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Session Number 3575 So You’re Going on Sabbatical? Be Sure to Take an Open Mind Robert E. Montgomery Department of Freshman Engineering, Purdue UniversityAbstract This paper is about the process of making the transition from attempting to controleverything about the sabbatical leave experience to learning to simply benefit from it, wherever,within reason, it took me. Numerous "substitutions" took place in my plans for self-renewal,with some of my original objectives becoming completely out of reach. As a result of theunplanned nature of many of my sabbatical activities, I learned a lot about

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Are We Losing Our Minds (2470) Paper 1211 A Course in Difference, Power, and Discrimination For Engineering Students Kenneth J. Williamson, Stephanie Sanford Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering/ Center for Water and Environmental Sustainability, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331AbstractOregon State University has adopted as a general education requirement that all studentsmust take a designated difference, power and discrimination (DPD) course. The DPDrequirement was created by the faculty to assist

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Ahmad Ibrahim

alsoimportant to keep in mind that virtual laboratories should not replace physical laboratoriesaltogether. More over, if not used with proper care, they can lead to loss of creativity, Page 6.442.6 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationimagination, interpersonal skills, problem solving skills, and discipline among students.Like everything related to current computer technology, the URLs mentioned here and even thetechnology used to implement the sites may have a relatively short “shelf life

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Vinay Dayal; Jerald Vogel; Rebecca Sidler Kellogg

Session 3225 Engineering Design – On-Line Rebecca Sidler Kellogg, Jerald Vogel, Vinay Dayal Iowa State UniversityIntroductionTransforming engineering curriculum to an on-line asynchronous format presents manychallenges and opportunities. Engineering design has typically been taught as a collaborativeinteractive course at Iowa State University where student involvement and engagement waspromoted in face-to-face synchronous learning environments. With the dawn of e-learning, anew opportunity to reach students on-line, faculty at Iowa State University re-examined

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Vincent Gallogly

SESSION 3454 UTILIZING ENGINEERING ENTREPRENEURS TO INSTILL AND ENHANCE ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN TODAY’S STUDENT POPULATION Vincent Gallogly, Adjunct Professor The Cooper Union, Albert Nerkin School of Engineering, New York City.ABSTRACTMeeting the dual challenges presented in today’s engineering schools by the bright,energetic student with the dream of turning her ideas to riches, and awakening the interestof the research, detail oriented, single solution student to the vagaries of the market placeand the entrepreneurism; harnessing energy and enthusiasm, without stifling it, teachingthe basics of

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that theymay or may not know. In Engineering 1 they are taught that good brainstorming means gettingeverything down on paper in thumbnail sketches, drawings that try to capture the thinking. Theylearn that ideas not expressed in a communicable medium will exist in the designers’ minds alone.I demand that they sit and focus on generating ideas for 20 minutes at a time, no more. I tell thestudents that probably 75% of their ideas are going to be sub-par, but that’s normal. So, only oneout of four ideas will be developed into a final solution.During the final development toward the solution, students are instructed to pay close attention tothe designs that they thought would never work; they learn that pieces of these designs maybecome parts of

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Ramachandran Radharamanan; Angela Ansuj

Page 6.405.1(DFM). DFM is the practice of designing products with manufacturing in mind so that they canbe designed in the least time with the least cost. Also, DFM allows a smoother transition fromthe design of a product into its production as well as minimizing the cost of assembling andtesting the product. Quality and reliability are also affected by DFM in a positive way, andtherefore the needs and satisfaction of the customers are met and the product automaticallybecomes more competitive in the market 4, 6.II. Concurrent Engineering Design ProcessThe design process of CE has many objectives, the most important being the completion of theactual design of the product. This process begins with a mental idea of a product, and then itproceeds

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with three basic goals in mind. First, this coursesequence was seen as the opportunity to establish and develop those activities known to deepenthe learning experience for the students. Second, the course sequence was established to provideeach student with a significant, professional level, engineering experience. Finally the sequencewas viewed as a good tool for assessing student development and the effectiveness of the entiremechanical engineering curriculum at Ohio University. This assessment is based upon frequentstudent evaluations of their readiness to handle specific tasks, including both the requisiteknowledge and skill and the assessment of these same attributes by industrial referees.II. Implementation of Deep Learning

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Michael Graham; Jan Puszynski; Anton Pintar; Jenna Carpenter; Michael Cutlip

of a theorem. In other words, we are comfortable withstudents learning mathematical facts without necessarily having seen the proofs.Technique and TechnologyA fair amount of the discussion at the workshop, within our group and others, centered aroundthe use of “technology” in the math courses for engineers. In the discussions, “technology”meant a number of different things, from numerical methods to graphing calculators to symbolicmanipulation packages. We’d like to emphasize here some points to be kept in mind whenthinking of the introduction of these tools into math courses. Here are some questions and ourresponses:“Why should I learn to do it by hand?”• sense of form of mathematical expressions, understanding of what manipulations are

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program.Rationale from a student perspectiveFor an engineering student interested in biotechnology or the pharmaceutical industry, anundergraduate biochemical engineering program is very important. Biotechnology is afield that is expected to grow and provide employment opportunities to college graduates.Recently, several of the world’s largest chemical companies have announced major newbusinesses based on the life science instead of traditional petrochemical processing1,2.The recent mapping of the human genome may also open opportunities for life-science-minded engineers.MSU provides a comprehensive program to prepare chemical engineering graduates toimmediately be effective in the biotechnology industry. In addition, the program alsooffers students in

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Norine Meyer; Deborah Fisher; Cynthia Villanueva; Amy Strobel

team leader groups. Three of the Instructors, Norine Meyer,Amy Strobel, and Cynthia Villanueva, carry out program responsibilities in advising andprogram planning within the SOE and worked as a team to design the course curriculum. ElaineWonsowicz, Program Director of Engineering Student Programs in the SOE, served as aconsultant on the project.Justification: Female UnderrepresentationThe Fall 2000 Engineering all-female course within the SOE was a break with tradition. Neverin the history of the School had a course been designed with women in mind. In part, the Team2000 course was a response to a student needs survey. In Fall 1999, the Diversity in EngineeringProgram carried out a survey to determine the types of programs our women students

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Anna Phillips; Charles V. Camp; Paul Palazolo

Session 3453 Toys, Tinkerers, and Tomorrow: Growing Engineers Paul Palazolo, Anna Phillips, Charles Camp The University of MemphisAbstractThis paper presents the findings and recommendations resulting from a pilot program aimed ateducating and interesting middle school students in the fields of math, science, and engineering.“The Joy of Engineering” was piloted in the summer semester of 2000 and included a staff ofthree multidisciplinary instructors supplemented by 7 middle school teachers from the localschool system. There were two one-week sessions offered with a total of 64

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creative minds of Paine and Peale. Paine’s was developedindependently of the Schuylkill project while he lived in England and was documented in hispatent description of 1788 (3). Peale’s was presented in a formal proposal to address the statedPhiladelphia need, and its documentation exists in what appears to be the first American book onbridge design (4). His design is shown in Figure 1 on the next page.Through their research the students learned about two engineers who were complex men and attimes contradictory human beings. For example, the following was taken from the specificationsin Paine’s patent description. Whereas His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His Letters patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing

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Natalie Mello

Session 2560 Managing Global Experiences for Engineering Students Natalie A. Mello Worcester Polytechnic InstituteAbstractWorcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has long embraced a project-based curriculum that nowextends to the four corners of the globe. With established programs in Europe, the Far East,Latin America, Australia, the US and new initiatives in Hong Kong and Taiwan, WPI providesopportunities for undergraduates to complete meaningful off-campus experiences. WPI offersstudents the freedom to complete degree requirements away from campus in a professionalexperience under the

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Yaw Owusu

, and reduces the Page 6.290.11overhead costs of running a business. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationHowever, keep in mind, cost is not the most important facet of concurrent engineeringand total quality management. Using higher quality parts, though they may be moreexpensive, can result in lower costs further down the line. Therefore, the emphasisshould be on quality and on-time delivery and not cost alone.Process Control and Evaluation: Managing, Organizing, and Measuring in ConcurrentEngineering

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Jerald Vogel; Rebecca Sidler Kellogg

Session 2625 Engineering Design as a Learning Process Rebecca Sidler Kellogg, Jerald Vogel Iowa State UniversityIntroductionDesign of products, processes, and systems is the task that distinguishes the engineeringprofession. Either directly or indirectly most engineers are involved in the design process.Despite its central role in the engineering profession and its recognized importance1,2, mostengineering students complete their undergraduate degrees with only a cursory glimpse at realengineering design. Their experience is often disconnected and incomplete as

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James Bean; Aparajita Mazumder

& International, International Environmental Policy, GlobalEnvironmental Change and the State, Culture, Adaptation & Environment, Mind, Culture andthe Environment, Introduction to Global Change III: Studies of Global Sustainability.5.2 Developing a Cross-culturalization Course for EngineersAn integral component of the Concentration will be the development of a cross-cultural courseon global understanding for engineers. The course content is described in Table I . Initially thecross-cultural course will be offered as a 2-credit-hour course.Table 1: Cross-Cultural Preparatory Course for Engineers (2 Credit Hours )I Globalization of Technology• Importance of global experience for engineers—Academic, Industrial and Government

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Medhat Morcos; David Soldan

Session 2793 On Distance Learning in Engineering M.M. Morcos, D.L. Soldan Kansas State UniversityAbstractEngineering programs have been offered to off-campus students for many years. Most of thesuccessful programs have been concentrated in metropolitan areas with large numbers ofengineering companies or at military installations. Current technology and demographicspresent new challenges and opportunities in reaching many engineers who work for smallcompanies and need to continue their education while on the job.The effectiveness of televised

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Maria Flores; Arthur Gerstenfeld

report for work they areready to “hit the ground running.” Industry needs persons who are aware of the globalimplications of their decisions and who are ready to work as part of a project team (in this Page 6.427.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationcountry or another) from the very first day. With that theme in mind we shall now describe ourapproach.II. BackgroundOur focus will first be on Latin America in general, then Mercosur, and finally some keycountries including Argentina, Brazil

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Danny Bee

Session 1533 Back to the Future Manufacturing Engineering at Stout Danny J. Bee University of Wisconsin-StoutAbstractManufacturing engineering education at the University of Wisconsin-Stout has gone back to thefuture. Today’s undergraduate manufacturing engineering program utilizes laboratory- andindustrial project-based instruction throughout the professional component of the curriculum.The century old Stout tradition of hands-on, minds-on instruction emphasizes engineering andindustrial applications balanced with a strong basis of engineering sciences. In

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

emotion and intelligence, areopen to various interpretations.2 EEI attempts rather to distill from a broader constellation onecrucial and overlooked concept in engineering and technology curricula. And that is thatemotions are real and important, and as significant an indicator of success as intellectual andacademic ability.3 By beginning with this main concept, we can help our students to movetowards developing the self-awareness necessary for acquiring and honing other criticalcompetencies.II. BRIEF BACKGROUND OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCEDaniel Goleman, psychologist, journalist in behavioral and brain sciences, and author ofEmotional Intelligence and Working With Emotional Intelligence, writes: “In a sense we have two brains, two minds

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that include more than 250 different 3-D mechanical puzzles, many games,mind teasers, LEGO® Mindstorms competitions, and design projects, each of which illustratesprinciples and strategies in inventive problem solving. In addition, students use patent-relatedsoftware packages and websites. These activities allow for self-paced, semi-guided explorationthat improves self-esteem and encourages questioning and daring.This new eight-dimensional methodology has been taught to engineering and computer sciencestudents in upper undergraduate and introductory graduate levels. Recently, students from othercolleges such as Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Business and Marketing joined classesand workshops where this new methodology has been taught

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Joan A. Burtner

Session 2661 Engineering, Technology and Society: Increasing the Dialogue Between Liberal Arts Majors and Engineering Students Joan A. Burtner Mercer UniversityAbstract The EC2000 Criterion 3 a-k outcomes have increased engineering educators’ awarenessof the importance of contemporary and global issues in undergraduate engineering education. Inan effort to increase college students’ understanding of ethical, professional, and contemporaryissues related to engineering, a senior-level discussion-based seminar has been offered at MercerUniversity

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Patricia C. Tempel; Hisham Alnajjar; Beth Richards; Andrea Brick Ader; Ronald Adrezin

on ethics to discuss the dilemma inmore detail. As noted above, students initially struggled to connect the ethics issue in the articleand the ethics issue presented by the guest speaker. However, they did identify strongly with thearticle, which they saw as relevant (one of the article’s protagonists was a just out of collegeengineer, pitted against the narrow minded senior engineer and other managers).For the final project, students engaged in mock debate/town meeting. Students were assignedroles in OurTown, Connecticut (townspeople, business investors, government regulators,municipal officials) and were required to research the pros and cons of augmenting OurTown’snearly full landfill with a batch incinerator. Students were required to

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William Callen; Steven Usselman

fromspecialized techniques of problem-solving to see engineering in its full context. For many others, it involvedgaining some appreciation for the inherent pleasures of technical design and comprehending how technical factorsoften constrain social choices. Our most important objective, we realized, was to meld these two cohorts. If wecould do that successfully, we would accomplish our fundamental goal of fostering a deeper appreciation of the richcomplexities of engineering practice. During subsequent iterations of the course, which we have taught during one term each of the past four academicyears, we have refashioned the material and assignments with this objective in mind. First, we repackaged the unitsand organized them into three groups

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Michele Casey; Kevin Torres

Session 3550 Electrical Engineering Technology Experiences for Kindergarten Students Kevin Torres, Michele Casey Penn State Erie, The Behrend College/Creekside Christian SchoolAbstractAn outreach project has been designed and implemented to provide kindergarten students withengineering technology experiences. In engineering education much has been done in outreachto middle school students and high school students. But very little is being done to reach out toK-6 and practically none for kindergarten students, especially in the field of engineering.This paper describes electrical engineering

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William Keat; James Hedrick; Christine LaPlante; Richard Wilk; Cherrice Traver; Frank Wicks

contextual basis forpresenting and tying together different engineering and CS topics in this part of thecourse.Selection of a Course ThemeIn searching for a good course theme we had to keep in mind several criteria: (1) itshould be interesting for first year engineering and computer science students, (2) itshould be a contemporary topic in technology that has a significant impact on society, (3)it should be broad enough so as to be relevant to several different disciplines includingEE, CS, ME, and CE, and (4) it should lend itself to the application of some fundamental Page 6.34.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education

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Ricardo Molina; Claudio da Rocha Brito; Melany Ciampi

Session 2360 A Contribution for Engineering Education in Brazil Claudio da Rocha Brito, Melany M. Ciampi, Ricardo Castillo Molina SENAC School of Engineering and TechnologyAbstractIn 1996 the Education Ministry of Brazil published the Federal Law no. 9.394 known as LDB –Basis and Directress Law of Education. With this new Law it started the educational reformswith the objective of increasing the quality of 3rd Grade in the Country. Although the reformsare associated to a political project of the present team of Republic, the real motivation is due tothe consequences of a new social and technical post

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established a busy agenda.Keeping in minds its goal of water security for the world’s citizens by 2025, the Councilwill be establishing a monitoring system for the Vision, seeking private funding for worldwater development, focusing on water in Asia during the 3rd World Water Forum whichwill be staged in 2003 in Asia, studying hygiene and sanitation and reporting its resultsto the U.N. in 2004, and, finally, emphasizing successful models for the sharing of water 3among many nations. Clearly, the World Water Council will be very active and thesuccess of its goals will depend on an extraordinary amount of international cooperation.2. Environmental Engineers and The World Water VisionA major component of the work performed by

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in mind the ABET 2000 requirements, in 1996 a group offaculty representing the five engineering programs at that time, worked together to plan fornew introductory engineering courses. The outcome of their efforts resulted in two three-credit freshman courses, ENGS115 and ENGS116. It is noteworthy to mention that 1996was not the first time that the School of Engineering had attempted to have freshmanintroductory courses. Orientation courses were introduced six years earlier, but did notreceive favorable ratings, and consequently, were dropped from the curriculum a few yearslater. The poor acceptance of these courses was mainly due to the large classes, the pass/failgrading method, the fact that it was zero credit, and the lack of hands-on