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the Wentworth environmental engineering program self-assessment for ABET 2000.I. IntroductionWentworth Institute of Technology has both a long tradition and a continued commitment to Page 4.114.1experiential learning. The environmental engineering program at Wentworth is a laboratory-based program that focuses on process fundamentals. Typically, courses offered in the programconsist of forty percent of contact time in laboratory and sixty percent of contact time in lecture. Upperclassmen in the environmental engineering program spend an average of 10 contact hoursper week in the laboratory for engineering courses.The environmental program at

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current job description andjob satisfaction. There were 45 responses from graduates with a preference for FP and 35responses from graduates with a preference for TJ. This paper presents the results from thisalumni survey and compares the responses and comments from the engineers with the minorityFP ( feeling, perceptive) preference with those from the engineers with the majority TJ(thinking, judging) preference.IntroductionNational engineering groups both in Canada1 and in the United States2 remind us thatengineering is changing faster than ever before. Accelerating programs in R&D together with theinformation technology explosion are leading to a “fusion of technologies” and the “ merging ofonce disparate fields”. This is leading to an

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,” John Wiley &Sons, 877 pp.2. Shapiro, A. H. (1972). “Illustrated Experiments in Fluid Mechanics,” The MIT Press, Cambridge,Massachusetts, 251 pp.3. Ting, F. C. K. and Teng, A. P. (1998). “Turbulence Measurements at a Circular Pier,” Proceedings of the 12thEngineering Mechanics Conference, ASCE, San Diego, California, (on CD-ROM).FRANCIS TINGFrancis Ting is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at South Dakota State University.Dr. Ting received his B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science andTechnology in the United Kingdom in 1982, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the Department of Civil Engineering atCalifornia Institute of Technology in 1983 and 1989, respectively. His

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therefore can shift programming transmissions to other satellites, smaller companies such as manypager companies cannot afford the cost of maintaining the reserve capacity (New York Times, May 21, 1998).To solve the problem, PanAmSat rerouted communications data to other satellites which had excess capacity. Thisnecessitated engineers and field technicians to redirect several hundred thousand satellite dishes in order to pick up data fromthe other satellites. According to the New York Times (May 22, 1998) due to the urgency of the situation and the limitednumber of technicians available, one company, Wall Street on Demand, redirected its satellite using an interestingcombination of old and new technology--they found the position of the Galaxy IV

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Debi Switzer; Siegfried M. Holzer; Richard M. Felder; Douglas E. Hirt

Foundation-sponsored coalition of engineering schools. The participatinginstitutions are Clemson University, University of Florida, Florida A&M University–FloridaState University, Georgia Institute of Technology, North Carolina A&T University, NorthCarolina State University, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Virginia PolytechnicInstitute and State University. The coalition began its second five-year funding period in 1997with a mission of scaling up and institutionalizing the educational reforms developed and pilot-tested in the first five years.A major component of the Year 6–10 effort is the design and implementation of a coalition-widefaculty development (FD) program. The program objectives are (1) to promote faculty

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designprocess. The Colorado School of Mines,5 Auburn University,6 Georgia Tech University,7 andArizona State University8 are some of the places where concurrent engineering principles ormultidisciplinary teams or both are a key component of the engineering capstone courses.More recently, the multidisciplinary team experience is being brought into other courses besidesthe capstone to provide students with more opportunities to develop teamwork, design process andcommunication skills. For example, Arizona State University has developed the ManufacturingEnterprise Curriculum (MEC) in their Manufacturing Engineering Technology Program. MECuses concurrent engineering principles in many of their mechanical engineering science courses.In the courses, the

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Winston F. Erevelles

Session 2263 Experiences in Integrative Research and Education Projects with Undergraduate Engineers Winston Erevelles Kettering UniversityIntroductionAcademic careers offer engineering faculty an array of activities that they are expected toparticipate in - these include teaching, research and publications, laboratory development,student advisement, accreditation documentation, committee work, and service to professionalorganizations, to mention a few areas of involvement. Time constraints, the diversity in the setof responsibilities, and

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suggestions and examples are offered.Particular attention is given to incorporating these concepts within problem solvingmethodology.I. IntroductionThe average workday of a civil engineer requires the use of “soft skills” (non-technical skills)9.Many students will assume managerial duties early (10 years or less) into their career1. Manysituations in professional life (in the both management and technical aspects) require theapplication of ethical principles.According to the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), criteria forengineering programs in the United States must introduce students to the ethical, social,economic, and safety issues that arise from the practice of engineering. Newly proposed ABETcriteria for the 21st

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Session 3660 Engineering Final Projects in a 5-Year Program Higher Education Institution Omar Barkat, Ph.D., Dr. es-Sc., P.E. McNeese State University College of Engineering and technology P.O. Box 91735 Lake Charles, Louisiana, 70609-1735AbstractIn this paper, final projects work for engineering graduates in Algeria during the students lastyear are discussed. The Industrial Chemistry Institute at The University of Science andTechnology of Algiers is taken as an

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thedesign process. The design methods and tools learned through classroom instruction wereapplied to a practical, real-world ocean engineering design and construction project. Manystudents expressed appreciation of the integrated nature of the coral reef restoration exercises,which they found both challenging and thought-provoking. For those seeking more informationabout the exercises, detailed descriptions and data appear in the companion reference.5Also significant, our students learned of new technologies in the field of ecological restoration, adiscipline of ever-increasing significance in an environmentally-conscious world. Just recently,participants at an international conference had opportunity to share and learn of new andinnovative

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-common students.• Over the course of the semester, favorable opinion of the academic influence of their engineering classmates decreased among non-common students.• Compared to students grouped only in their engineering class, students belonging to the same English and engineering groups had no higher opinion of the effectiveness of group work.• At the end of the semester common students that had greater academic achievement disagreed that groups will produce a “good” result.Bibliography1L. Springer, M. E. Stanne, and S. Donovan, “Effects of Small-Group Learning on Undergraduates in Science,Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology: A Meta Analysis,” (Madison, WI: National Institute for ScienceEducation, 1997

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Arkansas. Asis typical for new engineering educators, she teaches an average of two courses a semester,conducts research, and travels to conferences to network and present research, averaging about aweek to two weeks per month out of town.Michael Tooley, a Global Marketing Executive for Lucent Technologies, has been in thetelecommunications industry for eight years. For the last 6 years, he has telecommuted, workingat home on a full-time basis and communicating with his base office and others on his team bytelephone or email. His position involves some travel, usually about a week to two weeks permonth.Having introduced ourselves, we should state that the suggestions contained herein are just that -suggestions that have worked for us. We hope that

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Herbert Holland; Dean Bruckner

Session 3659 A MATLAB-Based Speech Recognition Module for First Year Engineering Students Dean Bruckner, Herbert Holland U.S. Coast Guard AcademyAbstractAn instructional module is presented which introduces first year engineering students to electricalengineering, signals and systems and the basics of speech recognition. The Coast Guard Acad-emy’s context for this module, the inter-disciplinary Introduction to Engineering and Designcourse, is described. Next, brief overviews of the module’s learning objectives and key conceptsare provided. Details of

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the data for male and female students.IntroductionProfessional engineers both in Canada1 and the U.S.2 have identified an increased future demandfor engineers who not only have broad-based technical competence but also the adaptability tocope with societal and technological change. In order that the profession can function in anincreasingly multiracial and multicultural workplace engineering schools must attract all racesand both genders. These future engineers will need an appreciation of society’s environmentalconcerns, a commitment to the solution of environmental problems and the interpersonal skills towork effectively in groups towards their solution. It would therefore be of serious concern ifengineering schools were unable to attract

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replace a numerical methods course. Page 4.299.8AcknowledgmentsThe authors would like to thank both the University of Colorado Engineering Excellence Fundand well as the Department of Chemical Engineering for their support of this project. We wouldalso like to thank the course instructors for recognizing the value of the modules andimplementing them into their courses. Finally, we would like to thank the students who havehelped in developing modules and making this project a reality.Biographical InformationWILLIAM B. PERRY is currently a doctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1998, hereceived his BS in Chemical

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improve the utility of this approach in the development ofcurriculum maps for any engineering curriculum. Page 4.31.9 References1. Criteria for Accrediting Programs in Engineering in the United States – Effective forEvaluations During the 1998-99 Accreditation Cycle, Engineering Accreditation Commission,Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc., 111 Market Place, Suite 1050,Baltimore, Maryland 21202.2. Henson, T. F., “Redesigning an Engineering Program to Meet Constituents Needs,”Proceedings of the Fourth World Conference on Engineering Education, Saint Paul, Minnesota,1995, pp. 187

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struggles seen at universities teaching computer engineering centers on the"depth vs. breadth" debate. In the depth camp reside faculty who believe students shouldacquire well-focused expertise in a given discipline, enabling them to confront challenging Page 4.111.3problems within the area. They believe technological leaps are the products of specialists.They also believe that this approach positions students to better meet the requirements of jobopportunities that are advertised along specialty lines. Those universities sharing thisphilosophy offer a select list of computer engineering areas from which the student selects oneto specialize

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Session 2532 Interactive Learning Modules for Electrical Engineering Education and Training Don Lewis Millard RensselaerAbstractWeb-based multimedia tutorials are being developed for use in several undergraduate courses inElectrical Engineering and Computer and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer. These interactivelearning modules (ILMs) are created with the Director authoring environment and can be deployedusing a standard Web browser. The ILMs can be used by faculty for in-class demonstrations, bystudents for structured

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Magaly Moreno; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre; Larry J. Shuman; Cynthia Atman

, University of Pittsburgh,Polytechnic Institute, Purdue University, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, University ofTexas-El Paso, and the University of Washington.References1 Besterfield-Sacre, M.E., N.Y. Amaya, L.J. Shuman, C.J. Atman, and R. Porter. “Understanding Student Confi- dence as it Relates to First Year Achievement,” 1998 Frontiers in Education Conference, November 1998, pp. 258-263.2 Besterfield-Sacre, M.E., C.J. Atman, and L.J. Shuman, “How Freshman Attitudes Change During the First Year,” American Society for Engineering Education Conference Proceedings, June 1995, pp. 157-163.3 Besterfield-Sacre, M.E, L.J. Shuman, C.J. Atman, R.L. Porter, R.M. Felder, and H. Fuller, “Changes in Fresh- man Engineers’ Attitudes - A Cross

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Session 3560 THE LIFE CYCLE OF THE EXPATRIATE WORK ASSIGNMENT: A SIMPLE MODEL FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATORS AND ENGINEERING STUDENTS R. Andrew Schaffer Department of Organizational Leadership and Supervision Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUII. IntroductionAs engineering educators and mentors, it is important for us to be aware of the current trends andresearch on expatriate assignments. Many of our students will accept jobs in multinationalorganizations and will be expected to work on cross-national project teams, often in

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Stephen Fokuo; Sohail Anwar

Session 2460 Engineering Technology Education in West African Countries: How Does it Compare With the ET Education in USA? Stephen Fokuo, Sohail Anwar The Pennsylvania State University, Altoona CollegeAbstractUntil the late 1950’s, engineering/engineering technology education in West Africa was shapedafter the trade policies of the colonial powers ruling the region at that time. During the late1950’s and early 1960’s, most of the West African countries such as Ghana, Nigeria, SierraLeone, Ivory Coast, Senegal and the Gambia gained

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Ernest M. Kim

Session 3661 An Engineering Course Which Fulfills a Non-Major General Physical Science Requirement Ernest M. Kim University of San DiegoAbstractIn recognition of the increasing utilization of technology in our society, an Engineering coursewhich fulfills the general science requirement as a physical science has been taught over the lastsix years at the University of San Diego. The course is taught by full-time engineering faculty tonon-engineering majors.Engineering 2: Introduction to Electro-Technology, is an introduction for non

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Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

Session 2260 AGENDA 2001: Making International Engineering Education Work for Bi-National Economic Development RUBEN ROJAS-OVIEDO Mechanical Engineering Dept. Alabama A&M University Huntsville, AL 35762AbstractPresent day communication and other technologies have enable us to build a variety ofsuccessful partnerships for international development. We have learned that institutions ofhigher learning both in the U.S. and Mexico do have more common issues and similarities ininterests and goals than previously known. To make

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latter group are usually assigned this course because it is an integral part of theuniversity’s engineering curriculum and the schools have no formal Industrial Engineering programor faculty to teach the course.A required course in Engineering Economics emphasizes the importance of this subject in theoverall undergraduate education of engineering and engineering technology students. This priorityin turn necessitates the need to ensure the course offered provides a complete and comprehensivecovering of all the material essential to a quality first course in Engineering Economics. Because oftheir extensive education, Industrial Engineering faculty teaching the course are rather ambitious intheir expectations of what can and needs to be covered in

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Page 4.460.3technologies were developed to supplement basic HTML. These include Java, JavaScript,Shockwave, QuickTime, stream video, and many more. The traffic engineering moduledescribed in this paper used many of these new web technologies to add userinteractivity. The following paragraphs describe the different technologies that were usedin the module.The basic web pages were developed using HTML or Hypertext Markup Language.HTML is a scripting language which can be read by any internet browser. HTML pagesare the basic vehicles of the World Wide Web. The simulations were done using Directorwhich is a multimedia authoring program. Director files are saved as a compiled’Shockwave’ file that can be viewed and operated from a web browser

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Maurice Walworth; Kevin Schmaltz; Ajay Mahajan; David McDonald

and Technology at LSSU offers multiple options in Mechanical,Electrical and Computer Engineering programs. The ISEL has been developed to specificallytarget the Design and Robotics/Controls options in Mechanical Engineering, the Digital andRobotics/Controls options in Electrical Engineering and the general Computer Engineeringprogram. The courses that will use the inverted pendulum to create the prerequisite structure inthe different options are shown below: Mechanical - Design Mechanical - Robotics/Controls Machine Machine Dynamics Dynamics

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solution techniques ofcomputational analysis. Finite element theory achieves the greatest solution accuracy formany complex systems. Also, the natural applicability of finite element analysis for solvingmultidimensional problems makes this technique a highly desirable tool to tackle thecomplexity associated with biological systems. Computers having access to the internet are becoming as common at home as thetelevision and are nearly mandatory in the workplace. Therefore, the relative ease inaccessibility to state-of-the-art technological information is rapidly taking place. This opensup many important avenues for students and professional engineers in the engineeringsciences to acquire the necessary tools to solve complex problems

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development, regardless ofthe discipline. The purpose of this paper is to show how student design projects furnished by industrycultivate this partnership and benefit both groups. A further purpose is to present specific steps forarranging these industrial projects. The basic concept is to use actual $real world# problems suggestedby companies for student team design projects which are a required component of senior mechanicalengineering design courses. The successful experiences of the mechanical engineering departmentat Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology will be used as a model to describe how such programs canbe implemented. It is hoped that the procedures described here will assist other institutions inrealizing the same benefits. The two

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assignments. High technology companies, such as thethen Martin Marietta, were concerned that many engineers were entering management positionsresponsible for project or development teams or promoted to managers of small departments orwork groups with little preparation. Ironically, these opportunities sometimes came as a rewardfor a job well done for engineering contributions but placed the individual in an awkwardposition. As Matson1 and Lancaster2 have recently reported, and this author observed whileworking in industry, engineers usually find themselves very poorly equipped to take on theirmanagement assignments. To exacerbate this situation, many individuals cannot leave theworkplace for an extended period to obtain the essential management

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Kevin Schmaltz; Morrie Walworth; Ajay Mahajan; David McDonald

Session 2526 THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INNOVATIVE UNDERGRADUATE LABORATORY THAT EMPHASIZES VERTICAL INTEGRATION IN MULTIPLE ENGINEERING CURRICULA David McDonald, Kevin Schmaltz, and Morrie Walworth School of Engineering and Technology Lake Superior State University Ajay Mahajan Department of Mechanical Engineering and Energy Processes Southern Illinois University at CarbondaleAbstractThe current paradigm in engineering instruction builds on a lecture prerequisite structurebut ignores the need for a laboratory prerequisite structure. This