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? 2. Technology Resources: Do we have the appropriate hardware, software and training to effectively use the technology? How do our systems compare with those used by K-12 students? 3. Project Structure: Can we update curriculum to take full advantages of new learning opportunities or is the change so dramatic we need to start from scratch? Can we develop dialogue with K-12 educators to better coordinate those aspects of their curriculum with the needs and requirements of higher education? 4. Curriculum Linking: The curriculum must become more seamlessly linked throughout the education process in order to take full advantage of the potential of technology. How can this be done

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quality by adsorption and absorption processes, particleproduction/synthesis, and development of chemical and biological sensors.MARK A. PRELASMark A. Prelas is a H. O. Croft Professor of Nuclear Engineering Program at University of Missouri-Columbia, He was a Foster Fellow at the US State Department from 1999-2000. Dr. Prelas’ researchinterests are in the areas of wide band-gap materials, plasmas, direct energy conversion, energystorage, plasma engineering and nanophase materials. Dr. Prelas has directed two NATOAdvanced Research Workshops in the Former Soviet Union including the first such meeting in theFormer Soviet Union (in the areas of wide band-gap electronic materials 1994 and diamond basedcomposite materials 1996), served as a project

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engineering concepts. An equal partnership was formed between K-12and college educators so that a true synergy occurred. This partnership allowed for a dynamicenvironment where educational modules being presented could be tailored to specific pre-collegeclassroom environments.VI. AcknowledgementsThe authors wish to thank the following people whose contributions were important to thesuccess of this project: Dr. Ronald Musiak, Dr. Gail Fletcher, Dr. Karoush Rahnamai, Dr. AbdulKamal, Ms. Marilyn Sullivan, and Mr. Michael Tedesco of Western New England College; Mr.Richard Joseph, Ms. Cele Daigneau, and Ms. Rene O. Jury of Agawam Public Schools; and Mr.George Gorton, Mr. David A. Hebert, and Mr. Owen F. Kelly of Shriners Hospital for Children,Springfield

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/PowerEngineering/trad.htm; 2000 Advanced School in Power Engineering, Information under Power Engineering.4. Bedont, James, W. personal communication, January 8, 2001.5. URL: http://www.gaiconsultants.com/proj.htm; Information under Projects, Geotechnical & Structural Engineering.6. GAI Consultants, Inc. Transmission Line Design and Construction, Volume 1, Course Notes, August 21 – September 1, 2000.7. URL: http://www.ku.ac.th/aboutku/english/information/kuinfo.html; Information under About Kasetsart University.ANDREW T. ROSEAndrew T. Rose is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Technology at the University of Pittsburgh atJohnstown (UPJ) in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Before joining the faculty at UPJ, he was a Staff Engineer with

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Tom Noack; Rose Marra; Johnissia Stevenson; Harry Tyrer; Eric Epperson; Jose Castro

low bandwidth. We support Kuzma’s argument that technology should not be viewed as an end initself but is used as a means toward reaching active learning education goals. Acomparative study of the exam scores of the traditionally taught students and the Webbased students will benefit in the evaluation process. Since this project began many new tools have been developed to handle more ofthe backend networking concerns. It is advised to anyone who takes on Web-basedteaching to start small and be certain that the goals are presented clearly in an effort tohelp students understand what is expected. Highlight and date changes in an effort tokeep students informed of current events and changes, and prevent Web pages

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3000 different learning institutions. Much of the work increating the new course will be the customization activity of completing the case studies.For students, successful completion of this continuing education course would involvepassing self-administered tests which Blackboard accommodates and satisfactorilycompleting a course project which would be based on applying the coursetools/methodology to one of the problem types in Figure 1 for the student’s particularMSO.Bibliography1. Aquino, Nicholas R., “Managing change”, Business and Economic Review, Oct-Dec 1994.2. Bazerman, M., Judgement in Managerial Decision Making (4th ed.), Wiley, 1998.3. Beer, Michael, Nohria, N. “Cracking the code of change”, Harvard Business Review, Boston, May

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Ifte Choudhury

. Choudhury has extensiveexperience as a consulting architect working on projects funded by the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, andsome other Multilateral Development Banks. His areas of emphasis include housing, alternative technology, issuesrelated to international construction, and construction education. He teaches Environmental Control Systems at anundergraduate level and International Construction at a graduate level. Page 6.407.6Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education

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paramount importance to beginningstudents. This paper will briefly review the reasons for change and explain the methods used.Preliminary results will be evaluated through student comments and the author’s observations.Changes include a more structured approach and included the adoption of the textbook StudyingEngineering1. The remaining sections cover engineering tools such as CAD and computerprogramming. These sections were also modified to reinforce the aspect of student development.Primary changes include the addition of projects throughout the whole freshman year as well asthe required participation in a campus wide competition.MethodsThe faculty met to discuss and plan a new first section of the Introduction to Engineeringsequence. Specific

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William Berg; Morris Boughton

. Figure 4The idea is to remove the solderless breadboard in the mini-lab and replace it with a sub-systemmodule that is much easier, and much less time consuming, for the student (and instructor) towork with. Note that the circuit area in this printed circuit board (pcb) mock-up could have been50% larger and still have fit the area provided by the mini-lab.In our final design, each module will be packaged on a larger pcb measuring approximately6.5”X5.5”. Each pcb will have three layer construction (two circuit sides plus ground plane), andwill be silk screened to identify individual circuits, test points, and solderless componentconnections.Other modules planned for development during the next two year project period are listed below.Each module

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for pacemakers, a pictorial discussion onindications, and detailed information on the different types of pacemakers. By clicking on thevarious links, the instructor was able to quickly offer the students an in-depth understanding ofpacemakers. Students were required to review the material at home, and write a brief paper on apacemaker related topic. Another website that students used for this assignment was part of aschool project at North Carolina State University, and had concise background information onpacing and defibrillation. This site is located athttp://www.bae.ncsu.edu/bae/courses/bae465/1995_projects/scho/index.htmlStudent AssessmentStudent’s were very enthusiastic about these websites, and wrote in evaluations that thesewebsites

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Joshua Talbert; Richard Wilk; Frank Wicks

descending hills. While the benefits are relatively easy to explain qualitatively, the quantification of the benefits of a such a hybridsystem, relative to a conventional or downsized gasoline engine, if it does exist is much harder to quantify. Any engineer should be skeptical of the claimed benefits until understood and demonstrated. Students should betaught the importance of critical thinking coupled with analysis. Accordingly, as a student summer project theauthors have tried to critically evaluate the claimed benefits of a hybrid vehicle, along with identifying andevaluating potentially simpler techniques for regenerative braking and for providing extra power for otherconditions. Since the analysis of any potential benefits of a hybrid

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Robert P. Hesketh; Stephanie Farrell

absorbancemeasurement. They perform a material balance to determine the fraction of drug released andperform an experimental parameter evaluation. Using a spreadsheet they perform calculationsnecessary to determine the release profile, and they generate plots of the experimental releaseprofile and that described by the model. Finally they test the validity of their model for thelimiting cases of initial and long times.References1 Engineering Education for a Changing World, Joint project report by the Engineering Deans Council and Corporate Roundtable of the American Society for Engineering Education, Washington, DC, 1994.2 Rowan School of Engineering – A Blueprint for Progress, Rowan College, 1995.3 Fraser, D.M., “Introducing Students to

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Yoganand Gandlur; Selvan Duraimurugar; Mohammed Enamul Haque; Amarneethi Vamadevan

analysis, design, and investigation of building, bridges and tunnel structural projects of various city and stategovernments and private sectors. Dr. Haque is a registered Professional Engineer in the states of New York (1990),Pennsylvania (1991) and Michigan (1998), and members of ASCE, ACI and technical committee members of ACICommittees 342 Evaluation of Concrete Bridges and Bridge Elements and 345 Concrete Bridge Construction, Page 5.414.9Maintenance and Repair. Dr. Haque received a BSCE in 1982 from Bangladesh University of Engineering andTechnology, a MSCE in 1986 and Ph.D. in Civil/Structural Engineering in 1995 from New

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Prawit Potsawatsuk; Mohammed Enamul Haque; Amarneethi Vamadevan

simplified 3D analysis of solar rhythms’,Elsevier, Automation in Construction 8(1998) 181-194.6. Miller, G., ‘Visual Mechanics – Beams & Stress States’, University of Washington, PWS Publishing, 1998.MOHAMMED E. HAQUEMohammed E. Haque is an Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Advisor of the Department of ConstructionEngineering and Management at Western Michigan University. He has over fifteen years of professional experiencein analysis, design, and investigation of building, bridges and tunnel structural projects of various city and stategovernments and private sectors. Dr. Haque is a registered Professional Engineer in the states of New York (1990),Pennsylvania (1991) and Michigan (1998), and members of ASCE, ACI and technical committee

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Mark W. Fitch; Joel G. Burken; Craig D. Adams

Page 5.451.3 3assessment of the students’ knowledge over the entire class material. This was viewed as anessential aspect to ensure that the academic standards of the UMR degree programs are beingmet. The CE/EnvE 400 Special Problem class is difficult to complete in one semester, especiallygiven the time requirements put on the officers. Generally the officers and supervising facultymember identify a research area in the fall semester, begin the background work, and thencomplete the project during the spring semester. To accomplish this the instructor must issue anincomplete after the completion of the first semester. This incomplete is then changed to arepresentative grade during the spring

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Michael B. Spektor; Malcolm Grothe; Walter Buchanan

Session 1347 Outreach Degree Completion Program Michael B. Spektor, Malcolm Grothe, Walter W. Buchanan Oregon Institute of Technology/The Boeing Company/Northeastern UniversityI. IntroductionIn our previous paper entitled “Delivering a Manufacturing Engineering Technology Program toBoeing Company”, in June of 1999, we reported about the mutual educational project betweenOIT and Boeing.1 In this paper we address the Initial Plan, Memorandum of Understanding,First Academic Quarter, Lessons Learned, and our Future Plan. All of the recommendationsfrom the earlier paper have been achieved during this academic year

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, periodic/consequential reviews, triggered/consequential reviews, formative departmentalreviews and formative individual reviews. Let s briefly examine each of these.Annual reviews are typically summative in nature and are done, as the name implies, on an annualbasis. They are often done for the purposes of determining any pay raises for the coming year. Page 5.495.2Because they occur so frequently relative to the length of time required to fully evaluate facultydevelopment projects, they are of questionable value for any kind of formative evaluation. Inaddition, the evidence elements needed for a thorough evaluation are usually missing and as

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engineering were given theopportunity to participate in a pilot project adopted from the community building model. Thismodel advocates clustering students, i.e. enrolling groups of students in common sections, so thestudents have the same homework, exams, and course preparation. Students in common sectionscan conveniently share information, and thus benefit through collaborative learning.Since all new engineering students at UW are required to take Introduction to EngineeringComputing, this course was chosen as the basis for clustered scheduling of Power Groupstudents. Membership in the Power Groups is further restricted to students enrolled in Calculus Ior higher, which is approximately 100 students. The Computing course is offered in 10 sectionsto

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(see Arce, 1994; a&b) is an instructional methodologywhere the students (and not the professor) are at the center of the learning process.Thus, the learning of the material is driven by the students and the role of theprofessor has been moved to that of a “team coach”. The approach integratesclassroom work, quizzes, homework assignments, exams, group projects, and thepreparation of class folders to stimulate and promote the strong involvement ofthe student in the process of building blocks of knowledge. This is achieved in avery active and constructive-progressive fashion. As a result, the students in thistype of environment enhance the development of their individual confidence,individual judgment, and creativity.Within the colloquial

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information resources continues to grow,Grainger staff have developed a ‘Help Getting Started’ module, the first page of which is shownin Figure 3, to assist users in identifying the most appropriate resources to meet their informationneeds.III. Database structures and retrieval featuresWithin the Web-based local databases, we have employed a common database structure and dataelement format. These conventions have been applied, as much as possible, across all of the localresources. This standard database structure includes a set of common table and field (column)tags and rules for the format of the associated data contained in the fields. Both the planning andthe implementation are crucial to the success of any database project.11We have assigned 20

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Josette L. Rice; Edwin L Zivi; Christopher T. Field; Thad Welch

includes computer-based projects, is also assigned. In class demonstrations help toreinforce course topics, but few programs incorporate traditional lab time into their courses.The United States Naval Academy (USNA) offers a junior level Signal and Systems course thatincludes a significant amount of hands-on lab time. This course is taught in a 2-2-3 format (twohours/week of lecture, two hours/week of lab, for three hours of academic credit. Due to theavailability of both personal computers (PCs) and data acquisition (DAQ) software that allow forthe seamless introduction of real-world data into the MATLAB workspace, it is now bothpossible and cost effective to incorporate hands-on labs into any course of this type.2. Combining MATLAB with a

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, airconditioning, security system, etc.) recording system status, and providing furthercommunication to other linked computers. One of the projects that have been worked on is to control the temperature, humidity, anda security system in a house. A microcontroller is used to receive the signals from sensors and toactivate/deactivate alarms, lights, air conditioning, heat pump, and dehumidifier. Thismicrocontroller is the same one used in the remote control system. It allows the operator of thecontrol system to modify the control program or change the set ups, such as the temperature orhumidity levels, at another location.Conclusions This paper presents a control system for remotely operating a microcontroller over thephone line. The system is

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Paula Zenner; Charles Van Karsen

futurecoursework.ConclusionsStudents have mixed opinions when asked to evaluate the new integrated lab during the chair’sexit interview. They feel that the course is a lot of work for only two credits but they commentthat it is a worthwhile experience. Educational outcomes progress has been noticed in the secondsemester senior design requirement. Students now have knowledge and hands-on experience ofexperimental techniques and they incorporate and utilize them in the development and testingstages of their capstone design project. Students are requesting laboratory equipment from thiscourse to perform experiments and performance measurements on their senior design projects.This course specifically addresses ABET Program Outcomes and Assessment (Criterion 3)2 a, b,f, g, i and

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. The development of a sufficient knowledgebase and the gathering of materials to be used as sources of information by faculty and studentsis a long-term project. It is anticipated that as the position develops some history, the knowledgeand materials will accumulate. Funding has been obtained to assist in the development of alibrary of resources.The outcomes with respect to increasing the flexibility in scheduling for the Director of Page 7.973.3Engineering and to developing the faculty’s awareness of the position have been achieved. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven Mickelson

courseassessment related to meeting the ABET Criteria. Pre- and post- assessment related tocompetencies addressed in the course or a major project can help instructors validate that courseobjectives are being meet.Bibliography1 Development of Workplace Competencies Sufficient to Measure ABET Outcomes.S. K. Mickelson, L. F. Hanneman, R.Guardiola, and T. J. Brumm. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition.2 http://www.ddiworld.com/, January 14, 2002.STEVEN MICKELSONSteven K. Mickelson is an Associate Professor of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (ABE) at Iowa StateUniversity. Dr. Mickelson is the teaching/advising coordinator for the ABE department. His teaching specialtiesinclude computer

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Introduction to Engineering Courses

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Steven Reyer; Glenn T. Wrate, Northern Michigan University; John Wheeldon; Owe Petersen

careers. The faculty teaching the course all feelit was a rewarding and worthwhile experience. Page 7.577.5 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationAs to the course, changes for next time include a fresh look at the experiments to keep themcurrent, and a reexamination of policies to make sure they are fair and complete.Bibliography1. Freuler, Richard, Audeen Fentiman, John Demel, Robert Gustafson, John Merrill, “Developing and ImplementingHands-On Laboratory Exercises and Design Projects

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Learning Styles of Engineers

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Virginia Elkins; Roy Eckart; Catherine Rafter; Eugene Rutz; Cathy Maltbie

the originating and receiving sites,resulting in four separate categories. A standard lecture section was used as the controlgroup. Faculty worked together as a team to select common texts, develop commonsyllabi and block final exams resulting in standardized materials and grading.To identify learning style, the project team selected two well-known instruments: theMyers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and the Kolb Learning Style Inventory (LSI). Bothinventories were administered to students in all sections of Mechanics I and later in allsections of Basic Strength of Materials at the University of Cincinnati College ofEngineering starting in the fall of 1999. In addition, two sections of Mechanics I atWright State University also participated in

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Moshe Hartman; Harriet Hartman

from faculty;direct hands-on “real world” laboratory and teamwork experience in every semester of the four-yearprogram, entrepreneurial expertise. Instead of an emphasis on competition between individuals, muchof the work is organized in project teams replicating real-world interdisciplinary collaboration; usuallythese teams are set up to avoid having only one female with multiple males, although interest in theproject may supercede the gender composition, especially in the more advanced years. Nearly 2/3 ofRowan’s juniors and seniors have the opportunity to do summer internships, gaining further real-worldexperience. Rowan prides itself on its low student-faculty ratio and its high level of student-facultyinteraction. Relatively small class

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SãoPaulo, Brazil. She is teacher and researcher at LARC (Laboratory of Computer Architectureand Networks) where she has developed projects at multimedia applications for high-speednetwork and distance educationWilson Vicente RuggieroWilson Vicente Ruggiero is President of SCOPUS TECNOLOGIA S.A. He is an assistantprofessor of Computer Department and Digital Systems Engineering of Polytechnic Schoolof University of São Paulo and Director of Laboratory of Computer and Networks ( LARC)of Polytechnic School University of São Paulo .He received his degree in ElectricalEngineering in 1971 in University of São Paulo. His B.S degree in 1975 in University ofSão Paulo and his PhD by UCLA University in 1978

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. Using the virtual classroom. Occupational Health & Safety. 68 (9), pp. 28-29 (1999).9. Martini, K. Digital Images and Seismic Design - A new role for photographs in architecture and engineering. AIA Faculty Institute on Teaching Seismic Design, Berkeley, CA, http://urban.arch.virginia.edu/~km6e/ACSA-96/ (1996)MOHAMMED E. HAQUEMohammed E. Haque is an Associate Professor of the Department of Construction Science at Texas A&MUniversity at College Station, Texas. He has over fifteen years of professional experience in analysis, design, andinvestigation of building, bridges and tunnel structural projects of various city and state governments and privatesectors. Dr. Haque is a registered Professional Engineer in the states of New York