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summary of the New Millennium Conference inwhich students participated. Feedback from student participants will also be shared. Finally, asummary of this technique will be presented in light of its relevance to science, mathematics,engineering, and technology (SMET) education.II. The Physics for a New Millennium CoursePhysics for a New Millennium (PNM) is a new second-tier course in the Natural Sciences portionof the General Education core at American University. Prior to enrolling in PNM, students hadfirst taken the foundation course Physics for the Modern World (PMW). Students are required totake a 2-course sequence in the Natural Sciences as part of the General Education requirementstowards graduation at American University. Approximately

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is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Information Systemsat the College of Business and Public Administration at the University of Louisville. She is also completing herdissertation in Industrial Engineering. She received her B.S. in Industrial Engineering in 1982 at Purdue Universityand M.S. in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1991. Prior to joining theDepartment of Computer Information Systems, she was an Instructor in the Department of Industrial Engineering atthe Speed Scientific School where she primarily taught and enhanced coursed for the Masters in EngineeringManagement degree program. She also has taught in the freshmen orientation program. Prior to commencing herdoctoral

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Steven L. Cohen; Dennis P. Slevin; David I. Cleland; Kim LaScola Needy; Heather Nachtmann

to 30 years after graduation.Introducing the concept of enterprise governance and successful board practices will provideengineering managers with valuable knowledge and tools that can benefit them throughout theircareers. Jerry Westbrook, Professor and Chair of Industrial Engineering and EngineeringManagement at the University of Alabama, Huntsville stated that engineering managementprograms are educating people to be CEO’s of technology driven companies. We typicallyconcentrate on educating these students about subordinates, the global economy and staffgroups, but never about Boards. It is the Board to whom the CEO will ultimately report. Hebelieves that it is our professional obligation to educate engineering management students

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Page 5.209.1students dropout of engineering or choose to change their majors to other disciplines withoutseeking academic support. Therefore, there is a need for retention programs that establish anearly support network for female students and act to foster personal relationships.Although women account for nearly 52% of high school graduates that enroll in four-yearcolleges [3], only 17% of all incoming freshman engineering students are women [4]. Fear-Feenand Kapostasy-Karako (1992) identified nine barriers to female enrollment in secondary levelscience, technology, and mathematics courses. According to their study, female studentsencounter such barriers as lack of self-confidence, ineffective learning environments, lack offemale role models

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continue their education locally and in as seamless amanner as possible.WMU’s presence in Muskegon is the Muskegon Regional Center (MRC), a branch of WMU’sDivision of Continuing Education. The MRC offers courses toward a bachelor's degree inengineering technology, a BA/BS in General University Studies, several masters’ degreeprograms (including engineering management and industrial engineering), and a teachingcertificate program. These WMU programs are primarily for part-time evening students. TheMRC uses regular WMU faculty members, who commute from Kalamazoo one night a week, aswell as local part-time instructors. Only one WMU faculty member (a tenured professor from theDepartment of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering teaching courses in

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architectural planning, aesthetics and other systemsin buildings. This requires architectural engineers to have a general knowledge of all theaspects of architecture and technology, in addition to an expertise in their individual field.Housed within the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology, the School ofArchitecture at Oklahoma State University offers five-year professional degree programs inboth Architecture and Architectural Engineering1. The integration of these programs throughshared faculty, facilities and course work is unique in architectural engineering education and isa strength of the School. The primary thrust of both programs is the preparation of graduates toenter private practice as consulting engineers or architects. It is

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Valana Baxter; Mark R Henderson; Jim Baxter; Alan de Pennington

GlobalManufacturing Education: Defining World Class Models and Transformation Strategies" atArizona State University in November 1996. This Conference, a result of a NSF/DARPA-funded technology reinvestment program (TRP) grant entitled "Manufacturing Across theCurriculum", included representatives from 10 countries including the United States with thegoal of developing a roadmap to improve global manufacturing education in engineeringschools. Among those attending were the authors, Henderson and de Pennington, Steve Coe,Boeing commercial airplane and Dr. Richard Taylor, formerly of Rolls-Royce Aerospace, amember of Royal Academy of Engineers and currently a visiting professor at Leeds. This groupdiscussed at that time the possibility of a joint engineering

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Matthew V. Galati; Joseph C. Hartman

Industrial Engineering, Stanford University, 1966.JOSEPH C. HARTMAN is an Assistant Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at LehighUniversity. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and aB.S. in General Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a member of ASEE, IIE,INFORMS and NSPE. He is secretary/treasurer of the ASEE-EED and an area editor for The Engineering Economist.MATTHEW V. GALATI recently completed his M.S. in Industrial Engineering at Lehigh University and is currently adoctoral student in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering. He received his B.S. inMathematics from Stetson University in 1998

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Rosalyn S. Hobson

), then I propose that service-learning is simply one method by which one canensure these desired learning outcomes are achieved.As a professor of engineering, I teach our students how to solve problems using technology orby creating new technologies. I present them with problems, give them tools, teach themtheories and say ‘create a solution’. To help them understand better how to apply theirknowledge, I present them with ‘real world problems’. I can only hope, that in the future as mycolleagues and I meet the needs of our students and community, that we not only solicit thesereal world problems from our industrial partners, but also from community partners. In anyservice-learning class the goal is not only to produce educated students but also

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, students form companies known as E-Teams (“E” denotesboth Excellence and Entrepreneurship). The E-Teams are charged with the responsibility ofgenerating product ideas, evaluating and selecting one of the ideas, developing a workingprototype, and performing market and financial analyses to determine if the product couldsustain an actual business.By providing engineering students with exposure to the business world prior to graduation, theyare better prepared for both engineering and management positions. They gain a betterunderstanding of the process required to develop marketable products; become engineers capableof working on multi-disciplinary teams; they understand product development, marketing, andfinance as well as the technology; and they

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doing things that “givesomething back to the community”.12Service learning has not only benefited the community and the student. Ansell17 reports thatobserving the personal interface of student and patient (client) and the metamorphoses resultingin attitudes, friendships, and overall learning, was one of the most rewarding experiences of his38 year career as an engineering professor. Gokhale and Aldrich12 indicate that the School ofEngineering and Technology also benefited from a service learning project through the publicityit received in local newspaper and on television.While liberal art educators have been on the forefront of service learning, the engineeringeducation literature does describe some service learning type experiences. Large

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understanding of the importance of science and mathin the profession. In collaboration with the director of the Professional Communications Centerat the College of Engineering and Information Technology, the professor for one of theliving/learning sections of UN101-E devised ways to make writing and speaking assignmentspart of the fun and excitement of the course. The communications activities also provide studentsa means to reflect on their learning and a method of inquiry into aspects of engineering that theyfind personally intriguing. (An overview of the assignments appears in Appendix A.)Assignment 1 -Listening, note-taking, reflection, responsive writing. In the first set ofassignments, students used a variety of media and activities to explore

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understanding of engine function, performance, emissions, and design constraints through their design projects reports and presentations. • Students will demonstrate their ability to use the thermal sciences in the analysis and preliminary design of engine systems by creating a thermodynamic model of a spark ignition engine and through their design reports. • Students will demonstrate their understanding of the interactions of technology and society through reflective essays and their reports on the ethical and societal impact of the regulation of small engine emissions. • Students will demonstrate effective team skills though successful completion of multiple team-based tasks and during in-class project sessions. • Students

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Wesley P. Lipschultz; Jean Landa Pytel; Jayne Klenner-Moore

Session 1353 The Role of Real-World Experience in a Web-Based Engineering Major Selection Model Jean Landa Pytel, Jayne Klenner-Moore, Wesley Lipschultz The Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractMany students who enter a College of Engineering are uncertain of what their major should be orthat the major they have selected is the right one for them. At Penn State, the College ofEngineering has designed a web-based program to help students through the process of selectingan appropriate major from the ones offered by the College. The program is based on a decision-making model

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John C. Anderson; David Kelso; Charles Yarnoff; Barbara Shwom; Penny Hirsch

course.Bibliography1. “Educating Tomorrow's Engineers, ” ASEE PRISM, May/June 1995, pp. 11-15.2. Berman, B. “Doing the Write Thing, ” Illinois Institute of Technology Catalyst 8(3) 1998.3. Olds, B.M., Pavelich, M.J., & Yeatts, F.R. “Teaching the Design Process to Freshmen and Sophomores, ” Journal of Engineering Education, D.L. Evans (Coordinator), "Special Issue: Integrating Design Throughout the Curriculum, ” July/August 1990, pp. 554-559.4. “English + Engineering = Creativity, ” ASEE PRISM, March 1994, p.10.5. Denton, N.L. "Designing the Report Process, ” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, WA, 1998.6. Hein, T.L. “Writing as an Assessment and Learning Tool, ” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference &

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, Barbara Bratzel, LEGO Brick Sculptures and Robotics in Education", ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 1999.10. Starr, Gregory P., "The UNM Mechanical Engineering Lego Robot Competition", ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 1999.11. Chen, John C., Esther A. Hughes, Shih-Liang Wang, Ward J. Collis, "Implementing a Multidisciplinary System Design and Engineering Course Using Solar Splash ’97", ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 1997.12. Lenoe, Edward M., Eddie Fowler, "Design & Race Competition of a Solar Powered Vehicle", ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 1996.13. Sridhara, B.S., "Curriculum Integration of Some Engineering Technology Courses With Sunrayce 95", ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 1996.14

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Criteria 2000, Engineering Accreditation Commission of The Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology, 1997.3. Cavalier, J.C., J.D. Klein, and F.J. Cavalier, Effects of Cooperative Learning on Performance,Attitude, and Group Behaviors in a Technical Team Environment. Educational Technology Research andDevelopment, 1995. 43(3): p. 61-71.4. Felder, R.M. and R. Brent, Cooperative Learning in Technical Courses: Procedures, Pitfalls, andPayoffs. 1994, ERIC Document Reproduction Service ED 377038.5. Johnson, D.W., R.T. Johnson, and K.A. Smith, Cooperative Learning Returns to College: WhatEvidence is There that it Works? in Change. 1998. p. 27-35.6. Johnson, D.W., R.T. Johnson, and K.A. Smith, Maximizing Instruction

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Pamela Schmaltz; Kevin Schmaltz

Studenteffort and involvement positively influence attainment of a large number of educationaloutcomes, from development of higher-order cognitive skills to enhanced verbal,quantitative and subject matter competence.1This paper discusses LSSU’s experience with a Freshman Introductory Engineeringcourse, its success in providing students with validating experiences, and its ongoingefforts to improve retention of freshmen engineering students.II. LSSU’s Introductory Engineering CourseLake Superior State University is Michigan’s smallest public institution of higherlearning, with an overall enrollment of approximately 3200 students. Until recently,LSSU offered Electrical Engineering Technology and Mechanical EngineeringTechnology Bachelor of Science

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field. In J. Rothschild (Ed.), Machina Ex Dea. Elmsford, New York: Permagon. Also: Tonso (1996a & 1996b) Also: Gallaher, J. B. (1996). Perceptions of the climate for women in undergraduate engineering technology programs. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University.12. Johnson, R. S. (1992). Survey: Schools Discourage Women Scientists. The Scientist. Reprinted from Sirs Researcher on the World Wide Web.13. Shaefers, K. G., Epperson, D. L., & Nauta, M. M. (1997). Women’s career development: Can theoretically derived variables predict persistence in engineering majors?. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 44, 173-183.14. Takahira, S., Goodings, D. J. & Byrnes, J. P. (1998). Retention and performance of male and female engineering

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Asif M. Shakur; Ali Eydgahi; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

motivation anddesire to excel. Students have also solved network problems at some local high schools anddiscussed networking issues with high school groups.Initiated by the faculty members, Engineering and Physics students have formed partnershipswith two local community based non-profit organizations:• EXCEL - Extra Curricular Laboratories Inc., an interactive science museum with exhibits, that make science learning fun for all ages through hands on activities and mentoring;• Holly Foundation a non-profit organization involved in rehabilitation support services that include development of adaptive equipment and assistive technology for disabled individuals.At EXCEL the students are developing computer and web based demonstration of some of

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specific objectives of these activities are: i) to develop an understanding and an intuitionregarding the dynamic nature of structures in undergraduate students; ii) to reinforce theoreticalconcepts through the use of “hands-on” laboratory experiments; iii) to provide experience in theuse of modern engineering tools including sensors, actuators, and data acquisition/analysis equip-ment; iv) to provide non-engineering students with exposure to the potential consequences ofearthquakes and the dynamic behavior of civil engineering structures; v) to provide exposure toemerging technologies and modern methods in seismic resistant design; and vi) to improve tech-nical communication abilities through written reports and oral presentations. These

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college awareness seminars, and fieldtrips to local businesses and industries. Professionals in the engineering and technological fields,including many minorities, discuss career opportunities.The program has been very successful in identifying and educating high ability middle schoolstudents. Evaluations by the participants, their parents, and by local and state officials who havevisited LaPREP have been excellent. No current or former participant has dropped out of highschool and 84% of exiting participants have indicated that LaPREP has increased their desire tostudy math and science. Moreover, all 55 former participants who have graduated from highschool have enrolled in college and more than 90% of those responding to a survey indicated

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Charles V. Camp; Anna P. Phillips; Paul Palazolo

Engineering and Technology, Inc., Baltimore, MD, Pub. No. 98- AB-7a, 1998. Page 5.600.18Page 5.600.19

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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

Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1998. Priorto joining Rowan, Kevin was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California atBerkeley and an adjunct faculty member at North Carolina A&T University.Anthony J. Marchese is an Assistant Professor in the Department of MechanicalEngineering at Rowan University. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in1996. In 1999, he was awarded a Leadership Development Internship from ASME toserve on the ASME Council on Education.Ravi P. Ramachandran is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical andComputer Engineering at Rowan University. He received his Ph.D. from McGillUniversity in 1990 and worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Rutgers University

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Thomas Stanford; R.J. Bennett; R. Jacoby; M.I. Mendelson; D.A. Keating

will become anincreasingly critical component of national efforts to enhance competitiveness in the global economy. The nation’sgraduate engineers play a central role in the engineering leadership of continual technology innovation in industry.Continual technological innovation is recognized as the principal driving force for competitiveness and sustainedeconomic prosperity in the global economy. Central to technology competitiveness are the primary ingredients oftechnical knowledge, creativity, inventiveness and engineering leadership for continual product/processimprovement, and breakthrough innovation.More than ever before, technological innovation and the supporting educational infrastructure are vital to thenational interests of the

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Badrul H. Chowdhury

Session No. 1333Dissemination of Introductory Energy Systems Course Material via the World Wide Web for a Changing Power Engineering Curriculum Badrul H. Chowdhury bchow@ece.umr.edu. Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept. University of Missouri-Rolla Rolla, MO 65409-0040 Tel: 573-341-6230; Fax: 573-341-6671Abstract Many topics in the electrical energy discipline are becoming important in light of powerindustry restructuring as well as an

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Peggy Samson; Ken Vickers

Session 2586 The Role of a Middle/High School Engineering Design Contest in Student Preparation for Higher Education and Careers Ken Vickers, Peggy Samson University of Arkansas/Texas A&M UniversityAbstractBEST (Boosting Engineering, Science, and Technology) is a non-profit, community-basedvolunteer organization started in 1993 by a group of technologists in Sherman, Texas tosystematically address the lack of public peer acclaim for academically successful K-12 students.BEST provides public recognition of these students’ academic, technological, and problemsolving skills by

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Carlos G. Spaht

Session 2686 Louisiana Preparatory Program (LaPREP): A Highly successful Engineering and Science Enrichment Program for Grades 7-9 Carlos G. Spaht II Louisiana State University-ShreveportAbstractLouisiana Preparatory Program (LaPREP) is an intervention program in engineering andthe mathematical sciences for high-ability middle school students that is held on theLSU-Shreveport campus over two consecutive summers. Its ninth summer session willbegin in 2000. Eighty percent of the participants have been minority students and sixtypercent have been female.LaPREP stresses hard work and discipline; students

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Purvesh B. Thakker; Gary R. Swenson

Session 3432 PACE - Project Automation and Collaboration Environment, a Web-based system developed for a Senior Design course in Electrical Engineering Purvesh Thakker, Gary Swenson University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignAbstract With the creation of the Internet, the world has standardized a way to share information overcomputer networks. Such a standard will have no less an impact on communication thanstandardizing a verbal or written language. The Project Automation and CollaborationEnvironment (PACE) provides a case study that illustrates these

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freely in the environment6. They alsoworked on a light detection circuit using photoresistors and on a sound detection circuit that wereused with the Handy Board8, a microcontroller board programmed using a C multi-taskingenvironment named Interactive C. As the course project, students had to design the electricaland software mechanisms that allowed their robot to follow a flashlight, avoid obstacles andrespond to sound commands. Other courses that used ROBUS in learning situations wereIntroduction to Engineering and Teamwork, Technical Drawing, Software Design and Writtenand Oral Communication Skills9.Overall, students showed enthusiasm in these course assignments that were set to demonstrate aprogression in the technology and concepts used for