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Michael Hailey; James Fridley; Jens Jorgensen; Ann Mescher

in hardware or aprototype. The proposal, of course, must be reviewed and accepted by the client before theproposed design progresses to ME-495, and often the goal, scope, and deliverables of the projectneed to be re-negotiated.Capstone design courses present unique challenges for both the students and instructorsinvolved. In an effort to offer a potential solution to some of these challenges, and to explore theapplication of internet-related technology towards the design process, the ME-395 and ME-495students were introduced to a Web-based collaborative design tool for use in their project workduring the 1998/99 and 1999/00 academic years. The introduction of such a tool was seen as anexcellent opportunity to facilitate the exposure of these

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Timothy Wheeler; Dr. Rose Marra; Dr. Jack Mitchell; Dr. Charles Croskey

littleopportunity to explore areas tangent to their stated concentration. The size of the University andDepartment (500 undergraduate majors) makes personal interaction with the faculty difficult. Aproject course, therefore, that offered a high degree of such interaction, as well as lab spaceavailable for the undergraduate use was very popular. In fact, a case could be made that thepopularity of the project was an expression of student interest in collaborative learning preceptsin contrast to the predominant lecture format.Several factors support the notion that the sounding rocket is an ideal basis for an active learningprogram. Rockets carry a certain mystique that is hard to rationalize. The attraction to “NASA”and to “rockets” seems to transcend

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Frederick Orthlieb

markets. Such grants offer faculty and their students theopportunity for a more traditional, extended research experience, with adequate time to reflect on alternativeapproaches, design of experiments, interpretation of data and the technical and societal significance of findings.While undergraduate faculty are at some disadvantage in proposing such research unless their laboratories areparticularly well-equipped by virtue of ongoing graduate research activity, faculty who are willing to pursueresearch on industrially-significant topics that "fall in the cracks" among higher-priority R&D goals can use thesesources to develop a program of specialized, frequently methodological research work as a means of steadysupport for undergraduate

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Naomi Chesler; Mark Chesler

]). Female Male Motivation Encouragement Challenge Group Interaction Integrated Separated Task Engagement Collaborative Competitive Vision of Success Group Affiliation Individual AchievementThe differential socialization of women and men is particularly relevant to their success in thesciences and engineering, because women are often less confident in and alienated by the cultureof disciplines which do not fit well with their cultural style. That SME education emphasizesindividual competition and offers few opportunities for cooperative and interactive learning, andthereby can be considered "gendered"* , and in particular, to embody a male

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Joseph Walsh; David Kelso; John Troy; Barbara Shwom; Penny Hirsch

“busywork” that they must complete in order to graduate. What accounts for thesediscrepancies, and what can we, as engineering educators, do to help students become moreskilled communicators and better understand the role that communication plays in engineering?One reason that many students fail to recognize the importance of communication may be thatcommunication is generally treated as a set of skills that students are supposed to acquireoutside of engineering—in composition, technical writing, or public speaking courses. Studentssee no relation between communication and their genuine engineering work, such as solvingequations, modeling processes or doing product design. Although widespread, this approach tocommunication pedagogy is criticized by

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Thomas Kist; Barbara Goldberg; William Lin

for Engineering Education Annual Conference &ExpositionCopyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education”Recommendations for further research include a longitudinal follow-up study to trackstudents behaviors and outcomes, additional research to determine the reasons for secondsemester attrition, and studies both replicating the original design with the same studentpopulation and studies extending the research to other student cohorts with both the sameand also different teaching teams in the same institution as well as other technical andnon-technical colleges with similar student populations to confirm or refute the findingsof this study and to determine their value in other settings.I. IntroductionIn his examination of

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Beverly Baartmans; Sheryl Sorby

received a grant from the NSF under the GK-12 Teaching Fellows program to placeMichigan Tech graduate students majoring in Science, Math or Engineering in local school dis-tricts. These graduate students assist teachers in the development of K-12 mathematics and sci-ence courses and programs that more closely align with what is recommended by state andnational standards. Finally, in the spring of 2000 the College of Engineering received a significantgrant from the NSF Collaborative for Excellence in Teacher Preparation (CETP) with three majorthrust areas focused on bringing engineering applications into the pre-college classroom. Thispaper outlines the major activities from each of these grants as well as initial assessment results.Initiative 1: An

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Spencer Brinkerhoff; III, Walter Hopkins; David Hartman

in establishing the learning objectives for this freshmanexperience. The results of that collaboration are shown in the attached chart, “ArizonaArticulation Matrix for an ‘Introduction to Engineering Design’ Course.” The chart has beenfilled out to indicate how the Northern Arizona University course meets the learning objectives.Each university, and the community colleges, uses this matrix to develop their local coursesindependent of each other, while still achieving the same objectives. This allows completearticulation for this course among all of these educational institutions. (photo 3 is here) Student Presentation of Design ProjectV. ConclusionAs a component of the

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Robert Erlandson

, are the most pressing reasons for including accessible design material inundergraduate engineering programs. These laws, rules, and regulations impact all engineeringdesign disciplines and cover the design spectrum from the assembly and manufacturing ofproducts to consumer use of products and services.Undergraduate engineering programs typically do not include material on accessible design.There are conflicting pressures on engineering curricula that affect the acceptance of theseproposed additions to undergraduate programs. There is pressure to reduce the number of credithours required for the Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree while concurrently there ispressure to include more new material. The competition among new material for

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James Ladesic

use these new technologies in the classroom? • Will it endanger engineering education? • Are we compromising the quality of instruction? • Isn’t there a danger in promoting “push-button” engineering?As the debate goes on those who oppose technology implementation often findsympathy for their position among their peers at other institutions because of allthe reason discussed. However some schools and a large number of corporationsare moving forward with technology-based learning endeavors.7 While debatingissues like “is web-based instruction a good idea,” we could very well be losingsight of our reason for existing – delivering meaningful, timely and applicableeducation to enthusiastic customers; our students.8VII. CTEP: One possible

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Judson Singer

the subject. Thispaper explores how modern CAD tools, the World Wide Web, email, digital imaging, collaboration tools,broadband access, digital music, and streaming media can be woven together to create a fun and excitingexperience that gives engineering graphics students a powerful feel for modern "engineering" while giving teachersunlimited opportunities for creative control of student learning in a "digital playground/classroom". Singer’s Millennial Internet Learning Environment - The Web I Weave Page 6.837.1Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

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Patricia Secola; Bettie Smiley; Dale Baker; Mary Anderson-Rowland

historical and social context of key problems associated with equal educational achievementin pre-college education was discussed in a three-year study conducted in elementary andsecondary classrooms in four states on teacher interaction patterns with their students.4 Some ofthe findings indicated that teachers interacted more with male students; boys were more likely tocall out answers; minority females were asked the fewest number of questions; and the samepatterns of interaction were observed among teachers regardless of the teachers’ gender andethnicity. Several ideas for organizing the classroom and questioning strategies to eliminate biasassociated with academic achievement involve providing opportunities that allow all students toparticipate

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Carrie Girstantas; William Scherer

severaldisciplines for sound decision-making. Thus a typical technological context will requirethe meaningful collaboration of several experts. Some of this research may serve tosupport changes within traditional academic settings, as the learning objectives of thestudents and the industrial culture changes. Several specific elements comprise the core of the weekend format as described inthis paper. Each of the elements could be the foundation of further research inengineering education. Specifically, the implementation of cohort learning to greaterteam cooperation and industry development would be worthy of empirical validation,along with the “accuracy” of using alternative evaluation methods in combination withthe discussed teaching methods

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Joseph Betit; William Swart; Sushil Chaturvedi; Gary Crossman

conference entitled “Research and Engineering Education in a Global Society.”Participants identified best practices, discussed strategies, and formulated a declaration forachieving goals in engineering education and global research cooperation, with a view tobuilding a global society in the next century.5 Joining in this call for change was the NationalScience Foundation, which encouraged mutual and beneficial cooperation with other countries inits publication NSF Engineering: The Long View.6Universities in general have long supported the view that an international experience is avaluable part of education. However, such an experience is more difficult in a program of studyfor engineers than some other disciplines. Consider, for example, that 43% of

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P. Kelly Joyner; Teresa Larkin-Hein

college science courses and has argued that typicalclassrooms are "…competitive, selective, intimidating, and designed to winnow out all but the'top tier' … there is little attempt to create a sense of 'community' among average students ofscience" (p. 9). Hence, a traditional science classroom may present potential barriers that couldinhibit learning for some students. The active process of writing may provide one non-threatening mechanism through which students could reduce or even remove these barriers tolearning. Tobias 17 also indicates that writing can serve as a means to help students relieve theiranxiety and help them unlearn models and techniques that have proven scientifically unsound.This paper describes a novel technique for infusing

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Elisabeth Sanchez; Alejandro Lozano; Victor Mucino

this program and by providing meaningful, innovative and exciting opportunities for industry and professionals in the field. • To get academia (faculty, research associates and students) closer to industry, and to explore technology development opportunities in collaboration with international institutions. Page 6.426.3Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education 3 This program also provides a vehicle to Industry and its practitioners to

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Thomas Stanford; Michael Aherne; Duane D. Dunlap; Mel Mendelson; Donald Keating

engineering innovation. Graduate education must be responsive to this change and mustbuild a new type model of in-service graduate professional education which reflects thesubstantial changes and characteristics of the engineering innovation process itself, and thestages of lifelong growth, professional dimensions, and leadership responsibilities associatedwith the modern practice of creative engineering in a knowledge-based, innovation-driveneconomy. Whereas traditional research-based graduate engineering education and teaching haveresulted during the last three decades as a byproduct of the linear research-driven model ofinnovation, a new model of graduate professional education has been developed which focuseson lifelong professional education for

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Gary Fetter; M.P. Sharma

teaching. The reason for theslow rate of growth in using this new technology for teaching entirely online courses inengineering is not apparent. In Wyoming, there is even a greater need for online delivery ofbasic engineering courses so that transfer students, most of who live in distant and remote areas,and other prospective students can prepare themselves prior to arriving on campus. In Spring2000, with the sponsorship of the Engineering College and the School of Extended Studies, thelead author proposed and initiated a project to design, develop, and deliver a complete onlinecourse in Engineering Thermodynamics that would satisfy the University of Wyoming’srequirement for the accredited degree in engineering. The authors, then, did research

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Leslie Crowley; Ray Price; Jonathan R. Dolle; Bruce Litchfield

among engineering undergraduate students, EEI aims to assist students tobegin consciously developing their emotional intelligence, and to be more fully prepared for theirprofessional and personal lives. One of our main goals is to help students to bring awareness oftheir own emotions to their life experiences, and to develop the skills to recognize and work withthe emotions of others.As current research on emotional intelligence (EI) has demonstrated, EI is a significant indicatorof personal and professional success. Further, both industry and academia recognize that the bestengineering students will have well-developed inter- and intrapersonal skills in addition to theirtechnical skills. This paper provides a brief outline of the concept of

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Robert Tener; Michael Winstead; Edward Smaglik

access to state-of-the-art equipment and technology by using the workplace as a laboratory extension of the classroom.! Keep college curricula up-to-date with changes in industry through constant input from the employment sector.! Provides the ability to offer a direct learning experience to students, which should provide them with positive motivation.! Builds a positive relationship between the institution and the business community27,38,44.It is the authors' experience that an effective internship program, administered in close concert with internsponsor firms who hire the graduates, gains the university respect and resources which would not otherwisebe generated.Benefits to EmployersEmployers invest in interns for a variety of reasons, but

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William de Kryger

into agreements for the wrong reasons. Critically review the institution during the evaluation visit, looking for areas where their programs, activities, and laboratories can compliment those on the home campus. G. Potential for research collaboration One of the more enjoyable aspects of an exchange, other that observing the students making what for most is their first international trip, is the possibility for research collaboration. Carefully evaluate the research potential of their laboratories and their willingness to collaborate in one or more yearly projects. Do not necessarily expect this collaboration to happen immediately. It may take a year or two to develop, but when it