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ET Distance Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

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Susan Sauer; Mark Moore; Amin ul Karim; Ahmed Khan

Consortium (GWEC) wireless curriculum modules. These modules,designed through a collaborative effort of academia and industry and totaling 46 modulesat present, are revised regularly to maintain currency. Furthermore, industry membersprovide instructional tools to GWEC academic affiliates. This paper describes therevision and enhancement process of wireless technology lecture/laboratory courses byincorporating existing GWEC modules and industry tools at DeVry University, Dupagecampus. Page 8.146.1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American

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Assessment & Quality Assuranc in Engr Ed

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Swami Karunamoorthy

) COLLEGE LEVEL ASSESSMENT (Office of College Dean) PROGRAM LEVEL ASSESSMENT (Program Faculty Team) COURSE LEVEL ASSESSMENT (Instructor – Individual Faculty) Figure 1. Development of a Hierarchical Assessment System The faculty members in each academic program are responsible for developing anassessment scheme that is consistent with the College assessment system. Courseinstructors are responsible for developing a course level assessment method. If more thanone faculty member teaches a particular course, they all should agree on a unified set ofeducational objectives and learning outcomes for

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Industry Initiatives for Graduate Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Larry Trioloa; Charles Garnett; Barry Mohle; Alfred Wicks; Robert Kavetsky; Eugene Brown

an initiative with the goal of adding approximately 400 new research employeesper year to its R&D centers located throughout the United States. These comprise the NavalSurface Warfare Center, Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Naval Air Warfare Center, Space andNaval Warfare Systems Center, the Naval Research Laboratory, the Naval Medical ResearchCenter, and the Naval Medical Health Center.Internal studies4 of the Navy’s science and technology (S&T) needs have pointed to factors whichmust be addressed if this objective is to be met. Some of these factors are internal, such aslimitations imposed by the Civil Service System on the flexibility to hire new employees and theability to reward research productivity, but often these factors

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Deisenroth

this reason, objectivesusually contain active verbs (e.g.: analyze, create, locate, perform, etc.) that explicitly state thebehavior expected of the student that will be used as an indicator of completion of broadereducational goals.Learning objectives exist at two levels of education, the program level and the course level. Atthe program level, the selection of learning objectives creates the overall picture of a programand provides guidance and motivation for individual courses. At the course level, instructors cantailor the objectives to his/her course needs, student needs, and teaching style. Program learning Page 8.152.1

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Topics in Civil ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Rose

impacts of technology.3In one engineering technology program,4 a required course in Designing for the Environment hasbeen proposed to better address this need. At one institution, economic, social and culturalimpacts have been incorporated into a web-based Environmental Impact Assessment course.5Lower level courses that teach engineering design concepts6 or introduction to engineeringcourses7 often include some discussion of social and economic issues.Incorporating professional issues such as the social and economic impact of engineering projectsinto the curriculum is best accomplished throughout the undergraduate curriculum.3 Instructorsmust take opportunities to include these within discipline specific courses where the relationbetween the

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New Electrical ET Course Development

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Ossman

digital signalprocessing are noticeably absent in engineering technology programs. A recent look at ABETaccredited electrical/electronics engineering technology programs [1] showed that only 6 of the 66programs accessed offered DSP as a required course in the curriculum. Another nine programsoffered DSP as a technical elective and the remaining 51 did not offer DSP to their students at all.As DSP becomes more pervasive in industrial applications, it is imperative that engineeringtechnology graduates have some exposure to digital signal processing theory and practice. Themain difficulty in teaching DSP to technology students is the level of mathematics. Studentsopening a textbook on digital signal processing [2] – [4] are faced with pages and

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Michael Klein; Matt Walker; Kevin Organ; Dan Gerbus

of Idaho eleven years ago. Dr. Odom maintains an avid interest in the literature of creativityand management and is especially well versed on the subjects of team dynamics and leadership styles. He wasrecognized for his role in development of the IEW by a university teaching award in 1998.DR. STEVEN BEYERLEINDr. Steven Beyerlein is a leader in the design implementation of process-oriented engineering curricula thatstresses cooperative learning, computer technology, and mini-projects. Since joining the UI fifteen years ago, hehas regularly taught introductory courses, shaped the senior laboratory course, and collaboratively taught seniordesign. He was recognized for his faculty development and outreach activities by a university teaching

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Johnson; Harold Larson; Charles Standridge; Shirley Fleischmann

requirements. Astatke and Mack1 discussthe use of a web-based mathematics course to prepare students to take a mathematics placementexamination. This course helped students place above a remedial (non-college) algebra courseinto calculus or a pre-calculus course. Fisher, Della-Piana, and Crawley3 as well as Fisher,Quinones, and Golding4 discuss the establishment of learning communities for non-calculus readyfreshman students. This program uses the clustering strategy. Students are placed in cohorts andscheduled for the same sections of three classes: Introduction to Engineering and PhysicalScience, a module-based class in pre-calculus, and a first-year English composition class.Students in each cohort work closely with each other and faculty teaching

Conference Session

Trends in Biological & Agricultural Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Lacey; Ann Kenimer

. Beyond theirmanagement responsibilities, many senior leaders provide mentoring to the freshmen in theirteams. Senior leaders provide freshmen with information about instructors, summer internshipopportunities, departmental laboratory and computer resources, and student clubs, among othertopics. Placement of senior leaders in freshman design teams yields numerous benefits. Seniors getan opportunity to obtain management experience before graduation. Freshmen get an opportunityto meet others in their major and to receive much greater mentoring than can be provided throughtraditional instructor/student contact.This paper describes the process through which senior/freshman teaming is achieved in thesecourses. In addition, the paper explores freshman

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Contemporary Issues in Manufacturing Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mary Jo Cartwright; Allie Knowlton; Donald Falkenburg

Session 1363 Creating Sharable Learning Activities Examples from a Manufacturing Engineering Curriculum Donald R. Falkenburg, Allie Knowlton, Mary Jo Cartwright, Wayne State University Wayne State University CNC Connection Corp.AbstractMany engineering faculty have been involved in projects to improve teaching and learning usingweb-based resources. Information-based learning materials have proven to be adaptable anddynamic; they have enhanced the educational process

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Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Daniel Davis

2306school and a variety of professional careers in the design and building industries. The major is structured to providea proper foundation in mathematics and the basic sciences, while retaining the hands-on laboratory and studiofeatures that are the hallmark of all architectural and engineering technologies. The program is accredited by theTechnology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (TAC/ABET)and is as follows: TABLE I [1] 2000-2001 Architecture CurriculumSem 1 Course Credits/Contact HrsAET 110 Introduction to Architectural Process 4 Credits/8

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Assessment Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Norris; Duco Jansen; Sean Brophy

students’ understanding of specific conceptsimmediately follows class activities designed to teach these concepts. The immediate feedbackprovides students and the instructor with some indication of the level understanding of the class.Students who don’t quite understand may see that they are not alone, and realize where theirmisconceptions or gaps in knowledge lie.Short answer questions require students to generate their own response, rather than recall it froma list of options. The instructor designed questions requiring students to list a casual chain ofevents, or to simply provide a term. This feature has a range of possibilities and depends oncontent and specific learning goals. Two applications of the system were observed to documentuse of

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Carolyn Clark; Prudence Merton; Jim Richardson; Jeffrey Froyd

, Undergraduate Laboratory Science, andEngineering program (IMPULSE)] in the 1997–98 academic year and offered a pilot for 48students in fall 1998. Unlike other FC institutions, UMD piloted their program for only onesemester before they proposed adoption of the program to the college. They made this choice fora number of reasons. Early data were indicating greater retention and class attendance, andstudents were receiving better grades when compared to other sections of similar classes.Secondly, the school was receiving good publicity about the program and interest in the programwas coming in from potential students and their parents. Probably the biggest incentive for quickaction, however, was the impending loss of their dean, who was a big supporter of

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Krueger; Theodore Aanstoos; Ronald Barr

this project-centered approach, the Engineering Graphics curriculum has beenorganized into a set of learning modules with specific educational outcomes. Table 1 lists thecurrent modularization scheme and learning outcomes. It consists of ten units that serve asindividual student projects, plus an integrated PROCEED project that is conducted at theconclusion of the course. With this modularization scheme, the ten individual units trainstudents to develop computer skills and abilities that can be later used in the larger team project.These modern course outcomes, as outlined in Table 1, were fully implemented in the Fall 2002semester using some preliminary computer graphics laboratory notes written by our group10.The initial modules stress

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fredrick Cowan; Alan Gravitt; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

Session 1168 UTILIZING CONSTRAINT GRAPHS IN HIGH SCHOOL PHYSICS F. Scott Cowan 1, Marion Usselman2, Donna Llewellyn3, and Alan Gravitt4 1 G. W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering 2 Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC) 3 Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia 30332

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Visualization and Computer Graphics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Wiebe; Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

are addressed within a framework of astudent identifying key geometric features within the virtual product and how this geometryneeds to be controlled in order for the model to be of maximum usefulness in the productdevelopment process.II. Dynamic modelingEngineering graphics has, in many ways, struggled with the same issues that technologyeducation has over the past 40 years. That is, how to move beyond teaching 'craft' with the endall and be all goal of creating a 'product', to teaching 'process', where how you get to the finishedstage is more important than the product itself 10. In other words, the final product and itsprecursor stages become artifacts that represent the problem-solving process of an appliedgeometric problem. It is

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Berry; Patricia Carlson

might be termed classical engineeringsituations. Much time was spent in laboratories, working through standard exercises in datacollection and analysis. Unlike the teaching that now characterizes medicine or the law,engineers were taught in an environment curiously devoid of a sense of practice. Over the years,this “decontextualization” caused distortions in attitudes and values, along with graduatingengineers who had little exposure to the types of professional maturity and judgment they wouldneed from the very first day they stepped into the work world.16Most would agree that expectations for today’s engineering education incorporates richer notionsof how people learn and of how to nurture the higher-order skills necessary for a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Toniann Rotante; Sarah Brem; Norma Hubele; George Runger; Kathryn Kennedy

Session 1526 Case-Based Reasoning for Engineering Statistics George Runger, Sarah Brem, Norma Hubele, Toniann Rotante, Kathryn Kennedy Arizona State UniversityAbstractIn this paper, we report on the formulation and early results of research supported by the NationalScience Foundation’s Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS).Using findings from cognitive science, we discuss the design of an intelligent tutoring system(ITS) that utilizes case-based reasoning (CBR) to scaffold undergraduate engineering students intheir learning of introductory probability and

Conference Session

Technology, Communication, & Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sageev Pneena; Kathy Bernard; Carol Romanowski

membersprovide an invaluable link between industry and the engineering school by mentoring our studentsone-on-one. Because of students’ intense schedules, we do not require mentoring; however,students who elect to work with a mentor consistently perform better than those who do not.Clearly, the relationship that develops between a dedicated experienced professional and a young“apprentice” has no substitute.Between 1987 and 1999, our program grew to reach about 65 percent of our upper-level studentsat some level of instruction—either via our “stand-alone” three-credit technical electives10 or viashort modules integrated into design project, internship, laboratory, and other engineeringcourses. Our TC faculty tailored the short modules (typically five or

Conference Session

Technology, Communication, & Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paulette Beatty; Jackie Revuelto; Dianne Kraft; Carolyn Clark

. Common Programmatic FeaturesAll of the Foundation Coalition institutions use a cohort or cluster system and blockschedule some of their freshmen students, and often some sophomore students as well,for two or more courses. [The terms “cohort” and “cluster” are used interchangeably; inthis report we primarily use “cohort.”] This structure is usually connected to an integratedcurriculum, which means that the faculty teaching those courses work together, to agreater or lesser degree, to provide coordinated instruction to these students. For thefreshman curriculum, that means that faculty work across disciplines. For example, somecombination of engineering, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and, at times, Englishcourses are scheduled for students as a

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Blaine Lilly; John Merrill

(OSU). His current responsibilities primarily include teaching courses andcurriculum development for the FE program. Mr. Masud received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from OSU in2002, and received in B.S from Florida Institute o f Technology in 1999.STUART H. BRAND is an Instructional Lab Supervisor for the First-Year Engineering Program at The Ohio StateUniversity (OSU) College of Engineering. His current responsibilities include lab support, curriculum development,and educational multimedia development. He received his B.S. in Physics from OSU 1997, after serving as asubmarine nuclear propulsion plant operator for the United States Navy.MICHAEL J. HOFFMANN is an Instructional Laboratory Supervisor at The Ohio State University (OSU

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard O'Brien; Jenelle Piepmeier

Session 1620Developing Feedback-Control Prototypes using a Real-Time Simulink Environment Jenelle Armstrong Piepmeier, Richard T. O’Brien, Jr. U.S. Naval Academy 118 Maryland Ave (Stop 14A) Annapolis, MD 21402An effective undergraduate controls curriculum will have strongly coupled laboratory andclassroom components. It is important that the students experience the application of theclassroom theory. Mathwork’s Simulink environment is ideal for teaching modeling andsimulation of feedback control systems. However, with the addition of a few blocks from

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Russell; Walter Peters

land ethic” which Callicott subsequently modified and extended with his creation of the“modified land ethic.”2,3 This paper explains the macro-ethic and how it can be applied byengineers and gives guidance and suggestions to educators to help them present the concepts tostudents. Guidance and suggestions to educators appears as italicized text in the paper. Theguidance and suggestions has been developed through teaching undergraduate and graduateclasses on topics including industrial ecology, sustainable design and development, and complexsystems study and design. The courses were cross-listed with the College of Engineering and thevirtual School of the Environment. This allowed the classes to draw diverse, multidisciplinarygroups of students

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

students and at the same time to make it as a symbol of strength andpower. It has been carefully studied and analyzed to cause an impact in the schools and in thestudents. The goal has been achieved once it has been pointed out as the symbol of the program.The implementation of the program started in February of 2002; it has been dimensioned to serve10 thousand students per year, including the qualification of teachers and technical staff for thenext four years.7. Physical and material aspects of the ProjectThe physical infra structure of the project counts with 16 laboratories with 20 points of networkeach, in according to the international pattern EIA/TIA 568-A, where each lab contains one Rackwith key and the local network active element

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wim Ravesteijn; Erik DeGraaff

Education • they worship a single god • they believe in the immortality of the soul and the happiness of life after death, and • while they believe fully in their religion and are convinced of its truth, they would abandon it for one that could be proved better(source: http://athena.english.vt.edu/~jmooney/renmats/more.htm )Bacon was the first philosopher to suggest the improvement of society through theapplication of science and technology. In his New Atlantis the House of Solomon – a kind ofobservatory and laboratory - was designated to realize this ideal. The high goal of thisinstitution was to keep order and harmony; to keep the people happy. This goal was to beachieved through extraordinary scientific advances that made it

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

refrigeration system instructional experimental apparatus, shown in Figure 1, was designed,developed and constructed for the undergraduate mechanical engineering laboratory at IndianaUniversity-Purdue University Fort Wayne. The purpose of the instructional experimentalapparatus is to demonstrate thermodynamics processes and systems which are fundamental tounderstanding the basic concepts of thermodynamics, such as the first and second laws ofthermodynamics. In addition, this apparatus demonstrates a vapor compression refrigerationcycle. A number of thermodynamics experiments that can be performed in which the first andsecond law of thermodynamics are employed to determine the heat gained by the refrigerant inthe evaporator, the heat rejected from the

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Burbank

project.References 1. W. Tomasi, Electronic Communications Systems: Fundamentals Through Advanced, 4th edition. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2001. 2. R. Dueck, Digital Design with CPLD Applications and VHDL. Albany: Delmar, 2001. 3. I. A. Hack and J. Haberly, “Low Cost FPGA Development System For Teaching Advanced Digital Circuits”, in Proceedings American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, 2001. 4. R. W. Nowlin and R. Sundararajan, “A VHDL Course For Electronics Engineering Technology”, in Proceedings American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, 2000. 5. E. Yaprak, G. Tjilos, and L. Anneberg, “Digital Laboratory Enhancement”, in

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Frontiers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ristroph

. Spreadsheets, per se, are inadequate for tutoring purposes,so Excel's capabilities are extended by using its internal programming language, Visual Basic forApplications.IntroductionEngineering economics is a unique course that requires students to develop mathematical skillsin equivalence modeling, to apply concepts and solve problems using economic criteria, and tomaster rule and memory oriented topics such as taxes. Students must rely on different learningskills, and this makes teaching the course a fascinating challenge. One common thread to the dif-ferent components of the course is that it does not require a physical laboratory, and this makes ita candidate for web based teaching. Computer applications in engineering economics have a long

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lynn Wang; Paul Klenk; Gary Ybarra

engineering through exposure to four engineering disciplines: civil,mechanical, electrical and computer, and biomedical engineering. For each unit, studentstypically work in groups of three to five to complete a project under the guidance of one of fiveundergraduate Pratt Engineering student teachers. A graduate student coordinates each team ofundergraduate teaching fellows. In Techtronics I, students build balsa wood bridges,programmable robots, heart monitors, and solar powered devices. In Techtronics II, returningand new students are participating in an entirely new curriculum during the 2002-2003 academicyear. Techtronics II is comprised of approximately half returning students and half new students.Though some students have been lost, the 50

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Serdar Tumkor; Russell P. Kraft; Ismail Fidan

. His teaching and research interests are computer integrated design andmanufacturing, electronics manufacturing, and manufacturing processes.SERDAR TUMKOR Dr. Serdar Tumkor is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Istanbul Technical University, Page 8.1118.10Istanbul, Turkey. He has been a full-time faculty member since 1996. Dr. Tumkor received his PhD in MechanicalEngineering from Istanbul Technical University in 1994. His teaching interests are Machine Design, Engineering “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition