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Arpita Gupte; Patricia F. Mead; Marjorieanne Natishan; James Greenberg; David Bigio; Linda Schmidt

semester, Divergersrepresent 9.5% of the students tested, Assimilators represent 41%, Convergers represent35.7% and Accommodators represent 13.8%. Most students reported an expected benefitto having learning style diversity within a team, expressing a perception that learningstyle diversity would aid in the development of robust solutions to team assignments.When questioned about the impact of learning style diversity on team management, thestudents expressed an expectation that compromise would be needed (particularly in viewof the learning style differences). However, many students also found it difficult to relatethe information on their own learning style preference to effective team managementskills. The feedback has been used to modify

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Ed Clausen; Carolyne E. Garcia

outcomes.Students begin their portfolios in the freshman year and update them throughout their academiccareer. Portfolios are checked as part of coursework requirements each year. In addition,students use their portfolio in meeting with their advisor and planning their academic andprofessional careers.A standardized format is required for the portfolio, which is actually a very individual-specificdocument. This provides some uniformity and allows the development of an ABET OutcomesChecklist for assessing our progress in meeting Criteria 2000.IntroductionABET Criterion 3 (Program Outcomes and Assessment) outlines 11 desired attributes forgraduate engineers that challenge engineering departments to produce graduates with bothtechnical and professional skills

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Otto Fucik; Michael McKenna; Bogdan M. Wilamowski

students the advantages of HDL, not to make them expertsin this language. In our curriculum, we have another course solely devoted to HDL, whichfollows the basic digital course. These designs are downloaded, using modern technology, into the Xilinx 95108 CPLD, toverify they work. Then they combine the min-max circuit, add-subtract circuit, AND’s, OR’sand X-OR’s into one circuit and design decode logic to control it. The design is then placed thatin the chip to create an ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit). The same design is implemented usingVHDL, and downloaded onto the chip to verify that you can synthesize code into a chip and itwill actually create working hardware. Lastly, several labs pertain to sequential logic design andits implementation on

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Vincent Wilczynski

experiment to investigate that property, conduct the experiment, and analyze theresults (including error analysis, are also conducted in the course. This capstone projectrequires all aspects of the course to be applied to the problem at hand. As an open-endeddesign exercise, the independent projects help integrate design across the engineeringcurriculum2.Standardization of hardware and software executed as virtual instruments is essential toefficiently run these labs which rely on a variety of transducers to illustrate numerousengineering experimentation techniques. Augmented with minimal in-class instruction on dataacquisition, the labs themselves become the tool that teaches computer based data acquisition,reduction, and analysis. This paper

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Jianping Yue

Coalition grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), theseworkshops presented several FED modules developed by NJIT and invited other colleges to re-develop the FED modules. At the workshop, I presented a plan to pilot FED at Essex CountyCollege (ECC) 6. After piloting FED at ECC in the fall 1998 semester, I presented somepreliminary results at a conference held at NJIT in January 1999 7. This paper presents somepreliminary results from the pilot in the fall 1998 and spring 1999 semesters at ECC.2. What Is Covered in FED?Some schools have taught FED to freshmen as an integrated package. For example, NJIT offersFED 101 Fundamentals of Engineering Design I 4, which includes engineering graphics,computer-aided design (CAD), and a design project

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Martin Pike

desirable for programs that do not have designthroughout the curriculum where the multiple design experiences fill a void in the program. The Page 5.135.4major advantage of multiple projects in one course is the ability to integrate many aspects ofengineering together. With single project courses, some aspects of engineering may be integratedbut with multiple design projects there are more opportunities to integrate more engineeringaspects together. There are two major disadvantages of a multi-project design course. Five weeks onaverage per project is a very tight time schedule to do design. Therefore, the projects must bevery limited in

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Angie Hill Price

simple machines at home. Help them to learn about the mechanicaladvantage that can be gained with simple machines.ConclusionOutreach should be more than a popular term that assists in gaining tenure and research funding.For engineering technology to grow, outreach should be an integral part of every program. Thequality of the students that are gained will only improve and more sections of society will beincluded in the educational process. How can engineering technology lose from that?A few recommended sources for experiments:365 Simple Science Experiments With Everyday Materials by E. Richard Churchill,ISBN:1884822673.52 Amazing Science Experiments by Lynn Cordon, ISBN: 0811820580Bite-Size Science: Activities for Children in 15 Minutes or Less

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Teresa Larkin-Hein; Dan Budny

want to interact personally with theinstructor and to be recognized as individuals.2) The Assimilator (Type II)The Assimilator’s dominant learning characteristics involve the perception of informationthrough Abstract Conceptualization. Information is then processed through ReflectiveObservation. Assimilators like to listen to lectures and prefer that the instructor present coursematerial in an organized and accurate manner. Assimilators benefit if they have time for thereflection. A characteristic question of this learning type is "WHAT?"Assimilators are less interested in people and more interested in abstract concepts. Assimilatorsare very good at synthesizing disparate observations into integrated explanations and excel wheninformation is

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Ron Eaglin; Z. Qu; Q. Zhang; P. Wahid; Issa Batarseh

curriculum, especially in the engineering transition courses. Page 5.460.1Over the last few years, several national efforts have been initiated to develop multi-media and web-based education material [2-9]. Most of these efforts focused on developing Graphical UserInterfaces (GUI) for the purpose of "display", but with limited interactivity. Based on our research,none of today’s web-based educational tools allow students to perform a generalized and real timesimulation of engineering problems in the interactive web-based instructional environment. Forexample, in [3,6], the web-based simulation sites are predefined and only limited to specific

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Stephen G Ritchie; Carlos C. Sun

engineering education and research, a partnership wasformed between an academic institution and public agencies. This partnership involved theUniversity of California at Irvine and the Department of Transportation from the cities of LosAngeles, Irvine, and Anaheim. The benefits from this partnership includes a laboratory experiencebased on real-world networks and traffic, the use of state-of-the-practice methods and tools, andthe inclusion of curriculum input from practicing engineers. The results from the two years of thisexperiment demonstrate that such a collaborative effort can be fruitful and can be pursued further.A proposed implementation at Rowan University is discussed at the end of this paper.IntroductionA survey conducted by

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Nicole L. Hoekstra

the next orconcurrent step.1. IntroductionRapid Prototyping (RP) is a method of fabricating a model directly from a solid modelingsoftware or CAD file. RP technologies like Stereolithography (SLA), Selective Laser Sintering(SLS), and Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) deposit thermoplastic powders or resins in thinlayers to construct the model1. Designs for small parts can go from a CAD file to an actualmodel in just a few hours. The Engineering Technology department at Western WashingtonUniversity recently completed a solid modeling lab and purchased rapid prototyping equipmentwith a Concurrent Engineering Grant from an industrial partner. Concurrent engineeringpractices are now being developed at all levels of the curriculum.In the plastics

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Katherine C.S. Whitaker; Richard W Freeman

one classperiod.2 Most groups chose to work together until the robot was complete, while otherstended to form and reform groups. Formal groups were not assigned.Engineering Problem SolvingEngineering 161, Engineering Problems with Computational Laboratory in C, is arequired course for Computer Engineering students. This course is an introduction toproblem solving tools and concepts such as C, Statistics, SI Units, and significant figures.The goal of CELTS, during the 1998-99 academic year, regarding Engineering ProblemSolving was to enhance the problem solving and C programming taught in Engineering161. CELTS The mobile robots proved an excellent tool for integrating the concepts ofproblem solving and C programming.Selection CriteriaOnce the

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Charles T. Jahren

(1996). “Consensus! Students Need More Management Education,” Jounalof Manament in Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 12, No. 6. pp. 17-29.2. Eschenbach, T. G. and J. W. Ra. (1997). “Shift from Lecture/Exam Paradigm in EngineeringManagement Education,” Journal of Management in Engineering, Vol. 13, No. 6, pp. 42-49.3. Lamancusa, J. S., Jorgensen, J. E. and Zayas-Castro, J. L. (1997) “The Learning Factory—A NewApproach to Integrating Design and Manufacturing into the Engineering Curriculum,” Journal ofEngineering Education, Vol. 86, No. 2, 103-112.4. Sullivan, F. J., and R. Baren, (1998) “Simulating the Workplace in an Engineering Technology Course:A Rhetorical Model,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 87, No. 3, pp.279-284.5. “Engineering Criteria

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Karen Al-Ashkar

services for non-traditional students andsensitizing staff in these service areas to the details of serving off-campus learners.Access to courses is more than offering conned versions of lectures to students off-campus; it means that courses must be designed to enable interaction both betweeninstructor and student and between students. The interaction necessary to fully engageadult learners is achieved in courses especially designed for delivery at a distance.Access is only one component among the ties that bind a student to an institution, but it isan important one. It has been shown that the feelings of connectedness students obtainfrom this are important in ensuring perseverance to completion of degree programs.Ensuring success of students in

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Douglas W. Fraser; Gary E. Rafe

alternatives, an increasing amount of interest is being given to UNIX on thePC desktop. We offer some of our observations on the suitability of freely-available UNIX (andUNIX-like) systems for a variety of activities commonly associated with the personal computerdomain, with particular emphasis on inter-operability across various system platforms. Includedin our discussion are the increasingly-popular Linux, which can be used on many different typesof computer hardware, FreeBSD, and Sun Microsystems’ Solaris. In addition, we discussAT&T’s U/WIN system, which provides robust traditional UNIX services, and facilitates the useof many so-called open-source applications, on personal computers running Microsoft Windows.IntroductionOur goal for this

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Scott Danielson; Sudhir I. Mehta

balances on the first day of the Statics course. First,describe problems associated with the design of buildings and bridges, and artificial limbs…"In our opinion, every lecture should begin with "why" students should study that topic. Real lifeapplications and connecting the topic to other courses in the curriculum increases studentmotivation and attention.3. Focus on student outcomes and critical content. Classroom materials for an individualcourse topic should be based on “critical content” (key points for desired student outcomes andhighlighting difficult material) and not on a philosophy that “more is better” (Danielson &Danielson, 1994; Wankat & Oreovicz, 1998). This approach also aligns with NSF’s initiativesfor systemic change in

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Christine L. Corum

growth 5. MET graduates in the SOT Graduate Program 6. Efficiency of MET Department operations 7. MET’s use of classroom technology 8. Statewide Technology issues 9. Alumni and industry relations 10. Integrate continuous improvement process into all areas of MET Department.Establishing a time line for continuous improvement initiatives. From Fall 1995 through Fall Page 5.288.21998, the continuous improvement committee maintained a planning calendar of the MechanicalEngineering Technology department’s continuous improvement projects. While it wasmaintained the calendar helped to focus attention on projects and