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Charles Nippert

Page 6.1125.6 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliography1. Nippert, C.R. "Development of a WEB Based Virtual Laboratory", Chemical Engineering Education in the NewMillennium: Topical Conference Proceedings, A.I.Ch.E. Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, Nov. 12-17, 20002. OptoDisplay User's Guide, Form 723-99083, Opto 22, Temucula, CA, August 19993. DiSteffano, A.; Fazzino, F.; LaBello, L.; Mirabella, O.; “Virtual Lab: A Java application for distance learning”, IEEE Symposium on Emerging Technologies & Automation, EFTA (Sep 9-12 1997,) IEEE: 93-98Charles R. NippertProf. Nippert

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, engineering and technology fields(SMET). Indeed, exposing children to these fields early in their educational lives might make adifference in whether or not they decide to pursue SMET oriented fields as a career.One partner is a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, mother of two, and the Director of the Womenin Engineering and Outreach Programs at North Carolina State University. In addition, she hasindustry experience with Bell Labs, Texas Instruments and other industries. The other partnerhas a B.Sc. in Engineering Management/Mechanical Engineering, is the mother of two, and aconsultant to North Carolina State University on a GK-12 NSF Engineering Fellows grant andoutreach. She has 10 years industry experience with IBM Corporation. The

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the development ofthe integrated curriculum. This core group consisted of one associate dean, one academicdirector, one program chair, five faculty that knew the university and one new hire (summer1997). All engineering programs and mathematics, physics and chemistry were represented inthe core group. This group set its own goals for the outcomes of the curriculum and designed thecourse sequence as well as the courses. The overall goals for the curriculum were set as• The introduction of key theoretical concepts “in context.”• The development of better teaming and problem-solving skills in students.• The development of the necessary technological skills in students.• The improvement of students’ communication skills.• The

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Jahan Kauser; Carlos Sun; Ralph A. Dusseau; Jess Everett; Joseph Orlins; Beena Sukumaran; Douglas Cleary

by Dr. B. Samuel Tannenbaum, Professor ofEngineering and former Dean of Faculty at Harvey Mudd College.The National Advisory Council was created so that the Rowan Engineering Programs wouldincorporate the most successful innovations in engineering education and facilities, and meet allof the accreditation criteria of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET).Within CEE, two separate options were developed – general civil engineering and environmentalengineering. After the engineering faculty began to arrive at Rowan University in the Fall of1995, changes in the original curricula were made based on the input of the new faculty. Thesechanges were carefully considered and much of the original curricula developed by the

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Mariano Savelski; Robert Hesketh; Kevin Dahm

wasassisting a senior design group of students and one of the engineers brought in a “home-made” excel macro to calculate the vapor pressure of a mixture of VOC. When asked why hiscompany was not using simulators instead of spending time creating these macros, his replywas: “ we cannot afford them”.We believe that this trend will not continue and that the licensing fees will go down as thedemand increases. Computer usage and technology will continue to grow and the chemicalengineering profession must provide the future engineerConclusionsChemical process simulation is currently underutilized in the chemical engineeringcurriculum. According to the preliminary results of our survey, process simulators are used inall design courses and are also heavily

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assessment of advanced manufacturing technologies and systems implementation on production operations andcosts. Her Ph.D. is in Industrial Engineering from the University of Cincinnati.CHRISTINE D. NOBLEChristine D. Noble is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Associate Dean inthe School of Engineering and Applied Science at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Her teaching /researchinterests are in the areas of curriculum development, Engineering Economy, Engineering Management and TotalQuality Management. Her Ph.D. is in Operations Research from the University of Cincinnati. Page 6.453.8

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monitored in a way more specific than the completion of graduationrequirements. The student performance is also going to be made available to departmentalfaculty, who can use it to study effects of changes in upper level course preparation because theimprovement in knowledge would be far easier to gauge. It can also be used by faculty memberswhen selecting student members for teams for the senior design experience.References1 “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, Effective for Evaluations During the 2000-2001 AccreditationCycle,” Engineering Accreditation Commission, Baltimore, MD.2 "Stepping Ahead: An Assessment Plan Development Guide," Gloria Rogers, Jean Sando, produced at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, copyright 1996.Author

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initiative, each new student was provided with aCompaq Armada 1750 notebook computer and a standard suite of software. Conventionalclassrooms were provided with network connections and projection equipment to facilitate theintegration of notebook computers into select classes. In conjunction with this program, a revisedMechanical Engineering curriculum was launched, designed to exploit the availability ofnotebook computing technology. The highlight of this curriculum revision is ComputerApplications in Engineering, a freshman-level Mechanical Engineering Department course Page 6.630.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering

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., “Interactive Dynamics: A Collaborative Approach to Learning Undergraduate Dynamics,” Proceedings of the 2000 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Session 3268, 2000.9. Shute, V.J., and Regian, W., “Principles for Evaluating Intelligent Tutoring Systems”, Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Education, 4(2/3), 245-271,1993; Psotka, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 1988; Venezky, 1991.GREGORY G. KREMERGregory Kremer is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Ohio University. His area of expertise isMechanical Systems Design, and he has extensive industrial experience in this area. Dr. Kremer received his B.S.degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in

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Excellence in Education and Leadership) Program. ECSEL is a coalition of sevenschools and colleges of engineering in a cooperative agreement with NSF engaged in a ten-year(1990 – 2000) effort to transform undergraduate engineering education and increase the diversityof engineering graduates. These schools include The City College of New York, HowardUniversity, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Morgan State University, The PennsylvaniaState University, University of Maryland, and University of Washington. The ECSEL Track is Page 6.790.8an accelerated curriculum composed of the ECSEL Cluster Courses, which includes Calculus, Proceedings of

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1214 - Calculus I 4 IB Science and Technology 6 CHE 1103-General Chemistry 3 PHY 1904-Technical Physics I 4 IC Computer Science/Logic 3 CS 2073-Computer Programming 3 IIA U.S. History 6 U.S. History 6 IIB Political Studies 6 Political Science 6 IIC Social and Behavioral Sciences 3 Social and Behavioral Science IID Economics 3 EGR 3713-Engineering

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Session 1664 Incorporating Active Learning in an Engineering Materials Science Course Lieutenant Colonel John W. Bridge United States Military Academy, West Point, New YorkAbstractThis paper shares the experiences the author has had over the last several years incorporatingactive learning in the classroom and laboratory. Examined are ways to engage and motivate thestudents to take an active role in their learning which includes direct instruction, cooperativelearning, hands-on “exploratory” classroom and laboratory experiences, reading logs, etc. Theauthor

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for Engineering Technology students). Attendance rates, DFW rates, average GPA, andretention are tracked and reported each semester. In addition, surveys, focus groups, andinterviews have also been used.Attendance Page 6.911.4 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationFigure 3 compares the percentage of students attending SI five or more times during the 98-99 and99-00 academic years. It should be noted that by fall of 1999, students were much more aware ofthe

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peer evaluation system supplemented by other accountabilitymeasures such as directed questions.The capstone design project in CEE at Rowan University is expected to continue to develop andimprove as faculty gain additional experience in its administration. Continued ties to industrialsponsors will be important to continue to have a successful capstone. An increased role for allfaculty members in the evaluation of the technical content is anticipated as one area for futuremodification.Bibliography1. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc. EAC criteria for 1999 – criteria for accrediting engineering programs. 111 Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, MD, 1999.2. Black, K. M. An industry view of engineering education. Journal

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Student Grades and Course Evaluations in Engineering: What Makes a Difference by Kara Maria Kockelman Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering The University of Texas at Austin 6.9 E. Cockrell Jr. Hall Austin, TX 78712-1076 kkockelm@mail.utexas.edu Phone: 512-471-0210 FAX: 512-475-8744 For Presentation at the ASEE Annual Conference Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 2001 Paper #2793 Page 6.903.1Abstract: This research investigates the impact of different instructor, course, and

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Ranji Vaidyanathan; Todd Anderson; Ray Umashankar; Ramesh Sharma; Marlene Platero; Greg Artz; Chris Choi; Al Ortega

and applying sophisticated computerizedinformation systems. Technology and knowledge are used increasingly to raise the value of Page 6.914.2services and products. The ability and availability of a modern workforce fully knowledgeable inProceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright©2001, American Society for Engineering Educationsuch advanced technologies can help a business differentiate its service from that of itscompetitor and provide an edge in the marketplace. The primary market for such a workforcewith the necessary technological background is from our children

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short on question three. Furthermore, even though the older science textbooksare generally much shorter, they contain more applications and problems in mathematics.I. IntroductionThe overall goal of the recently developed National Science Education Standards (NSES)1 andPrinciples and Standards or School Mathematics 2 (PSSM) is to promote scientific andmathematical literacy, in all of our citizens. The standards include engineering and technologyas important components of scientific and mathematical literacy. We examined the NSES in anearlier paper3 , and identified three major obstacles to their implementation, particularly regardingengineering and technology content: 1- Inadequate teacher preparation. 2- Discrepancies

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John Chandler; A. Dean Fontenot

Session 3453 Texas Tech University’s College of Engineering Building Computers, Families, and Communities After-School Program John R. Chandler, Ph.D., and A. Dean Fontenot, Ph.D. College of Engineering, Texas Tech UniversityAbstractThe Texas Tech University College of Engineering has developed an after-schoolprogram with local junior high schools to establish a practical means for getting seventh-through ninth-graders excited about science, engineering, and technology. The pilotoffering suggests the program has significant potential to attract students frompopulations that

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. Only a small group of human rebelshave gained "enlightenment" to their true condition. A hero among them has the capacityto fight the technological enemy, and to restore self-knowledge to the human race.2. Predicting a Transhuman EvolutionRay Kurzweil, author of The Age of Spiritual Machines, internationally renownedscientist, and computer engineer, is predicting and proclaiming a future in which thehuman bodily form will become more technological then biological. He says that two anda half million years of DNA based evolution may soon be irreversibly altered by thedominance of technological creations. Through artificial intelligence, quantumcomputing, nanotechnology and robotics, our brains and bodieswill be recreated, reshaped and enhanced

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Jace Hargis; Anne Donnelly

Session 2330Engineering Education and the Internet: A Study of the Effectiveness of Web Formats on Student Learning Anne E. Donnelly1, Jace Hargis2,1 Associate Director of Education and Outreach, Engineering Research Center for Particle Science and Technology, University of Florida/2Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, University of North FloridaAbstractThere is an explosion of interest in internet classes at all levels of engineering education. Thepotential and advantages of the internet as an educational delivery mode are huge. The webprovides learners with a

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Joseph Betit; William Swart; Sushil Chaturvedi; Gary Crossman

Session 1501Global Engineering in an Interconnected World: An Upper Division General Education Cluster at Old Dominion University Sushil Chaturvedi, Gary Crossman, William Swart, Joseph Betit College of Engineering and Technology Old Dominion University Norfolk, Virginia 23529AbstractThe “Global Engineering in an Interconnected World” cluster of courses fosters among studentsan awareness and understanding of global technology, quality assurance standards, anddifferences in cultural, communication, and business practices and their impact

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Session 3147 Problem Solving in Engineering Technology: Creativity, estimation and critical thinking are essential skills Barry M. Lunt, C. Richard G. Helps Electronics Engineering Technology Brigham Young UniversityThe process of design is basically a problem-solving process, and consists of the following steps:1) develop functional specifications; 2) develop the concept design; 3) generate designalternatives; 4) select and model the best alternatives; and 5) test and verify the design.1 Becausethe process of design is a

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Stephanie Eisenbarth; Siddhartha P. Duttagupta; Robert Walters; Paul Dawson; Joseph Guarino; George Murgel; Christopher Pentico

initial development of the microelectronicslaboratory facilities, have been documented.1 The State of Idaho recently approved theestablishment of four new M.S. programs in Electrical, Computer, Civil, and MechanicalEngineering. The impetus to initiate each of these programs came principally from the demandsof local citizenry, industry, and institutions to meet local technical education needs. This articlewill describe the efforts that have been undertaken by the Engineering faculty in partnership withthe community as a whole, to ensure that these programs will adequately prepare students forengineering and other high technology careers with an emphasis on technology management.II. Development of M.S. programsThe challenges faced when developing

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. Our findings are based on analysis of specific curricula as well asassessment surveys carried out at the 1999 and 2000 fire-fighting competitions.I. IntroductionTraditional approaches to engineering curriculum and instruction are being changed in responseto current and anticipated priorities in cross-disciplinary linkages, systems approaches, andproject-oriented learning in interdisciplinary teams. This emphasis is evident in the EC2000criteria published by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology [1]. Under theEC2000 model, engineering programs are evaluated by assessing success in meeting statededucational outcomes, including ABET's basic outcomes a – k.One ABET outcome, the "recognition of the need for, and an ability to

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Ron Eglash; Larry Kagan; Gary Gabriele; Frances Bronet; David Hess

Innovation (PDI) is a newundergraduate dual degree program at Rensselaer that seeks to educate students for careers innew product development. PDI is a dual major program satisfying the requirements for theBachelor of Science programs in engineering and Science, Technology and Society (STS). PDIprepares students to become innovative designers who can integrate contemporary technologieswith changing social contexts for a new generation of advanced product designs.This paper will describe the PDI program, its goals, how it was formulated, and reviewexperiences we have had in offering the first three years of this innovative program. We willprovide the curriculum templates and discuss how the design studio sequence fits together.BACKGROUNDLike it or

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Carrie Girstantas; William Scherer

Session #2793 Pedagogical Choices in Engineering Curriculum: Traditional and Weekend Format Master’s Degree Programs Carrie E. Girstantas, William T. Scherer University of VirginiaIntroduction One way to meet the increasing demand for experienced and educatedprofessionals in engineering and technology based fields is the formation of degreeprograms that are concurrent with full time professional work, such as “weekend degreeprograms”. Academic institutions have a challenge to balance the demand for presentingthe most current research in a rapidly changing and growing work place

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Kenneth Roberts; Eric A. Cheek; Joseph Monroe; Samuel Owusu-Ofori; Ajit Kelkar

North Carolina A&T State University Greensboro, NCSummaryThe NASA Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program wasestablished in the College of Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University from aNASA Partnership Award for the Integration of Research into the Mathematics, Science,Engineering and Technology into Undergraduate Engineering Education (PAIR) in 1998.The SURE program has trained under faculty/mentor guidance 23 pre-engineeringstudents alumni which have included several African-American and Native-Americanstudents, out of approximately 110 applicants. Eight of the SURE alumni are currentlyenrolled in engineering programs at North Carolina A&T State University, the

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Elisabeth Sanchez; Alejandro Lozano; Victor Mucino

Engineering Education across Disciplines and Cultures: A Mexico/USA Industrial Outreach Program Alejandro Lozano1 Council of Science and Technology of Queretaro, Mexico Elisabeth Sanchez2 Educational Leadership Studies West Virginia University, USA Victor H. Mucino3 Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering West Virginia UniversityAbstract West Virginia University and the Council for Science and Technology ofQueretaro, Mexico

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Aaron C. Clark; Eric Wiebe

Session 2238 Engineering Graphics Instruction Outside of the Lab: How prepared are our students? Eric N. Wiebe, Aaron C. Clark NC State UniversityAbstract The 1990’s have seen a rapid expansion of the use of networked computers on college and university campuses. By the Fall of 1995, half of all college students and faculty had recurring instructional experience with information technology while more than half of all college students and three-fourths of faculty had access to the Internet and WWW. This infusion of computer

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Session 2538 Constraint-Based, Three-Dimensional Solid Modeling in an Introductory Engineering Graphics Course: Re-examining the Curriculum Theodore J. Branoff, Nathan W. Hartman & Eric N. Wiebe North Carolina State UniversityAbstractThe content of engineering graphics courses has remained the same for many decades. Whenthree-dimensional modeling became available, many educators considered the new technology anovelty. Industry, however, realized the potential of using the 3D model as the center of the designprocess, deriving from it drawings