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previous classes that took the course in thestandard offering delivery format.Background The College of Engineering at North Carolina State University implemented a program inthe late 1970’s to deliver graduate level credit courses to non-resident students to pursue Mastersdegrees in Engineering. Courses were initially delivered live by faculty who traveled to a selectnumber of state sites where the students met for classes. Regular university credit was providedfor these offerings to fulfill graduate degree requirements. As the demand for universityaccredited off-campus educational course offerings rapidly grew across the state this method ofdelivery became cumbersome and unworkable. A more convenient delivery method was needed that

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) minorities has increasedsteadily from 2.9% in 1972-73 to 9.2% in 1994-951. Even with the increase, Reichert & Absherreport that the degrees awarded are stills less than half of the combined representation of theseminorities in the U. S. population.Almost thirty years ago a national effort was launched to increase the number of minorities in thefield of engineering1. The effort has met with some success and participation by minorities inscience and engineering is at an all time high. Many major corporations now support the thesisthat diversity makes good business sense. Hispanic, and Native Americans, however, still remainsignificantly underrepresented in science and engineering with roughly half of the science andengineering degrees awarded to

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Thomas Stanford; Michael Aherne; Duane D. Dunlap; Mel Mendelson; Donald Keating

address basic marketing questions such as:• What is our market, and what makes it fundamentally different from the target market for either MBA programs or research-based graduate engineering science programs?• What career-related ETL product(s) does the market want?• What price is the market willing to pay for new learning products which fundamentally meet their needs?• What can we deliver vis-à-vis “total product,” based on what the market is willing to pay?• What are the most effective and responsive delivery strategies and under what circumstances?• How do we promote ETL graduate professional education as a “new product introduction” that meets an increasingly unmet stakeholder community need, without disenfranchising the

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achievement: an update", Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Vol. 28, No. 6, 1997, 652-679.2. Tierney, W., "The parameter of affirmative action: Equity and excellence in the academy", Review of Educational Research, Vol. 67, No. 2, 1997, 165-196.3. Fennema, E., "What Affirmative Action has Contributed to Educational Research", Educational Researcher, Vol. 27, No. 9, 1998, 5-7.4. Greene, M., "Moral and Political Perspectives: The Tensions of Choice", Educational Researcher, Vol. 27, No. 9, 1998, 18-20.5. Johnson, E. S., "College women's performance in math-science curriculum: A case study", College and Page 6.857.10

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the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliography 1. Janet Eyler, Dwight E. Giles, Jr., Where’s the Learning in Service Learning?, Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, CA, 1999 2. Edmund Sang (Editor), Projects that Matter – Concepts and Models for Service Learning in Engineering, AAHE (American Association for Higher Education) Series on Service Learning in the disciplines, published by AAHE, One DuPont Circle, Suite 360, Washington, D.C. 20036- 1110 3. Arthur Levine, Jeanette S. Cureton, When Hope and Fear Collide – A Portrait of Today’s College Student

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2 * 3.0 * 4.0133Step 7 – Calculate the input conductance of the patch fed on the edge corresponding to the feed line. (Note this equation is highly simplified, and well suited for practical purpose designs). G= l  [2π (h) / 100]2  2.3509 E −2  1 + = E −3 [ 1 + 2π (1.59 ) / 100 ]2   = 1.959 E −3 S 120 * 0.1

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Shari Kimmel; Fadi Deek; Howard Kimmel

Session 2793 Applying Problem-Solving Heuristics to a Freshman Engineering Course Shari J. Kimmel1, Fadi P. Deek2, Howard S. Kimmel2 1 Penn State Berks-Lehigh Valley College and Lehigh University 2 New Jersey Institute of TechnologyAbstractMany students enter undergraduate engineering programs lacking basic problem solving skills.We have adapted the problem solving heuristics originally used in a computer scienceenvironment to an introductory engineering class to help freshman engineering students

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been on thefaculty since 1969. He also held the position of Professor of Management of Technologybetween 1991 and 1998. He is the Director of the Sloan Center for Online Education atOlin and Babson Colleges and is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of AIMBE.AcknowledgementsThe following faculty members of the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineeringcontributed to the materials in this paper. Their contributions and hard work as thefounding faculty of the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering were essential to thecreation of materials in this paper.Hillary Thompson Berbeco, Ph.DDiana Dabby, Ph. DWoodie Flowers, Ph.D, Distinguished PartnerDaniel Frey, Ph.DStephen S. Holt, Ph.DDavid V. Kerns, Jr., Ph.D., P.E.Sherra E. Kerns, Ph.DRichard K. Miller

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Session 2230Appendix A: Student SurveyEE 461 Technology SurveyMy Class is: Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior Graduate OtherSex: Male FemaleRacial/Ethnic Origin: African American Hispanic White, Non-Hispanic American Indian Asian/Pacific Islander Resident Alien Non-resident AlienAge:The grade I expect to receive is: A B C D F S UPercentage of classes I attended: 0-25% 25-50% 50-75% 75-90% 90-100% Not applicablePercentage of classes for which I completed the assigned work or reading before class: 0-25% 25-50

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Session 3454 Campus Entrepreneurship Opportunities David F. Barbe, J. Robert Baum, Karen S. Thornton University of Maryland, College ParkAbstractThis paper discusses a new and unique undergraduate entrepreneurship program at the Universityof Maryland. - The Hinman Campus Entrepreneurship Opportunities (CEOs) Program. TheCEOs Program was initiated in the fall semester of 2000 for students interested in startingentrepreneurial ventures when they graduate. The University and its corporate partners providemany resources, activities, courses, technologies and services to assist the

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participation, membership of the Engineering StudentSociety, the Women in Engineering Network, separate engineering departments….Several T shirts epitomized values and attitudes that students might have around theirengineering education. One of the most memorable, and repeated over several years withminor variations, was the ‘Super E’ T shirt. Modelled on the Superman logo, in the samecolors, the Big S was replaced by a big E. To me this design reflected the pride, superiorityand sense of belonging that engineering students had. This T shirt was worn any day or anytime, but particularly when groups of students wished to be identified as engineers such aswhen they visited a school, or had an organised water fight against the business students.In recent

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. Ambrose, S.A., Amon, C.H., “Systematic Design of a First-year Mechanical Engineering Course at Carnegie Mellon University”. Journal of Engineering Education, Vol.86, No.2, April 1997, p. 173 181.9. Besterfield-Sacre, M., Atman, C.J., Shuman, L.J., “Characteristics of Freshman Engineering Students: Models for Determining Student Attrition in Engineering”. Journal of Engineering. Education, Vol.86, No.2, July 1997, p. 139-150.10. Demetry, C., Groccia, J.E., “A Comparative Assessment of Students’ Experiences in Two Instructional Formats of an Introductory Materials Science Course”. Journal of Engineering. Education, Vol.86, No.3, July 1997, p. 203-210.11. Richards, L.G., Carlson-Skalak, S., “Faculty Reactions to

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Alan Gomez

Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationrelated to materials science and technology3.VII. Details of Materials Science InstructionStudents in the materials science class have many different topics and experiments to go throughin the one-year class. Historical developments and manufacturing processes are major parts ofeach unit. The Pacific Northwest Laboratory in Richland, WA and Batelle Institute developed thiscurriculum initially in the late 1980’s under support from the U.S. Department of Energy. Areasdiscussed include metals, ceramics, polymers and composites.In the metals unit, students explore the many

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

the atmosphere in the classroom is more conducive to learning. My teachingevaluations improved after ETW: although I gave tough exams, the students rated my teachingeffectiveness highly. Comments I see frequently see on my evaluations now is “veryenthusiastic” and “the instructor made the learning fun”. The students have also appreciated theorganization of the board notes: “the notes on the board are great”.Dave: I won the Department of Civil Engineering 's Outstanding Teacher Award for the 1999-2000 school year. This award was determined by votes from the junior and senior civilengineering undergraduate students. I found that learning the student’s first names was veryrewarding both for the students and myself. In fact, when I taught an

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Youki Terada; Pam Sirivedhin; Flora McMartin; Alice Agogino; Ann McKenna

ofCalifornia at Berkeley. We especially want to acknowledge the contributions of Paul Gray, Co-Principal Investigator and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost; Buford Price, Co-PrincipalInvestigator and Dean of Physical Sciences; David Auslander, Mechanical Engineering; BruceBirkett, Physics; Alan Weinstein, Mathematics; George Johnson, Mechanical Engineering; andRonald Gronsky, Material Science.Bibliography1. Gray, Paul, and Price, Buford, “Integrating Calculus, Chemistry, Physics and Engineering Education throughTechnology Enhanced Visualization, Simulation and Design Cases and Outcomes Assessment,” GE Fund Grant,1997.2. Synthesis Coalition, http://www.synthesis .org3. Aglan, H. and S. Ali, "Hands-On Experiences: An Integral Part of Engineering

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a surface and the curve is the intersection of the two surfaces: F(x, y, z) = 0 G(x, y, z) = 0 ii. three equations, each displaying how a point, P(x, y, z) is controlled by a parameter: x = f(u) y = g(u) z = h(u)Here if u represents time, t, the three equations describe how the point, P(x, y, z) moves withtime. The parameter, u, sometimes is chosen to represent the distance s along the curve from afixed point P0(x0, y0, z0) to the moving point P(x, y, z

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fallen cow 10—Launching “Stealth” craft 12—Aftermath of Instructor Baptism 11—Stability testing Page 6.545.7II. “Mission: Preposterous”Problem Presentation. This project was a take off on the Tom Cruise movie, “Mission:Impossible” (MI). On the assignment day, the instructor walked into class, gave eachgroup a videotape and left. Each group had to find a way to view the tape. The instructorwith the help of a teaching assistant made the tape. The tape mimicked the manner inwhich the 1960’s television show “Mission: Impossible” started. A tape was always given toa Mr. Phelps. He would play it and be

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andemploying static equilibrium conditions to analyze internal reaction forces in multi-componentmechanical systems. By analyzing both the simple and the commercial pliers, students shouldgain insights into the relative advantages and disadvantages of vector vs. scalar solutiontechniques. Through the post-lab exercise, students are introduced to the concept of analyzing amechanism’s parameters individually (using MechANEX software) to determine whichparameter(s) has the most significant impact on a particular aspect of a design. For example, inthe post-lab assignment students vary the geometric dimensions of the pliers in an attempt tomaximize its mechanical advantage (defined here as clamping force divided by force applied atthe handle) while keeping

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Raul Mihali; Damir Vamoser; Tarek Sobh

Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationBibiography1. Aarts, E. H. L. , Lenstra, Jan Karel, Aarts, Emile L., Local Search in Combinatorial Optimization, Wiley-Interscience Series inDiscrete Mathematics and Optimization, 19972. Greene, Daniel H., Knuth, Donald E., Mathematics for The Analysis o Algorithms, Third Edition, Birkhauser, 19903. Dasgupta, Pallab, Chakrabarti, P. P., Desarkar, S. C., Multiobjective Heuristic Search: An Introduction to Intelligent SearchMethods for Multicriteria Optimization, Kaufmann Publishers; , 19994. Patrascoiu, Octavian, Marian, Gheorghe, Mitroi, Nicolae, Elements of

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professions.Over the past decade several initiatives have sought to address this problem. For example theAssociation of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) launched Project 3000 by 2000 in 1991 in aneffort to increase minority enrollment in U.S. medical schools by establishing partnershipsbetween K-12 school systems, colleges, and health professions schools1. Initially the project wasvery successful; between 1991 and 1994 the number of minority applicants to medical schoolsincreased by 40% and the number of matriculants increased by 27%2. The mid-1990's, however,brought successful challenges to affirmative action. These included Proposition 209, which was

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Edgar Conley; Linda Riley

. Page 6.709.9 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education6 Seymour, E. and N.M. Heweitt, Talking About Leaving-Factors Contributing to High Attrition Rates AmongScience, Mathematics and Engineering Undergraduate Majors, Final Report to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation onan Ethnographic Inquiry at Seven Institutions, Bureau of Sociological Research, University of Colorado: Boulder,April 1994.7 Tobias, S., They’re Not Dumb, They’re Different: Stalking the Second Tier. Research Corporation, Tucson, AZ,1990.8 Cross, K.P., “On College Teaching”. Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 82, no. 1, 1993, pp

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Protection (Patents) and Project Evaluation 35 Review of Session 5 work and out-of-class project development. 36 Protecting an invention through patents: UK and US patent laws. Patent searching. 37 The teams begin a patent search in the area(s) of their invention or project. 38 Peer contribution rating form. Tips on effective technical communication. 39 Sketching lab: Demonstration of complex sketching skills using the right brain. 40 Q&A. Teams complete a thorough patent search in the area of their project. Draft of report. Table 3c N1D041 Syllabus—Part 3: Marketing Your Idea or InventionSession 7 — "Selling" an Innovative Idea 41 Teams share the learning and insight gained from their patent

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Linda Broadbelt; L. Catherine Brinson; Kathleen Issen; Brad Kinsey

details for upcoming sessions. The faculty advisor made finaldecisions regarding possible panelists, contacting them individually to describe the series, thetopic(s) and to invite them to participate. The coordinator also contacted a few potentialpanelists who were known personally. Four to six panelists from different engineeringdisciplines were obtained for each event. The faculty advisor served as both a panelist and Page 6.800.4 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationmoderator during the

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tolearn how to implement his ideas.Most of the buyers in the Robotics Division were ex-engineers and were in their 50's. Whilethey were engineers, many of them felt Megamation was causing Robotics to migrate too faraway from their technological strengths and were not shy about voicing their opinions. It wasclear to Butch that these " whining wienies" as he called them, simply weren't "on the team"and he was in the process of driving them out of the company or, as a last resort, terminatingthem when they could "not meet their numbers." The disadvantage of terminating themimmediately was that Robotics always had to provide an attractive severance package inexchange for the employee's signature on a document that promised they would not sue

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

Student • I did this every lesson. I • Instructor demonstrated felt very comfortable depth of knowledge. pointing out when my (Scored above notes differed from the Department average). text and when I felt a text example was worth reviewing in depth.Assign design teams. In the real world engineers do not get to pick and choose who they want towork with. The professor should assign the teams based on some parameter(s) (background ofcourses, surveyed skills, in

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Session 2526 A Laboratory Experiment in Linear Series Voltage Regulators Jeffrey S. Franzone University of MemphisAbstractMany advanced electronics courses cover linear voltage regulators from the “black-box” (or IC)perspective. Although this perspective is valid and useful, it doesn’t give students muchopportunity in a laboratory setting to deeply investigate the behavior of the major parts of theregulator, its characteristics, and the reinforcement of transistor theory. Many “canned” linearvoltage regulator labs favor the “quick-and-dirty” approach