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Ming Huang

all should have the ability to designand conduct experiments and to analyze and interpret data-skills which are central to practice ofquality engineering. In this paper, we present the plan and implementation of a guided projectthat integrates the learning and application of the Taguchi Method into a hands-on productdesign and test optimization experience. Made popular by Japanese manufacturers, the Taguchimethod has since received widespread acceptance as the de facto standard technique to optimizethe process and quality of engineering in major industries such as automotive and aerospace.With the task of design and construction of a catapult as the context of activities, the projectserves as an ideal vehicle through which students can learn

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Barbara L. Christe

retention and transfer [2]. The web-based classroom instructor must use innovative techniques to accomplish Gagne’s steps. By pre-planning how each event can occur, the instructor can be very successful in distance education.II. Content PresentationThose who teach via the Internet will agree that the amount of time invested in a class prior to itsbeginning is tremendous. One area of concentration is the provision of information to thestudents, which normally could be obtained elsewhere. Before the class begins, issues must beaddressed with detail. Expectations must be outlined. Topics in this area include: universityintegrity, academic schedules, grading, syllabus design, tips for success (including timemanagement), contact information for the

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Gary Fetter; M.P. Sharma

professors do not interact in person.” • Assoc. Professor Sherry McConnell, Histology, Colorado State University observed, that “the results were so astounding, it was clear to me students were doing better with the online class.” • “Welcome to the future of learning” – Unext Website.3 • “(online teaching) is ground-breaking distance learning enterprise” –Columbia University.3Kovalik4, Felder5, Catalano6, Clough7, Baher8, Loacker9, McGourty10 have addressed theseconcerns in their research. Their papers provide a good resource base for researching anddesigning a modern and appropriate assessment plan for this course. Based on the review ofpublished literature, it is conjectured that online

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Wayne LePori; Scott Osborn; Marty Matlock; Cady Engler

: Environmental ProcessesThe objective of this section is to introduce students to sampling and analysis of environmentalsystems. This section is composed of two lecture/lab sets. The first addresses water quality.Students are provided information on water quality parameters of concern for wastewatertreatment plant (WWTP) discharge. The students develop testable hypotheses for upstream-downstream water quality at a WWTP outfall. Students tour the activated-sludge WWTP in theprocess of collecting samples. Students design and implement a sampling plan, including 48-hour continuous monitoring of DO, pH, conductivity, temperature, and depth using YSIDatasondes.7 Students bring water samples to the Texas A&M University Water Quality

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William Frey; Jose Cruz

atUPRM) will facilitate this.Case #1: A chemistry student, working in a computer lab at the university, downloads theAnarchist’s Cookbook from the Internet. He saves it in his designated storage area. A systemsadministrator, who routinely scans student files for pornographic pictures (studentsdownloading pornographic pictures crowd out other students with more legitimate purposes),finds the Cookbook in the student’s files. What is the student doing with this information:satisfying his curiosity or planning for something more sinister?Case #2: A student takes a computer systems class in which she learns how to deal withcomputer viruses. Using what she has learned, she creates her own virus and contemplatesreleasing it into the University system

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Anna Phillips; Paul Palazolo; Scott Yost

-point, two of the three goals have been reached.Preliminary findings report that students have also reported distinct advantages with this methodof assessment: they know what to expect, they have access to the criteria before and duringpreparation of the assignment, and the system seems fair.Mid-semester disadvantages include increased time for both instructors in renovating,customizing, and designing the evaluation criteria for the assignments, but both professorsattribute this excess to a “learning curve” associated with the new system, and both expect theadvantages of the system to outweigh short-term complaints. In addition, both professors plan toextend this system of assessment to other Civil Engineering courses in both

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Shawn Gross; David Clarke; David Bentler; Joseph Hitt; Janet Baldwin; Ronald Welch

universitiesTuesday, 27 July 1999:Janet: What was really great today was the practice class. I thought that its 25-minute lengthwas the perfect amount of time to start with – you could get into the swing of the class, but didn’thave to take it all the way to the end. The oral critique at the end was really helpful. Giving theclass itself was definitely no threat.Dave: I felt very nervous and apprehensive today about the first teaching lab. It was alsointimidating to teach in front of other faculty members (should we be more apprehensive in frontof students who depend on us to be experts in our field?). After my class was over, I was relievedbut disappointed in my performance. The things that frustrated me the most were getting thrownoff my plan and

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Per Reinhall; Michael Jenkins; Joyce Cooper; Angela Linse; Eric Stuve

subtopics, ofwhich 8 bear directly on the project. The relevant action items and subtopics are: 1. a strategic plan 3. faculty awards 4. reexamination of curriculum, including a) team skills b) communication skills c) leadership d) system perspective Page 6.174.4 e) integration of knowledge through out the curriculum Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Edication Annual Conference & Exposition Copywright 2001, American Society for Engineering Education f) multi-disciplinary activities

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Laurence Logue; Kathleen A. Hall

analysis of objects and structures. The topics covered include FEMprinciples, element geometries, element types, material properties, boundary conditions, modelloading, and accuracy and precision. These topics are discussed in lectures as well as in aseries of exercises in which students model and analyze several different systems. Non-linearmaterial models are introduced which show permanent deformations and residual stresses. Thepaper focuses on our successes, our less-than-successes, and our proposed plans for futuredevelopment and improvement.I. IntroductionThe Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) Department at Southern Polytechnic StateUniversity (SPSU) was forced to completely redesign its curriculum recently when theUniversity System of

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Nagraj Balakrishnan; Michael Leonard; Judith McKnew

into account relevant system interfaces)for the purpose of controlling changes to these components and maintaining integrity andtraceability throughout the system life cycle.” Doing CM well can have a significant influenceon reducing costs and improving productivity especially for organizations that are operating asvirtual global teams that rely on timely and correct information to make decisions.Organizations that realize the importance of CM are using software-driven approaches to thetask of coordinating the enormous quantity of detailed information involved in productinformation management. Properly implemented, a CM system provides, in a nearly paperlessenvironment, the ability to plan, identify, control and account for the status of a

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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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Janice Margle

A future study on professional and personal issues faced by faculty relocating for thesummer is planned. To be addressed are issues such as professional development, includingchoosing an agency or company that is a good match, publications –not all organizations allowtheir research to be placed in the public domain (security and proprietary reasons), and continuedcollaboration during the school year. Friends and colleagues who have participated in the ASEESummer Faculty Fellowship programs with DOE, NASA, or the Navy will be the initial target. One of the pluses of academia is to be able to “step outside the box,” renew, invigorate,and try new things. It is hoped that, by sharing experiences, new faculty members will be able tomore

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Karen Williams; James Hedrick

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationis having a consistent and dedicated team. In our program this team consists of (1) the director,who oversees the financial aspects and submits a yearly report to the Schenectady County HealthDepartment which grants the permit for operating a children’s camp; (2) the coordinator, whoworks with the staff to plan the schedule and work out all of the logistical details, distributesapplication materials, communicates personally with all of the participants, processes evaluationforms, and plans the reunion each fall; (3) Union faculty--two from biology and one fromcomputer science, who teach

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Wayne Krause; Chenoa Jensen; CASEY ALLEN; Michael J Batchelder; Daniel F. Dolan

Session 2463 Manufacturing and Design Education Through National Competitions Daniel F. Dolan, Michael Batchelder, Wayne B. Krause, Casey Allen, Chenoa Jensen South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Rapid City, SD 57701(1) AbstractEntering national engineering competitions provides an opportunity for students and faculty totake part in well-planned educational activities. Competitions such as the ASCE ConcreteCanoe, ASME Human Powered Vehicle, IEEE Robotics, SAE Aero, SAE Mini Baja

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Teri Rhoads; Barry Mauldin

Pre-Survey Descriptive Descriptive Statistics Descriptive Statistics Statistics 2 Discrete random variables Planning and reporting an Sample engineering statistical study Spaces Project #1 assigned 3 Goodness-of-fit testing Discrete random variables and Continuous random variables and probability distributions probability distributions 4 Continuous Uniform distribution Goodness-of-fit testing Quiz No. 1

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Hank Regis; Gaby Hawat

Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”2) Increase the awareness of high school juniors and seniors to the alternative opportunity we offer to commence their engineering education with us. Valencia currently has several “connection” events with the high schools in the surrounding counties, and we plan on increasing the scope of those events. These include day and night time events where high school students get the opportunity to meet one-on-one with Valencia engineering faculty and faculty in other disciplines to get exposed to what engineering is and what it entails as far as high school and college prerequisites. This also gives the student a vital early focus on what his or her goals are whether in the

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Kay C. Dee

-ended. Thispaper supplies strategies for preparing core and supplementary materials for an intensive third-year review. Suggestions are given for personally-reflective statements and corresponding typesof documentation that can be assembled into a coherent and concise package. The ideassummarized in this paper can be selectively used to prepare a third-year review package whichbest reflects a junior faculty member’s current and planned professional development.I. IntroductionIt is the policy of many institutions to conduct an intensive review of junior faculty during thethird-year of a tenure-track appointment. The third year is ostensibly the “halfway point” to thetenure review, so the purpose of a third-year review is usually to assess a

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Jeffrey Fergus

business and engineering as identified bysurveys of employers. The minor is planned for implementation in Fall 2001 and will include aseries of courses taught by both engineering and business faculty. Initially, the program will beoffered only to a select group of students, but, if successful, could be expanded to include a largernumber of students in the future.V. ConclusionsThe materials engineering program has implemented a new curriculum, which is designed toencourage and enable students to cross disciplinary boundaries, and thus enhance their ability towork on multi-disciplinary projects and teams. The curriculum was implemented in Fall 2000, sothe effectiveness of curriculum in not yet known, but will be evaluated through the

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Leslie Pease; Edward Mastascusa; Dan Hyde; Brian Hoyt; Bill Snyder; Maurice F. Aburdene; Michael Prince; Margot Vigeant

by theinstructor. They make interesting reading! Some students seem to be writing to please theinstructor. Others are insightful and truthful, e. g., one student writes that one member of histeam always hogs the floor and doesn’t let others give their opinions. A different student fromthe same team says everyone had an equal voice in the deliberations. Page 6.814.5Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright2001, American Society for Engineering Education We found that it was important to have well planned out structured activities because theinstructor has to

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

and a communication instructor from the college of arts and sciences. A corecommittee of faculty from both schools plans the lectures, prepares all course assignments,establishes grading criteria, etc. Students receive substantial coaching on all their work fromboth sets of faculty. Equally important, in EDC, every communication deliverable is groundedin the engineering design process. Instead of writing essays, papers, and exams, students writeto faculty and clients to communicate important information about their projects: for example,they write mission statements, report on client meetings, synthesize the results of research,prepare progress reports, and create slides for PowerPoint presentations. Thus, as acommunication course, EDC sends

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Harry Franz

. Eventually it leads to direct contact with the students of thatrespective feeder school. Page 6.858.3 Page fourClose contact with faculty of feeder schools leads to direct contact with studentsof those schools. Through the permission and or invitation of faculty from thefeeder schools many UHD faculty have met directly with the students and classesof students at the feeder schools. During the one-on-one or class meetings theUHD ET program flyer, degree plans, and placement information are given.Note that the use of transfer guides often causes a bit of apprehension on the partof personnel from

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Morteza Sadat-Hossieny

can be downloaded or viewed in smallmodules instantaneously. This has the added advantage that one can work at one’s own pacerather than cramming the material in a one-day training session. Examples are: Autodesk e-learning training, iDesign online conference, Bently’s online services and educational supports“www.bentleyinstitute.bentley.com”3, and SDRC web site www.sdrc.com/education/4. Some ofthe features presented under Autodeskpress-e-resources include: syllabus and lesson plan tools,chapter hints, Power Point presentations, computerized test bank, CADD drawing files, WorldClass manager, which allows instructors to automatically extract and track data from on-line test.Practice tests, and animations, which depict the execution of key

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Thankappan Pillai

developed by theWorkshop Physics architects. The results of this assessment are shown in Figure 10.The red colored bar graphs show the percentage of correct answers before the course, andthe green bar graph shows the percentage of correct answers after the course. In almostall the cases, the green bar graphs are taller than the red bar graphs, indicatingimprovement in the conceptual understanding of basic physics. Our future plans includecontinuing these assessment for the next few years to monitor student progress, as well asto use the results as feedback information to further improve the course. Future Directions ! Continue to develop Assessment tools for the next five years ! Use Assessment

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Keith Johnson; Mark Rajai

, scholarship, and service. There are many strategiesand approaches that can be used to lessen the stress and alleviate some of the frustrationinvolved in the tenure and promotion process. The plan presented by the writer in thismanuscript was utilized and proved to be successful for being promoted to associateprofessor and being awarded tenure.II. ScholarshipBefore the completion of the dissertation, explore potential publishers. Use segments of thedocument for articles, presentation at conferences, poster sessions, and the like. This willprevent the dissertation from becoming a dated, unpublished book on your shelf. Start earlywith publishing efforts because of extended publication turn around times. Since, theresearch is already complete, most of

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Ricardo Molina; Claudio da Rocha Brito; Melany Ciampi

other ways of making expert information widely available. This led tothe creation of SENAC and SENAC’s Publishing House.The setting up of the SENAC publishing house was a vital step in extending educationalactivities to a broader public.Investment in distance education culminated in the launch of TV SENAC. The result of aconsistent successful plan for gradual expansion, the new channel soon achieved nationwidecoverage, with the distribution of its signal via satellite, cable and open channels. The firstprivately owned channel in Brazil to deal exclusively with education and the fostering ofcitizenship, Sesc/Senac TV Network, to use its present name, is a breathtaking succession ofachievements. Gratifying achievements such as the technical

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Frank Oreovicz; Phillip Wankat

least one intuitive, one extravert and one judging person ineach group. Sometimes we are short on extraverts. Three or four students per groupappears to be a good size. In 1998 there were four groups with three members each,while in 2000 there were two groups with four members.After the students have some experience with informal cooperative groups, we present amini-lecture on cooperative groups that covers the five essential elements – positiveinterdependence, individual accountability, face-to-face promotive interaction, socialskills, and group processing – of successful groups.1-3 The lecture also describes how onesets up cooperative groups in class: have clear objectives and plan, place students ingroups, explain task and ask for a

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Herbert Hess

Page 6.306.7without concern for power quality problems. The computer, a sensitive piece of equipment,Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition CopyrightÓ 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationoperates without undue risk of damage. By understanding the customer’s preferences and habits,the team finds that load management reveals successful ways to overcome power qualityproblems.Maintenance Inadequate maintenance is the leading cause of failure of isolated power systems. This isparticularly true of electrification projects in less-developed nations. Particularly in developedcountries, poorly planned maintenance of an isolated power system usually leads to a great dealof

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Are We Losing Our Minds (2470)

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Stephanie Sanford; Kenneth Williamson

. There is a growing literature on the extent towhich exposure to diversity and multiculturalism facilitates cognitive growth, a sense ofcommunity, and students’ overall satisfaction with the college experience4.The Proposed ClassWe plan to offer a class during Fall 2001, entitled “Technological Innovation andDiscrimination.” The objective of the class is to increase students’ understanding of howtechnology exists within a social, political, and economic context that includesdiscrimination and abuse of power. The specific learning objectives of the course arelisted in Table 1.Table 1. Course Learning Objectives At the end of this course, students should be able to: 1. Describe the process of technological diffusion and its components of

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Thomas Rich; James Baish

Engineering EducationStructural Forms - Structural Elements and Famous BuildingsVibrating Forms - Earthquakes, Auditorium, Musical InstrumentsFlowing Forms - Drag and Flow, Streamlining, Automobile StylingConnecting Forms - Graph Theory, Floor Plans, Network DesignFilling and Symmetric Forms - Packing, Patterns, Islamic ArtSelf-Similar Forms - Trees, Blood Vessels, Rivers, FractalsOrigins of Form – Growth, Diffusion, Adaptation, Evolution, ManufacturingPerception of Form – Natural and Artificial CognitionAesthetics of Form – Classic Proportions, Environmental AestheticsTable 1. Form and Function Class TopicsTour of Structural Testing Laboratory with Demonstration of Destructive Tensile TestDesign, Construction and Test of 18-inch Towers made of

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Oliver Sitton; Neil Book; Douglas Ludlow

the department assessment plan and redesign a traditional classroom forsynchronous delivery of the learning system. Systems like WebCT and BlackBoard are gainingpopularity for course authoring and web-based delivery of course content; however, no singlesystem meets all project goals. The current paper discusses our rationale in selecting the basesoftware and provides a detailed description of the system hardware, software and the newclassroom. The most time consuming effort involves the design and development of the resourcemodules; particularly those that involve mathematical equations, graphics or a high degree ofinteractivity. This paper discusses the steps involved in this process and provides examples ofwhat can be done with current