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Holly A. Patterson-McNeill; Carl Steidley

Session 3520 Engineering Programming Language Concepts Holly Patterson-McNeill, Carl Steidley Texas A&M University-Corpus ChristiAbstractThe study of programming languages is beneficial to all levels of programmers. The first part ofthis paper reviews some of the reasons for studying programming languages. To isolate some ofthe issues of language design, definition, and implementation, mini-languages have been used inProgramming Languages courses. Mini-languages are small and complete, yet restrictedlanguages. They have a small syntax and simple semantics. Mini-languages and their

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Winthrop J. Aldrich; M. Catharine Hudspeth

Session 2470 Summer Bridge to Engineering1 M. Catharine Hudspeth, J. Winthrop Aldrich California State Polytechnic University, PomonaIntroduction For the past six years Cal Poly Pomona’s colleges of Engineering and Science havecollaborated to conduct a four-week residential transition program, Quest I, for incomingminority students and selected community college students. This program, funded jointly by thecampus, the National Science Foundation Alliance for Minority Participation (AMP) grant, andCalifornia MESA, has served three hundred students. Three threads will be discussed

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Lisa A. Haston; James S. Fairweather; P. David Fisher; Diane Rover

Session 2325 Linking Engineering Service Courses with Engineering Design P. David Fisher, James S. Fairweather, Diane T. Rover, Lisa A. Haston Michigan State UniversityAbstractThis paper focuses on the important role engineering service courses could play in a student’smajor engineering design experience. It explores opportunities for students to apply knowledgeacquired and skills learned in these courses to their multidisciplinary, engineering designexperiences. But transforming these courses and linking them more formally to engineeringdesign may require that engineering faculty and administrators rethink

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Loren W. Zachary; Janet M. Sharp; Barbara M. Adams

teacher can synthesizeseveral elements of a school curriculum.Student-conducted ExperimentsWith these views in mind, the course instructor developed simple student-conducted experimentsto demonstrate engineering concepts. Levers Students discover the concept of a moment and static equilibrium of moments by conducting experiments using various classes of levers. National Mathematics Curriculum Standards Grades 5-8 Standard 12: Geometry explore transformation of geometric figures identify, describe, compare and classify geometric figures Page 5.259.2

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Arpita Gupte; Patricia F. Mead; Marjorieanne Natishan; James Greenberg; David Bigio; Linda Schmidt

. The most current engineering studies focusprimarily on team formation [McIntosh, 1989; Rosser, 1997] and not on training. This isconsistent with our own interview data suggesting that engineering faculty havedeveloped ad-hoc procedures to form teams but have not adopted formal trainingpractices or protocols as they attempt to teach students how to work well in teams [Meadet al. 1999]. In response to this gap between skills and training, BESTEAMS hasdeveloped training workshops for students and faculty. This paper discusses the purposeand objectives, and some preliminary results of the student workshop.The student workshop has been designed with two important objectives in mind. First,the workshop provides a guideline, or working model, from

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Willie Ofosu

Page 5.344.5groups, new friends and get involved in other activities that contribute to forming acollege life. It is important not to spread the minorities so thinly that they will feelisolated. It is a good idea to assign good numbers of minorities to the same floor.Technology is growing very fast particularly in information technology and internet-related applications. Attendant to the growth, are many opportunities for developingsmall businesses. The idea of starting one’s own business is a fact that can be stressed tothe independent-minded individuals, and also to those who have entrepreneurial skills toencourage them while at college.ConclusionThe need for improving minority representation in engineering programs in colleges

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Edward F. Young; Jeffrey Morehouse; Jed Lyons

Approach to Engineering ProblemsConstructivist learning theory asserts that knowledge is not simply transmitted from teacher tostudent, but is actively constructed by the mind of the learner through experiences (Piaget, 1973;Vygotsky, 1978). Founded in developmental psychology, constructivism suggests: (a) thelearner should be an active organism within the environment, not just responding to stimuli, butengaging and seeking to make sense of things; (b) knowledge is best generated internally, notabsorbed from an external source; and (c) the motivation for learning should be intrinsic.To facilitate such learning by discovery, the teacher and instructional environment must allowrepeated, prolonged experiences with the materials and events associated

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Karan Watson; Jeffrey Froyd

Session 3663 Theoretical Foundations for the Foundation Coalition Core Competencies Jeffrey Froyd, Karen Frair Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology/University of AlabamaAbstractThe Foundation Coalition was funded in 1993 as the fifth coalition in the National ScienceFoundation's Engineering Education Coalitions Program, and is currently in the seventhyear of a ten-year project. The member institutions have changed since its formation andnow include Arizona State University, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Texas A&MUniversity, Texas A&M University - Kingsville, the University

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Graciela Munoz Padilla; Francisco J. Gonzalez

ofdetected real problems in engineering professionals. And, obviously, its first goal would be tohelp the professors of the Faculty itself to get a better preparation for their teaching activities bygiving them a different and better sense to their occupation, and a new way of understanding it:that it is not the same thing to mold an inert raw material, as submitting a live, thinking humanbeing, to a transforming process.From these ideas, by 1991 the Department took a first step to “professionalize” these teachingactivities, and the content of a course began to take shape expecting that the participatingteachers, now as students, would open their minds beyond the subject they taught, so that theybegan to look for analogies among different areas of

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M. David Burghardt

betweenengineering and the concepts and processes of science, pedagogically and in content areas.The nature of engineering is to create, to solve problems of great variety subject to constraintsand specifications. This is an output-driven discipline. The solution and the inputs will vary,utilizing the skills, knowledge and creativity of the designer. Parallel to science, engineeringrequires the application of ideas employed in the process of engineering. Children’sengineering uses the engineering design process to create solutions. It uses the learning styleadvocated by Piaget and others to foster understanding of concepts. It engages students inactive hands-on, minds-on activities that inherently contain reflection.Engineers are creative problem solvers

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Patricia Davies; Leah H Jamieson; Laura A Guedelhoefer; Edward J. Coyle; James D. Jones

engineering student has a memento of the time they spent working towardstheir undergraduate degree. Brass Hex Stock $4.87 Hammer Handle $2.84 Cutters + $2.78 Total $10.49 Figure 3. Cost of a HammerIV. Purdue cardholderA cheaper more simplified project is the Purdue cardholder project. Again this project was developedwith two criteria in mind. First, the project need to be easily accomplished in one to two hours, andsecond, the students should have something that they can be proud to take with them. This

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Sara Washburn; Amy Hossain; Elizabeth A. Parry; Rachel Meyer; Laura Bottomley

Session 1692 Engineering Students in K-12 Schools Laura J. Bottomley, Elizabeth A. Parry, Sara Washburn, Amy Hossain, Rachel Meyer North Carolina State UniversityAbstractThere is a wealth of knowledge and information to be shared between elementary, particularlyK-5, students and college engineering students. Increasingly, children are deciding on thosesubjects they like and dislike (and therefore do and don’t do) as early as elementary school.Anecdotal evidence suggests that females, in particular, lose interest in math and science in mid-elementary school

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Harry L. Hess

Session 3263 Ã Teaching Manufacturing Using The Golden Key – Reverse Engineering Harry L. Hess The College of New JerseyI. IntroductionThe United States will be able to continue its unprecedented economic growth and maintain itslead as one of the greatest manufacturing countries only if it finds ways to stimulate the minds ofits young engineers - manufacturing’s future. The engineering program is the vehicle to teachthe students how to convert their brightest ideas into manufacturing

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Ryan S. Magargle; Rami W. Zarrouk; Maurice F Aburdene

Figure 5. A plot of the output voltage as a function of R0.Average and rms value of a periodic signalThe root mean square (rms) value is a relatively easy concept that is sometimes perceived asdifficult by a student newly introduced to an introductory electrical engineering course. In fact,some students might have a vague idea of the difference between the average value and the rmsvalue of a signal. In addition, professors in higher-level courses take it for granted that a studentknows what an effective current/voltage or rms current/voltage means; therefore, professors inintroductory courses need to make sure that their students fully understand the concept. Oneeffective way of embedding that concept in the students’ minds is by providing an

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Warren R Hill

Session 1350 POST-TENURE REVIEW APPLICATIONS TO ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY Warren R. Hill Weber State UniversityAbstractThis paper attempts to take a broad look at post-tenure review by examining why institutions aredoing post-tenure review, looking at some different approaches for such reviews and suggestingsome different elements of the review process. It is hoped that in doing so, institutions currentlydoing post-tenure reviews might improve their processes and those who are planning on institutingpost-tenure review would have the basic

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Ayyagari Janaki Rao

and Self Financed Engineering Colleges.Status of Engineering Education and Technical Institutions in India are shown inAnnexure - 1.3. The present curriculum structure in IndiaCurriculum is not planned either to the Industrial demands or needs of society. The followingsubjects are covered.Basic sciences : 10.8%Engineering sciences : 17.2%Technical Arts : 20.1%Applied and Design Engineering : 43.8%Miscellaneous subjects : 8.1%Total : 100.0%4. The structure of engineering curriculum in USAMost of the good Universities in USA design their curriculum keeping in mind Technologicalchanges, Industrial

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Ernest W. Tollner

Session 2608 Introducing Ethics into the Natural Resources Engineering Curricula Ernest W. Tollner, Professor Driftmier Engineering Center University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602 Ethics is the discipline concerned with the process for deciding what is "goodbehavior" and what is "bad behavior" in particular situations. In other words, what isone's moral obligation in particular instances? How do our values map into behavior inspecific situations? Ethics provide written or spoken standards. The goal is not todefine a "one size fits all

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Richard Barke

-- to “change our mind-sets,not just our problem-sets.” One of the objectives of the sustainability program in GeorgiaTech’s curriculum was to permeate a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses withthe principles of sustainability, but the faculty have seen that goal as evolutionary, beingrealized as faculty discover the relevance of the topic to their particular interests. Chameau hasacknowledged that incremental “tweaking” of the environment, and of engineering programs,will not lead to sustainability, but that curricular change requires time: to motivate faculty, tochange their sustainability mind-sets, and for them to interact with those with otherperspectives (Chameau, 1999).As an evolutionary effort, not everything can be done at

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Albert Lozano-Nieto

Session 2648 INTERNSHIP PROGRAMS IN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY: SOME PERSONAL THOUGHTS Albert Lozano-Nieto Penn State University at Wilkes-Barre P.O. Box PSU Lehman, PA 18627 Phone: (570) 675-9245 FAX: (570): 675-7713 email: AXL17@psu.eduABSTRACT.- An internship in industry is an excellent way for students enrolled in ourinstitutions of higher education to achieve experience in the workplace before

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Ricardo Castillo Molina; Claudio da Rocha Brito; Melany Ciampi

which was complemented 1992, by the inauguration of the SENACSão Paulo Publishing House and in 1996, by the SENAC Television Network.Being a dynamic and modern Organization with its mind set on the future, SENAC São Paulohas established renowned National and International partnerships in its quest to generate up-to-date knowledge and information in Commerce and Services for the 21st Century.IV. The Engineering and Technology ProgramThe goal of this kind of education is to make the curriculum structure adequate and suitable toassure the students a good professional performance and the ability to face the challenges offuture world.A high level of education is a consequence of a good faculty, researchers, technicians as well asthe high level

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John Duffy; Edmund Tsang; Susan M. Lord

Session 3630 Service-Learning in Engineering: What, Why, and How? John Duffy, Edmund Tsang, and Susan Lord Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts Lowell/ Mechanical Engineering Department, University of South Alabama/ Engineering Department, University of San DiegoAbstractService-learning is an emerging pedagogy, recently adopted in many academic disciplines andinstitutions. Campus Compact (a national group of about 620 colleges and universities)estimates over 11,000 courses have incorporated service-learning nationwide. Service-learninginvolves the

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Scott White; Kirsten Lowrey; George M. Bodner; Dawn Del Carlo; Ala Samarapungavan; William C. Oakes

Session 3653 The Freshman Engineering Experience: The Student Voice George Bodner, William Oakes, Kirsten Lowrey, Dawn Del Carlo, Scott White, and Ala Samarapungavan Purdue UniversityIntroductionDiscussions between program officers from the GE Fund and faculty in the Schools of Science,Education and Engineering that began in September, 1996 eventually lead to a multi-year commitmentto support an examination of the Freshman Engineering Program at Purdue University, as a first steptoward a re-examination of the process by which engineers are educated at that

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Andrew J. Strubhar; Dennis Kroll

of putting this assignment to practicaluse, where it may actually be helpful beyond the classroom.” Another group commented,“There was a clear and useful purpose in mind. Regardless if our suggestions will ever be used,at least we did something that could potentially help someone.” As instructors it may be easy toforget that students have an inherent desire to be useful and appreciated, the same as theirinstructors. Much of our classroom and laboratory teaching does not tap into that inherentmotivation. One of the unintentional benefits of this project was seeing some of the studentsapproaching this project as something beyond themselves and their required course work. Thiswas also evidenced by an engineering team who stated, “...the work

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Richard N. Smith; Michael K. Jensen; Deborah A. Kaminski; Amir Hirsa

Session 1566 Development of an Integrated Thermal-Fluids Engineering Curriculum Richard N. Smith, Deborah A. Kaminski, Michael K. Jensen, and Amir Hirsa Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, and Mechanics Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 12180-3590AbstractWe present a new approach to teaching the core thermal/fluids curriculum for undergraduateprograms in engineering. Traditional introductory thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heattransfer classes are being replaced with two

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Ron Humble; Michael Caylor

Session 1302 Rocket Systems Engineering Education at the Undergraduate Level Michael J. Caylor, Ronald W. Humble United States Air Force Academy, COAbstractCadets and faculty at the U.S. Air Force Academy are designing and building a sounding rocketpowered by advanced hybrid propulsion. The eventual goal of the program is to launch a vehiclecarrying a small payload to an altitude greater than 50 miles thereby achieving "space." Senior-level cadets are developing a prototype rocket to meet these objectives as part of theirengineering curriculum. The primary objective of this capstone design project

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were retained betterthan other minority engineering students taking the same classes. The fact that retention inCalculus II was low led MEMS staff to an informal survey in which MEMS AEW students citedclass-scheduling conflicts as a major reason for poor attendance in the Calculus II AEW. Manystudents were only able to attend the AEW for less than two hours per week. For Fall 1999, weaddressed the problem by increasing the number and hours that the calculus II AEW’s are runfrom 6 hours per week to 29 hours per week. All things considered, we feel that AEW’s do verywell bearing in mind that AEW’s serve a large number of probation, at-risk or marginallyperforming students (about 36%). Table 2, above, lists many of the study groups offered by

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James E. Fuller

Session 1606 Digital Technology and its Effect on Pedagogy in Architectural Engineering Technology James E. Fuller, AIA Ward College of Technology University of Hartford West Hartford, ConnecticutAbstractDigital technology is rapidly changing the way teachers teach throughout academia. This isespecially true in Architectural Engineering Technology. The effect of technology on teachingfalls into three areas: - Curriculum Supplement- How traditional subjects and methods

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Craig Gunn

communication is a tool that finds its way into everyarea of employment, cooperative education can provide students with not only knowledge of theworkplace but concrete experience in the need for good communication skill in the workingenvironment. Classroom instruction can provide a certain amount of practical knowledge, butthe forty-hour a week job brings the entire textbook learning into a proper perspective. It is withthis information in mind, that a systematic approach to provide a background for dealing withcommunication issues was begun in the Cooperative Education Division of the College ofEngineering at Michigan State University.1. IntroductionWithin many colleges of engineering, students are admitted to their respective departments intheir

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. 3D Master Model and Various ApplicationsStudents learn how to use one or the other application of the software during their course ofstudy in MET. Although each of the applications can be used by itself, but the real advantagesoccur when these tools are used together, allowing them to be used as integrated tools for adesign full-cycle. A few year ago, MET program started to offer Advanced Computer-Aidedwith the idea of concurrent engineering in mind. The senior-level course integrates the differentapplications into the design phase, resulting in analyzing more concepts in less time. In thesixteen-week semester, students begin with the solid modeling of 3D parts; assemble them forwell-defined mechanisms and their motion simulation; and use

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were often the sameperson. Individuals of high principle and integrity, who were honest, open-minded, and industrious – as championed by Smiles – could be entrusted tobring forth a world worth living in. “Smiles reflected his age and also Page 5.666.4influenced it. He wrote especially of engineers, inventors, and industrialists 4as they transformed their environment – and society – through rapidindustrialization.” [8]In his Lives of the Engineers, Smiles tells the story of several engineers,including James Brindley, John Rennie, and Thomas Telford. Brindley wasan interesting example of what I am calling a traditional engineer