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David R. Haws

: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.12. Sherman, J.G. (1992). “Reflections on PSI: Good news and bad.” Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 25, 59-64.13. Swartz, C. E., and Zipfel, C. (1972). “Individualized instruction in introductory physics.” American Journal of Physics 40, 1436-1442.14. Brookfield, S. D. (1995). Becoming a critically reflective teacher, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.15. Laurillard, D. (1993). Re-thinking university teaching. New York: Routledge.16. Semb, G. and McKnight, P. C. (1977). “Future trends in PSI research.” Educational Technology, September 1977.17. Miller, L. K., Weaver, F. H. and Semb, G. (1974). “A procedure for maintaining student progress in a personalized university course

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John Mitchell; Katherine Sanders; Chris Carlson-Dakes; Patrick Farrell

contribution,this approach does not help faculty systematically or deeply reflect on, develop, or advance theirown belief systems about learning and teaching. In general, there is no continuity betweendiscussions, and no common language, discourse, or critique for a community of faculty to use toevaluate the information the visitors share. Thus there is a very limited synthesis and integration Page 5.293.3of the ideas of disparate visitors, perhaps leaving a local community with the impression that theideas they are hearing are not connected in any meaningful way, nor leading to any foundationalconclusions. In some cases, those inviting the visiting

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Frances S. Johnson; Carlos C. Sun; Anthony J. Marchese; Heidi L. Newell; John L. Schmalzel; Roberta Harvey; Ravi Ramachandran; Paris von Lockette; Kevin Dahm

their missions and their instruction. From the start,engineering and communication faculty worked to design a curriculum that wouldnegotiate this middle ground. Engineering faculty have had input into the design ofwriting assignments just as writing faculty have assisted in refining engineeringassignments. The course now reflects the team’s challenging negotiations of trust,authority, and disciplinarity. For instance, engineering and writing faculty rethought thepurpose of team meetings. Now these meetings are used to review what is happening inthe classroom, plan assignments, and discuss broad course planning issues. Faculty makea point of alluding to these discussions in class in order to let students know that suchcommunication and

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Francis J. Hopcroft

, when no such achievement may be occurring on a micro-scale.The challenge, then, was to devise an assessment tool which can more accurately reflect themicro-scale effectiveness of the program courses. At the same time, it was recognized that theexpectations of the faculty were not being well-communicated to the students. Individual facultycan clearly state the objectives of specific courses - and even measure the achievement of thosegoals through selective testing and writing assignment assessments. There is no course,however, in which the Institute Learning and Competency Objectives or the EnvironmentalEngineering Program Objectives are specifically taught. Consequently, there are no testsadministered to generate measurable assessment data.The

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Phillip R. Rosenkrantz

-on” polytechnic strategy toward education and to increase the use of teams. Anothermajor theme was communication skills.Faculty Assessment Project –With the QFD outcomes, it would become known which SKAA’swould have to be developed for the curriculum and which action items would be identified.Faculty professional growth, for example, could then be pointed in the directions of greatestmutual benefit.Results – EXCEL was used to create and total the matrices. Only Matrix 2 is shown in itsentirety here. Probably the most exciting results came as a result of completing the first twomatrices.Matrix 1 - Stakeholders vs. SKAA’s – Figure 1 below is a graph of the row totals from Matrix1. The row totals are not weighted and reflect the degree to which

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

, and employers).The educational objectives are translated into program educational outcomes reflecting theacquired skills of graduates. Continuous assessment is needed to demonstrate that the outcomesare being measured, and to provide evidence that the results of the assessment are being appliedfor further development and improvement of the program. The ultimate goal of the Faculty ofEngineering and Architecture (FEA) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) is toinstitutionalize quality assurance as an ongoing process for continuous improvement in pursuit ofexcellence.The desire and ability to engage in life-long learning has assumed such importance in recentyears so as to be singled out as a separate educational outcome in EC 2000. Life

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Joanne M. Goode; James B. Stenger

students who attended one or bothsessions said that the sessions were helpful. In explaining how these sessions helped, a majorityof students specifically mentioned the research databases as something they were not aware ofbefore the workshops. Other comments included that the sessions helped explain effectivenavigation techniques, where to look for more types of research, how to better utilize searchengines, and where to start looking. As part of the senior projects, each student is required to Page 5.101.3write a reflective essay on the project. One student volunteered in his essay, "Now, the Internetis simpler to use due to the help of the two

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Robert P. Hesketh; Stephanie Farrell

. Page 5.405.6Conclusions This paper describes a simple experiment that exposes students to basic principles of drugdelivery and chemical engineering. The experiment involves the release a drug from a lozengeformulation, which is an example of a matrix-type drug delivery system. Students study the dissolution of a lozenge into water. As the lozenge dissolves, the drugis released, along with a coloring agent, into the surrounding water. Students observe visuallythe increasing dissolved drug concentration as reflected by the increasing color intensity of thewater, and they are able to measure the drug concentration spectrophotometrically. They createthe calibration plot that enables them to determine the drug concentration from their

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

change significantly to reflect the profusion of technical advances in the last two decades ofthe twentieth century. Pertinent manufacturing technology changes include implementation ofnew and more diverse materials, improved and more varied and more precise processing,automation and controls, and computer aided manufacturing (CAM). This progress requireschanges in training materials and program curriculum to reset and then renew the basic technicalskills required of manufacturing technologists and technicians. In addition, more radical changesare being implemented in many industries that have little to do with technical skills required forplant operations. Quality management has been introduced into many facilities worldwide eitherunder the

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Steven M. Miner; Richard E. Link

the geometry changes suddenly, locations whereboundary conditions and loads are applied. Typically, the larger the number of elements the betterthe approximation of the solution to the differential equation.Step 3. Determine Element Equations.Once the elements are formed, the algebraic equations to be solved are developed for each indi-vidual element. The form of the algebraic equations for every element will be the same. Differ-ences from one element to the next will be due to changes in element size and properties. This isthe power of the finite element method, the equations can be written once for a general elementthen they only need to be modified to reflect a particular elements geometry and properties

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W. Ed Howard; Stephen Rather; Joseph C. Musto

informal session was held the night before the time trials to allow the students to decorate and perform final assembly of their vehicles. Spray paints, decals, and detail paints were provided. Figure 4 shows a completed car body.E. Day Five 1. Time Trials: A single car track, instrumented with reflective photoeyes and a microprocessor, was constructed. Student time trials were held, to allow for the testing component of the experience. In addition, the principles behind the timing system were Page 5.645.5 introduced, and simple principles of statistics were applied to the time trial data. 2. Open House: In the afternoon of the

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Mohammad H. Alimi; Howard B. Wilson

willretire for 20 years. Someone investing $6120 annually and achieving an investment return 4%above inflation, could fund an annual pension of $43,900. Similarly, if the individual werefortunate enough to beat inflation by 6%, the pension would be $87,700 per year! Presently, themaximum amount which one wage earner and his spouse can receive after age 65 is less than$34,000 even though self employed workers earning as much as $68,000 have to pay about$10,000 per year in Social Security and Medicare taxes. A little reflection shows that the SocialSecurity and Medicare systems, are relatively unattractive when considered from the viewpointof retirement programs.4) The previous examples overlooked tax considerations. Suppose a married couple earns

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Craig Gunn

team player?The attributes that will make a team successful encompass the following:• Creativity• Willingness to listen, speak, and question• Follow through• Responsibility• Aptitude to work• Leadership qualities but ability to followWith these thoughts in mind the College of Engineering at Michigan State University decidedthat a program would be instituted to bring select freshmen together and prepare them for theirentrance into the university and the College of Engineering. The thought was to develop in thema sense of comaraderie that reflected the team approach to all things. As a team they wouldattend classes, study together, live together, and approach problems together as a team.The Residential Option for Science and Engineering Students

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Steven T. Walsh; Frederick Betz; Donald D. Myers; Halvard E. Nystrom

cases to support the study of management of technology1,2. Nystrom and Huggans made the following observations as a result of surveying current programs andcourses that were offered by engineering master’s level programs in MOT. • The development of more technology management case studies should be encouraged. A large number of courses use case studies and a number of respondents commented that it was difficult to find appropriate case studies that had sufficient content. • There is no common usage of textbooks. This might reflect a shortage of appropriate textbooks. It was noted, however, that it might be difficult to develop textbooks that satisfy the diverse demand that exists

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John Chen; Mike Ellis

high of 40.4%.All disciplines of engineering (including technology) were represented among the respondents,and the number of respondents in each discipline roughly reflects their predominance oncampuses (e.g. electrical/computer, mechanical, civil engineering had the highest numbers,architectural, bio/biomedical, mining/minerals, nuclear engineering had the lowest).For the coalition as whole, there is relatively little variation between faculty of different rank forthree observed traits: (1) faculty skill level, as shown by the percentage of faculty who self-reportedly are either intermediate or advanced in skill level with various technologies (Fig. 1);(2) percentage of faculty already using various technologies (Fig. 2); and (3) percentage

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Peter J. Shull

respective individual class reports. • The remainder of the students prepared group reports that reflected less effort than individual assignments. • No group reports appeared to optimize the group scenario with the quality exceeding the individual reports.It is unclear whether these problems resulted from the length of the reports (which were at leastthree times as long as the class assignments) or the structure of the report (multi-sectioned,requiring analysis and discussion of the data) or the structure of the group scenario.There are numerous possibilities explaining the difficulty of incorporating group writing intolaboratory engineering courses. A major problem appeared to be the typical student’s

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Hisham Alnajjar

theireffectiveness, reflect on the experience and offer other institutions a picture of what goeson in such an environment.IntroductionThe University of Hartford is an independent, mid-size comprehensive, primarilyundergraduate institution of about 6500 students (full & part-time). It is complex for itssize with seven baccalaureate schools/colleges—arts and science, engineering, business,engineering technology, and education/nursing/health professions, an art school, and aschool of music/dance/drama—as well as 2 two-year colleges. The COE enrolls about400 undergraduate students on full-time or part-time basis and offers ABET accreditedprograms in Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. It also offers a practice-oriented Masters program in various

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Hamid Y. Eydgahi; Saeid Y. Eidgahy

in an effort to reach newstudents, with a particular emphasis on workforce development. In fact, a number ofprivate sector and College partnerships are allowing the institution to serve professionalmembers of business in new and creative ways such as credit-based professionaldevelopment programs, industry certification and other upcoming workforce needs.This paper has explored a number of central issues relevant to distance and engineeringeducation. The authors hope that such exploration will foster more discussions on thoseaspects of distance methodologies, which have the potential of benefiting distanceeducation most.Bibliography:1. Wedemeyer, C. (1981). Learning at the Back Door: Reflections on Non-traditional Learning in the

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Roxanne Jacoby; Jean Le Mee

automobile and vans manufacturing jointventures in China and Thailand. In 1997, reflecting the world’s increased interest in environmentalissues, GLOBETECH-III explored projects in the air pollution control and abatement field. Theretrofit of a fossil power plant in Russia with air pollution control equipment, and a study tomonitor air pollution along the Autobahn in Germany were the two projects discussed. In 1998,the discussion shifted towards new, renewable energy sources. GLOBETECH-IV discussed an airpollution control project in China and photovoltaic equipped dispensary vans in Africa. In the fallof 1999 GLOBETECH-V discussed fuel cell equipped taxis for Los Angeles, California, andcontinued the discussion of photovoltaic equipped vans for

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Donald N. Merino

. Conclusions and ObservationsThe fact that there were no topics clearly eliminated suggests that engineers need to know a broadset of topics to achieve economic literacy. This result is reinforced by a survey done on the criteriamost important to supervisors of new engineering undergraduates (Koen, 1997, 1998), that indicateda large gap in these areas. The Engineers Workforce Project (Parker, 1997) showed that engineers inindustry spend a very significant amount of time in management/administration and accounting,finance and contracts which also indicates that engineers need a broad set of competencies.The relatively high ranking for Risk Analysis and Simulation may reflect the fact that many of the

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Duane L. Abata

engine operation andanalysis rather than the mechanical design (noise, structure, vibration, balance, etc.) Studentinterest in these courses has always been very good. Typically, approximately one hundredstudents are enrolled in the first engines course each year. (The department enrollment isapproximately 1200-1400 students.) Interaction with industries in the automotive and dieselengine arena has been and continues to be strong. The quality of the engineering program at boththe undergraduate and graduate level is clearly reflected in the students which graduate from theuniversity. The Department of Mechanical Engineering - Engineering Mechanics at MichiganTechnological University is well noted for national ranking, student balance, and

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Alamgir Choudhury

engineering and technology graduates. To keep pace withthis change, engineering and engineering technology programs are upgrading their Page 5.368.1curriculum continuously [1-3]. Two-year institutions are behind in this regard due toprogram objective, student background and time constraint besides other reasons. During1997, as the college was preparing to switch from quarter to semester system, it wasdecided that need for instrumentation and control courses of both MET and EETprograms should be revisited. The result was to develop a joint course for both theprograms meeting these key objectives:(i) Reflect recent advancement in this field(ii) Fit the diverse

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David S. Cottrell

. The course deliberately encouraged experimentation by the student leading to thedevelopment of his or her own style of project management. Throughout the course, studentsdeveloped their abilities in management fundamentals – planning, staffing, organizing,directing, and controlling – through practical exercises, graded homework, actual projectanalysis and in-class exams. The students examined the basic steps in development of amanagement work plan for each project phase from conceptual development to completionand close-out. However, just as projects are most often a unique, one-of-a-kind venture, theplans for construction are also distinctive and reflective of the manager’s experience,imagination, and creative insight into the needs of the

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Andrew Sterian

reflected in popular textbooks) creates unnecessary difficultiesfor students. We propose spending less time on the transforms themselves and more time at thebeginning of the course in presenting a finite-dimensional vector space framework. The DFT thenbecomes a natural application of this framework: the projection of a signal onto a complex expo-nential basis. The remaining three transforms follow with the same interpretation, differing onlyin the domain of application. Thus, students are presented with a rigorous but tractable develop-ment (the DFT) that supports all four transforms with a common foundation.1. IntroductionElectrical engineering curricula traditionally include an introductory course on signals and sys-tems as a foundation for

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Craig W. Somerton

contributions and worked toward the project completion when he showed up. He did not show up to meetings a couple of times, and was up to two hours late when he did show up. He did not attend lecture regularly, and therefore did not understand many of the equations. This required me to explain the equations to him before he could write any code. However, he did have a pretty good grasp of programming techniques which helped a lot.Once again Partner A did not submit an evaluation form.Our students seem reasonably honest and accurate in their evaluations, though considerablyforgiving. Clearly, these forms seem to reflect mostly major problems with an

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flat dull quality that comes from much of thetext that is produced by students. This quality reflects a lack of flow in the wording, a conditionsimilar to reading a list that indicates no apparent connection among the various parts of the list.This lack of connection makes a reader quickly begin to wander, sometimes becoming lost inpersonal thoughts far from the actual text. The three items that may help improve all student text area focus on outlines, a review of simple paragraphing with topic sentences and supportinginformation, and an overview of the transitions that can be placed in a piece of writing to make thetext flow. These relatively easy elements in writing can make a great difference in the quality of astudent’s text.An additional

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John T. Bell; H. Scott Fogler

elimination. Students can repeatquestions and answers as many times as they wish, however no points are awarded for repeatselections. The question data is all stored in a plain ASCII text file, such that the number andmakeup of the questions in the simulation can be easily changed. For our purposes, there aretwenty questions for a total value of 100 points. Page 5.73.4 5Recommendations for UseThe purpose of this simulation is not so much to teach new information or to test students’knowledge, but rather to stimulate reflective thoughts and

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Pedro Febles Cortez; John Dahlstrom; Chris Mattus; Aleksander Malinowski; Gary Dempsey

otherhand, available videoconferencing software, or voice-over-IP is provided only in the ready to useapplications that are difficult to adapt to the specific needs of the system and incorporate as anelement of a larger program15.Web-based Controller ArchitectureAll aspects of the problem that are described in the previous section are reflected in the designedsystem that was implemented and is in operation at Bradley University. The Bradley Office Page 5.720.2Explorer system consists of seven main components:• Remote control interface that runs inside a Web browser of a remote user's computer.• Web server providing the remote interface for

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Meagen Marquardt; Joshua U. Otaigbe; Brad Tischendorf

-campus engineers on a 24-hour basis, making it easier for these persons to develop someunderstanding of polymers. Studying the web-based instructional modules includes time for reflection on theinformation by the student that is unlikely to be possible in a traditional classroom-basedteaching. This use pattern may better accommodate individual student attention spans, allowingbetter learning and absorption of the material. The flexibility of the web-based teaching providesbetter educational experience for the students than that obtained from the traditional, contiguous(fixed length) classroom teaching format. This flexibility includes the range of a variety ofmultimedia available, and the opportunity for the student to study the material

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

270 # of problems reviewed 297 262 Newnan Chapters Covered 1,2,3,4,5,6 7,7a,8,9,10,11,12,13 & # of pages in Chapters covered 218 294 Lavelle # of problems reviewed 313 343 Sullivan, Chapters Covered 1,2,3,4,11 5,6,7,10 Bontadelli # of pages in Chapters covered 221 198 &Wicks # of problems reviewed 236 135Chapter problems were classified as one of six types of problems. The categories, presented inTable 3, reflect a continuum of problem types from general skill type