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the field of Information Technology, and the number of annual Page 6.525.5engineering graduates (23,000 per year) will soon be increased.”Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright Ó 2001, American Society for Engineering Education” Abstract 124 - 60 International* The dual system of Higher Education in France (with the "Universités" and the "GrandesEcoles") make France a special case, but, with the harmonisation currently taking place withinEurope together with the phenomenon of globalisation in the field of

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. from the University ofUtah. Wayne teaches four transportation courses and one course in statistics and engineering economics. Page 6.883.11Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education

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

Session 2793 The ExCEEd Teaching Workshop: Hints to Successful Teaching Ronald Welch, Joseph Hitt, Janet Baldwin, David Bentler, David Clarke, Shawn Gross United States Military Academy/Roger Williams University/ University of Kentucky/ Clemson University/Villanova UniversityAbstractThe purpose of this paper is to present successful teaching hints identified by one team as a resultof their experience in the ExCEEd (Excellence in Civil Engineering Education) TeachingWorkshop (ETW) and proven successful during the course of

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Ifte Choudhury

collaborative learning: A practical guide to students and teachers (pp. 31-44).Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co. (1994).13. Seymour, J., Goings, D., & Vincent, A. Factors contributing to success in a microcomputer course. Perceptualand Motor Skills, 79, 1338 (1994).14. Rose, R. J., Hall, C. W., & Bolen, L. M. Locus control and college students’ approaches to learning.Psychological Reports, 79, 163-171 (1996).IFTE CHOUDHURYIfte Choudhury is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Construction Science. He received a B. Arch. fromBangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, an M. Phil. in Architecture from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in England, and a Ph. D. in Architecture from Texas A&M University. Dr

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seven years, as to a college professor, for travel, research, or rest…. Also called "sabbatical leave".Faculty expectations are that a sabbatical leave may allow them to study and/or work in areasrelated to the areas they currently teach and/or do research in, may allow them to study or workin new areas, and may allow them to rest and recuperate (R&R) from the rigors of university life.A sabbatical leave may allow a history faculty member to travel to Italy for a year andinvestigate the history of aspects of the Roman empire. A sabbatical leave for an engineering orengineering technology faculty member may involve work in an industrial setting to gainknowledge of the applications of theory normally taught by the faculty member. Since

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in the College of Engineering at ThePennsylvania State University, and serves as the Director of the college’s EngineeringLeadership Development Minor. Dr. Horner co-teaches the capstone “Creativity,Innovation, and Change” course and other leadership and management courses. Dr.Horner received a B.S. degree in General Engineering from West Point, his M.S. inTransportation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and M.A. and Ph.D. inSociology from Stanford University. He actively consults on a variety of leadership andtransportation systems issues.JACK V. MATSONJack Matson is Professor of Environmental Engineering at The Pennsylvania StateUniversity. He was Director of the Leonhard Center for Innovation and the Enhancementof

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Merredith Portsmore; Chris Rogers

the funding of this workalong with LEGO Corp., NASA, and the many teachers and students that have been involvedwith this project.Bibliography1. URL: http://www.ni.com ; National Instruments.2. Baum, D., Zurcher, R., Dave Baum's Definitive Guide to LEGO Mindstorms. (Technology In Action) 1 APress (1999)3. URL: http://www.dcpmicro.com ; DCP Microdevelopments LimitedCHRIS ROGERSChris Rogers is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at Tufts University. He got all his degrees atStanford University. He spends much of his time either playing with LEGO bricksor looking at the behavior ofparticles in a turbulent airflow.MERREDITH PORTSMOREMerredith Portsmore graduated from Tufts University with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MA

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, Inc. in Houston as alaboratory technician and with C&S Metal Fabricators in Houston as the factory supervisor. Scott received his B.S.in Engineering Technology from Texas A&M University in May 1995.Dr. YESH P. SINGHYesh P. Singh is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio(UTSA). He also serves as Chair of ME Graduate Program and Director of the Engineering Machine Shop. Hejoined Mechanical Engineering at UTSA in September 1985 after 23 years of broad-based hands-on MechanicalDesign experience in industries in USA, formal USSR, and India. He was elected to ASME Fellow grade in 1992

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validity of institutionalized rulesystems without necessarily believing the rules are fair, right, or appropriate. Institutionalizationoccurs as individuals find it expedient to comply with the rules. Indicators of regulativeinstitutionalization processes (as discussed by ECSEL participants) include:a) Accreditation: By 2001, all engineering schools must be reviewed under new Accrediting Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) criteria which require that colleges demonstrate that their students have achieved skill competencies in areas such as design, communication, and teamwork. Many ABET-required competencies are introduced in ECSEL first-year courses. ECSEL participants believed that ABET’s new requirements legitimized their

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and R. Johnson, Incorporating the design and use of surveys with other engineering assessment methods under Criteria 2000 guidelines, In Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference. American Society for Eng. Education, 1999. 2. M.D. Aldridge and L.D. Benefield, Assessing a specific program, In How do you measure success, pages 27–34. ASEE Professional Books, 1998. 3. CIS Department, Undergraduate programs, available at http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/Academic- Programs/Undergraduate/index.html. 4. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Engineering Criteria 2000, In How do you mea- sure success, pages 13–16. ASEE Professional Books, 1998. 5. J. Lohmann, EC2000: The Georgia Tech Experience, Journal of

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1996, pp. 27-3010. Richards, L. G., “Lights, Camera, Teach!,” ASEE Prism, February 1997, pp. 24-2711. Stice, J. E., “10 Habits of Highly Effective Teachers,” ASEE Prism, November 1998, pp. 28-3112. Wankat, P., and F. Oreovicz, “How Much is Enough?,” ASEE Prism, September 2000, p. 4113. Klinger, A., C. J. Finelli, and D. D. Budny, “Improving the Classroom Environment,” Proceedings of the 30thAnnual ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Kansas City, MO, October 200014. Magnan, R., 147 Practical Tips for Teaching Professors, Atwood Publishing (Madison, Wisconsin), 1990JEFFREY L. NEWCOMERJeffrey L. Newcomer is an Assistant Professor of Manufacturing Engineering Technology at Western WashingtonUniversity. He received a B.S. in 1988 and M.Eng

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Eric Zimmerman; Donna Dorminey

ZIMMERMANEric Zimmerman is a lieutenant colonel in the Army Corps of Engineers, an Associate Professor of MechanicalEngineering, and Director of the Mechanical Engineering Research Center at the U.S. Military Academy at WestPoint, NY. He is a licensed professional engineer and provides thermal technical consulting to Army weaponsdevelopment programs. Eric Zimmerman recently began giving teaching seminars on “less is more in theclassroom.” He has a B.S. degree from West Point, a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from LSU and a Ph.D. fromthe Georgia Institute of Technology. Page 6.245.5

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Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationadjunct faculty member at Jackson Community College and Lawrence Technological University.MICHELLE L. WESTMichelle West is currently an Environmental Engineering master’s student at the University of Michigan. She received aB.S. in both Civil and Environmental Engineering and Natural Resources and Environment from the University ofMichigan. As a graduate student, Michelle served as Graduate Student Instructor for Fluid Mechanics, the course in whichthe CEAL program was piloted. In addition to consulting, she is involved with a collaborative research project in remotesensing involving the Department of Electrical Engineering and the United States Forest Service in California. Outside ofthe

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computing is, who the major players in the industry are, and how it can be used tomonitor and control remote processes. Session attendees will also see a case study of remote-control computing software in operation, monitoring and controlling a plant floor productionsystem.IntroductionNetworking technologies, and especially the Internet, have become a major component ofapplication systems. As we teach the design and implementation of process control systems inthe Engineering curriculum, we must recognize that these systems will require capabilities forcontrol and support from remote locations. For example, the need for remote control may bedriven by the high cost of a particular process. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory uses remoteprocess control

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of engineering and technology. However, inteaching thermodynamics, it is essential to teach a systematic problem-solving methodology inorder that the the scientific concepts can be mastered. Thermodynamics is not a linear subject.In fact, it seems to me that it has a triangular structure, consisting of Principles, Processes, andProperties (Figure 1). In each of these three areas, there are numerous equations. Until theyunderstand the structure of the subject, students tend to be overwhelmed by the number ofequations, constants, and parameters. They want an example for every possible kind of problem,so that they can know how to get the answers to homework and exam problems. Rather thandoing that, which is really impossible, I teach them a

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economic analysis of the prospective storage facility for a power plant. Their efforts in thepreliminary design predicted that a 2.25 million standard cubic feet storage facility could beeconomically competitive with conventional natural gas storage if multiple cycles per yearwere involved. Their in-depth analysis and first-hand laboratory experience proved to be aunique learning experience in energy storage problems.Community Service and Student DesignTo teach engineering capstone design courses, there are many approaches available as toprocedure and course content. One approach that we have found meritorious has been theinclusion of a community service component in the statement of the problem. By communityservice is meant an innovative design

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Martha N. Cyr; Barbara Bratzel; Ben Erwin

Engineering Division Summer Meeting. June 21-25, WashingtonD.C.Cyr, M., Miragila, V., Nocera T., Rogers, C. A Low-Cost, Innovative Methodology forTeaching Engineering Through Experimentation. Journal of Engineering, Vol. 86, No. 2Erwin, B., Cyr, M., Osborne, J., Rogers, C.. Middle School Engineering with LEGO andLabVIEW. Proceedings of National Instruments Week August 1998, Austin, TX, EducationCategory.Portsmore, Merredith, ROBOLAB: Intuitive Robotic Programming Software to Support LifeLong Learning, APPLE Learning Technology Review, Spring/Summer 1999.Rogers, C.B., LEGO Building Blocks and LabVIEW Teach Laboratory Skills, InstrumentationNewsletter, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1996.BARBARA BRATZELBarbara Bratzel is a middle-school science teacher at Shady Hill

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learning in physics will be presented. In addition, the results of astudent feedback questionnaire will be shared. This study should have broad-based applicationsfor other educators within the domains of SMET (Science, Math, Engineering, and Technology)education, particularly those interested in integrated curricula.I. IntroductionThe primary purpose of teaching is to facilitate student learning. However, many traditionalteaching methods have clearly been shown to encourage passive rather than active learning 1. Inaddition, traditional instructional methods have proven inadequate in promoting deep learningand long-term retention of important concepts. Students in traditional classrooms acquire mostof their knowledge through classroom lectures and

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

USMA for engineering professors with less than four years of teaching experience,i.e., civil, mechanical, aerospace, electrical, chemical, etc. T4E was such a huge success1 thatASCE decided to continue the workshop under the moniker ExCEEd with one caveat: theprogram is offered to only civil engineering professors with less than four years of teachingexperience. To date, there have been three offerings of ETW: in 1999 and 2000 at USMA and in2000 at the University of Arkansas with each session having 24 participants. There were nineobservers from the ASCE Program Design Workshop2 at USMA in 1999 and six observers (twoeach from ASME, IEEE, and AIChE) at USMA in 2000.Modifications to the original one-week T4E program have been relatively minor

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. "Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Education"Career Development Aspect of the Mentoring ProgramIn addition to psychosocial aspect of mentoring programs, one of the major objectives of amentoring program is to enable new faculty to develop professionally and to improve theirteaching and instructional methods. Technologically-relevant seminars and workshops, such as,"Creating an Effective Course Syllabus," or "Entering the Realm of the Smart Classroom," helpnew faculty work smarter, not harder, and thus adopt better and more productive teachingbehaviors. The ultimate beneficiaries of successful mentoring programs

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William J. Norman; Jerald Rounds

. Page 6.151.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationFocusing these positive trends on the impediments facing the creation of new specialtyconstruction academic programs yields a unique solution. Forward-looking specialty contractorsand academics are working together to develop new curriculum in existing academic programs.Industry research funds are attracting younger academically qualified faculty with generalconstruction background to refocus upon a specialty sector. Media technology and an orientationtoward institutional collaboration are prompting curriculum sharing among faculty from

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six-phase approach can be used in a variety of courses,and by starting these engineering technology transfer students early in their upper division Page 6.953.1 Session 1648curriculum with this approach, the hope is that they will continue to use this methodology inother courses.Step 1 - Understand the Problem statementThe first step in this multi-step problem solving approach is to understand the problemstatement. If a student does not know what needs to be solved, it is impossible for that studentto complete the assignment, whether it is a homework assignment or

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Page 6.468.10the classes and exercises we have developed to promote ethics-across-the-curriculum. The Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationnotion of empowerment potentially provides an alternative standard for assessment. Simplyput, we can ask whether what we do in the classroom ethically empowers our students.AcknowledgementsSeveral people and agencies made this paper possible, and we would like to thank them. Wewrote this paper at a suggestion of Dr. Vivian Weil from the Illinois Institute of Technology(Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions). Many of the ideas we touch upon

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Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationportfolio system itself. Using web technology increases accessibility by students and simplifies anumber of design decisions. Figure 2We use servlets to generate the page provided to users. Since the artifact collection is dynamic,when a student enters the system through login they are presented with the contents of theirstorage space based on the view they have chosen. A student may choose to view the collectionbased on a particular course or assignment. Figure 3 demonstrates how the system provides viewinformation to the student. In this particular case, the buttons on the left side of the windowindicate which views, in this case semesters

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the author aims toprovide a better background of the geometrical base of computer graphical tools and toaddress Computer Graphics in the Architectural Engineering Curriculum not merely as arepresentational and visualization tool but also as a means of extending spatialunderstanding and as a method of informing the design process. At the same time theintegration of geometric concepts is expected to allow students to keep up with emergingtrends in digital technologies and broaden geometrical thought that is independent of themethods of each time. In the following sections the way that geometry has been integratedin two courses on Computer Graphics is presented.Introduction to Computer GraphicsThe “Introduction to Computer Graphics” course is

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Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &ExpositionCopyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education”with the development and teaching of the course since its inception. She has frequently team-taught theclass with Professor Kist and also Dr. Lin. Dr. Goldberg received her Ph.D. in Higher Education fromSeton Hall University, two M.A.s from Kean University (formerly Kean College of NJ), one in ReadingSpecialization and the other in Counseling, and a B.A. in German/English Education from RutgersUniversity.THOMAS M. KISTThomas M. Kist is a Senior Professor at DeVry Institute in North Brunswick, New Jersey who teaches inthe Electronics Technology, Information Systems, and Telecommunications programs. He also serves as

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Session 2148 Experimenting with Learning and Teaching Methods Earl F. Owen Brigham Young UniversityAbstractThis paper describes my current involvement in an ongoing experiment with learning andteaching methods in engineering/ technology courses. In particular, it contrasts student-motivated with teacher-motivated methods of learning. In the latter approach, the instructordetermines his students’ program of learning. All topics of study are prescribed by the teacherand explained in his or her classroom. Specific tasks to be performed as homework

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Session 1441 Taking off the Training Wheels: the migration from print journals to ejournals at the University of Arizona. Maliaca Strom-Oxnam Science-Engineering Library, University of ArizonaWhen we were children, we all learned how to ride a bike and eventually most of us learned thatyou have to take off the training wheels. That’s exactly what happened at the University ofArizona Library, hereafter referred to as the UA Library, when it implemented its "noduplication" policy on the purchase of print and electronic resources. The UA Library took off itstraining

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theproblem of cold fingers and the resulting sketch is more sketch than image!To supplement the free-hand sketch we introduce more technological methodologies.These range from simple 35mm cameras through video imaging and digital cameras. Theobvious advantage of these is that the images captured are exact images of the work.Unlike the sketch, the film or digital images capture the precise image or, with video, theprocess. These also provide the opportunity to use the images either directly with the Page 6.269.3 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001

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Hampshire, 1992.8. Lippmann, R.P., “An Introduction to Computing with Neural Nets,” IEEE ASSP Magazine, April 1987, pp.4-22MICHAEL AMOSMichael D. Amos is currently a graduate student at the University of Maine pursuing a Master’s degree in ComputerEngineering. Mr. Amos received a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering with an additional major inElectrical Engineering from the University of Maine in 1999, and an Associates of Applied Science degree inElectromechanical Technology from Central Maine Technical College in 1991.BRUCE SEGEEBruce E. Segee is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maine. Hisresearch interests include Instrumentation, Automation, and Intelligent Systems. He is the Director of