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Steven E. O'Hara; Suzanne D. Bilbeisi

; one that is focused in scope, and one that is open to personalinterpretation. The first design project is centered on the design of a small object – a clocktower - using a standard set of materials to create a finished model. Each student is given thesame set of shapes to utilize in their design, with the requirement that the integrity of the shapesmust remain. Using the limited materials palette, the students experiment with issues ofstructure and aesthetics in a conceptual way (Figure 5). The final design project of the semesteris truly open-ended; the students are simply asked to design an imaginative object and/or space.The basic materials are provided, but the students can manipulate them in any way thatreinforces their idea or concept

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Ron Baddock; Catherine S. Bolek; Kenny Fotouhi; Ali Eydgahi

works because all parties gain something from therelationship. The collaborations between university and industrial partners ensure thatstudents will have access to the latest technology, real world experience and facultyinvolved in research projects seeking solutions to telecommunications and informationtechnology problems. Through such partnerships, the University is kept up-to-date onnew and emerging laboratory teaching equipment and technologies available for study.Bibliographies1. Sbenaty, S.M., Industrial Partnership for the Enhancement of Engineering Technology Education, Proceedings of ASEE Conference, Charlotte, NC, 1999.2. Fournier, D.J. and Gaudet, C., Creating Relationships with Industry to Advance New Programs

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. Kathleen Yancey describes reflection in the following way: In method, reflection is dialectical, putting multiple perspectives into play with each other in order to produce insight. Procedurally, reflection entails a looking forward to goals we might attain, as well as a casting backward to see where we have been. When we reflect, we thus project and review, often putting the projections and the reviews in dialogue with each other, working dialectically as we seek to discover what we know, what we have learned, and what we might understand. When we reflect, we call upon the cognitive, the Page 5.522.1 affective, the intuitive

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that have been included in the strategy of LaPREP and which shouldbe included in plans of similar programs.A. Advisory committee. The formation of such a committee should be the first order of business. Prominent school board, city council, education, business and religious leaders should be members. The committee serves as a two-way communication mechanism, receiving as well as contributing information. Additional one-on-one meetings may be held between certain committee members and the program director.B. Grant applications to local as well as regional and national foundations. Local foundations often have more of an interest in local projects than regional and national organizations. The project director should visit the grant

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Esther V. Reed; Matt W. Mutka

acommercial OS, which may be appropriate for laboratory development. The embedded systemplatform and environment that was investigated is a Handheld Personal Computer (H/PC) deviceusing the Windows CE operating system. The primary device and OS, for which software wasdeveloped, was the Hewlett Packard (HP) Jornada 820 Handheld PC Professional (H/PC Pro)running Windows CE 3.0. The secondary device and OS was the HP 620LX Palmtop PCrunning Windows CE 2.0. Commercial developer’s tools for these platforms and environmentsfrom Microsoft were investigated. The C++ and Java programming languages were to beincluded in this project. Consequently, the following packages were planned for investigation:Windows CE Toolkit for Visual C++ 5.0, Windows CE

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Murali Paranandi

their project presentations consisting ofimages of architectural drawings, photo-realistic images of interior exterior spacesgenerated directly from the 3-D CAD models, and scanned images of sketches andphotographs of the physical models. Additionally, these web pages also incorporated thefollowing:• QTVR based movies showing walk-though experiences generated directly from 3-D CAD models• Java scripted rollover images that juxtaposition various images, for example, sections over plans etc.• Brief text description of the proposed project. Figure 2. An example of “online design review” during fall 1998.Reviewers interacted with the students through face-to-face critiques as well as virtualcritiques over the Internet. As seen on

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Steven L. McCabe; Francis M. Thomas

degree. The conferences address a different need than the degree programs, but theypresent a scheduling problem in that it is necessary to miss an entire day of work in order toattend the conference. This can be difficult, in some cases, due to project deadlines, etc. In anattempt to address the need for additional continuing education for the engineering community,the Civil and Environmental Engineering department has introduced a series of ProfessionalDevelopment Lectures.II. Civil and Environmental Engineering FacultyThe Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty consists of twenty-five members with a widerange of expertise. The main groups in the department are structural, mechanics, environmental,geotechnical, transportation, construction

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Elaine L. Craft; James C. Wood

SC ATE curriculum development project seeks to improve graduation rates by addressingthese two problem areas and using the results of educational research. Educational research hasshown that the majority of students entering associate degree programs do not learn aseffectively in the traditional lecture, teacher-centered instructional mode as they can learn in acontextual, student- centered, active-learning environment 6,7,8. The SC ATE curriculum isdesigned to model the workplace by developing an integrated, problem-based approach toteaching the traditional mathematics, physics, communications, and introductory technologycourses9,10. For students who are under-prepared to enter beginning mathematics andcommunications courses, a one-semester

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Purshotam K. Juriasingani; Chris D. Cox; R. Bruce Robinson

PowerPoint® presentation in class and the students havereceived it very well. Students tend to enjoy these kinds of computer based visual learningtools.5. Problems and Planned ImprovementsWhen this project was undertaken, the power of computers was more limited and precludedlarger video. The standard choice at the time was 1/4 screen video. As resources allow, theauthors would like to increase the size of the video.6. AvailabilityThis PowerPoint® presentation can be obtained at nominal cost by writing to Dr. R. BruceRobinson, 73 Perkins Hall, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996 or e-mail atrbr@utk.edu.7. AcknowledgmentsThe authors are grateful to Mark Rauhuff of the Knoxville Utility Board for his time inidentifying construction sites

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Marcia DeMendonca; Charles U. Okonkwo

of the future engineer or technologist.Appropriate year to teach courseDFE should be taught in the sophomore year prior to capstone design courses and projects or itshould be taught in the junior year. All engineering majors should take the same course withexamples and case studies drawn from the many disciplines. Senior capstone design courses andprojects should emphasize DFE knowledge acquired earlier by the students. Page 5.371.2Design for the Environment (DFE)DFE is the systematic consideration of design performance in which the environmental impact,sustainable development, health, safety, and waste are optimized over the full product

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Ryan S. Magargle; Rami W. Zarrouk; Maurice F Aburdene

, conversion of binary-coded decimal to decimal equivalence,manipulation of matrices, and demonstration of statistical concepts such as finding the mean, thevariance, and the standard deviation.AcknowledgmentsMicrosoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.Mathcad is a trademark of Mathsoft incorporated.MAURICE FELIX ABURDENEMaurice F. Aburdene is the T. Jefferson Miers Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of ComputerScience at Bucknell University. He has also taught at Swarthmore College, State University of New York atOswego, and the University of Connecticut. Professor Aburdene was a project engineer and project manager at theBristol Company, a visiting research scientist at MIT’s Laboratory for Information and Decision

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analysis through effective documents, graphics, and presentations • Managing interpersonal communication in sometimes stressful team projects • Communicating effectively with management to demonstrate expertise and achievements • Communicating with implementers and users of engineering products (such as technicians or the public) • Conveying concepts of risks, including probability of failures (think of Challenger, for example) • Understanding liability related to communication documentsA quick review of this list alone (and it is not to be considered completed) can demonstrate how far ourengineering students have yet to go, if we rely only upon essay writing and basic speech courses for theirinstruction.The

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Nisreen Ghaddar; Nassir Sabah; Jamal Abed; Fouad T. Mrad

Page 5.83.11 Presently spending a sabbatical year at MIT. Ex-Dean and chairman of the Total Quality Management Committee.engineering design process through reverse engineering and through design and build project,and to teamwork. The necessary professional skills of leadership, innovation, and engineeringethics are highly stressed in these courses. Extensive outlines of these courses, objectives,articulation matrix and learning assessment matrix were prepared.I. IntroductionThe underlying philosophy of EC 2000 is that each engineering program must have clearly statededucational objectives that are consistent with the mission of the institution and are based on theneeds of the program’s various constituencies (e.g., students, faculty, alumni

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Steven H. VanderLeest

on technology in integrativecapstone courses, such as an engineering senior design projects course. However, capstones canbe narrowly focused since they are usually intended for a specific major. A third possibility istechnology from the viewpoint of a particular discipline, such as history of technology,philosophy of technology, or ethics of technology. Even here, the courses are often comprisedmainly of students in one particular major.III. A Science Fiction and Technology CourseA course that combines perspectives on technology with a focused study of science fictionliterature offers an interesting solution to the problem of introducing students to broader issues oftechnology. Many students have a personal interest in science fiction and

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Bruce Segee; Michael D. Amos

5.54.3network controller polls the decoder, the data that is held in the local memory is transmitted viaRS-485 to the network controller module, where it is held in local memory in the networkcontroller. The data is held in the network controller until the controller is polled by the customPC software and moved to another location.In the event of a power failure after data has been stored in memory in either the barcode decoderor the network controller, but before being moved to a more secure location, a battery backupsystem will keep the memory intact. This is important for reliability and for fail-safe protection,both important topics to the client company.Custom PC SoftwareThe custom software developed for this project consists of two separate

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Rosalyn S. Hobson

;iii. that provides students with the opportunities to use newly acquired skills and knowledge in real-life situations in their own communities; andiv. that enhances what is taught in school by extending student learning beyond the classroom and into the community and helps foster the development of a sense of caring for others.2In the fall semesters of 1998 and 1999 at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in theSchool of Engineering, a group of freshmen students in one section of the Introduction toEngineering course (ENGR 101) were offered an opportunity to participate in a service-learning project. ENGR 101 is a laboratory based required course for all engineering schoolfreshmen in their first semester. The students

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Nora Valeiras; Luis A. Godoy

wereestablished for this project, including • To stimulate the development of a critical point of-view in the research work. • To develop the ability to write a paper with high chances of being accepted. • To visualize and solve conflicts associated to the publication process. • To train in the review of scientific and technical papers.2. MethodologyTraditional approaches in this field consist in providing training in technical writing (see,for example, Brusaw et al.3 , Day 6). The emphasis is placed on writing aspects, but otherperhaps more important areas are left out of the discussion.In this project we attempt to include topics related to the research process itself, includingthe presentation of the main concepts, the

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William M. Jordan; Debbie Silver; Bill B. Elmore

of thefuture teachers themselves. This project moves toward that end.Louisiana Tech University’s undergraduate engineering program has been significantlymodified during the past two years. Emphasis has been placed on creating an integrated(college-wide) program for freshmen and sophomores. A key part of this program is a three-course sequence in the freshman year that largely deals with engineering problem solving.It is our belief that part of the problem with K-12 science education is that teachers do notknow how to relate the science they are teaching to real world experiences. To deal with thatissue, we incorporated what we have learned in developing our freshman engineering coursesequence as a basis to create a new three-hour course in

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Richard A. Gilbert; Mark Maughmer; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College; Renata Engel, Pennsylvania State University

with regard to simple (but difficult) lecture topics.Invariably design courses will include open-ended design projects. Certain topics, like designmethodologies and concept development, are standard and repeated regardless of the designproject. Other topics are specific to the particular design project and would not be delivered eachtime the course is offered. For these, the topics may be difficult because the may be outside therealm of expertise of the instructor. That is not to say they are complex, but rather unfamiliar.Consider, for example, a project that requires the design of a fiber optic amplifier housing in acourse where neither the students nor instructor have had prior experience in the fiber opticindustry. To set the problem in

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Robert J. Gustafson; John Merrill

representative of the population of graduatesat large in terms of gender, ethnicity, and citizenship. As an example of results, employmentdescription showed full-time employment for 92% of Yr 2 and 97% of Yr 6 alumni with 76% Page 5.208.3and 80% reporting themselves as employed in engineering. Most frequently reported primaryjob functions for Yr 2 and Yr 6 alumni were design, project engineering, and management.Primary job functions for Yr 15 alumni were management, project engineer, manufacturing, andresearch and development. Ten percent of Yr 2 and 6% of Yr 6 alumni reported working outsideof the U.S.6. Educational Outcomes Summary Since the

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evolution of organisms over time, the continuity of life sustainedthrough reproduction and development, the dynamic equilibrium of organisms that sustains life,the dependency of plants and animals on their physical environment and the impact of humandecisions on the environment. In New York State the fourth-grade science test has two parts,an objective test (multiple choice) and a laboratory assessment where students makeobservations and record data to reach conclusions.The Benchmarks for Science Literacy (1993) is part of Project 2061, an effort to describe whatscience for all Americans should be, and it sets benchmarks for grades 2, 5, 8 and 12 in thefollowing areas: the nature of science, the nature of mathematics, the nature of technology

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Kevin M. Nickels

fuzzy” is not likelyto generate much useful information, but “Which method would you solve this circuit with (andwhy)?” might do a better job.4. Group WorkAs Johnson et al.7 point out, group work in the classroom can range from small clusters of studentsworking together on homework problems before class to long-term assigned formal groups work-ing on projects. When deciding whether to use group work as a component of a course, the courseobjectives and current organization must be taken into account. As new engineering educators,many of us don’t have the time or the inclination to re-invent courses, but wish to incrementallychange them to improve the pedagogic style and learning of students. I’ve described my use ofshort-term problem-solving

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Patricia Backer

predictable and are less deterministic than other modes ofinstruction. Other researchers5,6 have found that a student’s learning style affects achievementon multimedia-based learning. Divergers (using Kolb’s learning style preference) were found toinprove more on posttest measures than those who have other learning styles. This would leadone to state that the successful use of hypermedia requires nonlinear thinking on the part of theuser--this type of thinking may not be successful for all users.II. Design and Development of the multimedia modulesThe designer of this project applied for a SJSU Improvement of Instruction grant and wasawarded one for the 1994 calendar year. This project provided for the design andimplementation of an interactive

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William Peterson

industrialengineering. The establishment of a new department located in Muskegon (with offices in theHEC at MCC) placed WMU faculty on-site for teaching, student advising, and studentrecruiting and retention. It also allows the manufacturing engineering department to set policyand procedures to reflect the expectations of the college for this faculty unit. The chair of theDepartment of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering serves as chair the Department ofManufacturing Engineering.The startup phase of the program was projected to take 4 years. During the first three years,reduced course offerings and smaller class sizes (plus one time startup costs) were projected to

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Mahammad Najafi; George Yang

is inaccordance with projection. Student current employment situations and feedback from localindustries regarding the improvement of the curriculum is presented.IntroductionManufacturing Engineering Technology is the profession in which the understanding of abroadrange of technologies is necessary to apply and control manufacturing processes. It includesmethods of production of industrial commodities and consumer products. The manufacturingprofessional must be able to plan, design and implement the facilities, tools, machines, and thesequence of operations for producing high quality products at competitive prices.Manufacturing Engineering Technology is a highly interdisciplinary field, requiring elementsfrom other areas of engineering

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S P Maj; D Veal

career at a senior technical or Page 5.367.3supervisory level in this field of activity. It combined theory, practical work and presentationtechniques with the associated industrial management problems. The focus of all moduleswas industrial applications, ranging from basic electronics to control systems theory. TheInstitution of Electronics and Electrical Incorporated Engineers, leading to IncorporatedEngineer status, accredited the course. In both years of the course students undertake projectwork. Projects include investigations of materials to be used, costing, standards and codes ofpractice. An important part of the course is the development of

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Farrukh Alvi; Chiang Shih

IntegrationOur new program is also restructured such that it is integrated vertically throughout the entirecurriculum. Several key integration concepts are adopted as follows: (1) provide students withgeneral skills required for their engineering problem solving as early as possible; (2) reinforcethese skills continuously throughout the curriculum; (3) offer more technical elective courses forstudents to choose during senior year; (4) strengthen the senior capstone design project whichutilizes and integrates the skills learned in the integrated curriculum and requires the creation ofa final product, similar to an indurial engineering process . To achieve these goals, two newcourses were introduced during the sophomore year: (1) Introduction to

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Kevin M Torres; David Johnson; David Forsman; David Baird

used as a lead-in to a presentation on basic rocketry principles, such as, aerodynamics andpropellants. In the evening, the students used the information they learned during the day topractice using rocketry software, such as wRASP and VCP. After successfully arriving atthe answers, the students were allowed to start working on the competition project. They were towork in teams of two and create a single stage rocket using parts from the Estes Designer’sSpecial kit provided by the instructors. The teams were to predict their apogee altitude (AA) anddistance downrange (DD). The team’s prediction arriving closest to the actual AA and DD,would win the contest. The quality of their working drawings, craftsmanship and paint designwere also judged

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Patricia L. Fox; Stephen Hundley

% 7% 26% Research/sponsored projects for faculty 3% 17% 43% 12% 24% Page 5.673.3 Table 4. Industrial Advisory Committee Effectiveness - Two-year schools Very Very Not Industrial Advisory Committee Provides Effective Effective Ineffective Ineffective Applicable Curriculum guidance 17% 80% 0% 0% 3% Student scholarships 2% 12% 46% 12% 28% Co-op employment 6

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Gilbert J. Groendyke; Frank G. Lopez

Institute.FRANK G. LOPEZ, BSFrank G. Lopez is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology at the University ofHouston-Downtown. He also is a CADD Design Specialist at Brown & Root Energy Services, aHalliburton Company. He specializes in onshore and offshore design of pipelines for the oil and gasindustry including broad experience in Civil related projects in the petrochemical industry as well asmanufacturing and process. He brings over twenty years of practical experience to academia. He holds aBS degree in Engineering Technology from the University of Houston-Downtown. He teaches 3DModeling, Rendering and Animation, and surveying including GPS and GIS