Conference Session

Cultivating Professional Responsibility

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Julia Williams

University of Michigan is typical of thisapproach. The Program for Civic Engagement in Engineering Design (ProCEED) requires thatstudents "solicit projects from the surrounding community for development and prototyping inthe senior design course." As a result of creating useful designs that meet community needs,students benefit by "learning to interact with community sponsors, usually without technicaltraining . . . [s]tudents also benefit by learning to use their engineering skills to solve everydayproblems in a community service capacity. 8 Programs like this are under development in manyengineering programs across the country.The question remains, do service-learning methods demonstrate to students their social/technicalrole as engineers? At this

Conference Session

Cultivating Professional Responsibility

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2002 Annual Conference

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Betsy Dulin

: Effective for Evaluations During the 2001-2002 Accreditation Cycle. Washington, D.C. 2. American Society for Engineering Education (1994). The Green Report: Engineering Education for a Changing World. Washington, D.C. 3. Eskridge, William N, Jr., and Frickey, Philip P. (1995). Cases and Materials on Legislation: Statutes and the Creation of Public Policy (2nd ed.). St. Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing Co. 4. Ferguson, Eugene S. (1994). Engineering and the Mind’s Eye. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. 5. Fiorino, Daniel J. (1995). Making Environmental Policy. Los Angeles: University of California Press. 6. Florman, Samuel C. (1997). The Introspective Engineer

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

George Havener

Sheet such as theexample shown in Fig 1. The particular Assignment Sheet in Fig. 1 is for Skill-2, Concept Maps.Each Assignment Sheets contained five parts: (1) Discussion: the skill or tool plus its use arebriefly described. (2) Engr-110Z Goals: the educational objective(s) of the assignment areidentified. (3) Outcomes: the cadets’ capability sought by completing the assignmentsuccessfully are identified and discussed in class. (4) Task: a specific exercise is given forpractice thereby initiating utility with the skill or tool. (5) References: sources for additionalinformation and guidance are listed.The task defined on each Assignment Sheet is graded and returned to the student with a feedbacksheet. The feedback sheet is the instructor’s

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rachel Shinn

which you can determinethe signal to noise ratio directly. Another output is an oscilloscope on which the students can seethe signal with no noise, where the pure tone is seen as a pure sine wave. When the signal tonoise ratio is degraded, the noise on top of the signal is apparent as it degrades the pure sinewave. The last, and probably most painful output for the students, is a speaker. The student s canhear how the test tone degrades as the signal to noise ratio goes down. Increasing the signal toimprove the signal to noise ratio means the students have to listen to a constant tone while theyassess both the distortion analyzer and the oscilloscope. The students are able to vary the signallevel to see the effect of the noise on the signal.The

Conference Session

Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

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2002 Annual Conference

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Dr. Promod Vohra

. This decision underscores the relationship between statistical power and the levelof confidence. Most assessment professionals would want to be able to detect a half-pointdifference arising from the responses of two different groups to a survey question on a five-pointscale. The conventional approach utilized in standard statistical testing sequences is to work atthe 95 percent level of confidence, equivalent to one chance in 20 or les s of making a Type Ierror (incorrectly concluding that there is a real difference when there is not). However, as Table1 shows, by choosing a statistical significance level of .05, the assessment team may hamstringits ability to detect a large and substantively significant difference of a half point on a five

Conference Session

International Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Otto Rompelman; Maarten Uijt De Haag; Jos Uyt de Haag; Brian Manhire

, Vacation-Work, January 1997.3. Higher Education in the Netherlands: the System, Degrees, and Diplomas, Nuffic Publication.4. URL:http://www.studiekeuze.tudelft.nl/infor/middle.cfm?PageID=3049; Invoering Bachelor / Master (Introduction Bachelor / Master), 2002.5. URL:http://www.stack.nl/~wvengen/uni/tema/college14april2000.php; Kort overzicht geschiedenis van de ingenieur (short history of the engineer), by Willem van Engen, April 2000.6. URL:http://bezoeker.tudelft.nl/wit/msie4.cfm?PageID=118; TU Delft Geschiedenis (History TUD), December 2001.7. Keuzebegeleiding VWO 3, Information pamphlet for parents, Sint-Janslyceum ‘s Hertogenbosch, 2001.8. URL://www.osc.tue.nl/aansluiting/de_tweede_fase.htm; De tweede fase

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ET International Collaborations

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rafiqul Islam

"Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society of Engineering Education" technology programs. DeVry Institute of Technology in its USA and Canadian campuses has changed the sequence of courses in its first year curriculum in electronic engineering technology program during middle of 90’s. Instead of starting with DC circuit analysis course (which is a normal trend in most other Universities and colleges) the students need to start with digital circuits course (ET-122). There are several purposes of offering this course in the first semester. First, it exposes students from the very beginning of their

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Economy Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Joan Burtner

curriculum. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference Proceedings, CD-ROM. .10. Haws, D. R. (2001). Ethics instruction in engineering education: A (mini) meta-analysis. Journal of Engineering Education,90 (2), 223-229.11. Bordman, S. & Hasan, I. (1996). An integrated model for management and economics instruction for engineers. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference Proceedings, CD-ROM.12. Lavelle, J.P., Needy, K.L. & Umphred, H.N. (1997). Engineering economy - A follow-up analysis of current teaching practices. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference Proceedings, CD-ROM.13. Burtner, J. & Moody, L. (1999). Increasing the use of collaborative learning principles in

Conference Session

Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Nilufer Gozacan; Reza Ziarati

Business Review, 39, pp. 111-121.22. ZIARATI, R. (1998), Total Quality Management, Staff Development Seminar, Doğuş University, Istanbul, Turkey.23. GÖZAÇAN BORAHAN, N. and R. ZIARATI (April 2001, “3D Modelling of Quality Assurance and Control System for Higher Education Sector”, Doğuş University Report.24. ZIARATI, R. (1995), “Learning Organisation”, Keynote Paper, European Action Programme for Education and Training, LEONARDO CONFERENCE, Birmingham, UK.25. BLANDFORD, S. and M. SHAW (August 2001), “Managing International Schools”, RoutledgeFalmer, Pb: 0-415-22885-9. Page 7.67.15 "Proceedings of the 2002

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Inter. collaboratory efforts in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sami Ainane; Chandra Thamire

Conference & Exposition, American Society for Engineering Education.4. Charles, J. Adaptions of Distance Education in the 1993, ITCA Teleconference Yearbook, 1991.5. Eydgahi, H.Y., and Eydgahy, S. Y., Global Engineering Education: Benefits and Limitations of Distance Education, Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, American Society for Engineering Education.6. Johnson, A. F., Bridging the Gap from Technician to Engineer, a New Engineering Program at UND, North Midwest Section Meeting of ASEE, 1990.7. FSU at a glance, web page, http://www.frostburg.edu/ungrad/glance.htm.8. University of Maryland - Quick Facts, web page, http://www.inform.umd.edu/CampusInfo/Departments

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Maher Murad; Robert Martinazzi; Jerry Samples

between all parties and the ensuing dialogue promotes commitment,ownership, enthusiasm and deep interest in the topic(s) of mutual benefits (4).To be an effective professor, faculty, especially new faculty, must take the initiative to find waysto establish trust with their students beginning on the very first day of class. Many times facultyare so intent on getting started with the course content they overlook the critical need to beginestablishing a positive rapport with the students. Investing a small amount of time on the firstday of class with the student exercise described in this paper can pay great dividends for both thestudents and faculty member. The specific exercise begins the process of establishing trust withthe students by having

Conference Session

New/Emerging Technologies

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

R. Radharamanan

Insight Video by SME, VT516-2393 (1994).2. Dessouky, M. M. et al. Virtual Factory Teaching System in Support of Manufacturing Education. Journal ofEngineering Education, Vol. 87, No. 4, pp. 459-467 (1998).3. Goldman, S. L., Nagel, R. N., and Preiss, K. Agile Competitors and Virtual Organizations: Strategies forEnriching the Customer. Von Nostrand Reinhold, New York (1995).4. Goodchild, M. F. Manage Your Metadata. Geo Info Systems, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp.43-45, 2000.5. Hardwick, M. What You Should Know About STEP. Machine Design, Vol. 72, No. 13, pp. 98-102, 2000.6. Hitchcock, M. F., Baker, A. D., and Brink, J. R. The Role of Hybrid Systems Theory in Virtual Manufacturing.Proc. IEEE Symposium on Computer-Aided Control Systems Design (CACSD), IEEE, New

Conference Session

CE Rap Session and Toys in the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

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Tonya Emerson

College Science Education”, Journalof College Teaching, vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 286-290, 1993[5] Kramer-Koehler, P.; Tooney, N.; and Beke, D., “The Use of Learning Style Innovations to Improve Retention”,ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Conference Proceedings, vol. 2, pp. 4a2.5-4a2.8,[6] Ford, N.; and Chen, S. “Matching/Mismatching Revisited: An Empirical Study of Learning and TeachingStyles”, British Journal of Educational Technology, vol.32, no. 1, pp. 5-22, 2001[7] Allen, E.; Mourtos, N. “Using learning styles preferences data to inform classroom teaching and assessmentactivities”, 30th Annual ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Conference Proceedings, Champaign, IL,:Stripes Publishing, vol. 2, . pp.S2B/6, 2000[8] Felder, R

Conference Session

Control in the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

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W. San Yip; Michael Hough; Eric Wood; Thomas Marlin

Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education S-LOOP plots deviation variables (IAE = 32.0664) 2 1.5 1 0.5 0 -0.5 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Time 30 20 10 0 -10 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 TimeFigure 5. Closed

Conference Session

Moral Theories and Engineering Ethics

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Jordan; Stan Napper; Bill Elmore

. However, the moral theory based analysis is new to this paper.The first author was a metallurgical engineer for a steel company. Our customer was one of the fivelargest companies in the country making consumer appliances. We were selling them sheet steel to beused in the core of the electrical motors of the appliances. Being a large company, the specifications forthe steel were written by engineers at a site about 200 miles away from the customer's productionfacility. We were faced with a problem for if our steel met the specification for hardness, then the steelwould not physically work in the customer' s press. If we made a softer steel that could be fabricatedin the presses then it will not have met the customer's written specifications. We

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Jacques; Mark Shields; John O'Connell; Matthew Mehalik

: Attributes, experiences, ABET 2000 and an implementation. ASEE Annual Meeting, 1997 Session #2653. 5. Shields, M.A., and O'Connell, J.P. Professional development and collaborative teaching in an undergraduate curriculum. ASEE Annual Meeting 1997, Session #3253. 6. Shields, M.A., O'Connell, J.P. Technological capability: A multidisciplinary focus for undergraduate engineering education. ASEE Annual Meeting 1998, Session #1261. Page 7.909.9 7. Musselwhite, W.C. Flying High; Exploring whole systems and quality. Proc. 1992 Int. Creativity and Innovation Networking Conf., Stanley S. Gryskiewicz

Conference Session

Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

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Elizabeth R. Crockett; Matthew Ohland

Engineering Education1 National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students In Transition, http://www.sc.edu/fye/2 Gándara, P., and J. Maxwell-Jolly, Priming the Pump, Strategies for Increasing the Achievement ofUnderrepresented Minority Undergraduates, http://www.collegeboard.org/research/html/PrimingThePump.pdf ,item number 987257, The College Board, New York, December 1999, chapter 4.3 Gándara and Maxwell-Jolly, p. 30.4 Virginia Tech Minority Engineering Programs Homepage, http://www.eng.vt.edu/affairs/ugrad/mep.html .5 Rogers, E.M., The Diffusion of Innovation, 4th Ed., New York: Free Press, 1995.6 Gándara and Maxwell-Jolly, p. 32.7 Gándara and Maxwell-Jolly, p. 28.8 Fletcher, S., and M.R. Anderson-Rowland, “Developing

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps I

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2002 Annual Conference

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Karen Harris; Sunday Faseyitan; Robert Myers; Pearley Cunningham; Winston Erevelles

Competency Gaps Among Newly Hired Engineering Graduates”, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 19975. SME Manufacturing Education Plan: 1999 Critical Competency Gaps “Industry Updates Competency Gaps Among Newly Hired Engineering Graduates”, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 19996. Manufacturing Programs Accredited by the ABET, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, World Wide Web Site - http://www.sme.org/7. “EAC Accredited Programs for 1999”, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, World Wide Web Site - http://www.abet.org/8. Michie Joan S. and Frechtling Joy, User Friendly Project Evaluation, National Science FoundationWINSTON F. EREVELLESWinston Erevelles is the Associate Dean of the School of Engineering

Conference Session

Web Systems and Web Services

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ralph Buchal

associates; Higher Education in an era of Digital Competition , Attwood Publishing, 2000, p.60 6 Lang, S.; Dickinson, J., Buchal, R., An Overview of Cognitive Factors in Distributed Design, Proceedings of the 6 th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Work in Design , London, Ontario, July 12-14, 2001, pp.190-197. 7 Curtis, David D.; Lawson, Michael J.; Exploring Collaborative Online Learning, Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, Vol.5, No.1, February 2001, pp.21-34. 8 Chin, George Jr.; Carroll, John M.; Articulating Collaboration in a Learning Community, Behaviour and Information Technology, Vol.19, No.4, 2000, pp.233-245. 9 BSCW, OrbiTeam Software GmbH

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mandeep Thukral; Kurt Gramoll

. Page 7.1308.10 Fig. 11. TA Privilege(s) Customization Screen Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationV. Communication Between the Instructor and StudentsResearch has shown that for the success of an online course, interaction between the instructorand students is necessary [4]. The system has two main built-in features for communicationsbetween different students and between the instructor and students. The web-board (Fig. 12)provides a discussion forum so that questions can be posted and drawing-board (Fig. 13) allowsstudents and the instructor to interactively draw

Conference Session

International Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Webert Lovencin; Adnan Javed; Fazil Najafi

(Social Science 2210 Technical Writing Sciences) TERM 3 TERM 4 Course Course Title Credits Course Course Title Credits MAC 2313 Analytical Geom. & 4.0 MAP 2302/ Differential Equations or Intro to 3.0 Calculus 3 EGM 3311 Engineering Analysis PHY 2049 Physics with Calculus 2 3.0 EGM 2511 Statics 2.0 PHY Physics Lab 1.0 Gen. Ed. Humanities or Social Science 3.0 2049L (Hum/S) Gen. Ed

Conference Session

Use of Labs to Introduce Students to Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nathaniel Allen; Mike Klein; Matthew Cunnington; Levi Westra; Ronald Smelser; Edwin Odom

active interest in the ME Machine Shop as a key element in design education sincejoining the University of Idaho eleven years ago. Dr. Odom maintains an avid interest in the literature of creativityand management and is especially well versed on the subjects of team dynamics and leadership styles. He wasrecognized for his role in development of the Idaho Engineering Works by a university teaching award in 1998.DR. RONALD E. SMELSERDr. Ronald E. Smelser is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Idaho. He holds degrees fromthe University of Cincinnati, MIT, and Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to joining the University of Idaho, heworked for fourteen years at U. S. Steel, Alcoa, and Concurrent Technology Corporation. He

Conference Session

Instructional Technology--What Works

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Adolphson; Rujin Cheng; Kurt Gramoll

determine if auser has visited the web page. This helps determine which aspects of the EMET instruction arebeing used, which are more effective or, conversely, which are ineffective. This feature permitsdevelopers to determine of the overall effectiveness of the respective learning strategies. Withthis information patterns indicating the preferred learning style(s) can be identified and used tomake adjustments to the program. This mechanism is similar to methods used by commercialweb sites. For example, e-commerce sites also examine the behavior pattern of users at theirwebsite. Using this information, these sites can evaluate, re-distribute and improve developmentefforts more effectively

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2001 Annual Conference

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

design studio experiences,and even sitting in on each others lectures to be better prepared to present the material. Ifthis approach is used with a group of cooperative faculty, the benefits of the exposure todifferent teaching styles and understanding of other disciplines can be extremely positiveand rewarding and will ultimately benefit the students.Bibliography1. Ercolano, V., “Designing Freshmen,” ASEE Prism, April (1996).2. Ambrose, S. A. and Amon, C.H., “Systematic Design of a First-Year Mechanical Engineering Course at Carnegie Mellon University,” Journal of Engineering Education, V 86, n 2, 1997, p.173-181.3. Barr, R.E., Schmidt, P.S., Krueger, T.J. and Twu, C.Y., “An Introduction to Engineering Through an Integrated Reverse

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2001 Annual Conference

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Ed McCombs; Camille F. DeYong

there was aquantitative method available to estimate the mean and the variance even if they had nohistorical data. We believe that this assignment was worthwhile and will continue to useit in future undergraduate classes.Bibliography1. Case, Kenneth E., 2001, Regents Professor Industrial Engineering and Management, Oklahoma StateUniversity, Discussions on minimal data set size necessary to estimate an underlying distribution, 8January.2.Greer, Wilis J., Jr., 1970, “Capital Budgeting Analysis with the Timing of Events Uncertain,” TheAccounting Review, January, 103-114.3. Park, Chan S., and Sharpe-Bette, Gunter P., 1990, Advanced Engineering Economics, John Wiley andSons, New York.4. White, John A., Case, Kenneth E., Pratt, David B., and Agee

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2001 Annual Conference

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Nakeya Norman; Janelle Meyer; Charu Dugar; Jason Keith

(2000). 3. Batill, S. AME 470 Senior Design Project, http://www.nd.edu/~batill/www.me470/ 4. Brockman, J. and Fuja, T. EG111/112 Introduction to Engineering Systems, http://www.nd.edu/~engintro/JASON M. KEITHJason Keith is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Michigan Technological University, and is theinstructor for the course titled CM4900 Interdisciplinary Design 1. He received his PhD from the University ofNotre Dame in August 2000. While at Notre Dame Jason was active in the development of a new freshmanengineering sequence EG111/EG112 Introduction to Engineering Systems, serving as a graduate instructor in thiscourse during the 1999-2000 academic year. Jason also holds a B.S.ChE degree in Chemical Engineering from

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2001 Annual Conference

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Amir Karimi

#982940, Vol. XIX, August 2000, Number 5, p. 64. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education3. Karimi, A.; Arroyo, G. A., Passos, A., and Shih, C. S., “Re-Evaluation of Engineering Curriculum Foundation,” presented at of the 1998 Annual Meeting of the Gulf-Southwest Section of ASEE, March 25-27, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana.4. URL: http:/www.thecb.state.tx.us/divisions/ctc/ip/Core/background.htm; Core Curriculum in Texas: Introduction and Background.5. URL: http:/www.thecb.state.tx.us/divisions/ctc/ip/Core/finalreport.htm; Report of the Advisory Committee on Core Curriculum

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2001 Annual Conference

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Christopher Jorden; Farouk Attia

software. This type of systemallows quick modifications to adapt to the constantly changing needs of the customer.Bibliography1. Applehans, W., Globe, A., and Laugero, G., Managing Knowledge-A Practical Web-Based Approach: Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1999.2. Grinberg, I.Y. and Stratton, J.A., “A Systems Engineering Approach to Engineering Design Methodology.” The Journal of Engineering Technology. Vol.13, no.2 (Fall 1996): pp8-13.3. Simpson, G.S., Lamb, F.E., and Dinnie, N.C., “Applying Probabilistic and Qualitative Methods to Asset- Management Decision Making.” The Journal of Petroleum Technology. Vol.52, no.12 (Dec 2000): pp49-50.4. Kalpakjian, S., Manufacturing Processes for Engineering Materials. 3rd ed. Menlo Park, CA

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2001 Annual Conference

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Martin Trethewey; John Gardner; Thomas Litzinger

remainder of the semester, each team set about redesigning and reconstructing cars for therace. The race had three events: flat course speed, hill-climb, and obstacle course. The speedevent was timed with a start at zero velocity with the distance reached in the allowed timemeasured for three heats. In the incline event the vehicle had to carry another vehicle up theincline, and the incline was increased incrementally until the vehicle could no longer climb. Theobstacle had three segments: equally spaced bumps, randomly spaced ½” PVC pipe, and an “S”style obstacle course. All three courses were available prior to race day for testing and practice.Each team was permitted to modify two cars for the races, so that they had to make trade-offs intheir

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2001 Annual Conference

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Barrie Jackson

Hands-on work is the best way to start, With help face to face with experienced T.A.’s I can get the kind of education that really pays At last, something exciting and new, QUFYAS is a challenge that I can relate to Shirking labs isn’t my goal, Believe me sincere, It’s QUFYAS that would make me a true engineer!” “Initially I was a little hesitant as to whether or not I should sign up for the QUFYAS Project. There were many obstacles that stood between my decision to apply for this course. I find chemistry and physics labs easy and straightforward. Therefore it seems foolish to sacrifice these marks. What if the projects are too difficult? What if I don’t get along with my group