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: will the desired learning modes be satisfied?If not, what is the impact on the learning? What are the limits on learning to have an effectivecourse? Finally, when does the pedagogy fail?1 Page 6.390.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationII. LearningInviscid Fluid Aerodynamics was a great course because the Professor was excellent. Those inthe broadcast studio were exposed to a learning environment that was different, but the coursewas well designed and well delivered. “What improves

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, aside from their expression in differentlanguages, math and English problems require the same step-by-step analysis, also calledproblem solving, on the way to solutions. In this paper, we examine possible methods ofteaching that analysis. We also propose a closer relationship between math and Englishcurricula as a means of reinforcing our teaching.Introduction The Samuel I. Ward College of Technology at the University of Hartford offerssix Engineering Technology majors: Architectural, Audio, Chemical, Computer,Electronic, and Mechanical. In addition, we teach our own math courses, from Math I,Algebra, through Math V, Differential Equations, and our own English courses, fromEnglish I, Expository Writing, through English III, Advanced

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Session 2793 Transition from Traditional Courses to Time-shortened Courses – New Initiatives in the Construction Technology Discipline Sanjiv Gokhale, Hadi Yamin Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUIAbstractIntensive or time-shortened courses taught outside the traditional semester or quarter systemformat are becoming increasingly common in many colleges and universities across the UnitedStates. The primary reason for this transition from traditional courses to flexible format coursesis due to the increasing number of non-traditional students. Intensive, short duration courses

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for three years. Theaccomplishment is still fresh in their minds many months after the event. For many, theexperience defined their undergraduate engineering education and helped them attain a self-confidence and direction to their emerging careers.II. Description of the Project and PayloadThe SPIRIT project was a joint effort of ThePennsylvania State University and SUNY Geneseo,with additional participation from LincolnUniversity. Funding was provided by Penn StateCollege of Engineering, NSF sponsored EngineeringCoalition of Schools for Excellence in Education andLeadership (ECSEL), The NASA PennsylvaniaSpace Grant Consortium, the NASA Student RocketProgram, and Lockheed Martin Corp. In addition,several companies made non-cash

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Wei-Chiang Lin; Mark A. Mackanos; E. Duco Jansen; Anita Mahadevan-Jansen; Sean P. Brophy

, 2000]. In this manner students will engage in problem-based educational activities that notonly teach them subject specific content knowledge but help them develop into life-long learnersand problems solvers.7. AcknowledgementsThis work was supported primarily by the Engineering Research Centers Program of theNational Science Foundation under Award Number EEC-9876363. We thank Dr. Joseph T.Walsh and Dr. A.J. Welch for feedback during the development of this module.8. BibliographyBransford JD, Brown AL, Cocking RR (eds) How People Learn : Brain, Mind, Experience, and School (ExpandedEdition), National Academic Press, (2000)Schwartz, D. L. & Bransford, J. D. A time for telling. Cognition Instruction, 16, 475-522 (1998).Schwartz, D. L., &

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putstudents in the position where they need to sort out for themselves what parts of the taxonomyare relevant to the problem at hand. Students may find this approach more demanding at first,but we believe that this will better prepare them for the workplace and for life-long learning.(This work was supported primarily by the Engineering Research Centers Program of theNational Science Foundation under Award Number EEC9876363).Bibliography1. Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., & Cocking, R. R. (Eds.). (1999). How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.2. Schwartz, D. L. & Bransford, J. D. (1998). A time for telling. Cognition Instruction, 16, 475-522.3. Schwartz, D. L, Brophy, S., Lin, X. &

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Vipin Kumar; Margaret Wheeler; Gregory Branch

experience. In industry they saw that new engineers often had not learned thefundamental considerations in choosing an appropriate material or shape in their designs. Thispaper provides all necessary details to recreate these labs and discusses two years of instructionalexperience obtained under NSF-ECSEL sponsorship.LAB 1- Choosing from Commonly Stocked MaterialsThis lab addresses the different materials stocked in lengths, such as steel or aluminum bar, pipe,structural shapes, or rectangular tube. It provides a hands on view of the material obtained fromfour processes: Hot Rolling (HR), Cold Rolling or Cold Drawing a.k.a. Cold Finished (CF),Extrusion, and Roll Forming. The students learn how each process affects geometry, strength,stiffness

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want you tobe. Certainly you want to heed the advice of your seniors, but always tempered with anunderstanding of your own strengths and weaknesses, and most importantly your own priorities. Page 6.500.1 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education”There are two extreme strategies to adopt as one starts a career: new faculty members canexamine the requirements for tenure and promotion at their schools and endeavor to exceed thosestandards as early as possible, or they can pursue what they find

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educationprocess. There are numerous responses to this challenge, but the least serious is applyingyesterday’s approach to engineering and technology education without seriously consideringwhether or not there are better alternatives.Bibliography1. Boyett, J.H. and J.T. Boyett, Beyond Workplace 2000: Essential Strategies for the New American Corporation. 1995, New York: Dutton. 298.2. Katzenbach, J.R. and D.K. Smith, The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization. 1994, New York: HarperCollins. 317.3. de Bono, E., Edward de Bono’s Mind Power. 1995, New York: Dorling Kindersley. 72.4. Von Oech, R., A Whack on the Side of the Head. Revised ed. 1990, New York: Warner Books. 196.5. Celente, G., Trends

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in the classroom is crucial and contagious, new teachers from industry must“lighten up” and relax. The overall atmosphere is set primarily by the instructor. New educatorscoming directly from industry must quickly make the transition to a type of work that is verydifferent and employs different methods of achieving the desired objectives. Students react bestto a friendly setting with controls employed only as required to maintain class discipline.Without sacrificing quality and quantity of material covered, new instructors may need to slowthe pace and demands on students, for they are not graduate engineers working full-time on anassigned project. On the other hand, educators with industry experience have a distinct advantagein the classroom

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engineering1-5. They includedgreater attention to and the development of team-building skills, personal or interactive skills,creative ability, and a business or entrepreneurial where-with-all.While many engineering programs around the country have embraced some of these needs withunique programs, physics has lagged far behind and has tended to maintain its traditional basicscience education. Rather than these needs being a goal of a traditional physics graduate program,we tend to instead produce students trained in the conventional sense. Students strong in basicunderstanding but with little or no interpersonal skills. Students ignorant of business relatedissues, yet with problem solving skills needed by business. And, above all, students

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Steven Wright; Murat Ulasir; Michelle West; Lissa MacVean; Donald D. Carpenter

Session 1277 CEAL: Cooperative Learning Coupled With Hands On Experimentation in a Junior Level Fluid Mechanics Laboratory Murat Ulasir, Donald D. Carpenter, Michelle L. West, Lissa J. MacVean, Steven J. Wright University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109AbstractRecent curriculum changes in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at theUniversity of Michigan added a three-hour laboratory section to the existing junior level civilengineering Fluid Mechanics course. One important goal in adding this laboratory section to thecourse was to maximize

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. When individuals talk with others in theircommunities of practice, collective competencies develop and procedural knowledge develops.A process is formed, and an organizational competence develops. Competencies, then, are Page 6.667.1integrated task performance routines that combine resources needed for competitive advantage. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education2. Knowledge ManagementMoving know how from the individual to the collective level presents difficulty. The authors ofEnabling

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Robert Kilmer; Carl Erikson Jr

through similar concrete channels. Page 6.1089.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education From outer landscapes, too, they import nutrients in the form of food, use it once, then send it out through pipes as sewage waste.”[4]If local governments can become effective planners and plan implementers concerning ourcities, then the following quotation may indicate one way we can protect our planet and itsnatural resources as well as its inhabitants: “If we

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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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Douglas Goetz; Darin Ridgway; Ben Stuart; Valerie Young; Michael Prudich

Session 3213 Criterion-Based Grading for Learning and Assessment in Unit Operations Laboratory V.L. Young, D. Ridgway, M.E. Prudich, D.J. Goetz, and B.J. Stuart Department of Chemical Engineering, Ohio UniversityAbstractGoals for student learning in Unit Operations Laboratory are diverse. Students are to developskills in the planning and execution of experiments, the interpretation of experimental data, andthe communication of technical information. Additional goals include gaining familiarity withprocess equipment, improving teamwork skills, and developing professional habits in

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dataprocessing. However, evaluators must be mindful and prepared when embarking on the use of Web-based surveys. Our experiences are recounted in this article.“They [surveys] are relatively low in cost, geographically flexible, and can reach a widelydispersed sample simultaneously without the attendant problems of interviewer access or thepossible distortions of time lag. . . .data can be procured more quickly, more abundantly, andmore cheaply” (Kanuk & Berenson, 1975, p. 440). By the end of the twentieth century we saw an explosion of the use of the electronicpolling method via surveys developed for the World Wide Web. Personal computer users withInternet access could find themselves bombarded with visual marketing tools designed to be eye

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

styles: Approaches that work. Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico. IEEE Catalog number 99CH37011. ISBN 007803-5643-8. Session 13c3, 7 - 11.24. Irvine, S. E. & Hein, T. L. (1998). Technology and the diverse learner. AAPT Announcer, 28(2), 86.25. Jensen, E. (1998). Teaching with the brain in mind. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Alexandria, VA. Page 6.298.7 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001 American Society for Engineering

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, would meet our needs and could perhaps even excite studentsabout participating in our new option or minor in microelectronics, optoelectronics, andnanotechnology. 1† A version of this manuscript with gray-scale images suitable for color vision-impaired readers may be found at Page 6.189.1http://www.mse.vt.edu/faculty/hendricks/publications/publications.html. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationIt was with this vision in mind that Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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W Meador; Carlos Morales

“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ? 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”Second, these firms gain the ability to build reusable motion libraries that can beamortized over time. “Once we have a motion captured, we can use it as many time aswe want…,” says Richard Fiore 3. High Voltage Software (HVS) used motion filescaptured for their NCAA Final Four video game and in the production of their proposedPacers animated opening. After the proper skeleton has been set-up in the animationpackage, motion libraries can be reapplied with just a few mouse clicks. Motion capturedata can also be captured at an astonishing rate. HVS captured all of the motion

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candidate’s progresstoward tenure, allowing the candidate subsequent time to act on any recommended correctivestrategies and/or to improve their record of accomplishments. For engineering faculty, third-yearreview materials will generally need to demonstrate a record of achievement and plannedimprovement in research, teaching, and service-related issues.Preparing for an intensive third-year review can be difficult for junior faculty, for many reasons.This review may be the first time young faculty go through the scrutiny of a peer review processwhere the “peers” are people they work with on a daily basis. This review may be the first timejunior faculty seriously try to interpret and apply an institution’s promotion and tenure criteria totheir own

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William de Kryger

Session 2260 International Exchange Programs: Getting Started William J. de Kryger Central Michigan UniversityAbstractInternational academic exchange programs have long been enjoyed by those in pursuit of the finearts. More recently, with the globalization of many industries, international exchange programshave taken on new importance for our technical graduates. Engineering and manufacturingactivities are often a collaborative effort with international partners. If international partnershipsare common, even required in many industrial endeavors, this same type

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Robert Kee; Jean-Pierre Delplanque

Learning Differential-Equation Aspects of Fluid Mechanics with Spreadsheet-Facilitated Computational Fluid Dynamics Jean-Pierre Delplanque and Robert J. Kee Division of Engineering Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 804011 IntroductionIt is well known that continuum fluid flow is described at its most fundamental level by theNavier-Stokes equations, a system of nonlinear, second-order, partial differential equations.In spite of this solid foundation, the equations themselves are sufficiently difficult to under-stand and solve that they are often introduced only superficially in fluid-mechanics courses.Because it is difficult to connect mathematical