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George H. Staab

. Those planning to participate for multiple yearshad to judiciously select the number of credit hours they wanted to commit to. Student gradeswere determined based on the number of hours they worked and the credit hours they signed upfor. Assuming a student should spend two hour out of class for every hour in class, one creditrequired a commitment of 30 hours to earn an A grade. Other grades were based on a linear ratioof time worked (B = 27 hours, C = 24 hours, etc.). Not all students received an A.The university students were placed in a unique position as mentors to the high school studentsand mentorees for the engineers. As mentors they were invaluable in making the high schoolstudents feel like contributors to the overall project. This lead

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Fiona S. Crofton; Cynthia A. Mitchell

(1994) states that: The “ practice of professional engineering” means any act of planning, designing, composing, evaluating, advising, reporting, directing or supervising, or managing any of the foregoing, that requires the application of engineering principles, and that concerns the safeguarding of life, health, property, economic interests, the public welfare or the environment. (p.8).As of 1994, the CCPE Accreditation Board has also associated sustainable development with theexpectations of engineers: The engineering profession expects of its members . . . an understanding of the Page 3.485.5 effect

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Sara McComb; Robert Kiesow; Eric Mulkay; Douglas Boyd; James D. Jones; William Oakes

newsletter each semester. A key to functioning with a small group of active members has been to learning todelegate responsibility to individuals as much as possible. Initially, the entire core group wouldbe involved in planning the events and in making the decisions, but one or two people wouldperform the majority of the work. This situation led to an unproductive environment that Page 3.110.2produced burnout in the key leadership. In recent years, the core group has served in anoversight capacity for events but individual coordinators carry out the detailed planning andexecution. The event coordinator updates the executive board on the

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Richard K. Keplar; Eugene F. Smith; Vernon W. Lewis

the course.The results of the computer analyses and the set of manual calculations are included in astructural project “package” In addition, this package must include an appropriate number ofstructural sketches for the homework structure, showing foundation and framing plans,elevations, sections, and details as necessary. The student may use either CAD software ormanual drafting to produce the sketches. Frequently, the package must include an estimate ofthe cost of construction for the homework structure. Each student must turn in all of his/her workin a three-ring binder that will become part of his design portfolio.The Building Structure Design Laboratory Course (CET 455)The Building Structures Design Laboratory is the “capstone” course

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S. A. Tennyson; R. J. Eggert; D. Bunnell

course work andeventual practice.In preparing its curriculum, as a newly chartered program in Idaho, the Mechanical Engineeringfaculty at Boise State University has incorporated a three credit hour course entitled MechanicalEngineering Design in the sophomore year. Blending considerations of design theory, designmethods, design automation, materials & manufacturing, the faculty team has prepared and hasexecuted the 16 week curriculum during the 1997 spring semester.This paper describes course details including: objectives, topics covered, team teaching ap-proach, weekly class format, prerequisites, activities pursued, student grading, infrastructure,resources, faculty team planning, outcomes assessment techniques and results.1.0 Design

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Carol Richardson

studentsclass averages were almost 0.3 points better than the on-campus students. Only four ofthe 30 site-based distance learning courses showed poorer student performance than theon-campus courses. We suspect that the off-campus students are more mature and morewilling to take the time to study than our on-campus students. Accreditation Review The Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association ofCollege and Schools has prepared guidelines to assist the planning, coordination, andmanagement of distance learning programs. 4 This report discusses many aspects ofdistance learning programs. These guidelines state that the evaluation and accreditation ofdistance learning programs will rest on an

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William E. Sayle; Joseph L. A. Hughes

for the next visit.Defining Program Objectives and OutcomesWithin ECE the process for defining the program objectives and outcomes for use under EC2000began more than a year prior to the visit. This effort began with mission statements, goals, andrelated documents developed earlier as part of the College and Institute strategic planning andassessment effort. Comments and suggestions were solicited from faculty and members of theSchool’s Industrial Advisory Board and an initial draft was developed by the authors andreviewed by the School Chair and selected faculty. The revised draft was distributed to allfaculty for further comments. Separate Program Assessment Guides were developed for theelectrical engineering and computer engineering

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William E. Sayle; Joseph L. A. Hughes

for the next visit.Defining Program Objectives and OutcomesWithin ECE the process for defining the program objectives and outcomes for use under EC2000began more than a year prior to the visit. This effort began with mission statements, goals, andrelated documents developed earlier as part of the College and Institute strategic planning andassessment effort. Comments and suggestions were solicited from faculty and members of theSchool’s Industrial Advisory Board and an initial draft was developed by the authors andreviewed by the School Chair and selected faculty. The revised draft was distributed to allfaculty for further comments. Separate Program Assessment Guides were developed for theelectrical engineering and computer engineering

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H. Öner Yurtseven; Patricia L. Fox

shared by all engineering and technology departments.The largest collaborative effort by faculty and students in PSET is our electric race car project.Faculty and students from almost all disciplines within PSET combine their expertise, research,and development experience to create and maintain an electric race car. Students from theDepartments of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Technology,and Electrical Engineering Technology have used the race car to develop their senior projects. Inaddition to the collaborative efforts among faculty and students in PSET, industry cooperationand collaboration on this project is an essential component to its success. Due to the success ofthis project, plans for future collaborative

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Richard M. Felder

assigning exclusively individual homework. They may have heard about some of thealternative instructional approaches that a few of their colleagues have been carrying on about,but they dismiss these approaches as impractical, excessively time-consuming to implement, or“spoon-feeding.” There are a number of reasons for this faculty resistance, most of which have at their basethe inescapable fact that time is generally faculty members’ scarcest and most precious resource:there is never enough of it to do the things we have to do and want to do. First-class research—writing proposals and doing the things necessary to get them funded, supervising graduatestudents, attending and presenting at conferences, writing papers, and actually planning

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Scott A. Stefanov; Daniel J. Pack

projects including the fire-fighting robot projects.The wall-following robot project also confirmed our belief that creating a controlledsituation, where students are responsible to develop and execute a project plan with anappropriate amount of guidance, is an important educational experience.The first fire-fighting robot project yielded other valuable lessons. The study showed thata two member team is ideal for such a project. The work was evenly divided between thetwo cadets in creating FRED: one of the two students was responsible for the motioncontrol hardware and software, while the other was responsible for sensor relatedhardware and software. Toward the end of the project, the cadets put the two sub-systemstogether and worked on the

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Richard P. Long; Kandace Einbeck

chooses his or her own topics.Teaching such a course involves contacting the speakers prior to the semester, making surenecessary video equipment is available and functioning, reconfirming dates, and maintaining acontingency plan in case the guest speaker's busy schedule suddenly forces the cancellation of atalk. One needs to provide speakers with information about who the audience is and what theirlevel of language ability is, how long the talk should be (beginning language learners are unableto maintain the level of concentration necessary to listen to much more than 20-30 minutes ofsustained speech in the target language), and should be encouraged to bring visuals which canprovide the extra-linguistic information needed to make their

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Peter T. Cummings; Hank D. Cochran; Juan J. dePablo; Denis J. Evans; Peter A. Koen; Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos; Richard L. Rowley

content is suited for the novice or the expert (or somewhere in between); thus the expertwould get an explanation of configurational-bias sampling methods (a “deep” topic) that iscouched in the language of partition functions, sampling bias, and Fortran, while the novicemight access an explanation of the same topic presented by analogy to the problem of seating a Page 3.63.7group of ten people versus two at a restaurant. The point to realize is that depth is notsynonymous with degree of difficulty, or complexity.Our plan is ultimately to include all topics of practical relevance in molecular simulation, and todo so to a level of depth and

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Kenneth J. Soda

product in mid-January, late May or early August. As such, educators must plan tocontinue student involvement in the Tiny Chip process into the following semester. Directstudent evaluation of their own projects offers a wealth of opportunities to enhance the totaldesign process. We have found students often benefit more from the identification of a designinconsistency than they do from a perfectly working chip. In addition to the pedagogical benefits of student executed testing, NSF requires reportingon the results of testing on all sponsored Tiny Chips within three months of receipt of devices.Testing for both functionality and speed, and comparison with simulation are all desired elementsof these reports.7 Electronic mail is the

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James B. Stenger; Karen E. Schmahl

of technical information. Mymentor also provided me with a critique of my teaching, which I have included with my tenuredocumentation. As I told him, I plan to use him as a mentor-for-life, and request his servicesthroughout my career. Page 3.409.4Schmahl: I met with my first semester mentor, a full professor from the School of Business, sev-eral times for lunch and we visited each others classes. Although I learned much from him wenever really “clicked” and seemed to run out of things to talk about. For the second semester, acolleague of mine from within the School of Applied Science did provide very valuable advice aswell as friendship. We

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Scott J. Amos

howestablished performances and goals will be assessed. The new tools that have been developedare distinctly different from the factual testing-orientation of the past. Current Trends In EducationTraditional education is based on the principal that students must have certain knowledgewhich is transmitted to the student through teaching, in a certain sequence, the content of aneducational plan devised by educators. The mastery of content being more important than thedevelopment of skills. Traditional teaching methods cater to those who like converging quicklyto a correct answer by recipe or cook-book solutions. This conventional content orientededucational environment has now become information-rich. Most education taking

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Stephanie Goldberg

support and guidance to work with a higher level of textbook. The goalis to develop a structure allowing an advanced book to be used in a Technology program.1. IntroductionWith technology changing at lightning speed, textbook selection must be based on providing abroad range of material, currency, practical input, and the provision of a foundation for continuedtechnical growth. A textbook was found that satisfies these criteria for two courses in the four-year Bachelor of Technology program at Buffalo State College. The textbook, however, iswritten to an engineering student audience. A plan to acclimate a Bachelor of Technology classto an engineering-level text is presented in this paper. The key feature of this plan is a hypertextdatabase

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John D. Whittaker; Ted G. Eschenbach

Marketing Construction Project Project Planning Management Administration Production Research & Business Development Management Figure 1 from the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers (CCPE) TaskForce Report on the The Future of Engineering, July 1988 page 32 Job Function % Design 20.43 Project Management 16.67

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Timothy Diemer; H. Öner Yurtseven; William R. Conrad

universities and information centers throughout the world.IUPUI support staff have played a major role in the development of a student - recordssystem. IUPUI faculty members have worked in collaboration with local facultymembers and have held regular professional - development seminars and workshops.In July 1997, Tenaga launched its first degree programs under the name UniversitiTenaga Nasional (UNITEN). In the interim between 1994 and 1997, IUPUI credit -bearing programs were essential to the function of the newly planned university. Thepresence of the IUPUI program accelerated the installation of academic infrastructure,helped attract students to the newly planned university, and established a reputation forquality that UNITEN plans to enhance.Goal

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Timothy Diemer; H. Öner Yurtseven; William R. Conrad

universities and information centers throughout the world.IUPUI support staff have played a major role in the development of a student - recordssystem. IUPUI faculty members have worked in collaboration with local facultymembers and have held regular professional - development seminars and workshops.In July 1997, Tenaga launched its first degree programs under the name UniversitiTenaga Nasional (UNITEN). In the interim between 1994 and 1997, IUPUI credit -bearing programs were essential to the function of the newly planned university. Thepresence of the IUPUI program accelerated the installation of academic infrastructure,helped attract students to the newly planned university, and established a reputation forquality that UNITEN plans to enhance.Goal

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Timothy Diemer; H. Öner Yurtseven; William R. Conrad

universities and information centers throughout the world.IUPUI support staff have played a major role in the development of a student - recordssystem. IUPUI faculty members have worked in collaboration with local facultymembers and have held regular professional - development seminars and workshops.In July 1997, Tenaga launched its first degree programs under the name UniversitiTenaga Nasional (UNITEN). In the interim between 1994 and 1997, IUPUI credit -bearing programs were essential to the function of the newly planned university. Thepresence of the IUPUI program accelerated the installation of academic infrastructure,helped attract students to the newly planned university, and established a reputation forquality that UNITEN plans to enhance.Goal

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Randall A. Yoshisato

variousengineering disciplines and the skills, both hard and soft, expected by industry and otheremployers. With this information students can reduce the number of false starts, prepare a moreeffective study plan and take advantage of key developmental opportunities that may presentthemselves. The overall result should be reduced time to graduation, better prepared employeesand more satisfied citizens. Together these more satisfied, more productive people will work toincrease the overall resource base which, in time, should result in more resources flowing back toacademia. The long-term relationships developed will also lead to more partnerships and moredirect support of academia from alumni in industry. Hence, through a focused effort on improvedadvising

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Matt W. Mutka; Betty H. C. Cheng; Diane Rover

machines and dishwashers) and automotive-related systems (e.g., climate control and door controls). The operating system course includes a new module in real-time scheduling, with laboratory projects planned for task allocation in real-time distributed computing systems. Our digital system design course sequence includes the design of application-specific integrated ‘This work is sponsored in part by NSF grants CDA-9700732, CDA-9617310, CCR-9633391, CCR-947318, Page 3.27.1CDA-9529488,ASC-9624149, MIP-9321255. 1 circuits using VLSI and programmable logic, with plans to emphasize

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

for the San Jose Children’s Discovery Museum. Puettat the United States Military Academy (USMA) worked the problem of limited teachingresources by designing a course with LEGOs at its heart [32]. Working with Ullman’s designtext [42], Puett’s students are required to progress through three phases: specificationdevelopment & planning, conceptual design, and product design. Every design team has ahypothetical budget that must be used to “purchase” LEGO pieces, and each type of piece has aset cost associated with it. Further, teams can only purchase their LEGO parts at three specifiedtimes during the semester. Puett notes that this forces the teams to “work in a constrained designenvironment in which cost is a realistically important

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Wayne Hager; Jacques Lesenne; Dominique Saintive; Richard Devon

could be overcome, a larger problem developed in trying to coordinateinstitutional calendars. In hindsight, more detailed preparation should have been done in thesummer of 1997 to prepare for the collaboration. This must include an explicit and detailedsharing of the calendars, student schedules, laboratory availability, vacation and holiday dates,and so on. We initially overlooked most of this and simply made a verbal understanding that thestudents would be getting together on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Page 3.13.5a Roughly the equivalent of US associate degree Industrial Engineeirng Technology students.Initially, we had planned to have the

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Alice Agogino; Ann McKenna

, and a description of the problem you were trying to solve. Explain in Page 3.350.5 the memo how your team came up with the design and why you chose to make it 5 the way you did. If your design worked, explain why you think it worked and if it didn’t, explain what your plan would be to fix it so that it will. Also, describe in the memo what your contribution to the team was.Examples of student memos are shown in Figures 2 and 3. Almost every memo wasaccompanied by a sketch but the sketches are not included due to space considerations. Thesetwo memos are

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Jordan Cox; Alan Parkinson

properly sequence content and learning of skills. No graphics were involved, and mostinformation was entered using codes. Mann and Kitchens (1990) describe the development of acurriculum management system for mathematics for the Indianola Public Schools. The programwas used primarily to develop individual plans of study for students, perform assessment, andproduce reports of student progress. Carter (1995) discusses the potential of InformationManagement Systems to “allow for the unobtrusive and automatic acquisition of data describing thekey operations associated with the interlocking cycle of relationships between curriculum,instruction, and assessment” for use in Australian schools. The idea is not to control all activitiesbut to “direct them

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Robert K. Tener; Vincent Drnevich

, again at Rose-Hulman, and AAHE has scheduled its second conference on assessment forJune, 1998. Page 3.433.3Through these and other contemporary communications, the full intent of ABET Criteria 2000and the range of effective means for carrying it out become increasingly clear. Profound amongthese realizations is the imperative that each assessment means and method must be directlylinked to, and specifically selected to measure outcomes from, the stated objectives of each CEdepartment's individual program. A widely adopted and respected guide to developing outcomes 5assessment plans (Rogers and Sando

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Walter W. Fisher; Carol Crowley; Connie Kubo Della-Piana

analysis that was planned for the math class wasabandoned. OBSERVATIONS AND EXPERIENCESThe goals of the common project were: to strongly link math and English to engineering in the three course cluster, to demonstrate the multi-disciplinary nature of real problems, to insure that all students understood all of the issues of the project topic, to promote critical thinking, to improve writing skills, to provide students with practical math applications, and to demonstrate the importance of written communication in engineering.All of the goals were met to some degree except strong linking with math and providing

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Richard Devon; Wayne Hager; Dhushy Sathianathan; Dominique Saintive; Michel Nowé; Jacques Lesenne

unexpectedly reduced by its assignment to another course for most ofNovember. These Penn State changes looked like a routine, if unfortunate, development withlimited consequence, until the Artois IUT reported that Thursdays were no longer available attheir sight due to required athletic activities at that time. The verbal understanding had nevertaken root and the result was a major scheduling problem that caused problems for most of thesemester. Nevertheless, by the end of September we conducted the first student conferences.Initially, we had planned to have the students get to know each other through some general classdiscussions about technology. Although these took place, they were unsatisfactory because of