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Marilyn Dyrud

constitutesprofessional ethics and how they can integrate this information into their courses. The key toeffectiveness is seamless integration; faculty want to avoid figuratively drawing a box around theethical material and labeling it “ethics,” thereby leading to students to the conclusion that this is“extra stuff” and hence not as important as technical content. Seminar participants are also asked to implement at least one ethics exercise in a class theyare currently teaching and report results to the seminar. Projects have been surprisingly varied,ranging from asking accounting students to number-crunch Ford Pinto gas tank redesign statisticsto examining the Hyatt Regency walkways collapse in a civil engineering class to exploring, in atechnical

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David Wells

programcontaining sixty-four credits in twenty-one courses. Greenfield courses are being developed overa planned five-year schedule; as 1996 was the third year in this project, only the first fraction ofnewly developed coursework was available for the first Burst. In Burst 96, therefore, instructionincluded a mixture of traditional courses imported into the CAT, Greenfield modularcoursework, and other non-traditional offerings. For Burst 97, more Greenfield courses wereavailable, but timely degree-completion still required a mix of instructional modes.Directly imported sections of traditional courses and modifications of traditional. on-campuscourses accounted for slightly less than half of the individual registrations (events) -- 43.9percent in Burst 96

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Richard Jerz

opportunity forstudents to use design ideas and creativity. The assignments begin with simple concepts andbecome more complex – using experience from all previous laboratory assignments. The finallab integrates experiences from previous labs. Although laboratory assignments use a smallsubset of manufacturing technologies, they were designed to address general technological designand integration issues. Additional time away from normal class time may be needed by studentsto complete a project. Students were allowed to work in small groups, but each is encouraged tothink through the problem. It is important that students explain their approaches, particularproblems, and learning experiences. Some assignments include extra credit activities. Each

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Olusegun Odesina; Nicholas Akinkuoye

duringthe project, resulting in an 88.2% response rate. There were four rounds of correspondence withthe participants. First Round. The initial questionnaire, requesting a list of factors that aid in theretention of Industrial Technology (IT) faculty at institutions of higher education, was sent to therespondents along with a cover letter explaining the purpose and importance of the study. In thisround, each chairperson submitted a minimum of 16 items considered to be relevant factors inthe retention of IT faculty. The items were organized by topic area which allowed the experts toconduct subsequent reviews and ratings in a systematic and efficient manner. Second Round. All factors were consolidated and rewritten. Then they were

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J. A. Murden; K. P. Brannan

sequential files sequential files Vectors and matrices (single and single and double dimension arrays single and double dimension double-dimension arrays) arrays User-defined functions functions functions and subprograms 2D graphing, 3D graphing graphics graphics (surface and contour plots) Data analysis and presentation (statistical functions, scatter plots, curve fitting, and histograms) Symbolic, numerical, and graphical solutionssenior projects or software development to support graduate research efforts. Ultimately, it wasdecided that the advantages of using Mathcad in the

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Ronald V. Wiedenhoeft

- Session 2761Understanding Society’s ImpactsThe American Association of Colleges says it for everyone: “So many technical problems arenow also social problems—or ethical, or political, or international problems—that some abilityto deal with them as such is just part of the essential professional equipment of engineers.”7 TheAssociation also points out that, in order to be able to do their work, engineers need to be able toconvince non-engineers that what they recommend is worthwhile. Increasingly, we are told,technical projects are routinely designed by multidisciplinary teams, and those making or influ-encing decisions are likely to include legislators, members of the media, bureaucrats, and con-sumers.University programs in Science, Technology

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Samir B. Billatos; Nadia A. Basaly

Quantification of Environmental Effect during Product Life”, Annals of the CIRP, vol. 41(1), pp. 473-476, 1992.4. Ishii, K., and Mukherjee, S., “Post Manufacturing Issues in Life Cycle Design”, ASME: Design for Manufacture, vol. 51, 1992.5. Suh, N. P. The Principles of Design, Oxford University Press, 1990.6. Moss, M. A., “Designing for Minimal Maintenance Expense”, Marcel Dekker Inc, New York, 1985.7. Life cycle Engineering Group, Stanford University, “LASeR 1.0: Life-cycle Assembly, Service and Recycling Software and User’s Manual”, 1994.8. Ishii, K., “Design for Recycle Modularity”, http://mml-mac-9.stanford.edu/MMLWeb Doc.stanford.edu/MMLWebDocs/research/projects/summary/dfe/dfe.html, 1996.9. "EIFA", http:/dfe.stanford.edu/eifa.html

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Kristopher Delgado; Hartono Sumali

thepresence of noise, Elements of instruments and Instrument interfacing. After students passed thefirst semester, they were allowed to take the second term of the course, which dealt with practicalapplications. Students prepared projects of which the majority were real industrial problems.Students designed the necessary instrument or apparatus to solve the problem and prepared areport on what the students intended to do. In the third term of the class the students completed,built and tested their design and instruments and prepared formal reports.The use of the PC in instrumentation and data acquisition dated back to at least fifteen years ago.At Georgia Tech, students gained familiarity with the use of computers for data acquisition andmotor speed

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Daniel Walsh; David Gibbs; Alan Demmons

technology.Basic principles are presented with the use of advanced simulation and modeling techniques, thus timeless principlesare conveyed in timely fashion.Each module is focused on an engineering approach to problem solving. Each treats a different theme, and presentsa different challenge to the learner. However, in each experience, the experimental method is used as the finalarbiter in problem resolution. In addition to factual information specific to each module, learners find that theacquisition of valid data, and its objective analysis is critical to the optimization process that we call engineering.The project focuses on the use of the engineering method to enhance students capability to absorb, comprehend andrelate complex information that, at

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1997 Annual Conference

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Zoran S. Filipi; GuoQing Zhang; Dennis N. Assanis

, thus enabling them to conduct real-life, 1semester-long, open-ended projects that integrate the course principles. Based on this finding,we have been encouraged to develop a week-long, intensive short course to introduce thepracticing professional engineers to the principles of modeling and simulation of internalcombustion engines. Exposing the student to the hierarchy of engine process and systems level models, andteaching them a number of complex phenomena and their interactions within the constraints ofone week, creates two new challenges: (i) how to condense the lectured material and increaseefficiency of the teaching/learning process in

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Peter Martin; Bill Bitler; Rulph Chassaing

. B. Widrow and S. D. Stearns, "Adaptive Signal Processing", Prentice Hall, 1985.8. R. Chassaing and P. Martin, "Parallel Processing with the TMS320C40", Proceedings of the 1995 ASEE Annual Conference, June, 1995.9. R. Chassaing and Bill Bitler, " Digital Signal Processing for Video Line Rate Analysis", International Journal of Engineering Education, 1995.10. Chassaing, J. Prime, V. Caramadre, R. Siipola, A. Malone, C. Foreman, R. Groppe, A. Ataya, "Student Projects on Digital Signal Processing with the TMS320C30", Proceedings of the 1995 ASEE Annual Conference, June, 1995.11. R. Chassaing, W. Anakwa, and A. Richardson, "Real-Time Digital Signal Processing in Education", Proceedings of the

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Parris C. Neal; Donna E. Peterson; Cindy L. Lynch; Cameron Wright

at examples of students’ reasoning about the ill-defined problem of developingeffective study habits. The Levels of Performance in the Appendix would thus be used as oneway to evaluate the essays. Other professors who may choose to implement a study journalproject for their classes will find that fine-tuning of the student instructions, such as we indicateabove, will be necessary to achieve the desired results as the project evolves.RESULTSAs with all unfamiliar activities, most students were resistant at first to the idea of keeping astudy journal; some complained rather eloquently. The better students were more adamant thanothers, using a typical argument of “I get good grades already so I must know how to study

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G. Frederick d'Almaine; Brian Manhire; Samuel O. Atteh

address this challenge, some HDTs are now exploring pos-sible exchange linkages with foreign universities with a view towards establishing joint venturessuch as student exchange programs, visiting professor arrangements and research collaboration.In particular, these efforts are attracting financial and technical assistance from American donors.For example, M. L. Sultan Technikon is now establishing linkages with American institutions byway of the USAID-funded Tertiary Education Linkages Project (TELP)20 and the InternationalFoundation for Education and Self-Help’s (IFESH) Educators for Africa Program. IFESH is a not-for-profit U.S.-based private developmental non-governmental organiza-tion (NGO) that has, inter alia, created with support

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P.R. Roberge; M.A.A. Tullmin

increased, assuming an area ratio of 1:1 ?6. What main steps would you recommend as part of the restoration work to minimize future corrosion damage, assuming a budget similar (in current terms) to that of the actual restoration project could be raised ?7. a. Given the corrosion rate information for the first year in Question 3, what ISO corrosion category does the statue environment fall under ? b. Is this an expected result ? c. Using the ISO guidelines, indicate the expected corrosion rate of an aluminum statue skin in the first year ?The PC based formatThe computerized version utilizes hypertext and graphics hotspots to facilitate studentinteraction with the assignment and fundamental course materials, as shown in Figure 2

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Jeffrey W. Roule; Carl W. Steidley

Page 2.209.11. Partial support for this project was provided by the National Aeronautics and SpaceAdministration’s JOVE Program, Contract # 3606-08machines are of practical interest as well as theoretical interest since they are commonly used incompilers to perform lexical analysis.We generally introduce the finite state machine in a formal mathematical fashion such as:M=[S,I,O,fs,fo] where S is a finite set of states, I is the finite input alphabet, O is the finite outputalphabet, fs:SxI->S, and fo:S->O. Before long however we may find many of our students, if notperplexed, bored by the mathematical abstraction and we find much sagacity in the old studentadage that "a picture is worth a thousand mathematical equations", thus, we

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William J. Adams; Curtis A. Carver

States Military Academy [4-6, 8]. The HTML Course Creator provides a point andclick interface for the rapid development of hypermedia courses [See Figure 2]. Courseware de-velopment using the HTML Course Creators requires no knowledge of HTML and provides aconsistent and easy to use tool specifically designed for courseware development. It also builds aconsistent directory structure between courses so that similar resources are stored in similar loca-tions. This greatly facilitates interlinking courseware and sharing resources across departmentalboundaries. Other institutions have likewise build similar tools to standardize courseware devel-opment [see 13-20 for similar projects].The HTML Glossary Tool recursively searches through course

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Michael J. Pavelich; Barbara Olds

Conference Proceedings Page 1.28.4Table 2 - Freshmen Work Collected Table 3 - Senior Work Collected, Dept X- project team report Comm,CT - design team report Tech,Comm,CT- humanities class report Comm,CT,HSS - seminar essay Comm,HSS- oral report video Comm - design oral report video Comm- final exams in calculus, - final exams in select courses

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Richard A. Young

am also indebted to my colleagues in physicsMark Utlaut, Tom McGlinn, and the University of Portland computer support staff for their help(past and present) in this project. Finally I would like to thank the adjunct lab instructors: EllainLaJoie, Bruce Meeves, and Greg Mulder, for their often heroic effort.References1. David Hestenes (1987), "A Modeling theory of physics instruction", Am J. Phys, 55, 440-454.2. David Hestenes (1992), "Modeling games in a Newtonian World", Am J. Phys, 60, 732-748.3. R. R. Borchers (1988), "In Praise of Visualization and Simulation ", Computers in Physics Jan/Feb )4. P.W. Laws (1988) in The Conference on Computers in Physics Instruction, E. F. Redish and J. S. Risley, Eds,Addison Wesley.5. P. W. Laws, et al

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Richard Parker; Walter Buchanan

already be there. How will this resource be used?One of the authors has been working on a new project that uses Electronics Testbench as both thestudy guide and the testing device. Since he has built a large number of Electronics Workbenchcircuits in the past, they are all available to us for use. Also, he taught a math course for theelectronics department using Maple, along with Electronics Workbench, so that students coulduse Maple as a type of “super calculator” to automate the symbolic solution to an electronicsproblem, then reduce the resulting formula to numbers. [3] The students quickly saw theadvantage. Once the problem was correctly set up, the answer was produced without thenecessity of repetitive calculations, and the numerical answer

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Jr., Fred O. Simons; Aaron L. Robinson

form of a seminar, 1994AARON L. ROBINSONAaron was born on December 5, 1970 in Miami, Florida. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineeringin April 1994 from Florida State University. He should receive his M.S in Electrical Engineering at theend of the Spring 1997. He has served as a project leader for the DSP group in the FAMU-FSU Collegeof Engineering High Performance Computing and Simulations Research Laboratory. He is a McKnightFellow committed to finishing his Ph.D. degree.FRED O. SIMONS, JR.Fred O. Simons, Jr. received his MS and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University ofFlorida in 1962 and 1965. He has served in various Laboratory and Departmental administrative andprofessional leadership roles at the university

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David R. Haws

collaborative learning, I too am committedto the process and require evidence of consultation (a learning log submitted at the end of thesemester) between PSI students.While the time commitment on my part is significant (2 to 3 times that required in a traditionallecture course), the obvious development of my students has been a rewarding compensation. Ascollaborative learning increases, demand on faculty time for student consultation decreases.Also, the demand on faculty time is decreased by re-using mastery exams and other coursematerials. However, I find the growth of my students such a rewarding experience that any extratime seems quickly absorbed in other PSI projects (additional course materials and masteryexams, expanding PSI to other course

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Russell Dean; Charles F. Yokomoto

,objective. methods and measures. project reports, portfolios, etc.Conduct assessments: (1) collect Implement and evaluate. Analyze and interpret findings. Gather data, analyze, and interpret toevidence, (2) analyze evidence, and produce findings.compare.Determine feedback channels for Evaluate whether or not criteria werecontinuous improvement of practices. met.Evaluate whether objectives were

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John I. Hochstein; E. H. Perry

students enrolled in the program?” to “Whathas been learned by every student that successfully completes the program?” Criterion 3 forbasic level accreditation under EC2000 begins with "Engineering programs must demonstratethat their graduates have …" and completes the sentence with specification of eleven programoutcomes. Of the eleven, seven start the description of the outcome with the phrase, "an abilityto …". In the past, program coverage was documented in part by published syllabi and byexamples of student work such as exams, homework assignments, and projects, conductedprimarily during the year preceding the accreditation visit. While such instruments can still beuseful for documenting the program, unless the samples of student work have

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A. J. Baker; Z. Chambers; M. B. Taylor

technology.AcknowledgmentsThe authors have benefited from the innovation and services of many people in designing andorganizing the Website for this distance education experience. We are particularly indebted toDr. Julie Little and Ms. Jean Derco, of the UTK Innovative Technology Center, for websiteartistic design. Our thanks to Mr. Mark Spurlock and Mr. Alexy Kolesnikov, who debugged thesystems leading to pdf logging of all courseware onto the website. Finally, our sincere Page 4.268.5appreciation goes to Ms. Marva Anderson, who contributed greatly to the project in the timelyword processing with continual editing of all courseware material, always with minimal

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Paul Waters; Jim Greer; James P. Solti

Teaching Style Projects Student’s Instructor Desire (traits) Tests Desired Active Learning Syllabus Knowledge Outcomes for Do It! Student

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Peter Rosati

however as the female graduation rates (68% overall, Page 4.279.636% four-year) were higher than the male graduation rates (56% overall, 29% four-year). Thisresult highlights that one obvious way to increase those personality types which are currently in aminority amongst the graduating engineers would be to increase the numbers of female students.The most persistent type letter common to all the graduating groups including female students isJ (judging ). This serves to underline the fact that engineering programs are busy programs withlots of assignments , laboratory reports and design projects and it is the orderly and systematic J’swho thrive

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Stanley J. Pisarski

, Florida3. Rashid, Muhammad H., “Electronics Circuit Design Using ELECTRONICS WORKBENCH”, 1998, PWSPublishing Company, Boston, MassachusettsSTANLEY J. PISARSKIStanley J. Pisarski has been an instructor of EET at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown for 19 years. Hereceived a BSEET in 1977 and has worked as a project engineer for Robicon Corporation in Pittsburgh, PA,consulting engineer for Ocenco Inc., in Blairsville, PA, and a research and design engineer for K. H. Controls Inc.,in Blairsville, PA. He is a Licensed Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania. Page 4.293.6

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Frank Cheng; Daniel M. Chen

professor of the Department of Industrial and Engineering technology (IET) at CentralMichigan University (CMU). He has a M. S. degree in Mechanical Engineering (1990) and a Ph.D. in IndustrialEngineering (1995) from the University of Cincinnati (UC). While he studied in Cincinnati, he participated inresearch projects conducted at the Center for Robotics Research at UC. Since 1995, he has been actively involved inconducting research and teaching courses in robotics and automation at CMU. His teaching and research interestsfocus on technologies of rapid deployment manufacturing including robotic simulation, Petri Nets, flexibleautomation, control systems, and robot workcell design. He also serves as the technical director for the IETRobotics

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Enno 'Ed' Koehn

Engineering Education and Practice, ASCE, 121 (4), 259-261.12. Koehn, E. (1995b). “Practitioner and Student Recommendations for an Engineering Curriculum. “Journal ofEngineering Education, ASEE, 84 (3), 241-248.13. Landis, R.B. (1997). “Enhancing Student Success.” ASEE Prism, 7 (3), 30-32.14. Mendelsohn, R. (1998). “Teamwork – The Key to Productivity.” Journal of Management in Engineering,ASCE, 14 (1), 22-25.BiographyEnno “Ed” Koehn is Professor and Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering at Lamar University, Beaumont,TX. Professor Koehn has served as the principal investigator for several research and development projects dealingwith various aspects of construction and has experience in the design, scheduling, and estimating of facilities. In

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Daniel M. Chen

DESIGN Rigid Body & Ground Fix Type of Joints Input Motions Solutions Display of Results Figure 5. Flowchart of Mechanism Design Procedure Figure 6. Performance in Mechanism Design CIM IT ETAVG 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% Page 4.97.6four problems (and one semester project) with two-third of them in FEA and one-third inMechanism Design. All those turned in usually had been completed