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improving thetechnical aspects of Internet course delivery while still providing college credit for the students.The lessons that we learned through this pilot project are included in the remaining sections ofthis article.For development and management of on-line courses, Northwestern State University usesBlackboard 5 (an e-Learning software platform from Blackboard, Inc.). Blackboard is adequatefor the purpose, and it excels in some areas. Instructors can post information and assignments ina wide variety of ways. Students and instructors can communicate using discussion groups Page 6.324.2 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for

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Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education taken and the student had many complaints about consistent grading with different instructors using the rubrics. • The design students appeared to pay more attention to the criteria in the rubric when they were given the rubric well in advance of the assignment and asked to use the rubric to evaluate their own work prior to handing in the assignment. • Students in the design course were allowed to specify their own categories and criteria as part of their final report rubric. This flexibility was provided to account for the diversity in the design projects. Students often included additional information or work that was

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and Speaking Program, through which he has played an active rolein the College of Engineering as it prepares its programs for EC2000. Dr. Carter is presently principal investigatoron an NSF-funded project for improving students’ lab reports in science and engineering. He received his B.A. andM.A. at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and his Ph.D. at Purdue University in 1986.REBECCA BRENTRebecca Brent is an education consultant specializing in effective teaching practices in higher education, Codirectorof the Faculty Development Program in the NSF-sponsored SUCCEED Coalition, and coordinator of facultydevelopment in the College of Engineering of North Carolina State University. She is also codirector of theNational Effective

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several joint projects with industry. Mr. Rudisill received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from theUniversity of Illinois in 1976 and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1984 Page 6.413.8 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”Appendix A - Survey Results ET 112 (17 Total) ET 210 ( 12 Total) 1. How often do you use your laptop for this class? a. Daily (every

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Page 6.429.7provides support for on-line education via distance learning curriculum using electronic mediaProceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright2001, American Society for Engineering Educationresources such as the Internet. The important point is that science can effectively be taught usingspecifically designed instructional modules placed on the Internet.The only significant difference detected in this study was when age was compared to post-assessment scores. For the range of ages of this study, at age 18, the participant viewing theconstructivist instructional module would score 7.1 in a post-assessment, although if projected tothe 30 years upper limit of the study’s

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Page 6.444.4from the vantage of the technical, organizational, and personal perspectives, the Linstone and Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationMitroff text is a central component of the fourth module. We discuss the Manhattan Project andits consequences in this module also. The final module, Preparing for the Future, includes muchof the information from the second half of the Linstone and Mitroff text. In addition, theinfluence of computers and the Internet is an essential component of discussions of future trends.I like to end the course with an acknowledgement of the positive actions of

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learned in class to novel situations. Through the use of an on-lineforum, the potential exists for students to achieve greater understanding and more meaningfulreflection. A study involving the role of individual learning styles in terms of students' use ofand students' benefit from the use of on-line discussion forums is needed. Further research onthe impact of on-line discussion forums to long-term understandings and perceptions as well as acomparison to more “traditional” methods of instruction is also warranted.References1. Edwards, V. B. (1997). Editor’s introduction in Education Week. Washington, DC: Editorial Projects in Education.2. Hein, T. L., and S. E. Irvine (1998). Assessment of student understanding using on-line

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deadlines that mayresult in lower grades if missed. Students are required to write reports at the completion of eachproject; during extended projects of more than a week they write progress reports. But the bestsolution to these and other problems is simply to keep the student personally involved andexcited about his or her learning. When interest is high, timely preparation and learninggenerally follow.A third problem is the occasional student who abuses the unaccustomed freedom of thisapproach to learning. Some students feel that taking responsibility for their own learninglicenses them to learn less, if they so choose. That is, since it is their responsibility to determinewhat they will accomplish, they decide to accomplish a minimum. In a

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. costoptimization. This interest is exhibited in course instruction in heat transfer, thermodynamics, fluiddynamics.Prof. Di Bella is also involved in all aspects of creative product concept genesis, designand product development. Product development extends the gamut from systems toprevent Road Rage to emergency repair of ruptured natural gas pipelines. Universityapplication of this interest includes instruction in the following courses: MachineDesign, Statics and Dynamics, Intro. to Design and Intro. to Product Design as well asstudent Capstone Design Projects. He is also the Faculty Advisor for the Student’s Mini-Baja vehicle competition. Page

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Jeffrey Jones; David Niebuhr; Heather Smith; Lanny Griffin; Blair London; Linda Vanasupa; Katherine Chen

the project will be available atwww.mate.calpoly.edu (follow the links to the Foundation Series).There was a 2:1 ratio of males to females in the test group. Although the course is designed forsophomores, roughly 75% of the students were juniors or seniors. Roughly 75% of the studentshad a grade point average of “B.” Performance Criteria1) Sketches a schematic representation of the exchange of electrons that takes place during the corrosionprocess, including an identification of anode, cathode, oxidation reaction, reduction reaction and the corrodingsubstance.2) Explains how the chemical and material components within a corrosion medium are involved in the corrosionprocess.3) States the need for

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probe components to get and set specific state information. As shown in Figure 3, the addition and deletion of components etc., is handled by a pop-up menu object, which is a Visitor Object to the Applet. The properties of lenses and mirrors in the applet can also be modified using property list boxes that pop up when the user right clicks on the components. 5. Toolkit: We have developed a number of tools to provide for graphical user interfaces and complex mathematical computations (integration, 3D visualization, and graphing). Moreover, we have incorporated some excellent tools from NETLIB [13], and from the Ptolemy project (Ptplot) [14]. The ability to use existing

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onsabbatical may suggest special projects your department head wishes for you to take on. Youmay be suited to a revised set of committee assignments. In addition to being faced with revised duties because of changes in you, things at homehave changed, too. While you were gone, someone else was teaching “your” courses, someoneelse was running “your” programs, and someone else was advising “your” students. It may bebetter for your department for that person to continue, while you get treated somewhat like anewly hired faculty member, at least with regard to your flexibility. Even if you get "your"courses and programs back, they will be forever marked with someone else’s footprints. So, what effect does this have on your sabbatical activities

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Rami Zarrouk; Andrew Love; Maurice F. Aburdene

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education” Enter initial estimate ( X 0 ), its uncertainty ( Σ 0 ). Compute Kalman Gain Bi = Σ +xi H T ( HΣ +xi H T + R ) −1 Project ahead Update estimate with X i+ = ΦX i− measurement Yi Σ+x = Φσ x− ΦT + Q

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studentsimprove ladder program quality and/or problem-solving efficiency.1. IntroductionProgrammable Logic Controllers (PLC’s) are specialized microcomputers specifically designed forautomated discrete control of industrial processes. Any engineering student interested in industrialautomation would benefit from a strong grounding in this technology. At Montana StateUniversity, the Industrial and Management Engineering program offers PLC programming as partof the first course in computer integrated manufacturing. This paper describes the results of aclassroom research project conducted to test the efficacy of an alternative approach to solving PLCprogramming problems.PLC’s are unique from other microcomputer-based systems in that the most commonly

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assistants on this project, have confirmed thatwomen are noticeably sensitive about being surveyed and investigated. Information gained fromthey typical multiple choice surveys seemed to prompt the women to adopt a defensive mode ofthought or a politically correct mode of thought when answering.The current effort has gone to gathering data using structured focus groups and by using moreopen ended survey forms. It is felt that the focus group format provides the women surveyedwith the comfort level to answer questions based on their perceptions rather than answeringbased on correct sounding rhetoric. As of the spring of 2001 several focus groups have beenscheduled by a graduate researcher in the Purdue University School of Technology Graduateprogram

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Page 6.1108.6most helpful to students during their Engineering 170 design projects, where the students wererequired to write lengthy reports and to give oral presentations to a specific audience.“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education” Engl 104/Engr 170/Engr 101 Link 4.00 3.50 3.00 2.50 2.00 1.50 1.00 1 2 3 4 5 6 Question Number Figure 2. Average responses (N=11) to the following ABE

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of students scoring at or above gradelevel), the number of children participating in the science fair offered by the school each yearand any other changes put in place by the school, outside of the auspices of the program. Testscores are tracked as a measure of increased interest in learning that it is hypothesized theprogram could inspire, and number of science fair participants is tracked as a measure of interestin science. Science fair projects are required of fourth and fifth graders at Combs but areoptional for all other students. Test scores for the 1999/2000 school year are compared withthose of the year before the program began in Table 4. Third Fourth Fifth

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ofComputing in Higher Education. 7(1). 3-32, 1995.9. Heyward, J. Assessment in Higher Education. 2ed. John Wiley & Sons. Chichester. 222- 225, 1989.10. Keitel, C. Is there a real Chance for “Mathematics and Science for All Americans”? Proceedings of theUniversity of Chicago School Mathematics Project International Conference on Mathematics Education.National Council of teachers of Mathematics. USA. 35-48, 1992.11. Kohli, G. Maj S.P. & Veal, D. Multi-media technology – an opportunity for modern engineering education.ASEE Conference. St. Louis, MO. USA. 2000.12. Kumar, S. & Jalkio J. Teaching Mathematics from an Applications Perspective. Proceedings of the 1998conference American Society for Engineering Education. Seattle, Washington, USA

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unexercised studyskills must be considered.Not all of the students presently have Web access from their homes and/or workplaces. Thisinhibits use of the web for such distribution, but as this capability increases, web distributionwill become more popular and effective.VI. Rewards Remain Dim for Digital ScholarshipMany faculty members and administrators remain skeptical about the quality and effectivenessof online research and teaching. That skepticism–in some cases, outright hostility–candiscourage young faculty members from using online media. Other issues include the extra timeonline projects take, as well as opposition in some quarters to attempts by faculty members todesignate their work in digital instruction as a form of

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amongengineering students conducted at a small mid-western private engineering school aredescribed. Engineering students in an introductory engineering materials course wereasked to complete a survey on their perceptions of cheating; therefore, all results are self-reported. The goal of the pilot study is to establish student attitudes about what does andwhat does not constitute cheating and the frequency of student cheating. In addition, thepilot study was intended to help the researchers identify best practices for conducting amore complete research project. The overall objective of the research is to establishuseable approaches for faculty to curtail the pressure to cheat which engineering studentsmay feel.I. IntroductionFor many instructors, efforts

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electronics course, is an excellent wayto stimulate students’ imagination. This paper has provided a guide to some of the ways thatsimulation can be developed and profitably used in such a course.PSpice lends itself nicely to a hierarchical presentation structure. Presenting subsystems initiallyin terms of functional blocks allows students to quickly grasp the fundamental functions of acircuit. Refinement to actual electronic components is then straightforward. Perhaps mostimportantly, allowing students to “test drive” fundamental communication circuits and play onthe fly with important design parameters in circuits they are building makes labs, projects, andclasses much more interesting and educational

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Education, 1993. 34(4): p. 503-512.8. Brawer, F., Retention-attrition in the nineties. 1996, (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. 393 510).9. Besterfield-Sacre, M., C.J. Atman, and L.J. Shuman, Characteristics of freshman engineering students: Models for determining student attrition in engineering. Journal of Engineering Education, 1997. 86(2): p. 139-149.10. Morning, C. and J. Fleming, Project preserve: A program to retain minorities in engineering. Journal of Engineering Educatioin, 1994. 83(2): p. 237-242.11. American Association of Community Colleges, in Data dispels college transfer myths. 2000, http://www.aacc.nche.edu/headline/120600head1.htm.12. American Association of Community Colleges

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Brian Copes; Willard D. Bostwick; Kenneth Rennels; Douglas Acheson

secondary schools will use the following format: 1. Written agreements must be developed and are to be made only after an appropriate reviewof all course related materials and objectives for a specific study program at the individualsecondary school or School Corporation. 2. Agreements may not authorize blanket credit for any secondary school course. Dual creditcannot be awarded in any secondary school course unless previously approved as an AdvancedCollege Project (ACP) course by Indiana University.3. Individual competencies for each student must be pre-identified and measured or approvedby the School of Engineering and Technology for credit or for a waiver to be considered. 4. Options for students may include waiver of courses, advanced standing

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David Purdy; Christine Buckley; Don L. Dekker; Phillip J. Cornwell

: To provide the background and basic skills for: • Use of property tables and charts • Application of first and second laws to open and closed systems • Problem analysis and solvingPrerequisitesBy Topic: None.Course Topics: • First law of thermodynamics • Properties of substances • Ideal gas • Control-volume energy analysis • Second law and entropyComputer Use: No. Page 6.992.15Laboratory Projects: No.Please check the departmental goals that this course covers.(For more detail, refer to ME Goals which are listed at the top of "A" Matrix

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

class presentation. I made learning the name of all my students as early in thesemester as possible a high priority. I planned out each lesson throughout the semester using theboard note format (Figure 2 and 3) suggested to us at ETW. I also focused on increasing myenergy during class and projecting and varying my voice. I also used several teachingassessment techniques such as un-graded, unannounced quizzes and muddy point (i.e., what isthe point least understood in today’s class) papers.David: I was extremely “charged” upon my return from ETW and eagerly started revising mycourses to incorporate the principles I had learned. The two courses I taught during Fall 1999(both repeat courses for me) were open to seniors and graduate students. The

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Bruce Perlman; Roli Varma

). Page 6.940.10 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationBRUCE PERLMANBruce Perlman is an associate professor of public Administration at the University of New Mexico. He teachesresearch methods and public management among other courses. His research interests include ethics, philosophy ofscience, and development administration. He has worked as a consultant on a number of projects involvinginformation technology in aviation, transportation, evaluation, and industry.ROLI VARMARoli Varma is an assistant professor of Public Administration at the University of New Mexico. She also teachesscience and

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. (Student 5)"The overall impression is good, but that is because it is over now and I see the definite link. Perhaps the linked courses may further define the objectives sooner in the semester?" (Student 6)VI. Observations and Preliminary ConclusionsIn order to capitalize on the successes of this collaboration, and to enhance the experience of ourfuture students in these linked courses, we’ve proposed some ways to expand the link. First,there will be more linked assignments. We envision, for instance, an assignment that would bean extension of the existing Concept Paper assignment: a student-led presentation project (withboth instructors present in the “audience”). Each student would either lead the class in adiscussion of a physical concept

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serious problem.4. Assessment and Feedback MechanismsWe use the following assessment mechanisms in our program: 1. Assignments and examinations: Assignments, including programming projects where appropriate, and examinations, both mid-term and final, are standard in all courses. 2. Student Evaluations of Teaching (SETs): SETs, administered near the end of each term, allow students to provide the instructor (anonymous) feedback on the effective- ness of the course as taught by that particular instructor. 3. Exit surveys: All students complete an exit survey about two quarters prior to gradu- ation. The survey allows the student to rank, for each of our objectives and outcomes, how well the program met that objective or