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male students with similar grades.17, 18Anecdotal evidence suggests many men find women students in engineering “unnatural” orunfeminine, marginalizing them through the use of pejoratives such as ugly, sexually deviant or“too busy to be attractive.”14 When these perceptions and related behaviors are acted out in theclassroom, hallways and laboratories, and tolerated by student peers, faculty and staff, they arereinforced in the lives of both men and women.These barriers and disincentives prevent young women from entering SME fields and contributeto the "leaky pipeline" of women in engineering at both the undergraduate and graduate level.14Thus, one technique for increasing the number of women who enter and stay in engineering is tocreate a

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Session 2558A Method for Delivering Dynamic Hyperlinked Streaming Instructional Content Over a Wireless Environment Through the Use of Active Server Pages and XML Technology Carlos R. Morales Purdue UniversityAbstractThere is a tremendous need for delivering video based instruction and supportivedocumentation in the form of schematics, illustration, and animation to students outsideof the confines of their traditional classroom or laboratory environment. Many solutionsaddress the delivery of training materials using Internet technology, but currently, there isno

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BasicProgramming is the only course prerequisite to CMST 222. The students in this class come froma variety of majors including Mechanical Engineering Technology, Electronic EngineeringTechnology, and Computer Engineering Technology. Consequently, the class is made up of adiversity of backgrounds, abilities, and technical interests.The course is a three credit hour course that meets three days a week in a lecture setting. Thestudents do homework and laboratory assignments on their own time. The course works on atraditional scheme of introducing students to top-down program design. The first half of thesemester is devoted to understanding constructs, creating flowcharts, and developing algorithms.During the second half of the semester, the class was

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Carlos Sun; Ralph A. Dusseau; Douglas Gabauer; Beena Sukumaran; Douglas Cleary

to take the clinicclasses irrespective of their own engineering discipline. The students receive two creditsper semester for the Junior/Senior clinic. Table 1: Overview of Engineering Clinic Content Year Engineering clinic theme (Fall) Engineering clinic theme (Spring) Freshman Engineering Measurements Competitive Assessment Laboratory Sophomore Discipline Specific Design Interdisciplinary Design Modules Junior Multidisciplinary Research and Design Multidisciplinary Research and Design Senior Multidisciplinary Research and Design Multidisciplinary Research and Design

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. Integration of material and assessment most commonly takes theform of problems sets, laboratory exercises, exams of various types, with some limiteduse of various types of cases1. Most assignments are individually completed andpresented, and more in-depth contact occurs with an individual professor usually within a Page 6.777.1specific to predetermined research interest. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education On the other hand, the weekend format is designed for a student engaged in fulltime professional

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Matthew Ohland; Cynthia Finelli

All Study O&F 20 0 10 10 0 5 15 L&O II 17 0 11 6 11 6 0 L&O I 21 1 11 9 12 9 0III. Team activities and the cooperative learning environmentBoth courses in this study required team homework assignments. In addition, the first course(ECE 412) included three team laboratory assignments and a final team project, while the secondcourse (ECE 440) included a final team project. Students were expected to meet outside of nor-mal class hours to complete the assignments, and they were

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homework problems. The text integrates the interactive application so that the distance learning student will be able to use this module for self-paced education.2. Interactive Applications. One or more multimedia computer-based interactive applications are the core of each module. The applications aid the student in visualizing aspects of the modular content and meeting the other learning objectives. The interactive applications are made as intuitive as possible; however, a part of the course module is a user’s guide with examples for operating the application. This is particularly important to distance learners. The concept is to recognize that learning occurs with a number of sensory inputs (e.g., laboratory work with tactile

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Robert Taylor; Robert Green; Lesia Crumpton-Young; A. Bennett; Teresa Sappington

Engineering at Mississippi State. He works withundergraduate students throughout their college careers and manages the college’s Computer Initiative whichmandates all students have a computer. Prior to this position Mr. Green was a research engineer with the DiagnosticInstrumentation and Analysis Laboratory at MSU. He is currently President of the Mississippi Engineering Society.ROBERT P. TAYLORBob Taylor is the Associate Dean for Academics and Administration in the College of Engineering at MississippiState. He is also a professor of Mechanical Engineering and has many years of experience as both a teacher andresearcher. Dr. Taylor is responsible for the undergraduate and graduate academic programs and works directly withthe graduate students on

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member in the team. Students also present their projected timelines.Week # 6: Hands-on experience. Students learn about manufacturing printed circuit boards using industrial quality equipment in the school’s Mobile Electronic Manufacturing Laboratory (MEML). They use the equipment to produce a board for a sample electronic circuit and later produce a board for their projects.Week # 7: Human Factors in Engineering Design. A guest lecturer who is an expert in human factors gives a lecture on how to make the final product user friendly. The guest also guides students through discussions related to a case study in human factors in engineering design.Week

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satisfactions for both the student andinstructor.References1 Wayne Wolf and Jan Madsen, “Embedded systems education for the future,” Proceedings ofthe IEEE, 88(1), January 2000, pp. 23-30.2 Wayne Wolf, Computers as Components: Principles of Embedded Computing System Design,Morgan Kaufman, 2000.BiographyWayne Wolf is Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. Before joining Prince-ton, he was with AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ. He received all three degrees in elec-trical engineering from Stanford University. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of ACMand SPIE. Page 6.861.6 Proceedings of the 2001

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are likely to appreciate the emphasis ET programsplace on applications and preparing graduates to "hit the ground running" upon entering theirfirst professional assignment. Exhibit your institution’s TAC/ABET accredited curricula;indicate the quality and extent of laboratory experiences in your ET curricula to stress the focuson applications and preparation for service to industry. Present the results of employersatisfaction surveys performed for TAC/ABET visits, emphasizing the engineering capabilitiesof the program’s ET graduates. List the qualifications of your institution’s ET faculty, being sureto stress industry experience and PE status in addition of the usual academic credentials. Providedata on enrollments, student qualifications

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are suggested to have class averages between 75 and 85 forundergraduate courses, and 80 to 90 for graduate courses, in a scale of 100. In didacticcourses, the standard deviation is suggested to be between 5 and 12, while in laboratory ordesign courses it is around 5. With a grading system as above, the overall average of agraduating class is not expected to exceed 79 at best, which, if converted to the gradeletter system, is a C+. Table 2 shows a general summary statistics of the distribution ofgrades and their percentile from the Fall Term of 1992 to the Spring Term of 1997 for allfaculties at AUB. Table 3 shows the general grade distribution for the spring term of 1997in the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (FEA). Table 2: Semester

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EngineeringDepartment at Bradley University in Peoria, IL. He currently teaches the undergraduate control theory sequence,senior and graduate laboratories, and artificial neural networks.EUGENE S. McVEYEugene McVey received the Ph.D. degree in engineering from Purdue University in 1960. He was Instructor andAssistant Professor from 1957 to 1961 at Purdue University. From 1962 to 1994, he was Associate Professor (1961-1966) and Professor (1966-1994) at the University of Virginia. He is the author of over 140 archival publications, holds18 patents, and supervised 30 Ph.D. dissertations and 55 Master Theses during his teaching career. Page

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Purdue University in West Lafayette.Prof. Thompson founded the AOT Advanced Composite Laboratory and coordinates student services within thedepartment. His current research includes assessment, technology in the classroom, distance education, and aviationhuman factors. Page 6.223.7 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education

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William Jordan; Norman Pumphrey

this importantarea. Additionally, polymeric and composite materials were introduced. Details of this course werepresented in our 2000 ASEE paper1.The Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering programs maintained separate laboratories so thatsteel and polymers could be more completely explored by the MEs and so that portland cementconcrete could be adequately covered by the CEs. Page 6.236.2 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2001, American Society for Engineering Education ”III. Student Performance in the Materials CourseThe new lecture course has students from five of

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Paul Duesing; Kevin Schmaltz; Dan Goodrich; Pamela Schmaltz

tester to be simpler and more user-friendly. Other problems included control system limitations, difficulty maintaining apreset tire load, and premature failure of some components that were not as durable asexpected.CTI approached LSSU in early 2000 to assist with a redesign of the tester to address theissues stated above. This subsequent partnering between CTI and LSSU involved thehiring of a mechanical engineering faculty member, LSSU’s ME laboratory engineer, andseveral students, as well as the temporary use of LSSU’s Mechanical EngineeringLaboratory shop to perform the modifications. The redesign, shown in Figure 2 below,resulted in approximately 700 man-hours of faculty time, over 100 man-hours of labengineer time, and over 100 man-hours of

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in the computer laboratory with expert coaches nearbyto help. These coaches are most often undergraduate assistants who were successful in thecourse earlier and have excellent mentoring talents.Settings for the coursesTufts University: Introduction to Computers in Engineering [ EN-1 ]Steve Chapra developed and taught this course first in the Fall 1999 semester. It is a1-1/2-credit-hour course, and thus must be more limited in scope than a standard 3-credit-hourcourse. This course is taught in a single section to all engineering and computer sciencefreshmen at Tufts, about 250 students each fall semester. Lab sections are about 20 studentseach.After an introduction to computer systems, email and the Internet, there is a brief segment

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promotion and tenuredocuments.2. Course Update Forms After each semester, every faculty member turns in a course updateform, which is obtained from a department web page6. The form shows any courseimprovements made, such as new textbooks, rewritten syllabi that include student objectives orassessment measures, laboratory improvements, grants or other evidence of continuousimprovement. If no form is turned in, it is assumed the faculty member has coasted in thatcourse that semester. The course update forms produced by an individual are attached to his orher annual report. An example form is shown in the appendix. Page 6.271.3 Proceedings of

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. Page 6.17.3 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 3266TeamsPrior to the senior year ME students have a variety of teaming experiences ranging from in-course design projects, beginning with the freshman engineering course, and cooperativelearning exercises in the classroom, to laboratory courses, and participation in extra-curricularprojects (mini-baja, formula car). One objective of our senior year curriculum is to offer moreformalized teaming experiences in which the students utilize

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. Owusu hasbeen as an Associate Researcher at the Argonne National Laboratory since 1996, working on rapidprototyping technology for improvement on the manufacture of engines for airplanes. Dr. Owusu wasawarded Senior Fulbright Fellow in 1997-1998 academic year to University of Science & Technology inKumasi, Ghana. Dr. Owusu received a B.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering from the University ofRhode Island in 1975 and a Ph.D. from Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering from thePennsylvania State University at University Park campus in 1980. Page 6.290.16 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education

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Sarah Irvine; Mary Anne Lesiak; Andrea Prejean; Teresa Larkin-Hein

teachers were engagedin activities such as:• the examination of learning theories using a learning style approach,• reading the web from a critical literacy perspective, and• experiencing an interactive biology laboratory on DNA.Although technology has influenced methods and practices in almost all-educational institutions,traditional pedagogy should still be used as the foundation for all educational practices10. Theteams of teachers spent each afternoon session in a computer lab equipped with Windows98 Page 6.298.3computers learning how to use the Internet and web design tools to create constructivist-based Proceedings of the 2001

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oneclass meeting but occasionally ran into time scheduled for laboratory activities. Following alecture, the class was given a non-graded CAD drawing assignment to complete. Studentsworked on this assignment in class with the help of the instructor. They were also allowed toreceive help from other students if needed. If an assignment was not completed in class, thestudent had the option of finishing it outside of class. All non-graded assignments were turnedinto the course instructor for evaluation but not for a grade. Periodically, the class was given anassignment to be worked on for a grade. Each student individually worked this assignmentwithout any help from the instructor or from any other student. This assignment was completedin one class

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

. He held a joint appointment as Senior Engineer, Applied Physics Laboratory, University ofWashington. He had been teaching at the University of Washington since 1979. In 1991, Dr. Calkinsreceived the SAE Ralph R. Teetor Award and in 1993 won the SAE Faculty Advisor Award. More recentlyhe was recognized for outstanding teaching at the University of Washington. Page 6.26.11DR. DENNY C. DAVIS is a professor in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering at WashingtonState University, where he has served as Department Chair since 1999. He served as Associate Dean,College of Engineering and Architecture, WSU, from 1986-1998. He received

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Roman Morawski; Andrzej Krasniewski

enormously in the experience of thenew generations of students due to the omnipresence of virtual-reality technology. Theirexperimental capabilities and skills have been severely handicapped by the withdrawal of themajority of secondary schools from offering laboratory exercises supporting lectures in physics,chemistry or biology. On the other hand, their potential for abstract thinking has beenconsiderably reduced by the lack of appropriate training, implied by several factors:− predominant role of image culture in their early formation;− predominant orientation of secondary schools on the preparation of candidates for the most fashionable (after 1989) studies, viz.: business, management, law and public relations;− predominant orientation of

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opportunities.6. To expose students to advances in engineering practice and research as preparation for opportunities in professional practice and graduate education.7. To obtain resources necessary to recruit, develop, and retain faculty who are committed to the educational mission of the department and to acquire, maintain, and operate facilities and laboratory equipment appropriate to our engineering program, and to incorporate traditional and state-of-the-art educational technology and methods.3 Page 6.400.9 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

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Michael Rudisill

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”An additional use of the computer that was utilized for both the lecture and lab was the use ofMicroSim PSPICE (a circuit analysis program). The students in both classes were required tolearn to use the software and had several assignments for which the software was used either toreinforce material learned in the classroom or to prepare the students for laboratory sessions sothat they had an idea of what they were looking for before preforming the lab. An additional useof the program was the drawing of schematics required in the lab reports. These were allowed tobe hand drawn, but many students preferred the ease and appearance

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hasperformed research in environmental engineering at Parson’s Laboratories, MIT. Her current interests are inthe application of multimedia for education. Page 6.127.13Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Education

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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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Raymond Kliewer

://www.ncees.org/fundamentals/feafternoon.html 9. URL: http://www.ncees.org/publications/Feintro.htmRAYMOND M. KLIEWERRaymond M. Kliewer received his BSME, MSME and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas TechUniversity. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Technology Department at VirginiaState University and has been selected “as an ASME/ABET Mechanical Engineering TechnologyEvaluator.” He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Texas and Indiana. He worked 15 years for Brown& Root, Inc. in Houston, Texas in various engineering design, research and management capacitiesand over 11 years as a Senior Staff Research Engineer in the Research Laboratories of Inland SteelCompany in East Chicago, Indiana where he was active in

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James Bean; Aparajita Mazumder

taken in Chinese/Mexican/English Chinese, Mexican China, Mexico or UK industry (6 credits) (8 credits) Or• Chinese/European/ • Hands-on laboratory • International Mexican Technology experience (1 credit) internship placement Management (4 credits) • Chinese/Mexican/ in China/Mexico/UK• Manufacturing in China, European Civilization through IAESTE or UK and Mexico (4 credits) Course (3 credits) AIESEC