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Valerie E. Taylor; Rudolf Eigenmann; Renato Figueiredo; Nirav Kapadia; Luis Vidal; Jose A.B. Fortes; Jan-Jo Chen; Alok Choudhary

infrastructure are also describedin this paper via a detailed example of a virtual lab" assignment using PUNCH. This paper also reports on usage of the system in classes at the authors' universities, andon student evaluations of their experience with the web-based interface. Planned extensions to the system include support for a text-based, terminal interface tothe infrastructure. This interface will enable fast execution of text-based interactive tools,such as debuggers, as well as a Unix-like interface to user le management. Another plannedextension is to support controlled program execution. Current users of the Parallel Program-ming hub can compile and analyze their programs on PUNCH, but then have to post-processand run their executables on a

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Geoff Swan; S P Maj; D Veal

expected for students should drivethe curriculum planning” 1. The computing science department at ECU conducted anexploratory market audit covering a wide range of companies offering employment in the area ofcomputer and network support (CNS) within Western Australia. This took the form of a survey Page 5.492.1intended to ascertain the level and extent of the CNS related skills that prospective CNSemployees needed to possess. Subsequently a checklist of basic required CNS skills wascompiled. A random selection of ten, final year ECU computer science undergraduates wereinterviewed from a graduating population of approximately one hundred. According to

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Rebecca A. Pinkus; Craig A. Simmons

communications has the opportunity to act as a rolemodel for his or her students, and by emphasizing the importance of clear communication, mayhelp to remove the stigma many engineering students currently associate with non-technicalelectives.AcknowledgementsWe gratefully acknowledge Dr. Rob Irish for his support and encouragement with the planning,implementation, and evaluation of the seminar, and for his contributions to this paper. We wouldalso like to thank the students who participated in the seminar and who provided valuable Page 5.503.7feedback.Bibliography1. Irish, R. “Internal Report to the Dean: Survey of Technical Writing Courses.” Faculty of

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Robert S. Thompson

Revise Objectives and Scope?Step 2 Identify Critical Information Identify Areas of UncertaintyStep 3 What Data Are Available?Step 4 Identify Critical Data Needs Develop Criteria for Judging Value of Incremental DataStep 5 Identify and Compare Alternatives Develop Criteria for Comparing AlternativesStep 6 Recommendations - Plan of ActionFigure 2: Task performance strategy for multidisciplinary teams Page 5.526.11 Project 2 Team 5 5.0 Average

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how we were doing in classes, etc.• I enjoyed having him as our mentor; he helped us when we needed it, and was fun to work with.The mentor’s comments were very positive and insightful. Here are just a few of their commentsabout this experience:• I thought it was a great chance to meet younger students. It also got them involved with club activities. It is about the only way I can get to know them!• I got to meet 4 great new Ag Engineers. Through talking with them about their plans – I got to share my experiences and hear different perspectives.• I hope I provided a few younger students with some insight to the future (i.e., classes, professors, industry experience) and I learned a lot (some review, some new). I wish I had

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Saleh M. Sbenaty; Claudia House

multimedia components to these case study modelsand two cases are being produced in CD-ROM format, with plans for more CD-ROM versions tobe created in 2000-2001.V. 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 intechnology education. Each of the SEATEC teams identified the courses where field-testing willbe conducted. Assessments are currently being performed at community colleges and four-yearuniversities across Tennessee, Alabama, and Kentucky. A National Advisory Committee was

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Munir Mandviwalla; Chang Liu; Azim Danesh

distance education is more widely accepted, there has been and continuesto be a large debate as to the true definition of “distance education”. Desmond Keegan’s reviseddefinition is most often quoted. He proposes that the following elements are needed to havedistance education:• The quasi-permanent separation of teacher and learner throughout the length of the learning process;• The influence of an educational organization both in the planning and preparation of learningmaterials and in the provision of student support services;• The use of technical media: print, audio, video, or computer to unite teacher and learner andto carry out the content of the course;• The provision of two-way communication so that the student may benefit from or

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Stephen M. Batill

human activity of planning, describing or is someother way formalizing the description of an artifact, activity or process. The design, as a noun, isthe resulting artifact. Engineers have traditionally viewed the process of design as beingobjective and quantitative and involving the application of science and technology. The termdesign is also often associated with another perspective that involves a strong subjective,qualtitative or artistic content. The automobile is a good example. The engineer might see thenew automobile design in terms of performance capabilities such as speed, fuel consumption,weight, etc., all objective measures of the product, where the style designer sees shape, color andvisual appeal, all typically subjective measures

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Richard N. Smith; Michael K. Jensen; Deborah A. Kaminski; Amir Hirsa

cookies will be instrumented with thermocouples as they travel through the oven on theconveyor belt. The top surface temperature will be monitored with an infrared detector, thusintroducing students to the basics of pyrometry. A mirror will traverse the oven in tandem with thebelt to keep the cookie in view of the detector. Radiant heaters at the top of the oven will supplythe heat.4. Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics for a Windtunnel Flow SystemStudents measure velocity profiles and heat transfer coefficients on a heated flat plate in a windtunnel. This experiment comes at the time of the semester when the students are being exposed ingreater depth to the concept of a temperature and a velocity “field.” The case study we plan torelate to this

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discussions.The same instructional design principles and learning models used in a face to face course are alsoapplicable in an online course. But the major difference is that in an online course instructor’s roleshould be one of facilitating students’ learning instead of teaching them similar to a face-to-facecourse. The key is in planning ahead what is to be covered in each online session and designingthe discussions using learning cycle principles, such as the Kolb Learning Cycle6 shown in Figure2. Online discussions can be designed to cover all the four quadrants of the learning cycle byaddressing motivational issues, theory and facts, application, and synthesis. This helps to impose astructure on the discussions and make them more substantive than

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Kevin J. Renken; John Reisel

skills ofthe students.Future DirectionsWe expect to continue to utilize both graduate and undergraduate student projects in the work of theEnergy Conversion Efficiency Laboratory. Initially, we plan to implement the improvements to theenergy conversion savings experiments, by using several lubricants in one compressor. We also planto test additional lubricants. Directions for future laboratory development projects include in-lineviscosity measurements of the lubricants, vibration analysis via use of an accelerometer, effect oflubrication as well as environmental and operating conditions on discharge mass flow rates, andbranching the laboratory activities into new energy conversion efficiency problems. These problemswill likely involve new

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. Daphne Chang is an Assistant Director for Career Development at Bloomfield College. In addition toproviding career counseling and assessments, she also teaches career planning seminar course. Since1994, Ms. Chang has been using MBTI Personality Inventory in her classes to enhance personal awarenessand to facilitate career development among college students. She holds an M.A. in CurriculumDevelopment from the University of Kansas and an M.Ed. in Adult Counseling & Education fromUniversity of Toronto. Currently, Ms. Chang is a board member of Middle Atlantic Career CounselingAssociation. Page 5.322.14

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Noellette Conway-Schempf; H. Scott Matthews; Francis C. McMichael; Chris Hendrickson

sometimes makematters worse. The case study on end-of-life options for products describes a method todevelop models of product life and obsolescence in order to plan either efficient productdisposal or product recycling strategies. These modules have been used in discussions ofrecycling and waste management in undergraduate history and policy courses in thecollege of social sciences, and in an upper undergraduate/graduate-level course onenvironmental management in the engineering school at Carnegie Mellon University.Recycling/Waste Management Educational Materials and Modules Module – “Rechargeable Battery Management and Recycling: A Green Design Educational Module”. This module was discussed in section 2. In the context of

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Robert P. Hesketh; Stephanie Farrell

limited number of students preferhaving an inductive order of topics. In addition, students felt that the order of topics startingwith mass transfer in the transport course was the most logical and easiest to understand.Future Teaching Plans This paper discusses several concepts related to the inductive style of teaching andlearning. The first concept is presenting material using an inductive lecture format. A professorstarts with an experiment or shows results of an experiment and ends with the derivation ofequations describing these results. The second concept presented in this paper is an inductiveorder of topics within an area of transport. For example heat transfer could be taught startingwith heat exchangers and overall heat

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Jennie Si; Frank C. Hoppensteadt; Forouzan Golshani; Donald W. Collins; Christian Ringhofer; Kostas Tsakalis

Distributed Processing CORBA Workstations Parallel IA64 IA64 IA64 Processing Bay 1 Bay 2 ... Bay n Figure 1: Integrated Simulation Modeling Environmentobserved that this problem could be formulated as a time-varying control problem, for whichcontrol theory offers a variety of tools. Our plan was to investigate the use of Model-Basedcompensatory design techniques to develop and test scheduling algorithms that provide "near-optimal" performance with respect to large-but-low-frequency perturbations, such as

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Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

own or plan to buy, the inexpensive floating-pointTMS320C31 DSKs for pedagogical reasons, this MATLAB program fully supports that decision byallowing filter coefficient quantization effects to be demonstrated using either fixed-point orfloating point filtering algorithms on a single DSP device. This program eliminates the need topurchase expensive specialized software programs or additional DSP hardware. The programdescribed in this paper provides an interactive graphical user interface, which communicatesdirectly with the DSK, and demonstrates in real-time how both coefficient quantization and filterimplementation affect filter performance. All of this is accomplished without the need for tediousprogramming of the DSK. The latest version of

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Gene Moriarty

sake. Science operates at the level of theory, a theory of reality. A Page 5.666.6science of engineering, according to Taft Broome [12], must be a 6Praxiology, a theory of efficient action. But a theory of engineering is notthe same as engineering itself. Engineering is an action involving a process.That process is a human activity of producing a plan, which draws onresources available, whereby systems, devices, networks, and structures canbe produced to fulfill human needs and desires. Only the barest outlines ofthis complex reality could be drawn into a theory of efficient action.In fact, what makes a science or theory of

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Riffe J. William; Joel K. Berry; Raghu Echempati

currently offered at Kettering University. The MfgE-404Sheet Metal Forming course is offered by IMEB Department (with ME-202: Mechanics of Solidsand MfgE-370: Engineering Materials as pre-requisites), and ME-510 Computer Simulation ofMetal Forming Processes (with MfgE-370, ME-315: Computer Aided Engineering and ME-342:Advanced Solids as pre-requisites, and possibly ME-429: Finite Elements as co-requisite). Catalogdescription of these courses is outlined in Appendix 1.Itemized objectives of the detailed plan I. Enhancement of the existing Sheet Metal Forming course (i) upgrade the existing stamping laboratory by procuring a hydraulic press and the accompanying controls and tooling (ii) prepare a set of experiments in

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presents a description of a rather unique writing activity developed for usein the PNM course. This activity was designed to give students experience with all aspects ofpreparing a formal paper for publication and presentation.III. Description of the Writing ActivityEarly in the Fall 1999 semester students enrolled in PNM were informed that one of the keycomponents of the course would be the preparation of a formal written paper for publication andpresentation at a “conference” planned for the end of the semester. Students were allowed tochoose a topic for their papers that interested them. The only stipulation given them was that the Page

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Barbara Olds

to the program asa whole. Sometimes the students’ suggestions are general. Paul, for example, suggested that hisfirst seminar might have gone more smoothly if less difficult material had been chosen for thefirst several weeks’ readings. In other cases, very specific suggestions are made. In one class,Paul suggested that there should have been a few more graded writing assignments which“would have made me more carefully read some of the material.” In addition to hearing suchsuggestions first hand at their tutorial meetings, moderators are encouraged to read the portfolioentries of all of their students and make appropriate changes in the seminar for the next offering.VII. ChallengesAlthough the portfolio assessment plan has been largely

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Veronica D. Hinton-Hudson; Brenda Hart

was also noted that the persons who these studentsindicated as motivating them the most were either their teachers, parents or friends.Now that these 23 students have completed their first term in college, the authors will conductanother survey to assess how many of these students actually enrolled in college and how manyactually followed through with their initial choices of college major as noted at the time theyparticipated in the program. The authors also plan to survey the members of the pilot group whoare in the class of 2000 in high school to see if their interest in engineering, science, or a mathrelated career field continues.IX. General Guiding PrinciplesAlthough teaching specific concepts of industrial engineering was an element of

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Michael T. Hertz; Luna P. Magpilli; Michael E. Gorman

other, but the new contract would forbid this practice. Monsanto anticipated difficulties in enforcing their contracts in developing countries where seedtrading had always been the common practice. Hence sales to these countries were somewhat limited. TheDelta and Pine Land Company developed a potential technical solution to this legal problem. This solutionwas to add a gene to the seeds that would render them sterile after the first generation, a process for whichDelta and Pine Land Company and the USDA had received a joint patent. The case method involves putting the students into dilemmas faced by companies or individuals.One of the dilemmas we plan to use with students is the issue of whether Monsanto should go forward

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Jose'-Job Flores-Godoy; Frank C. Hoppensteadt; Donald W. Collins; Kostas Tsakalis

design team has preset the process flow of each product through itsproduction life. This process flow plan establishes the number of steps and the machine ormachine groups the product will visit through its production cycle. This sequence (routing) mustbe followed precisely for the production yield to be achieved. In a simulation model attributes Page 5.453.3assigned to the product such as the process step can be used to determine where the product is tobe sent next, i.e., to which machine group.The following diagram (Figure 3) shows the routing and the reentry for each product and

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Nathan Stott; Gregory B. Markus; Diann Brei; Deanna M. Winton Hoffman; William W. Schultz

long range planning for ProCEED. The board consists of two primaryfaculty members, the Pi Tau Sigma President (or the president’s designate), a representative fromthe College of Engineering, and a representative from the Center for Learning throughCommunity Service. This advisory board assists Pi Tau Sigma in contacting and describingME450 opportunities to the community partners and in helping screen and select final candidatesfor ME450 projects that will be presented to the ME450 course leadership. Project selection is Page 5.502.7based on the likelihood of success in ME450, the impact on the community, and the supportstructure (finances

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Jeffery M. Saul; Rhett J. Allain; Duane L. Deardorff; David S. Abbott; Robert J. Beichner

accompany the problem.Organize your approachOnce you have a really good idea of what the problem is about, you need to think about what to do next.Have you seen this type of question before? Being able to classify a problem can make it much easier to layout a plan to solve it. You should almost always make a quick drawing of the situation. Label importantevents with circled letters. Indicate any known values, perhaps in a table or directly on your sketch.Analyze the problemBecause you have already categorized the problem, it should not be too difficult to select relevant equationsthat apply to this type of situation. Use algebra (and calculus, if necessary) to solve for the unknownvariable in terms of what is given. Substitute in the appropriate

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? How much fuel will they consume?Performance Fuel weight, take off distance, speed/altitude boundariesConfiguration How should it look? Designer’s decisions needed!Stability & Control Locate & size the tail, flaps, elevators, ailerons etc. Fuel distribution.Structure Strength of each part, material, weight reduction, life prediction.Manufacturing: Design each part, see how everything fits, and plan how to build andconcurrent maintain the vehicle. Break this down into steps involved inengineering manufacturing.Life-cycle cost Minimize cost of owning the vehicle over its entire lifetime.Iteration Are all the assumptions satisfied? Refine the weight and the design.Flight

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Julie E. Sharp

large would be inappropriate. This feedback helped meto tailor my e-mail correspondence to the needs of my students. I plan to give the questionnaireagain to gather further information.References1. Goodson, C.E., and S. L. Miertschin, “Development and Implementation of Web Based Courses for Engineering Technology,” ASEE 1998 Annual Conference Proceedings, 5 pp. Available online at http://www.asee.org/conferences/search/00127.pdf.2. Goodson, C.E., S. Miertschin, S. Schroeder, and P. Daniel, “Experiences with Video Enhanced Collaborative Learning, “ ASEE 1999 Conference Proceedings, 6 pp. Available online at http://www.asee.org/conferences/search/99conf207.pdf.3. Kraebber, H.W., “Using the World Wide Web to Support Teaching in

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Mark Manion; Moshe Kam

department of history and politics (these are also required of allundergraduate majors in the CoE). In addition, the sophomore-class instruction in ethics iscoordinated closely with the laboratory and the history of technology component of “Evaluationand Presentation of Engineering Data.” Coordination among the core faculty results incurricular planning that is integrative in Herkert's sense of integrating an entire range of topicsthat span the literature: from professionalism and engineering ethics, through the history andsociology of technology, to technology policy studies and onto what are called "science-technology-society" (STS) studies.7III. MethodologyResearchers in the field of engineering ethics have identified at least four major

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David R. Haws

day of classes, Itook him to the registrar’s office to add his math course and stood in line with him to make surethat he didn’t encounter any problems (I was unsure that they would let him register for the mathclass without taking the placement exam himself, and would have taken him to the testing center,if this had been the case). In my office, I showed him how to access my computer and printer,the Internet, and how to get an outside phone line (he already knew how to get soft drinks out ofmy refrigerator). Over the first couple days, I tried to answer his questions (or anticipate hisquestions) about what his different instructors would expect. I reviewed his syllabi, helped himto plan out his study time, and this was about the extent of

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Francis J. Hopcroft

planning for the future and provide the student an opportunity toidentify areas of technical skill development in which he/she may need to place more effort inthe future.The Portfolio will be a requirement in only one course each semester, but will address thelearning which has occurred in all courses taken that semester. The portfolio will be graded andwill count as part of the final grade in the courses for which it is required.Students will prepare two separate, but identical, portfolios. One will be turned in at the end ofthe semester and will be placed in the student’s permanent portfolio file in the Department. Thesecond copy is one that the student will maintain as a continuous file throughout his/her stay atWentworth.The copy retained by