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Saleh M. Sbenaty

Session 2532 Innovations in Curriculum Integration, Delivery, and Assessment For Engineering and Technology Education Saleh M. Sbenaty, Ph.D. Middle Tennessee State UniversityAbstractThe current paper outlines an innovative approach to curriculum integration, development, anddelivery that improve engineering and technology education and revive student interests inpursuing these programs. This is one of the objectives of the three-year NSF-funded grant titled“The South-East Advanced Technological Education Consortium, SEATEC.” The consortium isa collaborative effort of

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

Session 3253 Tech Prep Camp: Introducing High School Students to Engineering Technology through Model Rocketry Kevin Torres, Kathy Holliday-Darr, David Forsman, Dave Baird, David Johnson Penn State Erie, The Behrend College http://eetsg27.bd.psu.edu/~holidar/tech-prep/index.htmlAbstractPenn State Erie, The Behrend College participates in Pennsylvania’s Tech Prep Program.Articulation agreements between Penn State Erie and participating local high schools aredesigned to recruit students into two year programs. Students meeting the specified requirementsupon graduation from high school are

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Patricia L. Fox; Stephen Hundley

Session 2348 Trends and Developments in Engineering Technology: Who Are We and Where Are We Going? Patricia L. Fox, Stephen P. Hundley Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)AbstractIn 1977, a longitudinal survey was developed by a group of engineering technology colleagues tolook at trends and developments of baccalaureate engineering technology programs in the UnitedStates. Engineering Technology Division (ETD) representatives of the four American Societyfor Engineering Education (ASEE) zones conducted the surveys in 1977, 1981, 1985, 1990, and1995. Results of

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Albert Lozano-Nieto

Session 2793 USING INTRANET TOOLS TO TEACH A PROJECT PROPOSAL PREPARATION COURSE IN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY Albert Lozano-Nieto Penn State University at Wilkes-Barre P.O. Box PSU Lehamn, PA 18627 Phone: (570) 675-9245 FAX: (570): 675-7713 email: AXL17@psu.eduINTRODUCTIONThis paper describes the use of an Intranet Tool (First Class™) to carry out a Projects Proposalcourse. Although the experiences

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Zhao Liang; Ye Tao; Xiang Bo Wang; Ke Qin Li

Session Number: 1369 Assessing Chinese Engineering Graduates’ Abilities for Problem-Solving, Scientific Discovery and Technological Innovation  from a Professoriate Perspective Tao, Ye (Presenter) Associate Professor International Business School Hunan University Changsha, Hunan, P.R. China Wang, Xiang Bo Research Scientist Law School Admission Council

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Abbes Berrais

interesting and exciting branch in computer applications isexpert systems technology. Expert system technology can play a great role in enhancing theprocesses of teaching and learning in engineering education.This paper addresses the impact of Expert Systems (ES) technology in providing thenecessary support for developing earthquake engineering computer-aided education. Anintroduction to ES technology is briefly presented. Then, the benefits from the application ofES in engineering education are outlined. A theoretical strategy is proposed for developingES prototypes for engineering education purposes. An educational prototype ES for teachingearthquake resistant design of buildings is briefly presented. The prototype was developedusing a SUN

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John Chen; Mike Ellis

Session 2520Faculty Proficiency with Technology: Distribution among Rank and Institution John C. Chen1, Mike Ellis2 1 Mechanical Engineering, Rowan University 2 Architectural Engineering, North Carolina A&T State UniversityAbstractIn recent years there has been a rapid growth in interest to integrate technology into theengineering curriculum, both to extend the reach and effectiveness of teaching and learning, andin response to industry needs. We have conducted a survey of engineering faculty at the eightSUCCEED coalition universities to

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Peter J. Graybash

Multi-Media Session 2793 Selecting Communications Technology for Delivering Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Programs Peter J. Graybash, Jr. Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractWith the convergence of major shifts in economy and society, competency developmentprograms for professional employees in American corporations are increasing in demand andavailability. Communications technologies now allow unprecedented linkages betweenContinuing Professional Engineering Educators (CPEE) and their organizational consumers.As development programs become more available, a

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Marilyn J. Smith

Session 3202Learning More From Class Time: Technology Enhancement in the Classroom Marilyn J. Smith, Narayanan Komerath School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe traditional classroom lectures in engineering do not permit professors or students to keeppace with technological changes within rapidly changing disciplines. By using technology, theclassroom lecture can be modified so that class time becomes a laboratory of learning andreinforcement through iteration and application. This approach is also very timely since itdirectly develops the engineering attributes set forth in ABET

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Natalie D. Segal

Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship Division (in formation) Session #3654 A Patent on Your Résumé, or Encouraging Creativity Among Technology Students Natalie D. Segal Ward College of Technology at the University of HartfordAbstractIn our Advanced Technical Communications class, the students are formed into teamsthat must invent a new object or create a significant improvement in an already existingobject, write a formal business proposal to convince a company to produce the object,and make a presentation in which they summarize their proposals. Many of these objectsare patentable

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Pete Tschumi

university officials, the leaders of information technologycompanies have intensified their emphasis on the need for the university to address this problem.As a result, Chancellor Hathaway of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock resolved to meetthe needs of industry.As the first step, Chancellor Hathaway established an Information Technology Committee toguide the University in meeting the information technology needs. Simultaneously, theUniversity began the process of creating a new college: the Donaghey College of InformationScience and Systems Engineering. As a result, a study of the needs in information technologywas done and several new programs were started in the new college. The focus here will be onhow the study was done, the results of

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Robert Gray; Robert Weissbach

curriculum Satcomtechnology. This year, two industrial sponsored senior design projects involve electricalengineering technology (EET) students. These projects provide the students involved withhands-on Satcom experience in solving real-world industrial problems. In the first project,one EET student is working with two electrical engineering (EE) students as interdisciplinaryteammates to test the link margin effects of a Satcom receiver due to environmentalconditions such as rain, snow, ice, etc. In the second project, two EET students are alsoteamed with two EE students to test bit error rates for a newly-designed Satcom receiver. Inthe future, it is anticipated that the need for technologists who understand Satcom systemswill allow Penn State

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Jerome A. Atkins

virtualuniversities will offer solutions to the looming crisis in engineering and technology employment.This project relies on access to personal computers and the Internet. With that, the proposedapproach offers opportunities are particularly vital to displaced workers and those historicallyunderserved and underrepresented in technical higher education. The project seeks to create areplicable model of use to other distance learning based programs and institutions. Page 5.159.1BackgroundPost-secondary education "at a distance" has evolved tremendously since the early days ofextension programs, correspondence courses and external degrees. More than 750,000

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O. Kenneth Sergeant; Linda O. Hardymon

à à Session 3433 Solar BikeRayce Competition Caps Success in Technology Student Team Project Linda O. Hardymon, O. Kenneth Sergeant Middle Tennessee State UniversityAbstractAfter a solar bike workshop was held at Middle Tennessee State University, the“we can do this” syndrome hit some of the students and faculty on campus. Agroup of engineering technology and industrial studies students felt they coulddesign, engineer, manufacture limited parts, construct, and compete in a vehicleof their own creation. The ongoing demands of

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Karen Al-Ashkar

that faculty and students are on equal footing when itcomes to some of the new high-tech options. Even though we are dealing with asophisticated student population of practicing engineers, it’s probably dangerous to trustthat they are familiar and comfortable with our technology choices. We have found thatstudents and faculty each need some level of instruction before the technology becomesinvisible and concentration on content can begin. Instructing the students became a focusduring course development, and instructing faculty in the technologies employed wasincorporated into their orientation to distance education.Policies vs. practice in a traditional system This factor is the most hidden, but probablyhas the greatest potential for derailing

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S P Maj; D Veal

to an acceptable commercial standard without further extensive training. It is noteworthy that none of the students interviewed had ever opened a PC. It is significant that all those interviewed for this study had successfully completed all the units on computer architecture and communication engineering” 2.The computer architecture and communication engineering units were: ComputerTechnology, Microprocessors, Data Communication & Computer Networks. These unitsfollow the standard approach taken by most universities. The Computer Technology unitintroduces students to computer systems and hardware i.e. number codes, assembly language(Motorola 6800), machine architecture

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S P Maj; D Veal

relatively new discipline and given the rapidadvances in technology is subject to on going debate, development and fragmentation. It istypically the requirement of many disciplines, such as Multi-media, Software Engineering,E-commerce etc to incorporate computer technology as part of their curriculum. However, adetailed market analysis within Australia clearly indicated that both students and employersperceive the standard computer technology curriculum as increasingly irrelevant.Work to date clearly indicates that this standard approach provides technical detail andcomplexity that is inappropriate for introductory courses on computer and networktechnology. As part of an international study the same investigation is currently beingconducted with

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Kathryn Angelyn Neeley; Ingrid Soudek Townsend

-58.8. Stanley, Autumn. Mothers and Daughters of Invention: Notes for a Revised History of Technology. NewBrunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1993. Page 5.464.3INGRID SOUDEK TOWNSENDIngrid Townsend is Professor and Chair of the Division of Technology, Culture, and Communication in the Schoolof Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia.KATHRYN ANGELYN NEELEYKathryn Neeley is Associate Professor of Technology, Culture, and Communication in the School of Engineeringand Applied Science at the University of Virginia

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Maarij M. Syed; Sudipa Mitra-Kirtley

authors wish to thank the physics machine shop at Rose-Hulman, who played an indispensable part inputting together lots of equipment for the various activities. Dr. Jeffery Froyd, of the Department of Electricaland Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology purchased numerous equipment, with somefunds available to him from a grant from National Science Foundation. The authors also are indebted tonumerous faculty members in the department of Physics and Applied Optics at Rose-Hulman Inst of Tech,especially to Drs. Daniel L. Hatten, Arthur Western, Michael Moloney, Azad Siahmakoun, Michael McInnerney,and Nilgun Sungar (a visiting faculty member from CalPoly Institute of Technology).Author BiographiesSUDIPA MITRA-KIRTLEYSudipa Mitra

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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 E. Pfile; Maher E. Rizkalla; Charles F. Yokomoto

Session #3432 Applications of Computer-Based Power Electronics to Electric Vehicle Technology, An Interdisciplinary Senior Course. Maher E. Rizkalla, Charles F. Yokomoto, Richard Pfile, A. S.C. Sinha, Mohamed El-Sharkawy, Sergy Lyshevski, and Ahmed Al-Antably* School of Engineering and Technology Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis 723W Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 *Allison Transmission, GM Corporation P.O

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Munir Mandviwalla; Chang Liu; Azim Danesh

.” Educom Review, Sept./Oct. 1994 (b), 29(5).[http.www//educom.edu/web/pubs/review/reviewarticles/29516.html].Walsh, John, 1992. “Personal Video: A Reality,” ITCA Teleconferencing Yearbook 1992.Wolf, William A., 1995. “Warning: Information Technology Will Transform the University,” Issues in Science andTechnology, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Summer), p.46.Verduin, J. and Clark, T., 1991. Distance Education - The Foundations of Effective Practice, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc.Voegal, G., 1986. “Instructional Technology Mix: Some Considerations,” New Directions for Community Colleges,55, 73-81.AZIM DANESHAzim Danesh is currently a doctoral student at Temple University and an Associate Professor of Computer Sciencein the Engineering and Technology Division at

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Sergy Lyshevski; Akhouri S. C. Sinha; Maher E. Rizkalla; Charles F. Yokomoto; Mohamed El-sharkawy; Richard Pfile

Session #3432 Using Senior Research, Design, and Development Projects in the Development of a Course in Electric Vehicle Technology Maher E. Rizkalla, Charles F. Yokomoto, Richard Pfile, Akhouri S. C. Sinha, Mohamed El-Sharkawy, Sergy Lyshevski, and Marvin Needler Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at Indianapolis Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis 723W Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202-5137 and

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Timothy Benson; Paul Berke; Nathaniel Bair; Matthew Scholtens; Kristen Lantz; David Woessner; Daniel Lappenga; Dale Corlew; John Krupczak

Session 1380 Hands-on Laboratory Projects for Non-Science Majors: Learning Principles of Physics in the Context of Everyday Technology John Krupczak, Jr., Nathaniel Bair, Timothy Benson, Paul Berke, Dale Corlew, Kristen Lantz, Daniel Lappenga, Matthew Scholtens, and David Woessner Hope College, Holland, Michigan USAAbstractA set of hands-on laboratory projects has been developed for undergraduates who are notmajoring in science or engineering. The projects are intended to help explain the principles ofphysics to non-science majors. The projects explore both the technological and scientificaspects of

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Holly A. Patterson-McNeill; Carl Steidley

Session 3520 Engineering Programming Language Concepts Holly Patterson-McNeill, Carl Steidley Texas A&M University-Corpus ChristiAbstractThe study of programming languages is beneficial to all levels of programmers. The first part ofthis paper reviews some of the reasons for studying programming languages. To isolate some ofthe issues of language design, definition, and implementation, mini-languages have been used inProgramming Languages courses. Mini-languages are small and complete, yet restrictedlanguages. They have a small syntax and simple semantics. Mini-languages and their

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Lisa A. Haston; James S. Fairweather; P. David Fisher; Diane Rover

sets of interdependent teams,“design teams” and “skill teams”. Design teams are formed for the entire semester. Each of these Design Teams Skill Teams Page 5.435.3 Figure 1: An illustration of the cross-functional teaming model.teams works on a specific engineering design project as part of a single company’s engineeringstaff (Spartan Embedded Technologies) to meet a customer’s needs. Skill teams are formed fromrepresentatives of each design team, as illustrated in Fig. 1. As an example, Fig. 1 depicts fourdesign teams and five skill teams, the latter of varying size and membership. As the nameimplies, skill

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Christine D. Noble; Beth M. Myers; Karen E. Schmahl

advanced manufacturing technologies and systems implementation on production operations andcosts. Her Ph.D. is in Industrial Engineering from the University of Cincinnati.CHRISTINE D. NOBLEChristine D. Noble is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Associate Dean inthe School of Engineering and Applied Science at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Her teaching /researchinterests are in the areas of curriculum development, Engineering Economy, Engineering Management and TotalQuality Management. Her Ph.D. is in Operations Research from the University of Cincinnati.BETH MYERSBeth Meyers as a senior in the Engineering Management program at Miami University in Oxford, OH. Hercapstone project focuses on development of

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Raghu Korrapati; Nikunja K. Swain; James A. Anderson

Session 2320 Computer Based Virtual Engineering Laboratory (CBVEL) And Engineering Technology Education Nikunja K. Swain, James A. Anderson, Raghu Korrapati School of Engineering Technology & Sciences (SETS)/School of Business and Technology South Carolina State University/Webster UniversityAbstractThis paper describes an innovative and cost-effective method of modernizing undergraduatetechnology and sciences education so that our graduates can be well trained with the latesttechnology. This will also help the technology and science programs to satisfy the

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William J. Daughton

Session 2342 A Graduate Option in Engineering Management for Non-Engineers William J. Daughton University of Colorado at BoulderAbstractWe have found a number of employees in high technology companies who are interested ingraduate education in engineering management but do not meet the admission requirement ofhaving an undergraduate degree in engineering or a closely related field. Often these individualsmanage technical contributors or work closely with engineering functions in the company, and asa result, would like to improve their management success probability in the high

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Loren W. Zachary; Janet M. Sharp; Barbara M. Adams

field of study in which to integrate thesetwo practices is engineering. “The component of technology most closely allied to scientificinquiry and to mathematical modeling is engineering”4.A surprisingly high percentage of middle school students express a desire for a career in scienceor engineering. That preference, unfortunately, declines as students move to upper level classes5and find science, mathematics, and engineering courses as “dull and unwelcoming”6. For manystudents, “The way science and math are taught critically affects their interest and laterparticipation in science and engineering”7. If this is the case, then the responsibility fallsprimarily on the teaching profession. A report to the National Science Foundation recommendsthat