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The Computer, the Web, and the ChE

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William Baratuci; Angela Linse

using their experiences to improve the course.The HTOL students were divided into two small groups and asked to write answers to thefollowing questions: § What helped you learn in this course? Please explain or provide specific examples. § What changes would make the course more helpful? Please suggest specific ways to alter the course.The two groups worked together for about 5 minutes on each question. Then the classparticipated in a whole class discussion; the out-of-town student answered the questionsindividually, then contributed to the whole-class discussion. As the students reported theiranswers, Linse created a master list of strengths and suggestions for change. After the interview,the comments were divided into themes based on both

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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Bret Van Poppel; Blace Albert; Daisie Boettner

Engineering and Technology Program Self-Study Report for Mechanical Engineering,” June 2002. Page 8.107.15 10. Wankat, Phillip C. and Oreovicz, Frank S. Teaching Engineering. McGraw-Hill, 1993. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2003, American Society For Engineering Education 11. Lowman, Joseph. Mastering the Techniques of Teaching

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Issues in Computer Education

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Eck Doerry

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationto reference some locally-appropriate security management function (which could, at its mostbasic, simply look up login ID’s in flat text file).3.3 Quickstart TutorialsAlthough the INCA system is designed for simplicity and ease-of-use at every level, it isimpossible to insulate users from all of the technical skills required for web authoring. Forexample, INCA users must have some basic knowledge of HTML, and master certain basicfeatures of Dreamweaver in order to successfully create and edit web pages. Similarly, the ICAMinterface, despite all efforts to make it as simple as possible

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Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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Diane Muratore; Jeannette Russ

. Eble, Kenneth E. The Craft of Teaching: A Guide to Mastering the Professor's Art. 2nd ed. San Fran cisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1988.5. Johnson, D.W., and R.T. Johnson. Active Learning: Cooperation in the College Classroom. Edinal, Minnesota: Interaction Book, 1989.6. Meyers, Chet, and Thomas B. Jones. Promoting Active Learning: Strategies for the College Classroom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1993.7. Vesiling, P. Aarne. So You Want to Be a Professor? A Handbook for Graduate Students. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, Inc., 2000.Biographical InformationDr. DIANE MURATORE is an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Western New England College inSpringfield, Massachusetts. Dr. JEANNETTE RUSS is an

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Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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W.B. stouffer; Jeffrey Russell

,” ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings, Washington, DC, 13c2-1 – 13c2-5.Bordogna, J. (1998). “Tomorrow’s Civil Systems Engineer—the Master Integrator.” Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 124(2), 48-50.Clough, G. W. (2000). “Civil Engineering in the Next Millennium.” CEE New Millennium Colloquium, MIT, March 20-21, 2000.“Construction for Humanity,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 7, 2000, A12.Ernst, E.W. (2001). Review of Reports, Studies and Conference on Engineering Education 1981-1997.Florman, S.C. (1987). The Civilized Engineer. St. Martin’s Griffin, New York, NY.Hill, R. (2001). “Georgia Tech Offers Liberal Arts Degrees with Technology Flair,” The Technique

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Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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Juan Lucena; Joan Gosink; Barbara Moskal

Education and Practice 121(3): 199.Biography of the authorsDr. Joan Gosink has been a Professor and Director of the Engineering Division at CSM,the largest department or division in the School, since 1991. Under her direction, theDivision received various accolades, including designation as a Program of Excellencefrom the Colorado Commission on Higher Education. During this period, studentenrollment grew from about 500 students to over 900, and external research fundingincreased by 600%. The program also expanded to include Masters and Doctoratedegrees and an undergraduate specialty in environmental engineering. Dr. Gosink twice Page 8.647.14served as

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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

Engineering and Regression. Dr. Rhoads receiveda B.S. degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 1985, a Masters in BusinessAdministration from the University of Texas of the Permian Basin in 1992, and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineeringfrom Arizona State University in 1999.MARK NANNYMark Nanny is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences at the University ofOklahoma. He has a joint appointment between the College of Engineering and the Sarkeys Energy Center. Dr.Nanny teaches undergraduate and graduate environmental science and environmental chemistry courses. He hasover 29 research publications in the area of environmental chemistry, and has edited a book on Nuclear MagneticResonance Spectroscopy in

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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Leah Jamieson; Lynne Slivovsky; William Oakes

semesteris ending then. The students are evaluated as if the semester were to end at that point. Thisgives the advisors an opportunity to assess the level of detail and content from the studentsthrough the artifacts and documentation they are producing.Grades are sent out individually over email and a master copy is sent to the central EPICSoffice. Each student receives a grade and comments for their team and for themselves. Thesecomments include what, if anything, is lacking at that point in the semester and how toovercome those deficiencies by the end of the semester. Helpful suggestions are included by theadvisors when appropriate. Sometimes, the grades are given as a range if there are items thatare unclear. These grades are not recorded and

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David Purdy; Christine Buckley; Don L. Dekker; Phillip J. Cornwell

Page 6.992.10must learn new technologies and become familiar with related disciplines. They must have basiclearning skills which will allow them to learn from traditional written learning media as well asto learn to use new computer programs and yet to be developed media. The student must knowwhere to go for sources of information such as the traditional sources like the library andcolleagues, as well as the non-traditional: e.g. CD-ROM and computer searches. The curriculum provides the basic fundamentals and practice at mastering new materials.The graduate must, however, develop and maintain motivation to learn new materials based on acontinual and honest evaluation of individual deficiencies.4. COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY There are

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Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman

completeness,which counted 30% of the total grade. The exam grades constituted for the remaining 30% ofthe final course grade.The projects required about two hours per area to grade, the presentation grades were completedduring class, the portfolio required about two hours at the end of the term, and the examsrequired about 8 hours for design and grading. (class size 25). The course design required about100 hours. with the daily activities requiring about two hours. Mastering the needed technologyrequired the most effort with about a 200-300 hour one-time investment to learn and apply themethods described. The development of website listings was done by graduate students withPower Point and audio streaming Power Point lectures by the faculty. The e

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A. Jalloh; Zheng-Tao Deng; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

academe and industry. He has an engineering consulting company and conducts applied research. He earneda 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.ZENGTHAO DENGZ.T. Deng is Assistant Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Alabama A&M University inHuntsville, AL. Dr. Deng has an extensive background and research experience in numerical simulation in particularhigh speed aerodynamics/flows with heat transfer

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Leah Jamieson; Edward J. Coyle; William Oakes

impact must be understood and be acceptable in a societalcontext (h), which can only be accomplished after developing a thorough understanding of thepertinent contemporary issues (j). While teams employ skills and knowledge already acquired,projects typically require researching additional subjects in depth and learning and applying newskills (i). Further, effective communication (g) is essential to the success of the projects -between team members, with the project partner and team advisors, and to the general public.EPICS provides a structured environment in which engineering students have both theopportunity and, significantly, the time to acquire and even master the skills specified by the EC2000 criteria. Of particular interest for this

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Bryan L. Gassaway; Masoud Rais-Rohani

Mississippi.BRYAN GASSAWAYBryan Gassaway is a graduate student pursuing a Master of Science degree in the Department of AerospaceEngineering at Mississippi State University. As a senior undergraduate he participated in the second design projectdescribed in this paper. Page 5.438.14

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Scott Danielson; Sudhir I. Mehta

Campbell, Wm. and Smith, Karl. Interaction Book Company, Edina, MN.23. The Professor in the Classroom. (1999). "How to Hold High Standards and be Supportive," Master Teacher Inc.Vol. 6, No. 2, Manhattan, KS.24. Tobias, S. & Raphael, J. (1997). The Hidden Curriculum Part I, Plenum Press, New York, NY.25. Wankat, P., & Oreovicz, F. (1998). “Content tyranny,” ASEE Prism, Vol. 8, 2, p. 15.26. Wankat, P., & Oreovicz, F. (1993). Teaching Engineering, McGraw Hill, New York.SUDHIR MEHTASudhir Mehta is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at North Dakota State University. He was named the 1997North Dakota Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation and has received the HP award for excellence inlaboratory instruction in 1999. Dr. Mehta

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Theodore F. Smith; Sharif Rahman; P. Barry Butler

other countries, to develop personal communication skills necessary to work on a team withstudents from another countries on a common design project, to understand and master thedifficulties of communicating clearly and concisely through electronic media, and to establish anongoing collaborative design program with universities throughout the worldTable 1 shows the titles of design projects, student affiliations, and names of industrial firmssponsoring projects in 1998-99. JDDW provided five design projects, Hon industries provided two,Monsanto provided two, ALCOA provided one, and Rockwell provided one.Selection of StudentsThe selection of the students for the 1998-99 PEDE was initiated by making formal announcementsin the Spring 1998 semester

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Robert Engelken

. This is particularly true ofsmaller industries in nonmetropolitan areas with no Ph.D.’s (and often no Master degreerecipients) on their staff and sometimes few Bachelor-level college graduates at all, even amongthe “engineering” staff. The staff might feel threatened by bringing in someone “superior” tothem in technical ability. They might also feel a new/young engineering professor is still only a“kid.”The above perceptions can be addressed only by a ongoing, sensitive, and low key nurturing ofrelationships with key industrial personnel and letting them know in a nonthreatening manner ofone’s interest and capability in helping with their problems. It may take some time but generallythey will come around, often when a “crisis” suddenly occurs

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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John Wood; Jason Bartolomei; Dave Winebrener; Don Rhymer; Brian Self; Daniel Jensen

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New Programs and Textbooks in BME

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Robin Adams; Mary Lidstrom; Kjell Nelson; Jeffrey Bonadio; David Stahl; Cynthia Atman

and 2) whether Anna Anderson was the missing Czarina. Despite thefact that the answer is already known, the students were required to master the concepts ofinheritance, DNA variation, genetic polymorphisms, DNA sequencing, and the polymerase chainreaction in order to support and explain their own conclusions. To provide hands-on experiencewith these techniques, this module also included a lab exercise wherein the students collectedsamples of their own DNA and performed a PCR reaction using primers commonly used inforensic analysis, giving them direct laboratory experience with PCR, gel electrophoresis, andstandard gel data analysis.Module 4: Osteogenesis Imperfecta – a point mutation that causes systemic disease. Thismodule was designed to

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Collaborations with Engineering Technology

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Albert Koller

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Computed Simulation and Animation

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Vivek Venkatesh; Nawwaf Kharma

combinationalcircuits that satisfy a prescribed functionality)[6]. Students are mostly assessed via individual assignments and tests. Except in some designcases, there exists a model answer (response) to each problem (stimulus), for which the learner isregularly reinforced, with good marks and a measure of social recognition. Failure to producecorrect answers requires repetitive study of the same (or similar) material until the learner candisplay that he/she has mastered it. Also, and in line with most instructional prescriptions of behaviorist theories, theinstructor is the authoritarian centre of the learner’s universe. The instructor is not only the

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Selmer Bringsjord; Paul Bello

best attempts at constructing such a system have a commoningredient for success missing from their software, namely the ability to do what a humanprofessor does best. One of the primary advantages of the human instructor is the ability toprovide natural language clarification of concepts, and the wealth of domain knowledge that isvital in the evaluation of a student's performance on a given exercise. Our best instructors havean uncanny knack for adapting to individualized need on a per student basis and keeping an eyeon how the student progresses over time as concepts are reinforced through new material. Asimple example would be a student who hasn’t yet mastered Modus Tollens, which simply statesthe following

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Using Technology to Improve IE Education

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Uanny Brens Garcia; Douglas Bodner

have seasonal demands. This demand pattern complicates theproduction planning. The beers are produced in fermentors, and each beer has a fixed lead time(process time in a fermentor) and shelf life. The plant has a set number of fermentors with afixed capacity. The case study data also include demand for each product in each period andcovers five product types over a period of 26 weeks.4.2. Spreadsheet PrototypeOur first implementation of this module is in spreadsheet form using Microsoft® Excel. Thespreadsheet contains three worksheets. The Master Production Scheduling (MPS) worksheetprovides an interface for user input data entry (scheduled releases) and for production scheduleand inventory level results, including feasibility. The Demand and

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Freshman Success/Retention Strategies

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Paul Blowers

a general introduction to library resources next year,followed by a shorter version of the information scavenger hunt. Then students will be able toask questions about how to find information. Finally, the master question list will be assignedfor the groups to solve over the following non-holiday week. There were many other idas the class generated that don't really fit within any of thetopics we discussed this semester. These concepts are more meta-activities that bridge more thanone topic or don't really fit within the current classifications. Quite a few students wanted tomeet new students so they wanted activities that would accomplish this. Others wanted to have

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Shawn Gross; David Clarke; David Bentler; Joseph Hitt; Janet Baldwin; Ronald Welch

improvements in presentation and organizational skills will make it a reality.5Teachers have the greatest impact on our nations youth by influencing, and hopefully inspiring,major selection, elective selection, and possibly the desire for advanced degrees.AcknowledgmentsAny opinions expressed here are those of the authors and not necessarily those of any supportingagencies.Bibliography1. Conley, C.H., S.J. Ressler, T.A. Lenox, J.W. Samples, “Teaching Teachers To Teach Engineering – T4E,”Journal of Engineering Education, January 2000, pp. 31-38.2. ASCE Program Design Workshop, “A Model for Faculty Development in Civil Engineering: The ExCEEdTeaching Workshop,” ASCE, July 1999.3. Lowman, Joseph, “Mastering the Techniques of Teaching,” Jossey-Bass, San

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Sanjay Joshi; Richard Wysk; D.J. Medeiros; Amine Lehtihet; Timothy Simpson

withexamples from the course.• Designs that had been assumed to be final required significant revision. After creating several prototypes, the statue base group came to realize that their design was impractical from a manufacturing time and cost viewpoint and began development of a new base that eliminated the LCD assembly.• Manufacturing processes were not as easily mastered as expected. The statue group spent significant time experimenting with methods for making molds, different casting materials, and methods for eliminating air bubbles from the final casting.• Working with vendors and contractors created delays and other difficulties. The electronics group had difficulty obtaining the needed components due to a national shortage, had

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Eric Warmbier; James S. Fairweather; P. David Fisher

holding higher status 19, 20. These higher status institutions, usuallymajor research universities (e.g., Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley)are seen as setting the standards by which others should be aspire. Fulton and Trow 19 identifiedthe appeal of status as the reason for mimicry, where institutions (or programs) of perceivedlower prestige try to behave like their higher status compatriots. Their hypothesis has beenproven. Research productivity is the strongest predictor of faculty salaries (and in many casespromotion and tenure) regardless of type of institution or academic discipline 21. That is,research productivity today is as highly valued in masters-level institutions as it is in researchuniversities. The high

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Terrance P. O’Connor; Nghia Le

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Rhonda Lee; Vincent R. Capece; John Baker

, Vol. 122, No. 10, October, 2000.2. URL: http://www.monster.com/; Job search performed under: ”Search Jobs”3. ANSYS, Release 5.6, SAS IP, 1999.4. Miner, S. & Link, R., A Project-Based Introduction to the Finite Element Method. Computers in Education Journal, Vol. 10, No. 3, 2000.5. Lawry, M., I-DEAS Master Series, Student Guide, Structural Dynamics Research Corporation, 1998.6. Whiteman, W. & Nygren, K.P., Achieving the Right Balance: Properly Integrating Mathematical Software Packages into Engineering Education, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 89, No. 3, July, 2000.7. Pro/ENGINEER, Release 2000i, Parametric Technology Corporation, 1999.8. Incropera, F. and DeWitt, D., Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, Fourth

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Per Reinhall; Michael Jenkins; Joyce Cooper; Angela Linse; Eric Stuve

which the studentlearns a craft or trade with the master [3]. The “apprenticeship” model of design instructionrequires that faculty spend more time with the students and actually contribute to the designprocess themselves. Thus, students learn by example from the teacher just as the teacher learnsdesign instruction by actually doing it. The faculty time requirements of this model may appearunreasonable at first, but consider that the non-contact time spent preparing lectures and gradingstudent’s reports (typically six hours per student credit hour) could perhaps be better spent indirect interaction with the students. The students certainly appreciate it.A final point with respect to educational goals is distinguishing different kinds of design

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Narayanan Komerath

executing parabolic trajectories.• The settings to be used in flight experiments had to be developed through a detailed program of ground experiments, using sophisticated measurement techniques which the sophomores could not be expected to master in the available time.• Design and fabrication of the experiment chamber, validation of numerical predictions, development of measuring systems and procedures, and other experiment aspects had to be developed concurrently, involving a team of many students.• The experiment had to work first-time, in the flight environment, away from the home laboratory. Page 6.668.10Proceedings of