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P Ravikumar

engineering student. The course is designed at the same time tomeet the educational objectives consistent with the new ABET guidelines which offer flexibility ofsetting, assessing, and improving the goals of the course in particular and the curriculum at large.This paper addresses the developments in format, content, instruction, and student participation andtheir relation to the assessment plans, evaluation, and improvements in the Senior Design Projectcourse. Design Process, Time Management, and Engineering Ethics are discussed as examples ofthe variety of topics covered in the course. Samples of assessment plans, evaluation, andsubsequent improvements are also discussed.IntroductionThe Senior Design Project course in Mechanical Engineering (ME

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Jack Jennings; Vincent Wilczynski

Internet file server was established at a buzzsaw.com site created to serve the designindustry. This site was chosen for the project as a file server to retain all the documents relatedto the project. It was a secure file server and only users that were registered by the projectadministrators were allowed access to the site. It was primarily used as to store and tradeorganizational files for the project such as internal planning documents, grant requests, budgetworksheets and inventory control. A useful feature of the site was that it was not merely a fileserver, but rather an interactive file server. Each posted file contained a comment section whereproject participants could annotate the documents with background information or relatedcomments

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Robert Anderson; Paul Duesing; Marty Zoerner; Kevin Schmaltz

teamwork, communication,project planning and management, creative problem solving, and ethics are given majoremphasis throughout the yearlong experience. Student teams are given instruction andcomplete exercises in all of these areas throughout the year. Faculty advisors coach andmentor their team’s soft skill development throughout the project.LSSU’s senior engineering design course sequence is organized as a two semester six-credit (three each semester) lecture/lab. Stated course outcomes are that students will: • be capable of giving an effective oral business presentation. • be capable of writing a clear, concise project proposal that flows from general to specific. • demonstrate effective writing of short business memos

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Dick Desautel

and Mechanical Engineering were two of the sevenbaccalaureate programs reviewed by the visit that employed this assessment system.This paper extends the material of an earlier paper1 to include issues of system streamlining andmaintenance, planning of periodic processes, and faculty participation and workload.It is a presentation-only abbreviated form of a recent extended workshop2 in best assessmentpractices. The workshop presented the material in more detail and included discipline-basedteam exercises to put system processes into practice.In considering the “old culture” (Figure 1), an overstated critique would be that it typically had

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F. Andrew Wolfe

drawings. This work took 3 weeks to complete andshowed the STEP students how to read plans, use a scale and draw plans. The next seven weekswere used to build the models. Three models, a double chamber lock, an aqueduct, and achange bridge, were built constructed out of wood and one, a lift bridge, was constructed frommetal. Each model was carefully constructed and detailed. The illusion of stone work wascreated using spray paint and felt tip markers. The students worked together through the entireprocess, learning how the structures themselves were built, and learning how the models neededto be constructed to mimic the actual structure. The models are currently on exhibit in the NottMemorial as part of Union College’s exhibit on the Erie Canal

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Stephen M. Batill; Natalie Gedde

Session 3266 Development of a Multidisciplinary Engineering Learning Center Stephen Batill, Natalie Gedde University of Notre DameAbstractThe College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame has recently opened an EngineeringLearning Center. The Learning Center is a classroom, a laboratory, and a meeting place. It is afacility designed for experiential learning, communicating ideas and developing new methods forteaching and learning. The Center was developed through collaborative planning andcoordination with all the departments in the College of Engineering. The

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William Davis; Steve Stafford; Elsa Villa

Engineering Day was established, ideas were brainstormed on aneffective implementation plan. From the perspective of the high school student, the followingquestions were developed by the EPO student coordinators to assist them in establishing a plan: • What type of information would be beneficial for us once we’re in college? • What financial aid is available for us? • What do engineers do? • What can I do in high school to prepare for college and engineering? • What opportunities are available for me as a high school student? • Why choose UTEP over another university? • How does engineering compare to other careers? • How does UTEP prepare its engineers? • What could I

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Chih-Ping Yeh; Mulchand Rathod

, (2) developing and implementing animation,simulation and visualization components to enhance student learning of electric machine, (3) configuringcourse to cover relevant theory while reducing topics to achieve effectiveness without credit hours ortime change. This paper describes the planning steps and the development procedures of this project.The new course structure and laboratory experiments will be discussed.I. IntroductionThough the traditional “Energy conversion course’ had remained almost unchanged for several decades,a redesigned structure has been proposed by several references over the last decade [1-2]. Types ofmotor drives worthy of addressing in undergraduate curricula are discussed [3]. Recently, LabView hasbeen utilized in

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Patricia Nava

%1. This low rate of successful completion is due to yearly attrition between20 and 40% of the class. In order to increase this low rate of success, institutions must look fornovel methods to encourage students to persist in their pursuit of a degree. One method thatengages students academically and socially is the undergraduate research experience.Undergraduate research activities are known to promote goal setting and planning beyondgraduation, thus affecting student retention.2The affinity group model, being implemented at the University of Texas at El Paso’s Departmentof Electrical and Computer Engineering, is more far-reaching than the usual research group. TheNeuro-Fuzzy Systems Research Group seeks to engage students, develop them

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Frederick Reardon

plan, andsupplementary notes, classwork exercises, and homework assignments. The web page isdesigned so that it can be projected onto a screen in the classroom and can be downloaded by thestudents at home. Although the use of the Internet in teaching has many advantages, one problemis the amount of time required to prepare the web pages. Since the students like to download thenotes, one must also be careful that the web pages print properly. Student reactions to the use ofthe Internet have been uniformly favorable. They say that it is very helpful in helping them tolearn what is generally acknowledged to be a difficult subject.IntroductionThermodynamics is a complex subject. The study of thermodynamics involves grasping newconcepts, learning

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Gary Lewandowski; Carla Purdy

techniques, and cultural differences which could affect learning. Aweb site was constructed for maintaining the teaching manual and sharing other information6.In the third quarter of the first year, students were matched with teaching mentors and madeindividual plans for their second year activities. These plans included not only teachingopportunities but also attendance at faculty and committee meetings and arrangements formentoring an undergraduate working on a research or senior project, if possible.Participants have also attended several local and national meetings where academic careers andteaching are discussed. These include the annual SIGCSE Technical Symposium and an annualPFF conference held each June. In addition, speakers on topics such

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William J. Daughton

theBaldrige assessment methodology are shown in Table 1. Table 1. Baldrige National Quality Award Performance Categories and Their Weightings Baldrige Categories Relative Weighting Leadership 12.5% Strategic Planning 8.5% Customer and Market Focus 8.5% Information and Analysis 8.5% Human Resource Focus 8.5% Process Management 8.5% Business Results 45.0% 100.0%The first sessions of the course are devoted to a course introduction

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Steven Hart; Ronald Welch

% 65% IPR 100% Functional & Finalized functional Review progress Finalized drawings Aesthetic and aesthetic rom 35% toward including site, floor, requirements requirements 00%. and elevations, floor Architectural Finalized floor, site, Expect about half of framing, roof Adjacencies drawing and elevation esign work to be framing, and lateral drawings ompleted load systems. Floor plans Written structural Desk side brief with Site drainage plan scheme with eview of calculations with watershed

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Warren Hill

defined as pay for performance above and beyond those rewardsthat are commonly referred to as across-the-board raises or cost-of-living raises (COLA). Meritraises are also separate from raises given on some campuses for the purposes of reducinginequities such as those due to gender or discipline. Merit pay raises are usually given formeritorious performance as a way to reward people whose performance during the latest reviewperiod was exceptional. In some instances, it is believed that such raises may instead be a wayto motivate people to improve their performance.There are actually several different kinds of merit pay plans in existence. One is a pure meritsystem where any increases in one’s salary are based entirely upon meritorious performance

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Masud Salimian

developing the mold for the injection molding processwere identified and plans for developing necessary skills were devised. An experienced moldmaker from Black and Decker held several sessions with the students to provide them with basicelements of mold design. The faculty held theoretical discussions separately. Additional trainingwas provided on the operation of the Haas VF-2 CNC machining center. Using Mastercam, theappropriate design was developed for the two halves of the mold. The molds were then machinedon the CNC machine; mold then was assembled and installed on a Cincinnati Milacron SX-85injection-molding machine, which successfully produced the key chains. During the developmentphase, Black and Decker provided expertise in all aspect of

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William Whitaker

tocontinue.University construction related programs exist on many campuses with over 20 accreditedbaccalaureate programs nationwide. The Construction Engineering Technology (CET) programat Murray State University (MSU) has existed since 1970. After several unsuccessful years ofrecruiting freshmen into the program using traditional methods such as: written correspondence,telephone calls, and high school visits the CET faculty at MSU needed to try a new approach.During the spring of 1999 in cooperation with the education committee of the local AssociatedGeneral Contractors a joint recruiting plan was developed. An innovative marketing effort thatincluded contractors and MSU faculty was taken to the largest high schools in the region. Largeincreases in freshman

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Susan Creighton; Edward Young; Jed Lyons

mechanical engineering topics. Since 1997, however, thedepartment has been improving the course to help meet the following program objectives. Thegraduates shall:1. Have the ability to analyze, design and realize mechanical and thermal systems.2. Have the ability to use contemporary computation techniques and tools.3. Have competence in design of experiments, experimental practices and data interpretation.4. Have the ability to apply statistical methods to analyze and interpret data.5. Have the ability to plan, schedule and execute engineering projects.6. Have effective oral and written communication skills.7. Have the ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams.8. Have an understanding of and the ability to engage in life-long learning.9. Have

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Berrisford Boothe; Todd Watkins; John Ochs

approach to curricular integration includes pre-college outreach, freshmanprojects, curricula support, capstone projects and graduate projects. The educationalenvironment includes a Campus Center for Entrepreneurial projects; an entire building designedto support students project teams. This paper will discuss the design and implementation ofthese programs, our assessment and evaluation methods, lessons learned and future plans forimproving this environment.1. IntroductionThe engineer as inventor is certainly not new. Many innovative products that we enjoy todaywere invented and created by engineers, but what about the engineer as entrepreneur? Textbookauthors write and students study engineering design, concurrent engineering and design in abroad

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Eric Warmbier; James S. Fairweather; P. David Fisher

a pace which made retention of the material challenging. It seemed as though the class started and was over before you knew it. And when it was over, it was one of those classes where you really didn’t know what you had learned.”Our initial approach to improve ECE 345 was to sue feedback from students and facultymembers as follows:1. Develop a draft set of course learning objectives and course topics based on the existing course model and content.2. Share these documents with department chairs throughout the College of Engineering, and with chairpersons of the various departmental and college curriculum committees.3. Develop a comprehensive plan to revise the existing course. This plan included the following

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

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationa plan for a new Lower Division Program to be taken by all engineering undergraduates in theCollege which both addresses the needs of all our stakeholders and provides an open frameworkfor continuous improvement; and to develop proposals for the implementation of that plan.”The Task Force began work in Autumn 1996. At the end of the 1996-97 academic year, theTask Force submitted a report to the Dean suggesting several changes to the core curriculum.Chief among those suggestions was the development of a 3-course sequence for all freshmenentitled Engineering Fundamentals and incorporating a series of hands-on

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Paul Wojciechowski

. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationThe last of these programs began with its inaugural freshman class of mechanical engineeringmajors in 1995.The process of developing the engineering major began in 1991 with the arrival of the College’snew President, Dr. George Waldner. Under his direction, a systematic and broadly participatorystrategic planning process was undertaken, the result of which was a five-year strategic plan tocommence in 1992. One of the goals of the newly adopted plan was to “determine whether YorkCollege should extend its current associate degree program in engineering to the

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Spencer Brinkerhoff; III, Walter Hopkins; David Hartman

, working in teams,introduction to the engineering professions, planning for success, development ofcommunication skills, and an introduction to mathematical modeling. The course has beendesigned to articulate with the other schools in Arizona, and a matrix of the outcomes that all theArizona universities and community colleges are expected to achieve is included in the paper.I. IntroductionMany freshman students opting to study engineering are not sure if they really should and, if so,do not know which field of engineering to select as a major. In the typical engineeringcurriculum, most of the freshman year is spent studying mathematics, chemistry, and physicscourses with little or no exposure to engineering. The course, Introduction to

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FYI Team Members; Adrian Cloete

the Quality Improvement Systems Thinking heuristic has been used to improve industrialproduction by viewing the problem as part of a layer of a system, our First Year Initiative facultysaw greater value in three other Heuristics Page 6.884.5 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education ½ D.R. Woods -- McMaster Five-Point Strategy ½ Define, Explore, Plan, Act, Reflect C.H. Kepner & B.B. Tregoe -- The Rational Manager ½ Situation Analysis, Problem Analysis

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Richard Schultz; Darryl Sale; Chang-Hee Won; William Semke; Arnold Johnson

thisinitiative is called the Scorpio project.The concept for Scorpio, the first in a series of planned microsatellite launches, stemmed from aproposal to NASA for student-centered satellite missions by the Upper Midwest AerospaceConsortium (UMAC) at the University of North Dakota (UND). The proposed UMAC mission –designated the “Crop Explorer Research and Education Satellite” (CERES) – generated considerableinterest within the Department of Electrical Engineering regarding the possibility of designing andbuilding orbiting satellites on the UND campus. This effort was also inspired by the ongoing“CanSat” project within Stanford University’s Space Systems Development Laboratory (SSDL), inwhich operational satellites are designed and constructed to fit

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John Chandler; A. Dean Fontenot

communication, and civic discourse. One of the most exciting aspects of thisprogram is that students are equal participants in a community of learners that includesboth their parents and their teachers. This article includes initial results of the pilot studyfor this program, conducted with 16 at-risk students from low-income families, theirparents, and seven of their teachers during the Spring 2000 semester. Because the pilotdemonstrated an extremely high degree of positive potential, a number of entities in theLubbock community have formed a consortium to significantly extend the scope of theprogram. This article describes the plan for increasing the scale of the program to make itavailable to a much larger number of participants and to make the

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P. David Fisher; Diane Rover

1978 to determine the feasibility of developing anundergraduate CpE program. By the early 1980s, both the undergraduate computer-science andelectrical-engineering programs identified CpE as a "minor" or "option" within the respectiveprograms. In the middle 1980s, plans were underway to develop an undergraduate computer-engineering degree-granting program to be offered cooperatively by the (then) EE and CpSDepartments. Since 1988, both departments have participated in the CpE Program, whichformally resides in the ECE Department. MSU awarded its first B.S. degree in CpE in 1990. In1994, a CpE Task Force was again formed to provide leadership and oversight of the CpEProgram.Preliminary CpE Program Assessment and OutcomesIn the 1995-1996 academic

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Robert Brown; Francine Battaglia; Donald R. Flugrad

compiled course objectives and outcomeaccountability for each course. Faculty had an opportunity to review and revise this reportbefore the department moved forward with a plan for program outcome assessment.IV. General Plan for Program Outcome AssessmentThe MECC developed a general framework for the assessment plan to evaluate the performanceof students within the ME curriculum. The assessment plan includes several components:program outcomes, educational objectives, course objectives, student and alumni assessmentsand continuous improvement of the curriculum to achieve desired program outcomes. Ourintention in assessment is to target the overall program rather than evaluate performance ofindividual students, faculty or courses. For each

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John Bourne

definition Proceedings of the 2001 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exhibition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationTable 13: The Phases of Invention 2000 • Discovery • Fall Semester, 2000 • Invention • Winter, 2001 • Development • Spring, Summer and Fall 2001 • Test • Winter 2001 to Summer 2002In the discovery phase, we sought to discover the best pedagogical practices around theworld. In invention, we plan to create specific educational goals and processes

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Andrew Rose

Session 1675 Consulting and Industrial Experiences as Related to Promotion and Tenure of Engineering Technology Faculty Andrew T. Rose University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractTo successfully achieve the goal of tenure, a well thought out professional development plan isessential. For engineering technology (ET) faculty, the requirements of the ET tenure process maybe well suited for utilizing consulting and industrial experiences as a portion of the professionaldevelopment plan. Engineering technology programs are different from engineering programs

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Wen-Whai Li; Charles Turner; Alfredo Martinez

Education” Page 6.359.4Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”based on a self-evaluation of course content by UTEP faculty teaching the courses thatmake up the degree plans for each of the three departments. Clearly, the faculty believedthey were not giving social responsibility criteria nearly as much emphasis as the moretraditional design and analysis criteria. Including sustainable/green engineering elementsinto the curricula clearly address these three ABET criteria and can significantly strengthenengineering degree