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ET Distance Learning

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Marty Frisbee; Deborah Sharer

” and tied into the text material to illustrate the topic or concept under discussion. Thesemester material was broken up into several sections defined as Introductory Physics andChemistry, Diodes, Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT), BJT Amplifiers, and OperationalAmplifiers. Each section of study had an Introductory Goals and Objectives segment, the body ofmaterial to be covered presented in topical subsections, and a summary of concepts or skills thatshould have been mastered. Extensive examples were presented throughout, homework wasassigned to reinforce key concepts, online quizzes were developed to assist in homework solution,and a self-test (with solutions) was offered at the end of each section.A comprehensive course schedule provided

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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ZT DENG; Xiaoqing (Cathy) Qian; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo; Zhengtao Deng

in 1985.RUBEN ROJAS-OVIEDODr. Ruben Rojas-Oviedo is Chairperson and Associate Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering atAlabama A&M University in Huntsville AL. Dr. Rojas-Oviedo has international engineering experience workingboth in academe and industry. He has an engineering consulting company and conducts applied research. Heearned a Ph. D. In Aerospace Engineering from Auburn University, he has two Masters degrees one in MechanicalEngineering from N.C. State at Raleigh and the other in Applied Mathematics from Auburn. He earned a B.S.degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the National Polytechnic Institute – Escuela Superior de IngenieriaMecanica y Electrica - in Mexico City, Mexico.XIAOQING (CATHY) QIANDr. Cathy Qian

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Teamwork & Assessment in the Classroom

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Shamsuddin Ilias; Franklin King

, process control, configuration project.Table 1 Rubric for the Course Learning PortfolioCompletion of a Course Learning Portfolio is an optional means for you to demonstrate that you have learned all course learningobjectives by the end of the course. The grade on the Course Learning Portfolio can be used to substitute for your second lowestgrade. Since the portfolio replaces an examination, it was evaluated critically to assess comprehensive learning of each objective.Simply compiling your group’s homework and your individual problems will not do it. The Course Learning Portfolio shouldconsist of homework problems and other evidence to demonstrate that you have mastered the learning objective and todemonstrate the difficulty level of the

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Trends in Mechanics Education

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Redfield Robin; Robert Borchert; Brian Self

with changing instructions and some ambiguous instructions. Theproject will be modified and used again in the Spring 2003 semester to see if we get a betterresponse.Course Content. The cadet and instructor surveys include an assessment of how well the studentsunderstood various concepts. Two major problem areas were three-dimensional kinematics andvibrations. Too little time was given to each of these difficult concepts to master either of them.An informal email survey of dynamics instructors at other universities revealed that many schoolsdo not cover either of these advanced topics in their introductory course, and none covered both.During the course review, instructors from upper level mechanics courses mentioned that theythought the

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Ruth Davis

hope to attract and retain more women inengineering by educating the community and the students to the value and social impact ofengineering.Biographical InformationRUTH E. DAVIS holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in Mathematics, and a Ph.D. degree in Information Sciences.She received the ACM Doctoral Forum award for outstanding Ph.D. thesis in Computer Science in 1979. She iscurrently Professor of Computer Engineering at Santa Clara University, with research centered on formal methods insoftware engineering and improving the diversity of the engineering workforce. Page 8.862.6Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Robert Roselli

mechanics, including biomechanics, must master the art of constructing Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationa free body diagram (FBD). The procedure is relatively simple: isolate the body of interest fromall other bodies, replace contacting bodies with forces and/or couples (depending upon the type ofinteractions), and include other externally applied forces, such as the weight of the body. Despitethe simplicity of the procedure, students invariably have trouble in constructing FBDs. They oftenfail to assign the correct reactions to specific types of supports. This recognition processimproves

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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Srilekha Srinivasan; Robert Palmer; Michael Anderson; Lance Perez; A. John Boye

, where he is now anAssociate Professor. Prof. Pérez's research interests are channel coding, information theory and wirelesscommunications. He is the co-author of Trellis and Turbo Coding to be published by IEEE Press/Wiley in 2003.SRILEKHA SRINIVASAN: Srilekha is a graduate student at the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at theUniversity of Nebraska – Lincoln. She is from India and received her Masters in Biochemistry from the Universityof Madras. She is now working for the department of Electrical Engineering at University of Nebraska, Lincoln as agraduate assistant. Page 8.208.9Proceedings of the 2003 American Society

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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Ioannis Miaoulis; Erik Rushton; Brian Gravel

. Page 8.1047.8Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationReference:1 http://www.doe.mass.edu/mcas/2000/results/9800sd/sch9800.htmlERIK RUSHTONErik Rushton is the Assistant Director of the Center for Engineering Educational Outreach at Tufts University. Hehas been involved in outreach activities for the past 3 years. He is a member of the Technology/EngineeringAdvisory Council to the Massachusetts Board of Education.BRIAN GRAVELBrian Gravel is a Masters Candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Tufts University. He received his BS inMechanical Engineering from Tufts University as well. He is a second-year NSF GK-12 fellow at the

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New Trends in ECE Education

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Edward Gehringer

driver’s code for correctness of design and implementation. Studies have shownthat pair programming is very effective. Two programmers can finish a task in little over half theelapsed time that a single programmer takes. And the quality of the code—measured in terms ofabsence of defects—is much higher.In the past few years, pair programming has made inroads into industry and into programmingcourses. However, it has not typically been used in courses that teach subjects other thanprogramming or software engineering, nor has it been used in the analysis of experimentalresults. This paper reports on an experiment in a combined senior/masters level computerarchitecture class, using Hennessy & Patterson’s Computer Architecture: A

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Advisory Boards & Program Assessment

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Shamsuddin Ilias; Franklin King; Keith Schimmel

Session #3413 Using Standardized Examinations to Assess Engineering Programs Keith A. Schimmel, Franklin G. King, Shamsuddin Ilias, North Carolina A&T State UniversityAbstractThe ABET EC2000 criteria require programs to have quality improvement processes in place tomake decisions based on assessment data from student performance and program constituencies.Within this context, there is a need for development of additional quantitative measures that willbe consistent over time and between instructors of whether students have mastered courselearning objectives. This paper will discuss

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Assessment of Entrepreneurship Programs

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Harvey Wolfe

engineering, students have a good idea of what content will be contained.If they don’t have the prerequisites, there are other courses or books available that allowthem to prepare. In most survey type courses; i.e. courses that cover a large amount ofdiverse material, the topic do not require significant background. In comprehensiveentrepreneurship courses, the amount of material that would be prerequisite is far too vastfor a typical engineering student to have time to master and yet, the demand forunderstanding entrepreneurship is great.Obviously, some of the issues do occur in other courses, but they are exacerbated by thenature of entrepreneurship. In a typical class that uses teams, there are alternatives thatcan be considered for an

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Candice Stefanou; Karen Marosi; Margot Vigeant

, severalmale faculty cited dissatisfaction with industry and the faculty lifestyle as important factors,neither of which were specifically mentioned by women.Additionally, surprisingly few of the faculty entered graduate school anticipating pursuing a PhDfrom the start. 62% of the women and 51% of the men responding to the survey entered graduateschool either specifically to obtain a terminal masters or without being definitely committed toobtaining a PhD.The survey also polled faculty on resources they wish they had had to help them choose a careerin academe. The responses to this part of the survey (which were just yes/no, and were notweighted) are summarized in Table 4; note that responders were allowed to say “yes” to as manyideas as they liked

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Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

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Jeffrey Giesey

done to maintain accreditation.In the Departments of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, beside myself, there were 3 nativeNamibians and 4 foreign faculty working on two-year contracts. The academic qualifications ofthe staff were 2 Ph.D.’s, 2 Masters, 1 Bachelors, and 2 National Higher Diploma. The standardteaching load was 3 courses or 15 contact hours. Reductions were granted for active researchprojects and administrative duties. However, very few of the staff were involved in research.The technology infrastructure for staff was very good. The students’ technology was not quite asgood with lines waiting for computers in the labs and slow Internet access. The library was smalland crowded and had a relatively small number of books and no

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Capstone Design and Engineering Practice

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David Harris

. Theresults are assessed with student surveys. The technical aspects went well, but students wouldhave liked to have learned more about their counterparts’ culture. In the Spring of 2003, we arerepeating the course with a planned Spring Break trip to Turkey.Course StructureThe METU seniors in the project had completed EE413, a senior/Masters-level VLSI designcourse taught by Tayfun Akin in Fall 2001. Six of the students chose to continue with the designproject in Spring 2002. Although the initial proposal called for granting credit, the METUbureaucracy could not approve credit in time and the students participated on a purely voluntarybasis.The HMC juniors and seniors were enrolled in E158 (Introduction to CMOS VLSI Design),taught by David Harris in

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Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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Muthukrishnan Sathyamoorthy

communication and leaning between studentsparticularly when students are encouraged to work in groups on homework assignmentsand class projects. Mastering MATLAB earlier also helps students use it in other coursesand thus save considerable amount of time in trying to learn several other problem-solvingpackages.Students are given a detailed syllabus at the beginning of each semester in the mechanicsas well as structural analysis courses which will have a listing of course objectives andlearning outcomes. These objectives require an understanding of the engineering problem-solving technique and applying it in conjunction with technical skills to solve problems.These courses also require considerable work on the part of the students to do assignedreadings

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Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

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Fazil Najafi; Nick Safai

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education”CEG 5105 Geotechnical Engineering Fall02 03 0 0 ATTE 5256 Traffic Engineering Fall02 03 1.5 1.5 ACGN 6905 Special Problems in CE Fall02 02 0 0 B+CGN6974 Master Report Spr02 02 1 1 ACONCLUSION In the past ten years, in most US-IHE, the enrollment of persons with different racial andethnic backgrounds has been low. A typical

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Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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Alok Verma

in engineering technology education. He holds aBachelor’s degree from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and a Master of Engineering degree from OldDominion University. He has been very active in the Engineering Technology Division and the EngineeringTechnology Council of ASEE, holding several positions in ETD, including chair. He has also been active inTAC of ABET, as a commissioner and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.ALOK K. VERMA Alok K. Verma is Associate Professor and Director of the Automated Manufacturing Laboratory atOld Dominion University. He received his B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the Indian Institute ofTechnology, Kanpur in 1978 and MS in Engineering Mechanics from Old Dominion University in 1981

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David Leonard

, Malcolm S., Holton, Elwood F., Swanson Richard A., The Adult Learner: The Definitive Classic in AdultEducation and Human Resource Development. 5th edition. Houston, Texas: Gulf Publishing Company, 1998.Leonard, David C. "The Web, the Millennium, the Digital Evolution of Distance Education" in Robert A. Cole,Editor. Issues in Web-Based Pedagogy: A Critical Primer. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2000, pp. 23-34.Leonard, David C. Learning Theories from A to Z. Phoenix, Arizona: Oryx Press, 2002. Forthcoming.Leonard, David C. "MSTCO: Master of Science in Technical Communication Management."http://www.mercer.edu/mstcoPiaget, Jean. Jean Piaget’s Selected Writings. 9 Volume Set that includes: Vol. I. The Child's Conception of Space,1956; Vol

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Elliot Douglas, University of Florida

, Teaching Engineering, McGraw Hill, New York, 1993, pp. 46-519. Lowman, Joseph, Mastering the Techniques of Teaching, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1995, pp. 100-10110. Ref. 8, pp. 95-9911. Ref. 9, pp. 20-37ELLIOT P. DOUGLASElliot P. Douglas is an Ass’t. Professor of Materials Science and Eng. at the University of Florida. He received twobachelor’s degrees from MIT in 1988, one in Materials Science and Engineering and one in Humanities and Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education

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W. Steele; B.K. Hodge

,” Proceedings of the 1996 ASEE Southeastern Section Meeting,Gatlinburg, TN, April.B. K. HODGEB. K. Hodge is a Grisham Master Teacher, a Giles Distinguished Professor, a Hearin Professor of Engineering, andProfessor of Mechanical Engineering at Mississippi State University (MSU). He received degrees in aerospaceengineering from MSU (BS and MS) and in mechanical engineering from the University of Alabama (MS andPh.D.) and has industrial experience with Thiokol and Sverdrup (AEDC). Since joining the MSU faculty in 1978 hehas written two textbooks and has developed six new courses. Dr. Hodge has conducted research in a diverse rangeof thermal and fluid sciences subjects including enhanced heat transfer, thermal systems simulation, uncertainty inthermal

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Daniel Waldorf

the students seemed somewhat surprised to be performing static stress and deflectionanalysis in the class, they seemed to understand the need to master the basic concepts underlyingthe computer analysis. The students, however, stated that they wanted more time in class andduring the quarter to learn the theoretical material. While the students had solved some of thesame problems in pre-requisite classes, they needed more experience with formulating theproblems as finite element representations. The three hours dedicated in class time was notenough to give them a firm grasp of the mathematical approach.V. Summary and ConclusionsNew material was developed for a junior-level Tool Engineering course designed formanufacturing engineering majors

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John Martin; Mohammed Haque

different creaturesand are not interchangeable” 13.An Innovative Dynamic Virtual Modeling ConceptAs technology rapidly changes, the importance of educating and training diverse populations ofconstruction engineering/science students becomes more critical. Traditional lecture formatteaching methods sometimes fall short of conveying the complex analysis and design principlesthat need to be mastered in structural design. However when the theories are exemplified in avirtual environment with multimedia, animation, interaction, and manipulated imagevisualization techniques in a virtual reality environment, students' conceptual understanding areenhanced. The important advantages of the virtual reality environment over other computer-based design tools

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Robert Floersheim; Stephen Ressler; Margaret Bailey

States Military Academy, West Point, NY. She is a registered ProfessionalMechanical Engineer in New Jersey and is actively involved in joint research with both industry and DODagencies. Dr. Bailey received a B.S. degree in Architectural Engineering from the Pennsylvania StateUniversity in 1988 and a Ph.D. from the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architetural Engineeringat University of Colorado at Boulder in 1998.STEPHEN J. RESSLERColonel Stephen Ressler is Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Civil and MechanicalEngineering at the United States Military Academy, West Point. He is a graduate of West Point and hasserved as a commissioned officer in the U. S. Army for the past 21 years. He holds Master of Science andPh.D. degrees

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Louis Theodore; Joseph Reynolds; Ann Marie Flynn

engineeringstudents have also registered for the course. In addition, the course was presentedto engineering faculty through a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant in1992; that effort resulted in the publication of a text titled “Accident andEmergency Management: Problems and Solutions”. The course was also offeredtwice to USEPA regulatory personnel through the Air Pollution Training Institute(APTI).ANN MARIE FLYNN became the newest member in the Chemical Engineering Department atManhattan College, when she joined the faculty in the Fall of 1996. She is also a graduate ofManhattan College, receiving her Bachelors degree in 1981 and her Masters in 1991. Both degreeswere in Chemical Engineering. She received Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the New

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Frederick Reardon

of engineering and technology. However, inteaching thermodynamics, it is essential to teach a systematic problem-solving methodology inorder that the the scientific concepts can be mastered. Thermodynamics is not a linear subject.In fact, it seems to me that it has a triangular structure, consisting of Principles, Processes, andProperties (Figure 1). In each of these three areas, there are numerous equations. Until theyunderstand the structure of the subject, students tend to be overwhelmed by the number ofequations, constants, and parameters. They want an example for every possible kind of problem,so that they can know how to get the answers to homework and exam problems. Rather thandoing that, which is really impossible, I teach them a

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Tycho Fredericks; Jorge Rodriguez

respondentswere classified into categories based on their college education, including masters in ergonomicsor safety; bachelors in industrial engineering, ergonomics or safety; bachelors in an engineeringdiscipline; bachelors in a college program, or no bachelors degree. Participants were asked torank their knowledge of ergonomics and safety into the following levels: inexperienced,somewhat experienced, experienced, advanced, and expert. The conclusions drawn from thedemographic questions of the survey analysis indicate that the participants are primarily fromindustry and have adequate experience with the topics being investigated.Validation of Demand. The second portion of the questionnaire contained five questions, whichwere written to serve as a

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Zbigniew Prusak

military engineers for Corpsde Ponts et Chaussées established in 1716. Although that education was a somewhat flexiblecompilation of independent studies, it is widely considered to be the first organized education thatdiffered from the centuries old education model of one master and few apprentices. In 1794L'Ecole Polytechnique was established to prepare engineering officers for French army andengineers for state service. It is considered to be the first engineering institution with a structuredprocess of knowledge transfer exposing students to various disciplines and points of view. Thefounders of that institution recognized that with the ever growing body of knowledge needed for asuccessful engineering career, the then present educational

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William Clark; Lisa Comparini; Anthony Dixon; David DiBiasio

accountability,individual homework grades were recorded and individual tests were given throughout the year.A thorough understanding of the projects prepared students for most of the material on the tests,but some material was covered only in supplemental lectures and homework problems. Detailsof our curriculum design, delivery methods and our implementation experiences are availableelsewhere.1, 2Our overall project assessment goals were to evaluate how the project-based, spiral curriculumaffected students’ ability to: solve problems at several levels of cognition, work in teams, workindependently, master the fundamentals of chemical engineering, and integrate material fromseveral courses. We were also interested in how it affects student attitudes and

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Walter Banzhaf

-state devices) which must be taken before students get to the “fun” coursesinvolving amplifiers, oscillators, filters, etc. As a result, excessive time was needed in thefundamentals courses to cover basics, which resulted in some course topics either not beingpresented or learned adequately to promote success in more advanced courses. This problemwas addressed by the creation of a new first-semester course, designed to give students someknowledge, some familiarity with terms and units, and a lot of motivation. An added benefit isthat during their first semester students finish the first of four required math classes, so that theyhave mastered mathematical topics (e.g. simultaneous linear equations, logarithmic andexponential equations) before

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Cecil Beeson; William Gay

andengineering technology faculty: most areas of engineering and engineering technology educationrequire several years of hard work to begin to master. Critical reading and problem-solving skillsare essential. Indeed much of engineering training involves years of disciplined and intensivestudy. Not everyone has the necessary combination of ability, interest, and self-disciplinerequired for success. If any of these factors are missing, a student’s chances of graduating from“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Page 6.404.2Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”an