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Daniel Davis

Page 4.129.1momentum, architectural and engineering professionals must be prepared to treat their careers asdynamic entities that need continuous upkeep and upgrading.7 How then can faculty hope tostay abreast of current developments? Just as professionals must stop thinking of education aswhat they did in college many years ago, educators must stop thinking of industrial experienceas what they did with a company many years ago. Everyone must start seeing both academiceducation and employment experience as a project of life-long learning.Other studies have also shown that faculty with industrial experience spend a greater percentageof their time on teaching. Furthermore, studies have also shown that work experience positivelyaffects faculty

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survey. The differences between the exit survey andthe semester survey are also illustrated in Appendix B.The alumni survey is designed to question graduates on the effectiveness of the VMI ElectricalEngineering program, in preparing them for their careers. The design of the alumni survey willbe virtually identical to that of the exit survey. The demographic questions will be expanded toidentify career paths, progress, time since graduation, etc. Nevertheless, the same 16 Outcomesand seven Objectives will again be addressed, now by individuals with a new perspective ontheir experience at VMI.The use of alumni surveys for program assessment is not uncommon.2,8,12,13,15 However, thereremains a great deal of uncertainty regarding the timing of

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Russell D. Meier

selected? Is it possible to diversify teams in a large lecturewhen the student population is mostly homogenous? How can activities be completed in largelecture halls? What about the students that refuse to participate? Does active learning work forevery student in the large course? Will the shear number of active learning teams fostercompetition, and is competition desired? What about incomplete teams caused by truancy? Is itpossible to guarantee individual-accountability within the large student population? I had to findanswers to all of these questions. This paper will discuss my experience designing andfacilitating the active learning environments for the large lectures of my computer engineeringcourses.II. BackgroundI began my teaching career

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Yousef Haik

concepts are covered. The course isconsidered one of the hard obstacles they need overcome to achieve their career goals. Thecourse is a four credit hour course. Its meeting schedule is set for two two-hour sessions perweek. The class usually has a mixture of sophomores, juniors and seniors.The variation in the academic achievement between students and in the students’ backgroundmakes it difficult to use one method of delivery to achieve the learning objectives. Thus, varietyof teaching and learning strategies for the engineering mechanics class at the FAMU-FSUCollege of Engineering has been developed and used. These strategies include:1. Integrated lecture notes: Conventionally the material for the engineering mechanics ispresented into two

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J. Morehouse; Edward Young; Jed S. Lyons

98-50749 “A Vehicle for Delivering aMechanical Systems Laboratory Experience”) is to procure all of the equipment and Page 4.166.1instrumentation needed for a capstone mechanical engineering systems laboratory course. TheILI project has been previously described 4 , so only a brief review is given here.In developing the Engineering Systems Laboratory, careful consideration was given to selectingan appropriate system for the student experiments. It is not desirable or even possible to attemptto expose students to every type of system that they might work with throughout theirprofessional career. In designing the systems lab, one must select a

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John I. Hochstein; E. H. Perry

performance on traditional engineering exams,consisting exclusively of problems graded with partial credit, has acquired sufficient knowledgeand skill to merit a passing grade and subsequently a degree from your program? Are yousearching for innovative methods and tools for providing the program documentation demandedby EC2000 accreditation requirements1? We believe that most of our colleagues haveconsidered some, if not all, of these questions at some time in their teaching careers. Ourmotivation in writing this paper is to share with those colleagues a pedagogical tool that can helpserve as a partial answer to all of these questions – Direct Competency Testing, (DCT).The experience reported herein evolved from a chance discussion between the two

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Hamid Y. Eydgahi; Saeid Y. Eidgahy

: Educators and Interactions [Online]. Available:http://www.internetnorth.com.au/ace_conference97/cheng.html13. Cultural Diversity and Early Education. Cultural Contexts for Learning [29 paragraphs]. Cultural Diversityand Early Education [Online]. Available:http://www.nap.edu/readinroom/books/earlyed/chapter1.html .14. Allen, C. (1998). The Job Outlook for 1998 Graduates. Journal of Career Planning and Employment. Winter1998, Vol. LVIII, No. 2, pp. 56-58.15. Smith, K. A.; Johnson, D. W.; and Johnson, R. T. (1981). Structuring Learning Goals to Meet the Goals ofEngineering Education. Engineering Education, December 1981, pp. 221-226.16. Smith, K. A. (1996). Cooperative Learning: Making "Groupwork" Work. New Directions for Teaching andLearning, No. 67

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James Hanson

potentialresearch assistants.Assessment of the ProjectStudent reviews of the projects have generally been favorable. A number of student commentsrelated to evaluation of the project are shown below. • “The individual project is valuable because it gives the students an opportunity to do a project which can relate to any aspect of civil engineering that they choose. This allows the students to take a closer look at different types of engineering problems and help them to choose an emphasis which they may want to have for their careers.” • “Experimentation is the backbone to any kind of engineering. Having the ability to do this in a course shows that the school (through you) want to

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John H. Ristroph

hand, risks associated with larger, moreexpensive projects are extremely important to any company and hence to careers. Texts frequently show how to use spreadsheets containing single estimates of cash flows.This paper shows how to incorporate risk into such classroom examples quickly and easily byusing Microsoft's Excel. It illustrates extending the simple example in Table 1 into the spread-sheet shown in Table 3 first by explaining how to generate random cash flows. Then it describeshow to perform the simulation using a macro, compute statistics, and plot results, concludingwith a discussion of classroom use. A copy of the spreadsheet can be obtained by emailing theauthor at ristroph@usl.edu. Cash

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Jennifer Maynard; Anneta Razatos

use Bird, Stuart and Lightfoot’s text which was originally published in 1960. Older chemicalengineering text-books are outdated because they rely on examples almost exclusively from thepetrochemical industry6. Focusing on a single field fails to inform students of the broad rangeof applications for chemical engineering principles6. Engineering instructors must thereforetake extra measures to prepare students for careers in modern-day industry and academia.Graduating engineers must have the skills to handle non-traditional problems and also be ableto address emerging areas of research and development. One such emerging area within thechemical engineering giants is biology. The gap between the traditional chemical engineeringcurriculum and

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Kenny Fotouhi; Ali Eydgahi

Approximate Reasoning Using Linguistic Synthesis", IEEE Trans. on Computers, Vol. 26, pp. 1182-1191, 1987.ALI EYDGAHIDr. Eydgahi started his career as a faculty member at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in1985. Since 1986 and prior to joining University of Maryland Eastern Shore he has been withthe State University of New York, University of Tehran, and Wayne County CommunityCollege. He is currently an Associate Professor in the department of Engineering andAviation Sciences at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Dr. Eydgahi awards includethe Dow outstanding Young Faculty Award from American Society for EngineeringEducation in 1990, the Silver Medal for outstanding contribution from InternationalConference on Automation in 1995, UNESCO

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Sung Kim; Kevin Logeais

-88049, 19885. Carius, Alan C., Effects of Grinding Fluid Type on CBN Wheel Performance, pg. 22 – 27AES Magazine, Summer 19906. Farago, Francis T. Ph.D., Abrasive Methods Engineering, Industrial Press, 19807. Mott, Robert L., Applied Fluid Mechanics, Fourth Edition, Prentice Hall Career &Technology, New Jersey, 19948. Esposito, Anthony, Fluid Power with Applications, Fourth Edition, Prentice-Hall, NewJersey, 19979. Carius, Alan C., How To Grind Hardened Tool And Die Steels With CBN Wheels, pg. 51 – 58Modern Machine Shop Magazine, December 198510. Munson, Bruce R., Young, Donald F., and Okiishi, Theodore H., Fundamentals of FluidMechanics, 3rd Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 199811. Cengel, Yunus A. and Boles, Michael A

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W. Benard Carlson; Takeo Higuchi

a result, one should feel free to write down all kinds of new ideas. They can include • ideas for new products, software, or devices; • ideas for new procedures for manufacturing and marketing; •solutions to major problems confronting human society; •predictions about the future, or how one would like society to be; •plans for your education, career, family; •insights to personal problems; •activities you would like to try, such as new hobbies, sports, or places to visit; and •themes or topics for assignments and essays.In short, IMS provides a framework which can help individuals shape a notebook into a

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J. Bredeson; M. E. Parten

mission of the institution and the objectives of the program, including those listed above, are being measured. Evidence that may be used includes, but is not limited to the following: student portfolios, including design projects; nationally-normed subject content examinations; alumni surveys that document professional accomplishments and career development activities; employer surveys; and placement data of graduates.Of considerable concern is the assessment process. This is a measurement of the "outcomes"of the program to assure the objectives of the program are being met. Of equal concern,however, is the application of the assessment to the "further development and improvementof the program." The idea is to practice continued

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William B. Perry; Victor Barocas; David E. Clough

used in both of these courses must be considered when selecting theprogramming software for the modules.After completing GEEN 1300, students should feel very comfortable writing a Fortran 90program and will have an excellent understanding of the language. Fortran 90 is used for thiscourse because many engineers will find it useful in their careers. In addition to being anexcellent language for numerical calculations, Fortran 90 is supported by several libraries such asIMSL, Numerical Recipes, and NAG. It is also a good language for learning generalprogramming principles.On the other hand, most CHEN 4580 students prefer to use Matlab and the programminglanguage associated with it. The main strength of Matlab is that it is easy to learn and

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R. J. Helgeson; Douglas Sterrett

different. Thus, the first additional goal in the freshman designcourse has been the introduction of mathematical models, which exposes the student to themerging of mathematics and physics early in their engineering careers. There are manyattendant difficulties associated with this goal, and these will be discussed in a subsequentsection.An area which students typically tend to have difficulty with is the concept of energy. Studentsleaving high school will usually have heard of kinetic and potential energy, and will also havebeen exposed to energy concepts in other science courses. But the students are usually veryweak in their understanding of what energy actually is. Our faculty’s combined experience at theuniversity level, gained from many

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Enno 'Ed' Koehn

(construction)engineering program criteria have been incorporated into the curriculum at a reasonable level.These subject areas will be required by ABET as criteria that must be satisfied for a program tobe accredited. Specifically, the Civil and Similarly named Engineering Programs Criteria isincluded as a section of the Engineering Criteria 2000 report which was adopted by ABET. It ishoped that consideration of the foregoing concepts by educators will provide engineeringstudents with the skills required for a successful career involving the design and management ofengineering and construction projects.AcknowledgmentThe author wishes to recognize Mrs. Debbie Graves and Mrs. Hope Scott for their assistancewith the production activities involved with

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Craig Johnson

individual Page 4.307.2achievements rather than team efforts.”Against this current backdrop of limited use of assessment in the classroom, assessment is a skillthat a student should have and use in their career. Even if it is unmanageable to convert entireuniversity curricula to incorporate TQM and foster student assessment skills, there are methodsof including the development of assessment skills into traditional ET curricula.This paper offers two methods of incorporating student assessment skills into traditional METcurricula.Student Assessment SkillsAn MET program outcome might include a statement like ‘the student will be able to select anduse

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P. M. Wild; B. W. Surgenor

continuetheir education and/or to pursue careers in this field. In addition, this course attempts to createan appreciation of basic non-mechanical design trade-offs, so that students will be able tofunction effectively as mechanical engineering members of a mechatronics design team.3.4 Course descriptionFor students to appreciate and become excited about the design of mechatronic systems, theymust be able to design complete systems, even if these systems are relatively simple. Mech 452is, therefore, structured to quickly bring the students to a level where they are designing verysimple systems and then to increase the complexity of these systems as the course proceeds. Inaddition, the lecture material in Mech 452 is structured to emphasize signal

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Phillip J. Cornwell; Jerry M. Fine

is on the quarter system.One overall purpose of the SEC is to enhance the students' problem solving abilities. We believethat the incoming students have some misconceptions about the problem solving process thatneed to be corrected before they can progress to the more difficult problems that they will facelater in their undergraduate careers. These misconceptions include the ideas that "solvingproblems means finding a formula to apply" and "I can demonstrate my cleverness by solvingproblems while showing as little of the actual work as possible." To cause the students to changesome of their notions of problem solving, we require a far more formalized and completeapproach to problem solving than they have yet experienced.In the first course

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Tom Ward; Elizabeth Alford

addressing key personal and socialchallenges that students face as they enter college. These include orientation to the libraryresources, career services, health awareness, and managing personal freedom and choices. Thesetopics are discussed within the context of being a student in the engineering community.A second portion of the class introduces students to the engineering profession and thepreparation necessary to become an engineer. Students are introduced to the engineering designprocess, team-based learning and basic computational tools. Students work in teams on anassigned design project and present it to the class accompanied by a written report. The team

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James Pearson

other students was unfair because thestudents were not allowed to learn as effectively as (they would) if they were to work ontheir own." This is exactly the environment they need to experience. Non-cooperativebehavior, contradistinctory ideas, compromise, schedule delays, working together tomeet deadlines and subjective evaluations are all desirable factors for these students toexperience before they enter the senior capstone course and ultimately their careers. Page 4.80.6IX. ConclusionsThis laboratory experience develops team work, stimulates laboratory activity andprovides for a meaningful design experience. All the objectives outlined for this

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Takayuki Sugita

and Intentionhave sufficient typing skills tend to adovocate CAD.Because the number of students who prefer traditional drafting is 62 and the number of studentswith CAD preference is 179, 117 out of 188 students, namely 62% who initially disliked the tradi-tional drafting turned out to adovocate CAD. This is a remarkable effect due to CAD practice.No.11 of Fig.1 shows 15% of the students (36 out of 250) hope to continue CAD practice tobecome specialists in the future. Thus, CAD practice has given them an enlightening effect fortheir future career.6.Working timeNo.12 of Fig.1 shows students' feeling about the length of working time as in item 12 on Table 2.Total working time was 12 hours. It is shown that 36% of the students feel it was short

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Ann M. Bisantz; Amjad Aref; Alexander N. Cartwright

an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Shereceived her Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1997 the areaof Human-Machine Systems, and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering from SUNY at Buffalo. Dr.Bisantz pursues research and teaching in the areas of human factors, cognitive engineering, and human decisionmaking.ALEXANDER N. CARTWRIGHTAlexander N. Cartwright received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1995 and has been an AssistantProfessor at the State University of New York at Buffalo since August 1995. In 1998, he was fortunate enough toreceive a NSF CAREER Award that supports his research and educational

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Robert P. Hesketh; Stephanie Farrell; C. Stewart Slater

using Page 4.19.1engineering measurements as a common thread. The theme of the second semester is the reverseengineering of a commercial product or process. Previous reverse engineering projects haveinvolved products such as automatic coffee makers [3, 4, 5], hair dryers and electric toothbrushes[6]. This paper describes our first effort to incorporate the design and reverse engineering of aprocess into our Freshman Clinic. We focus on the investigation of the beer production process.A project introduced in a three-week program sponsored by the National Science Foundation in1990 was the inspiration for this project. The program, Exploring Career

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George Stephanopoulos; Alan S. Foss

and the several otherquestions posed at the outset of this paper. With those questions resolved, the engineering problemis considered solved. However, the pedagogical ÀloopÀ about modeling still has to be closed. We must eventually Page 4.362.6challenge students to write the equations. Otherwise, the students are left without confirmation andconfidence that they can execute an analysis and a mathematical model of the process, a capabilitythey will need in their career as an engineer. We describe equation-writing sessions in the nextsection. In working with a small group of students, we have found that they enthusiastically wantedto

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Neda Fabris

, to groupsof internal and external “customers” with no or little engineering background. This presentconsiderable difficulty to many engineering students who choose engineering careers becausethey were “good in math and science”, but not in written and oral skills, or who were too “shy”to argue their point of view in front of others. Also, engineering in its international universalbackground was a “refuge” for new emigrants, or people with English as a second languagegiving them the opportunity to excel despite the hurdle of mastering a new language.The new engineering paradigm and industry requirement to “hit the ground running” placesspecial emphasis on engineering education to provide graduating engineers with the experienceand practice in

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Andrew Grossfield

changing is the nuts and bolts ofmathematics. But the repetitive mechanics of form changing should not be substituted at theexpense of the strategies in advanced mathematics classes.References:1. Grossfield, Andrew “On the Intrinsic Structure of Calculus” Proceedings of the 1995 ASEE AnnualConference, Session 1265 (311-315)2. Grossfield, Andrew “On the Classification of Functions and Curve Plotting” Proceedings of the 1990 ASEEAnnual Conference, Session 2665 (1782-1784)3. Grossfield, Andrew “What are Differential Equations? A review of Curve Families” Proceedings of the 1997ASEE Annual Conference, Session 2665ANDREW GROSSFIELDThroughout his career Dr. Grossfield, has combined an interest in engineering design and mathematics. He earneda BSEE at

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Patricia Click

convincingly justified” (Kurfiss 1988). Study after study has shown thatundergraduate students are seriously deficient in their ability to think critically (Belenky et al.1986; Bloom 1987; Keeley et al. 1982; King et al.1983). Although senior engineering studentsare better able to marshal evidence than entering students, many still believe that judgment is amatter of “individual idiosyncracies” rather than the critical evaluation of different points ofview (Welfel 1982).Students preparing for careers in science or engineering need to learn how “to draw soundinferences from observations, critically analyze and evaluate previous research, and generatenew questions or experiments” (Kurfiss 1988). A course that focuses on various cultural

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Eric W. Tisdale

Conference Proceedings,ASEE, 19974) Conversations with Joe Koenig, CEO of Interactive Image Technologies Ltd., jkoenig@interactiv.com5) Grambo, A., Central Nine Career Center, Indianapolis, Indiana.6) Stepper Motor Applications Across Electrical Engineering Technology Curriculum, Grinberg, Barker, Goldberg,Matusiak, ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, ASEE, 19977) Using Automated Instrumentation and Available Software to Provide Interactive Laboratory Instruction toDistance Education Students on the Internet, Dutcher, Raza, Rippy, Yi, Hess, ASEE Annual ConferenceProceedings, ASEE, 19978) Pcanywhere controls remote computers.9) CuSeeMe permits voice and video.10) Phonefree.com permits voice only.11) ICQ.com limits connections to those only on your