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ORI 101 Survival Skills (1) ENG101 Communication Skills I (3) MTH 125 Calculus I (4) CHE 101/101L Gen Chemistry I (4) FAS/HED/NHM 101/103 Health S. (2) ENG 101 Eng. Drawing & Graph (3) 2nd Semester ENG 102 Communication Skills II (3) MTH126 Calculus II (4) PHY 105 Physics I (4) EGC 104 Computer Programming (3) ME 101/101L Intro to Mech Eng. (2) Sophomore 1st Semester MTH 227 Calculus III (4) PHY 106 Physics II (4) HIS 101 Wold History I

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Curriculum for Training Mentors & Mentees: Guide forAdministrators. Seattle, WA: University of Washington (1998)2 McDill, Moyra. Tracking The Gender Barrier: A 1990’s Follow-Up Study (1999), New Frontiers, New Traditions.St. John’s. July 6-8, 2000.3 URL: http://www.aauw.org/2000/techsavvy.html; AAUW, American Association of University Women. Tech-Savvy: Educating Girls in the New Computer Age. Ed Foundation. (2000)4 Hall, R. and Sandler B. Academic Mentoring for Women Students and Faculty: A New Look at an Old Way toGet Ahead. Washington DC: Association of American Colleges Project on the Status and Education of Women.(1983)5 Devine, F. Gender Segregation in the Engineering and Science Professions: A Case of Continuity and Change.Work

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laboratory development activities described in this paper hasbeen provided in part by the NSF—DUE CCLI—Adaptation and Implementation Grant 9950782and the NASA/New York Space Grant Consortium grant 32310-5891. The authors wish toacknowledge the additional financial support provided by the Office of the Dean of Engineering(Prof. William McShane) and the Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing EngineeringDepartment (Profs. Sunil Kumar and Said Nourbakhsh), Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY.The authors are thankful to Prof. Marcio S. de Queiroz and students Haizhou Pan, O’neil White,and Qiguo Yan for their assistance throughout the development of the MPCRL. The authorsthankfully acknowledge the support of suppliers of DSP and PC boards, equipment

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

City, thus allowing the students to develop their own virtual city (seethe lower panel in Figure 2). Once the object(s) are placed, the students can navigate through theirvirtual world via a VRML player that operates much like a video game. Table 3: Multimedia Modules for Sooner City Module Name Purpose Concrete Design of reinforced concrete beams by LRFD methods Structural Analysis 2D/3D frame and truss analysis, including stresses and influence lines Foundations Footing design Macromeritics Concrete mix design/testing Soil Mechanics Consolidation Steel Buildings Steel frame

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), pg. 1-38, 1983.7 Schwartz, S. H. and Perkins, D. N., Software Goes to School: Teaching for Understanding with New Technologies, Schwartz, J. L. and Perkins, D. N., Editors, Chapter: "Teaching the Metacurriculum: A New Approach to Enhancing Subject-Matter Learning," Oxford University Press, NY, 1995, pg. 255-270.8 Kaput, J. J., Handbook of Research on Mathematics Teaching and Learning: A Project of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Grouws, D. A. et al, Editors, Chapter: "Technology and Mathematics Education," Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., NY, 1992, pg. 515-556.9 Zhu, E., Learning and Mentoring, Bonk, C. J. and King, K S., Ed., Chapter: "Electronic Discussion in a Distance Learning Course

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, (February, 1994).4. Sheron, S., Lecturer Envisions Art of Engineering, San Antonio Express-News, 6F, (Feb. 7, 2000).5. McCauley, L. “Learning 101”, Fast Company, 101-106, (October, 2000).6. De George, R.T., Ethical responsibilities of Engineers in Large Organizations: The Pinto Case. Business and Professional Ethics Journal, 1,1, 1-14 (1981). Reprinted in Johnson, D. G., Ethical Issues in Engineering. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 175-186 (1991). Page 6.278.7 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for

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surveys, item concerns come to the forefront at the data analysis stage. Here, E-mailcorrespondence helped to identify and resolve issues well before they could become problems ofdata interpretation. Additionally, this means of communication appears to reduce tensions andincrease the willingness to respond among persons who aren’t fond of surveys in general or whowere frustrated by the nature of this survey in particular. Clayton and Werking (1998) asserted that “ . . . World Wide Web collection virtuallyeliminate[s] the traditional labor-intensive activities [of mail surveys]” (p. 556). We found that,although the nature of the work changed from that associated with traditional mailed surveys, oursurvey required significantly more

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Elliot Douglas, University of Florida

Teach Engineering – T4E”, Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 89, no. 1, 2000, pp. 31-384. Seymour, Elaine and Nancy M. Hewitt, Talking About Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences, Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 19975. http://www.asce.org/exceed6. Samples, Jerry W., Mark F. Costello, Christopher H. Conley, Thomas A. Lenox, and Stephen J. Ressler, “Teaching Teachers to Teach Engineering: A Year Later”, Proceedings, ASEE Annual Conference, ASEE, 19977. Samples, Jerry W., Anu Maria, Joseph W. Newkirk, Peter L. Silsbee, Valerie L. Young, and Bradford L. Snowden, “The Team Approach to Developing Baseline Teaching Skills”, Proceedings, ASEE Annual Conference, ASEE, 19978. Wankat, Philip C and Frank S. Oreovicz

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Pomeranz, Shirley, “Some Observations for Teaching Mathematics/Physics/Mechanics,” Proceedings of the 1998 ASEE Conference and Exposition, Seattle.10 Hillsman, Vernon S., “Combining Finite Element Analysis Software with Mechanics of Materials,” Page 6.282.8 1994 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, pp. 2289-2292. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education11 Middleton, D.E.S., “Better Than Guessing the Stressing: Applications of the Finite Element Method in an Undergraduate Course,” in

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communities are important. Students who feel that they belong from the beginning are more likely to persist, even if the intervention terminates.3. Content of integrated programs, while important, does not have the impact that personal contact has. Faculty should think carefully about designing first-year programs. We learned that our expectations and our students’ expectations didn’t necessarily match.4. Resources spent up front to allow top faculty to teach and mentor first year students pay dividends in increased retention and overall satisfaction with the educational experience.AcknowledgementWe would like to thank the U. S. Department of Education FIPSE Program (Fund for theImprovement of Post-Secondary Education) and our program officer

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education of future engineering technologists, while attaining their own career goals, as well.Bibliography1. Technology Accreditation Commission, ABET, “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Technology Programs(2000-2001)” URL http:/www.abet.org/tac/TAC_2000-01_Criteria.htm, November 1, 1999, 35 pp.2. Lipscomb, J.W. “The Benefits and Problems of Consulting as a Means of Faculty Development.” Journal ofEngineering Technology, Spring 1992. pp. 22-23.3. Pfile, R.E. and Conrad, W.R., “Bring Realism Into the Classroom Through Your Consulting,” Proceedings,ASEE Annual Conference, Session 1348 (1998).4. Qazi, S. and Ishaq, N., “Impact of Applied Research in Engineering Technology,” Proceedings, ASEE AnnualConference, Session 1348 (1998).5. Rose, A. “Role

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. 28-29 (1999).12. Knowles, M. S. The adult learner: a neglected species. Houston: Gulf Publishing Company Division. (1978)13. Dyrud, M. A. The third wave: a position paper. Business Communication Quarterly. 63 (3), pp. 81-93 (2000).14. Haque M.E. Web-based Visualization Techniques for Structural Design Education. Submitted for ASEE 2001 Annual Conference Presentation at New Mexico.15. Schank, R. "Basic Training" Chief Executive, 140 (16), pp. 54-57, (1998)16. Hall, M. Managing and motivating students performance in the university classroom. Journal of Construction Education. 2 (1), pp. 24-30 (1998).17. Conti, G. J. Identifying your teaching style. In M. W. Galbreath (Ed.), Adult learning methods (pp. 79-96). Malabar, Fl: Krieger

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financing. First year marketing expenses wereto be $114,500 with most of the expense going to magazines typically read by amateur racers.The price for the car was determined to be $12,000 with COGS of $8,500, giving a gross marginof $3,500 per unit. Break-even was projected for the seventh month.The form of business was determined to be a Subchapter S Corporation which provided the bestoptions for raising equity while limiting the liability of the owners and allowing pass through toinvestor's IRS 1040s. The management structure for the proposed company is shown inFigure 2. A total of 60 employees would be needed to produce the number of cars indicated. Figure 2: Company Management Structure

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Jose Saldivar; Ighal Mehmedagic; Siva Thangam; Richard Cole

70 to 80% effectiveness. Additional work on outcomes assessment iscurrently in progress and will be reported in future work.Bibliography1. DeLancey, G. A unified and quantitative approach to assessment, Proceedings of the Fall Regional Conference of the Middle Atlantic Section of ASEE, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA, November 3 – 4, 2000.2. Preparing for ABET EC 2000: from curriculum mission to assessment planning. Report by Engineering Assessment Committee, Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology (1998).3. Esche, S. K. & Hromin, D. J. An open approach to undergraduate laboratories. Enabling Engineering and Technology Education through Information Technology, Proceedings of the Fall

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Thomas Rich; James Baish

Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliographyForm and FunctionM. French, Invention and Evolution, 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1994).D. Gartman, Auto Opium: A Social History of American Automobile Design. London: Routledge (1994).J. Kappraff, Connections: The Geometric Bridge Between Art and Science. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc.(1991).M. Levy and M. Salvadori, Why Buildings Fall Down. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., Inc., (1992).D’Arcy. Thompson, On Growth and Form, Canto Edition ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press(1961).S. Vogel, Life’s Devices: The Physical World of Animals and Plants. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UniversityPress (1988).Designing PeopleJ

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total learning during this period. The latterperiod of the lab period is used to complete the experimental objectives. Two instructors dividetheir time between the five workstations as the different experiments are being conducted.Formal reports are submitted for about half of the experiments while informal reports aresubmitted for the others. The reports are due two weeks after the experiment is completed. Thestudent grade is evaluated with the lecture portion counting 30% (10% for homework and 10%each for the midterm and the final exam), the laboratory portion counting 55% (42% for reports, Page 6.350.35% for oral presentation(s), and

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

Engineering Educationfacilities for basics and laboratory portions of the courses, and lessons learned during andsince the renovation.3.1 Constraints of Available SpaceSpace designated for renovation consisted primarily of 6 rooms, each 22 ft by 63 ft, onone floor of one building. The current facilities, designed in the early 1960’s, would notmeet the needs of the new program. Having done pilot programs in computer classroomsconverted from Engineering Graphics instruction and having shared laboratory spacewith environmental engineering, the College recognized that a major renovation wasneeded.Early in project planning, the decision was made to use a section size for laboratory of 36students. Based on experience gained in a prototype lab facility

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access or conditional sequential access to a defined set of the LRM library. The professor controls when and how the LRM sets are made available to the student.The second project goal is to integrate the learning system into the department assessment plan.The currently accepted, two-loop pictorial best represents how Criteria 2000 functions within adepartment. The second loop assesses student learning in relation to defined outcomes.Departments then use these assessment results to determine how well they are meeting statedprogram goals and objectives in the primary loop. By linking the objectives of each LRM and itsassociated assessment(s) to an outcome, a major portion of the assessment process becomesautomated. The system should

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challenge of mechanizing the process of removing the tailmeat fromboiled crawfish has seemingly been undertaken by comparatively few people. This couldbe due in part to the local nature of the crawfish industry. A possible hindrance to thedevelopment of a machine may have been the development of the automated shrimppeeling machine in the 1940’s (which, incidentally fuelled the rapid expansion of theshrimp peeling industry). Many, as evidenced by archival newspaper stories and U.S.patents, have mistakenly believed that the techniques so successfully used to peel shrimpcould be used to peel crawfish. However, this is not the case since the exoskeletons of thetwo species are held to the tailmeat by very different mechanisms. While the

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= (3) µV where, G: velocity gradient, (sec-1) P: power input to the fluid, (N-m/sec) V: volume of tank, (m3) µ : viscosity of the fluid, (Kg/m-s) Flocculation tests have shown that intense mixing (e.g., high velocity gradients), also knownas rapid mixing (used in coagulation), can greatly reduce the efficiency of the flocculationprocess. These tests have also shown that in addition to velocity gradient, the efficiency of theprocess depends on the overall residence time and the configuration of the tank. These Page 6.375.6conclusions could lead one to believe

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Session 1608 Development of Workplace Competencies Sufficient to Measure ABET Outcomes S. K. Mickelson, L. F. Hanneman, R. Guardiola, and T. J. Brumm Iowa State University/Iowa State University/ Development Dimensions, International/Iowa State UniversityAbstractThe opening paragraphs of the ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 state: “To be considered foraccreditation, engineering programs must prepare graduates for the practice of engineering at theprofessional level.” Criterion 3, Program Outcomes and Assessment, states, “Engineeringprograms must demonstrate that

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William Clark; Lisa Comparini; Anthony Dixon; David DiBiasio

is a great advantage compared tomany other methods. The next challenge is to use the results to improve the learning process.AknowledgementsThe project was funded by the U. S. Dept. of Education (FIPSE) under grant numberP116B60511. Page 6.993.7Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright2001, American Society for Engineering EducationReferences1. Clark, W.M., DiBiasio, D., and Dixon, A. G., "A Project-based, Spiral Curriculum for Introductory Courses in Chemical Engineering: I. Curriculum Design", Chem. Eng. Ed., v. 34(3), 222-228 (2000).2. Dixon, A.G

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, decision, implementation, and confirmation) usually occurs in "a time-orderedsequence."4 The nine members assembled for the panel on enabling and sustaining engineeringeducation innovation seem to be firmly established in the implementation stage and bordering onthe confirmation stage. This observation may be applicable to the state of current engineeringeducation in this country; the Foundation’s current investigation of engineering education maycontribute empirical evidence to support this observation.Bibliography1. Rogers, E. M., Diffusions of innovations, 4th ed. New York: The Free Press (1995), 11.2. Sheppard, S. D., and Silva, M. K., Taking stock--A study of engineering education at the end of the twentiethcentury and beyond (in progress

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amenable to significant change in this regard.Bibliography1. Fournier-Bonilla, S., Watson, K., Malavé, C., Froyd, J. "Managing Curricula Change in Engineering atTexas A&M University," International Journal of Engineering Education, to appearPRUDENCE MERTONPrudence Merton is a qualitative researcher and adult educator with Peace Corps training experience. Ms.Merton has a Masters of Science degree in Horticulture from Texas A&M University and is currentlyworking on her dissertation in Adult Education that she plans to complete by December 2001.CAROLYN CLARKM. Carolyn Clark is an associate professor of adult education at Texas A&M University. She received herdoctorate in adult education from the University of Georgia in 1991. Her research

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discussed subsequently.Bibliography1. Sims, R., “Usability and Learning in on-Line Environments, A Case Study of Interactive Encounters”, retrieved from http://www.unb.ca/wwwdev/naweb2k/papers/simspaper/html in November, 20002. enter the Merlot web address3. Baylor, A., “Cognitive Strategies for Training with Technology”, TechTrends, 44(5), p 13-15.4. Rodenburg, D., “Web-based Learning: Extending the Paradigm”, retrieved from http://horizon.unc.edu/TS.commentary/1999-11.asp in October, 2000.5. Smaldo, S., “Instructional Design”, TechTrends, 43(5), p 9-13.6. Williams, M., Distance Learning: the Essential Guide, SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, 19997. Ubell, R., “Engineers turn to e-learning”, IEEE Spectrum, October, 2000, p 59-63REBECCA

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. But it does not guarantee that the listener will be able tomanage differences in culture.One completely bilingual and bicultural middle manager at a U. S.-owned multinationalhealth care products manufacturing plant in Costa Rica, provided an example of howmisinterpretation occurs even when local personnel speak English. At his plant, Englishis a prerequisite for employment as a manager. In a training session for middlemanagers regarding a new product, the native English-speaking trainer from theheadquarters in the U.S. gave instructions to the group to take apart a product beforereassembling it with new components. The bilingual-bicultural participant was able to dothe task easily, but not one of the others could. The problem was that

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. 5 References [1] Z. Nababi, (1993). VHDL, Analysis and Modeling of Digital Systems, McGraw- Hill. [2] S. Yalamanchili, (1998). VHDL Starters Guide, Prentice Hall. [3] D. E. Ott and T. J. Wilderotter, (1994). A designers Guide to VHDL Synthesis, Kluwer Academic. [4] J. D. Carpinelli, (1993). "Bridging the Gap between Digital Circuits and Page 6.457.12 Microprocessors", IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 36, No. 3, 334 - 339. 12[5] G. Brown, N. Vrana, (1995). "A Computer Architecture Laboratory Course Using Programmable Logic", IEEE Transaction on Education, Vol. 38, No

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agriculturalpractices to reduce non-point source loading to receiving waters; (p) implement pollutionprevention strategies in production facilities; (q) reduce water consumption byencouraging conservation and reuse; ( r ) improve flood control and flood protection; and(s) work toward implementing international integrated water resources management.This list could go on and on, but it serves to illustrate the extent of environmentalengineering involvement that will be necessary in just one region of the world as it seeksto implement its Water Vision.3. Engineering Education and the World Water VisionThe World Water Vision can succeed through the efforts of thousands of individualsthroughout the world working toward the common goal of insuring water security