering educators seems tobe one of how to harness the power of the Internet

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Michael J. Pavelich; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller

Session 3530 Measuring Engineering Students’ Intellectual Development Using Neural Network and Expert System Technology Ronald L. Miller, Barbara M. Olds, Michael J. Pavelich Colorado School of MinesSummaryStudents completing an undergraduate engineering degree are expected to develop intellectuallyin addition to acquiring specific engineering knowledge and skills. However, effectivelymeasuring intellectual development involves a time-consuming and expensive interviewconducted and evaluated by trained human experts. In order to develop a quick and inexpensivealternative method for making

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Zbigniew Prusak

needs of allpossible jobs the graduates may hold is simply impossible. Therefore, education of an engineershould be primarily a formation of a capable, open-minded and creative person equipped with thediscipline-related functional knowledge. The above described academic and practical activitiesshould foster the desired outcomes of the professional development of engineers and technologists.REFERENCES[1] Schein, E.: “Professional Education.” McGraw-Hill, 1973.[2] “ABET Engineering Criteria 2000” Engineering Accreditation Commission, http://www.abet.ba.md.us/EAC/eac2000.html, 10/27/1997.[3] Rocoeur, P.: “L’Université Nouvelle, L’Education dans un Québec en évolution.” Les Presses de l’Université

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Betsy Palmer; Rose M. Marra; Thomas Litzinger

Session 3530 A Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Study of Engineering Student Intellectual Development as Measured by the Perry Model Rose M. Marra, Betsy Palmer, Thomas A Litzinger The Pennsylvania State UniversityIntroductionIndustry leaders tell us that today’s successful engineers need excellent communication, problemsolving, and life-long learning skills in addition to the technical content engineering educatorshave traditionally focused on (Augustine, 1997; Barr & Tagg, 1995). In response, colleges arereforming their curricula to introduce more hands-on, active-learning techniques into

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Peter D. Heimdahl

a result, the camp has been established as an annual event and willcontinue to be conducted for the foreseeable future. Plans are already underway for the camp tobe held in the summer of 1998.The overall success of the camp will not be known for a number of years. However, the seed hasbeen planted in the minds of several young ladies that they could have a promising future in theexciting and interesting career paths of engineering, science, and technology. This informationwill assist them significantly in eventually making a reasoned career choice. Along with theirexperiences, the girls took home with them tangible souvenirs of what they accomplished incamp, to include five copies of a newsletter documenting these experiences. There is no

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Cynthia A. Mitchell; Caroline Baillie

were, after all, trying their hardest; I believed the new men were great because they kept telling me they had done the washing up; and when I went along to a women in science and engineering group, I decided they were a bunch of man-hating old maids who probably couldn’t get a boyfriend.Cynthia studied chemical engineering in the wilds of Queensland, Australia, also in the mid1980s. My parents thought I’d chosen engineering because I’d always been a bit of a tomboy. I believed that everybody could excel at some thing if they just put their mind to it; I believed I was successful because I worked hard, not because I had any particular talent or skill for what I was doing; I certainly was not a feminist

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Bernadette Longo

the February 1998 issue of TechnicalCommunication, George Hayhoe called for the same type of collaboration that Paynerecommended in an engineering context: “Technical communicators in the academy and industryneed to explore a new model of education for the next millennium, one that fosters, promotes,and actively pursues learning—and learning to learn.”2 It seems that at our current moment ineducational history, we find a meeting of minds from engineering schools, professionalcommunication programs, and industry on at least one issue: to effectively teach engineering andcommunication, schools and industry need to collaborate on ends and means.This increasing interest in industry/academy collaboration positions teachers as mediators in

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Stefani A. Bjorklund; Patrick T. Terenzini; John M. Parente; Alberto F. Cabrera

(Pascarella& Terenzini, 1991), the influences of these experiences among engineering students is as yetlittle understood. The absence of such information presents colleges and schools ofengineering with major problems. Industry and the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET) are bringing increasing pressure on engineering schools to producegraduates who are prepared to engage in unstructured problem solving and to work in groups.ABET is also moving to an assessment-based reaccreditation review process, requiringinstitutions to produce evidence that their programs “prepare graduates for the practice ofengineering at a professional level” (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology,1997, p. 41).This paper reports the

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Ben Humphrey

Session 3675 Excelling in Two Careers: A New Team Approach Ben Humphrey Parks College of Engineering and Aviation Saint Louis University INTRODUCTION Dual career family situations have traditionally been approached with the assumption thatboth spouses have individual careers and must integrate them into their family situations. Thispaper presents the viewpoint that one spouse can successfully administer two different careerssimultaneously, if the other spouse acts as organizer/augmenter to both careers (and

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Peter A. Koen

12. High professional and ethical standards.professional and ethical 13. Mature, responsible and open minded with a positive attitude towards life.responsibility.7. Ability to communicate 14. Effective listening skills.effectively 15. Effective oral communication. 16. Effective writing skills.8. Broad education necessary 17. Appreciation and understanding of history, world affairs and cultures.to understand the impact of 18. Able to function in a multicultural and diverse work environment.engineering solutions in a Breath of engineering sciences (repeat of item 3).global and societal context.9. Recognition of the need for 19. Motivation and

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

analysis, a chasm still exists in integrating and bringing the skills to bear on a design problem.With these six motivating factors in mind, we sought to develop and apply reverse engineering asa component in our design courses. A more detailed description is presented below, beginningwith an overview of our reverse engineering process.4 The Niche: Reverse Engineering and Redesign4.1 Reverse Engineering and Redesign in a NutshellOur efforts to include mechanical dissection in our courses are based on the reverse engineeringmethodology presented in [43-47] and inspired by the aforementioned work of Brereton [4] andSheppard [38]. Its goal is not so much to simply allow students the opportunity to dissect anindustrial product, but

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Shomir Sil; Sashi Sekhar; Chandra R. Sekhar

Session 1547 A Technology Curriculum for the Year 2000 and Beyond Minor in Management Program for Technology Sashi Sekhar, Shomir Sil/Chandra Sekhar Department of Management/Department of Electrical Engineering Technology Purdue University Calumet AbstractWhether it be in Industry or in the Service sector, today’s Technology graduates are developing,implementing, and maintaining systems that are the foundations of the American economy. So,what is next for these individuals who understand the technical aspects, but not necessarily

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Richard Gilbert; Mark Maughmer; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College; Renata Engel, Pennsylvania State University

AC 1998-11: All Lectures are Not Created EqualMarilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community CollegeMark Maughmer,Renata Engel, Pennsylvania State UniversityRichard Gilbert, Page 3.73.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 1998 Session 1675 Session 1675 All Lectures are Not Created Equal Marilyn Barger, Renata Engel, Richard Gilbert, Mark Maughmer FAMU-FSU College of Engineering/The Pennsylvania State University/University of South Florida/The Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstract

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Daniel Davis

associated within them as they are changed. Drawings are now able togenerate schedules, soon they will be “writing” specifications. A CADD based structuralanalysis program evaluates a selected area to be spanned then develops a material schedule,chooses details and draws the framing diagram. CADD generated presentations also allowclients and consultants to share more thoroughly in the design process. If the changes that have occurred during this decade are dramatic, the next decade ofarchitectural and engineering practice will be mind boggling. Those close to it will be better ableto discuss it and prepare for its future.CADD: IMPROVES EFFICIENCY AND COORDINATION A typical office has strong computer capabilities incorporating multiple

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Ronald V. Wiedenhoeft

having contact with philosophy develop more valid ways ofreasoning. Humanities classes, he says, “should stimulate and stretch the mind.” WilliamBennett, in his To Reclaim a Legacy, reiterates some of the great, fundamental questions of alltime that, presumably, engineering students have seldom found raised in traditional curricula. “What is justice? What should be loved? What deserves to be defended? What is cour- age? What is noble? What is base? Why do civilizations flourish? Why do they decline? What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope for?”5The essence of the new paradigm lies precisely in raising such questions and earnestly grapplingwith possible answers. Not a new dogma is thereby defined, but a new

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Shahla Keyvan; Xiaolong Song; Rodney Pickard

Session 3280 Computer-based Teaching and Assessment in Topics on Basic Physics SHAHLA KEYVAN, XIAOLONG SONG, RODNEY PICKARD Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of Missouri-RollaAbstractThis paper describes an experience in computer-based teaching and assessment in threetopics in basic physics. A module is developed for each topic using the Authorwarecourseware authoring tool. The first module is on fundamental particles, the second onbinding energy, and the third on atom density calculation. These modules are also installed onthe web.Each module has four components: 1

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James L. Greer; James P. Solti; James M., Jr. Greer

Incorporating Non-Traditional Teaching Techniques in a Technical Core Course James P. Solti, James M. Greer, Jr. and James L. Greer Department of Engineering Mechanics United States Air Force AcademyIntroductionThis paper describes motivating the implementation of non-traditional teachingtechniques, such as problem-based and cooperative learning, in a technical core course atthe U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA). All students at USAFA are required to take acertain common “core” of courses. Among these courses is an Engineering Mechanicscourse covering the fundamentals of Statics and Strength of Materials (EM 200). Manyof the approximately 600 students who take the

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Randall A. Yoshisato

Session 3213 Is Grad School for Me? Randall A. Yoshisato* The Dow Chemical Company Abstract To grad school or not to grad school — that is the perennial question that spirals in the mind of virtually every graduating senior. Unlike previous generations, many engineering faculty members have little or no industrial experience. This lack of practical industrial experience provides the advisor with a limited, and sometimes

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Arthur B. Sacks

serve society, particularly through stewardship 7 of the environment.With the CSM mission and the “Graduate Profile” in mind, the Humanities and Social Science(HSS) Curriculum Reform Subcommittee, established to consider the HSS curriculum,developed a set of objectives and a coherent theme for a three-course, ten-credit required corecurriculum: The objectives of the HSS core curriculum are to offer a coherent sequence in the humanities and social sciences appropriate to a Mines education and to develop writing proficiency throughout the CSM curriculum. The focus of the core is human-environment interactions, including knowledge of how engineering responsibilities extend to

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Daniel P. Schrage

Session 1202 Integrating Graduate and Undergraduate Education Through Student Design Competitions Daniel P. Schrage, Professor School of Aerospace Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0150 ABSTRACTThe Georgia Tech graduate program in Aerospace Systems Design was initiated in 1984with two rotorcraft design courses as part of the Georgia Tech (U.S. Army ResearchOffice sponsored) rotorcraft center of excellence. The American Helicopter Society(AHS)/industry student design

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Zhang Wenxue; Yuan Dening; Chen Zhi

personnel training is carried out insome engineering departments of our university. The training objective is decided accordingto the three categories. The first category is a program for Master of Engineering includingBachelor of Engineering, i.e. Bachelor and Master combined program, in which the trainingprocess will be optimized and the training of “the both ends will be intensified, and themiddle will be optimized”. One end refers to strengthening basic education on modernengineering technology and comprehensive personnel quality, and the other end is to enhancethe practical engineering training with a macro-concept, including engineering scientificresearch, comprehensive ability training in designing and the training of comprehensiveability

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Thomas V. Mecca; Sara Cushing Smith; Lynn G. Mack

curriculum for engineering technology graduates. The SCATE Workplace Research Model includes administrative and industry guidelines, researchdirections, and common reporting forms for gathering data and information on the roles andresponsibilities of technicians in the workplace. Information gathered and the knowledge gainedduring the industry visits give interdisciplinary teams and college administrators invaluableinsight as they author and adopt a new engineering technology curriculum for techniciansentering the 21st century workplace.Introduction:In 1993, the Gaining the Competitive Edge1 report disclosed a new picture of what "educationalpreparation" was required of technicians in order to succeed in today's workplace. This picturepresented a

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Michael Rudko

and, notnecessarily, more general truths. Although the ABET 2000 Criteria are more flexible than theirpredecessor, the fact that programs must still satisfy credit hour or percentage minima inengineering, math/science and liberal arts contents as well as more specific program criterianeeds to be kept in mind. From the viewpoint of Union College, we are thankful for the addedflexibility and believe that we have put it to good use within our institutional framework, but thenew process did require a considerably larger effort than the one it replaced. Hopefully, as weall become more versed in assessment techniques and in the implementation of the ABET 2000criteria this will cease to be the case.MICHAEL RUDKOUnion CollegeElectrical Engineering

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Susan Montgomery

Session 3213 A Department-Wide Distributed Advising System Susan Montgomery University of MichiganABSTRACTIn the spring of 1997 the department of chemical engineering at the University of Michigandecided to implement a distributed advising system, wherein the responsibility for advising ourundergraduate students would be distributed among the faculty. This paper describes thecomponents of the advising system, training and informational materials developed, and reportson the first semester’s implementation.INTRODUCTIONThe department of chemical engineering at the

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Samir B. Billatos; Nadia A. Basaly

topics such as environmental engineering. Weare therefore recommending the implementation of a Mechanical Design for the Environmentcourse as an advanced undergraduate elective course or a graduate course. The course will serve as an introduction to green technology and design for theenvironment. With this objective in mind, the course is divided into two parts. Topics of eachpart are shown in Table 1 below.Table 1: Course Outlines Part I Part II 1. What is Environmental Engineering? 7. The Manufacturing Process Design Rules. Page 3.563.7 2. Green Engineering and Environmentally 8

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Dava J. Newman; Amir R. Amir

Freshmen Seminars [1] and Introduction to Aerospace and Design,which is the topic of this paper. Other students may be interested in aerospace engineering but areuncertain whether to select it as their field of study, while a third group of students desires someexposure to aerospace and design. The MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics first cre-ated the Freshman elective Introduction to Aerospace Engineering to assist students interested inmajoring in the field. To make the course more exciting, the design and construction of a modelblimp was integrated into the subject. Over the past three years (1995–1998) several innovations have been introduced in the courseand the name was changed in 1996 to Introduction to Aerospace and Design to