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Visualization and Computer Graphics

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2003 Annual Conference

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Eric Wiebe; Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

, Hartman NW, Wiebe EN. Constraint-based, three-dimensional solid modeling in an introductory engineering graphics course: Re-examining the curriculum. Engineering Design Graphics Journal 2002;66(1):5- 10.2. Barr RE, Juricic D. A new look at the engineering design graphics process based on geometric modeling. Engineering Design Graphics Journal 1992;56(3):18-26.3. Ault H. Principles of parametrics - New concepts for the EDG curriculum. In: Sorby S, editor. ASEE Engineering Design Graphics Division Mid-Year Meeting; 1997; Madison, WI; 1997. p. 187-192.4. Baxter DH. Expanding the use of solid modeling throughout the engineering curriculum. Engineering Design Graphics Journal 2001;65(1):6-13.5. Cumberland RR, Miller CL. The

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Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jay Porter; Joseph Morgan

next step would be to havemultiple academic programs become involved in acompetition. If appropriate, there could be a “bestof the best” showdown that could include a GrandPrix style race that is conducted at one location with Figure 3. MPIII Construction by Student.the drivers actually controlling their platforms from some other – remote – site.Including narrow S curves, darkened tunnels, and long straight-aways would truly test theteam’s ability to monitor and control their platform. A “fair” competition could bereadily created by mandating the frame size and materials, the motors, and the H-bridgesthat have to be used. Almost all other component selection could be left to the

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Teaching Design Through Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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James Bales; Thomas Consi

Police, and the Athletics Department. AnalogDevices, Maxim, Microchip, Xicor, and Motorola all donated ICs for the course. Additionally,Microchip (through S-J New England, Inc.) provided PIC programmers and data books. Finally,we would like to thank our students in the subject, whose interest and dedication wereinspirational and who were just a lot of fun to be around!Bibliographic Information1. “Smart Rockets: Data Acquisition in Model Rocketry,” Tom Consi and Jim Bales, Circuit Cellar INK, Issue 98,pp. 12–23, 1998, Circuit Cellar Inc., Vernon, CT2. National Association of Rocketry, Altoona, Wisconsin, http://www.nar.org/SandT/NARenglist.shtmlBiographical InformationJAMES W. BALESDr. Bales is the Assistant Director of the MIT Edgerton Center

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Program Delivery Methods & Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Ragsdell; Halvard Nystrom

situation and create team consensus and decisions. It ischallenging to have a synchronous distance activity in which simulations are used inunstructured collaborative team environments.The student responses do vary depending on their personality types. The Myers-BriggsPersonality Types are based on the four dimensions: Extroverted (E) vs. Introverted (I); Intuitive(N) vs. Sensing (S); Feeling (F) vs., Thinking (T); and Judging (J) vs. Perceiving (P). Since eachstudent can be categorized as having a preference in each of the four dimensions, the studentevaluations regarding the Palmtop simulation can be compared for each of these dimensions ascan be seen in Table 2. The data that is presented is the difference between the mean score forthe group of

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Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2003 Annual Conference

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Larry Williamson; Randy Winzer

the sensors and the GPS system is transmitted onseparate wireless channels to a receiver module connected to a personal computer. Thetemperature and strain data is collected and stored in a spreadsheet on the personal computer tobe analyzed later. The GPS data is used to calculate real time location, speed, and altitudeinformation that are then displayed on an application running on the PC. Photo showing complete Moonbuggy Monitoring Sy stem with base station laptop computer prior to competition. Photo removed in order to meet ASEE Board of Directors mandated 2 mega-byte file size l imitation for all papers that are loaded into the CAPS s ystem. Contact the authors to obtain a full version including color

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Web Systems and Web Services

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2003 Annual Conference

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Xiannong Meng

Phase Two – Index the DocumentsIn this phase of the project students build the indexing component of the search engine. Theindexer takes a sequence of file names as input. When integrated with other componentsto make a complete search engine, these files are sent from the crawler(s). For each of thefiles specified by the file name, the indexer processes the file in the following steps.Lexical analysis (tokenizing) divides the input stream into tokens and extracts words as well as URLs from the input stream. Students were advised to convert characters into their lower case and squeeze multiple spaces between words into a single space for easy processing. The exception is that the cases and spacing in URLs are preserved.Stopwords

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EM Skills and Concepts in the Real World

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2003 Annual Conference

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Terry Collins; Alisha Youngblood

assess the IndustrialEngineering discipline under evaluation. Other opportunities for changes in the approach will beto integrate other classes that would be able to add value to the project outcomes. Courses inBusiness Administration, Transportation Logistics, Micro-Electronics Photonics, etc. would beexcellent candidates to provide equal support in a special course project.Bibliography1. Brown, James R. and Chekitan S. Dev (2000), “Improving Productivity in a Service Business,” Journal of Service Research, 2 (4), 339-354.2. George, Kenneth D. and Terry Ward (1973), “Productivity Growth in the Retail Trade,” Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 35 (1), 31-47.3. Good, W.S. (1984), “Productivity in the Retail Grocery Trade

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Current Issues in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

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James Davis; Melissa Dark

type(s) of career or advanced schooling being prepared for. Giventhat, the group felt that we could produce a working document that defined the content, i.e., thecommon body of knowledge across all discplines and types of programs, but that meaningfuldefinition of scope would need to be more detailed and granular according to program type.We have utilized a logic model approach and specficially the backward design model (5) to guidethe process of defining the core curriculum. The backward design model is derived from thefundamental systems/program logic model whereby antecendents, transactions, and outcomes arelogically linked in an apparent and systematic way (Figure 1). antecedents transactions

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Trends in Engineering Economy

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jon Juneau; Kant Vajpayee; Eyler Coates

Session 1139 Introducing Engineering Economy Students to Real Options Eyler R. Coates, S. Kant Vajpayee, Jon Juneau University of Southern Mississippi/Engineering Consultant Box 5137, Hattiesburg, MS 39406AbstractEngineering economy has been a core requirement in engineering curriculums for many years.The traditional engineering economy courses only include problems with all deterministic inputs,even though deterministic data seldom occur in business. Also, traditional net present valuemethods make no allowance for flexibility by management and assume a static

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julio Davalos

-times Teacher of the Year in the College (1995, ‘96, 2000, ‘01),WVU Outstanding Teacher (1995), Professor of the Year in the State of West Virginia (1998). His research expertiseincludes structural mechanics, advanced materials, and innovative teaching methods and technologies.CHRISTOPHER J. MORANChris Moran obtained his M.S. degree in structural engineering from WVU (1997). He is a professional engineerworking in design of highway bridges for J&T Engineering in Baltimore, MD.SHILPA S. KODKANIShilpa Kodkani obtained her B.S. in Civil Engineering from Karnataka Univ. (1998), India, and she is currentlypursuing her M.S. degree in structural engineering at WVU. Her research is concerned with interface mechanics offiber-reinforced composites

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Women in Engineering: New Research

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2003 Annual Conference

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Urmila Ghia; Rebecca German; Lisa Hogeland; Brian Kinkle; Carla Purdy

Professor in the University of Cincinnati's Center forWomen's studies. She is the author of Feminism and Its Fictions and is working on an Aunt Lute anthology of U.S.women writers and a book on American women’s sentimental novels entitled Imaging Women’s Freedom.BRIAN KINKLEBrian Kinkle earned his Ph.D. in Microbial Ecology and Environmental Microbiology from the University ofMinnesota. His research interests include microbial ecology, xenobiotic biodegradation, microbe-heavy metalinteractions, rhizosphere microbiology, groundwater microbiology, and bacterial population genetics.CARLA C. PURDYCarla Purdy has earned Ph.D.'s in mathematics (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and computer science(Texas A&M University). Her research

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

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Silliman Stephen; Leo Hubbard McWilliams; Catherine Pieronek

30.00% 25.00% All % 20.00% M% 15.00% F% 10.00% 5.00% 0.00% A A- B+ B B- C+ C C- Grade s by Percent of

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Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2003 Annual Conference

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Terrence Freeman; Jessica du Maine

Engineering Educatioin, 1994. 83(2): p. 237-242.4. Astin, A.W., L. Tsui, and J. Avalos, Degree attainment rates at American colleges and univerisities: Effects of race, gender, and institutional type, in Graduate School of Education. 1996, University of California, Los Angeles. p. 22.5. Moller-Wong, C. and A. Eide, An engineering student retention study. Journal of Engineering Education, 1997. 86(1): p. 7-15.6. Seymour, E. and N.M. Hewitt, Talking about leaving: Why undergraduates leave the sciences. 1997, Boulder, CO: Westview Press. 430.7. Landis, R.B., Studying engineering: A road map to a rewarding career. 1995, Los Angeles: Discovery Press. 236.8. Takahira, S., D.J. Goodings, and J.P

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New Programs and Success Stories

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2003 Annual Conference

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Devdas Shetty

varying degree of success. In the1990's many industries have attempted to achieve world-class status by implementing totalquality management methods. Some of them introduced just-in-time manufacturing techniques Page 8.603.8like cellular manufacturing, quick change-over procedure, one piece part flow, kanban, and othertechniques resulting in inventory reduction. Spurred by success stories, the industries moved toteam-based continuous improvement and experimented with self-directed work teams. Studyingbest practice used by others and benchmarking them has become a standard procedure.Agility is the ability to succeed in an environment of constant

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Cecelia Wigal

Systems: A Cybernetic Perspective, Paul Keys and Michael C. Jackson (Eds.), Gower Publishing Company Limited, pp. 24 – 52.12. Jackson, M. C. (1988) “Systems Methods for Organizational Analysis and Design,” Systems Research Vol. 5, pp. 201 – 210.13. Thompson, Charles W. N. and Gustave J. Rath (1973) “Making Your Health System Work: A Systems Analysis Approach,” Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Chicago, Illinois, October 20 – 24, Revised 1976.14. Hoffer, Jeffrey A., Joey F. George, Joseph S. Valacich (2002) Modern Systems Analysis & Design, third edition, Prentice Hall New Jersey.15. Buede, Dennis M. (1999) “Functional Analysis” Handbook of Systems Engineering and Management

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New Programs and Success Stories

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2003 Annual Conference

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Edward Hensel; Paul Stiebitz

and company sponsors. 2. Additional engineering disciplines will participate. This requires extensive logistics collaboration between departments. In the next offering, students from computer engineering and microelectronic engineering will join the students from mechanical, industrial and systems, and electrical engineering. 3. Continue the assessment of the design project management course throughout the duration of subsequent design project course sequence.ReferencesWojahn, P.; Dyke, J; Riley, L; Hensel, E., Brown, S.; From the Classroom to the Multidisciplinary Team:Envisioning Transition for Technical Communicators. Special issue of Technical

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Innovation in Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jesse Pappas; Eric Pappas

Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) seems to agree; the 2000 “a-k” criteria5 call for a design rich curriculum and contemporary, real-world educationalmethodology. Beginning in the early 1990's, but specifically during the last few years, engineeringeducators have been modifying the curriculum by initiating courses and projects that fosterin their students advanced thinking skills and an understanding of creative and inventiveprocesses. Once predictable engineering classrooms are experiencing a (perhaps overdue)transition to a more holistic, multi-disciplinary educational ethos that has traditionally beenenjoyed by students of the arts and humanities. Student learning experiences varydramatically from classroom to classroom and

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Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Elise Barrella; Keith Buffinton

Career as a Professional Engineer.” (Oct. 16, 2002).7. Gruver, W. R. and Stamos, S. C., Jr. Bucknell’s Institute for Leadership in Technology and Management: The Pedagogical Relationship Between Field Trips, Group Projects, and Internships. Proceedings of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences, 2000, Las Vegas, NV.8. “ILTM.” (2002). (Sept. 12, 2002).9. “Management Science and Engineering.” (2002). (Sept. 18, 2002).10. “Rowan University Mechanical Engineering - Engineering Clinics List.” (2001). (Oct. 1, 2002).11. “Stanford Technology Ventures Program.” (2002). (Oct. 11, 2002).12. “Systems Engineering and Engineering Management.” (2002). (Sept. 18, 2002).ELISE M. BARRELLA is a first-year

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Harold Evensen; Paula Zenner

review the project and learning outcomes,the Senior Design Committee evaluates and makes recommendations to the full faculty forchange(s). • Design Committee Evaluation of Oral Presentations and Poster Presentations • Industrial Advisory Committee Evaluation of Oral Presentations and Poster Presentations, using guidelines provided by the Design Committee • Discussions with a student advisory board made up of eight to ten randomly selected senior design students • Input from Industrial Advisory Committee members who have Sponsored Design Projects • Sponsor Evaluation of project work, using guidelines provided by the Design Committee • Joint Advisor/Instructor evaluation of Written Reports

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stan Harris

. Page 8.1101.3“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”This approach was employed using on a paper-and-pencil exams (and, more recently, quizzes)for many years.Some experimentation in the fall 2002 semester yielded the following quiz and final examadministration approach: (Quiz[zes] and exam[s] are henceforth referred to as Q/E.) • Q/E are composed in the same manner in which they have been composed for years using Microsoft Word software, but with directions suitable for electronic Q/E completion and submission. • Q/E are submitted to Blackboard’s digital dropbox of each student. (Q/E submission to

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Mobile Robotics in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Gabriel Ferrer; Ann Wright; Andrew Wright

Robot”, IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation, RA-2:1 (1996), pp 14-23.15.Brill, F. Z., Wasson, G. S., Ferrer, G. J., Martin, W. N., “The Effective Field of View Paradigm: Adding Representation to a Reactive System”, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 11 (1998), pp 189-201.16.Bonasso, R. P., Firby, R. J., Gat, E., Kortenkamp, D., Miller, D. P., Slack, M. G., “Experiences with an Architecture for Intelligent, Reactive Agents”, Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 9:2 (1997).17.Asimov, Isaac, “I, Robot”, Bantam Books, 1994. Page 8.61.9Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering

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Current Issues in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

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Michael Brzoska; Atsushi Inoue; Min-Sung Koh; William Loendorf

Research,” Computer, Vol. 35-2, pp. 22. 2002.[3] Chabrow, E. and Swanson, S. “IT Jobless Rate Hits 5.5% in November,” InformationWeek.com, Article S0024. Retrieved December 19, 2001 from: http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20011213S0024, December 13, 2001.[4] Khirallah, D.R., Chabrow, E. Goodridge, E. and Hakes, M. “Where are the Jobs?” InformationWeek.com, Article S0006. Retrieved December 19, 2001 from: http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle?doc_id=IWK20011109S0006, November 12, 2001.[5] American Electronics Association, from http://www.aeanet.org/[6] Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, at http://www.abet.orgBiographical InformationEsteban Rodriguez-Marek obtained his B.Sc. and M.S. in Electrical

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Teaching Design Through Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George Wise; Philip Kosky; Robert Balmer

, coordination between the weekly content of the lecture portion of thecourse and the design studio can be improved.Bibliography1. Sheppard, S. , Jenison, R., “Examples of Freshman Design Education,” Int. J. Engrng. Ed. Vol 13 No 4, p 248- 261, 1997.2. Balmer, R. T., “Converging Technologies - The New Frontier in Engineering Education,” Proc. 2002 ASEE Annual Conference, Montreal, June 16-18, 2002.3. Wilk, R., Traver, C., LaPlant , Hedrick, J., Keat, W. and Wicks, F. “A Freshman Engineering Course Which Introduces Engineering Design and Engineering Fundamentals in th e Context of a Unifying Theme,” Proc. 2001 ASEE Annual Conference. Hedrick, J. “The Freshman Engineering Course Balancing Act,” Proc. 2002 ASEE Annual Conference

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Learning and Teaching Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Matthew Parsek; Chris Riesbeck; Gulnur Birol; Ann McKenna

of the NSF under AwardNumber EEC-9876363.References1. http://www.vanth.org/2. Hsi, S., and Agogino, A. M. (1994). The impact and instructional benefit of using multimedia case studies to teach engineering design. Journal of educational hypermedia and multimedia, 3(3/4), 351-376.3. Engineering Deans Council (1994). The Green Report: Engineering Education for a Changing World. American Society for Engineering Education, http://www.asee.org/publications/reports/greenworld.cfm Page 8.348.134. http://www.abet.org Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Statistics in the CHE Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Valerie Young

Statistics?Statistical methods of data analysis are valuable tools to chemical engineers in both research andin industrial practice. Consider this quote from a recent National Science Foundation programannouncement (italics added). “Projects must use appropriate quantitative methods, and teamsshould include individual(s) with demonstrated expertise in the quantitative methods to be used.Quantitative methods may include: conceptual, mathematical or computational models; computersimulation; artificial intelligence techniques; hypothesis testing; statistics; visualization; ordatabase development. Mathematical models must include estimates of uncertainty, andexperiments should assess power and precision.” “Six-Sigma”, the currently popular

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ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Spreen

5.1, copyright 1992-1996, InteractiveImage Technologies Ltd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.12. Leon O. Chua, Charles A. Desoer, and Ernest S. Kuh, Linear and Nonlinear Circuits, McGraw-Hill, New York,1987. Chapter 13, Section 2.1, pp. 747-751.13. Herbert H. Woodson and James R. Melcher, Electromechanical Dynamics, Part I, Discrete Systems, John Wiley& Sons, New York, 1968. Section 2.1.1, pp. 17-28.14. Members of the Staff of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,Magnetic Circuits and Transformers, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1943. Part II, Chapter XVII, Article 2,p. 438, equation 30.15. MicroSim Pspice A/D, Evaluation Version 8.0, July 1997. MicroSim Corporation, Irvine, CA 92718, USA.16

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Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Jordan; Bill Elmore

Louis, June 2000. In CD based Proceedings (no page numbers).8. Porter, J., Fink, R., and Ochoa, J., Balancing Tenure Requirements with Family Life: Perspectives from Three Tenure-Track Faculty Members, presented at the ASEE annual meeting, Albuquerque, June 2001. In CD based Proceedings (no page numbers).9. Bell, J., Ford, A., Goncharaoff, V., Montgomery, S., Reed, D., Theys, C., and Troy, P., Lecturer-An Alternative to the Tenure Track, presented at the ASEE annual meeting, Montreal, June 2002. In CD based Proceedings (no page numbers).10. Ochoa, J., Porter, J., and Fink, R., Collaboration Leads to Benefits for Tenure Track Faculty, presented at the ASEE annual meeting, Albuquerque, June 2001. In CD based

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New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2003 Annual Conference

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Amy Miller

Conference and Exposition, 2002. 4. Enerson, D., Johnson, R., Milner, S., Plank, K., “The Penn State Teacher II: Learn ing to Teach; Teaching to Learn,” Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. 5. Brent, R, Felder, R, “It’s a Start,” College Teaching, 47 (1), 14-17, 1999. 6. Qualters, D., “Managing Changing Classroom Expectations,” Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practices, ASCE, April 2003.AMY MILLERAmy Miller is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown (UPJ). She recently joined thefaculty at UPJ after 10 years, holding various positions, with a leading manufacturer of railroad freight cars

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Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Juliano; Ronald Rockland; George Gonzalez; Joel Bloom

Session 3547 Enhancing the pre-engineering curriculum – a multi-partner initiative Thomas M. Juliano1, Ronald H. Rockland 2, Joel S. Bloom 3, George Gonzalez4 1 Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Technology, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, Tel: (973) 596-5694, Fax: (973) 642-4184, thomas.juliano@njit.edu / 2 Associate Dean, Newark College of Engineering, and Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Technology, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rafiqul Islam

a career in engineering and technology can genuinely be exciting and neat. Theperception is that it is too difficult a career path and the students are quite afraid of math andscience. The National reports support this impression as US students in k-12 level currently lagbehind their peers in other countries in math and science achievment5. The on-going decline infreshman engineering and technology enrollments since mid-1985’s provides an additionalsupport 2. On the top of it there is a declining pool of high school graduates in some states. The Page 8.564.2 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual