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John E. Shea

issues is an integral partof the implementation of the methodology. Implementing a more complete application of Kolb’slearning cycle by adding active learning exercises to the traditional lecture format was themotivation for the new exercises. LEARNING OBJECTIVES FOR ACTIVE LEARNING EXERCISES Fortunately, the four-quarter credit hour SPC course in the IME department at OSU consistedof one, two-hour laboratory in addition to three, one-hour lectures. The two-hour laboratory wasnot well utilized. The exercises were not synchronized with the lecture and students workedindividually to complete assigned exercises. The laboratory time was completely restructured tolink directly with the lecture material. The active learning format

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Lia F. Arthur; Irem Y. Tumer

a few classes, andtherefore had experience in teaching and tutoring students in one-on-one and small groupsettings. Areas that I lacked experience in included overall course structure, preparing anddelivering lectures, and homework and exam writing.3.1.1 Developing Course StructureAs an integral part of the chemical engineering curriculum, the expected main topics of thiscourse are well defined. Once Dr. Eldridge and I had divided the topics between ourselves, ourmain concern was deciding what information and which concepts would be covered under eachtopic. There are several concepts throughout the course, particularly concerning column design,that could just as well be covered under several different main topics. Together, we decidedwhen

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Fred Weber; Daniel C. Yoder; Christopher D. Pionke; J. Roger Parsons

alumni, The University of Tennessee College of Engineering is wellunderway in a major renovation / reconstruction of its Freshman Engineering program. Thiseffort is an integrated approach to the Freshman curriculum, with a 6-semester hour first-semester course emphasizing problem-solving, teamwork, design concepts, and computer tools(engineering graphics and computer programming), all based around the study of low-levelintroductory physics material. The second thrust is a second-semester 6-hour course integratingstatics and dynamics, while assuming and using mastery of the material from the first semester.Following the lead of educational theorists, the effort is trying to include as many different formsof learning opportunities as possible. The

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Richard M. Felder

in the faculty member’s class, or anything else that might serve as a basis for discussion. Each new workshop offered on campus should provide fresh recruits for the group.• Set up a listserver. An intranet listserver devoted to educational issues provides a forum for exchanging ideas, questions, answers, problems, recommendations, and jokes.• Publish a newsletter. Every semester or more often, compile and distribute reports of faculty innovations and honors related to teaching, news of upcoming programs, and teaching tips.• Facilitate course and curriculum reform programs. Work with groups of faculty members attempting to revise individual courses, restructure their department’s curriculum, or introduce

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James Rehg

-hour period.Exposure to industrial level process systems is important in a controls laboratory, but controlsexercises should start on smaller process control systems. To satisfy this training need, an NSFILI grant was used to develop a low cost process control trainer for temperature.Trainer Design CriteriaThe design criteria for the temperature trainer included the ability to reach the desired steadystate temperature in a reasonable amount of time; to provide relatively quick response to changesin the set point or system disturbances; to use off-the-shelf industrial components; to interfaceeasily to a variety of control systems; to fit easily on a bench top; and to cost less than $500.System ComponentsThe heart of the temperature trainer is a

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W.R. Kaminski

Page 3.44.14close enough to give the student an appreciation for the mechanisms and theory involved innatural convection. Assuming that a thermocouple readout is available, the experiment can be duplicatedfor approximately $650. Conclusions The experiments described in this paper were found to be both challenging andinteresting to the students based on comments and student course reviews. The experimentswere found to significantly contribute to the understanding heat transfer and supported thebasic framework of the Mechanical Engineering Technology curriculum. Acknowledgments The author wishes to thank all of the Mechanical Engineering Technology

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H. Öner Yurtseven; Patricia L. Fox

second-year electrical and mechanical engineering curricula on site in Malaysia, completing this part ofthe program students travel to the US to complete their degrees. There are 125 students nowcompleting a bachelor degree at IUPUI. PSET was also awarded a contract by the nationalpower company, Tenaga Nasional Berhad, to train electric power technicians. Overall, havingboth engineering and technology curriculum has allowed PSET to offer a wider range of servicesto Tenaga Nasional Berhad. IUPUI and PSET, is thus in an exceptional position to be part of theambitious educational initiatives planned by Tenaga Nasional Berhad, the training institute ofMalaysia's national power company. In fact, course work bearing IUPUI credit has been offeredin

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Sharon M. Schlossberg

. citing experiences, shared with a group of caring and friendly people. All of usPrior to student arrival, teachers engage in an had a common goal, which was to im-intense two-week program of education and prove ourselves to benefit our students.”training involving the same laboratories and ex-ercises that will be used for students (Figure 2). “I was so happy I wouldn’t changeSupplemental sessions on educational methods anything. ... The faculty and staff are ex-and curriculum design provided by the FAU cellent!”College of Education help teachers place thetechnical activities experienced into the context “Finally, because of TC

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

sequence and style were not changed: there were still two one-computer-based tutorial system to the costs associated with hour lectures per week.traditional tutorial methods. In 1996 and 1997 the computer system was extended to 1 Introduction include an integrated messaging system (Scott 1996b).To evaluate any new innovation in education we must Students could attach a question to a problem, and staff (whoconsider both the ‘input’ to the innovation (for example the

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Tom Owen; Jack Carter; Connie Martin; Cheng Liu; Ambrose Barry; J. William Shelnutt; Patricia Tolley; Nan Byars

class typically involves a lecture, problem solving demonstration, and questionsfrom students at any site. Use of the program PSPICE is an integral part of the curriculum, andcomputers with this software installed are available at each college site. Other software may beadded as needed. Initially we thought it likely that each student would have access to the Internet, either athome or in the work environment, but we found that not to be universally the case. Computerswith Internet access are provided at each community college site. However, since some of thecolleges are not open on weekends, student access is less than optimal. Much of the coursematerial is on the home page for the course ELET 3133, and the instructor depends on

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James L. Hales

visit and exchange ideas and experiences with engineering faculty atselected universities in the People's Republic of China. We were to visit three cities in the PRCand spend the last two days in Hong Kong. We went first to Beijing, then Shanghai, and finallyto Wuhan, an interior city on the Yangtze River about five hundred miles west of Shanghai. Theentire excursion was three weeks in duration. We attended a five-day conference (The Fourth International Conference on ContinuingEngineering Education) in Beijing and then visited several universities. This was at the time of Page 3.370.1the student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in the

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Richard D. Christie; Peter M. Trinidad

Session 1532 Visualizing Pedagogical Circuits Richard D. Christie, Ph.D., Peter M. Trinidad Department of Electrical Engineering, Box 352500 University of Washington Seattle, Washington 98195-2500 Phone: (206) 543-9689 Fax: (206) 543-3842 christie@ee.washington.eduAbstract Visualization techniques are integrated with a circuit simulator and applied to pedagogicalcircuits to communicate circuit behavior in an intuitive way. Several representations of voltageand

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Zbigniew Prusak

. About55% of Americans used computers at home or at work at the end of year 1995, the highest level of allnations [1]. This number is constantly growing for the overall population and is already close to100% for high school graduates. Most adults in industrially developed nations have a limitedunderstanding of basic sciences, yet they use a wide array of technologies at home or at work. Thislimited understanding of basic sciences does not prohibit them from being very productive users ofhigh-tech devices but only as long as the devices operate flawlessly. At a first sign of malfunctioning,an operator is usually helpless and cannot continue to work (almost proverbial power outage at a cashregister and the cashier cannot calculate percent discount

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Scott A. Stefanov; Daniel J. Pack

lessons learned as a partof the Academy educational experience. The project has been offered to seniors andjuniors majoring in Electrical Engineering in a senior design course and an independentstudy course. A team of two students has participated in the project during the pastacademic year and one new team is taking the challenge this year. The essential goal ofthe project is to design and create a wheeled robot which navigates through a maze Page 3.286.1searching for a fire, simulated by a burning candle, detects the candle light, extinguishesthe flame, and returns to a designated location in the maze. To accomplish this goal,students must integrate

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John S. Schmalzel; Ralph A. Dusseau; Kauser Jahan

introduced to engineeringexperiments and calculations through a series of modules in measurements. The primary goal ofthis course is to expose freshmen engineering students to multidisciplinary projects that teachengineering principles using the theme of engineering measurements in both laboratory and real-world settings. This concept is an inversion of the traditional laboratory curriculum paradigm.The current situation is that freshman programs focus either on a design project or discipline-specific experiments that may not be cohesively integrated. In real-world settings engineers workin multidisciplinary teams on a variety of complex problems. The fundamental principles ofmeasurement and their application are crucial to the solution of these

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Cynthia A. Mitchell; Caroline Baillie

(they were radical troublemakers who had no idea of how the world really was) and so I and my female engineering friends never took any interest in such separatist groups who just gave the rest of us a bad name, and made it more difficult for us to be ‘one of the guys’.2.2 Current student experiences: being ‘equal’ Page 3.432.2These ideas have actually developed even further in the last decade or so. Today, students areconditioned to believe even more in ‘equality’: there is no concept of ‘difference’ in mostschool leavers’ minds. Here is a recent comment from an interview exploring the need for agender inclusive curriculum with a

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Hussein Anis

human resources.(7) Academic reform and curriculum development.(8) Commitment to make project output accessible to monitoring committees.(9) Commitment to share experience and facilities with others.Proposal Preparation Assistance ServiceThis was a mechanism provided by the EEDP to assist individual faculties of engineering toprepare project proposals. Such assistance included the provision of expert and technicalservices , library resource material ,material on engineering education, human resources suchas a librarian, secretary, office facilities, ..etc. In view of the urgent need demonstrated bymany smaller institutions assistance services were not geared to an executive cycle and,therefore, commenced at any time. This together with the fact

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Aaron A. Jennings

proprietary professional environmental software products thatcould serve well in engineering education applications. Details of modules developedforthe selected “impact” areas will be discussed in a series offollowing manuscripts.Introduction The work presented here and in the series of papers to follow grew out of an NSFsponsored project to share educational resources among members of the Gatewayconsortium of universities. The “Environmental Group” of the coalition was formed in thesummer of 1995 at a workshop held at Ohio State University, May 22-23. At thisworkshop, participants agreed to work in three focus groups on a series of projects toexplore “shared resource” opportunities built around “Case Studies”, “Databases” and“Environmental

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William Park

numerous others.Final oral and written reports must be presented, including both a User’s Manual, and aTechnical Report. The Technical Report includes mathematical analyses of the various parts ofthe machines as well as fabrication procedures and a cost analysis. An informal (though graded)preliminary demonstration is held about two weeks before the official public demonstration towhich the general public is invited.INTRODUCTIONThree years ago, the freshman engineering curriculum at Clemson University was completelyoverhauled. Replacing the standard freshman programming course (FORTRAN) during thesecond semester was ENGR 120, a new course in engineering computation, problem solving anddesign. A group project was designated to be an integral part

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J. C. Sener; R. R. Mirsky; David R. Haws; Stephen B. Affleck; J. L. Mason; L. C. Aburusa

appropriate department to ensure sound work ethics and academic integrity,while offering the student an opportunity to assume greater responsibility. The Construction Management Department of the College of Engineering has offeredstudent internships for over 10 years. During this period (ended in 1996), over 130 constructionmanagement and/or engineering students have participated in a one-semester internship with 73different employers in both the private and the public sectors. Of those 130 students, 32(approximately 25%) continued their internship for a second semester, with 23 (approximately70%) returning to the same employer. A small number of students (less than 10%) have

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J. Rene van Dorp; Michael R. Duffey

thesis that has followed the research cited in [4, 5], theparticipating graduate student is an experienced shipbuilding cost analyst. He has found, Page 3.466.6as have other research participants, that modeling a project activity network underuncertainty greatly improves oneÕs understanding of engineering project cost and schedulebehaviors. We are currently investigating extending this learning experience to a graduate-level course. However, the curriculum development issues are formidable. Acknowledgments The authors wish to acknowledge the support of the National Institute ofStandards and Technology

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Alex Kirlik; Jennifer Turns

difficulties associated withassessment include the following.• Deciding what to assess: Within engineering it can be difficult to determine what exactly students should be accountable for knowing and being able to do. For example, in an engineering design class, do we want to assess students’ knowledge of the steps of a particular method, their ability to evaluate how well a method was applied, their ability to execute the method, and/or their ability to integrate the results of the method into an emerging designed artifact.• Deciding how to assess: Given an assessment goal, another problem is developing an instrument that is capable of capturing levels of knowledge relative to the goal. A frequent problem with assessment is

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Narayanan Komerath

“perform” for them.5. The course would stay in “shallow waters” where the instructor could appear knowledgeable. His “lifeline” was a Spring 1997 Senior Design report on a long-range military airlift vehicle, 18 kindly donated by his friends from the Class of ‘97 . IMPLEMENTATION 19In the Spring, the textbook by Shevell was approved by the curriculum committee. Over the 20Summer quarter break, the calculation sequence for the conceptual design of a large airliner wasdeveloped and tested, modeled after an “extended” Boeing 777. The

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Robert (Bob) M. Anderson

with the factualbackground data of this experience, followed by some of the several issues that an early adoptermuch consider, some of the important lessons I learned, some of the emotions that I and mystudents experienced, and finally a couple of concluding comments. II. Factual BackgroundAll this experience is with EE201, Electric Circuits, a course that is required for students in theelectrical engineering and in the computer engineering curriculums at Iowa State University(ISU). This course has the very traditional content of a first course in electric circuits. Thetextbook is Electric Circuits, Fifth Edition, by James W. Nilsson and Susan A. Riedel, AddisonWesley, 1996. (I am told that this textbook

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Stephen R. Fleeman

need to be measured in this fashion. A timed examination on dc circuittheory provides an indirect measure. Any EET student with poor calculator skills probably will notsucceed in an EET program.The EIA skill standards are much more open to interpretation and implementation. This is by design.Educators worked with industry representatives to develop the standards. Don Hatton (of the EIA) sharedhis perspective of the EIA approach with this writer on October 29, 1997.“Industry requires workers to perform. Knowledge without the skills necessary to implement thatknowledge effectively and efficiently is useless. However, the EIA recognized the importance ofleaving enough latitude to permit and encourage educators to integrate the standards into

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W. Poppen; J. E. Seat; G. Klukken; D. Knight; J. Roger Parsons

skills for deciding if a situation warrants intervention. Page 3.589.1 The second skills base, facilitating structure, was geared towards helping teamsaccomplish the task. Facilitators learned skills to help teams begin and end team meetings. Theyalso learned how to set and negotiate an agenda, keep a team discussion focused, and help teamsset up timelines. Because of the level of knowledge about engineering that these facilitators had,special care was taken in teaching this skills base to instruct trainees that they were not toinfluence the actual content of the project. The third skills base, problem solving, was also geared

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William E. Sayle; Joseph L. A. Hughes

) The School provides appropriate support for underrepresented population groups, including ethnic and racial minorities, women, and disabled students. 22) Faculty members are active in research, consulting, and/or other professional activities, both to advance their own professional competence and to integrate new knowledge into the School's educational programs.For each outcome, both the methods used to achieve it and the relevant assessment measureswere identified. This process is summarized Tables 1-3, which are excerpted from the EEProgram Assessment Guide and include the example objectives and outcomes listed previously.Table 1 identifies the relationships between educational objectives and outcomes, rating them aseither

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William E. Sayle; Joseph L. A. Hughes

) The School provides appropriate support for underrepresented population groups, including ethnic and racial minorities, women, and disabled students. 22) Faculty members are active in research, consulting, and/or other professional activities, both to advance their own professional competence and to integrate new knowledge into the School's educational programs.For each outcome, both the methods used to achieve it and the relevant assessment measureswere identified. This process is summarized Tables 1-3, which are excerpted from the EEProgram Assessment Guide and include the example objectives and outcomes listed previously.Table 1 identifies the relationships between educational objectives and outcomes, rating them aseither

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Elizabeth Petry

will be directly applied to the major housing design and constructionproject in the students’ immediate neighborhood.At Mary Hooker Elementary School a system of weekly design lessons create the framework forthe introduction and application of architecture and design concepts. Development of a designvocabulary, application of the design process to problem solving, and the use of two and three-dimensional methods of communication are established as linking elements among thedisciplines. The designed world becomes the thematic foundation for all curriculum subjects.David Marshall, Sr. Project Manager for the State of Connecticut Commission on the Arts,noted, “No other arts organization in Connecticut offers an in-school program of

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Andrew S. Crawford

charged by the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Educationto propose an engineering curriculum model for team skill development. This committee waschaired by the author who served as a member of the Undergraduate Curriculum Task Force and is Page 3.390.7currently serving as the team building content specialist in the new Engineering 100 course,ASEE Paper #2632 Page 7, 04/06/98Introduction to Engineering (Appendix C). The following themes guided the committee’s work indeveloping the recommendations contained in their report: 1. Team project work is an integral part of engineering education. 2. Team skill development progression from the