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Phillip R. Rosenkrantz

Planning – Classical strategic planning is not far off from being a model that could beused for outcomes assessment. Kaufman, in his book Educational Planning: Strategic, Tactical,and Operational, proposes “mega-strategic planning” for educational institutions1. In thisframework constituencies are asked to help define specific “skill, knowledge, attitude, and abilityrequirements” (called SKAA’s) which drive sequencing and curriculum requirements.Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Criteria – The MBNQA criteria has been adaptedfor educational institutions and could be adapted and used for educational assessment andplanning. Core values in the MBNQA process are very compatible with outcomes assessmentThe advantage of the adopting this

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Ted D. Loso; Raj Desai; Michael E. Courbat

internal stresses within anorganization unless a more structured and formalized change procedure is used. Attempting tochanging a university or college culture to welcome information technology is not a simple oreasy task. It requires a lot of planning, resources, patience and the efforts of a lot of people.A recent white paper by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education states thatin applying information technology to the 21st century classroom, universities and colleges mustcreate a vision, develop a plan, allow experimentation and adopt a comprehensive approach.This approach would include understanding the changes needed in the infrastructure of theuniversity, developing appropriate compensation and incentives and recognition

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William E. Cole; Walter Buchanan

. Introducing them tonew technologies through the readings on the Internet and performing experiments in the lab, notthrough the traditional lecture, would develop self-learning skills. Critical thinking skills wouldbe developed by requiring the students to think about what they did in the lab, consider theimplications, and extend the results to other situations.With these thoughts in mind, we decided to implement the instrument lab in our freshmanEngineering Technology Program. Our plan was to complete eight experiments from the Drexelsite in the fall quarter and an additional eight experiments in the spring quarter (NortheasternUniversity is on the quarter system with each quarter being 10 weeks long). Initialimplementation occurred in the fall of

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Melanie Basantis; Zenaida Otero Keil

program.Background: Industrial support and input have been a hallmark of the Rowan College ofEngineering from its outset. The College first offered graduate courses in September1995. Some of these graduate courses were taught at company sites. When the firstRowan undergraduate engineering class arrived on campus in September 1996, theCollege had already developed partnerships and established numerous industrial contactsin the region. The National Advisory Council consisting of recognized leaders in engineeringeducation and industry assisted in the initial planning of the College of Engineeringbeginning in July, 1993. The Corporate Committee of the Council consisted of industrialleaders who assisted in the development of the innovative Rowan

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Mihir K. Das

) PC 3.2 The student will demonstrate an ability to analyze the factors affecting global competitiveness with reference to specific products and services. (Evaluation methods: exams, project work and written exercises) IV. Major Course Topics The course covers the following major topics: 1. History of quality movement: Contributions of Quality Gurus, such as Deming, Juran, Ishikawa and others 2. TQM Principles: Customer-driven products and services, Deming’s Cycle PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act), Strategic Planning -- Mission, Goals and

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William H. Dennis; Jeff A. Risinger; Thomas Hall

chose Natchitoches, Louisiana, the home of Northwestern State University,as the site of their new manufacturing facility partly due to the availability of the university.Even before the site was chosen, Alliance planning teams met with university officials, and withthe faculty in the Department of Industrial and Engineering Technology to discuss the electronicsengineering technology and industrial technology curricula offered at the university. Afterchoosing Natchitoches as the site for the plant, and while the facilities were under construction,the new plant manager and human resources director approached NSU with the possibility ofdeveloping a joint training program for the future employees in their high-tech operation. Thisforward thinking

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William L. Scheller

Are you in town most weekends? 9 Yes 9 No Do you have evening classes or an evening job? 9 Yes 9 NoEach group was assigned 1 manufacturing engineer and 3 mechanical engineers. Students withknowledge of MasterCAM were assigned as available. There were four basic tasks which needed tobe accomplished. These were: Programming, Fixtures, Presentation Stand, and Reporting. Acompetition was held between the groups first for programming. Each group submitted a plan for howthey would program the part. This included a process plan for cutting and the required tooling. Toolshad to be drawn from the existing inventory. The winning team from that competition began workimmediately. The remaining two groups competed for design

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Barbara Adams; Monica Bruning; Lawrence Genalo

aimed at getting youngpeople interested in technological careers, and encouraging persistence in mathematicsand science courses. Still, career aspirations of high school students do not fit theemployment projections.Current ConditionsOf the half million sophomore students who took American College Testing (ACT)PLAN test – a standardized test of educational development – 29% of the test-takersindicted an interest in science related careers, but only 14% plan careers inengineering/applied technology/computers or in natural sciences and mathematics. Interms of gender, almost as many females (28%) as males (31%) were interested inscience or mathematics careers. Breaking this down further, 16% of the males and 3% ofthe females are interested in

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Pamela L. Eddy; David A. Pape

Page 5.545.1objective may be due to difficulties with a previous course. Thus, in an integratedassessment plan course level assessments should feed into the overall programassessment.The faculty and administration of the engineering programs at Saginaw Valley StateUniversity (SVSU) have developed a Manual of Assessment4 as the initial step inimplementing a suitable departmental assessment program. This manual lists sixMechanical Engineering Program Objectives that are linked to and measured by twelveProgram Outcomes. Six different methods to assess these twelve outcomes are describedin the manual and are listed in Table 1 below. These six methods are representative ofapproaches to program assessment that are being used at a number of

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Lesley Jolly; David Radcliffe

of an experience,Dewey refers to reflection on experience as a learning loop that runs back and forth between theexperience and the relationships being inferred5. The concept of the learning loop has gainedpopularity through the work of Kolb6 and his four stage experiential learning model: 1)experience; 2) reflection; 3) generalising or theorising; and 4) planning. Therefore, the idealexperiential learner will be able to 1) involve themselves in new experiences without bias; 2) reflect upon experiences from multiple perspectives; 3) integrate their observations into logically sound theories; and 4) use these theories in decision making and problem solving.This kind of practice is precisely what is being

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William H. Sprinsky

differences, is usedas a layer in a GIS. Students learn the use of aerial imagery to construct coordinated DigitalTerrain Models (DTM), from which mapping can be derived for project planning andconstruction management.Our portfolio includes associate’s degrees in both Civil Engineering Technology (CT) andSurveying Technology (SUT), both ABET accredited, and a new bachelor’s program in CivilEngineering Technology with emphasis in Surveying (BCT). Photogrammetry is a requiredcourse in both the SUT and BCT degrees and can be taken as an elective in the CT program.The use of GIS is taught to students in all degrees. A more advanced course in LandUse/Information is part of the BCT program.The Photogrammetry course is in the lecture/lab format, where

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Gilbert J. Groendyke; Frank G. Lopez

to fill this need.Two such degrees are Process and Piping Design and Structural Analysis and Design.These are four year, Bachelor of Science degree plans that are accredited by TAC ofABET. The Engineering Technology Department offers two courses in the field of Page 5.677.1engineering modeling which support these specialized degrees. They are called "PipingModels" and "3D Modeling, Rendering and Animation".Piping ModelsPiping Models (ET 4301) is a senior level, required course in the Process Piping Designdegree plan. Students begin this course with prerequisite basics in 2D AutoCAD andMicroStation. The software that forms the primary basis for the

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Darrell D. Massie; Cheryl A. Massie

months.” is far more likely to be successful that the poor soul who says “I want to looklike Cindy Crawford.” Katzenbach and Smith tell us that desire for performance is essential tothe success of a team and that without this desire, the team is likely not to form.16 For thisreason, a goal that can be broken into small, measurable successes is essential to the team. Itallows them to quantify their achievements and gives them the motivation to continue theirefforts. Additionally the more involved team members are in the planning strategy for goalachievement, the more motivated, involved, and committed team members become.17 Page 5.306.2B

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Eric W. Johnson

Windows 95/98 or Windows NT. It can be run either from theCD-ROM or copied onto the hard drive and executed locally. There are plans to port the programto the MAC-OS in the future.II. Activity DescriptionThe main component in the program is the activities. Each activity is centered around anengineering principle. The principle may be a a fundamental law or a set of equations thatdescribes some engineering phenomenon. It is important to note that a person using the programdoes not need to understand the specific engineering principle utilized to be successful at a givenactivity. Each activity, however, does offer extra information that allows users to learn moreabout the science and mathematics involved with these principles. These information

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Yaw A. Owusu; Tarsha Dargan; Kimberly M. Richardson; James Thagard

/ Assembly • Product Use • Waste Management.Modules are related and interactive: • Database oriented (using Microsoft Access or any other data base structure). • Automated generation of environmental indices based on database information and user defined data. • Possible for use during the design and process planning phase. Figure 1. System Approach to Product Life Cycle Analysis for a Course in ECDM.The data structure must permit information generated by modules to be incorporated intodatabase and passed along to each model using aggregate rating based on results of differentmodules. The different rating systems used include: materials life cycle, process life

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Bradley E. Bishop

/representation and control This projectemphasizes issues beyond the traditional single-robot approach to mobile systems, requiringdesign of an entire array of mobile robots and an integrated communication and behaviorstrategy. Other potential topics include distributed sensing and functionality, centralized /decentralized control of robot swarms and advanced map-based path planning. Interfacingbetween the robots and a PC base station allows units with simple and inexpensive processors tobe coupled to the computational power of a centralized platform for data synthesis anddissemination.The remainder of the paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we offer an outline of thedesign project and discuss the test domain selected. In Section 3, we discuss

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Pannapa Herabat; Sue McNeil; Adjo Amekudzi; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

included one or two participantsfrom outside Civil Engineering, such as Engineering and Public Policy or the Heinz School ofPublic Administration, and one or two part-time students. While the majority of the graduatestudents would be classified as focusing on Engineering Planning and Management, students arealso drawn from the other disciplines offered, namely Environmental Engineering, ComputerAided Engineering, and Computational Mechanics. The course has also served as a core coursefor the National Science Foundation funded Graduate Research Traineeships “IntegratingScience, Technology and Management in Global Civil Infrastructure Systems.”The parent of this course is a course initiated in the Department of Civil Engineering atMassachusetts

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Francis W. Derby; Willie Ofosu

, Page 5.314.1local and private agencies to plan developments, determine the most appropriate location forsiting facilities, manage resources, and for supporting management decisions. As a systemwhose functionality depends on spatially referenced data, the GIS technology has mainly beenapplied by geographers, surveyors, environmental scientists, conservationists, planners and otherprofessionals who deal with spatial data on a regular basis.In several universities, GIS is taught in many departments such as civil engineering, geography,agriculture, environmental sciences, business, and planning. GIS instruction in thesedepartments are tailored to satisfy applications within the discipline. A common link to all theseapplications, which is the

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Richard Felder

Session 3630 Helping New Faculty Get Off to a Good Start Rebecca Brent, Richard M. Felder North Carolina State UniversityCollege teaching may be the only skilled profession that does not routinely provide training to itsnovice practitioners. New faculty members at most universities have traditionally had to learnby themselves how to plan research projects, identify and cultivate funding sources, writeproposals and get them funded, attract and supervise graduate students, and present their researchresults in an effective manner. They have also had to teach themselves how to

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Andrew J. Strubhar; Dennis Kroll

continuing evolution of the teaching mechanisms in boththe IE and PT courses involved. Various successes and failures are noted as well as plans for thefuture.IntroductionThe problem of providing students with “real world” problems which are also academicallyrigorous remains in the forefront of educational planning. In 1997 the Society of ManufacturingEngineers published a list of competency gaps found by industry in newly hired engineeringgraduates. (See http://www.sme.org/cgi-bin/eduhtml.pl?/mep/intro.html&&&SME& ) These Page 5.392.1gaps included communication skills, teamwork, project management, and continuous or lifelonglearning

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John C. Anderson; David Kelso; Charles Yarnoff; Barbara Shwom; Penny Hirsch

. Page 5.698.1At Northwestern, we have begun to address these problems by developing a two-quarter,project-based, core course for freshmen called Engineering Design and Communication. Thecourse, which focuses equally on design and communication, has been collaborativelyconceived, planned, and taught by a multi-disciplinary faculty from the College of Arts andSciences Writing Program and several engineering disciplines. Each small section is team-taughtby a faculty member from engineering and the writing program. To stress the point thatcommunication is an integral part of engineering, all the communication requirements in thiscourse—memos, progress reports, proposals, drawings, and PowerPoint presentations—stemfrom the work in design. When

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Thomas E. Hulbert; Robert B. Angus

survey developed by the authors and conducted by thestaff of the Corporate On-Site Education group in Northeastern’s Continuing Education Division.Information from the literature on advising on-site students was reviewed with the relevant articlessummarized in this paper. The paper concludes with a plan for advising participants in on-siteprograms recognizing participant differences and program variables.How Northeastern’s Continued Education Organized and Scope of ProgramContinuing Education has three major units within the Division-State of the Art (InformationTechnology), Building Design and Management, and Corporate On-Site Programs. This groupreports to University College, the part-time undergraduate college of the University.Corporate On

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Sandra Yost

move 5 to 0 , 3 to maxpos, 1 to 0 end; Figure 1. Sample CodeStudent deliverables for this segment of the course provided a framework for evaluation. Eachgroup had to submit a Gantt chart that identified activities and persons responsible for eachsubtask in each phase of the project. Milestones included a preliminary sketch of the robot’splanned geometry and a description of the strategy planned, as well as informal oral progressreports to the instructor. Each group submitted a final written report, and gave a final oral Page 5.409.3 Figure 2. Student Robot #1

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Jeffrey L. Ray

management,resource availability, communication skills, and leadership. Additionally project and budgetmanagement techniques are presented. The remainder of the semester is used for student teamsto prepare their design proposals and obtain sponsor approval for project implementation.Discussion of the professional development modules and exercises developed are presented.IntroductionEngineering employers are demanding more and more of current and future engineeringgraduates. One concern is the lack of soft skills new engineering graduates possess, which issupported by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Manufacturing Education Plan (MEP)1 .Several skills have been identified as competency gaps in today’s engineering education. Theability to

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Richard A. Gilbert; Andrew Hoff, University of South Florida; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

guise of TQM (Total Quality Management), a company based quality plan, or even theInternational Standards Organization standards set forth as ISO 9000 and 14000. Regardless ofthe name that frames the plan, the implementation of a quality management plan transforms thework environment in any organization or facility significantly.These new expectations put additional requirements on manufacturing technicians andtechnologists working in a plant. Not only are technical skills required, but skills that reflectplant worker responsibility for the smooth operation of a manufacturing process as well as thequality of the product and process. Under quality manufacturing plans, plant workers arerequired to keep and report their own quality control data

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Teresa Sappington; Rebecca K. Toghiani

Engineering Page 5.537.1began formalizing plans for the K-6 program, familiarity of the authors with the ‘Extended Plus’program provided the solution to logistics questions that arose. Questions such as how topublicize the SEE program, how to identify participants, siting the program, meals, snacks, etc.,were all conveniently solved by the existence of the Extended Plus program. As a result, ourefforts focused on design and implementation of activities that could be used to expose thechildren in the program to engineering. Approximately 120 children participated in the three mornings of engineering activities.The children were divided into 3

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Steve Picker; Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan; Christina Weigand; Amy Chen

consists of alternating hot andcold water streams and baths.Stage 3 (Spring-Summer, 2000): This represents the final stage for the development of theexperiment.The tasks set for the undergraduate student (A. Chen) are as follows:1. Identify, prepare and perform analytical methods to measure cell, glucose and ethanol concentrations.2. On selected yeasts, propose an experimental plan to evaluate the effect of yeast type, substrate concentration and initial cell concentration on the ethanol and CO2 production, cell growth and kinetic parameters. 3,4,5,6,73. Perform the experimental plan developed in (2) above.4. Analyze and interpret the data.5. Develop the final report in the form of a laboratory manual.Tasks 1 and 2 have been

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Robert A. Merrill; Elizabeth A. Scholle

andengineering were spread between several buildings. In addition, the Gleason Building, whichwas constructed in 1968, lacked the infrastructure to support the complex and changing needs forthe programs it supported.In 1994, a joint task force of engineering technology and engineering faculty, staff and Page 5.310.1administrators was formed to plan the renovation of the Gleason Building. This group metnumerous times from 1994 to September of 1998 in an attempt to plan the renovation of theGleason Building to satisfy the needs of all the occupants. The problem was made even moredifficult because the renovation was to occur while the building was still at

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Hisham Alnajjar

disciplines.The University’s Strategic Plan (1996) identifies the improvement of the First-YearExperience as one of the institution’s four highest priority items. As part of the effort bythe University of Hartford to improve the freshman experience across campus, facultyfrom the COE as well as those from four other collegiate units participated in a two-yearinitiative sponsored by a NSF Institutional Reform grant. The goal was to improve Page 5.316.1students’ learning in the first-year courses across the university through the use oftechnology, collaborative learning, and peer coaching[1]. The COE faculty worked onrevising the first-year courses to include team

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Yosef Gavriel; Robert Broadwater

conceptsintroduced in the lecture. An example of such a question isWhen you write code, one way you communicate with other programmers is to embed___________ in the code.By picking on the hot spotted blank in the above statement, the student would see the word“comments” appear in a popup window. All together, over 400 hot spotted questions weredeveloped for the course.IV. Software development practices and principlesThroughout the course, emphasis was placed on nine software development practices andprinciples [1,2]: • Experiment in small programs • Step through the code line-by-line • Programming is first of all communication • Analyze and plan before you act • Clearly understand your program