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Sohail Anwar

. More effort is needed to raise women’sskills in mathematics, science, and technology if women are to be able to compete.This paper describes a pre-college science and engineering education program conducted everyyear at Penn State Altoona for middle school (7th and 8th grades) girls and their teachers. Theprogram is designed to address each one of the above mentioned skills. The objective of theprogram is to expose middle school girls to careers in science and engineering. In addition toproviding a detailed description of the program, the paper analyzes the outcomes of this program.Recommendations for further improving the effectiveness of the program are also given.I. IntroductionVarious research literature shows that women face numerous

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Hamid Y. Eydgahi; Saeid Y. Eidgahy

Global Engineering Education: Benefits and Limitations of Distance Education By Hamid Y. Eydgahi Dean/Associate Professor Engineering and Industrial Technologies Lima Technical College 4240 Campus Drive, Lima, Ohio 45804-3597 Phone: (419) 995-8230 Fax: (419) 995-8095 Eydgahih@ltc.tec.oh.us And Saeid Y. Eidgahy, Ph.D. Dean/Professor

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Jianping Yue

Session 2586 Teaching Freshman Engineering Design at a Two-Year College Jianping Yue Department of Engineering Technology & Computer Science Essex County College Newark, New JerseyAbstractThis paper presents preliminary conclusions about teaching engineering design to freshmanengineering and technology students at a two-year college. Many educators realize the need forfreshman students to learn some basic skills in order to succeed later in various engineering andtechnology disciplines. These skills include computer

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Behnam Kamali

on “Designof an Experiment” is referenced briefly.I. IntroductionAs the rapid advances in high technologies and global information networking continue, the needfor more technologically inclined workforce has produced an ever-increasing demand fortraditional and modern engineering skills. Skills such as the capacity to resolve open-endedproblems, the ability to engage in life-long learning, the capability of analyzing and interpretinglarge volumes of data using modern signal processing tools, the understanding of the essentialityof team work (often interdisciplinary team work) in the design of novel hardware and softwaresystems, the proficiency in verbal and oral technical communications, are now expected frompracticing engineers. To keep up

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Mike Robinson; M. Sami Fadali; Ken McNichols

Session 1526 Teaching Engineering to K-12 Students Using Role Playing Games1 M. Sami Fadali, Mike Robinson, K. McNichols Electrical Engineering/Curriculum & Instruction/Electrical Engineering University of Nevada Reno, NV 89557 fadali@ee.unr.edu/robinson@unr.edu/kmcnicho@ee.unr.eduAbstractThere is a strong need for more well trained technically competent individuals in today's modernsociety. However, there is insufficient coverage of engineering and technology in our schoolsystem and many of our K-12 students do not

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Qiuli Sun; Kevin Stubblefield; Kurt Gramoll

. Fig. 3 Steel structure simulationSurveying ModuleThe Surveying Module was designed for the Engineering Surveying course and was usedin the fall of 1999. The motivation for this module was to provide an Internet-based dataprocessing tool for the engineering surveying course. Previously, to process surveying Page 5.397.7data, students used a specific software program to generate 2D contour plots. However,by integrating a number of Internet-based technologies, a surveying simulation wasdeveloped to generate 2D contour and visually present 3D surfaces on the Internet. Theidea of generating 2D contour and demonstrating real 3D surface at the same time

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William M. Jordan; Debbie Silver; Bill B. Elmore

engineering problem solving. Thiscourse is specifically designed for education majors. They are shown how to solve real worldengineering problems and how to teach such subject matter to their own future students. In thiscourse we model innovative teaching techniques as well as provide mathematics, science,engineering, technological and problem solving experiences for the students.I. IntroductionThe health of science and engineering tomorrow depends on improved mathematics and sciencepreparation of our students today. The national interest is now a national imperative. TheNational Science Foundation (NSF) has stated in regard to declining performance among ournation’s K–12 students that the construction of knowledge about teaching and learning

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Miguel J. Bagajewicz; Mariano J. Savelski

pollution prevention class module that focus on water/wastewatermanagement. Its primary objective is to provide the engineering students with a series oftools to design optimal industrial water networks.IntroductionWater is a key element for the normal functioning of the chemical and petrochemicalindustry. Steam stripping, liquid-liquid extraction and washing operations are among themany processes present in refineries and chemical plants where water is intensivelyutilized.Several procedures have been proposed to design economical wastewater treatment. With afew exceptions, these procedures rely on the application of certain rules of thumb. Thecurrent installations usually merge several waste streams and use appropriate technologies inseries to

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Claire Hill; Gulcin Cribb; David Radcliffe

Session 3232 Australasian Virtual Engineering Library: Collaborative Development of a Global Resource David Radcliffe, Gulcin Cribb and Claire Hill The University of Queensland, Brisbane, AustraliaAbstractThe Australasian Virtual Engineering Library (AVEL) is a gateway to quality WWW resourcesin the fields of engineering and information technology from sources from the Australasianregion. AVEL complements similar gateways in engineering around the world, in particularEEVL in the UK and EELS in Sweden. It is a unique partnership between the library communityand the

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Belle R. Upadhyaya

and engineering experience needed in the rapidly growingarea of maintenance and reliability engineering. Interaction among team members,communication with industry experts, and the use of electronic information systems arestrongly emphasized in the course.2. Description of the CourseThis section provides an outline of the course and the expectations of student learning.The course materials are also drawn from recent research and development inmaintenance technologies. The choice of topics described may vary from one semester toanother and depends on the mix of students from various engineering disciplines. One ofthe objectives of the course is to prepare students to place themselves well professionally,by providing the fundamentals of

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Ken Vickers; Greg Salamo

technology areas, along with the proper role of academe, government, andindustry in that educational process, is being examined in widely divergent industrial segments.Academic areas such as manufacturing engineering, aerospace engineering, and electricalengineering have all reported results from such studies [1-5]. These reports reveal several broadthemes of educational need developing across these industrial segments: a) Integrating technical and non-technical broad knowledge areas. b) Integrating multidisciplinary technical skills into a comprehensive knowledge base. c) Integrating global perspectives into local decision making. d) Integrating soft skill set development with traditional technical education.It is our

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Keith K. Knapp

techniques taught at the ETW are discussed. The results of a briefstudent survey are also summarized. Finally, the general compatibility of the “ExCEEd model”teaching approach with active and group learning techniques and the general requirements of theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) are briefly discussed.I. IntroductionMost new engineering faculty are expected to teach undergraduate and/or graduate classes fromthe first day on their appointment. The majority, however, have had almost no training orguidance about how to teach effectively, or how to assess that effectiveness. This results in atrial-and-error teaching approach that uses students as experimental subjects. It can alsointroduce the use of long-lasting

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Bethany S. Oberst; Russel C. Jones

Session 2360 International Experience for Engineering Students through Distance Learning Techniques Russel C. Jones, PhD., P.E. World Expertise, LLC Bethany S. Oberst, PhD. James Madison UniversityAbstract A new mechanism is being developed for expanding international exposure forundergraduate engineering and computer science students in the United States, usinginformation technology and distance learning techniques. Technical students in theUnited States, in a few instances, have begun working on projects with

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William C. Oakes; Leah H Jamieson; Edward Coyle

Session 3630 EPICS: A Model of Service-Learning in an Engineering Curriculum William C. Oakes, Edward J. Coyle and Leah H. Jamieson Purdue UniversityAbstractEngineering Projects in Community Service — EPICS — is a service-learning program that wasinitiated at Purdue University in the Fall of 1995. Under this program, undergraduate students inengineering earn academic credit for long-term team projects that solve technology basedproblems for local community service organizations. The program has grown to include 20project teams with approximately 250 students participating during the 1999 academic

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Douglas W. Fraser; Gary E. Rafe

messagingprotocols in its Messenger utility.Web Browsing. The ever-expanding World-Wide Web continues to play an important role inmany aspects of engineering education. Our own research at the University of Pittsburgh makesuse of several web-related technologies. Documents formatted in standard HTML are availableto a large audience, due primarily to the availability of robust web browsers across manydifferent platforms. The lynx text browser,25 while not terribly sexy, offers good performanceover character-based displays (or in X-based terminal windows). The Netscape Navigator andCommunicator26 browsers are generally released simultaneously for the major UNIX platforms(e.g., Intel Linux, SPARC and Intel Solaris, SGI IRIX, etc.). We appreciate having access

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Gene Moriarty

distinct type of ethics. Virtueethics is appropriate to the engineer who engineers the engineered.Conceptual ethics is appropriate to engineering, which aims at theproduction of the engineered and requires the engagement of engineers.Material ethics, promoted by philosopher of technology Albert Borgmann[2], is appropriate to the engineered, which follows from the process via theefforts of the engineer. Engineer, engineering, and engineered cannot beseparated – either from each other or from the contexts in which they areembedded – but they can be distinguished and they can be evaluated in theirethicality by different kinds of ethics.Historically, the engineering enterprise has exhibited a variety ofmodulations in the engineer/engineering

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Slobodanka Nestorovic; Sarra Elhassan; Hayder A. Rasheed

, five others gave it a perfect score of 5. The highest score given was onclarity of presenting the material, which is very encouraging. Some of the good additionalcomments indicated the need to more human interface within the application. As a result,more emphasis is currently placed on adding more audio elements to supplement visualinstruction. Others stressed the need to add a search engine or index for quick reference.This will be introduced in the future.Summary and Conclusions:Multimedia is increasingly recognized as the proper development medium for advancingthe teaching/learning environment. Accordingly, it is essential to include multimedia inundergraduate or graduate-engineering programs interested in instruction technology

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Matthew M Whiteacre; James L. Wilson

Session 3538 Using VRML to Assist Student Visualization in Freshman Engineering Classes Matthew Whiteacre, James Wilson Texas A&M University Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial DistributionAbstractAs students enter college, their ability levels vary widely from one student to another. For alarge segment of these students, visualization of 3D objects is, at best, difficult. This difficultyposes a serious obstacle to the students grasping the concepts on engineering graphics. Bothorthographic

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a new engineering course in industrial ecology with an industrialengineering focus. The course introduces students to analysis of environmental metrics and labels,life cycle assessment, design for environment, material selection, production planning withenvironmental considerations, reverse logistics, service industry impacts, disassembly planning,recycling technologies, and environmental cost accounting. The course is designed as a sequenceof modules. Each module may be integrated individually into other courses or the entire set ofmodules may be taught as an industrial ecology course.Most of the modules contain active learning exercises that require students to participate indiscussion and analyze environmental implications of product and

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John D. Enderle

Session 2309 ABET CRITERIA 2000 AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; SOME INITIAL EVALUATOR IMPRESSIONS John D. Enderle, University of ConnecticutAbstractThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) has after almost a decade ofeffort developed a new program review process called “Engineering Criteria 2000,” a changefrom a prescriptive evaluation to one based on program defined missions and objectives with anemphasis on outcomes. The purpose of this paper is to provide the author’s general impressionsof Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC2000). The author is a trained ABET biomedical engineeringprogram

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Jacek Jarzynski; Sheldon M. Jeter

Session 2566 Development of an Innovative Engineering Sciences and Systems Laboratory Course Sheldon M. Jeter and Jacek Jarzynski Georgia Institute of Technology INTRODUCTION In the fall of 1999 Georgia Tech changed from a ten week quarter to a fifteenweek semester schedule. This change created the need and opportunity to revise theundergraduate mechanical engineering curriculum. An important overall curriculumchange was to discontinue the dual track curriculum that featured some concentration oneither mechanical systems or thermal energy and fluid systems. The curriculum

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Ofodike Ezekoye; Min Liu; Derek Baker; Colleen Jones; Philip Schmidt

perceive the subject as dry and abstract. The material is not, by nature, as graphicas many other engineering topics (e.g., mechanics), so many students have problemsvisualizing thermodynamic phenomena and processes. Laboratories are virtually nonexistentdue to the expense of equipment and the slow process of gathering meaningful data. Whilemany excellent textbooks have been developed, conventional printed media are limited in theirability to elucidate complex concepts both by their inherent static and passive nature, and bythe high cost of graphics.Educators generally agree that hypermedia technology can be effective in teaching andlearning1; the ability to represent information in diverse forms can accommodate the needs ofvarious types of

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Aaron Blicblau

Session 3666 A Bias-Neutral Approach to Major Project Assessment in Mechanical Engineering Aaron Blicblau Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria Australia 3122AbstractAll engineering students completing the final year of manufacturing and mechanicalengineering at Swinburne University of Technology (SUT) must undertake a comprehensivefinal year project. The project may encompass many areas of design, analysis, research,development or management. Often the projects integrate a number of these aspects. It isoften

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Diana G. Somerton; Craig W. Somerton

Session 2266 CQI for Mechanical Engineering Education: A Two Year Experience Craig W. Somerton, Diana G. Somerton Michigan State University/California Manufacturing Technology CenterI. IntroductionFor over two years the undergraduate program in mechanical engineering at Michigan StateUniversity has operated in a continuous quality improvement process mode. A CQI processknown as ME 2000 has been developed for the undergraduate mechanical engineering degreeprogram at Michigan State University in response to two primary motivations: 1) changes in the accreditation requirements for engineering programs 2

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Hrishikesh Potdar; Kurt Gramoll

Session 2257 Internet-based, Interactive Software for Industrial Engineering Education Hrishikesh Potdar and Kurt Gramoll Research Assistant and Hughes Professor Engineering Media Lab University of OklahomaAbstractNew and developing electronic communication tools are rapidly changing the ways in whicheducators educate and students learn. Collaborative learning environments utilizing variousinteractive electronic technologies are now being used in all levels of education

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Michael McCracken; Wendy Newstetter

. Page 5.531.5Bibliography1.McCracken, W.M. & Newstetter, W. Misconceptions of Design. Conference on Innovation and Technology inComputer Science Education. June, 1999.2 Newstetter, W. & McCracken, W.M., Design Learning as Conceptual Change: A framework for developing ascience of design learning, A Conference on Knowing and Learning to Design, April, 1999.3.Gero, J.S., Tham, K.W. & Lee, H.S. Behaviour: a link between function and structure in design, in D.C. Brown,H. Yoshikawa & M. Waldron (eds), IntCAD91 Preprints, IFIP, Ohio.4. Schon, D.A., Educating the Reflective Practitioner. Josey-Bass, San Francisco, 1987.5. Penn State University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Product Dissection Course Materials, April, 1995.6

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Terry L. Ballinger; Craig W. Somerton

Session 1566 An Introduction to Mechanical Engineering Program for Middle School Students Craig W. Somerton, Terry L. Ballinger Michigan State University/Lansing Catholic Central High SchoolI. IntroductionThe Mathematics, Science, and Technology (MST) program at Michigan State University is atwo week, summer residential program for academically talented middle school students. Thispast summer, for the first time, a mechanical engineering academic class was offered. Thestudents attend the class for two hours each day. An MSU faculty member is paired with a localmiddle or high

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of other possibilities9. Sensitivity analysis and spider plots can provideinsight into a engineering economy problems but are not appropriate when there is statisticaldependence between variables3. Probability descriptions of input variables allow furtherrefinement of the analysis of economic risk and allow the output of a distribution for the desiredanswer.The notion of probability distributions to describe economic risk has been around for manyyears before the advent of computers and advanced software technology. Hillier, in hisgroundbreaking paper in 1963, proposed the use of probability distributions of present worth toproperly convey project risk information to augment other methods such as expected value ofthe present worth and

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Sally A. Szydlo; Paul R. McCright; Laurence Sibilly; Eric Marshall; Anita L. Callahan

Osif, Bonnie. Accommodating diverse learning styles: Designing instruction forelectronic information sources. In Linda Shirato (Ed.), What is Good Instruction Now? Library Instruction forthe 90s. Ann Arbor, MI: Pierian Press (1992).6. McCright, Paul R., and Callahan, Anita L. Internet enhancements of IE education: Examples from USF. InAmerican Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference Proceedings (1999). Page 5.608.77. O’Connor, Terry. Using Learning Styles to Adapt Technology for Higher Education.http://www-isu.indstate.edu/ctl/styles/learning.html8. Schroeder, Charles C. New Students--New Learning Styles. (1996)http

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Rebecca A. Pinkus; Craig A. Simmons

result, writing is notwidely recognized as a discipline, so few courses are available. Canadian universities such as theUniversity of Toronto (U of T), tend to graduate highly skilled technical students who may notbe as well prepared for written and oral communication in the professional world as some oftheir American counterparts. In light of this issue, we explored one option for providingadditional writing instruction in a technology-heavy curriculum.In an attempt to help improve the writing skills in the Faculty of Engineering, the University ofToronto’s Language Across the Curriculum (LAC) program provides the Engineering WritingCentre (EWC) and numerous short workshops aimed at targeting specific concerns. (E.g., labreport workshops, oral