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Gay Canough; Linda M. Head; Ravi Ramachandran

an opportunity in the first semester to explore allfour of the disciplines taught at Rowan (Electrical & Computer, Civil & Environmental,Mechanical, and Chemical) while learning about engineering measurement techniques. Thenthat same year in the second semester the principles of design are introduced through the use ofan experience in competitive assessment. Small groups of students work on the investigation ofa single product during the full semester. Along the way they are introduced to new analysistechniques and computer tools while learning in a “hands-on / minds-on” method themultidisciplinary nature of product design. By the sophomore year these students are ready forthe next stage – actual design assignments in a well

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

Session 1430 Keys To Success: Self-Directed Learning Sharon Fellows, Richard Culver, William Beston SUNY-Binghamton/Broome Community CollegeIntroductionEvery study of engineering education and the skills required of practicing engineers lists life-long learning (LLL) as a necessary ingredient. And yet, there has been little developed in theway of formal preparation for engineering students so that they will become life-long learners.In fact, the loaded curriculum presented in most engineering programs works against developingthe learning skills and love of learning required to be a successful LLL

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Barbara L. Christe

same standards as on-campus courses. Expectations of participation and performance are not varied as the delivery method varies. Web-based instruction does not alter students’ rights and responsibilities. Material must be understood, assignments must be completed and communication with the instructor must be maintained. It is the student and the instructor who must work together to insure that this new delivery method is successful.” • Academic Schedules – Participants must be reminded many times of the importance of schedules and withdrawal dates. Many have the mind-set of the business world and have difficulty adapting to an academic calendar. Tuition payments from non-participating

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Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

AC 2000-246: The Formula SAE Racecar Project at WPIJoseph Rencis, University of Arkansas Page 5.622.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2000 Session 3268 The Formula SAE® Racecar Project at WPI Joseph J. Rencis1 Worcester Polytechnic InstituteAbstractThe Formula SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) is a design-based competition that isattended by universities throughout the world. The competition is for engineering students toconceive, design, fabricate, construct, test, and market

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Kathryn Angelyn Neeley; Ingrid Soudek Townsend

owncountry and other countries. Visitors do not spend so much time visiting a single host, but departafter a few days, putting less of a burden on the hosts’ resources. Women who are now in needof jobs have more opportunities because they can travel to other places in their job searches.Otto’s descriptive detail of the past and the present make for an interesting tension between thetwo and lead the reader to ponder past, present, and the future. Just at that point, as ifanticipating the rational progression of the mind, Otto herself speculates about the future.Because she was a most energetic and optimistic woman who witnessed drastic improvement indaily living in the nineteenth century, particularly for the middle class, her vision of the future

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Thomas Lombardo; Stephen R. Fleeman

admonish proponents with, "Youcan’t do labs, so it can’t be done". The authors, both practicing engineers in addition to servingas educators, would prefer to take a more open-minded view. Applying DE to a laboratory-based curriculum is challenging, but this is certainly not the first obstacle EET educators haveever faced. The authors envision a "hybrid" delivery method, where the lecture material iscompleted online, and the lab work is still done in the laboratory. (The intent here is to addressthe needs of the time-bound student rather than the place-bound student.)In this paper, we will explore the EET curriculum with respect to the national skill standards1developed by the Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA)2. Each skill standard will be given

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Sharon A. Jones; Indira Nair

. We feel such a text is necessary foran interdisciplinary field such as the environment since no one teacher can be expected to knowall the topics. As such our text includes the necessary content and pedagogical techniques thatconstitutes environmental literacy. This paper describes the general features of the text material.1.0 IntroductionEnvironmental issues affect, and are affected by all of our activities to varying degrees. The needto have a working knowledge of environmental issues is not confined to environmentalists,environmental scientists, and/or environmental engineers. In fact, environmental professionalsare primarily involved in trying “to fix” environmental problems. However, the general populace– citizens, corporations

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

Session 2651 SYSTEMS APPROACH TO INCORPORATE DESIGN INTO ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSCIOUS DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING COURSE Yaw A. Owusu, Tarsha Dargan, Kimberly M. Richardson, James Thagard FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Florida A & M University/Florida State University Tallahassee, FloridaAbstractUnderstanding or predicting the consequences of a specific action or circumstance is especiallydifficult in the case of environmental issues, which exhibit several forms of uncertainty. Manynatural systems such as the atmosphere

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Elizabeth Petry

).” Page 5.196.1The goals set forth for the academy may sound daunting. However, if these goals can be met,not only will the profession benefit but also the academic experience for the architecture studentwill improve. Students of architecture have always raised concerns of "how do the pieces fittogether?” Students in Architectural Engineering Technology programs rarely have theeducational opportunity to see a studio project through each of these phases. The goal of DesignHabitat is to help students see the "whole picture" and thereby improve their ability to learn.Affordable Housing in the United StatesThe United States has struggled with issues of housing for all its citizens for many years. In theNortheast we are reminded of these struggles

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Hugh Jack

Session 0458 High Tech Presentations The Easy Way by Hugh Jack Padnos School of Engineering Grand Valley State University1. Abstract:This session will present successful methods of utilizing high tech systems to make presentationsin the classroom as well as at conferences with emphasis on the procedures and pitfalls involved.Activities covered will include internet, CDROM, video streaming and multimedia presentations.2. OverviewThis is not a formal paper, but instead a set of notes that will support materials discussed in

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Natasha Balac; Daniel M. Gaines

Session 2220 Using Mobile Robots to Teach Artificial Intelligence Research Skills Daniel M. Gaines, Natasha Balac Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department Vanderbilt UniversityAbstractSuccessful Artificial Intelligence researchers must be able to think creatively and critically,communicate effectively and evaluate the results of their work. Therefore, it is importantthat we include courses in our curriculum that develop these skills. Since one usually learnsbest by doing, we believe a project-based course, in which students receive hands

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Vincent M. Allen; Garrett Harris; Bruce Segee

saved.Rapid application development techniquesPerhaps the greatest advance of this decade in software engineering has been the introduction ofrapid application development techniques, most notably being the idea of software modules thatcan be easily reused and combined to make whole, fully functional programs. While the idea ofmodularity isn’t new, it has only recently been realized with the introduction of MicrosoftWindows and ActiveX. This allows developers to create the aforementioned modules, andsimply drop them into any application. Because the modules are entirely self-contained, they canbe reused with a variety of applications. This allows a complex piece of code, such as a neuralnetwork, to be written, debugged, and proven once and then

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Jeffery M. Saul; Rhett J. Allain; Duane L. Deardorff; David S. Abbott; Robert J. Beichner

need to identify a series of subproblems and apply the GOALprocess to each. For very simple problems, you probably don’t need GOAL at all. But when you arelooking at a problem and you don’t know what to do next, remember what the letters in GOAL stand forand use that as a guide. Page 5.510.8From Serway and Beichner, Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 5th ed., Saunders College Publishing, 2000. Poster 5Examples of Ponderables: “Minds-on” Activities• How many two-step paces is it from LA to NYC?• How far does a bowling ball get before it stops skidding and is only rolling

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Rahul Bargava; Michael Rosenblatt; Howard M. Choset; Amy Graveline

introduced in a robotics course (through reading or lecture) canbe physically implemented as a mechatronic system. The design space of mechatronicsystems is immense allowing opportunity for rich variation in designs for a specific endgoal. Also, creating these systems requires skills from various disciplines (mechanicalengineering, electrical engineering, computer science, and more). This interdisciplinarynature in fact suggests the constructionist approach, in which students with specializedskills can gain knowledge from those with different backgrounds by working togetherthrough a creative design process.3 Applying Directed Constructionism to the General Robotics CourseWe began to apply these new ideas in the second offering of General Robotics

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Andrew T. Rose

Session 3575 Balancing Your Life (Boat) in the Tenure Stream Andrew T. Rose University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractThis paper presents a narrative describing my experiences in choosing to leave a career inconsulting engineering to accept a tenure stream faculty position in Civil EngineeringTechnology, my adjustment to the demands of this position on my personal life, and my attemptsto balance my professional and personal activities. The decision to accept this position was arealization of one of my career goals. The decision involved not only me, however, but my wifeas

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Winston Conway Link

departments, one findsstatistics courses for those majoring in engineering, education, psychology, business, health sciences,and agriculture, to name a few, not to mention those courses which have a major statistics component.Regardless of the level of and department in which the statistics course is offered, faculty may want toconsider introducing data collection and analysis components to lecture-only courses and thereby helpbridge the gap between in-class theory and real-world issues. As a result, students who complete thecourse will have a greater appreciation of the power and applications of statistics.The mathematics department at Louisiana State University (LSUS) offers several statistics courses,two of which are offered every term. Early in

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Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

Session 1320 Teaching Practical Hands-On DSP with MATLAB and the C31 DSK Thad B. Welch, Michael G. Morrow Department of Electrical Engineering U.S. Naval Academy, MD Cameron H. G. Wright Department of Electrical Engineering U.S. Air Force Academy, COAbstractA graphically oriented MATLAB program, written by the authors, facilitates teaching real-worldDSP concepts such as quantization of digital filter coefficients that occur in fixed-pointprocessors. While many universities

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Bryan L. Gassaway; Masoud Rais-Rohani

Session 3425Manufacturing and Testing in Support of Aerospace Structural Design Projects Masoud Rais-Rohani, Bryan Gassaway Mississippi State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes the experience with two projects conducted by students in the seniorAerospace Structural Design course in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at MississippiState University. One project involved the design, fabrication, and testing of columns withunstable cross sections while the other involved the design, optimization, fabrication, and testingof stiffened panels under axial compression. An overview of each project

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John K. Estell

. While useful, reviewing such material is about as exciting as watching paintdry as it fails to capture the essence of the programs in action. There is also the noticeabledrawback that at most one person can use the portfolio at any given time as physical possessionof the document is required. Additionally, the notebook format forces the organization of theportfolio to be sequential because of the nature of the print medium; however, the structure ofideas is not sequential. As early as 1945 Vannevar Bush noted that the human mind operated by Page 5.475.1the association of thoughts and proceeded to describe his “memex” system that is

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

course.Nonetheless, the significance of the deviations demonstrates the three groups are notsuccessfully communicating their beliefs. The results further indicate a need for clear leadershipin the definition of which actions and behaviors constitute cheating.I. IntroductionAs Information Technology pervades all workplaces and disciplines the increasing demand forprofessionals, particularly in engineering, who are proficient at computer programming hasnecessitated introductory programming courses for many students of higher education. To meetthis need Georgia Institute of Technology’s College of Computing has developed an Introductionto Computing course. This course, formerly CS1501, is now required for all students, fromthose majoring in International