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Women in Engineering: New Research

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2003 Annual Conference

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Yell Inverso; Rachelle Heller; Dave Snyder; Charlene Sorenson; Catherine Mavriplis

Session A WALK ON THE MOON: Interdisciplinary, Inquiry-Based Learning Theory into Practice Catherine Mavriplis and Rachelle S. Heller The George Washington University, Washington, DC Charlene C. Sorensen and H. David Snyder Gallaudet University, Washington, DCIntroductionAcademic disciplines and corporations whose basis lies in science and engineering arecalling for diversity in the student body and work force, including women and otherunder-represented groups (Ramsey et al, 1997), one that is comfortable working in teams(Frost, 1998) and willing to engage in collaborative problem solving directed at

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Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Creese

nearly5.0 percent per year for residents whereas salaries for all faculty has increased only 3.8 percent atWVU. Over the last 19 years the residential tuition increased an average of 8.1 percent astuitions increased 30 percent in the early 1980’s. If the economy goes into depression, thenenrollments will decrease and tuition increases will be difficult to implement. A major emphasis has been to improve the athletic team performance to enhance theimage of the university. Television advertisements during sports events are one example of goodmarketing techniques to enhance the university image. Recently West Virginia University hadits head football coach retire after more than 20 years of service. A new football coach, with nohead coaching

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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puszynski jan; David Dixon; Bhavani Puli; James Munro

Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering EducationThe response to question no.’s 1, 4, 5, and 6 reflect a high degree of agreement that theexperiment was a positive learning experience for the students and the negative responseto question 2 indicates clearly that the experiment was not perceived as a “cookbook”experience.When asked to provide comments on the design experiment, students responded with comments such as: • “I think that being able to see the workings of the columns makes it easier to understand what is really happening in a packed column.” • “Forced us to revisit principles learned in ChE 318 [the theory course].” • “The students can see all aspects of an absorption column and vary any of several parameters

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Curriculum Issues in Graphics

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2003 Annual Conference

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David Kelley

Session Product Lifecycle Management Philosophies Within a Computer-Aided Design Program of Study David S. Kelley Purdue UniversityAbstractTechnological innovations influenced by the capabilities of global communication meansare creating competitive environments that require companies to respond faster to customerneeds with higher quality products. To foster competitiveness, global companies in the twenty-first century are being challenged to integrate all their resources into a seamless

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Teamwork & Assessment in the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

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James Newell; Kevin Dahm

Participation in Undergraduate Research Using the Affinity Group Model,” Journal of Engineering Education, 88 (4), 409-414 (1999). 2. Kardash, C. M., “Evaluation of an Undergraduate Research Experience: Perceptions of Undergraduate Interns and their faculty mentors,” Journal of Educational Psychology, 92, 191-202 (2000). 3. Zydney, A., J. S. Bennett, A. Shahid, and K. Bauer, “Impact of Undergraduate Research Experience in Engineering,” Journal of Engineering Education, 91 (2), 151-158 (2002). 4. Guzzo, R. A. and M. W. Dickson, “Teams in Organizations: Recent Research on Performance and Effectiveness,” Annual Review of Psychology, 47, 307-338 (1996). 5. Katzenbach, J. R. and D. K. Smith, The Wisdom of Teams

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ET Capstone Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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David Myszka

. The purpose of this paper is to sharethe experience and discuss some of the details on the implementation.IntroductionThe primary goal of an engineering technology program is the preparation of technicallycompetent entry-level engineers for private industry. For the recent graduate, thetransition from student to entry-level engineer can be a difficult bridge to cross. Industrymanagers have recognized this difficulty, and many companies have developed elaborateprograms to aid the recent graduate in this transitionIn the early 1990’s, the public began to grumble about the poor student preparation fortechnical careers in industry. A great deal of criticism was thrust upon the technicalschools and universities [4, 7]. In response, many

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Related Engineering Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rick Shoemaker

Session 1732 An Accredited B.S. Program in Optical Sciences and Engineering J.A. Reagan, *R.L. Shoemaker University of Arizona, ECE Dept., Bldg. 104, Tucson, AZ 85721/*University of Arizona, Optical Sciences Center, Bldg. 94, Tucson, AZ 857211. Introduction and BackgroundResponding to pleas from industry in Arizona, an Optical Engineering B.S. program wasinitiated at the University of Arizona (UA) in the middle to late 1980's. This effort was led bythe Optical Sciences Center (OSC) which is a freestanding academic and research unit, but not atraditional department within a college. While

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Manufacturing Competitiveness

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2003 Annual Conference

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David Gore

in the system, or 365 days divided by turns per year). For exampleToyota's inventory turns per year ranged from 60 to 80 in the 1970's, which meant that inventoryturned every 4.5 to 6 days. Many domestic companies, including Blount International, HarleyDavidson, and General Electric adopted and were successful with JIT about the same time.However, from that time to the present, inventory turns have dropped steadily for many of them.Toyota's turns per year dropped to the 20's in the 1980's to 12.2 in 2001. General Electric had itsleanest year in 1973 and has lost ground since that time. 1 So, some of these companies begancomparing improvement techniques such as "Total Quality Management" (TQM), "EnterpriseResource Planning" (ERP), and "Theory

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Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stephanie Carter; John Feland

Session 3554 Enabling Student Innovation By Leveraging Lessons From Industry J. M. Feland III and S. Carter Stanford University / Doblin, Inc.INTRODUCTIONNow that Engineering Entrepreneurship (E2) programs are emerging in universities all over theworld, the E2 Community’s focus can be shifted from why teach E2 to what should we teach andhow should we teach it? Current programs teem with courses on business models, marketing,accounting, etc. In some ways they resemble mini

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Timothy Cameron; Rosalyn Hobson; Gary Huvard

Session 1417 A Multidisciplinary Dynamic Systems Curriculum Timothy M. Cameron, Rosalyn S. Hobson, Gary S. Huvard Virginia Commonwealth UniversityAbstractFaculty in Chemical, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering collaborated in developing a newcourse, “Process and System Dynamics,” and new dynamic systems laboratory exercises that canbe used in a variety of courses and disciplines. The objective was to educate students in thefundamentals of dynamic systems and expose them to a broad diversity of applications indifferent disciplines. The labs are largely complete and are being used by

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Capstone Design and Engineering Practice

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2003 Annual Conference

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Marian Stachowicz; Rocio Alba-Flores

Session 1048 Fuzzy Mobile Robots: A Student Design Workshop Rocio Alba-Flores, Marian S. Stachowicz Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Minnesota Duluth, MN 55812 ralbaflo@d.umn.edu, mstachow@d.umn.eduAbstractThis paper describes the Design Workshop course offered at the Electrical and ComputerEngineering Department (ECE) at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). This workshopcourse is one mechanism by which students

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jeff Dalton; Daniel Stutts

Mini-Lab Projects in the Undergraduate Classical Controls Course Jeffrey S. Dalton, Daniel S. Stutts, and Robert L. Montgomery University of Missouri-Rolla Rolla, MO 65409 Abstract: To address a common complaint from students that the undergraduate controls lecture course in mechanical engineering is too abstract, an electromechanical mini-lab was developed. The term “mini-lab” is used here to emphasize the fact that the lab augments the lecture, but does not replace a full controls lab. This mini-lab consists of a simple DC motor and flywheel with either tachometer speed, or potentiometer

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Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

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Anna Dollar; Paul Steif

Session 2268 Learning Modules for the Statics Classroom Anna Dollár, Paul S. Steif Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Department Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056 / Department of Mechanical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213IntroductionMechanical integrity, which remains an essential requirement for a vast array of technologies, newand traditional, is strongly rooted in the basic subjects of mechanics. The success of students in awide range of courses in mechanical, civil, and

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Edward Gehringer

2Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 1. Login page• Enter your username• Enter your assigned password• Click on “Login”.Once logged in, a user selects a database from a list presented. In general, instructors aregranted access to the database(s) in the areas in which they are teaching. Figure 2. Selection pageThe “administrative tools” option appears only if the user is also an administrator. Anadministrator has the right to add new users and configure accounts. Once inside adatabase, the user may search for questions, edit an existing question that (s)he authored,or create a new question.3. Searching the Course DatabaseThe database

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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 − co  x  = 1 − erf   (2) c s − co  2 Dt where co is the concentration at infinity, cs is the concentration at the surface, x is thedistance from the surface, and t is the time.Rosa2 has proposed using the following dimensionless correlation between hardness andoxygen concentration, H − Ho c − co ∝ (3) H s − H o c s − cowhere H refers to point hardness values, Ho refers to hardness values at infinity, and Hsrefers to hardness

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Program Delivery Methods & Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sherion Jackson; Andrew Jackson

concern, because the method oftransmission was over the phone line via an FTP connection. Once the audio files were recorded,the authors individually evaluated them before placing the files into a dedicated directory structureand transmitting them to ODU for post-processing. This batch processing methodology createdsignificant delays in the module review process and continuity was difficult to maintain due to thesequence of editing events. For example, audio files submitted during “week one” may not bereturned to the author for review until three to five weeks later. This delay caused problems inmaintaining course continuity and quality control, because it was difficult for the author(s) toremember the flow and thought processes used to create

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Topics in Civil ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Daphene Koch

Copyright 2003, American Society of Engineering Education” Session # 2549References1. Cullen, A. (1999, March). Practising t heory. Adult Learning 10(7). 18-21. Retrieved August 27, 2001 fromhttp://data.inspire.net2. Holmes, G. & Abington-Cooper, M. (2000). Pedagogy vs. andragogy: A false dichotomy?. The Journal ofTechnology Studies 26(2). A refereed publication of Epsilon Pi Tau.3. http://www.agc.org.4. http://www.andragogy.net5. http://www.ed.gov6. Imel, S. (1994). Guidelines for working with adult learners. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED377313) Retrieved on August 27, 2001 from https://ovid.lib.purdue.edu.7

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Joni Spurlin; Mehmet Ozturk; Hatice Ozturk

, did not give us anypositive feedback on group cohesion and performance when compared with randomly formedgroups. The extensive use of psychological type in work setting, education and career counseling [2]gave us the idea of applying personality profiles while forming our problem laboratory groups.Jung’s comprehensive theory that relates to psychological type is the belief that everyone usesfour basic processes or functions which are called sensing(S), intuition (N), thinking (T) andfeeling (F). These four processes are used with the attitudes of introversion (I) and extraversion(E) and the orientations to the outside world as judgment (J) and perception (P).Isabel Myers developed the following work expectations for the eight preferences [2

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Experiences with the TTL Turbojet Engine

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2003 Annual Conference

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Kenneth French

about 80[kRPM] . The JET-A fuel averaged an angularacceleration of 4.50+/- 0.20 [kRPM/s] and the biodiesel from unused oil averaged 3.50+/- 0.44 [kRPM/s]. The engine acceleration using biodiesel from used oil was about 15%less than that of biodiesel made from unused oil, but unfortunately the fuel was depletedbefore the formal tests were run.ConclusionsTTL includes in their operations manual [4] a variety of acceptable fuels; JET-A, A-1, B,4,5,8, heating fuel oil, diesel kerosene and ‘gaseous fuel system’. The JBU tests haveextended the fuel menu to biodiesel made from unused or lightly used vegetable basedcooking oils. The extension to themenu of fuels for the SR-30 engine is to develop abroader educational experience. Beyond the testing

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Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Anderson; Heather Cooper

Purdue University. This course, Plastics ManufacturingSystems (MET 490), is a capstone-type course for students interested in machine design andmanufacturing. It focuses on the design of plastics manufacturing equipment. Since most plasticsmanufacturing processes contain some thermal control, this course was a good test bed for theheat transfer module.In order to provide a baseline for assessment of the module, some questions were posed tostudents in the first class period. These were: 1. If oil is flowing through a heated pipe, what is (are) the heat transfer mode(s) by which Page 8.414.3 heat is transferred to the oil?Proceedings

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ku-Yen Li; David Cocke; John Gossage

Heat Kinetics S Transfer Transfer c o u r Mass Plant Process s Transfer Design Control

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Integrating Math in Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Surendra Gupta

83.444 83.500 83.443 0.689 0.138 Variable Minimum Maximum Q1 Q3 Hardness 82.000 84.900 82.900 83.950 Page 8.505.3 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationThe histogram is unimodal and fairly symmetric. Thus, the mean and standard deviation are thepreferable measures of center and spread for this sample.After the sample(s) have been examined, students

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Glenda Kelly; Martha Absher; Gary Ybarra

Session 2793 Math Understanding through the Science of Life (MUSCLE) Glenda T. Kelly1, Gary A. Ybarra2 and Martha S. Absher2 1 Private Practice, Chapel Hill, NC/ 2 Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NCAbstractMUSCLE is an academic enhancement program partnering Duke University’s Pratt School ofEngineering, Lakewood Elementary School and Rogers-Herr Middle School in Durham, NC.The mission of this program is to promote a passion for understanding and applying

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Curriculum Development in Manufacturing Engineering Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mohammad Davoud

A course/laboratory in Computer Integrated Manufacturing system as an integral part of a Mechanical Engineering Technology program Mohammad S. Davoud, Ph.D., P.E. Georgia Southern University Session 3247IntroductionManufacturers are increasingly automating their production lines with Computer IntegratedManufacturing (CIM) systems in order to stay competitive in the world market. The trend amongmanufacturers today is to produce smaller batches of more varied products. Without CIMautomation, this trend would result in higher costs associated with increased setup time

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Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2003 Annual Conference

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Kelly Adams; J. Filatovs; B. Kailasshankar; Devdas Pai

chosen, the manufacturingprocesses appropriate for the material are indicated. The students also did another project6 inwhich the material was already specified and more emphasis laid on selecting the right process,given the tolerances and cost constraints.Student evaluation of CES4 introduction module The students from the MEEN 446 worked on this module in groups of 3-4. A total of 19students responded. The responses are summarized in Figures 1 – 3. Information re ceived is rele vant to the Manufacturing Proces se s Course 6 5 4 Groups 3 2

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Web-Based Laboratories and Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steve E. Watkins; Richard Hall; Vicki Eller

, 1993.“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”3. Eller, Vicki M., S. E. Watkins, R. H. Hall, J. Balestra, and A. S. Rao, “Multimedia Web-based Resources forEngineering Education: The Media Design and Assessment Laboratory at UMR” ASEE Int. ConferenceProceedings, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 2001.4. Media Research Laboratory Website: http://www.medialab.umr.edu.5. Eckhoff, Elizabeth, V. M. Eller, R. H. Hall, S. E. Watkins, “Interactive Virtual Laboratory for Experience witha Smart Bridge Test” ASEE Int. Conference Proceedings, Montreal, Canada, June 2002.VICKI M. ELLERVicki M. Eller is a graduate student in

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Innovations in the CHE Laboratory

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ronald Willey; Ralph Buonopane; Deniz Turan; Alfred Bina; Guido Lopez

,major work appeared in the 1930’s for streamlines photographed around submerged objects (seeBatchelor for various plates of photographs)6. More recently, experiments and photographs canbe found on the Internet. Flometrics offers a commercial unit for experimental demonstration7.Rowan University8,9 and Rossi10 offer further details about fluid flow experiments and thenumerical analysis related to such. An excellent CD-ROM available from Cambridge UniversityPress contains many types of visual flow patterns11. Examples include "Low Reynolds NumberFlow" copyright by Educational Development Center, Inc. Newton, MA, and Rotating Tanks,copyright by B.R.Munson and Stanford University. Other recent papers related to fluid mechanicexperiments are listed

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What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Van Treuren

Copyright @ 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationAs the engineering program matured, the students that entered Baylor University to studyengineering, for the most part, were first attracted to Baylor by its reputation as a private, churchrelated institution and secondarily for engineering. From the mid 80’s to the end of the 90’s theprogram was stable with a small growth rate. In 1995, the engineering program, previously adepartment within the liberal arts college, was organized as the School of Engineering andComputer Science. With the higher visibility came pressures for growth and expansion of theengineering programs. Starting in 1999, the Engineering Department developed two newengineering programs Mechanical Engineering and

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Julie Sharp, Vanderbilt University

engineering majors may anticipate aftergraduation. Types of jobs represented ranged from expected chemical engineering tasks to sales,management, and consulting. The speakers represented employers such as NASA, Magotteau,Gobbell Hays Partners, and DuPont. Only two speakers worked in Nashville, where Vanderbilt islocated. Of the remaining three, one was from Delaware, one from Alabama, and one fromTexas. Three different decades were represented, with one speaker having graduated in the '70's,two in the '80's, and two in the '90's. In addition to all speakers being alumni, four of the fivewere my former students. (A sixth speaker, a 2002 graduate from Marathon Oil in Illinois,accepted but had to cancel travel plans because of extreme weather conditions

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Innovations in the Aerospace Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

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Masoud Rais-Rohani

. This paper presents thedetails of this experiential learning activity as well as a formative assessment of its effectiveness.I. IntroductionPrior to the 1950's, it was common for engineering programs to offer in their curricula suchcourses as sheet-metal fabrication, casting, and machine shop. With the advent of computers andmore emphasis on the theoretical side of engineering education, the courses on mechanical artswere gradually phased out with most of hands-on activities reduced and squeezed into thelaboratory courses. This shift in engineering education is mostly responsible for manyengineering graduates to have a very narrow understanding of the product development processthrough which a design concept is transformed into a physical