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Trevor Harding

promotion of excellence in teaching and thedevelopment of innovative teaching methodologies. In this role, the office is called uponto provide GSI training to much of the university, including the College of Engineering.Within the engineering program, the responsibilities of the CRLT consultants are to: • Design, plan and implement GSI orientation • Implement workshops for international GSIs • Provide sufficient training for graduate student mentors • Meet regularly with graduate student mentors to provide consultation, support and Page 4.558.7 resources • Provide consultation services to faculty within engineering • Serve as a

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Sadikin Djumin; James J. Mager; Jane M. Fraser

his master’s thesis.• We made a small, but significant, contribution to research in higher education.• The work will result (we plan) in a publication in a journal in higher education.In this paper we present information on what was involved in doing the project, the mathematicalmodel that we used, comments on what went well – and what didn’t, and our recommendations Page 4.542.1to others attempting to do such projects.2. What we didForecasting enrollments at Ohio State University (OSU) is a very important function performedby the Office of Enrollment Management. A large portion of the University’s budget derivesfrom tuition paid by students

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Edward Gehringer

"facilitating online activities such as locatingand using educational content." One of its goals is to allow content from multiple authors to beintegrated into a coherent whole. The WebAssign project plans to incorporate IMS metatagswhen this becomes feasible. At that point, our project will be able to add metatagsautomatically to material that would not necessarily be tagged by its authors, and thus enhancethe ability to locate specific kinds of content.There have been at least two other efforts to promote sharing of course materials over the Web.Steve Beaty 7 at Colorado State compiled a list of pointers to Web sites of courses in all areas ofcomputing at http://lamar.colostate.edu/~beaty/. This database currently containsabout 65 courses. More

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Emin Yilmaz

requiredthem to use their mathematics, machine design, computer programming, engineering analysis andreasoning, and dynamics knowledge.This paper conveys our experiences with the project, shares my experiences in how to guidestudents towards a common goal in a systems design course and how to lead them to finish theproject on time.II. IntroductionStudents in Mechanical Engineering Technology program at the University of Maryland EasternShore are required to take a senior level "ETME 475 - Mechanical Systems Design" course duringtheir last semester. This course is 3 credit hours. Two hours are used for lecture and two hours areused for laboratory. Depending on who is taking the course and the type of projects planned, either

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Claudio da Rocha Brito; Melany Ciampi

Congress which aredistributed to all University and some segments of the Academic Community.The students are stimulated to assume more responsibilities and so they have to work hard toensure the good score for their works. They pass the day in the University taking classes, in theLabs, in the Libraries and they have after six in the evening to develop their researches and tostudy.Besides the project of "Scientific Introductory" the students also have other works of othersubjects to do.The Project that is the introducing of this new method was planned considering the followingaspects:• the Global Economy which has an incidence straight in Education, with the fall of theboundaries and the exchange of ideas, technologies and culture;• the new work

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Ronald H. Rockland

project lab that incorporates these steps are also discussed.IntroductionTechnical people do not think effectively in assembly or higher level programming languages,but rather in their native language. However, it is too easy for students taking an introductorymicroprocessor course to start programming first by thinking in a computer language, withoutany planning. This can lead to poor programming skills, as well as frustration with programmingin general.In a third year introductory course to microprocessors in the electrical engineering technologyprogram at NJIT, assembly language was introduced as a tool to understand the x86 structure. Inthe past students were given assignments to enhance their programming skills, and developedincreasingly

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Tava Lennon Olsen; Joyce Yen

introducedalongside one of its key application areas, namely statistics. This course is a pre-requisitefor our new course.Given the opportunity to design a new course, we wanted to increase the level of activeand cooperative learning in the classroom. Consequently, in planning the course in thesummer of 1998, we created lab activities intended to actively engage students in thelearning process. As mentioned above, research on student learning has shown thatstudents maintain information better when engaging in cooperative learning groups. Wehope that these activities will create a more enriching educational experience for ourstudents. The new course will be taught for the first time in winter 1999.3. Class Outline and Lab DesignIn the new course students

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Jeff Goldberg

they spent more time on course and that the material was more difficult than their predecessors had reported. Page 4.231.6V. Future WorkThe site is primarily a “flat” site and the major interactive portions are the spreadsheet models. Itis clear from the evaluations that we need to improve the students’ insights and ability to use thematerial outside of simple textbook type problems. Our plan is to augment the site with dynamicdemonstrations as well as online evaluation and testing of students. We are using funding from aGE Foundation Grant to finance augmentation of the site and we are developing dynamiclearning tools

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George W. Garrison; Garry D. Coleman

. 15].6. Blackboard, Inc. (1998). Blackboard CourseInfo. [Online]. Available:http://www.blackboard.net/ps_courseinfo.htm [1998, Dec. 15].GARRY D. COLEMANGarry D. Coleman is an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Tennessee Space Instituteand a Senior Associate of the Performance Center. Dr. Coleman is a registered professional engineer in Virginia. Inaddition to teaching and advising in the graduate engineering management distance education program, Dr. Colemanstudies how organizations use planning and measurement approaches to improve performance.GEORGE W. GARRISONGeorge W. Garrison is a Professor of both Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of TennesseeSpace Institute. Dr. Garrison's interest

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Lawrence H. Trachtman; David Ringholz; Carolyn M. Sommerich

and olderpeople is not only important, it also must be integrated with data for the general population.Therefore, the design process cannot be so reliant on personal experiences and insights of thedesigner, but rather must be based on input from people with varying needs and abilities. It isthis perspective that provided the basis for this course.BackgroundDuring the 1997-98 academic year, engineers and designers, faculty and researchers at NorthCarolina State University, planned and offered a new one semester course, entitled IntroductionTo Human-Centered Design. The course was designed to attract upper level undergraduates andgraduate students in design, engineering, psychology, textiles, and business with interest inlearning about

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Cathryne L. Jordan; Mary Ann McCartney; Mary Anderson-Rowland

ASUcampus to attend and to participate in ECE 100, an introductory engineering assembly designclass, to tour the campus, and to participate in engineering and science labs. Students participatein workshops and panel discussions with ASU students, staff, and faculty on educational andcareer planning, admissions, and financial aid. Students attend leadership retreats, industry tours,Saturday Science Academies, participate in local, state, and national math and sciencecompetitions (such as MESA Day, Future Cities, and Science Olympiad). ASU engineeringstudents, referred to as MESA Liaisons, are assigned to each MESA school to work with theadvisors and students on projects, tutoring, and mentoring. Industry members offer partnershipswith MESA schools

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Alexander N. Cartwright

used thetechniques for choosing effective groups discussed by Hunkeller and Sharp12. In particular,students were assigned to groups in such a way as to make the groups as heterogeneous as Page 4.158.7possible. 7VI. AssessmentThe complete assessment of this technique is very difficult because of the small class enrollment.In addition, this style of course requires that the professor be completely prepared for lecture. Infact, the professor is opening himself/herself up for questions that they are not prepared todiscuss. It is planned to conduct a complete assessment of the next offering of

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William Darby; Richard Grodsky; Joseph Pietroburgo; Nancy Shields

can be easily talked out of studying. (reverse scored)22. I get depressed sometimes and then there is no way to accomplish what I know I should be doing. (reverse scored)23. Things will probably go wrong for me sometime in the near future. (reverse scored)24. I keep changing my mind about my career goals. (reverse scored)25. I feel I will someday make a real contribution to the world if I work hard at it.26. There has been at least one instance in school where social activity impaired my academic performance. (reverse scored)27. I would like to graduate from college, but there are more important things in my life. (reverse scored)28. I plan well and I stick to my plans.Evaluation of Engineering ActivitiesThe students were asked to

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Gary P. Langenfeld; David Wells

Valuation of Lifelong Learning”; Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration; American Society for Engineering Education; Palm Springs; February 1999 2. “Shareholder Scoreboard”; Wall Street Journal; February 25, 1999 3. Steve Prough; “Training is Part of Your Job”; Frontiers in Education; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Phoenix; November 1998 4. Gustav Olling; Remarks from the Conference Co-Chair; Manufacturing Education for Excellence in the Global Economy, 2nd International Conference on Education in Manufacturing; Society of Manufacturing Engineers; San Diego; October 1998 5. Manufacturing Education Plan, Phase I Report: Industry Identifies Competency Gaps Among Newly Hired Engineering

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J. A. Murden; K. P. Brannan

affect the grades compared to the number of other types of tests usedin the course. Initially, it took almost three hours to plan and create a web-based test. Withexperience, the required time was quickly reduced to the same one-hour period that had beenrequired for the traditional tests. The time saved grading the web-based tests and assessingstudent performance was substantial and resulted in a net decrease of faculty time for the casepresented in this paper. The web-authoring software, Microsoft FrontPage, used to create thesetests was moderately priced and compatible with the software routinely used by the authors. Thesoftware and the computing infrastructure that supported this effort are described.IntroductionWhat engineering professor

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Cathryne L. Jordan; Mary Ann McCartney; Mary Anderson-Rowland

face in the pursuit of a technical degree.The ASU MESA Program coordinates recruitment activities that invite students to the ASUcampus to attend and to participate in ECE 100, an introductory engineering assembly designclass, to tour the campus, and to participate in engineering and science labs. Students participatein workshops and panel discussions with ASU students, staff, and faculty on educational andcareer planning, admissions, and financial aid. Students attend leadership retreats, industry tours,Saturday Science Academies, participate in local, state, and national math and sciencecompetitions (such as MESA Day, Future Cities, and Science Olympiad). ASU engineeringstudents, referred to as MESA Liaisons, are assigned to each MESA school

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Robert Borchert; David Yates; Daniel Jensen

FEELING MANNER IN WHICH A PERSON COMES TO CONCLUSIONS Focus is on timely, planned Focus is on adaptive process of J conclusions and decisions. decision making. P JUDGEMENT PERCEPTION2.1.1.2. VARK Learning Style PreferencesThe present work also builds on student learning style preferences, as obtained from aninstrument called the VARK Catalyst. Rather than being a diagnostic tool for determining astudent’s learning preference, the VARK test serves as a catalyst for reflection by the student[Bonwell]. A student’s VARK descriptor is based on a simple 13-question test that is aimed atdiscovering how the

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Norman L. Fortenberry

focus hasremained on activities at the pre-college level.The 1995 NSF Strategic Plan identifies integration of research and education as a core strategy 5.One result of this rising interest in integration of research and education has been increasedemphasis on activities at the undergraduate level which is at the nexus for activities across theeducational continuum—receiving students from the K-12 sector and returning teachers to thatsector, and preparing students for graduate study while also receiving doctoral graduates as newfaculty. This increased attention to the undergraduate sector motivates discussion of the types ofeducational research that can best advance teaching and learning at this level and within highereducation in general.II

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Pedro Arce

students must have achieved aminimum overall GPA of 3.2/4 at the time of their junior year. Students with a GPA thatis below this minimum are strongly encouraged to follow the regular option of takingcourses (i.e., electives) to meet graduation requirements.The application procedure has varied from the earlier stages until now. One of theoptions involves the filling out of a form and the writing of an essay. This essay mustinclude reasons why the student is interested in the "Honors in the Major" option, whatwould be the role of research in the future plan of the student, and how the researchaspects would enhance the education of the student. The application is then reviewed bythe "Director of Honor Program" at the department and usually student

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Nanette Veilleux

can extend his/her learning to new areas(synthesis and design). These four skills represent different, progressive, levels ofunderstanding, that fall along an abridged hierarchy as that outlined in Bloom’s Taxonomy ofEducational Objectives1.This paper describes a method of designing in-class exams and take-home projects for afreshman computer science course. Here, the design of the test questions and projectrequirements makes explicit use of this abridged version of Bloom’s Taxonomy of EducationalObjectives. The in-class tests described in this work evaluate the depth of a student’sunderstanding by incorporating a planned variety of questions, ranging from those easilyanswered by a student who has understood basic lectures and reading to

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Laura A. Miller; Keith A. Miller; David J. Beebe

interfaces for two-way audio and video instruction. Research in this area hasshown that a well-planned distance education course could provide students with an educationcomparable to that of on-site instruction 1,2,3. Page 4.350.1In recent years, the World Wide Web has presented an unprecedented opportunity to disseminateinformation in various formats to people all over the world. Some researchers have investigatedthe claim that the World Wide Web can liberate teaching and learning from the time restraints ofcourse schedules and the physical limitations of the classroom. They propose that thecontribution of the Web must be evaluated in terms of its

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David S. Kelley

course, students may be given an assignmentto design a floor plan for a residential building. Within this project, students may be givencriteria for the design and for the project as a whole. When the instructor evaluates the project,it is common to give a grade based on the design and the quality of the work. Occasionally,students are given the option to improve their grade on the assignment.A problem with the above approach to teaching is that it can allow some students to progresswithout meeting certain minimum standards. For an architectural project, a student may notproperly design a kitchen; for a mechanical drafting assignment, a student may not apply rules ofdimensioning correctly. Allowing students to progress without meeting standards

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David R. Haws

foundations of thought and action: A social cognitive theory, Englewood Cliffs, NewJersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc.3Kirkpatrick, D. L., (1996). Evaluating training programs: The four levels, San Francisco: Berrett-KoehlerPublishers4Kaufman, R., (1997). A strategic-planing framework: Mega planning, in Kaufman, R., Thiagarajan, S., &MacGillis, P (Eds.). The guidebook for performance improvement: Working with individuals and organizations,San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.5Schunk, D. H., & Zimmerman, B. J., (1997). Social origins of self-regulatory competence, EducationalPsychologist, 32, 195-208.6Csikszentmihalyi, M., (1991). Flow: The psychology of optimal experience, New York: Harper Perennial.7Schunk, D. H., & Hanson A. R. (1987). Self-modeling and

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Neil D. Opfer; John Gambatese

based on a perceived need. Another pathto take could have been to initially create and offer the construction graduate courses in theexisting MSE program and then create the Master’s program. Offering the courses first wouldhave allowed time for the courses to populate on a regular basis and generate an intrinsic needand interest in a Master’s program.Finally, consideration should be given to the faculty teaching loads and schedules at programstart-up. Planning should be undertaken in anticipation of the graduate courses being cancelledas a result of low enrollments. Faculty teaching capabilities, course schedule overlaps, and theavailability of courses to teach should be considered in order to minimize problems in meetingminimum teaching

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Robert E. Bruninga; Dave D. Myre

in the classroom.There is ample reason for every engineering student to have these types of experiences, but evenmore so for future Naval Officers less than a year from graduation and commissioning as NavyEnsigns and Marine Corps Second Lieutenants.Future plans include the development of an attitude control laboratory, finalizing laboratoryprototypes used during the first two years of the course and integration of a high fidelity UFOspacecraft simulator into the electronic classroom. Upgrades and enhancements to Altairis willprovide easier access to the mission control software, improved functionality and the addition ofstand-alone subsystem modules. These modules will allow students to build system constraintsusing a concept in systems

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N. Yu; Peter K. Liaw

demonstrations are planned for the graduatecourse that will be lectured in Spring ‘98. Furthermore, lab projects using the unit will bedesigned.Internet-Based Educational TechnologyIn recent years, modern computer technologies, including hypertext techniques together withmultimedia resources (namely, hypermedia), open a new avenue to effective learning and teaching.For example, when students read on-line hypertext documents, they can click key subjects or keywords for computer-activated cross references that contain detailed information about the topic thestudents just selected. This technology enables the students to quickly access the desiredinformation rather than thumbing through several journals, conference proceedings, and/or reportson their desks

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Penny L. Hirsch; J. Edward Colgate; David M. Kelso; C. Yarnoff; Barbara L. Shwom; J. Anderson

majors and isexpected to culminate in a prototype with detailed plans, specifications, and calculations.There are, however, many good arguments for teaching design to freshmen andsophomores, especially since detailed design is only one aspect of the design process.Design involves general activities that freshmen can learn, such as gathering information,generating alternatives, obtaining feedback, balancing competing requirements, and makingdecisions. Moreover, introductory design courses help students develop thecompetencies they need throughout their education and in industry–such as the ability towork in teams and to communicate effectively with clients, customers, andsupervisors—and generate the excitement and motivation that theoretical

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Lorraine Holub; G.V. Loganathan; Craig Moore; Bill Greenberg

requires formulation of actionitems to achieve the goal.Curriculum Change and Instructional MethodsUniversities all over the country have embarked on various plans for better teaching of calculus.These may be grouped into three categories: (1) introduction of innovative instructionalmethods/aids, (2) reordering and in general minor additions and deletions of topics to serve awider class of students, and (3) integration of mathematics, physics and chemistry with focus ona particular field such as engineering. Categories 2 and 3 deal with alteration of the syllabuswhereas category 1 focuses mainly on instructional methods.Barrow and Fulling4 and SimCalc (http://www.simcalc.umassd.edu/simcalc/curriculum)curriculum are two good examples for category 2

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Victoria Gallagher; Tracey Weldon; Cynthia R. Haller; Richard M. Felder

the actual teaching sequences. These interpersonalinteractions tended to constitute a form of socializing (e.g., what students did over the weekend,their plans for the evening, the next day, and so on). In Group B, by contrast, which had thehighest percentage of collaborative sequences, interpersonal interactions were generallyembedded within the teaching sequences and were somehow, if only tangentially, related to theproblem at hand. Group B participated in very little truly off-task discourse. Its members didengage in interpersonal interactions; however, they commented on things like the professor’s ortheir own work expectations and idiosyncrasies rather than talking about details of their personallives. Of Group B’s 10 interpersonal

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Juan Lucena; Gary Lee Downey

reading, he willalso contribute to a course-wide multimedia database of text and audio introductions/reviews ofbooks, articles, reports, and government documents about engineering education. We believe thisdatabase may prove attractive to instructors at other institutions who may want to use the course.We also plan to work with other STS colleagues to integrate Engineering Cultures in betweengeneric introductory courses to STS-related issues and more focused STS in engineering designcourses. This sequence of three STS courses for engineers would not only satisfy upcomingABET 2000 accreditation criteria but further meet our goal to enable students to understand andreflect on their own problem-solving and design activities as perspectives that both