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Thomas Zickel; Russell A. Aubrey

presenting actual circuits/systems situations in the laboratory for thestudent to diagnose and repair. This course is considered to be a capstone course for the two-year EET graduate. The utilization of an application specific transistor amplifier circuit boardprovides an excellent opportunity to reinforce and apply previously presented circuit techniques. Page 4.87.1To achieve sufficient complexity and versatility the circuit board was designed around a three-stage discrete transistor amplifier utilizing NPN and PNP transistors. The following featureswere used as design guidelines: 1) Complexity - Contain a multi-stage amplifier circuit that

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Charyl Delaney; Alejandro Scalise; Larry J. Shuman; Harvey Wolfe

solutions that will facilitate the desired structural and culturalchanges. Seymour and Hewitt most emphatically documented the need for such changes [1] intheir comprehensive six-university study of students who switched out of science, mathematicsand engineering programs. They concluded that those problems arising from the structure of theeducational experience, and the culture of the discipline (as objectified in the attitudes andpractices of faculty) have a far greater impact upon attrition than do problems of personalinadequacy, aptitude for other disciplines or the appeal of other majors. Page 4.229.1a This work is sponsored by National

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-engineeringmajors to electrical and electronic technologies that are encountered daily. The class isstructured as a three hour lecture course. Although some simple mathematical conceptsrequiring competence in high school algebra is required, the majority of the material strives forconceptual understanding of the underlying science of the specific technologies discussed.The course has three purposes:1. Students learn of the underlying scientific concepts of the technical tools used today2. Essays on the impact of specific technologies on society are assigned to students to encourage critical thinking3. Through discussions and technical problem-solving assignments, sufficient scientific literacy will be achieved meriting fulfillment of a non-laboratory

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Juan Lucena; Gary Lee Downey

could havebeen otherwise and must live amidst other perspectives. Page 4.230.9BibliographyBell, Trudy. 1996. Employment Roundtable: Survival calls for more than technical fitness. IEEE Spectrum. March:20-31.Boeing. 1997. A Manifesto for Global Engineering Education. Seattle, Washington: Boeing Co.Caporael, Linda R. 1998. Bridging STS and Design Studies: Cultural-Cognitive Models. Paper read at the annualmeeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), 28 October – November 1, Halifax, Canada.Cherasky, Todd. 1998. Design Elements: Constructing a Critical Theory of Design. Paper read at the annual meetingof the Society for Social Studies

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Gerald J. Thuesen; William G. Sullivan

began an apprenticeship in civil engineering in theoffice of John B. Hande.1868Began work in railway engineering with the Blue Ridge Railroad in South Carolina.1873-1876When the depression of 1873 temporarily halted railway building, he turned to research andpublished Methods for the Computation from Diagrams of Preliminary and Final Estimates ofRailway Earthwork.1876He expanded some short articles he had published into “Justification Expenditure for Improvingthe Alignment of Railways,” Railroad Gazett, Sept. 1-Dec. 29, 1876. Page 4.232.11877Published the first edition of The Economic Theory of Location of Railways, a 200 page book.1878Married

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Ted G. Eschenbach; Kim LaScola Needy; Jerome P. Lavelle; Heather Nachtmann

economy education.Chinowsky and Robinson 1 discuss the importance of the case study approach to engineeringeducation. These authors state that an important contrast between engineering education and theengineering profession is the use of over-simplified examples within the classroom. Perhapsincreasing the use of case studies and the weight of importance being placed on them may helpto lessen the gap between the education and profession of engineering.It is encouraging that 58% of respondents utilize projects in their engineering economy courses.However, the importance of project work is not reflected in the final grade percentage weight(8%). Projects provide students with the opportunities to explore in depth a topic of their choiceand to work

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Voula Georgopoulos; Constantinos Vassiliadia; Brian Manhire

anddegrees offered), the problematic employment situation for engineering graduates (includingthe impact of European Union policies fostering mobility of engineers in its constituentcountries as well as the legal requirements for employment as a Professional Engineer inGreece) and the status of women engineers in Greece.1. IntroductionEngineering Education in Greece is in a transition period due to a variety of reasons. Newmajor areas have been added within the last few years and for each major, in addition to thecurriculum requirements, the rights and privileges of the graduates must be defined. As awhole, there are a larger number of engineering graduates than available engineering jobs. Thepolicies of the European Union allowing mobility of

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Stephen Fokuo; Sohail Anwar

engineering technology faculty discuss plans for improvement in theirprograms.In the United States, there are several organizations which assure strong representation of thecore values of engineering technology. These organizations include Engineering TechnologyCouncil (ETC) of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), EngineeringTechnology Division (ETD) of ASEE, and the Engineering Technology Leadership Institute(ETLI). These organizations and other engineering technology specific groups help to strengthenthe values of the engineering technology community.At present, in the United States, the goals and characteristics of engineering technologyprograms are not in conflict with those of traditional engineering programs [1] They

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Omar Barkat

example.The five-year chemical engineering program is discussed along with the impact of the finalproject on the quality of engineering education in Algeria as a developing country. The studentsregard the final year engineering project as the most important experience in their education. Forthe faculty and the institution it is a crucial requirement for the engineering degree. Economicalimplications, industrial partnerships, faculty point of views, project selection andimplementation, students preparation and institution involvement are reviewed and discussed.1. IntroductionAmong the sectors that are viewed as top priority in government budget allocations, education inAlgeria has always been ranked first. With one of the highest growth in population

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Shreekanth A. Mandayam; John L. Schmalzel; Ravi Ramachandran

the freshman andsophomore levels stress teamwork, implementation of engineering principles into practice, oralcommunication, and written communication [1][2]. In the freshman year, the theme of the fallsemester is measurements [3], while the theme of the spring semester is competitive assessment(the topic of this paper). Comprehensive one semester and two semester projects at the juniorand senior levels (more discipline specific) give the students exposure to the nature of scientificresearch and provide the initial maturity to appreciate how research is carried out. Althoughmany schools have recognized the need to integrate design into the freshman year [4][5], mosttraditional programs offer only a senior capstone design course and ignore the

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Robert Engelken

undergraduate, nonresearch institutions. However, the reality at such institutionsis that research is often not considered nearly as important or supported as much by theadministration or region as advertising implies, although a research record is usually critical topromotion, tenure, and merit raises and to one’s gratification, reputation, and marketability inengineering 2,3.This discrepancy motivates fundamental questions:(1) Should research even be a part of the official mission and promotion, tenure, and merit raisecriteria of such institutions?(2) If so, what contributions can such entities realistically make to the state-of-the-art, especiallyin expensive equipment and facility-intensive high technology fields such as engineering andscience?(3

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Roger Ware; Charles F. Yokomoto

issues, writing, problem solving, and interpersonal communications.1. Introduction 1At the 1998 ASEE Annual Conference, E. Dendy Sloan delivered an elegant address on the 2introduction of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to the engineering and technologyteaching community. He mentioned how Katherine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers begandevelopment of the instrument in the early 1940s, based on the description of psychological 3types described by Swiss psychologist Carl G. Jung in 1921 and how a consortium of seven 4universities

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Prawit Rotsawatsuk; Anil Sawhney; Andre Mund

Session 1315 Enhancing Construction Engineering Education Using Internet based Tools Anil Sawhney, Prawit Rotsawatsuk, and André Mund Western Michigan UniversityAbstractThis paper describes the work being performed as part of a three-year project that has beenfunded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Western Michigan University (WMU).The goal of the project is to enhance the undergraduate construction engineering education.Enhancements will be accomplished by developing: 1) an Internet-based Interactive ConstructionManagement Learning System (ICMLS) and 2

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Bruce P. Johnson

graduate class in GaAs Circuit Design. At the same time, thedepartment was interested in introducing a new class in Electromagnetic Compatibility(EMC) that complements an existing instrumented antenna anechoic chamber in thedepartment. A local company had expressed interest in having us videotape the EMCclass for their internal use and a new faculty member was available to team teach theclass if the author was also available.To keep the teaching load down and still participate in the EMC class, the author tookadvantage of the department’s participation in WestVEC (1), a consortium of westernuniversities interested in exchanging classes at the senior/graduate level. Participatingschools included the University of Idaho, Idaho State University

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Charles McIntryre

Session Number 1321 Enhancing Student Learning -- Students $Teaching# Students Charles McIntyre North Dakota State UniversityAbstractThe scope of this paper deals with promoting effective student learning through the use ofCooperative Teaching. The basic principle of the Theory of Cooperative Teaching states thatteaching others is the most effective method to learn subject material. Based on this premise,students should take an active role in $teaching# course material, including: 1) the preparation andpresentation of lecture material, 2) the development and grading of homework

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J. W. Pierre; Robert F. Kubichek; Jerry Hamann

theconnection between the abstract mathematics and these real-world applications is critical inhelping them learn and retain this information.One approach to this problem begins by making classroom lectures address different learningstyles. Some excellent work in the engineering education literature6 discusses different___________________________*This research was partially supported by a grant from the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) at the University Page 4.242.1of Wyoming.learning styles and teaching with a variety of approaches. Kolb's learning cycle3,6 contains thefollowing four stages: 1) Concrete Experience (feeling and

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Carlos Ortiz

in environmental control, structures, surveying and transportation, or ageneral path with no particular specialization 1. This program required 19 credit hours ofelective courses to satisfy the degree requirements. For the environmental control area the CETdepartment offered 27 credit hours of elective courses and 4 hours of a required course as shownbelow: Course Name Credit hours Introduction to Environmental Engineering 4 Technology (required) Environmental Chemistry 4 Unit Operations in Environmental Engineering I 4 Unit Operations in Environmental Engineering II 4

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Sean J. Cannon; John H. Grubbs

‘operate’comfortably in the ES arena. The pilot study focused on the United States MilitaryAcademy at West Point. Two critical concepts needed to be melded together in order tohave a starting point for curriculum development. They were: Page 4.244.1 • The definition of Environmental Security • The academic program goal for graduates of the United States Military AcademyFollowing an exhaustive literature review, the authors settled on the definition ofenvironmental security proposed by Newberry and Grubbs 1 given below: Environmental Security: The response to perceived internal or transboundary

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Peter W. de Graaf; Cameron Wright; Thad Welch

students’ technical presentation skills without sacrificing excessive class time or subject content. Three specific techniques and the observed results are discussed.1 IntroductionJust as technical writing differs from other forms of writing, presenting technical subjects to anaudience requires specialized skills, different from other forms of public speaking. Manyengineering curricula require some sort of speech class, typically administered by the EnglishDepartment, which usually doesn’t address this form of verbal communication. Therefore, thisimportant skill for successful engineers can be lacking in many graduates.The following sections describe three methods to improve and evaluate students’ technicalpresentations. Each of these

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W. F. Walker; S. MacGuire; L. D. Benefield; Glennelle Halpin; Gerald Halpin

for a more applicable early experience, an experimentalintegrated pre-engineering curriculum (IPEC) 8 was developed and implemented fall 1996 withsponsorship from the National Science Foundation. The fundamental goals of this project were asfollows:1. To improve the students’ depth of understanding of the mathematical models of the physical world;2. To deepen students’ understanding of the physical principles that are the foundation ofengineering problems;3. To increase students’ use of mathematical models in solving basic engineering problems;4. To increase students’ involvement and sense of belonging in and personal commitment to the Page

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John E. Shea; Thomas M. West

production scheduling, quality assurance,workplace and facility design, mathematical optimization, and manufacturing processes. Sincethe formation of the department in 1972, these courses have been taught using conventionalinstruction methods as summarized in the left-hand column in Table 1. One consequence of this traditional evolution has been an engineering culture whereengineers are characterized as being vertical (in-depth) thinkers who work individually, and whoreduce problems to small, manageable and predictable pieces in order to apply their knowledgeof science and technology2. The result has been the evolution of a self-selection process where

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Brian Manhire; Roman Z. Morawski; Andrzej Krasniewski

characterizing the electrical and computerengineering curricula of the 80’s and 90’s and giving their quantitative comparison.1. IntroductionThe process of deep restructuring of the economy, following the political upheaval of 1989, hasradically changed external conditions influencing Polish universities. The essential elements ofthe new situation are:• growing demand for the graduates in business-related and management-related disciplines,• growing demand for service-oriented professions,• market-driven professional re-orientation of Polish society,• accelerated development of international economic co-operation,• strong pressure on economically efficient education.The last-mentioned element appeared not only due to the introduction of the mechanisms

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David E. Hornbeck

Session 3549 THE ABET CRITERIA FOR ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY ARE BROKE. LET’S FIX THEM! David E. Hornbeck Southern Polytechnic State UniversityABSTRACTThe proposed new ABET criteria for engineering technology 1 have generated much discussion in theengineering technology community. A common concern is that the proposed outcomes-based criteria,without quantitative specifications, cannot maintain the quality of programs as effectively as the existingABET criteria do. This paper will show that the rationale behind existing criteria is often not clear, andthe

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Essam M. Kosba; Ahmed Dawoud

diagnose student misconceptions arethe main goals behind the conjunction of both models in PTITS. The developed architectureopens the door for more participation from teachers and instructors in developing their owncourses using ITSs and hence for more conviction with ITSs’ role in education.1- IntroductionIt is known that the development of any applied ITS is an extremely difficult and complexproblem. This is because most of the developers start their ITSs from scratch, and thereforethey have to build all of its complex parts, which take great effort and long time. In general,applied ITSs are developed on the basis of preliminary elaborated Expert Systems (ES) in thedomain under study. These ES model the processes of problem solving in certain

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Jennifer Maynard; Anneta Razatos

biological problems with mathematical solutions by incorporating biological applications,examples, and bench-top experiments into the traditional chemical engineering curriculum.Consequently, students learn to use engineering fundamentals to explain and control biologicalphenomena.This paper will discuss methods of incorporating biological applications into fundamentalchemical engineering courses, such as thermodynamics, kinetics & reactor design, and transportin order to:1) teach students how to apply basic science and chemical engineering fundamentals to describe complex biological phenomena,2) help students understand chemical engineering concepts using biological examples,3) raise interest in chemical engineering by

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William B. Hudson; Donald M. Gruenbacher

faculty teaching loads and to provide more consistency in material coverage thecourse was restructured to a large group lecture and a small group recitation environment (lessthan 14 students), with evening exams, and evening review sessions. The recitation meets eachweek for one hour and 50 minutes and lecture occurs twice a week in 50 minute blocks of time.The lecture is conducted by a faculty member while graduate and upper level students aretasked with recitation activities. The recitation activities are the same for each section and arecoordinated with the lecture topics.The stated goals for this course are: Page 4.248.1 1) allow reasonable

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John R. Wagner

professional engineering registration. In this article, some of the majorworkplace issues facing engineers are discussed with recommended steps to ensure that theirskills and contributions maintain pace with engineers around the world throughout their careers.1. Introduction The intense competition among corporations around the world to increase their share ofNorth American, European, South American, and Pacific Rim consumer markets is profoundlyaltering business activities. The global economic challenges faced by American manufacturingcompanies during the past decade has impacted their technical staffs through new workplaceattitudes, paradigm shifts, and engineering challenges. Vanishing are those positions where anew engineer could enter a

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Warren Perger; Leonard J. Bohmann; Bob Bohnsack

evaluator (the next fall he would be an evaluator for GeorgiaTech’s pilot EC2000 visit) and could see the advantages of becoming accredited under the newcriteria. Our self-study year was to be the 1997-98 academic year and the College needed toapply to ABET to be evaluated under the new criteria by May 1, 1997.From our department’s perspective, the College was in a good position to be evaluated under EC2000. We had an up-to-date curriculum. We were in the middle of the conversion to a newcurriculum, with the first graduates under the new program being in the 1997-98 academic year.We also had an ongoing assessment program. The University was in the middle of the self-studyyear for the North Central Association (NCA), our regional accreditation

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Winston F. Erevelles

nationwide and has been a topic of funding interest to several agencies.According to the National Science Foundation, undergraduate research allows students toexperience first-hand how basic research is carried out, and to make contributions ofconsequence to various fields(1). The development of models that successfully integrateteaching and research involves the investment of significant time, resources, and skill. It istherefore important to review the successes and failures of efforts at various sites. One such sitefor integrative research and education at the undergraduate level is Kettering University.Overview of the University and Selected Laboratory FacilitiesKettering University is a fully cooperative private engineering college which offers