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2000 Annual Conference

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Teresa Larkin-Hein; Dan Budny

) Time of Day D) Mobility A) Motivation B) Persistence 5. Psychological/Cognitive Processing C) Conformity/Responsibility A) Global D) Need for Structure Provided by Source B) Analytic C) Right or Left Hemisphericity 3. Sociological Work or Learning Choices D) Impulsive-Reflective A) Alone/Self B) With One Other Individual C) With Peers D) With an Adult E) Varied, Responds to Situation or Environment

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2000 Annual Conference

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James A. Ozment; Alison N. Smith; Wendy Newstetter

that “student population in such a course has tremendous variation inbackground, motivation, expectations, and analytical skills”, Singhania7 proposes somesolutions for improving the situation. He recommends warning students against “thinking on-line”, and instead teaching them to write the programs at their desks, only testing when satisfiedwith the result. He also identifies several suggestions for group techniques: allowing students toread and check each other’s programs, group review of a program, and other forms of teaminteraction. Fienup2 also supports group work. He writes (in reference to his object-orientedCS-2 course), “team projects avoided overwhelming students with large projects by decreasingthe amount of work that each student

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2000 Annual Conference

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Pamela Schmaltz; Kevin Schmaltz

universitystudents. The SBI is a computerized, forty-six item, diagnostic/prescriptive survey thatlooks to measure: Academic Confidence – factors influencing a student’s perceived self-esteem. Short-term Study Behaviors – preparation for day-to-day routine study tasks. Long-term Study Behaviors – preparation to carrying out specific long-range tasks such as projects or writing papers.Academic preparation habits and skills, coupled with student self-esteem, are consideredto be key indicators of academic achievement. All LSSU freshmen engineering studentstook the self-diagnostic survey. The results indicate that our freshman class is definitelyaverage. The LSSU student average for all three SBI factors shown in Table 2 are

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2000 Annual Conference

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Brian S Macherone; Jagdish T. Gajjar; Cherrice Traver

element of the design and engineering process was stressed with a particular emphasis oncommunicating ideas to peers as well as those of other disciplines.The last week was used for public presentations of the project to an audience that was completelyunfamiliar with the project. The objective was to leave the spectators with an understanding ofwhat the team was attempting to accomplish, the problems encountered, the solutions devisedand the final results.Lab time was used initially to build the prerequisite knowledge base for each project team.Topics of these lessons and exercises covered a diverse range including electronics to supportsensors and signal conditioning, microprocessor programming, Unix and WWW programmingand the mechanical design

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2000 Annual Conference

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Thomas Regan; Katherine Sanders; Donald Evans; Chris Carlson-Dakes; Cesar Malave; Ardie Walser; Jack McGourty; Richard Felder

development of faculty, particularly thosefrom under-represented populations such as women and ethnic minorities. The primaryobjectives of the faculty development program are to engage veteran and young faculty inECSEL’s theme of learning by design; to deal with diversity issues; to improve the prospects ofyoung faculty for success; and to change the tenure and promotion process.• In 1996 a four-day workshop was held at Penn State for young faculty and graduate students from ECSEL schools and nine other universities from outside the coalition. The workshop topics included basics of course design, research funding and proposal writing, and time management. A Junior Faculty Development Workshop was held at the 1997 ASEE Annual Conference

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2000 Annual Conference

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Victor F. Medina; Valarie Akerson; Nina Wang

report on their work, thereby improving writing skills. The students alsopresented their project orally at the end of the course.The study spanned the spring semester. The class was comprised of seven students. Sixwere obtaining a Master of Science degree in Environmental Engineering. The seventhstudent was taking the course as an upper division Civil Engineering elective. Their agesranged between 27 and 50, with a mean of 32 years.Assigned ProjectsThree assigned laboratory projects were given:1. An irrigation water quality project relating water quality parameters to the type of irrigation canal tested.2. A contaminated soil project focussing on the relationship of biological activity to soil contamination and other soil properties3. A

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Yellamraju Vikas; Tony Ramanello; Kurt Gramoll

wouldlike to have live discussions about the course or homework. With only 70-80 students in thecourse described in the paper, there were never enough students at any given time to make thechat rooms work effectively.The web board concept, while not new, is an extremely important component to the onlinecourses. With the web board, questions and discussions can be done similar to the interactionthat takes place in a normal classroom. In some respects, the web board discussions allowedmore students to participate in asking questions since there was no time limit or peer pressure notto ask questions. It also allowed students to ask questions when the questions arose, irrespectiveof time. Over the course of the semester, it was found that the time

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2000 Annual Conference

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John Duffy; Edmund Tsang; Susan M. Lord

, interpersonal development, community and college connections.Students reported working harder, being more curious, connecting learning to personalexperience, and demonstrated deeper understanding of subject matter. The quality ofplacements in the community and the degree of structured reflection were found to be importantin enhancing these positive effects, significantly so for critical thinking increases. They summedup effective service-learning principles in five C's: connection (students, peers, community,faculty; experience and analysis); continuity (all four years; reflection before, during, afterservice); context (messiness of community setting is integral to learning); challenge (to currentperspectives; not overwhelming); and coaching

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2000 Annual Conference

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Mark R. Rajai; Keith V. Johnson

connectionbetween students and the department. As a result of these activities, students indicates thatadministrators, faculty, and staff appeared more down to earth and more approachable thaninitially perceived.Students were charged with selecting several services, organizations, and facilities on campus toinvestigate. The students then interviewed someone in each area and prepared a report, whichwas later presented in class. The objectives of this assignment included:(1) Familiarizing themselves with university facilities, services, and organizations, (2) gettingacquainted with fellow students, (3) enhancing information management and writing skills, and(4) gaining self-awareness, self acceptance, and self-growth. The objectives were intended toconnect

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2000 Annual Conference

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Maarij M. Syed; Sudipa Mitra-Kirtley

solution in the presence of friction then modified theproblem. The friction model used could also be changed to show the effects of drag forcemore clearly. Students could then be asked to check their results against simulations providedby WM. This approach of relating simple problems to harder ones by using graphs andsimulations help illustrate the general principles that are at work. Students tend to think oftopics as more connected instead of compartmentalizing their physics knowledge in terms ofchapters in their text.One of the authors (MMS) encouraged the students in his class to submit a proposal for anexperiment of their own. The idea is that the students have to write a detailed report wherethey start out by explaining the principle they

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2000 Annual Conference

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Samuel Homsy; Wayne Whiteman

learning methods, along with actual techniques and procedures. Performance Criteria: Conduct annual workshops and provide other opportunities that arefocused on 2nd year and more senior faculty members. Data Collection Method: Document workshops and opportunities, conduct after actionreviews, peer assessments. Goal 4: Promote an evolving curriculum development process that enhances achievingthe curriculum development portion of the Teaching and Learning Initiative vision. Objective: Learn more about curriculum design. Integrate and sequence curriculumdesign with the faculty development process. Performance Criteria: Conduct curriculum design workshops to educate faculty members.Maximize opportunities to improve

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2000 Annual Conference

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Paul I-Hai Lin; Hal Broberg

materials can be viewed withthe two most popular Web browsers, namely, Netscape or Internet Explorer Webbrowsers. The web site for the course can be found at http://etcs.ipfw.edu/~lin. Page 5.199.3 Figure 1. A Snap Shot of the Course Web SiteThe course materials are divided into sixteen modules and are covered in approximately40 contact hours. Each set of lecture notes, in Microsoft PowerPoint file format, isprepared and posted before the class lecture. Students can download the files and printthem as slides to help them write down lecture details. They can also view thepresentation slides using a Web browser through an Internet connection at

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2000 Annual Conference

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Mark R. Rajai; Keith V. Johnson; Robert Matthews

, with set of 2D/3D modeling and editing tools.V. Mannequin Integrated with CADMannequin’s real power is realized when it is integrated with CAD system. Mannequin wasdesigned to be completely compatible with any CAD packages that can read or write DXF files. Ourresearch showed that the problem of incompatibility between systems, as indicated by manyresearchers earlier, existed between these two as well. However, we were able to solve most of theproblems, and effectively integrate these two. This integrated ergonomic CAD system will providea powerful tool for the designer to test the functionality of the design for almost anything destined tobe used by humans. For example, design students can use this software package in conjunction witha CAD

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2000 Annual Conference

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Susan Haag

28, instructors monitoredand assessed my team skills).However, according to the interview data, the team process check needed further refinement.Although both female and male students believed that the process check was good in theory, theyfelt it could be improved to allow for student anonymity. Despite the fact that the documentationallowed students to voice issues, problems, and team dysfunction, the process can be deadlocked.Some students were reluctant to write critical comments about others fearing retaliation. Otherswere reluctant to reflect critically on their own attitude, behavior, and performance and havethose comments voiced publicly during the focus group. According to students, if this policy isto become more effective, both

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2000 Annual Conference

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Peter Milne; Pascal Rol; Jean-Marie Parel; Fabrice Mann

, have been available for more than a century,biomedical optics has developed into a field of its own only in recent years, significantly spurredon by the development of lasers and optical fibers. Medicine was one of the first majorapplications of lasers, and today there is probably no field of medicine or biology which doesnot employ optics and lasers in some form. Biomedical optics is now an important and growingfield of biomedical engineering. In the past 4 years, the creation of 2 dedicated peer-reviewedjournals (Journal of Biomedical Optics, Applied Optics - Optical Technology and BiomedicalOptics) in the US alone, attest to this. The growing market represented by the biomedical opticsindustry is also evidenced by the creation of new

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2000 Annual Conference

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William C. Beston; Sharon B. Fellows; Richard Culver

that of their peers moves the evaluation responsibility off the shoulders ofthe instructor and on to the students'.The third dimension of the first step in building SDL is to identify the basic learning skillsrequired for academic survival. These include time management and effective learning skills -the ability to take notes, read a technical book, prepare for an examination and produce logical,intelligible homework. A desirable adjunct to this is to help the students assess their preferredlearning styles, both understanding how they absorb information and how they interact with Page 5.417.3instructors and other students. Stage Two of our SDL

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E. Max Raisor; C. Greg Jensen

Page 5.273.7uncertainties regarding engineering students’ preparation to read, write, correctly interpret, hqÃprÃtrvtÃhqhqÃvÃhÃtyihyÃvq strial environment.Motivated by these expectations and the challenged by additional concerns about minimizingtime to complete an undergraduate degree, Professor Raisor, developed an integrated graphicscourse. The course combines the fundamentals of graphics principles and descriptive geometry,dimensioning and tolerancing standards (ASME Y14.5M-1994), interactive computer graphics,and the fundamentals of geometric modeling (CAD). Significant developments in organization,preparation, and delivery were required. Time-related problems demanded innovative andcreative teaching/learning solutions that affected both

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2000 Annual Conference

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Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

, including yourself? Include technical, analytical, organizational, documentation, creativity, research, leadership, construction, etc. 3. Rate your opinion of yourself and each of your groupmate understands of the concepts Page 5.622.5 involved in this project, on a scale of 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent). 4. Comment on your interaction with other group(s) that your group heavily relies on.This peer evaluation has been a very successful way for faculty advisors to identify anyteamwork problems within a particular group and with other groups.6. Team and Group StructureAt the beginning of the academic year the team was divided into the

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2000 Annual Conference

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Darrell D. Massie; Cheryl A. Massie

. Additionally,they found that in every ineffective team, without exception, the reason for failure was in someway related to the goal.13 Specific goals help a team assess their performance and track theirprogress. A team should write a clear statement of their goal and purpose14 and then continue arefinement of the goal and objectives through the life of the project.15However, having a clear goal in and of itself is not enough to ensure the success of the team.The goal must be specific, challenging, reasonable, and measurable so that one can tell when ithas been achieved. If for instance, you want to lose some weight, you are far more likely to besuccessful if you set a reasonable goal. Someone who says, “I want to lose ten pounds in thenext three

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2000 Annual Conference

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Cecil Beeson; William Gay

problem he or she hadencountered. Some of the computer support technologist’s education should certainly be devotedto developing communication skills such as writing and speech, as well as exposure topsychology or sociology.III. Curriculum planningIt was decided to initially offer a four-course lecture/lab certificate program. This could be donewithout waiting for the rather slow associate degree program approval process to wind its waythrough the College, University and the Ohio Board of Regents (OBR). It would also test studentdemand for the program and employer demand for those students completing the certificate. Thecourses would also satisfy degree requirements for the associate degree program when it waseventually approved. Meanwhile

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2000 Annual Conference

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

, whether the task isworking on code or circuitry, writing part of a report, gathering research materials,brainstorming, or boosting team spirit." One student used the saying "it's not what you know, it's Page 5.435.5who you know" to describe the synergistic effect of having team members with diverse skills toapply to a project. For some students, the CFT experience has changed their outlook on anengineering career, since they see engineering design as less isolated in single individuals anddisciplines.Students who have participated in multidisciplinary projects or multidisciplinary teaming tend toachieve a greater appreciation for the concept of CFT

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2000 Annual Conference

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Purvesh B. Thakker; Gary R. Swenson

interested parties even if those parties are spread across the entire world. With suchcapabilities, it is not difficult to see that the Internet can transform the way that collaborativeefforts are conducted. Organizations that make proper use of the new medium can experienceorders-of-magnitude improvements in efficiency and capabilities just like a baby that learns tospeak or an elementary school student that learns to read and write. This project involves creating the Project Automation and Collaboration Environment(PACE) for the Senior Design course of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). While PACE was created for auniversity course, it is applicable to many other

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2000 Annual Conference

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Kristin L. Wood; John Wood

environment for ME 338 and EM 470 instruction, evolving the purely analytical focusin the past.” Supporting goals for this need include the following: develop activities wherestudents manipulate the components they are studying, especially in everyday devices thestudents are familiar with; add design components in the course, both machine layout andanalysis; add team assignments (without going to level of pure design courses), where studentslearn actively through peer interaction and questioning; and implement a systems approach forstudying machine design, where elements are not studied in isolation. The remainder of thispaper addresses the goals for our curriculum