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Patrick Devens

Session 3353 MATLAB & Freshman Engineering Patrick E. Devens Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State UniversityAbstractVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University’s (VPI&SU) College of Engineering hasmade the switch. MATLAB1 is now the problem-solving software used by the freshmanengineering program. The reasons for switching to MATLAB, how MATLAB was integratedinto the existing introductory course, and some lessons learned after implementing MATLAB aredescribed below. The purpose is to show both positive and negative aspects of switching toMATLAB in

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Nadia A. Basaly

, thestrategies of teaching this course went through many stages. First, providing awareness of practicallife of all kind of engineers and answering all puzzles in the students’ mind about engineering.Second, setting competencies that can help students to master problem solving as well as basic skillenrichment. Third, developing the course activities and materials that practice all competencies. Thisstrategy was the key to increased enrollment in engineering. A Final Exam at the end of the courseproved that the new strategy is the most effective way to influence student commitment and positiveattitude toward engineering.1. Introduction Tex-PREP is identified as the Texas Pre-Freshmen Engineering Program which offers anacademically intense

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John, Jr. Lipscomb

Session 2275 Acquiring Tenure in Engineering Technology John W. Lipscomb, Jr.AbstractThe process of passing the tenure test in Engineering Technology is often unclear to new facultymembers. New faculty members are generally told that a successful tenure program requires abalance of several activities including teaching, research/scholarship, service. However, they donot often hear of the successes and failures of prior colleagues that may illustrate errors inachieving a good balance. Some of the errors during the critical probationary period are;unrealistic expectations of publications, poor student

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W. Benard Carlson; Takeo Higuchi

Session 3561 Idea Notebooks for Engineering Students W. Bernard Carlson, Takeo Higuchi University of Virginia/Mitsui & Co., Ltd. The power of the unaided mind is highly overrated. Without external aids, memory, thought, and reasoning are all constrained. But human intelligence is highly flexible and adaptive, superb at inventing procedures and objects that overcome its own limits. . . . [One way humans have overcome the limits of the unaided mind is] through the development of tools of thought--cognitive artifacts--that complement the abilities and

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James Hanson

the course. Students are required toidentify key variables in the problem and design a testing program with practical limitations ofthe variables in mind. The students are required to relate their test program and selection of Page 4.211.3experimental variables to practical civil engineering design applications.The projects conducted so far can be identified as one of four main categories of testingprograms: fundamental material behavior, optimizing engineering products for economy,sustainable infrastructure design practices, and interfacing with research projects at LawrenceTech University. Examples of project topics, with the variables of the

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involve, but also provide a rationale forthe detailed study of mathematics and science that are typical in the lower division years.Concluding that it is not possible to cram all the knowledge that an engineer will needthroughout his or her career into a four year curriculum, engineering faculties areproviding flexibility and diverse paths for individual students – while making sure thatthe fundamentals such as analytical problem solving , critical thinking and designmethodology are included.Recognizing that many of today’s engineering students will choose to start their ownbusinesses at some point in their careers, some engineering education programs arestimulating entreprenaurship and commercialism in the minds of their students – andproviding

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Eric Adams; Rafael Bras

professional issues on the students’ minds. Alums are alsohelpful with our “chase-an-engineer” exercise, described below.Presently there are four tracks or specialties offered: Environmental and Water QualityEngineering, High Performance Structures, Geotechnology, and Information Technology. Thecurricula corresponding to the individual tracks are fairly structured; each includes 3 requiredsubjects, two planned electives, and one free elective. The six technical subjects is the samenumber as required for the Master of Science degree. Some of the subjects were created ormodified for the M.Eng. program while others are part of our normal offerings.Irrespective of specialty, all M.Eng. students take a Concepts of Engineering Practice subjectwhich covers

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Mark Tufenkjian

Session 1375 A New Engineering Educator’s Guide for Creating a Summer Engineering Internship Program Mark R. Tufenkjian California State University, Los AngelesAbstractAn internship experience can play a pivotal role during a student’s educational journey. Aninternship provides a student with an outstanding opportunity to advance their qualifications botheducationally and professionally. This paper presents an organizational framework for newengineering educators to plan, develop, and implement a simple yet effective internship programat their universities. The

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Robert Engelken

Session 0575 Engineering Research at Predominately Undergraduate Institutions: Strategies and Pitfalls for the New Engineering Educator Dr. Robert D. Engelken Arkansas State UniversityAbstractThis paper will discuss challenges and opportunities experienced by new engineering educatorsin conducting research at primarily undergraduate, nonresearch, teaching-oriented colleges anduniversities. Such institutions often contrast with flagship research institutions in regard tofacilities, support, philosophy, and policies regarding

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Gearold R. Johnson; Dueb M. Lakhder

to seek and encourage theparticipation and/or comments of engineering educators. Before we discuss in detail theinitiatives, we strongly believe it will be essential to provide a brief background aboutUNESCO for those who may be in need of this information or who simply want to know moreabout the organization.UNESCOThe United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) 1 wasfounded on 11 November 1946 on the premise that "since wars begin in the minds of men, it isin the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed." UNESCO’s constitutionwas signed in London on 16 November 1946 by 37 countries. The mission of the organizationas defined in Article 1 of the conditions, is to "contribute to peace and

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Phillip C. Wankat; Frank S. Oreovicz

Session 1655 An Education Course for Engineering Graduate Students Phillip C. Wankat, Frank S. Oreovicz Chemical Engineering, Purdue UniversityI. IntroductionWhat educational experiences do PhD students in engineering need ? In class: We want all of our graduates - both BS and advanced - to meet the spirit of ABET Criteria 2000.1 Since approximately half of the PhD students have not graduated from an ABET accredited undergraduate program, the graduate courses should supply the same educational experiences as undergraduate courses, but studying advanced

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William Shelnutt; Monica Lumsdaine; Edward Lumsdaine

Session 2225 Integrating Creative Problem Solving and Engineering Design Edward Lumsdaine, Michigan Technological University J. William Shelnutt, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Monika Lumsdaine, E&M Lumsdaine Solar Consultants, Inc.Abstract“Engineering design is the communication of a set of rational decisions obtained with creativeproblem solving for accomplishing certain stated objectives within prescribed constraints.” Howcan engineering design be taught within the framework of this definition—what are the goals andbuilding blocks? An innovative textbook demonstrates an integrated

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of the working prototype and the presentation of all documentation andmarketing elements. Team interaction in the course has been effective thoughsometimes frustrating to the student. Student response to the course has been positive.The course has provided a good preparation for the full-year senior design project. Thepaper also discusses creativity issues, the use of computer tools, the application ofreliability factors, student evaluation techniques, and some of the product designs.“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” PlutarchI. IntroductionThe engineering faculty at John Brown University began discussing a junior-leveldesign laboratory in 1990. Students were spending extensive amounts of creative timein the

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Loren Lutes; James T. P. Yao

trueprofessionals in the eyes of the general public, and to corresponding increases in theircompensation levels. However, it must be kept in mind that Alexander’s conclusion that fewcivil engineers are needed is contrary to that of many other educational and engineering analysts,so the issue should be studied carefully. It surely is true that a reduction in the number of civilengineers, if accompanied by no other changes, would lead to increased competition to hirethose individuals, and that this would lead to increases in compensation and prestige. On theother hand, there may be several difficulties with this procedure. For example, if the technicaland intellectual ability required for the civil engineering degree were not substantially increased,then it

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S. Mouring; S. Brown; P. Mead; M. Natishan; I. Goswami; C. Lathan; Linda Schmidt

Clark School of Engineering, Women inEngineering Program and Department of Mechanical Engineering; and the ECSEL Coalition.Bibliography[ABET97] ABET Engineering Criteria 2000. http:/www.abet.ba.md.us/EAC/eac2000.html (14 Feb 1997).[Barr93] Barra, R., Tips and Techniques for Team Effectiveness, Barra International, New Oxford, PA, (1993).[Baue94] Bauer, W., “The Relationships Among Elements of Learning Style, Mode of Instruction, and Achievement of College Music Appreciation Students,” Dissertation Abstracts International, 55/10- A, pp:3219-313 (1994).[Bele86] Belenky, M. F. , Clenchy, G. M., Goldberger, N. R., and Tarule, J. M., Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice and Mind, New

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Suzanne Mildren; Karen Whelan

Session 2460 Aculturating First Year Engineering Students to Teamwork Suzanne Mildren, Karen Whelan University of Ballarat, School of Engineering (Higher Education), Victoria, AUSTRALIAAbstractIn many countries, the traditional academic culture typically described as a ‘person culture’ isincreasingly being questioned by industry, which relies heavily on an organisational modelbased on a ‘team culture’ [1, 2]. Engineers working in Australia, just as in other industrialisedparts of the world, are more often faced with a dynamic employment

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Bernd S. W. Schroeder; Jenna Carpenter

have been taken.Aside from the obvious benefit of formally having all mathematical tools “in place”, bothapproaches have their problems. Building mathematical tools “on the spot” can force studentsto struggle so much with the mathematics that the engineering/science content looses priorityin the students’ mind and is not as well understood as it could be. Delaying classes until aftertheir mathematical prerequisites have been taken is not an option if we are to have anengineering class every term. Moreover such delays can lead to delays in graduation or toterms in which students take only mathematics and electives. (For example, in many curriculaany class that requires the use of differential equations would become a junior level classtaken

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Frank J. Fronczak; John G. Webster

Session 2309 A Series of Design Courses in Biomedical Engineering Frank J. Fronczak, John G. Webster University of Wisconsin-MadisonAbstractThe curriculum for the BSBME degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison requires a seriesof six design courses. Students begin in their third semester with prerequisites of calculus,physics and chemistry. We solicit real projects from faculty in biomedical engineering and thelife sciences. Groups of two or three students interact with these clients to define thespecifications for their projects. Instructors teach them design principles and

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John Eby; David Vader; Carl A. Erikson

, promote, develop, and implement its principles are pursued with our engineeringstudents, the Messiah College community, and the worldwide community. AppropriateEngineering provides a broad and interdisciplinary view of the engineering design process andprofession so as to foster an ethical and service oriented mind set as well as technical andcommercial considerations. Three general ways that we strive to accomplish this distinctive are:1. Provide cross-cultural learning and service opportunities for students and faculty through an elective course on Appropriate Engineering, projects in courses like Introduction to Engineering and Senior Project, and service-learning teams. Student-faculty project teams work throughout the academic year

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G. Ivan Maldonado; Anne M. Ahrens

coordination§ Provide information of available opportunities to faculty and students§ Provide more opportunities for language training for faculty and studentsThese suggestions correlate well with input provided by the ISU Engineering CollegeIndustrial Advisory Council (ECIAC).Current International Programs InfrastructureWith the new ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 and Dean Melsa's Blueprint for theFuture in mind, the ISU College of Engineering is taking decisive steps with regard toachieving its internationalization goals. The following items highlight the infrastructurecurrently in place:§ New full-time staff position created to lead college's internationalization efforts Ø Central location and repository for all international-related

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Darrell C. Schroder; Charles D. Turner

magazines, web searches k. Ability to use the techniques, skills, and 1 3 lab & computer applications, models, modern engineering tools necessary for spreadsheets, web work engineering practice TOTALS 22 23Table 3 summarizes the totals for each of the classifications. The totals in this Table 3 are moreuseful because the relative areas of emphasis for the laboratory versus non-laboratory courseare very different. The laboratory class shows a heavier emphasis on engineering analysis andengineering design than the non-laboratory class. While the tables provide valuableinformation they do not provide the visualization that the mind needs to get a better mental

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John G. Nee

Session 3538 Assessment Strategies for Engineering Design Graphics (EDG) Related Programs and Courses John G. Nee Central Michigan UniversityAbstractFew education issues have received more scrutiny over the last decade than how to measurestudent achievement. Pressures from all levels of policy making - from local school boards toCongress - for higher academic and skill standards, more accountability and better certification ofwhat students know have led to a flurry of activity in the realm of assessment. Faculty areexperimenting with a variety of

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Erol Inelmen

research can help students develop this ability, excessive costs are incurredwhen research is used as a tool for teaching. While providing the basic knowledge good teachersshould stimulate the minds of their students in the direction of “critical thinking” and“creativity”. Research activities, vital for raising funds and building public image that will attractbetter students, should not hinder the efficiency of teaching activities 6.III. First Experience Gained in IntegrationWhile investigating the possibilities integrating the engineering education curriculum assuggested in the previous section, the author was for the first time in his career asked to give acourse in Automatic Control. An adequate textbook was searched that could to be used

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Peter Rosati; Judit E. Puskas

and objective T types and to well–organized anddecisive J types. It has been said5 that “TJ types tend to choose careers of power and authorityand FP types tend to avoid them” and professional type distributions from the MBTI Atlas 6confirm that engineers are 43 % TJ and 19 % FP and that professional managers are 49 % TJ and17 % FP. However the needs and demands of the engineering profession are changing. The Ftypes are naturally attuned to “people skills”, are good in teamwork and in the skills ofunderstanding and motivating colleagues. Additionally, the P types are open-minded, curious andflexible and alert to unusual approaches. Also P types, especially in combination with N, tend tobe more creative. Perhaps the engineering profession

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Michael Tooley; Melissa S. Tooley

Session 3675 Dual Careers vs. Dueling Careers: Engineering the Two-Profession Household Melissa S. Tooley, Michael D. Tooley University of Arkansas/ Lucent TechnologiesAbstractBalancing professional and personal obligations is a continuing challenge for today’s educators.Two-income families are particularly common among new faculty, where partners are requiredto share all the duties of family life. This paper presents the methods used by one professionalcouple to share the responsibilities of raising children, maintain a home for the family, andbalance the

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Zenaida O. Keil; Robert P. Hesketh; James A. Newell; Stephanie Farrell; C. Stewart Slater

SESSION 2513 OUTREACH AND RECRUITMENT TO ATTRACT STUDENTS TO CHEMICAL ENGINEERING: FERMENTING STUDENTS’ INTEREST IN ENGINEERING Robert Hesketh, Stephanie Farrell, C. Stewart Slater, Zenaida Keil, and James Newell Rowan University Chemical Engineering 201 Mullica Hill Rd Glassboro, NJ 08028-1701 hesketh@rowan.edu Submitted to 1999 Annual ASEE Conference Chemical Engineering Division Session

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J. Darrell Gibson; Patricia Brackin

Session 2323 TECHNIQUES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS FOR ENGINEERING DESIGN COURSES J. Darrell Gibson, M. Patricia Brackin Department of Mechanical Engineering ROSE-HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYAbstract The benefits of company sponsored student design projects, both to academia and to industry,have been well established recently in symposia and in publications. In spite of these known benefitsmany institutions have been slow to implement student projects with industry. Much of

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Thomas Zickel; Russell A. Aubrey

Session 2249 Application Specific Troubleshooting and Problem Solving Tools for the Electrical Engineering Technology Laboratory Russell A. Aubrey, Thomas A. Zickel Purdue University School of Technology, Anderson, IndianaAbstractSeveral application specific circuit boards and techniques have been designed for use asinstructional tools in the Electrical Engineering Technology (EET) laboratory. The primary useof these boards is to serve as an efficient, productive and user friendly platform to introduceelectronic circuit problem solving concepts to EET students. Two application specific boardsare

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Josue Njock-Libii

Session 3365 How Students React to Formulations of the Straight Line Used in Engineering Courses Josué Njock Libii* Mechanical Engineering Department Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, New York, 14623-5604 e-mail: jxneme@rit.eduAbstractStraight lines are used to model and illustrate a variety of concepts in engineering courses. Theformulations that are used depend upon the model or the concept that is being presented.However

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Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

interpreted as the change in availability of U.S. purchasing power tied to theavailable supply of manufactured goods or services from major economic groups.III. Opportunities for International Engineering Education. - A process of discovery -.Universities developing the next generation of international workforce can take center placeto increase the potential of local markets4, especially if the faculty and administrationmaintains an open mind to identify non-obvious opportunities. Opportunities ininternational engineering education can be built-in as part of the overall re-alignment.At the core of engineering education is the Product Realization Process, and learning it can