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ET Design Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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Wagdy Mahmoud; Tom Timmermann; Bonita Barger; Ahmed Elsawy

. Page 8.834.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright@2003, American Society for Engineering EducationThis paper presents a collaboration between the College of Engineering and Business in theevolution of an engineering senior industrial team-based project capstone course from on-groundto online using WebCT® technology. By taking the course online, the questions raised are: 1) Which communication media are most likely associated with team member satisfaction? 2) Which methods are more likely to be associated with positive group performance? and 3) How can you resolve team conflict?Engineering faculty present the course and

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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David Malicky

. According to the National ResearchCouncil7, "Our nation is becoming divided into a technologically knowledgeable elite and adisadvantaged majority" (p. 1), with women representing a disproportionate part of that majority.In 1972, Federal Title IX legislation prohibited sex discrimination in education, yet there isevidence of subtle discriminatory practices in SME culture 8-12.Representation in undergraduate studies is a function of two mechanisms: enrollment andpersistence. Many interventions have advocated strong recruitment efforts to improve women'senrollment in SME, but these have often resulted in disappointing cost/benefit outcomes:enrollments have grown, but only by about 1% per year, and retention of underrepresented groupscontinues to lag

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Haley; Calvin Mackie; Sundiata Jangha

2003-1936 FOCUS: A Recruiting Initiative for African American Graduate Students at Georgia Institute of Technology Sundiata K. Jangha1, Robert G. Haley2, Dr. Calvin Mackie3 1 George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering 2 College of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology 3 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tulane UniversityIntroduction In today’s changing world, many industry, government and academic leaders havereached

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Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jeffrey Giesey

. In addition to this, I will talk about preparations taken for living in adeveloping country and some aspects of living there, and will cover the differences and similaritiesof engineering education and engineering in general in the United States and Namibia. Finally, Iwill discuss the potential benefits and challenges to both professional and personal developmentfrom such an experience.BackgroundThe Fulbright Program was established in 1946 and is currently the U.S. government's flagshipacademic exchange effort. Its aim is to increase mutual understanding between the peoples of theUnited States and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge and skills.1 It isfunded by the U.S. government and administered by the Department of

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Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; David Oglesby; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

transverse and longitudinal shear, and to shear flow.Experimental DetailsApproximately 100 University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR) students participated in the experiment,in four sections of approximately 25 students each. For each section, the followingsteps/activities were all completed in a single 50-minute class period during October, 2002. (1) Computer Lab: On the day of the experiment, the students reported to a computer learning center instead of their regular lecture-style classroom. (2) Human Subjects Form: All students completed a human subjects form giving permission to use the data collected in the experiment. (3) Ten Minute Lecture: On their individual computer screens, each student viewed a 10- minute lecture presented by

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Capstone Design and Engineering Practice

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2003 Annual Conference

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David Harris

Spring 2002. The class consisted of fifteen juniors and seniors. Moststudents were engineering majors, but one was from computer science and another from biology.More course information is available in [1]. The Spring 2003 class consisted of seventeenstudents.E158 assignments begin with a series of five labs in which students built an 8-bit subset of aMIPS processor. Along the way, they learn to use the Electric CAD tool for schematic andlayout entry, design rule checking (DRC), electrical rule checking (ERC), layout vs. schematicchecking (LVS), simulation, and place-and-route. With this background they are prepared topropose and carry out a final project, working in teams of two. If teams fully verify their projectand will be on campus in the

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tamy Fry; Mark A. Nanny; Mary John O'Hair; Teri Reed Rhoads

Session 2530 A Survey of Authentic Teaching in Secondary Math and Science Classrooms Tamy L. Fry1 , Teri Reed Rhoads 1 , Mark Nanny 2 and Mary John O’Hair3 The University of Oklahoma School of Industrial Engineering 1 School of Civil Engineering and Enviro nmental Science 2 Center for Educational and Community Renewal3Abstract The Authentic Teaching Alliance (ATA) is a project funded through the National ScienceFoundation GK-12 program in which University of Oklahoma Fellows from engineering andeducation

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Innovative Teaching Methods in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Ford; Denise Jackson

is vital to effectively do so. Presentation keeps them glued to the video screen,and the typical sophomore student is accustomed to the flashy, eye-catching video games on themarket. Thus, we needed the graphics, animations, video, and sound effects of the multimediatools to help us do the same. We needed these tools to appeal to those students who “never readthe book” because they find textbook learning boring.We also needed to ensure that we were creating an effective tool for inspiring learning. Effectiveteaching , as identified by Chickering and Gamson1, has seven attributes: 1. encourages student-faculty contact; 2. encourages cooperation among students; 3. encourages active learning; 4.gives prompt feedback, 5. emphasizes time on task

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Novel Courses for CHEs

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Krantz

-material surfaces, and interfacialflows. The ABET 2000 outcomes addressed in this course are identified and the assessment ofstudent achievement towards these outcomes is summarized.1 IntroductionThis paper discusses the pediment graduate course ‘Transport Phenomena I’ in the Departmentof Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Cincinnati (UC). It covers fluiddynamics and heat transfer during the Fall Quarter (UC is on a quarter rather than semestersystem). Transport Phenomena II covers mass transfer and is offered during the Winter Quarter.Transport Phenomena I is required for all graduate students in chemical engineering and is atechnical elective for seniors. Typical enrollment is 20-30 graduate students and 2-5 seniors

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; David Oglesby; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

for plane stress – are described, andstudent response to these games is discussed.II. The Centroids GameIn the Statics course, students learn how to compute the centroid of a composite cross-sectionalarea. To help students improve their proficiency in centroid calculations, The Centroids Gamewas developed. This game is constructed in two parts, each with multiple levels (termed rounds),designed to lead the student from recognition of a proper calculation to the ability to correctlyperform the calculation.The first part of the game, called The Centroids Game – Learning the Ropes (Figure 1), consistsof six rounds. In round 1 (Figure 1a), the student is presented with a series of shapes comprisedof rectangles. A target centroidal axis is

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Miroslav Velev

for defining processors with exceptions and branch prediction, as used in the projects—was applied at Motorola to formally verify a model of the M•CORE processor, and detected bugs. The course went through two iterations—offered at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the summer and fall of 2002—and was taught to 67 students, 25 of whom were undergraduates.1. IntroductionVerification is increasingly becoming the bottleneck in the design of state-of-the-art computersystems, with up to 70% of the engineering effort spent on verifying a new product1. Theincreased complexity of new microprocessors leads to more errors—Bentley2 reported a 350%increase in the number of bugs detected in the Intel Pentium 43, compared to those

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Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2003 Annual Conference

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Nicholas Degnan; M.L. Meier; Aaron Broumas

: ∂C ∂ 2C =D (1) ∂t ∂x 2where D is the diffusivity and C is the concentration of the diffusing species1. Thesolution to this differential equation, where surface concentrations are held fixed and thediffusion medium is infinitely long, generates the concentration profile described by the Page 8.434.1equation“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition 2003, American Society for Engineering Education

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Web Systems and Web Services

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2003 Annual Conference

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Marcus Huggans; Steve Watkins; Halvard E. Nystrom

learning styles to class design can create opportunities for suchimprovements. Learning styles reflect that different individuals have preferred ways tolearn. Because of its promise to improve learning effectiveness, it was ranked by JamesStice as one of the eight key educational innovations in the last thirty years.1 Asynchronous web-based learning modules are intended for self-paced use. Thesemodules can provide an opportunity to apply pedagogical concepts to individualizedstudent learning. In particular, these modules can be specifically designed to appeal tostudents with specific learning styles. This tailoring is an advantage to instructors thathave preferred teaching styles and that have difficulty modifying their methods to facilitatethe

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Computer Assisted Data Acquisition

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2003 Annual Conference

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M.L. Meier

employed inthe materials science applications. These modules will be essentially condensed versions of thetype of printed manual that software developers once included with their software, but designedfor the engineering student and instructor. Major topics covered in the reference guides are: “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition 2003, Page 8.1026.4 American Society for Engineering Education” 1. Introduction 2. Overview 3. A Tour of the Desktop 4. Writing Formulas 5. Working with Functions 6

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Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2003 Annual Conference

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Herbert Hess

applications. Following that discussion,the more global effect of information technologies is considered.[1]Internal combustion engineThis is the incumbent technology. Most portable electric generators presently consist of agasoline or diesel engine driving a wound-field rotating electric machine at a single speed. Thisis presently the dominant technology in terms of the performance drivers: low cost, portable,reliable, safe, quiet, and clean. Though improvements in other energy technologies get much ofthe publicity, the technology of the internal combustion engine is by no means standing still. Infact, the stream of innovations expected for the internal combustion engine in the next twentyyears and beyond poses probably the most substantial problem

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Using Web-Based Engineering Information

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2003 Annual Conference

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Nicole Clark; David Radcliffe

Web site. A number of key stages have been identified andincremental changes made accordingly. These stages range from the easily implemented, to themore ambitious or costly. Figure 1: Sustainability Knowledge Network Homepage (December 2002)The initial stage of the redevelopment has seen the development of a new Web site hosted at theold AVEL domain name, as well as the migration of existing key resources already containedwithin the AVEL repository and the addition of new resources that focus on sustainability. Inresponse to customer feedback that suggests that users come to sites like AVEL to find freelyavailable and reliable full-text content, increased emphasis has be given to building the collectionin this area. Full-text

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Innovations in the CHE Laboratory

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2003 Annual Conference

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R. Russell Rhinehart; Benjamin Lawrence; Sundararajan Madihally

Reaction Engineering”course, students are introduced to the concepts of non-ideal flow conditions in the reactor and theanalysis of non-ideal reactors via zero order models i.e., segregation and maximum mixednessmodels [1]. Further, a computational fluid dynamic modeling (CFX AEA Technologies,Pittsburgh, PA) is first introduced in the Transport Phenomena course, and they are trained toanalyze RTD in the Chemical Reaction Design Course. The project stages were: a) determine the rate law and the rate kinetic parameters: To minimize the time spent ondetermining the exact reaction mechanism, they were suggested to use a Hougan-Watson (H-W)kinetic model if the elementary reaction assumption is determined to be invalid [2]. Since the rateconstant

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Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mike Cheung; Rex Ramsier; Ed Evans; Francis Broadway; Helen Qammar

. Some of our recent experiences inapplying new strategies in this course will be discussed. While addressing theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) criteria in our coursestructuring, our methodology uses a hybrid combination of techniques including (1)project-based learning, (2) field trips, and (3) team-working tasks and group activitiesboth inside and outside the classroom. The discussion in this paper includes contentanalysis of free-form written student responses, reports, and reflection statements, andhow we can use these to modify the course and provide feedback to the students. Weenvision that these early experiences improve student attitudes and encourage moreactive and meaningful student participation in their own

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Environmental Justice and Sustainability

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Radhika Kotha

program, which he named Centre ForEnvironment Studies And Socioresponsive Engineering (CESSE). He was inspired in part by aspeech given by Joseph Bordogna, Deputy Director of National Science Foundation, USA, at theMIT Club – in particular, the statement: Engineering is not only about doing things right but alsoabout doing the right things (1).Professor Ansari, the initiator of CESSE, got together a group of students from mechanical andcivil engineering and initiated a project in a low-income residential area near our college, wherethere are serious environmental problems and scarcity of basic resources. The aim of that projectis to improve the living conditions of the underprivileged residents through simple engineeringinputs by regularly

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Recruitment & Outreach in CHE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tricia Lytton; Margie Haak; Edith Gummer; Dan Arp; Willie (Skip) Rochefort

to develop Introduction to Engineering courses, engineering modules, and for a limitednumber of students, a research experience at the University. This program could be put “on-line”and made available to an extended community of schools in Oregon and beyond. It is hoped thatFellows, because of these types of experiences, will enter into their professional lives betterprepared to contribute to science education whether in university, government or industrialsettings.Project DescriptionI. Learning Themes and OverviewTo meet our goal to develop active science and mathematics learning, five activity themes weredesigned. These themes are developed in our Fellow training program and implemented in theschools:•Theme 1: Inquiry-based learning. We

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Models for Integrating Writing II

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rebecca Pinkus

R. Pinkus 2003-1978“Writing Across the Engineering Curriculum: Challenges, Experiences, and Insightsfrom the University of Toronto’s Engineering Communications Centre”Rebecca A. Pinkus, MTPW, MALanguage Across the CurriculumFaculty of Applied Science and EngineeringUniversity of TorontoINTRODUCTIONWriting Centers have been in place throughout university systems since the early 1970s[1], as have Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) efforts; both aim to use writing as aform of learning. That is, as students learn to write about their discipline, they also learn tothink more critically about the content they are learning. When these concepts are placedinto the

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Haering

accurate description of the number of quadriplegic baccalaureate engineering studentscould not be found, the number of such students in colleges and universities in the United Statesis small. This assertion is based upon the following. First, as far as was known in 2000, thestudent discussed in this paper was the first quadriplegic baccalaureate engineering student in theCollege of Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. This is significant because ThePennsylvania State University perennially ranks in the top three engineering schools based on thenumber of undergraduate engineering degrees conferred. Furthermore, by using statistical datafrom several different sources, provided in Table 1, the number of quadriplegic

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Moujalli Hourani

under the ABET Engineering Criteria 2000. Few years ago theCivil Engineering Department started a critical review of all aspects of its program to determinethe changes, or enhancements needed to satisfy Criterion 1-8. The outcomes of the reviewproved that our program satisfied the majority of the ABET 2000 criteria. The only area ofconcern was item b of Criterion 3. Program Outcomes and Assessment “Engineeringprograms must demonstrate that their graduates have the ability to design and conductexperiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data”. The department’s discussions and debatesfocused on the appropriate year in undergraduate education to achieve this goal. The departmentspent a considerable amount of time studying the background in

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Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William O. Jolley; Hartley T. Grandin, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

complexities of the actual application ofFEM software such that engineers with education equal to or less than the bachelorsdegree are using the technique today. In contrast, ten years ago, specialists did a majorityof FEM analyses, mostly educated at the masters or doctoral level [1] due to the method’stechnical complexity and to the command line pre-processing requirements. Finite element courses in academia at the undergraduate and graduate levels inengineering programs are mainly theoretical in nature. Although some students andpractitioners have taken an FEM course at the undergraduate and/or graduate level, manyindividuals have only been introduced to FEM in a two to five day training course.These training courses enable an individual to

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International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Valery Sokolov; Tatiana Burukhina; Michael Dmitriev; Galina Zhukova

development of the educationalsystem, which would correspond to requirements of the XXI century, to social and economicneeds of the developing country, to inquiries of the person, the society and the state 1. Now the higher school of Russia experiences a very difficult period of its existence. Onthe one hand, needs in the higher education in the country continue to remain high. It is due tothe fact that under conditions of market economy the presence of higher education increasescompetitiveness of the person on labour market, forms a basis of social growth andpromotion, helps to be guided by and better adapted to varying social and economicconditions. The changes happened in our country in last decade resulted in the situation whenmany people

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Leah Jamieson; Lynne Slivovsky; William Oakes

are identifiedby the team and community partner allowing the team to continue to work with the samecommunity partner for many years. Each undergraduate student may earn academic credit forseveral semesters, registering for the course for 1 or 2 credits each semester. The creditstructure is designed to encourage long-term participation, and allows multi-year projects ofsignificant scope and impact to be undertaken by the teams.Each student in the EPICS Program attends a weekly two-hour meeting of his/her team in theEPICS laboratory. During this laboratory time the team members will take care ofadministrative matters, do project planning and tracking, and work on their project. All studentsalso attend a common one-hour lecture each week. A

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Mechanical Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Firas Zeineddine; Ahmad Smaili

code allows one to analyze the synthesized linkage to assess its kinematicsperformance. This is an important step because mathematical solutions do not guarantee thatthe synthesized mechanism can traverse the positions in the desired order or it does not sufferfrom branching defects. The simulation option in SoftLink allows the designer to check finedetails in the kinematics before moving to the kinetics design and analysis.Matlab/Simulink is the platform of choice for several reasons: (1) It is a code familiar tostudents and faculty as it is already available and used in many courses in a curriculum tosolve a wide range of engineering problems including control, communications, DSP,optimization, etc.; (2) It has a vast library of functions

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Primus Tillman

, printing multiple copies of handouts and other material, classroombehavior, graduate assistants, and many other classroom teaching tools and techniques. Now, allthat is required is the virtual presence of students and teachers on line.[1]Streaming media is revolutionizing the way that educators and students look at education. Thetechnology provides an infinite potential for exploiting previously untapped methods ofdelivering quality education to everyone who wants it by fulfilling two fundamental needs.The first need is for affordable, reliable, high quality educational materials that are available toeveryone, everywhere; in a format that is easy for both providers and consumers to configure anduse. The delivery system must be inexpensive, so

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Issues for ET Administrators

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Rennels

the facultycredentials section of the TAC/ABET document. Table 1 summarizes the changing facultycredential requirements from section V.F. General Criteria, Faculty for the 1985-1986 academicyear4 (appendix I), section I.F. General Criteria, Faculty for the 2003-2004 academic year5 and Page 8.856.2 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”for the Technology Criteria 2000 (TC2K), performance-based accreditation criteria for the 2003-2004 academic year6. Table 1. Basic

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Curriculum Issues in Graphics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alice Scales

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Page 8.945.2 © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationsuggestion, was that that more software instruction be included in GC classes (12 or 27%). Thenumber of individuals who made this suggestion was somewhat unexpected, since only 11% ofrespondents indicated that software instruction was the reason they liked the program. The thirdmost-often-listed suggestion was that nothing be changed (7 or 11%).On the survey, students were asked to indicate the courses they had taken in the GC Program andto rank order them, beginning with the number one (1), to