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1, 2000]. Page 6.292.8 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education 5. J. Charles, A License to Code IEEE Software, pp. 119-121, Sep, 1998-Oct 31, 1998. 6. IEAust Working Group on Software Engineering, Software Engineering as a Professional Engineering Discipline: Discussion paper Mar, 1999. (unpublished). 7. L.R. Neal and A.D. Irons, Integrating Professionalism into Undergraduate Degree Courses in Computing ITiCSE '98. Proceedings of the 6th annual conference on the teaching

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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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. • Perform gap analyses for individual students. Each student should have a report listing what outcomes she has mastered and which ones remain. The gap analysis assists in providing a personal development plan for each student.The final project goal is to redesign a traditional classroom for synchronous delivery of thelearning system. The most common classroom at UMR consists of a screen, chalkboard, anddesks or tables for the students. Audio/video carts are available on a reservation basis. Most cartscontain an overhead projector with one video projector in the department. Specific lectures thatrequire students to use some type of computer workstation are scheduled and held in a separatecomputer laboratory. The overhead projector is

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- 100%. INITIATIVE Setting Rating Engineering Coop/Intern workplace Full-time engineering employment workplace Classroom - Traditional setting Classroom - Laboratory setting Classroom - Capstone design setting Extracurricular Activities - Engineering profession related. Extracurricular Activities - Non-engineering profession related Figure 4. Assessment form for the ISU “Initiative” competency Page 6.383.7 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering

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Ramachandran Radharamanan; Angela Ansuj

suchas use of design of experiments and Taguchi methods in conducting experiments to improve theproduct quality by controlling the process variables; and the use of design for manufacture,computer aided design, and value analysis in their multidisciplinary senior design projects inimproving the product design, meeting the time schedule (project completion time), andproviding customer satisfaction (client) with high quality and minimum cost. The resultsobtained through laboratory experiments and design projects are presented and discussed.I. IntroductionConcurrent Engineering (CE) is defined as the earliest possible integration of overall company’sknowledge, resources, and experience in design, development, marketing, manufacturing, andsales into

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Stephen Zahorian; Sacharia Albin; William Swart

the extent possible, the academic content of the programshould be identical to that taken by students completing their entire degree at Old DominionUniversity. The only real issue was which courses would be taken at Rajagiri and which wouldbe taken at Old Dominion University. Ideally, the courses in the first two years (or three yearsfor the case of an MS program) of the regular curricular were to be taken at Rajagiri, and allcourses in the remaining two years were to be taken at Old Dominion University. The onlydifficulty with this basic strategy was that facilities at Rajagiri were not adequate for some ofthe engineering laboratories normally required by sophomores. Thus, it became necessary tomodify the ordering of some of the courses. In

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Jeffrey B. Connor; Richard Goff

by using a hands-onapproach. This laboratory class employs a combination of reverse engineering of consumerproducts and design case studies. The aim is to introduce our students to engineering and designand to generate a first hand appreciation of the discipline. At the same time, students acquirebasic hand skills using wrenches, calipers, and other basic hand tools, they experience howproducts are assembled and designed.The main drawback of this approach is scalability. We offer this course to eight sections of 32students each, but this still only reaches 20 percent of entering engineering students. To addressthe issue of offering hands-on early design activities to all entering freshman, we have recentlydeveloped eight activities that

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) andreturns true or false, indicating a successful comparison. Both equation trees are read through,and must now (being in the standardized form) be of exactly equal size and content in exactly thesame order. If this is true then the equations are equivalent and the student is correct. Page 6.635.7Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationSummaryIt can prove helpful in teaching mathematical concepts to make students aware of the derivationor solution of an equation, and of the sequence of steps taken to attain that final

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is to offer a course of study in marine sciences integrating the natural andsocial sciences in a manner not offered by established academic institutions in the New Englandregion, or for that matter, in much of the country. The availability of courses, laboratories, andsupervising faculty from four campuses provides students with a greater range of choices than iscurrently available at a single campus. The organization of the school and the courses to beoffered are described. Each of the campuses of the UMass system (Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth,and Lowell) brings individual strengths to the program. The core courses in the program aredescribed together with the areas of specialization available at each campus. A description ofhow fluid

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Richard Gilbert; Mark Maughmer; Bonnie Osif; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College; Renata Engel, Pennsylvania State University

must structure the mechanics topics sequence so students can apply their newfoundknowledge directly to the project as the course progresses. With regard to topics outside the scopeof the course, such as engineering codes, the instructor must raise student awareness and citereferences for the students to explore. Finally, the instructor should provide an opportunity forstudents to assess and get feedback on their understanding of the knowledge throughout the projectsolution stages.Inquiry-based learning is differentiated from the other two strategies in that it is driven by specificquestions for which the students must present answers that are grounded on investigation,research, experimentation, or discovery. While step-by-step laboratory

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worthwhile careerpath. This is further supported when the student looks for technical electives and finds few ifany in transportation engineering. Second, in higher education today, even with the awareness that more attention needs tobe given to teaching skills and preparation of the undergraduate, the reward system for faculty islargely based on research and publications. As a result, in order to succeed at their tenure andpromotion endeavors, faculty naturally focus on graduate programs and the associated researchand publication opportunities. Working in a system which bases advancement on the ability toattract research and publish, little incentive exists for faculty to promote transportationengineering as an undergraduate experience

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Daniel Raviv

Session 2525 Hands-on Inventive Solutions in Engineering Design* Daniel Raviv Department of Electrical Engineering Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431 E-mail: ravivd@fau.edu 561 297 2773AbstractThis paper describes an Eight-dimensional methodology for teaching inventive and innovativeproblem solving. It has been developed and taught as part of an on-going course at FloridaAtlantic University titled: “Introduction to Inventive

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William S. Carlsen; Christine M. Cunningham; Carol B. Muller; Peg Boyle Single

; Productivity Solutions), SPIE, the Optical Society of America, LawrenceLivermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NASA Ames ResearchCenter, the Women in Technology Project of the Maui Economic Development Board, theEngineering Information Foundation, San José State University College of Engineering, and DeAnza College. Page 6.412.8 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education”Bibliography1. Astin, A. W. (1998). The changing American college student: Thirty year trends, 1966

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Perry R. McNeill; Charles Bittle

Lane, Dallas Texas. Instruments, software, and laboratory spacewas provided by Texas Instruments. LabView® software was used for instrument control, dataacquisition, and calculation of linearity data. Linearity data is expressed as differentialnonlinearity (DNL) and integral nonlinearity (INL). Analysis of the data found theTHS5651IDW DAC to be monotonic since the magnitude of the DNL were less than ± 1 LSBand the INL were less than ± 0.5 LSB.I. IntroductionThe Electronics Engineering Technology program at the University of North Texas has a limitedbudget and facilities to provide research projects for graduate students. These limitations can beovercome by using services of Industrial Advisory Committees (IAC). These committees cancontribute

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Tomoki Abe; Richard Thurlkill; Krishna Kurpad; Jay Porter; Anthony Vaughan; Joseph Morgan

/TET) students at TexasA&M University take a series of technical courses each of which includes an integratedlaboratory experience. After receiving feedback and recommendations from industries that hireEET/TET graduates, more emphasis is being placed on laboratories where teams of students arerequired to design, implement, test, and analyze a project. The experience is concluded with thedocumentation of the results of each project in both written and oral format. This approachbegins in selected sophomore-level courses and continues through the capstone senior designproject with less and less faculty intervention and control as the students progress in theircurriculum. One of the courses that utilize this approach is a junior-level Computer

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tour and another through a remote teaching assignment. In both cases the subject of anexchange came up during professional conversations between the professors. When that firstcontact does occur and discussions evolve, ask probing, honest questions. Be sure that bothparties understand the expectations involved. It is very easy to make assumptions that causeproblems later on. At this point in time the evaluation process is still free. It is better to discoverpossible incongruities at this time rather than later after hundreds of dollars have been spent fortravel and evaluation.III. Site EvaluationAn exchange visit with students should never go forward without a signed formal exchangeagreement. A formal exchange agreement should never be signed

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Diana Dabby

introducingstudents to V. Nabokov (1899-1977), Leonardo (1452-1519), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), and A. Borodin (1833-1887), the class effectively provides mentors for the Renaissanceengineer. It further demonstrates the power of "speaking two languages" and the inventivenessthat can emanate from a deep understanding of two fields. This inventiveness manifests itself inNabokov’s literary and scientific design, Leonardo’s pioneering work in comparative anatomy,Bach’s invention of new instruments with desired acoustical properties, and Borodin’s ability tojuggle his work in music composition and the laboratory, while publishing in both fields andchampioning women’s educational rights. He also invented at the interface of medicine andchemistry.The

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Harriet Cornachione; Tim Brower

to those in the ET programs due to the inherent differences in the perception of what ET is? ET is typically portrayed as a "hands-on" discipline where you get dirty. At Oregon Tech, the emphasis and strength of the curriculum are laboratory intensive courses rather than a purely theoretical bent. This approach helps the student better understand the engineering science principles involved, and, facilitates the student’s transition to industry, which is part of the Oregon Tech mission. However, this approach may "backfire" in our recruiting of women students.2) Are the underlying reasons for low women percentages in certain ET disciplines our faculty’s and male student’s fault as a result of a "gendered apartheid system12?" The

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Qiuli Sun; Kurt Gramoll

database server. These technologies are chosen because they are well defined,inexpensive and used extensively for Internet-based applications.IntroductionThe continuously expanding use of the Internet has provided tremendous possibilities forengineering education, engineering design and analysis. The use of the Internet has opened adoor to adopting new ways to teach engineering topics. For example, Internet-based simulations,online collaborative learning, and virtual worlds are three applications among many possibilities.Besides engineering education, the ubiquity of the Internet has made distributed collaborativeengineering design and analysis possible. Geographically dispersed engineers can complete

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Geoffrey Bland; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

EngineeringEducation, Vol. 89, No. 4, October 2000, pp. 495 - 501.6. Kolb, D.A., “Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.: PrenticeHall, 1984.7. Svincki, M.D., and Dixon, N.M., “The Kolb Model modified for Classroom Activities”, College Teaching, Vol.35.(4) , 1987.8. Smith, K.A., " Strategies for Developing Engineering Student's Teamwork and Project Management Skills", Proceedings of2000 ASEE Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO., June 18-June 21, 2000, CD-ROM.9. Seat, E., and Lord, S.M., " Enabling Effective Engineering Teams: A Program for Teaching Interaction Skills", Proceedings ofthe 1998 Frontiers of Engineering Education Conference, Tempe, AZ, November 1998.10. FAA regulations PART 101 –Moored

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A1420 An SDL (Simple Description Language) Analyzer Robert J. Borrmann, Ph.D. Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Manhattan College New York CityAbstractSecond-year students in Manhattan’s four-year Electrical Engineering and ComputerEngineering programs are introduced to digital circuits in a one-semester 3-credit courseELEC-229. This course includes a laboratory component in which students design andbreadboard simple circuits. While the course includes preliminary coverage of VHDL(Very High Speed

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MANAGEMENT . DEFINE ORGANIZATION EVOLUTION . INFORM AND LISTEN TO THE WORK FORCE . NEGOTIATE WITH WORKER REPRESENTATIVE . MOTIVATE WORK FORCE TO ACCEPT THE CHANGESMIDDLE MANAGEMENT . ACQUIRE KNOWLEDGE OUTSIDE OF INITIALAND PROFESSIONAL DOMAINSTAFF . BE ABLE TO EVOLVE . LEARN TO INFORM, TEACH, AND LISTENSUPERVISORS . MOTIVATE WORKERS . ADOPT A COACHING ATTITUDEWORKERS . BE READY TO CHANGE TO BECOME MORE

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Jian-ren Li; Ahmad Zagari

. CONCLUSIONThis project enables students to integrate classroom and laboratory knowledge with project-based learning. It has allowed students to develop advanced technical skills by cross-linking two Page 6.641.12sets of contemporary microprocessor technologies, i.e., Motorola and Intel, in a compact and Proceeding of the 2001 American Society for Enginnering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright c2001, American Society for Engineeringefficient way. The development of such competencies is essential in order to functionsuccessfully in today’s competitive electronic job market.Our preliminary assessment

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placed a value on the freedom of students to freelyexplore majors during their first two years. For example, all 6500 freshmen could declare one ofthe eleven Engineering programs as their intended major. In fact, nearly 1000 do so. However, theavailability of faculty, laboratories, classes and other resources required beyond the early years arenot kept in balance with declared student interests. Hence, a number of Colleges, notablyEngineering, Education, and Business, restrict admission at the junior level and in turn restrictaccess to upper-level classes to those who have competed successfully for limited upperclass seats.In the College of Engineering, junior enrollments are maintained at 750 to 800 students, includingabout 100 junior transfers

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Vincent Gallogly

Renssalear School of Management at The RenssalearPolytechnic Institute, as well as many others, had significant course offerings inentrepreneurship3. Many books and textbooks were readily available4, as the course hasevolved additional texts5 and materials have surfaced and been drawn upon6.Clearly, expertise in many subject areas was required to effectively deliver a meaningfulcourse to intense bright engineering students. Students would not suffer a course that didnot deliver. How to develop the expertise? The excitement? As I organized the contextualframework, these questions haunted me.In my previous teaching, at Pace University Law School, I conducted a course inenvironmental science for lawyers obtaining a Master’s in Environmental Law

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Robin Burt; Krishna Athreya; K-Y. Daisy Fan

complexproject involving social and economic issues related to engineering in six two-hour sessions wasa significant challenge. Table 1 shows the ambitious project schedule. Table 1. Project schedule Day Activity or Task 1 Introduction to water quality management Walk along Cascadilla Creek—how to model a real waterway in one dimension 2 Mock town hall meeting—gather information on river system 3 Water quality analysis in the environmental engineering laboratory Water quality modeling—introduction to software DESERT 4 Water quality modeling—design and evaluate policies 5 Water quality modeling—design and evaluate policies

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Michael Larson; Melanie Landry; Donal Collins

offering an introduction tomanufacturing processes. The laboratory attempts to simulate a "real world" engineeringenvironment that presents its students with a product specification and requires them toprepare a preliminary proposal, form a project team and develop and construct a suitabledesign subject to performance and economic constraints. Beginning with the conceptdevelopment process and continuing on through competitive benchmarking, patentsearches and concluding with the product development, students are given a full designand manufacturing experience with an entrepreneurial bent. This experience, conductedin the relative security of an academic setting, is invaluable for budding professionalengineers.The class primarily consists of

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, several computer laboratory sessions with excelspreadsheets were used to reinforce text content and perform sensitivity analyses. Several mini-cases were used in the course to reinforce the engineering applications of engineering economy.In order to actually demonstrate understanding and application of engineering economy theoryand concepts, a comprehensive case is assigned to the class towards the end of the semester.Effective application of engineering economic principles within an industrial setting requires notonly understanding and application of the subject matter, but effective communication andteamwork skills. To simulate this aspect, teams perform the final case analysis and presentfindings and recommendations in a poster session

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Joseph J. Delfino

. Engineering Ethics: Concepts and Cases, 2nd Ed.Belmont Cal.: Wadsworth/Thompson Learning (2000).JOSEPH J. DELFINOJoseph J. Delfino is Professor and Past Chairman of Environmental Engineering Sciences at the Universityof Florida, Gainesville, Florida. He earned his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering with aspecialty in Water Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to joining the faculty at theUniversity of Florida, he was Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University ofWisconsin-Madison, where he was also Head of Environmental Sciences for the State Laboratory ofHygiene and Associate Director of the Water Resources Center. He teaches courses and conducts researchin water chemistry and water quality

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Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi Diefes-Dux

requirements." Next,the seniors are asked to evaluate on a 5-point Likert scale the effectiveness of laboratoryexperiences and computer based projects in each ABE core course. Seniors are also asked toevaluate the frequency and effectiveness of exposure to a variety of communication methods(e.g. e-mail, technical writing, business writing, oral communication). Finally the seniors areasked to evaluate their competency in using a number of computer tools (e.g. operating systems,spreadsheets, engineering computation tools, data acquisition tools). A free response section isavailable to the seniors to suggest improvements to the laboratory, computer, and communicationcomponents of the program. This part concludes with a free response section that allows