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Ronald E. Musiak; Richard A. Grabiec; Eric W. Haffner; Steve Schreiner; Alan K. Karplus; Mary Vollaro

engineeringstudent (such as time management, test taking strategies, and oral and written communicationskills) and were acquainted with various aspects of the engineering profession through trips tolocal industry and seminars given by practicing engineers.The Introduction to Engineering course was broken into four identical sections, each with fewerthan 25 students enrolled. The faculty member teaching the section also served as the academicadvisor for the students, allowing the faculty members to better advise students on theiracademic and professional pursuits. Faculty coordination and cooperation were cornerstones tothe successful delivery of course materials. The new courses and curriculum structure were asuccess because the freshmen were able to

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William Keat; James Hedrick; Christine LaPlante; Richard Wilk; Cherrice Traver; Frank Wicks

faculty teach only their area of specialty, to all sections. Theadvantages to this were that the faculty were more comfortable with this approach and thestudents got to see a variety of faculty from the division. The main disadvantage was thatthis, by example, seemed to promote the idea that engineers need only be concernedabout their narrow discipline and de-emphasized the notion that it’s important forengineers to have a broad base of engineering knowledge. Since then we have adoptedthe approach whereby each faculty teaches a given section and covers all of the topics.This required recruitment of faculty into this course who were comfortable teaching abroad range of topics, many of which were outside of their specialty.Student grades were based

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Andrew Lau; Robert Pangborn

werepiloted in the College in 1998-99 and became a requirement for all students entering theUniversity, effective summer 1999. The overall objective was to foster an understanding andappreciation for the importance of general education within the context of students’undergraduate experience; and specifically to engage students more quickly in the scholarlycommunity and facilitate their adjustment to the high expectations and challenges of college life.Other than stipulating that the seminars should be offered in small classes (20 students or less),and led by faculty with at least several years of teaching experience, the format and approachwere left very flexible. Each of the University’s colleges was free to develop a seminar programthat would be

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selection, material source selection, and case studies in material design. The coursewas first offered in the spring of 2000. The computer system required orientation, and at leastone round of feedback before it was operational. Seven (of ten) Fridays were declared ‘virtualdays’ and work was required by the following Monday. Live feedback was possible, andMonday debriefings were held in conjunction with traditional lectures. Wednesdays weretargeted for traditional laboratory exercises.The students’ interests and the ease of Internet-access led to an increased variety and depth ofeffort in assignments compared to similar courses. Students could interact asynchronously,which generated a synergy that encouraged interesting interdisciplinary

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William Culbreth

engineeringstudents often have difficulty in working with these devices.To help our students better meet the needs of local industry, a mechanical engineering coursewas developed to teach students to use microcontrollers, to integrate sensors and actuators withthese devices, and to connect to larger computers for communication with the user. The coursewas taught in the spring semester of 2000 to a class of undergraduates and master’s students.In addition to this course in microcontrollers, computer technology is integrated into a number ofour undergraduate mechanical engineering courses. The introductory engineering course has acompanion laboratory course1 that introduces Microsoft Office, Mathsoft Mathcad, andAutodesk Autocad. They are also required to take

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1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 Year Figure 1: Fall enrollment in Mechanical Engineering at CSUC Page 6.564.1Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationA SolutionIn the late 1980s Mechanical Engineering Design I (ME138) was perhaps the best liked MEcourse at CSUC. The course had two distinct parts: three 50-minute lectures per week onmachine design and a three-hour per week laboratory in which groups of students

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Miguel Torres-Febus; Jaime Pabon-Ortiz; Jose Cruz-Cruz; Jorge Velez-Arocho

teaching more efficient from the time and resource point of view. 6. Continuous self-learning. At the end of any program, the graduate should have developed the ability to learn by herself and to perceive the learning process as a continuous activity that extends beyond the university years. This is obtained through a process that exposes the student to basic research concepts such as library research, laboratory and field research, expert advice, drawing conclusions, and professional opinions. The graduate should leave the university with enough knowledge to guide him in the right direction when new problems arrive that require the acquisition of new knowledge. 7. Self regulated model to respond with

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John Field; Janelle Tonti; Eric Beenfeldt; Isaac Horn; Edward Williams

electrical engineering and is a Butler Scholarworking in the ECE Department’s Instrumentation Research Laboratory. In addition to working on the web-basedteaching tools for ECE 101 he was a teaching assistant during labs and class work exercises for this course.JANELLE TONTIJanelle Tonti is a junior at the University of Maine majoring in electrical engineering. In addition to being a TIScholar in the ECE Department’s Communication Devices and Applications Laboratory she led the generalengineering portion of ECE 101 during the fall of 2000.EDWARD WILLIAMSEdward Williams is an Instructional Associate in the Electical and Computer Engineering Department at theUniversity of Maine. His interests are education and power systems

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Karen Batty; Joseph Clair Batty

, “Engineering That’s Elementary.” Prism. Vol.10, No. 7, March 2001, p. 34.7 Poole, Susan J., “Assessing K-12 Pre-Engineering Outreach Programs.” Journal of Engineering Education. Vol.90, No. 1, January 2001, pp 43-48.J. CLAIR BATTY is Professor and Department Head of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Utah StateUniversity in Logan, Utah. He teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in Thermodynamics and Heattransfer. He and his graduate students are currently conducting research in the thermal management of spacesystems at Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory. He received the Sc.D. degree in MechanicalEngineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969.KAREN O. BATTY is School-to-Careers Coordinator and Tech Prep

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of systems applications; they have also caused the complexity of embedded microprocessor sys- tems to increase. The new demands put on microprocessors requires new design techniques. We survey technological trends, discuss their implications for embedded systems education, and dis- cuss our experience with a new embedded systems course at Princ- eton University.1 IntroductionMicroprocessors have been embedded in systems for almost thirty years. However, embeddedsystem design is only now being recognized as a separate discipline. Our basic approach to teach-ing students about microprocessor-based systems took form in the early days of microprocessors.However

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Steven Chapra; Gary Huvard; David E. Clough

problemsolving, elementary numerical methods, and algorithmic programming. Software vehiclesinclude Mathcad, Matlab, and, in particular, Excel and its VBA programming language. Use of atraditional, stand-alone programming language, such as Fortran or C/C++, is postponed beyondthese introductory courses. There are strong, relevant pedagogical and practical bases for thiscommon approach and results from initial course offerings are most promising.BackgroundThe teaching of introductory computing at the freshman level has long been fraught withcontroversy and emotion, possibly far more than deserved. Those most opinionated are often themost out of touch: they don’t do much computing themselves; they are isolated from the day-to-day computing activities of

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Tanya Zlateva; Julia Burstein

, synchronizing streaming video and audio, with a slidepresentation, graphics and animation; (ii) On-line weekly office hours; (iii) Weeklyhomework assignments, proctored examinations and/or semester projects; (iv)Communication and course management through a course web site, includingdownloadable teaching materials, homework submission tools, grade management,threaded discussion, chat, e-mail. The first course taught in this format is evaluated againsta control section delivered in parallel, and in the traditional classroom format. Studentperformance and satisfaction in the distance and on-site sections, based on final grades andcourse evaluation, were very similar. In addition, responses to questionnaires targeting thetechnology and the delivery format

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Masoud Rais-Rohani

Session 2793 On Development, Application and Effectiveness of a Computer Based Tutorial in Engineering Mechanics (Statics) Masoud Rais-Rohani Mississippi State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes a computer based tutorial for the first course in engineering mechanicstaught at Mississippi State University. It gives an overview of the instructional materials thatmake up the Statics tier of the Virtual Laboratory for the Study of Mechanics(www.ae.msstate.edu/vlsm), and elaborates on the experience of using this tutorial as asupplemental teaching tool in

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Heather Nachtmann

Session 1639 Integrating Research into the Cost Engineering Classroom Heather Nachtmann University of ArkansasAbstractThis paper is based on the author’s positive experience of integrating research into the classroomat two levels of engineering education, graduate and freshman. Several integrative teaching andresearch activities were conducted in a graduate Cost Estimation Models course. These activitiesincluded article reviews, presentation of current faculty research, and student research projects.The freshman level course, Industrial Cost Analysis, introduced

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Session 2793 A Student Design Program that Integrates Research, Education, and Community Service Robert F. Erlandson, Ph.D. Enabling Technologies Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202IntroductionThe Enabling Technologies Laboratory (ETL) has created a unique student design program thatnot only complements and integrates a student’s previous academic experiences, but alsonaturally integrates research, education, and community service into the student design activity.Developing such a program is

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economic analysis of the prospective storage facility for a power plant. Their efforts in thepreliminary design predicted that a 2.25 million standard cubic feet storage facility could beeconomically competitive with conventional natural gas storage if multiple cycles per yearwere involved. Their in-depth analysis and first-hand laboratory experience proved to be aunique learning experience in energy storage problems.Community Service and Student DesignTo teach engineering capstone design courses, there are many approaches available as toprocedure and course content. One approach that we have found meritorious has been theinclusion of a community service component in the statement of the problem. By communityservice is meant an innovative design

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Mileta Tomovic; William Szaroletta; Bruce Harding

stressplot shown below in figure 5. Plots of displacement, strain, and deformation are alsoavailable as outputs for visualization, subsequent analysis, and/or presentation. Page 6.1098.6 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 5: COSMOS/DesignSTAR™ Finite Element Analysis von Mises Stress ResultsDuring the corresponding laboratory on Photoelasticity, the students loaded an actual testspecimen and correlated the color bands observed with the calibrated stress levels in thepart. A digital video was taken of

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William Sutton; Kathryn Laskey; Elbert White; Mark Houck

participatein physical laboratory experimentation in the basic sciences (e.g. chemistry and physics). Theyalso perform physical experimentation in formal labs in some degree programs, but typically lessthan if they were attending a more traditional engineering school.There are numerous positive benefits from the focus on computer-based labs. It is now possible(and reasonable) to simulate physical and other phenomena using mathematical models in waysthat are faster, more easily visualized, and wider in scope and complexity than can be done in aphysical teaching lab. Thus, students can learn about more complex problems and their solutionthrough interactions that are computer-based. IT-based labs allow students to gain knowledgeand intuition more quickly

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Robert Floersheim; Stephen Ressler; Margaret Bailey

and follow on sequence courses, lab technicians, etc. Forexample in a thermodynamics course, the interested parties or stakeholders could includeprofessors associated with prerequisite and subsequent courses like engineeringmathematics, physics, heat transfer and power trains as well as the technician responsiblefor the steam and gas turbine laboratories. Page 6.308.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationAssessment methods must be applied consistently semester to semester and should bepart of an

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Luces Faulkenberry

Hilton Hotel, add more people, and an I-web forum forthe group would be very helpful to find our more about what other schools are doing.3. What are some topics that you would like to hear an expert in the area speak on at the nextmeeting? Responses: is anyone providing IPC certification? What software is being used?;electronic fusion control; the same areas; ideas on teaching techniques and setting up laboratoriesand laboratory experiences; and how to organize all area electrical and electronics teachers intoone body with unified ideas and goals.4. Please list an area or two you think the schools represented here could profit by working ontogether. Responses: because of our diversity we could list all of the areas being taught to betterserve

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Ram Mohan; Siamack Shirazi; Ovadia Shoham; Mei Zhuang; Marilyn Amey; Krishnamurthy Jayaraman; Keith Wisecarver; George Chase; Ed Evans; Charles Petty; Andre Bernard

from nine laboratories at Michigan State University, The University of Akron, and theUniversity of Tulsa. The objective of the program is to teach undergraduate and graduate studentspractical use of multiphase computational fluid dynamics (CFD).The impact of multiphase flow research on solving practical engineering problems is an integralpart of the learning experience. Industrial participants in the project provide specific designproblems related to emerging technologies. Specific projects suggested by the industrial sponsorsfor the first cycle are: Performance of a large tank separator (Chevron), Optimization of designand operation of degassing tanks (Dow Chemical), Optimization and Comparison of hydrocycloneshapes (Krebs Engineers), Mixing

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Steven Schweitzer; John Klegka

, industry accepted CAD packages. This relationship makes it easy to use themid-level CAD package as an instructional tool toward teaching the industry standard CADpackage. The instructor is still faced, however, with the task of selecting the appropriatesoftware. This paper will describe a process for selecting an optimum package from among avariety of contenders. It will also explore the use of Parametric Technologies Corporation’s(PTC) Pro/Desktop as a stepping-stone for the use of PTC’s Pro/Engineer.IntroductionIn the past few years computers have begun to dominate the Engineering Design Graphic (EDG)curriculums. The hand drawing tools of the past are rapidly being discarded in favor of 3-D solidmodeling software. A survey of EDG professional

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Jay Porter; James Ochoa; Rainer Fink

Session 3375 Collaboration leads to benefits for tenure-track faculty James A. Ochoa, Jay R. Porter, Rainer Fink Texas A&M UniversityAbstractIn order to be successful, tenure-track faculty members strive to develop distinct researchprograms that lead to funded work and publications. To be sure, faculty must also be successfulin other areas such as teaching effectiveness and service to their university and profession. It isin the pursuit of a distinct research area that tenure-track faculty often overlook, or evenpurposefully avoid, opportunities to collaborate with other

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Bruce Segee; Isaac Horn

Page 6.286.4 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationISAAC HORNIsaac Horn is a sophomore at the University of Maine majoring in electrical engineering and is a Butler Scholarworking in the ECE Department’s Instrumentation Research Laboratory. In addition to working on the computerbuilding seminar, he has developed a line of web-based teaching tools for an introductory engineering class that healso acts as a teaching assistant for.BRUCE SEGEEBruce E. Segee is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maine. Hisresearch interests include Instrumentation

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James Barrott

. This test comes at the completion of a course and it is independent of thecourse grade. To receive promotions, employees must pass each skill test.Chattanooga State instructors teaching at Dupont had to be flexible and coordinate studentprogress with each other because Dupont students attending a laboratory section on Mondaymorning the first week may attend a Tuesday evening section the next week and a Thursdayafternoon section the next.Appendix A lists the technical courses in each of the programs5. Completers of these programsreceive certificates. Those Dupont employees wanting to complete an Associate degree musttake additional general education courses on the Chattanooga State campus.In the fall 1999 semester, 66 student FTE’s were

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Michael Vislocky; Cecil Beeson

breaks should be considered. Partitioning projects so that students can work at home if they wish should also be included in the plan.VII. Faculty Advisors Two instructors, Dr. Michael Vislocky and Cecil E. Beeson, have volunteered to “get the ball rolling.” Dr. V is an instructor of mathematics at Clermont and brings a wealth of experience in the academic world to this project. Mr. B teaches computer systems support and electrical engineering technology courses and recently came to the full-time faculty from industry. This unique blend of talent should be very useful to provide structure and functionality as we move forward.VIII. Completing the Official College Forms Clermont actually

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Raul Ordonez; Jahan Kauser; Ravi Ramachandran

type ofmultidisciplinary interaction is of great value not only for students but faculty too. Itprovides first hand experience as to how relevant skills of engineers from variousdisciplines can be brought together for efficient creative solutions to problems.IntroductionRowan University is a regional state university committed to teaching and communityservice. The enrolment is approximately 9,000 students. The College of Engineering atRowan University was initiated in 1996 as a result of a $100 million donation in 1992from the Rowan Foundation. The engineering faculty use innovative methods of teachingand learning to better prepare students for entry into a rapidly changing and highlycompetitive marketplace1-4. The Rowan Engineering curriculum

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

. Engr. Educ., April 1996, pp.107-1164. American Society for Enginering Education (ASEE), “Engineering Educatioinfor a Changing World,” Oct 1994.5. Wilson, M.S., Valerio, J.A., Gottesfeld, S., “Low Platinum Loading Electrodes for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells Fabricated using Thermoplastic Ionmers,” Electrochim. Acta. 40 (1995), pp.355-363.ERIC M. STUVEEric M. Stuve is Chair and Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington. He teaches in theareas of Process Design, Unit Operations Laboratory, Surface Science, and Thermodynamics. His current researchinterests are in electrochemical surface science regarding the mechanism of methanol oxidation on platinumelectrodes (for direct methanol fuel cells), and the role of

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P. Kelly Joyner; Teresa Larkin-Hein

involved asking students to look beyondequations to investigate the relationship physics has to philosophy, history, literature, andWestern culture. Students were asked to think about what physics could teach them about theworld, about themselves, and about society as a whole. Although some assignments were givenwith the goal of satisfying the general goals of a typical college writing class, others werespecifically linked to physics and to science, in general.During the Fall 2000 semester, 2 lecture and 8 laboratory sections of Physics for the ModernWorld consisting of approximately 16 students in each were offered. Typical enrollmentsaverage about 120 students each semester in Physics for the Modern World. One of the 8laboratory sections was

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last5 years. Although the department has speculated about reasons for this discrepancy, includingthe emphasis on manufacturing and laboratory courses, no formal study has been conducted toinvestigate this hypothesis. The department therefore decided to gather information to helpunderstand why the female enrollment is low.Initial efforts focused on gathering available data regarding the enrollment and retention offemale students in the IE program. Surprisingly, the data was not readily available and certaintypes of retention information are kept for no more than two years. Although manual sorting andinspection provided some information, the college does not track data at the departmental levelby gender. Except for participation in a national