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

Session 2525 @ Division 25 A Curriculum Model for Developing Teams, Communication Skills, and Introducing the Design Process for Engineering Programs developed by the TIDEE Project Team. Kenneth L. Gentili Tacoma Community College Jeffrey F. McCauley Green River Community College Richard W. Crain Jr., Dale Calkins Deceased Denny C. Davis, Michael S. Trevisan, Forrest Parkay, Larry McKenzie Washington State UniversityAbstractFaculty struggle to implement outcomes-based engineering education that is neededto satisfy ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 requirements for

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) Benefit/Cost Ratios; (C) Present Worth; (D) Depreciation andDepletion; (E) Geometric Gradients and Spreadsheets; (F) Cash Flows; (G) EquivalenceRelationships; (H) Replacement, Retirement and Breakeven Analysis; (I) Income Taxes; (J) Rateof Return; (K) Inflation and Deflation; (L) Sensitivity Analysis; (M) Decision Making; (N)Evaluation of Multiple Alternatives; (O) Capital Financing and Allocation; (P) Public Projectsand Regulated Industries; (Q) Selection of MARR; (R) Accounting; (S) Uncertainty and RiskAnalysis; (T) Estimation; (U) After-Tax Economic Analysis; (V) Corporate Tax Structure; (W)Bonds; (X) Multiattribute Analysis; (Y) Profit Volume Analysis of Production Operations; and(Z) Ranking.For each of the 27 educators polled in the pilot

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Audeen Fentiman; Robert J. Gustafson; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

Engineering Honors Program. Dr. Freuler received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Aeronauticaland Astronautical Engineering and the B.S. in Computer and Information Science in 1974 and a Ph.D. inAeronautical and Astronautical Engineering in 1991 from The Ohio State University.ROBERT J. GUSTAFSONRobert J. Gustafson is a Professor of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering and Associate Dean forAcademic Affairs and Student Services for the College of Engineering of The Ohio State University. Dr. Gustafsonis a registered professional engineer and is actively engaged in development of first-year engineering programs andteaching improvement. Dr. Gustafson received B. S. and M. S. degrees in Agricultural Engineering from theUniversity of Illinois in 1971

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. Russell, J. S. and B. G. McCullouch. Civil Engineering Education: Case Study Approach, Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering, ASCE, volume 116, 1990.10. Ward, J. S. Bringing the Practice of Engineering into the Civil Engineering Classroom. Education and Continuing Development for the Civil Engineer. Proceedings of National Forum, ASCE, Las Vegas, NV, 1990.11. Bradley, J. B. The Role of Practitioners in Engineering Education. Education and Continuing Development for the Civil Engineer, Proc. National Forum, ASCE, 1990.12. Engineer Practitioners on Campus: ASCE program is off to a Good Start, ASCE News, ASCE, vol. 17, 1992.13. Shapira, A. Bringing the Site into the classroom: A Construction Engineering Laboratory. Journal of

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for Education Communications and Technology,Indianapolis, IN (1996).9. Collis, B., & Williams, R. Cross-cultural comparison of gender differences in adolescents’attitudes toward computers and selected school subjects. Journal of Educational Research. 18(1).17-27 (1987).10. Comber, C. The effects of age, gender and computer experience upon computer attitudes,Educational Research. 39(2). 123-133 (1997).11. Ehley, L. Building a vision for teacher technology in education. Preservice Teacher Bulletin.Doc. No.: ED35027. Alverno College, WI. (1992).12. Follansbee, S. Can online communications improve student performance? Results of acontrolled study. ERS Spectrum. 15(1). 15-26 (1997).13. Forman, D. C. The use of multimedia technology for

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and options at hand. The point is not to setin concrete how to interpret a given text or how to analyze the ramifications of any design. Thepoint is to open a discussion about intention, about responsibility, and about the hazards ofabdicating the duty to imagine the consequences of one’s work.Bibliography1. Werhane, P.H. Moral Imagination and Management Decision-Making. New York: Oxford University Press,1999.2. For a description of this course, see http://www.tcc.virginia.edu/thesis/thesis.html.3. Wright, S. "The X-Files Alphabet Book," http://www.thealph.com/alphabet/w.shtml, viewed 5 March 2001.4. Hughes, T. P. Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930. Baltimore: Johns HopkinsUniversity Press, c1983.5. Carlson, W.B

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which the first author is the principal investigator.This financial support by the NSF is gratefully acknowledged. In addition, the collaborative effortsof Dr. M. Prasad and Dr. M. Tsatsanis who are co-investigators for the NSF project areappreciated. Furthermore, it should not go unmentioned that the implementation of this laboratoryapproach into the system dynamics laboratory would not have been possible without the vastdesign and manufacturing expertise of Mr. Jan Nazalewicz and his colleagues in the StevensDepartment of Engineering Services.Bibliography1. Knight, C. D. & DeWeerth, S. P. (1996). A shared remote testing environment for engineering education. Proceedings of theASEE 1996 Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, Session 8c1

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Analysis Course", 1999 Frontiers in Education Conference, Session 12C6 – Virtual Labs, American Society of Engineering Education, November 1999.5. Marino, P., J. Nogueira, H. Hernandez, "Electronics Laboratory Practices Based on Virtual Instrumentation", 1999 Frontiers in Education Conference, Session 12C6 – Virtual Labs, American Society of Engineering Education, November 1999.6. Libii, Josue Njock, Sunday O. Faseyitan, “Data Acquisition Systems in the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory: Draining of a Tank”, 1997 Annual Conference Proceedings, American Society of Engineering Education, Milwaukee, WI, June, 1997.7. Carlson, Lawrence E., Lee D. Peterson, Walter S. Lund, Trudy L. Schwartz, “Facilitating Interdisciplinary Hands-on

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Raymond Kliewer

andSurveying (NCEES) prepares the FE and Principles and Practice of Engineering (PE)examinations. NCEES is working with academia to encourage the use of the FEexamination to help engineering programs satisfy the student outcomes assessmentrequired by the new EAC of ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC2000). Could the FEexamination also be successfully employed as an outcomes assessment tool for TAC ofABET programs? What impact could an increase in engineering graduates taking andpresumably passing the FE examination have on the career potential of engineeringtechnology graduates? This paper explores these and other issues related to outcomesassessment using the FE examination emphasizing Electrical/Electronic(s) andMechanical Engineering Technology

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Russell Barton; Mary Frecker; Joseph Goldberg; Gary Stump; Britt Holewinski; Timothy Simpson

Copyright © 2001, American Society of Engineering Education7. Jones, C. V., "Visualization and Optimization," ORSA Journal of Computing, Vol. 6, No. 3, 1994, pp. 221-257.8. Eddy, W. F. and Mockus, A., "Dynamic Visualization in Modeling and Optimization of Ill-Defined Problems: Case Studies and Generalizations," Technical Report, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1995.9. Card, S. K., Moran, T. P. and Newell, A., The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction, Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ, 1983.10. Sturman, D. J., Zeltzer, D. and Pieper, S., "Hands-on Interaction with Virtual Environments," Proceedings of the 1989 ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 1989, pp. 19

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Qiuli Sun; Kurt Gramoll

acknowledge the financial support in part from the National Science Foundation, Grant No.EEC-9872505.References[1] http://www.internet2.edu/, October 2000[2] Nick Stam, “Computing”, PC Magazine, August 7, 2000[3] John S. Mccright, “Cisco’s Chambers: e-learning will help us control our destinies”, PC Week Online, http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/, Nov. 16, 1999[4] Gun-Dong F. Pahng, Nicola Senin, David Wallace, “Modeling and Evaluation of Product Design Problems in a Distributed Design Environment”, 1997 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences, September 14- 17, 1997, Sacramento, California[5] Michael P Case and Stephen C-Y Lu, “Discourse Model for Collaborative Design”, Computer-Aided Design, Vol

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figure 4.1.1.The ferromagnetic plunger is attached to the object of which the displacement is to bemeasured. The mutual inductance between the primary and secondary coils varies with theplunger’s position. The analysis of the equivalent circuit model shows that for a highimpedance load the transfer function is given as, eout = s( M 2 − M1 )i1 Proceedings fo the 2001 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 6.41.5 Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationwhere M2 - M1 is the differential mutual inductance between the

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advanced undergraduatestudents are chosen each year for this program. To qualify students must be a U.S. citizen, major-ing in mathematics, science, or engineering, be a full time graduate or advanced undergraduatestudent at Michigan Tech, and have their own car. A GK-12 fellowship includes a graduate stu-dent stipend of $18,000 per year ($10,000 per year for advanced undergraduate students), gradu-ate student tuition and fees, and a $450 textbook allowance for graduate students. Needless to say,the competition is keen to get into this program. In return, each GK-12 teaching fellow spends aminimum of ten hours per week providing direct assistance to a teacher(s) in a local school and upto five hours per week preparing outside of the classroom

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Steven Myers; Kathleen Nunnally; Catherine Blat; Patricia Tolley

, SI leaders skillfully teach students how to learn by introducing them to and helping themapply academic success strategies. Most important is the fact that SI is not a remedial program.Therefore, all of the students enrolled in these courses are encouraged, but not required, to attendsessions. Students who have previously made an “A” in the course qualify to be an SI leader.Applicants are interviewed by the College’s program director and the course instructor(s) and areselected based on their technical competency, communication skills, and ability to work as part ofa team. SI leaders are paid a small stipend and, typically, are contracted for 10 hours per week: • three hours attending class

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night, so that manufacturer'sdefault settings for each program are restored and student “additions” to machines are removed.The login script for a student enrolled in a mathematics course also mounts the student's drive S,which is the student's private workspace, the student's drive M, which provides the relevant classdirectory, and, in some cases, the student's drive Z, which carries extra software appropriate for aparticular course. Since many faculty members run Windows NT machines that are served by a Page 6.971.6machine distinct from the laboratory server, the Department of Mathematical Sciences ComputerProceedings of the 2001

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Inequalities: The Effects of Race, Social Class and Tracking on Opportunities to Learn Mathematics and Science. Santa Monica, CA.: RAND.12. Linn, M.C. and J.S. Hyde (1989) “Gender, Mathematics, and Science.” Educational Researcher, 18.8, pp. 17-27.13. Nicholson, H. J., F.L. Weiss, and P.B. Campbell (1994) “Evaluation in Informal Science Education: Community-based Programs.” In V. Crane, H. Nicholson, M. Chen, and S. Bitgood (Eds.), Informal Science Learning: What the Research Says About Television, Science Museums, and Community-based Projects. Ephrata, PA: Science Press.14. Crane, V., H. Nicholson, M. Chen, and S. Bitgood (Eds.). (1994) Informal Science Learning: What the Research Says About Television

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Caroline Hembel Beard

Page 6.1062.12Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliography1. DesJardins, S. L. and Pontiff. H. Tracking Institutional Leavers: An Application, University of Minnesota.(1999).2. Federal Register. 1998 Amendments to Higher Education Act of 1965 (1999).3. Navaee, S. “Computer Utilization in Enhancing Engineering Education”. ASEE National Conference, 2000, St. Louis, MO, American Society for Engineering Education.(2000).CAROLINE HEMBEL BEARDCaroline Hembel Beard us currently Assistant Professor of Technology at Georgia Southern Universityin Statesboro, Georgia, and a doctoral candidate in Higher

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James Thom; Caroline Hoy; Raymond Thompson

forboth recruiting and training for many years. While these motivators are not exclusive to males,they do in general appear to be stronger motivators for males than females.This traditional approach to recruiting makes the assumption that young men and young womenare the same, and are most strongly motivated by the same factors. This philosophy of havingno difference in recruiting motivations reflects much of the philosophy of the IndustrialPsychology work of the 1970’s.1 Most of the Industrial Psychology research done with regardto human resource management in job selection and job evaluation, stressed gender equivalencyas a main issue. That human resource work very strongly discouraged any dissimilar evaluation

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Rosalyn Hobson; Esther Hughes

Session 1432 Utilization of Active Collaborative Learning in Three Electrical Engineering Courses Rosalyn S. Hobson, Esther A. Hughes Virginia Commonwealth UniversityAbstractEducational research has shown that students learn and retain information better when theeducational process includes active cooperative learning. As a result the face of the engineeringclassroom is changing to include more in-class and team activities allowing the students to take amore active role in their educational process. The use of teams not only enhances the

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Scott Brigade; Laura Deam; La Toya Coley; Jessica Linck; Jan Kidwell; Elizabeth Goodson; Brent Robinson; Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley

and one middle school asscience, math, and technology resources and co-teachers. They have worked with over 1500elementary and middle school students and over 100 teachers to date.IntroductionThe outreach program at the College of Engineering at NC State includes a GK-12 grant fromthe National Science Foundation aimed at using engineering students from the university level toenhance math, science and technology instruction. The grant was written and put in place as aresponse to two perceived problems. First, national reports indicate that U. S. students in K-12schools currently lag behind their peers in other countries in math and science achievement1.And second, recruitment efforts directed toward women have stagnated for many Colleges

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Franklin King; Keith Schimmel

committee with regard to items 2a-2d, but can make the final decision. 3. The third and each subsequent time the course is offered, the committee will determine items 2a – 2d. 4. The committee will determine all items whenever a course is taught by an adjunct faculty. 5. All core undergraduate courses will be taught by regular, full-time faculty.Course Assessment Committees: Each chemical engineering course assessment committeeconsists of at least three faculty members. These members include the instructor(s) that mostoften teaches the course and other faculty interested in the course content. Each committee has acoordinator that is knowledgeable in the subject area, but not the instructor who typically teachesthe course. The

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putstudents in the position where they need to sort out for themselves what parts of the taxonomyare relevant to the problem at hand. Students may find this approach more demanding at first,but we believe that this will better prepare them for the workplace and for life-long learning.(This work was supported primarily by the Engineering Research Centers Program of theNational Science Foundation under Award Number EEC9876363).Bibliography1. Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., & Cocking, R. R. (Eds.). (1999). How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.2. Schwartz, D. L. & Bransford, J. D. (1998). A time for telling. Cognition Instruction, 16, 475-522.3. Schwartz, D. L, Brophy, S., Lin, X. &

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solution. Figure 2 shows aLiveMath® example problem on equilibrium of a particle under a non-coplanar concurrent forcesystem.Another key feature of the CIMS for Statics in VLSM is the Java based Shape Design andAnalysis Tool (S-DAT) in the Geometric Properties of Shapes module. The modeling tool in S-DAT can be used to draw two-dimensional composite shapes of varying degrees of complexity. “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 6.757.3 Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”The built-in software then calculates all the geometric

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, Washington, DC, 1994.[Fle92] Fleming, H., and C.S. Slater, “Pervaporation,” in Membrane Handbook, W.S.W. Ho and K.K. Sirkar, eds., Chapman and Hall, New York, Ch. 7-10, 1992.[Gar94] Garside, J. and S. Furusaki, The Expanding World of Chemical Engineering, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1994.[Gri95] Griffith, J. D., “The Teaching of Undergraduate Mass Transfer,” AIChE Annual Meeting Paper 245a, Miami Beach, FL 1995.[Gri97] Grisham, J, “Students Rate Science, Hands-on Learning High,” Chemical and Engineering News, p. 62, 5 May (1997).[Heg92] Hegedus, L.L. (National Research Council, Committee on Critical Technologies), Critical Technologies: The Role of Chemistry and Chemical

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. The gravity and quantity of workrequired is sobering. On the second day of class students are immersed in the planning exercise that is thesubject of this paper. This begins with a discussion of the unique opportunities and challengesassociated with the capstone design course. The role of big hairy audacious goals (BHAG)7 asan engine for both personal and organizational development is discussed. An excellent seniordesign project and experience is established as the ultimate goal of the capstone sequence. Wehave found that students are attracted to the idea of achieving a quality product through a qualityprocess. They are assured that the instructor(s) value their personal development as much asmeeting customer needs. The planning

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Sanjay Joshi; SangHa Lee; Timothy Simpson; John Wise; Thomas Litzinger

problem-based learninghave shown statistically significant gains in SLDRS scores of the students based upon pre-testand post-test scores. These results suggest that enhancing students’ readiness for self-directedlearning can be enhanced with this pedagogical approach, consistent with other results in theliterature.References1. A. S. f. E. E. G. Committee, “Goals of engineering education; final report of the goals committee,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 58, pp. 367-446, 1968.2. P. o. C. Education, “Engineering education and practice in the United States - Continuing Education of Engineers,” National Research Council Committee on the Education and Utilization of the Engineer, Washington, D.C. 1985 1985.3. N. K

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the course over nine years, but use of the Web to assist in teaching the coursewas begun in the mid-1990’s. In 1998, the course was migrated to WebCT, a very popular andpowerful commercial course management software that limits access to those officiallyassociated with the course. All course “lectures” were given live by the instructor or guestlecturers, but made use of the Web in real time in the classroom to access relevant materials.The instructor used collaborative learning procedures for both in-class and out-of-class exercises.Students submitted homeworks electronically through the Web site. Grading consisted ofattaching grades and electronic notes to the files similar to grading notes applied to assignmentssubmitted on paper. The

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.3. Programs and Courses that Participated in the Study3.1. Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology at Cal Poly Pomona. This programis housed in the Department of Engineering Technology. This program consists of a rigorousintegrated four-year curriculum, designed to prepare graduates for technical careers on the“engineering team.” The program currently enrolled about 375 students at the time of this study.At Cal Poly Pomona, two courses participated in this study during fall quarter 2000. These were: ETE 310 Applied Network Analysis/Lab (3/1). This was an upper-division math-intensive technical course for juniors that included Laplace transforms, transfer functions, the s-plane, stability, and time/frequency response of

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number ofyears. The end goal was to create an e-course curriculum with a set of multiple electronic coursesthat can offer online or in-class to help address the scheduling and learning needs of the student.References1. Brooks, D. W. “Web-Teaching A guide to Designing Interactive Teaching for the World Wide Web”, Plenum Press, New York, 19972. Regan, M. and S. D. Sheppard, "Interactive Multimedia Courseware and Hands-on Learning Experience: An Assessment Study," ASEE Journal of Eng. Education, 1996 85 (2), p 123-130.3. Gramoll, K.C., R.F. Abbanat, and K. Slater, "Interactive Multimedia for Engineering Dynamics," ASEE 1996 Conf. Proc., Washington, D.C., June 1996.4. Gramoll, K.C., R. Abbanat and K. Slater, Multimedia

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David Purdy; Christine Buckley; Don L. Dekker; Phillip J. Cornwell