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Robert E. Spall; Christine E. Hailey

to find drag.Preliminary student feedback from the junior-level course suggests they enjoy the CFDexperience, in part, because they view it as a future resume item. Great care must be taken toensure the students understand their experiences were very introductory and that the senior-levelelective course is a necessity before they can advertise capability in CFD. For several years,senior students have had an opportunity to apply CFD techniques to problems of practicalinterest in the elective Heating and Air Conditioning course. Without a doubt, they have foundthis portion of the course most enjoyable.An assessment plan is in progress to see if we indeed met our three goals for the junior-levelcourse: 1) to improve the students understanding

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Terry L. Ballinger; Craig W. Somerton

assembly line and test with production of one (1) Beanie Eel• At the stop signal the team is to halt their design and organization• With all the manufacturing stations staffed and the assembly line ready production will begin• Each team will assemble six (6) Beanie Eels• Students may not change manufacturing stations unless it is in their plan• The team that completes production in the shortest time with all Beanie Eels passing inspection will win the competition.The best assembly line produced six Beanie Eels in 13 min 10 sec, with most assembly linestaking between 14 to 20 minutes.For unit 10 a tour of the General Motors final assembly plant in Lansing was taken, so thestudents could see an actual assembly line in

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David F. Ollis

mechanics, optics, and circuit boards, CALCULATE and analyze expected device performance, and TEACH (present) to other teams the principles and lessons learned.Depending of the lab purpose and the level of detail requested in assignments, each activitymay take 30 minutes to 2 hours. Each device can thus be covered in a period ranging from 4hours to two days, thereby providing a scheduling flexibility which allows facile adaptation todifferent program purposes.We first discuss the various pedagogical motivations for such a lab (A Lab for All Reasons),then summarize our experiences and plans to utilize the lab year round (Lab for all Seasons).A Lab for All ReasonsWe have offered the course in several formats, described in the later

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Rose M. Marra; Thomas Litzinger

consistent with thecontext-dependent nature of learning, they may still not achieve the desired outcomes. Thus athird approach exists which recognizes the critical role of context, but seeks to make the processof learning itself the object of reflection so that it can be “the object of conscious planning andanalysis.” This final approach has three key elements: “the need for the facilitator to take intoaccount the learner’s existing knowledge structures and previous knowledge, the need for thelearner to gain an understanding of the syntactic structure of the field that he or she is learning,and the learner’s development of metacognitive awareness or conscious control over his or herlearning.” [8]Which of these three approaches might we as

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Esther V. Reed; Matt W. Mutka

acommercial OS, which may be appropriate for laboratory development. The embedded systemplatform and environment that was investigated is a Handheld Personal Computer (H/PC) deviceusing the Windows CE operating system. The primary device and OS, for which software wasdeveloped, was the Hewlett Packard (HP) Jornada 820 Handheld PC Professional (H/PC Pro)running Windows CE 3.0. The secondary device and OS was the HP 620LX Palmtop PCrunning Windows CE 2.0. Commercial developer’s tools for these platforms and environmentsfrom Microsoft were investigated. The C++ and Java programming languages were to beincluded in this project. Consequently, the following packages were planned for investigation:Windows CE Toolkit for Visual C++ 5.0, Windows CE

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Ron Eaglin; Z. Qu; Q. Zhang; P. Wahid; Issa Batarseh

ohms.Figure 5 shows the net-list generated from the GUI circuit. Page 5.460.7Figure 3 GUI Layout for two DC-Circuit Examples Page 5.460.8 Figure 4 GUI Layout for a Specific AC-Circuit ExampleFig. 5 Net-List to be used to obtain the Output Simulation results Page 5.460.9Conclusion:This paper presented the development plan for a new multi-media teaching tools that will allowcircuit simulation on line for the basic electrical engineering course at the University of CentralFlorida. The circuit simulator supports both dc and ac

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Douglas L. Jones; Bunny J. Tjaden

the lecture hall), and five classrooms for the labs. Our faculty and staff include fourprofessors and five teaching assistants from the engineering school. The faculty and TAsrepresent of the main SEAS disciplines. We consider the instruction of this course to be a teameffort that includes weekly meeting of professors and teaching assistants to discuss concerns andstrategies, plan labs, and coordinate teaching assignments.The hub lectures consist of topics that are of interest to all students and are usually presented bya guest lecturer who is an acknowledged expert in the field. The hub lectures this semesterincluded an introduction to engineering, design, engineering ethics, basic statistics anddeceptions, and a virtual reality lecture on

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Raul Ordonez; Harriet Benavidez; Anthony J. Marchese; James A. Newell; John L. Schmalzel; Beena Sukumaran; Ravi Ramachandran; Julie Haynes

owners (theengineering faculty) and city leaders (the communications faculty). The objective was to convincethis committee to select the team’s stadium proposal. Students learn that communication is anintegral part of the design process. They learn that communication is an active and creative processrather than a static tool or artifact, and, that it is a communicative and interactive process thatengages writer/speaker and reader/audience. The actual information provided to the students is shown below. Baseball Project - Main Assignment You are a small consulting company that has been hired to propose a plan for building anew stadium. Student teams will present a formal proposal including

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Steven H. VanderLeest

use any of the literature from the course as evidence during thedebate. The third project split the class into several groups, each of which was assigned the taskof developing a plan to preserve human culture in the face of a worldwide disaster. Each groupwas asked to fill in the details of the imaginary catastrophe as well as their prescription forsurvival of human culture. Using a variety of pedagogical styles keeps the students interestedand focused.V. ConclusionA course combining science fiction and technology can be very effective in helping studentsexplore the broader issues related to technology and its development. Science fiction is anexciting basis from which to launch meaningful discussions about the nature of technology

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Kenneth Manning

modules. This grouphas standardized the process for module development and documentation, and has developed andis implementing the evaluation plan. The consortium conducts three levels of testing: classroomobservation, educational technology, and student usability. Each of the three is described indetail at the Project Links Web site.The modules currently under development are shown in the appendix. Three modules and asubgroup of several modules of particular interest to engineering educators are highlighted in thispaper. These include Drag Forces, Constrained Optimization, Mass Transport, and theMechanical Oscillations subgroup.III. The Project Links Web SiteEvery module in Project Links has the same basic format. Shown in Figure 1 is a

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Steven L. Cohen; Dennis P. Slevin; David I. Cleland; Kim LaScola Needy; Heather Nachtmann

MaterialsThere have been hundreds of books and articles written on enterprise governance just in the lastfifteen years. As part of the Literature Background Development phase of the research project atthe University of Pittsburgh, the team performed an extensive review of this literature, focusingon the literature published since 1985. The team was surprised to learn that a textbook (withcasebook supplement) that would be appropriate for the proposed course on enterprisegovernance did not exist. Thus, along with developing the course on enterprise governance, theteam plans to publish a textbook and casebook for use in the proposed course.In addition to the readings assigned from the proposed textbook and casebook, students will berequired to stay

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Stephen Simms; Jane M. Fraser

,recommending the “creation, testing, and revision” of methods by all researchers.A contact summary sheet is completed immediately after each contact by reviewingnotes to answer questions such as19• who was involved, • what new hypotheses were• what were the main issues or themes, suggested, and• which research questions were • what follow up should be planned. central,Creating this sheet encourages reflection by the researcher and makes the main pointsmore available for later use.Miles and Huberman19 give many recommendations concerning the creation of codes Page 5.516.5that categorize words according to “research

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Ricardo Castillo Molina; Claudio da Rocha Brito; Melany Ciampi

assume more responsibilities and so they have to work hard toensure the good score for their works.Besides the project of "Scientific and Technological Training Project" the students also have theother works of the other courses to do.The Project or 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 market that is emerging because of the advanced technological achievement;• the technological transformations principally in transport and communications that areapproaching the distances;• the changes in the entire Producing System;• the consequent changes in

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Wesley P. Lipschultz; Jean Landa Pytel; Jayne Klenner-Moore

unexpected surprises during our tests of the idea. I am responsible for setting up a working plan for getting the idea up and running, and I must estimate how much this will cost. I also help to conduct the tests, analyze data from the tests, and watch for problems that occur along the way.Civil Engineer I: Planes, trains, automobiles, and boats. These are all means of transportation. They all create traffic. They all can involve large amounts of people and potentially deadly situations. As a civil engineer I take transportation systems very seriously. I am especially interested in safety and capacity (i.e. how many people a mass transportation system can safely handle). I work mainly on commercial

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Scott Danielson; Sudhir I. Mehta

number of publications have discussed the topic (e.g., Glassick, Huber, &Maeroff, 1997; Bass, 1999; Silva, 1999) with over 120 campuses making public commitments tothe scholarship of teaching through the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching andLearning (CASTL) Campus Program (Hutching & Shulman, 1999). The CASTL CampusProgram challenges campuses to undertake a public process of evaluation and planning for waysto support knowledge-building about teaching and learning. These discussions about teachingand learning intend to create support systems, sanctuaries, and learning centers across disciplinesfor scholars who are interested in the scholarship of teaching.For an activity to be designated as scholarship, argues Lee Shulman

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Peter J. Graybash

Engineering Educators and officers at Fortune-500 companies represented on theNational Technological University (NTU) Advisory Committee. All are involved in decision-making regarding the planning and programming of corporate engineering developmentprograms.The first step is to invite them to participate. Following this step, a select focus group of 3 or 4will be used to identify relevant elements for inclusion in a survey questionnaire. At that point, Iam going to talk to them about how they went through the selection process in choosing thesystem they are now using. Possible beginning questions may include: "Is the media selected onthe basis of defined learning needs? Instructional needs? Professional or technical expertise?Available budget? Is the

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Resit Unal; Derya Jacobs; Charles Keating; Paul Kauffmann; Abel Fernandez

. 1, 1994, pp. 41-50.5. Armacost, R. L., P. J. Componation, M. A. Mullins, and W. W. Swart. “An AHP Framework for Prioritizing Customer Page 5.539.7 Requirements in QFD: An Industrialized Housing Application.” IIE Transactions, Vol. 26, No. 4, 1994, pp. 72-79.6. Wasserman, G. S. “On How to Prioritize Design Requirements during the QFD Planning Process.” IIE Transactions, Vol. 25, No. 3, 1994, pp. 59-65.PAUL KAUFFMANNPaul J. Kauffmann is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Management at Old

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Sanjay P. Ahuja

", Proceedings of the ACM Computer Science Education Technical Symposium 1991, San Antonio, TX, SIGCSE Bulletin 23(1), pp. 25-34, March 1991.[3] Barnett, B. L. III, "A Visual Simulator for a Simple Machine and Assembly Language", SIGCSE Bulletin, 27(1), pp. 233-237.[4] "Major Applications of COMNET II.5, Network Analysis and Capacity Planning Through Simulation", CACI Products Company, pp. 22-23, August 1993.[5] Ahuja, S. P., "COMNET III: A Network Simulation Laboratory Environment For A Course In Communications Networks", Proceedings of the Frontiers In Education Conference (FIE 98), Tempe, AZ, November 1998.SANJAY P. AHUJASanjay P. Ahuja is an Associate Professor of Computer Science in the Department of

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John Duffy; Edmund Tsang; Susan M. Lord

were introduction to engineering design courseswhile the senior courses were about half capstone design courses and half traditional engineeringcourses such as “Vibration Analysis” or “Urban Transportation Planning”. We suspect that theremay still be many unreported capstone design projects geared toward community service.Whether they have all the recommended aspects of service-learning such as community-definedneeds, reciprocity, and reflection is unknown.Our survey results show that service-learning is being used in a variety of engineeringdisciplines, with engineering students at all levels, in large and small classes, and usuallyincorporated more than one semester in a given course. However, twelve of the respondentsindicated that they had

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John S. Mullin; James J. Alpigini

. Next, an overview of the coursematerial is presented, noting the obstacles faced by the students and the contributions that theirdiversity in background brings to the course. The paper then concludes with a discussion of thelessons learned and future plans for this course.II. Course Design DecisionsAssuming that the students who would take this course have no background in computer orinformation science, two objectives presented themselves immediately. At the conclusion of thiscourse, these students should be familiar with a basic design methodology and they should be ableto apply this methodology to design and implementation of programs using a “modern” computerlanguage. In addition to identifying the objectives for this course, it was

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Winston Conway Link

. This approach allows a little time to plan a response when and if areporter calls.Even though the instructor may be directing several project groups with widely varying topics, he/sheneeds to have basic background information on the topic in the event of an interview by a reporter. Infact, it would be best to anticipate questions that may be asked.Results from student project groups will not be taken as seriously as results from those who collectand analyze data for a living, and the instructor has to be ever mindful that there is always thepossibility that less-than-honest students will attempt to submit phony results. To guard againstrunning a story based on fraudulent data, a reporter may ask to interview some of the studentsinvolved, and

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Shannon Birk; James Fonda; Christopher C. Ibeh

Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansa for Academic and Economic Development”, American Soceity for Engineering Education, Midwest Section, 29th Annual Meeting, Conference Proceedings, March 30 – April 1, 1994.6. Springer R., “Energy, Efficiency, and the Environment: The Big E’s of Transportation”, 1991 Soichiro Honda Lecture – Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas.7. Scherr, C. R., Smalley A. E., Norman E., “Clean Air Act Complicates Refinery Planning”, Oil & Gas Journal, May 27, 1991, page 68 – 75.8. O’Conner Leo, “Fuel Cells Turn Up The Heat”, Mechanical Engineering, December, 1994.9. Ibeh C. C., Studyvin W., Backes R., “A Student-Oriented Fuel Cell Project At Pittsburg State University (I

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Jennifer Temple; Cynthia Atman; Jennifer Turns

items in this category represent visible signs of civil engineering.Three ABET categories received an average of about 10% of the items: (E) – Problem solving,(K) – Tools and Techniques, and (F) – Profession. Items were coded as problem solving if theyreferred to problems or goals for engineers to achieve. Example items included “Improve cityquality,” and “Protecting populations.” Tools and techniques accounted for a similar number ofitems in the subject responses. Examples included tools such as Matlab, GPS, and Theodoliteand techniques such as Seismic planning, recycling, and surveying. Subjects also seemed tohave a significant number of items related to engineering as a profession. These included itemssuch as “clients” and “building codes

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Yi-Xian Qin; Partap Khalsa; Michael Hadjiargyrou; Mark W. Otter; Kenneth J. McLeod; Danny Bluestein

businessorientation. These skills are not associated with cognitive processes, but with perceptive (i.e.intuition, insight and enthusiasm, leading to the ability to generate solutions and make decisions),and pragmatic (i.e. experiential/observational modes of thought which facilitate planning,implementation and evaluation) processes. In response to the perceived "over-correction"towards solely analytical thinking, the National Science Foundation has made significantinvestments in engineering education reform (4). In addition, the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) has recently adopted accreditation criteria which requiredemonstration that graduates of accredited programs can do more than manipulate mathematicalexpressions (5,6).In order

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William L. Call; Saleh M. Sbenaty

developed.IV. Field Testing and AssessmentFor the purpose of constructive assessment of the SEATEC approach to curriculumdevelopment, the Learning Technology Center (LTC) http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/ctrs/ltc/ atVanderbilt University was contracted to assess the effectiveness of the case study approach in thetechnology curriculum. The plan includes a literature survey, a procedure for evaluating casestudies, assessing the progress in case study model development and, ultimately, assessing theeffectiveness of this approach. The twenty-five cases developed under the previous TEFATEgrant were posted on the web and also printed for dissemination. Each SEATEC team identifiedthe courses where field-testing will be conducted and formal assessments are being

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Richard A. Gilbert; Mark Maughmer; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College; Renata Engel, Pennsylvania State University

audience. This, in turn, amplifies theperception of difficulty of the lecture material.Of course, the other major impediment to identifying a difficult lecture is to actually recognizethat the topic is intrinsically difficult. In general, it should be expected that lectures that dealwith integrated topics are going to be difficult for students. This is true no matter how wellprepared the students happen to be. It is simply difficult for students to synthesize informationfrom their various courses. Lectures that demand recall of previous knowledge and/or differentskills to understand the current lecture topic are always demanding of the student. Therefore, thelecturer must recognize this difficulty level and not only be prepared to, but plan to

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Paul I-Hai Lin; Hal Broberg

scheme. The connector is attached tothe cable and the jack is the device that the connector plugs into, whether it is in the wall,the network interface card in the computer, or the hub. The lab activities include • Cable planning • Making cables for Ethernet 10BaseT networks • Making cables for connecting two PCsLab 7- Understanding Network Server and LAN (performed in the ECET lab): An Ethernet local area network set up for this lab is prepared. In this lab, a student isboth a system administrator and a PC client user. It allows students to practice networkoperating system commands and Windows NT system administrative tools for addingnew computers and new user accounts. This lab familiarizes students with some tasksperformed by a

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M. David Burghardt

, homes for snails, rain forestplants and animals. In creating the models, students will need to understand and apply theirknowledge of say, the rain forest, its structure and the various plants and animals that live atdifferent levels. The design itself may require scaling a 150-foot tree to 15 inches, or ananthropoid from ten centimeters to thirty centimeters. "Skills required for mathematicalreasoning are also fundamental to the design and construction process. Estimating, computing,using formulas are examples of skills that can be meaningfully incorporated in the planning andtesting of a design" (Dunn and Larson, 1990, p. 28).The design and analysis of the product, the artifact, are components in which only part of thelearning occurs. It

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Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi A. Diefes

provided different amounts of detail in theirlist of the course topics and practices. Second, the faculty used inconsistent language in thecourse learning objectives. Third, there was varying interpretations of Bloom’s Taxonomy and atendency towards over-estimating achievement of perfomance criteria.It is felt that the compilation of the course profiles will provide a wealth of information about thestate of the ABE programs. However, the challenges encountered will necessitate a number ofiterations of course profile development as the faculty becomes more accustomed to theassessment process.Bibliography1. Aldridge, M.D and Benefield, L.D. A Model Assessment Plan. Prism. 7(9) (1998)2. The Two Loops of EC 2000. . Published by the Accreditation

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Debbie T. Brown; Masoud Rais-Rohani

JavaScript programminglanguages.VII. Preliminary Assessment and Future WorkVLSM is currently being evaluated by students and instructors in multiple sections of Statics andMechanics of Materials courses at Mississippi State University. We plan to improve the qualityand efficiency of existing as well as future modules based on the feedback we receive from ourconstituency. The anecdotal information we have collected so far indicates that the design andanalysis tools and the test-your-knowledge exercises are the most liked and utilized features ofVLSM.Despite our goal of developing a Web based tool that would not be platform specific, the currenttechnology has prevented us from achieving this goal. We are particularly disappointed by theinability of