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Keith Johnson; Mark Rajai

seminars.Documenting your classroom instructions. Develop detailed syllabus that includes suchitems as test dates, assignment deadlines, expectations, reading assignments, attendancepolicy, office hours, e-mail address, telephone number, contact people for disability services,etc. Too often student evaluations of instructions are not based on instructions alone, but onother variables, that indirectly affect the learning. For example, a student may have questionsthat need to be addressed during your office hours. If you are unavailable, the students’perception of your teaching effectiveness will be adversely affected.It is extremely important to save samples of student work (original copies), exams, projects,and other types of assignments as clear indications

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Eric Wiebe; Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

Engineering Education• Design and manufacturing processes• Dimensioning, sectional views• Auxiliary views• Working drawingsHomework assignments are completed via sketching, instruments, and computer-aided design.CAD assignments are integrated throughout the course and range from 2D geometric constructionsto 3D solid modeling activities. Students also complete a final project, which typically consists ofmodeling a machine part and producing a detail drawing of the design.IV. Revisions to the Introductory CourseThe proposed revision of the introductory course is based on national trends in engineeringgraphics in both industry and education. Although some of the topics look similar to what iscurrently taught, the material in the revised course will be

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John Martin; Mohammed Haque

medium for the learning” 20. “In the university,the professor’s role has historically been that of an expert who lectures or ‘professes.’ Onlinelearning is less likely to use top-down knowledge delivery methods, such as lecturing, and morelikely to rely on peer-to-peer learning in the form of collaborative discussions and team projects”10 .Concluding RemarksThe collaborative mode is manifested out of necessity in the distance learning archetype that maybe why the global acceptance of degrees received from distance institutions are uniformlyaccepted in many countries outside the United States. Teaching style does differ in the virtualuniversity and many in traditional universities will struggle to adapt to new styles of teaching.The technology

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Hakan Gurocak

software.III. Laboratory sessions in the first offeringThe development of the course is a two-year project that started in July 1999. When the projectis finished, the course will have 10-12 lab sessions. We developed five lab sessions for the first Page 6.399.3offering of the course in the Spring 2000 semester. There were 5 students at the Boeing Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationclassroom, 2 at WSU Pullman and 11 in the WSU Vancouver classroom. Students worked inteams in all laboratory sessions.A

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Neal Armstrong; Steven Nichols

, Westminster, London, November, 1989,Brereton, Margot F, et al, An Exploration of Engineering Learning, DE-Vol. 53,m Design Theory andMethodology, ASME, 1993.5 Peterson, Carl R., "The Desegregation of Design", Engineering Education, pp. 530-532, July/August, 1990.6 See for example:Integrating the product Realization Process (PRP) into the Undergraduate Curriculum, A CurriculumDevelopment Project of the ASME Council on Education,. ASME December 1995.Devon, Richard, "Toward a Social Ethics of Engineering: The Norms of Engagement", Engineering Education,Vol. 88, No. 1, p. 87, January 1999.Marra, Rose M, Palmer, Betsy, and Litzinger, Thomas A, "The Effects of a First-Year Engineering DesignCourse on Student Intellectual Development as Measured by

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K. Arthur Overholser

, and (7) to develop communications skills – were not always beingachieved. In particular, objectives (2), (4), and (7) were not being realized in our rather standardfirst year, which consists of mathematics, science, liberal arts electives, a slate of “technology-society” electives, an introductory engineering course emphasizing team projects and basiccomputer skills, and a C++ programming course.Many of our freshmen made it clear to us in our constituent polling that they felt they were Page 6.435.1getting insufficient help in career choices and that they were sometimes disappointed in their Proceedings of the 2001 American Society

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Aaron C. Clark; Eric Wiebe

the usage and perceived importance ofnetworked computing based activities. The Campus Computing Project 2 reports that 59.3 percentof all college courses now utilize electronic mail, up from 54.0 percent in 1999 and 20.1 percent in1995. Similarly, 42.7 percent of college courses now use Web resources as a component of thesyllabus, up from 10.9 in 1995.Coupled with the trend of increased computer usage on campus is the requirement by someuniversities to require students to purchase a computer when they come to campus 3. Whilecurrently only ten percent of campuses require computer purchases, this trend is expected toincrease sharply. NC State University currently has a computer purchase requirement in place fora few of its professional programs

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Vladimir Nikulin; Victor Skormin

Page 6.437.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationengineering laboratory to the level of leading engineering schools and result in significantimprovement of the quality of engineering education and reduce its variability betweenuniversities. The presented approach has many potential applications, including training ofpersonnel to operate complex machinery in hazardous environments.Being prompted by revolutionary changes in information technology, this project will result inthe further integration of this technology in education. Implementation of the Internet-accessiblelaboratory courses and

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John Marshall

majors for our department.The design and fabrication of the high school modules was a college-based class activity.The university class made two PLC and pneumatic modules with the high school districtpaying for all of the components. The secondary educators were thrilled to have a “plugand play” module that genuinely turned-on their students. This is definitely one of thosewin/win initiatives that can provide an enjoyable, meaningful class project, and at thesame time establish a pipeline for recruiting talented incoming majors!During the first high school visit, we provided the group with a basic overview ofprogrammable logic controllers. We intentionally kept the subject matter simple andclear. The overview began with definitions and an

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Joseph J. Delfino

for environmental engineers cannot be underestimated in this regard.If the World Bank, the Global Water Partnership and the Global Environmental Facilityintend to assist developing nations with grants and loans to meet the World Water Visionobjectives, then they will need to include an education component in their plans.Otherwise, there will be many projects that won’t be completed due to the lack ofsufficient numbers of educated and trained environmental and civil engineers. Thesolution to the environmental engineering availability problem will have to involve acombination of support for initiating or increasing engineering education in thedeveloping nations while also providing financial support for students in those countriesto attend

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2001 Annual Conference

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Yogesh Potdar; Patricia Spencer; Kathryn Hollar

am almost certain that I will be talking to a person of my race, color or gender.At the end of reading these statements, we ask for any comments. We have had mixed reactionsfrom the participants, from complete silence to a discussion that lasted for 10 minutes and neededto be cut short in the interest of the agenda. We have found that some of the minority groupmembers – by race or gender--are willing to say that they can identify with these situations, andwhen that happens the workshop becomes very interactive. During the course of one workshopdiscussion, a female participant stated that in project group meetings she was frequently asked to“speak for all women.” To address the common occurrence that women and minorities are oftenseen and

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David F. Ollis

, one imagines with little difficulty the repeated challenge in professional life whenoffered a new project or product opportunity in a somewhat or completely unknown area. Auseful response based on our lab sequence (as well as Dale’s “Cone of Learning”) is first togather information (READ everything appropriate, and interview past participants involved),then get some samples of product or process to DISSECT/ASSEMBLE and otherwisecharacterize current successful examples, then CALCULATE/ANALYZE what improvementsare needed in yield, performance, speed, cost reduction, etc. would be required to produce anupgrade or competitive product, and finally PRESENT/TEACH to a corporate managementthrough oral and written progress reports. The parallels

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Akihiko Kumagai; Mukasa Ssemakula

material itself being intellectually demanding, it is frequently taught in alecture format with little opportunity for active student participation or experimentation.Consequently, students often find it difficult to make the connection between the theoreticalconcepts covered in the lectures and the corresponding physical phenomena.This paper describes the development of a course for kinematics and dynamics of machines,aimed at students pursuing BS degrees in Manufacturing and Mechanical EngineeringTechnology. The course is being developed under the auspices of the Greenfield Coalition (NSFsupported project) at the Focus:HOPE Center for Advanced Technologies (CAT) in Detroit,Michigan. The course material is also used in the Kinematics of Machines

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Theodore J. Stokes; Jeffrey B. Hargrove

Board (HCDB).It was further determined to design a PC board that would incorporate a microprocessor andflash memory to permit the students to embed real microprocessor control in design andfabrication projects associated with mechatronics courses and other courses that might includethe opportunity to design and build mechatronic devices. For example, senior-level designprojects in mechanical engineering courses at Kettering University such as “Medical EquipmentDesign” (ME-460) and “Vehicle Design Project” (ME-422) often present the student withopportunities to apply mechatronic principles and utilize embedded microprocessor controls. Toaccomplish this capability, an “Embeddable Microprocessor Board” (EMB) was designed andfabricated that would

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William H. Dennis; Jeff A. Risinger; Thomas Hall

a pre-hire training program.After the initial investigation, the University’s president appointed a committee to work withAlliance representatives on how NSU could best meet their education and training needs. This Page 5.470.2ad-hoc group strove to make NSU @ Alliance a seamless process for the Alliance students,including the course offerings, financial assistance, registration, and textbook and supplypurchases. The teamwork approach to project development led to several worthwhile programsbetween NSU and Alliance.IV. The NSU @ Alliance ProgramsAccording to an article in the Financial Times, “Forty percent of corporate universities plan

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Eric Bell

numerically evaluates to thecorrect answer. The system is looking to find components, which when eliminated,match the designer's solution with one or more of its components eliminated.An interesting note is that this process takes much less time than I would have fearedbecause newer machines are so much faster (800MHz - 1.8GHz) than machines that wereavailable when this project was started. Thus, the problem of CPU usage has not been asignificant factor.Evaluation of Student Input - Part 2A second routine examines the problem of identifying the probable error the studentactually made. The primary limitation here is that the set of solutions for the studenterror is merely a good guess, but a reasonable start.The system proceeds in much the same way

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Eric Bell

Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationand it would have been evaluated as correct, because it numerically evaluates to thecorrect answer. The system is looking to find components, which when eliminated,match the designer's solution with one or more of its components eliminated.An interesting note is that this process takes much less time than I would have fearedbecause newer machines are so much faster (800MHz - 1.8GHz) than machines that wereavailable when this project was started. Thus, the problem of CPU usage has not been asignificant factor.Evaluation of Student Input - Part 2A second routine examines the problem of identifying the probable error the studentactually made. The primary limitation here is that the set of

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Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2002 Annual Conference

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Isha H. Jain

demonstrated between the two technologies. Sincecandy making is inherently interesting to students, the proposed demonstrations provide amemorable experience to the students for learning several principles of glass formation.Acknowledgement : The authors gratefully acknowledge the Diamond Chair endowment andNational Science Foundation (DMR 0074624) for supporting this work.References:1 A. K. Varshneya, Fundamentals of Inorganic Glasses , Academic Press, New York, 1994.2 The experiments discussed in this paper are a result of an Elementary School science project. Often Collegeteachers outreach pre-college students by introducing advanced scientific concepts. In this respect, the present workis just the converse; it is an 'inreach' effort where the

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Marie Dahleh

covered which may differfrom the department syllabus, any laboratory projects, design experience, oral or writtencommunication projects and any social or ethical issues discussed in the course. The curriculumcommittee, to determine if the department syllabus needs to be changed, reviews the coursereports annually.Senior Exit surveyAll graduating seniors are asked to fill out a survey just before graduation in the spring. Thissurvey is quite detailed consisting of 23 questions many with multiple parts. Several questionsspecifically ask the students to give an opinion about how well the department met the MEprogram outcomes. The rest of the questions were included to correspond to questions o n theone-year alumni survey and will be used for

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New Information ET Programs

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Gordon Goodman; Edith A. Lawson; C. Richard Helps; Barry Lunt

Encryption 3Data modeling objects/UML 4 Identification & authentication 2Data mining 3 Information assurance 2Data warehousing 3 Viruses, worms, Trojan horses 2Database management 2 Table 9: Sub-topics for the DataTable 6: Sub-topics for the Database topic Security/Privacy topic area.area. Math Sub-topics # Project Management Sub-topics # Discrete math 9Project management

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New Information ET Programs

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Jalaluddin Ahmad; Recayi Pecen; Teresa Hall

engineers and engineering technologists, computer support Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationspecialists, computer systems analysts, and database administrators constitute the four mostrapidly growing occupations in the US economy and are expected to increase by 108, 102, 94,and 77 percent, respectively [1]. According to the BLS, engineering technicians and relatedsupport occupations are projected to grow by 22 percent, adding 1.1 million jobs by 2008 [1].Workers in this group provide technical assistance to engineers, scientists, physicians, and otherprofessional specialty workers, and operate and

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Technology Entrepreneurship Education

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Katherine Emery; John Feland

topics such as accounting, and simulations of particular concepts such ascash flow. A list of business plan competitions has been compiled, to assist educators inidentifying real-world collaborative projects. To aid in the instructional design process,additional resources have been compiled and include reading lists and course outlines.c. Tools and MethodsThis section includes instructional methods for entrepreneurship education, lessons learned fromdistance learning efforts and online collaboration tips and tools. Leading entrepreneurshipeducators around the world are developing hands-on guides for the following: · Best instructional methods for teaching entrepreneurship to engineers · Using video in the classroom

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Computer Based Measurements

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Steven Widmer; Jan Lugowski

education to solve difficultproblems that have been prepared for them by the instructor. PBL is an instructional method,which uses real world problems to facilitate students’ critical thinking and problem solvingskills, while accomplishing the course objectives. Students learn not only from the instructor, butalso from the printed instructions. They may choose to use Internet, ask a team member, consultwith other teams, or make their own experiment. They get involved and take responsibility fortheir learning. Instructor becomes mediator, counselor, consultant, and subject matter expert,guiding students as they solve their problems.In this paper, we discuss how PBL can be applied to industrial projects, within the constraints ofa laboratory. We

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Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Halvard Nystrom

, they have providedan alternative means to gain this educational combination.Another reason for the slow growth might be the difficulty for universities to start up orgrow EM programs. Since the scope of the discipline is so broad, it takes considerableresources to start a new program. A viable program would want to have a variety ofcourses that could include technology management, project management, e-commerce,marketing, finance, information systems, leadership and management, quality, operationsresearch, strategic planning, manufacturing, organizational behavior, entrepreneurshipand business law. This diversity requires that the organization have appropriateresources available from other organizations, such as a local business school, or

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Beth Kolko; Linda Whang

carefullyconstructed sites. Instructors, then, are left with the question of how to best direct students toappropriate resources even when searches are conducted outside the boundaries of the elect ronicversion of refereed journals. Since engineering education poses discipline-specific challengesand incorporates discipline-specific expectations, we believe it is important to develop guidelinesthat respond to the needs of engineering educators and students, even under the unrestrictedconditions of the open Web. Following are some specific curricular suggestions we havedeveloped in order to address this need.1. Require students to find, use, and cite journal or conference literature in their research projects or papers. As Davis and Cohen point out, “students

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Tools of Teaching

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Maher Murad

Design classes. The students expressed an understandingand appreciation for the concept, endorsing the additional learning opportunity provided. Thispaper covers the details associated with the concept inception, development, implementation, andstudent responses of using After Action Reports as a method to extend the learning capabilitiesof an examination.IntroductionExams are usually the basis to evaluate how well students learned course material. The value ofexams as a learning tool has always been questioned. Some courses use papers or projects as thebasis for evaluation instead. These methods possess the advantage of directing the attention ofstudents to their writing but have the disadvantage of providing the instructor with noopportunity

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Basavapatna Sridhara

the use of faculty and students. This author attended anon-campus workshop about CourseInfo and learned several new tools and techniques. In the Fallof 2000, Fluid Power course site was developed using CourseInfo. Course syllabus, handouts,and staff information were posted on the course site with links to appropriate files and images.Announcements regarding guest speakers, tests, assignments, useful web sites, and lab groupsand meeting times were posted and upgraded periodically. Homework assignments, projects andextra-credit problems were posted with necessary links. Lab instructions, lab quizzes andsolutions to test problems were posted on the course site. Students communicated with eachother using the discussion board and virtual chat

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Leyla Newton; Shawna L. Fletcher; Dana Newell; Mary Anderson-Rowland

specifically geared toward female engineering students as well asfuture projections of implementation and direction of student programs.I. IntroductionAcross the nation, academic institutions have found that summer bridge programs have helped tosignificantly increase student retention in engineering disciplines. Summer bridge programsspecifically designed for female students not only serve to meet academic needs, but also serveto aid students in developing networking relationships and foster community building. Studieshave indicated that obstacles women face in attaining engineering degrees may be categorized asboth societal/cultural barriers as well as institutional1. For many women, lack of information

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Techniques for Improving Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Beth Todd

lifelong learning is contained intheir curricula.Since the addition of a “lifelong learning” course does not seem practical or attractive, a shortmodule on this topic has been developed. The module is designed to fit logically into manyupper division courses, particularly those involving open ended projects requiring the discoveryof additional information. The classroom material will fit into three 50-minute class periods in astandard course. Although the module would take about a week of lecture away from a course,an improvement in the students’ abilities should be seen further along in the curriculum to justifythe time spent.The module is organized to provide instruction on the objectives and associated tools as well asan opportunity to practice

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Trends in Engineering Economy Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ted Eschenbach

Paper: 2002-1081 Session: 1639 The Engineering Economy Course of 2020 Dr. Ted G. Eschenbach, P.E. TGE ConsultingAbstractHistorical and current trends in engineering economy texts, self-directed and assisted instruction,classroom and distance delivery, and spreadsheet use are analyzed to project the engineeringeconomy course of 2020. This presentation contrasts descriptions of what has and is likely tohappen with prescriptions of what could and should happen.IntroductionAt one level the question of what the future engineering economy course will be like can beanswered by