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Marla E. Hacker; Thomas M. West

growing aspect of technical education, research,and economic development in the United States. Concerns about U.S. competitiveness inmanufacturing continue to grow and the global economy continues to emphasize thecontributions of value-added manufacturing operations. Some of the important elements intoday’s changing economic environment are: demand for higher product quality; reduced timefrom concept to availability for sale; increased product output; and short product life cycles.The half-life of products has decreased to the point that 50% of product sales occur within threeyears of initial design. These factors have resulted in the absolute need for engineers who areprepared to initiate, design, plan for production, and control the manufacture

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Judy Grimes; Huiming Wang; Virendra K. Varma

acceptance rate for admission at this school wasone in ten. I was admitted, and graduated successfully. The school did not recruit me but Irecruited them in my academic plans. The school had an excellent reputation, and theirreputation was well known in the country. Therefore, the reason for recruiting the school of mychoice was simple: This is where I wanted to go, and I had the grades to be accepted.The true and the real life scenario that I have described above, applies to a small percentage ofthe population. My fellow classmates applied to several schools, and they went wherever theywere accepted. In the final analysis, we all became engineers, some of us by going to schoolswhere we wanted to go, and others by going to schools where we were

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Arnold F. Johnson

leadership, design, communication, teamwork, planning, andoriginality. The methodology used also provides an educational depth not normally experiencedin traditional laboratory assignments.In this approach, the entire class is divided into groups of three or four students (known as lead-groups) who are each responsible for preparing two laboratory experiments during the semester.Instead of the students performing laboratory experiments that are pre-defined by the instructor,they develop their own new experiments under the instructor’s guidance. The lead-group meetswith the instructor to select a topic that is pertinent to the material being covered in theconcurrent lecture class. A rough methodology is laid out for the lead-group students to design

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Warenna Millon; Eric Sheppard

Session 2570Discussion and Plans for the FutureOne of the most critical concerns in TU CEAPS is student retention to graduation. There may beseveral causes of high attrition rates, amongst which are: insufficient secondary preparation incore science and mathematics courses, insufficient preparation in study and learning skills,inadequate motivation toward engineering as a career choice, and lack of adequate financialresources. It is crucial that the reasons for the low retention be established in more detail so thatthey may be addressed.Efforts at TU CEAPS include plans to track students individually as well as in their incomingclass and discipline cohorts. Both academic and survey data will be used. This is critical inassessing the causes of

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Mel I. Mendelson

another clone of the engineering managementprograms [3]. It was thoroughly researched and planned in order to have an integratedcurriculum that satisfied the current and future needs of industry in Southern California. Thepurpose of this paper is three-fold: to determine which universities offer integrated curricula, topresent the need for our program, and to discuss how our program is innovative. Page 4.320.1II. Integrated Engineering CurriculaA. Hypothesis. Engineering/technology management graduate programs are one of the fastestgrowing programs world-wide. Their growth rate since 1990 has been 8.3% per year [3]. Mostof these programs either

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Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller

, and results of ourpilot assessment work using the rubric.Overview of the CSM Unit Operations LaboratoryTo facilitate development of each student’s engineering abilities in the unit operations laboratorycourse, supervising faculty place as much responsibility for the planning, execution, analysis,evaluation, and reporting of experiments on the students as possible. Each student performs atotal of eight experiments in fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and mass transfer working in teamsof two or three. Teams are randomly sorted from experiment to experiment so that studentswork with all their peers in the course and each student has the opportunity to serve as a “team

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Michael Ruane

that stresses open-ended problem solving, team dynamics, written and oralcommunication, and project planning and management. Annual enrollment is about 90students, and the course is offered both semesters and during summer session. All projects aredone by teams of two to four students, usually organized to have a mix of electrical andcomputer engineering majors. At the first meeting, teams generate preferences for their projectfrom a list of candidate problems solicited from "customers" - local companies, government,public and non-profit groups, faculty and individuals. Final assignments are made by theprofessor to balance preferences, team and individual skills, and problem requirements.1In one semester students are expected to develop a

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Melissa S. Tooley; Kevin Hall

prepared.In Senior Design, the capstone design course at the University of Arkansas, students are assignedto teams and take a real project (provided by local consultants) through preliminary and finaldesign, culminating in the development of construction plans and specifications. It should bepointed out that while the projects used in senior design are “real world” projects, they areperformed as academic exercises. In other words, they don’t really meet the client and theirplans and specs are not used for bidding purposes. The projects are conducted as if the job wasreal, however, and the consultants who provide them do work with students to ensure ameaningful design experience. Originally, the intent of Senior Design was to give seniors achance to

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Nick J. Kok

for quality control, based oninstitutional self-evaluation, was developed during 1990. The system was developed to ensure:C accountability to students, employees, employers and the community.C maintenance and improvement of standards.C realistic decision-making regarding funding and planning, based on valid and reliable information.The discussion that follows briefly outlines the outcomes of the quality assurance model of theCape Technikon. Furthermore, it focuses on the strategies followed in response to thetransformation process in South African higher education to ensure continuous improvement ofthe teaching of the institution to promote student learning.2. Outcomes and Performance IndicatorsInstitution-wide

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Clark Colton; Bonnie D. Burrell

beginning of the course. The goal of theteambuilding training is to provide the students with the experience of a high-performing, self-directed knowledge team which utilizes formation of ground rules, shared team leadership,participative goal setting and clearly defined action plans, and effective conflict resolution andwhich is capable of enhanced flexibility, creativity, and decision making. Because time islimited, a highly directive style of team building instruction is used so that students canmaximize their time on the technical portion of the course.a. Overall StructureThe structure of the teambuilding training is summarized in Figure 2. Teambuilding isemphasized at the very beginning so that the teams are formed and begin

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Robert A. Johnson; J. Shawn Addington

comprehensive assessment plan, the data gathered viaoutcome indicators are evaluated with respect to the program’s intended outcomes, andinterpreted to draw inferences and provide informed feedback to the constituents of theprogram.18,19 Triangulation, or the use of multiple assessment methods, is an importantconsideration in the selection of a set of outcome indicators utilized by a comprehensiveassessment plan.18 At the Virginia Military Institute, triangulation is provided within theElectrical Engineering Department’s assessment plan by the use of surveys and the department’scourse assignment database.While the specific mechanisms and strategies of assessment vary from program to program, theuse of surveys is a common approach. As outlined by

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Anthony J. Muscat

outside and inside of class elements was used to try and create the most favorablesetting for in-class discussions. The questions were chosen by the professor and planned ahead oflecture to uncover how to approach problems and derive insights. Two discussions varying inlength from five to ten minutes were planned for each class meeting. When asked onself-assessments, students found this learning approach unsettling because they were put on thespot and felt embarrassed if they could not give what they believed was a correct answer.Nevertheless, students found value in practicing verbal skills and in being guided. Thediscussions gave the professor an opportunity to quickly change the pace and mode of learning inthe classroom, to personally interact

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Gregg L. Fiegel

similar sense, promotion can be very important in the generation of external funds fromalumni and industrial professionals. At Cal Poly, emphasis is placed on laboratory- and field-based instruction. A program with such an emphasis can become expensive. Thus, a promotionplan was developed with the specific goal of raising the funds necessary to run the program.Finally, besides money, program support can come in other forms. Some examples include:field trip ideas, guest speakers for courses, class design projects, senior project ideas, serviceproject ideas, and equipment donations. All of these benefits have been recognized at Cal Poly,even though the faculty have spent only a relatively small amount of time developing apromotion plan.3.4 Acquire

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Kenneth Bryden

; communicated to peers and broader our academic lives,audiences; recognized, accepted, cited,adopted, or used by others. In other words, that • give more responsibility for learning to 6 the student, andit made a difference.” This scholarly work canvary in that it can include teaching, research • set measurable teaching goals,activities, and professional practice. However, establishing plans to meet these goals,it is required that “evidence that a significant and reviewing progress towards theseportion of a faculty member's scholarship has goals.been documented (i.e., communicated to andvalidated by peers beyond the university).”6The

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Emma Torbert; Eleanor Abrams; David Bourgeois; Carmela Amato-Wierda; Anneliese Mueller; Christopher F. Bauer

to the project. Teams areexpected to meet outside of lab to develop a project plan.Students work in teams of four to design and implement experimental plans that answer thequestions posed by Chemprojects. Typically, there is time to only run three Chemprojects in asemester. Five Chemprojects that have been implemented in our General Chemistry course (notall in one semester) are described below. Chemprojects are structured so that the students mustunderstand the principles covered in lecture in order to accomplish the project. An underlyingpremise of this approach is that creating this “need to know” will enhance student motivation forunderstanding General Chemistry principles.• The Synthesis, Characterization, and Scale-up of a

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Gulser Kosal; Hasan Nadir Derin

principles are used. Planning for the future, clearobjectives, participation, motivation, teamwork, leadership, problem solving,continuous improvement, empowered students, and learning assessment are givenspecial emphasis. Major stakeholders are identified as students, graduates, instructorsof the course, potential employers of the students, and the university management.Their expectations from the graduates are taken into account while designing thecourse. Difficulties due to the asynchronous nature of the course conduct are studied,and tried to be minimized by the design. In conducting the course, a student team isformed to improve the quality of the course as a project. The instructor works with theteam in collecting data each week to assess the

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Gary Grossman; Steve Wells; Michihiro Nishi

technical and cultural, and many became Page 4.162.2friends. The exchange is not only between students. The visiting faculty member also brings hisexpertise into the host university classroom in the form of guest lecturers.In 1994 and 1995, the Presidents of Old Dominion University and Kyushu Institute ofTechnology in Japan exchanged visits and worked to identify ways to develop relationshipsbetween these new sister institutions. An agreement was reached that a design competitionwould be held at ODU in the summer of 1996, and that the president of KIT would provide$10,000 in seed money. Planning for the competition began early in 1996, with

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Nagy N. Bengiamin

attributes.Step 4 Establish a process to monitor effectiveness of the program objectives - A plan must bedeveloped to revisit the mission statement and program objectives to ensure their continuedconsistency with the present activities of the department. Changing needs of students, shift indemographics, advances in technology, and changes in the department’s focus are among thedriving factors in this endeavor. All these factors are not of the highly dynamic nature whichsuggests a maintenance cycle of four to six years.Criterion 3 addresses the educational outcomes of the academic program and the assessmentplan. This criterion calls for satisfying outcomes a-k as a minimum. Additional outcomesshould be determined such that program criteria (Criterion 8

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Hamid Y. Eydgahi; Saeid Y. Eidgahy

Session 1360 Diversity: The Role of International Students as the New Global Prerequisite Hamid Y. Eydgahi, Saeid Y. Eidgahy Lima Technical College/Jefferson Community CollegeAbstractA study completed by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education in July 1998,forecasts more diversity in high school graduates while other studies have shown that studentslearn more effectively working in teams than they do independently. A review of the Societyof Manufacturing Engineers, Manufacturing Education Plan, clearly outlines integrativeacademic components in which the

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Vincent R. Canino; John D. Gassert

as manager of all of the design teams formed in BE-103. The GroupManger is responsible to the Division Engineering Manager. The function of the GroupManager is to call meeting(s) of the Project Managers to insure that all design teams are makingprogress towards their design goals. Further, Group Managers are required to meet with theVice President of Engineering and the Chief engineer every two weeks during the each academicquarter The Project Manager (PM) is an engineering member of a design team who assumes theresponsibility for organizing, coordinating and planning the activities of the design team. TheProject Manager is required to attend meeting(s) called by the Group Manager. The Associate Project Manager (APM) is an

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Scott Wayne; Alfred Stiller; Kristine Craven

publications, client presentation, and many othernecessary forms of communication that the students will encounter after graduation.Social EnvironmentIt is desirable that freshman-engineering students get to know each other. The students in aparticular section of freshman engineering will be required to work together in teams. The valueof study groups is also emphasized and thus they need to know students from other engineeringsections who may have the same mathematics or chemistry course. In order to encourage thisinteraction of students, there are two social activities planned during the first year.Early in the fall semester the students are brought together in order to meet each other and tointeract with the engineering faculty. The location of

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J. Bredeson; M. E. Parten

the following objectives: Students will obtain an ability to analyze and solve electrical engineering problems by applying fundamental knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering. Modern engineering techniques, skills, and tools will be used, particularly recognizing the role that computers play in engineering. Students will obtain an ability to identify, formulate, and solve practical electrical engineering problems. This includes the planning, specification, design, implementation, and operation of systems, components, and/or processes that meet performance, cost, time, safety, and quality requirements. A. Students will obtain an ability to design and conduct scientific and engineering

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Raymond B. Landis

practical examples that we could use in our classrooms. Math problem examples, lesson plans, etc. I would like to see how we could incorporate engineering topics or projects into our classrooms. More examples of engineering projects geared to high school science. Possibly give more examples on how math can be used specifically in the field, and/or engineering examples we can use in our classroom that won’t freak them out, but will make them see how useful math is in the field of engineering.Evaluations of early offerings of the course provided excellent suggestions for improvement thatwere incorporated into later offerings including: Spend less time reviewing the topics covered in the book. Bring engineering students in to talk to

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James Pearson

design. Each team forms a company which is then asked to respond to aRequest For Proposal from “investors” for a consumer product design appropriate to oneof five consumer markets. The engineers on the team work on the technical design,computer drawings, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, reliability studies, economicanalysis, testing; and consulted on the case design and technical manual content. Thegraphic designers work on the company identity, advertising layouts, marketing plan,web-page design, case design, manual design and packaging. Five design seminars arepresented by the faculty team. Four design reviews are conducted with each teamduring the semester. The final presentation by the team before the “ investors” includesa demonstration

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Zbigniew Prusak

. The change of non-traditional student population in EngineeringTechnology at CCSU in the past 10 years is described in relation to the economic health andactivities of the area’s industry. Reasons behind continuous education of workforce frompersonal, society and business perspectives are described. Lack of theoretical knowledge andlimited availability of time to study, often place the non-traditional students at a disadvantagecompared to day-time students. Challenges, as well as learning atmosphere diversification thenon-traditional students bring to the classroom are also described. Changes in working studentsavailability for evening and day classes, preliminary analysis of causes of the changes andimpact on planning of academic activities

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Francisco Ruiz; Michael E. Gorman; Phil Weilerstein

semester’s end. In addition,students must deliver a patent description and a business plan, and make a formalpresentation before judges from industry. These courses provide an effective approachto meeting ABET Criterion 3 outcome requirements by integrating technical and non-technical aspects of applied innovation in an organic way to encourage creativity, selfreliance and the emergence of inventive competence. NCIIA grants and resources havesupported the development of these courses and the continuation of the most promisingof the student projects emerging from them towards commercialization. Page 4.532.1I. IntroductionThe National Collegiate Inventors and

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Julie A. Phillips; Dewey A. Swanson

Session 3322 Partnering with Industry to Provide Technology Education By Dewey A. Swanson and Julie A. Phillips Purdue University at ColumbusIntroductionPurdue University’s Statewide Technology programs were designed to extend the university’stechnology programs throughout the state of Indiana. Statewide Technology is a partnershipbetween education, business, industry, and government: formed to meet Indiana’s need fortrained technologists. Local business/industry and government representatives helped plan,develop, and implement community programs selected from plans of study provided by

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S. A. Chickamenahalli; M. Bolepalli; Venkateswaran Nallaperumal; Chih-Ping Yeh; Bonnie Shelnut

utilizeresources. Utilizing additional instructional videotapes on electricity or any other topic is tosupplement the course content. The Greenfield Coalition adapts its own methodology called ‘Water-fall’ in itscurriculum [13]. The coalition holds regular developer workshops, makes ongoing developmentsand experiences known and provides key points for each stage of development. The completeprocess of development consisted of (i) Planning and classifying core material into modules, (ii)Creating PowerPoint story-boards for all modules (iii) Review and feedback of story-boards, andmultimedia elements (iv) Multimedia development and (v) Delivery.(i) Planning of modules: A well thought out plan for each of the modules is made. This begins with

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Anthony J. Marchese; Shreekanth A. Mandayam; T. R. Chandrupatla; John L. Schmalzel

-disciplinary student teams within the Junior Engineering Clinic. To qualify for funding, studentteams must propose, plan and implement an original, semester-long product development enter-prise. Funding of up to $2500 per student team per semester is competitively awarded based onstudent-generated proposals to the venture capital fund. To be funded, the team must be multidis-ciplinary, including engineering students from at least two of the engineering departments and atleast one non-engineering major. Each team must submit a business plan and must be organizedinto a corporate structure. Finally, the team must propose an original product idea that can besuccessfully designed, developed and prototyped in a single semester. The latter criterion is possi

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Kay C Dee

, you aren’t running the organization, you’re just advisingthe people who are running the organization. Student organizations must be directed by students.This means that sometimes you will have to bite your tongue and let students make mistakes(and learn from those mistakes). Be aware that you may find yourself under pressure toinfluence activities of the student group. For example, the local professional chapter of a societymay have ambitious hopes/plans for the student section of that society, and might ask you topush the students in particular directions. If this occurs, remember that students need to learn tointeract with professional people, and put the professionals in direct contact with the studentofficers. Let the students make their