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. Page 6.221.5Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationV. Background and Overview of CS 398 (Advanced Senior Project)The senior project represents the capstone design course of the Computer and InformationScience (CIS) curriculum. The senior project provides an opportunity for students to apply theknowledge and skills gained in other courses as they synthesize a solution to a significant,realistic problem, plan and manage a software development project and implement the solutionusing state of the art methodologies, techniques and tools. Senior projects are carried out on ateam basis (individual projects are

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Transfer, and MechanicalEngineering Senior design project.Students in the ME312 class were asked to design a Virtual House Hot Water Energy UsageMonitoring System using LabView as part of the required class project. The tasks are (1). Tocreate a three bedroom, two bathrooms, house plan. (2), Create a virtual hot-water system usingLABVIEW, and (3), Calculate the energy losses of the piping system in a 24-hour period.Students entering the Heat and Mass Transfer class have already taken Thermodynamics andFluid mechanics. In those two classes, feasibility studies on energy conservation techniques wereconducted. Table 1 shows one of the literature review results on potential energy lossdistribution. Table 1. Possible energy loss for

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. Manufacturing Education Plan: Phase I Report. “Industry Identifies Competency Gaps Among Newly Hired Engineering graduates. Published by the Society of Manufacturing engineers and the SME Education Foundation3. Integrating the Product Realization Process (PRP) into the Undergraduate Curriculum . The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, December 1995.4. Curriculum Integrated Product and Process Development - Patrick F. Cunniff, David C. Holloway, James W. Dally, Peter A. Minderman, Jr. , Jane f. Fines and Thomas M. Regan. A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland, college Park, MD 20742-3011.5. BCAG Summer intern Training Program – Selected Airplane Design Exercises – The Boeing Company.6. Basic Tools for Problem

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facultymembers, that some expectation of long-term recognition must have existed at that time.However, several changes in Administration and Institute Strategic Plans, membership in several“high-level” Committees, NSF proposals and lunches with disappointed junior faculty colleagueslater, the truth remains that ignoring the credit criterion is still the right way to stay motivated.Spending time with undergraduates is seldom recognized in Reappoinment, Promotion, Tenureetc., and the best one can hope is that it is not held against oneself. It is still essential to haveenough “Papers in Top-Tier Journals”, “Laudatory Letters from Top People in The Field”, andenough research funding, to be left alone to do what one believes to be really important

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approaches. Because of many institutional and administrative barriers, introducingnew courses and recruiting students to enroll in these courses however has not been easy.The objectives of three new courses developed and taught by the author in the past year are: Students learn teaming, communication, and lateral thinking skills as well as the creative problem solving process applied to invention and creating a new business. Students learn the practical aspects of the patenting and licensing process, how to protect and market their ideas, and how to develop a business plan. They learn how to access and use web-based and other resources for starting their enterprise and evaluate entrepreneurial ideas. The student-centered teaching occurs

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Robert Knox; Randall Kolar; Leslie Fink; Kanthasamy Muraleetharan; Gerald Miller; David Sabatini; Baxter Vieux; Michael Mooney; Kurt Gramoll

engineersand how they plan to learn that. The portfolios also include appendices of materials that substan-tiate and illustrate the student’s work. These portfolios accomplish two important tasks simulta-neously: They prompt the student to engage in reflection on their work as “learning engineers;” andthey provide an occasion for in-depth self-assessment. Both tasks are valuable skills and habits forthe engineer of tomorrow.4. Session II - Design Within and Between CoursesOne of the primary advantages of the Sooner City paradigm is that it can fit into the “traditional”civil engineering curriculum without major revisions. Rather, courses need only dedicate theirdesign project/case study to a particular infrastructure element of Sooner City. This is

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Warren Phillips; Joseph Clair Batty; John Gershenson; Christine Hailey

Session 2566 A Curricular Review Process for Systematic Continuous Improvement John K. Gershenson1, Christine E. Hailey2, J. Clair Batty2, Warren F. Phillips2 1 Michigan Technological University / 2Utah State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes a novel process for curriculum planning, assessment, and improvement.The process is quantitative but allows faculty freedom to innovate. The review process issufficiently flexible that it can be applied to many engineering programs. The curricular reviewprocess is split into cycles corresponding to the various

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Steven de Haas; S.K. Ramesh; Preetham Kumar; Michael Fujita; Elizabeth Raley; Andrew Lindsay

. Also all teachersreceived a textbook and a comprehensive workshop manual with additional resources and ideasfor lesson plans and curricula. Feedback from the workshop has been very positive. We plan tooffer this workshop every year to motivate teachers to develop and offer pre-engineeringcurricula at the high schools.I. IntroductionWe are living in a world that is changing rapidly due to dramatic developments in several fieldssuch as communications, energy, transportation, consumer electronics and biotechnology.Technology impacts our daily lives in a profound manner. In order to successfully meet thechallenges in the years ahead, it is very important that we encourage young students to pursuecareers in science and technology1. This is

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Larry McKenzie; Kenneth Gentili; Jr., Richard Crain; Jeffrey McCauley; Forrest Parkay; Denny Davis; Michael Trevisan

projector.8. Implementation Plan. Takes about twenty minutes to complete. Students develop an implementation plan. This activity uses all the steps within the engineering design process. No reporting done.9. Oral Report on Design. Takes about ten minutes to prepare and about one minute per team to report that describes the project’s merits, use and manufacturability. This is an example of implementation.10. Identify Design Process Steps Used. Takes about fifteen minutes to complete. Each team fills in the following matrix to identify which categories of the engineering design process were completed for each activity of the project. Identify the design categories for each of the activities of the PET project

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Glenn Moffett; Thomas Hall

Session 2150 Delivering Electronics Engineering Technology Courses on the Web Thomas M. Hall, Jr. and Glenn W. Moffett Northwestern State University of LouisianaAbstractIs it feasible to offer an associate’s degree in Electronics Engineering Technology (EET) on theWeb? The faculty in the Industrial and Engineering Technology (IET) Department atNorthwestern State University (NSU) have begun planning to do just that. While the universityhas been proactive in distance education using a variety of media, going on-line with a programthat demands extensive “hands-on” laboratory work has been greeted

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Michael Rudisill

other factor that has to be considered when planning on how to utilize the laptops in coursepresentation is the infrastructure available to support the laptop use. NMU has made greatstrides in making network access available in study areas, classrooms, dorm rooms and dial-upconnections for off campus students. However, there is still work to be done, and even when allthe planned upgrades are finished, all classrooms will not have network connections availablefor all students. So the assumption was made in planning for the semester that the studentwould have 24 hour access to anything on the web - but would not have access during lecturepresentations. The lab utilized for both courses does have a network connection available foreach bench (every

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Harriet Cornachione; Tim Brower

provides Oregon Techwith a unique perspective to study differences between women in engineering and women in ETdegree programs. Further, it is important in recruitment and retention efforts to identify anydifferences that may exist.Oregon Tech identified increasing minority students as one of the primary institutional goals inits 1994-1999 Strategic Plan1. Among other specific objectives in this plan, increasing thenumbers of women students enrolled in the ET programs was an established priority. Twoformal pre-college Women-In-Engineering (WIE) programs are offered at Oregon Tech in directsupport of this objective. More recently, a “student-led” WIE initiative was implemented in thespring of 2000 to encourage high school women to consider

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Dennis Hromin; Sven Esche

demonstrations of laboratory experiments into their lectures,• the strain on laboratory class schedules is alleviated significantly, and• budgetary constraints are overcome.As it was rightfully pointed out by the reviewers of the original NSF proposal leading to partialfunding of this activity by the NSF-ILI program as well as by other individuals involved in theplanning and implementation of this project, this laboratory approach does not only offer importantbenefits but also exhibits some drawbacks. The significant investment in the up-front developmenteffort and time required is one of the main disadvantages compared with traditional laboratorysetups. In contrast to the original plans for developing a laboratory to be accessed exclusively in

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Jess Everett; Joseph Orlins; Beena Sukumaran; Kauser Jahan; Linda Head

laboratory experiences. Finally, the National Science Foundation’s meritreview criteria plan is designed to fund more projects emphasizing two areas believed toencourage academic reform: the integration of research and education, and interdisciplinaryresearch (ASEE Prism 1997). The field experiences initiative will improve the ability ofundergraduate students to work in multidisciplinary teams and solve open-ended problems.Rowan University and its Innovative Engineering ClinicsFounded in 1923, Rowan University has evolved into a comprehensive regional state universitywith six colleges, including a new College of Engineering initiated as a result of a majordonation in 1992 from the Rowan Foundation (Rowan and Smith 1995). The EngineeringCollege is

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Raymond Kliewer

Session 2647 The Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) Examination as an Outcomes Assessment Tool for Engineering Technology Programs Raymond M. Kliewer Virginia State University Petersburg, VirginiaAbstractIncreased assessment in engineering technology and engineering programs is now invogue. The Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (TAC of ABET) has developed new TAC of ABETEngineering Technology Criteria 2000 (ET2K). Accredited engineering technologyprograms will be required to have plans for

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James Bean; Aparajita Mazumder

/social science and free electives.4. Program DetailsBeginning in Fall 2001, undergraduate students in the College of Engineering have the optionof doing a Global Concentration in Engineering. Note that electing the Global Concentration isoptional; not a degree requirement. A Global Concentration in Engineering will be engagedsimultaneously with a student’s engineering degree.The following 10 criteria were proposed as Global Concentration requirements for admittedstudents (currently subject to approval). 1. Each undergraduate student wishing to complete a Global Concentration must declare the selected region (China, Mexico, UK etc.) and develop a plan for the Concentration in consultation with the designated Global

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Amir Karimi

Total Core Curriculum 3 Semester Total 18 Semester Total 15 Seventh Semester Eighth SemesterME 4523 Dynamics of Systems and Control 3 ME Engr. Design Elective 3ME 4313 Heat Transfer & Rate Processes 3 ME 4702 Mech. Systems/Control Lab 2ME 4811 ME Design Project Planning Lab 1 ME 4813 ME Design Project 3ME Engr. Design Elective 3 ME 4802 Thermal/Fluid Lab 2ME Engr. Sci. Elective

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April Brown; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

Resources, Institutional Research and Planning, Admissions,Career Services, Counseling Center, and the Office of the Dean of Students. Page 6.597.1 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”Part of the requirement of the NSF grant was that each of the five participating universitiesconduct an extensive institutional self-evaluation of the status of female students and faculty oncampus. The Report on the Status of Women at Georgia Tech, completed in the fall of 1998,documented the results of a five-year examination of

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Subhash Sarin; Louis Guido; James Heflin; Robert Hendricks

developed tolevel the background of entering students from various disciplines. In addition, several tracks ofadvanced study are proposed in the areas of processing, devices, nanofabrication, and Page 6.175.1manufacturing/operations planning. All the students get hands-on experience in the newly Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationdeveloped undergraduate and graduate cleanrooms; and, in addition, will work on senior researchproject in a chosen area of interest in microelectronics

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, 10, 11, 12, 13 . Research shows thatsuch approach can accommodate multiple learning styles and personalities 14 . Some engineeringprograms have been almost totally revised to allow room for learning through doing, that is bycreating educational environment that closer reflects real-world engineering practice 15 .Two Engineering Technology programs at CCSU, Manufacturing and Mechanical, require coursein manufacturing process planning. The course has traditionally covered technical aspects ofvarious manufacturing processes and technical aspects of planning a part making process (a clearlydefined technical goal). Based on the author’s current experience with industrial projects, severalvery important aspects of engineering work had to be

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technology andoverload the students and oneself with extraneous problems.Once the tools for the students are identified, one needs a plan for helping the students acquirethem and the experience needed to interpret the output. Each time I have done a course withMaple, I have encountered students to whom I will be introducing the computer, as well asstudents who have never learned to type, so one must really plan carefully so that students’mathematical expertise and computational expertise can grow together and mutually reinforceeach other. As a communications device, I have developed the “section accompaniment”worksheet, which I describe in more detail below. In my experience, tools for demonstrationsneed to be kept separate from tools students will

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Eugene Russell

distributed free in both hard copyand CD-ROM.As stated in the FHWA course overview: “This manual can be used to train future professionals in a variety of disciplines including planners, engineers, landscape architects and others designers. Emphasis is placed on the importance of developing in interdisciplinary team approach to planning and implementing bicycle and pedestrian programs, and of the role played by each profession represented in this course.” “This coursebook was developed by the USDOT, Federal Highway Administration for use in graduate level courses in non-motorized transportation planning and design. Several of the lessons address both bicycle and pedestrian issues, while others address one particular aspect or

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William Sullivan; Kimberly Sward; Janis Terpenny

examined. Presentations and problem statements were included toincrease the knowledge base of the students and their excitement levels. Message boards andother contact information such as email were included to increase interactivity. Guest lectureswere incorporated to allow students to hear and see presentations that otherwise would not havebeen available to them due to logistical concerns.Using the bootstrap method at a significance level of 0.05, the grade point average of thestudents developing solutions to the projects in collaboration with industry (Experimental Group)was higher than those receiving only the traditional classroom style lecture (Control Group).19Further analysis is planned on the effectiveness of the entire virtual classroom

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Eckehard Doerry; Bridget Bero; David Hartman

technical skills - a newset of social and technological skills to enable them to work effectively in distributed, cross-cultural contexts.In the following sections, we first give a brief review of our interdisciplinary, practice-orientedtraining curriculum, the Design4Practice program, which was developed to reconnectengineering training and education with the realities and evolving challenges of real worldengineering practice. In section 3, we describe our efforts to extend this program to integrateopportunities for international training and distributed teaming into the Design4Practivecurriculum. Section 4 closes the paper with discussion of lessons learned and plans for futuredevelopment of our international iniative.2.0 Background: The

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to accomplish thesupport tasks, the logistics of how and when are performed and general repair philosophy.The second consideration in a life cycle cost analysis is to know the technical details of theproduct to be supported. The design, modularity, complexity and technology of the productgreatly influence the support concept and the LCC. The third consideration is to determinewho is doing what tasks in the support process. Knowing who does what influences theinitial setup, training needs, capacity planning and ongoing manpower required. The fourthconsideration is what controls will be setup to monitor and coordinate the supportactivities. This determines the information that must be gathered and administrated. All ofthese items must be

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Philip Parker; Max Anderson; Michael Penn

primary product/service of my company:11. Number of people under my supervision: Professionals Support Staff 9 Not Applicable Page 6.792.14 Proceedings of 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education12. Current status of registration:9 Registered Professional Engineer9 Engineering in Training9 I have no plans to pursue registration 9 I have plans to pursue registration, but have notbegun the process.Please report your assessment of your UW-Platteville education by checking the

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animportant role in the process including leading terms abroad, developing and leading mini terms,and advising students by helping them plan out their program. A team of ME and EE facultyoversee the International Virtual Design Studio and advise the student projects. Page 6.796.5 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationStudents must apply to participate in each of the international programs. The selection process iscompetitive. Two academic terms before the scheduled experience, the

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Nigel Middleton; Debra Lasich; Barbara Moskal

Society of Engineers and Scientists (AISES),Asian Student Association (ASA), National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), and TheSociety of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE). MEP provides these chapters withadministrative, financial and organizational support. The MEP staff meets with the officers ofeach of these organizations at the beginning of the year to provide guidance in the developmentof the organizations' goals and plans to reach those goals.C. Mentored Research ExperienceThe current project expands the opportunities that are already available to female and minoritystudents to include research experience. Each scholarship recipient spends five hours a weekworking with a research advisor on a project within his or her field of study

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or a return visit to the lab to view results so that they are able to plan it into their schedules. To alleviate frustration with experimental difficulties, several minor modifications have been made to the laboratory protocols. For PCR amplification of the gene, the number of thermocycles was reduced to allow completion within the laboratory period. A new plasmid was chosen that results in increased expression of β-galactosidase in the cultures. To decrease the time required for purification, the Page

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Patricia Harms; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

decision making by students.Residence staffing. Maple Hall is supervised by a full-time Hall Director. In addition, twoundergraduate staff members are assigned to each floor by the Department of Residence. One isthe community advisor (responsible for developing a strong sense of community on the floor).The second undergraduate staff member is the academic resource coordinator (responsible forensuring students have access to academic services and programs).ABE LLC Peer MentorThe ABE LLC also includes a live-in peer mentor, an upper-level ABE student who is housed onthe floor for facilitating activities that help to accomplish the LLC goals. This mentor isaccountable to the ABE LLC Coordinator (Dr. Mickelson) for training and planning. Peermentor