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1996 Annual Conference

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Richard Gilbert; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College; Renata Engel, Pennsylvania State University

-fiction manuscript. Every engineering discipline has a plethora of texts and reference books that meet thesecriteria.Lecture as an Information Transfer Technique An outstanding lecture is a difficult information transfer technique to master. }t is the result of a speakerwho understands and optimally manipulates the three functional variables of the information transfer model;delivery, enthusiasm and content command. Such a speaker selects the weighting coefficients of each variableand adjusts their values for maximum coupling with the audience even as the lecture progresses. To examinehow the information transfer model is expressed in a lecture, specific lecture features will be analyzed withrespect to the model variables.Delivery

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1996 Annual Conference

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Sarah Weaver; Mark Strauss; Jenna Caldwell

/pursuit.rehab.uiuc.edu” Thisdynamic outreach medium has put us in touch with students, scientists, prospective mentors, career counselors,and concerned “regular folks” from around the globe. The number of files accessed per day is increasingsomewhat exponentially over the past few months, and is now up to roughly 1100 of hits per week.Interestingly, the charismatic web master of this elaborate site is one of the 14 UIUC SEM students with adisability-- he is a junior computer science major with a math minor and is legally blind. The web site hasbeen a valuable data-collection source, as it offers a survey form and it tracks which of our files are read mostoften. .-Minigrants PURSUIT offers minigrants of up to $5,000 to high schools for improve

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Pau-Chang Lu

apply in depth for about half of the course; and we are insistent inrequiring the students to master this “kit” WITHOIJT any contact with a computer, andto carry it into their career as a part of their second nat m-e. On the other hand, the modern trend of adding a software for symbolic manipulationin the students’ learning environment may easily result in a separate layer being added t othe numerical platform, without any designed integration. The subject course addressesthis possible lack of integration by consciously displaying its conceptual, symbolic, andnumerical parts as three facets of the same object. Consolidation In assembling items for the conceptual part of the course, we do NOT review per sesubjects from previous courses

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1996 Annual Conference

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Henry G. Ansell

class to master thebasics of a course. If it is true that the use of learning partners supports the students who tend to be atrisk, then the use of learning partners might be helpful in the retention of students, a possibility not clearlyforeseen at the outset of this exercise in using learning partners. In engineering programs it could beespecially useful in those difficult courses historically causing much student attrition.Bibliography1. M. L. Silberman, assisted by C. Auerbach, Active Training; a Handbook of Techniques, Designs, CaseExamples, and Tips, Lexington Books, San Diego, 19902. K. A. Bruffee, Collaborative Learning; Higher Education, Interdependence, and the Authority ofKnowledge, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1993, p

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1996 Annual Conference

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Mario G. Beruvides

theprofessors I would classify as the best teachers, had very good to outstanding research records (publications,funded research, numbers of masters and Ph.D. graduates, etc.).3 This is not necessarily so since all professions are in continual growth. The avant-garde may be presented firstat the graduate level, but it eventually trickles down to the undergraduate ranks.4 The simplest, and in my mind probably the most beautiful, definition of engineering, is “The application of-science to the betterment of humanity.” Is this what drives our research efforts? Page 1.394.2 {~x~~ 1996 ASEE Annual

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1996 Annual Conference

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William W. Predebon; Peck Cho

became a model forour program. However, we realized that we needed to modify them extensively to suit our particular situation forthe program to be successful. The one particular situation of ME-EM Department that has had the most influence in shaping our trainingprogram is that more than a half of the TA’s are pursuing a masters degree as their terminal degree and do notintend to pursue the teaching profession after graduation. This situation is quite different from those at, say, theUniversity of Michigan or Cornell where three-credit courses are offered primarily to Ph.D. students who wish tobecome faculty members in the future. This is a critical difference on two accounts. First of all, the TA’s whoare teaching are doing so mainly to

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1996 Annual Conference

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James Rehg

effectively support classes of 16 students for laboratoryexercises ranging from basic control concepts to the control of a large discrete manufacturing systems. Thelaboratory was designed (Figure 1) with Student Programming Laboratory Benches (SPLB) that support basiccontrol exercises at the bench and exercises in control and programrning of the single large manufacturing systemby students at each SPLB. The SPLB concept was important because teaching students to work on the complex systems used inautomated manufacturing is a two step process. First, students must master the operation of the hardware andprogramming of the sofiware for the individual automation machines; second, they must learn how to integratethe machines into a production

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1996 Annual Conference

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David J. Beebe

list of objectives and tasks which they may be asked to perform on thebench exam. This places the responsibility for learning on the individual. It is up to each person to be surethey acquire the skills necessary to perform the tasks on the list. To facilitate learning these objectives, openlab times are scheduled in addition to the regular lab periods. During the extra lab hours students are free topractice the tasks on an individual or group basis. It is made clear that the objective list is a minimumlearning standard, but that if the objectives are mastered and fully understood the student should have nodifficulty with on the bench exam. The bench exams are typically 15-30 minutes in length. Two methods of implementation have

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1996 Annual Conference

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Karl F. Meyer; Stephen J. Ressler; Thomas Lenox

blackboard can be used with the lights on. In our experience, when the lights go out, the students tune out.Modem technology clearly has its place in the engineering classroom, but we believe it should always besupplemental to the effective use of chalk on slate. Thus the blackboard is the focal point of the methodology wedescribe below.Organizing the Class: A 5-Step ModelOur preferred methodology for organizing a class is as follows:● STEP 1: For the given lesson, formulate a series of clear, concise, action-oriented objectives for theprescribed material. These are the essential concepts and skills we expect our students to master for thisparticular lesson. The number of objectives will vary with the nature of the lesson material, but 3

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T.C. Young; S.E. Powers; Norbert L. Ackermann; Anthony G. Collins

program, because it was first implemented duringthe Fall Semester 1995. We will be observing, however, a variety of indicators of success as we evaluate theprogram in the future, including effects on admissions, retention, and job placement. REFERENCES1. Masters, G.M. 1991. Introduction to environmental engineering and science. Prentice-Hall, New Jersey.2. Ray, B.T. 1995. Environmental engineering. PWS Publishing, New York.3. Haas, C.N. no date. So you want to be an environmental engineer? Association of Environmental Engineering Professors, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Texas, Austin TX.THOMAS C. YOUNG is a Professor in the Department of Civil

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1996 Annual Conference

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Roger Ware; Charles F. Yokomoto

Serves as a tutor; helpful if used approach a problem wisely by the student without becoming a crutch. Answers Answers to problems Allows students to check answers but may make students dependent on answers. Procedures Step-by-step Informs students that there are calculations that must important procedures that should not be mastered be reinvented Operational Definitions that Informs students that operational definitions describe

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1996 Annual Conference

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Christopher Stook; Asad Azemi

MathWorks Inc., 21 Eliot St., South Natick, MA, 01760.ASAD AZEMIAsad Azemi is an assistant professor of Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. He received his B.S.degree from University of California at Los Angeles in 1982, M.S. degree form Loyola Marymount Universityin 1985, and Ph.D. degree from University of Arkansas in 1991. His professional interests are in controltheory, signal processing and the use of computers in undergraduate and graduate education.CHRISTOPHER STOOKChristopher Stook received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in1992. He is currently working at Phoenix Microwave Corp. and is working towards his masters degree at thePennsylvania State University

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L. F. Borjón; L. M. Martínez; K. A. Córdova; J. L. Hernández; A. Lozano

controllers ". (in Spanish) BSc EE Thesis, Universidad Iberoamericana. 19955) P.J. Mosterman, M.A.M. Dorlandt and J.O. Campbell, "Virtual Engineering Laboratories: Design andExperiments". Journal of Engineering Education. ASEE. July 1994 BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATIONL. F. Borjón was born in 1962. He received an MSc. degree from Brunel University (UK) and the BSc. degreefrom Universidad Iberoamericana . On 1994 he was awarded the Best Masters Thesis on 1991 from the UnitedKingdom Institute of Measurement and Control Mr. Borjón is Assistant to the Dean of Science and Engineeringand lecturer at the Electronic Engineering program at Universidad Iberoamericana. He works on thedevelopment of Instrumentation projects . These

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B. Grossman; William H. Mason

Enterprise,” 1995ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Anaheim, CA, June 25-28, 1995.5. Nancy Fitzgerald, “Mastering Engineering,” ASEE PRISM, Jan. 1996, pp. 25-28.6. E.F. Crawley, E.M. Greitzer, S.E. Widnall, S.R. Hall, H. L. McManus, J.R. Hansman, J.F. Shea and M.Landahl, “Reform of the Aeronautics and Astronautics Curriculum at MIT,” AIAA Paper 93-0325, Jan. 1993.7. W.H. Mason, “Aircraft Design at Virginia Tech: Experience in Developing an Integrated Program,” AIAAPaper 95-3894, 1st AIAA Aircraft Engineering, Technology, and Operations Conference, Los Angeles, CA,Sept. 19-21, 1995 Html version: http://www.aoe.vt.edu/aoe/faculty/Mason_f/ACDesP/ACDesPgmVPI.html

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Hands-on Approach to Teaching: Computers (3532)

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1996 Annual Conference

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Ruth D. Fogg, United States Air Force Academy; George W. P. York, United States Air Force Academy

the four subsystems. Running VISICOMP in semi-automatic mode, they then understand how assembly language instructions are fetched, decoded and finallyexecuted. Once they have mastered this, they finally use VISICOMP in manual mode to perform severalfunctions manually, such as reading and writing to memory and I/O and controlling the ALU.The students are given a Reference Manual which explains how VISICOMP works and an Operators Manualwhich tells them how to run VISICOMP. Attached to the operator’s manual is a complete set of logic Page 1.521.4 1996 ASEE Annual Conference

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Ph.D., Richard H. Turpin; Joseph A. Shaeiwitz

might be a troubleshooting problem,1 but the second and thirdsteps remain the same. The skills required in each step must be mastered before proceeding to the next step. Inthe first step, the process and its component units must be visualized, and a rudimentary analysisis required. In the second step, visualization is assumed, and analysis and rudimentary synthesisare required. In the third step, the ability to do analysis is assumed, and synthesis andoptimization are required. The description of the ally1 chloride problem which follows illustratesthe sequence of skills development described here. More details and another process example arepresented elsewhere.2 Case Study Part 1: Identification of Maximum Scale-up

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Jane M. Fraser; Dina R. Ismail

. Burbank, CA:Discovery Press, 1995.4. Lasser, Susan J.S., and Robert W. Snelsire. “The case for proactive mentoring for minorities inengineering.” FIE, November 1996.5. Moller-Wong, Cheryl, and Arvid Eide. “An engineering student retention study.” Journal of Engtneering Education, Vol. 86, No. 1, January 1997, 7-15.6. Tinto, Vincent. “Dropout from higher education: A theoretical synthesis of recent research,” Reviewof Educational Research, Winter 1975, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp 89-125.JANE M. FRASER is an associate professor of industrial and systems engineering at Ohio State.DINA R. ISMAIL completed her Masters degree in industrial and systems engineering at Ohio State in1996; this paper reports on work from her thesis. She now works for Lucent

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Christopher G. Braun

Session 3532 Being Efficient in Lab: Multi-media Tutorials for Laboratory Projects Christopher G. Braun Colorado School of MinesIntroductionOne of the most time consuming teaching tasks is running a mainstream laboratory with alimited number of hardware setups. These setups can be complex and requireconsiderable effort from both faculty and students to master. With limited setups,students attempt laboratory modules long after receiving training on the equipment. As aresult, they are sometimes unable to complete the lab, even with detailed instructions, andfaculty

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Yale N. Patt; Kevin J. Compton

own, so we encourage them to do so. However, this groupatmosphere can encourage some students to let others do their work. Therefore, we insist that theactual programs are their own work, and that the bulk of their grade comes from work where theyare clearly on their own. They are encouraged to learn from each other but must demonstrate thatthey have mastered the material themselves.This approach is also good preparation for the engineering world they will join after graduation,where most tough problems are addressed by a team, rather than by an individual. Page 2.6.2Analysis of AlgorithmsThe final component of the course is an introduction to

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Simeon Slayton; Ratan Kumar

since 1992 has taught at American TechnicalInstitute and currently at the University of North Texas.SIMEON SLAYTON obtained his Masters in Engineering Technology from the University of North Texas and iscurrently working as an Industrial Engineer at Hitachi Semiconductor (America) Inc. Page 2.113.5

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Brian Armstrong

designed bythe student based on a model he or she has identified. The semester culminates in a master-slave servo tracking problem in which the studentimplements control for a servo which must track a progressively more agile target. The finalproject is competitive, in the sense that each group’s time to loss-of-target is measured, andcorresponds to high-bandwidth performance of the engineered control. The laboratory sequence is used in the Electrical Engineering program at the University ofWisconsin - Milwaukee with the first course in controls. This is an elective course usuallytaken by Electrical Engineering majors in the senior year. The course syllabus covers thetraditional collection of topics, starting with Laplace transform and

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BME Curriculum Development

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aura Gimm, Duke University

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Biomedical

5. Student distributionOur curriculum requires four BME Fall 2007 Fall 2008 Undergraduates (all BME) 5 3electives for the completion of the degree. Masters students (BME, ME,Most electives are considered to be upper 2 6 Eng. Management)division courses taken by mostly seniors Ph. D. students (all BME) 4 2and some juniors. The 200-level electivesare also taken by graduate students in the program. The course was one-credit hour forundergraduates (all undergraduate courses are counted the same in our institution

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Instrumentation and Measurement Innovation

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angel Gonzalez-Lizardo, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico; Carlos Serrano-Salvat, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico

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Instrumentation

AC 2009-530: AUTOMATED DATA ACQUISITION AND DATA ANALYSIS FORPLASMA DIAGNOSTICS IN PUPR-MC PLASMA MACHINE WITH WEBCAPABILITIESAngel Gonzalez-Lizardo, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico Born in Maracaibo Venezuela in January, 1958. Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from Universidad del Zulia in 1984. Master in Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus, 1994. PhD in Engineering, University of Dayton, 2003. Assistant Professor at Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico from 1995 to 1999. Associate Professor at Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico from 2004 to present. Director of the Plasma Engineering Laboratory since 2007. Director of the Sponsored

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Norb Delatte, Cleveland State University; Paul Bosela, Cleveland State University; Joshua Bagaka's, Cleveland State University; Rosemary Sutton, Cleveland State University

Page 14.251.9Materials, links to cases from the Master Course List (figure 3), including the case of the 1907Quebec Bridge Collapse (figure 5). Many of the cases, such as Quebec Bridge, can be used inmany different courses and thus show up on several web pages.Figure 5: Sample case study page: Quebec Bridge The web site is not merely a web version of the book. The book has more detail aboutmany of the cases. There are also short cases on the web site which are not in the book. The twoare intended to complement each other.Summary and Conclusions The assessment instruments and processes developed during the project have yieldeduseful results. The students enjoyed the case studies and believed that they contributed tolearning the

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Assessment and Evaluation of Graphics Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Petros Katsioloudis, Old Dominion University

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Engineering Design Graphics

AC 2009-68: DETECTION AND ASSESSMENT OF QUALITY INDICATORS OFVISUAL-BASED LEARNING MATERIAL IN ENGINEERING EDUCATIONPROGRAMS FOR GRADES 7-12Petros Katsioloudis, Old Dominion University Petros Katsioloudis was born in Cyprus. He was educated in the United States where he received a Bachelors of Science degree in Science and Technology, a Masters of Education in Technology Education and a Doctoral Degree in Technology Education at North Carolina State University. Currently he is employed at Old Dominion University where he serves as an Assistant Professor, teaching various Technology Education courses and conducting research. Petros is also serving as the Ambassador of Cyprus to the

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Arlene Russell, University of California, Los Angeles; Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Warren Waggenspack, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Warren Hull, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; william Monroe, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Chester Wilmot, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

been recognized that simply developing technical expertise in a discipline does notadequately prepare a graduate for future success in a professional setting. Employers haveinsisted that graduates in engineering must also have mastered requisite communication skills inorder to become a valued member of their organizations.3 This view has been implemented intoCriterion 3 of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) ProgramOutcomes and Assessment; that is, “the necessity for engineering graduates to demonstrate theability to communicate effectively.”5At LSU, this criterion is addressed through a university-wide program initiated in 2004 thatfocuses on improving students’ communication skills in four modes: written, spoken

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Haws, Boise State University

, neither of which I begrudge. When a student is really lost or lacks confidence,expert modeling is of little help. Floundering students need someone with an understandingcloser to their own—someone whose success at mastering the content they feel competent toemulate.Our best, realistic hope is that students will become competent professionals. Few, if any, willbecome the outliers whose general understanding far out-distances our own. While theseindividuals of rare genius are extremely important, to the professions and to society, they are fartoo rare to warrant more than a passing acknowledgment in our teaching plans. What’s more,you don’t need to be a genius to help a genius understand something—more typically, yousimply need to get out of the

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Computer ET Curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Hurny, Rochester Institute of Technology; Gina Hurny, Pennsylvania State University

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Engineering Technology

Engagement at The Pennsylvania State University. She received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Recreation Management from Slippery Rock University and her Master of Science Degree in Higher Education from Syracuse University. She is responsible for the creation, implementation, and facilitation of a variety of leadership programs. During 2006, she will be serving as a Cluster Facilitator at the LeaderShape Institute in Champaign, Illinois. Page 11.225.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Applying Learning Community Pedagogy to First-Year Computer Engineering Technology Students: A

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Innovative Instruction Strategies

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jonathan Lambright, Savannah State University

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Mathematics

equations.Students must be taught the fundamentals of developing and solving these numericalapproximations by hand. However, theory must be combined with technology and hands onpractice to emphasize the need for tools such as Matlab and Excel in solving engineeringproblems through numerical approximations. By implementing such tools in the classroom,students sharpen their programming and analytical thinking skills. In addition, students canexperience the need for and the power of these tools in solving real world problems and use theexperience to creatively think of newer ways to solve engineering problems.References[1] Hanselman, D., and Littlefield, B., “Mastering MATLAB 7: A Comprehensive Tutorial andReference”, Prentice Hall Publishers.[2] Chapra, S.C

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New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wayne Whiteman, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Graduate Studies

2006-115: LEVERAGING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TO ENHANCE THEMANAGEMENT OF GRADUATE EDUCATION PROGRAMSWayne Whiteman, Georgia Institute of Technology Wayne E. Whiteman is a Senior Academic Professional and Director of the Office of Student Services in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his BS degree from the United States Military Academy in 1979, a master?s degree from MIT in 1987, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1996. Whiteman is a retired Colonel in the U.S. Army and completed 24 years of active military service. He served on the West Point faculty from 1987 to 1990, and 1998 to 2003