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Brian S Macherone; Jagdish T. Gajjar; Cherrice Traver

engineering students bring into their undergraduate careers is thatengineering is practiced as a democracy. To dispel that notion and to introduce students to someof the realities of industries driven by bottom lines, deadlines, and product safety issues, a“project team” model was used. The task was broken into functional areas. Each area had a“project manager” and a team. The managers further subdivided the functions into tasks for oneor more students. Faculty members served as the project managers, a realistic analogy to industrywhere project managers tend to be senior members of the organization who have survivednumerous similar activities in the past.The overall structure of the project divided the participants into three groups. The major

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

pathetically thin results in learning and understanding–except in the very small percentage of students who are specially gifted in the field.” p. viiOf course, those few who manage to thrive within the current system are thusacademically successful and often go on to careers in academia where they continue thetradition. A lack of exposure to other instructional possibilities, coupled with the generalinertia of large universities, results in a stagnation of educational approaches. Manyschools are grappling with this problem by modifying lectures17, 26, 32, 35, 39, 40 orlaboratory5, 14, 27, 29, 34, 36 experiences. But because of well-established systems forpresenting and grading standard lecture-oriented courses, change is not easy.Nonetheless

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Mark L. Smith; Kenneth E. Rowe; Carlos R. Morales; Rick L. Homkes

to our schoolsand determine if these areas fit into our own personal value system. If they do, we have to startor to continue developing in those areas. We must also start or continue a promotion and tenuredocument that displays our developments and enables us to continue teaching in the newmillennium. It is important, however, to remember that just as a proper balance of the areasabove is needed for a successful professional teaching career, a balance is also needed betweenour professional and personal lives.Bibliography1. Bloom, B., et al, The Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification of the Educational Goals.Handbook I: The Cognitive Domain. McKay Press, New York, USA (1956).2. Langan, D., Doran, M., Feinstein, D., &

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Yvon Kermarrec; Ian R. Simpson

companies, who must provide a more personalized approach torecruitment.The use of the web for contacts with and between « Alumni » is certainly far less developed inEurope than in North America. Until recently, many European universities tended to neglectthis very important aspect of relations between the Institution of Higher Education, its currentstudents and its graduates.ENST Bretagne is approaching the problem in two ways :We organize an annual « Alumni Day » attended by around fifty of the college’s graduateswho are all practicing engineers in industry or in the academic world. Short presentations aregiven by the alumni, who then discuss their careers on an individual, more personalized basiswith any interested student registered at the

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Douglas W. Fraser; Gary E. Rafe

technology, and managed the College’s workstation laboratory network.In addition to his desire to eschew the hegemonic personal computer operating system, his research interests includethe application of information system technology in manufacturing enterprises, automating the product design-to-manufacturing process, CAD/CAM integration, and the use of telecommunication technology for training andeducation.DOUGLAS W. FRASERDouglas Fraser has worked as a developer for AT&T and Lucent Technologies for sixteen years. He learned todevelop embedded systems using C in the UNIX environment there and has continued to practice that craft with briefforays into UNIX application development. Most of his career has concentrated on remote distributed

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Rebecca A. Pinkus; Craig A. Simmons

students to learn how much they already know – and more importantly, how to apply that knowledge to their own writing. The aim of this first seminar is to provide the students with an opportunity to begin exploring the value of good writing versus the consequences of bad writing, and to provide a springboard for the rest of the course.Nov 1 Audience and Aims Who am I writing for? What is the purpose of this document? How can I be sure that what I write is appropriate for my intended audience? What are the consequences of writing something that is inappropriate for my audience? These are all very real questions faced by most engineers at some point in their career, if not on

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Munir Mandviwalla; Chang Liu; Azim Danesh

primaryreasons for taking the class were to traveling time unnecessary and to alleviate time constraintsdue to their family or career. The remaining results of the questionnaire illustrate the advantagesand disadvantages of using technology in distance education using the interaction model.Learner-Instructor Interaction/Learner-Learner Interaction The learner-instructor interaction in Moore’s model provides the motivation, feedback, anddialog between the teacher and student. The learner-learner interaction is the exchange ofinformation, ideas and dialog among the students. Because both of these interactions are basedprimarily on the communication function, the two interactions will be discussed together.In the questionnaire, the majority of students

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Winthrop J. Aldrich; M. Catharine Hudspeth

me, but by learning their method Iam able to show another students more then one way of solving a problem. As I look back I seethat I have learned many key roles which I use in my personal and student life and will use in myprofessional career.”Conclusion: A program such as Quest can have lofty goals and assess its success throughstatistical analysis of the subsequent performance of its participants; however, the studentsthemselves must endorse the program if it is truly to have worth. To assess this aspect, a formerfacilitator interviewed numerous former participants for their perspectives of the Quest program. They feel that Quest shows them how to study, how to manage time, and how to make aprofessional presentation. They also learned how

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Karen Al-Ashkar

going to let technology determine our interaction or was this to bejust one component in the mixture? Certain assumptions were made about both of theseconsiderations, and these are thoroughly addressed in another presentation at thisconference.The third was centered around the experiences we anticipated for our students wheninteracting with our tradition-driven institution. For purposes of this discussion, I assumethat the term tradition indicates that we are discussing staff and practices that have dealtalmost exclusively with on-campus students. This impact of traditional practice on theeducational careers of non-traditional students has held my attention and dominated mywork since June of 1996; this work is what I’d like to share with youOur

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Zheng-Tao Deng; Abdul R. Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for Page 5.571.4engineering practice.AC2K also requires documentation that program outcomes and educational objectives havebeen met. ABET suggests use of: student portfolios, including design projects; nationally-normed subject content examinations; alumni surveys that document professionalaccomplishments, career development activities, employer surveys, and placement data ofgraduates.ASMEAlso in December of 1995, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), issued areport entitled: Integrating the Product Realization Process (PRP) into the

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Z. Yuan; T. Tang; Pratibha Gopalam; N. Liu; Chu R. Wie; Alexander N. Cartwright

State University of New York at Buffalo since August 1995. In1998, he received a NSF CAREER Award that supports his research on GaN based optoelectronic devices and hiseducational activities. He is Associate Director of the Center for Active Learning of Microelectronics andPhotonics.PRATIBHA GOPALAM : Pratibha Gopalam is a graduate student in the Electrical Engineering Department at theState University of New York at Buffalo. She is a member of the group developing educational Java applets at theCenter for Active Learning of Microelectronics and Photonics. She received her undergraduate degree in Electronicsand Communication Engineering from Bangalore University, India, in 1997. She worked as a software engineer forHewlett Packard India

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Diana G. Somerton; Craig W. Somerton

• Developing Course Learning Objectives that ensure delivery of topics • Ensuring a curriculum that is consistent with the Program Educational Objectives • Utilizing Assessment Tools to evaluate the program • Involving Constituent Groups in the program evaluation • Recommending changes to the program • Implementing changes to the program • Assessing changes to the program • Iterating on the programThe goals of this CQI process are to graduate individuals with the strongest skills andbackgrounds for the mechanical engineering profession and to have our graduates succeed at thehighest levels in their careers. As shown in Figure 1, the ME 2000 program is composed of fourreview and feedback processes

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Andre Clavet; Mario Lucas; Gerard Lachiver; Francois Michaud

of this project was toconfirm early on the career choice of these students by putting them close to the reality of theprofession and making them work on projects involving design and analysis abilities,autonomous learning, teamwork, communication skills and social considerations. We alsowanted to create a stimulating and motivating learning environment, with a reasonable workloadthat favored the integration and the application of the engineering knowledge and skills.To accomplish this goal, we were looking for a project that could integrate these ideas indifferent courses with appropriate complexity, and also provide open challenges that push furtherthe creativity and the ingenuity of the students. With that in mind, we developed an

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Richard N. Smith; Michael K. Jensen; Deborah A. Kaminski; Amir Hirsa

, interconnections, and synergy. Traditional Page 5.227.2courses focus on teaching the details of each discipline in isolation. Because of the amount ofmaterial presented, we sacrifice discussion and the use of other disciplines, which invariably comeinto play in many “real-life” situations.Two other factors contribute to the present arrangement of courses in thermal/fluids engineering.First, we generally intend our courses to perform “double duty;” that is, we prepare our studentsfor advanced study within the discipline and for a career in industry. While many more studentsopt for industry immediately after the BS than for graduate school, traditional

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

benefits and limitations of a number of communication methods• In the environment that the project created, the students acquired a number of skills that will give them a grounding for a professional career. These skills included appreciation of the need for a single point of contact to a given group of people and discipline in communications, and the importance of agendas and strategies for meetings and other interactions with people.• The project enabled them to experience the management of change. In addition, they have had to realize that attention to detail and the need to liaise with others (including customers and suppliers) is important - input from industrialists raised the tenor of the project and made it possible for

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Zheng-Tao Deng; Abdul R. Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

programs it has become a challenge to adapt to thesesuggested changes at a fast pace. One of the challenges is to provide a fast track toproject/design engineering while providing the strong fundamental engineering education andsolid preparation in design, analysis and evaluation in a four year program. However, it is toour advantage to meet the challenge, it is critical to the success of our engineering graduates intheir professional careers to “hit the mark” and meet industry’s expectations.While there is not a universal definition of design; it is paramount to realize that engineeringdesign brings new products/processes/systems and subsystems to the specialized consumer orthe global market seeking to improve health, well-being, safety

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Ronald C. Matusiak; D. Steven Barker

. Bragdon, C. & Berkowitz, C. "Transportation Technology Careers: 2005," 1996 ASEE Annual ConferenceProceedings, Session 16254. URL: http://www.teslev.com/links.htm; Maglev reference resources.5. URL: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/3075/maglev.html; Maglev reference resources.6. URL: http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/maglev/maglev.html; Maglev reference resources.7. URL: http://www.ccnet.com/~lnstech/#lev; Magnetic levitation science kit.8. URL: http://www.fbk.com; Educational magnetic levitation systems9. Hurley, W.G. & Wolfle, W.H. "Electromagnet Design of a Magnetic Suspension System," IEEE Transactions onEducation, Vol. 40, No. 2, May 1997, pp. 124-130.10. Oliveira, V.A., Costa, E.F., & Vargas, J. B. "Digital Implementation of a

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Publishers, 1990, p. 131.14.) Carl Mitcham, Thinking Through Technology: The Path between Engineering and Philosophy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994, pp. 192-208.15.) Ibid., Goldman, p. 131. Page 5.666.12 1216.) Web Cite for the IEEE Code of Ethics http://www.ieeeusa.org/DOCUMENTS/CAREER/CAREER_LIBRA RY/ethics.html17.) Bonnie A. Nardi and Vicki L. O’Day, Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart. Cambridge, MA.: The MIT Press, 1999.18.) Ibid., p. ix.19.) Langdon Winner, "Engineering Ethics and Political Imagination," in Paul T. Durbin (ed.), Broad and Narrow Interpretations of

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Nicole DeJong; Ken Van Treuren; Don Farris; Cindy Fry

, laboratory activities, interaction between faculty andstudents, engineering problem solving, and the use of engineering analysis and designtechniques. The objectives of the course are • To provide career guidance and motivation for new engineering students • To build a sense of community among engineering students and faculty • To provide students with experience in engineering problem solving • To develop some basic analytical and design skills needed by engineers, and • To introduce Computer Aided Design (CAD)The design project reinforces many of the topics in the course. Its completion is the culmination Page 5.690.1of

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Education andHuman Resources concluded that “… while K – 12 programming can expand the pool of thoseinterested in pursing careers in SME&T [Science, Mathematics, Engineering, & Technology], itis at the undergraduate level where attrition and burnout can be most effectively prevented.What we in SME&T education must do is to concern ourselves with all students, not just thosewho historically have been represented in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology.Such a breadth of concern has important educational benefits as well, as it will force us to thinkmore about how individuals learn and recognize what research has made clear: that there aredifferences in learning style which profoundly effect achievement. And let us not forget

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Andrew N. Hrymak; Donald R. Woods; Heather Wright

; Page 5.110.22. - openness to students: willingness of faculty to help, friendliness and flexibility of faculty.3. - freedom in learning: the degree to which the students feel they have a choice in what they learn and how they learn it;4. - clarity in goals and standards: a degree to which the students feel that the assessment is clearly defined and appropriate; for example, a low rating would be given if the students feel that "professors are more interested in testing what we have memorized than what we have learned."5. - vocational relevance: how pertinent the students perceive the course content to be for their future careers;6

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Claire Hill; Gulcin Cribb; David Radcliffe

groups stated the importance of locating expertise and contact information forcolleagues. They claimed that a critical component of engineering research was keeping up-to-date with breakthroughs and the discoveries of groups undertaking similar research.Two more focus group session were held by The University of Queensland Library to determinethe information needs of high achieving research staff who are at early stages of their careers andtheir post-graduate students. These researchers stated that they felt overwhelmed by the amountof information available and needed to locate reliable information in an efficient andpersonalized manner.These focus group sessions were complemented by a series of workshops held at theAustralasian Association for

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

, thischallenges the students to function at Stage 3 in Grow’s SSDL model. Because the projects areinteresting and important to the client, the students rise to the challenge.We anticipate building SDL modules into the DTeC instruction in computer applications andprogramming using on-line modules similar to the ones developed at BCC..Preparing Students for Stage Two – Broome Community CollegeThis is already occurring at Broome Community College (BCC) in second year courses beingoffered in Engineering Mechanics (Statics and Dynamics), Strength of Materials, andEngineering Design (III and IV). While we can justify the development of SDL capabilities instudents as preparation for their professional careers, as asynchronous learning (ASL) becomesmore

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Jeffrey L. Newcomer

limitations of timeand money, the systems students design are quite simple compared to what they can expect tofind once they graduate.Manufacturing Automation and RoboticsThe Manufacturing Automation and Robotics course is one of the last required classes studentstake before they graduate, so preparing students for their careers is a major concern. The proj-ects in this class are part of the laboratory component just as they are in the Fluid Power course,although the projects are sometimes integrated into the course lecture material as well. As withFluid Power, the Manufacturing Automation and Robotics course project is primarily designed toenhance students’ teamwork and project management skills, and their creative problem solvingability. The course

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William C. Oakes; Ronald Wukasch; Richard Foretek; Jennifer Watia; Jeffery L. Gray; Leah H Jamieson; Edward Coyle

are vertically-integrated -each is a mix of freshman, sophomores, juniors and seniors - and a student can participate in aproject for up to three and a half years. The continuity provided by this structure allows projectsto last for many years. Projects of significant size and impact are thus possible.Four projects are highlighted to illustrate the multidisciplinary aspects of the program. Theprojects selected illustrate mechanical, civil and electrical hardware and software design in thecontext of service learning. A discussion of how the program objectives align with the ABET2000 criteria is also included.IntroductionThe importance of significant design experiences to prepare undergraduate engineering studentsfor engineering careers has

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

process with documented results. Evidence must begiven that the results are applied to the further development and improvement of the program.The assessment process must demonstrate that the outcomes important to the mission of theinstitution and the objectives of the program, including those listed above, are being measured.Evidence that may be used includes, but is not limited to the following: student portfolios,including design projects; nationally-normed subject content examinations; alumni surveys thatdocument professional accomplishments and career development activities; employer surveys;and placement data of graduates. Page 5.284.2

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

audience is in terms of its openness or readiness to engage thematerial.Yet another assumption embedded in the visiting scholar model is that skills and the techniquesof teaching are all that is necessary and sufficient to provide the nurturing and growth thatfaculty need throughout their careers as teachers, researchers, and administrators. For example,some institutions begin faculty development efforts by paying scholars to visit their campus andteach people skills that are immediately useful in their classrooms. A series of such visits mightbe labeled a “Faculty Development Program” in that they develop faculty skills, which arehopefully adopted and implemented for long periods of time. We question the claim that evenvery well-received

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Richard L Canale; Ellen J Duwart; Cheryl Cates

criterion area, ABET requires that engineering programs demonstrate that theirgraduates have acquired eleven attributes of an engineer. Each program must have an Page 5.145.2assessment process with documented results. Evidence that ABET suggests may be used todocument results include student portfolios, design projects, alumni surveys that documentprofessional accomplishments and career development activities, employer surveys, andplacement data of graduates.Cooperative education is a viable educational strategy that enhances the learning of engineeringundergraduate students. However, additional research in this area is needed to document