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students become ethical professionals. It suggests bridging the gap between ethical theoryand cases by teaching ethical dilemmas and issues that are likely to be encountered in dailyprofessional life.I. IntroductionSince the late 1970’s, ethics has been increasingly emphasized in engineering curricula. Manyprograms have introduced elective courses in engineering ethics, whereas others haveincorporated modules on engineering ethics in professional ethics courses or included them intechnology and society courses. Moreover, the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET) 2000 engineering criteria requests engineering programs to incorporateethics and ethical considerations in their educational objectivesThere are at least two good

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Collins, 1996.4. Gardner, H., Brain, Mind and Creativity, Basic Books Inc. Publishers, 1983.5. Glassman, E., Creativity Handbook: Shift Paradigms and Harvest Creative Thinking at Work, The LCS Press,1991.6. Gordon, W.J.J., The Metaphorical Way of Learning and Knowing, Porpoise Books, 1971.7. Higgins, J., 101 Creative Problem Solving Techniques, The New Management Publishing Company, 1994.8. Osborn, A.F., Applied Imagination: Principles and Procedures of Creative Problem Solving, Charles Scribner’sSons, 1979.9. Parnes, S., Source book for Creative Problem Solving, Creative Education Foundation Press, 1992.10. Weisberg R., Creativity: Beyond the Myth of Genius, W.H. Freeman & company, 1992.11. Wycoff, J., Mind Mapping: Your Personal Guide to

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Kathryn Jablokow

course, thestudents of Creativity, Innovation and Change are introduced to two models of cognitivediversity. These models are: (1) The personality types of Carl Jung; and (2) The Adaption-Innovation theory of M. J. Kirton.Carl Jung’s theory of personality types is incorporated through the administration andinterpretation of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a well-known psychologicalinstrument that is based on Jung’s work. Type theory, as defined by Jung, Myers, Briggs, andothers7,8,9, describes an individual’s personality in terms of dichotomous traits: extraversion (E)vs. introversion (I), sensing (S) vs. intuition (N), thinking (T) vs. feeling (F), and judging (J) vs.perceiving (P). Every individual exhibits all of these traits at

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Joseph Cataldo; Gerardo Del Cerro

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Molly Johnson; Cathie Scott; Cynthia Atman

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Leslie Pease; Edward Mastascusa; Dan Hyde; Brian Hoyt; Bill Snyder; Maurice F. Aburdene; Michael Prince; Margot Vigeant

1written communication.Scale: 1-Strongly disagree, 2-Moderately disagree, 3-Slight disagree, 4-Neutral, 5-Slightly agree, 6-Moderately agree, 7-Strongly agreeReferences:1. Felder, R.M., Dr. R. Woods, J.E. Stice, and A. Rugarcia, "The Future of Engineering Education, II. Teaching Methods that Work," Chem. Eng. Ed., 34(1), 26 (2000).2. Johnson, D.W., R.T. Johnson, and K.A. Smith, Active Learning: Cooperation in the College Classroom, 2nd ed., Interaction Book Co., Edina, MN (1999).3. Millis, B. J., and P. G. Cottell, Jr., Cooperative Learning for Higher Education Faculty, Oryx Press, Phoenix, AR, (1998).4. Stein, R. F and S. Hurd, Using Student Teams in the Classroom, Anker Publishing Company, Inc., 20005. [Goal/QPC] The Team Memory

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Joseph Walsh; David Kelso; John Troy; Barbara Shwom; Penny Hirsch

learning outcomes, clarifying the instructions and guidelines for the assignments, and collecting demographic information from the students, along with their work. Our next step is to analyze the groups’ reports and explore additional ways to promote effective collaboration and good writing in the students’ report-s.• Module Type II, with no explicitly labeled communication deliverable A second module, in bio-optics, includes no explicitly labeled communication deliverable, like a final report, but nonetheless requires communication activities at certain points and thus presents rich opportunities for communication instruction. “Light Propagation through Tissues” (J. Walsh, assisted by Ann McKenna), is designed to help

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Gholam Omidi; Bill Oldham; Farouk Attia

performed by an accountant who knew little about estimating or scheduling, andanalytical support consisted of a few experienced managers getting together andexchanging information to a few “what if” questions.In more recent times, with the information explosion brought on by the use of computersin the marketplace during the 80’s and 90’s, managers began to rely on well-trainedproject control personnel. However, educational institutions that trained the engineers1 In the text by Kavanagh, Muller & O’Brien entitled Construction Management (1978) it is statedthat a dictionary definition of project is “ an undertaking requiring concerted effort.” More informeddefinitions tend to add conditions such as: projects are complex efforts to achieve

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Asad Yousuf

DAQ card):The NI 6040E (PCI-MIO-16E-4) device use E series technology to deliver high performance andreliable data acquisition capabilities to meet a wide range of applications requirements. You canget up to 500 kS/s single channel, 12-bit performance on 16 single-ended analog inputs. The Eseries DAQ device feature analog and digital triggering capability, as well as two 24-bit, 20MHz counter/timers; and 8 digital I/O lines. This E-series is directly interfaced to the BNC-2120connector.BNC-2120 Connector Accessory:BNC-2120 is a shielded connector block with signal-labeled BNC connector for easyconnectivity to analog input, analog output, digital I/O and counter/timer signals to the E-seriesdevice. The BNC-2120 also provides a function

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Tony Louca; Edward Gehringer

“local copy” link serves as a backup for the original source in case the original source is movedor removed after the end of the term when the course is taught.The “original source” link also provides a way to access the most recent version of a problem.For example, if an instructor assigns homework and then discovers an error, (s)he may updatethe handout on the Web. The “original source” link will access the current version. This givesour database some of the same ability a search engine has to access up-to-date material.6. Status of the databaseAt the time of writing, the database contains 883 entries for computer architecture material. Ofthese, 849 are homework and test problems, and 34 are lectures. The object technology database,which we

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://www.hoosiers.iupui.edu/gened/gnedprin.htm[2] Rizkalla, M.E., Yokomoto, C.F., Pfile, R., Sinha, A.S.C., El-Sharkawy, M., Lyashevskiy, S., and Needler, M., “A New Approach for an Interdisciplinary Senior Elective for Electrical Engineering and Electrical Engineering Technology in Electric Vehicle Applications,” International Journal of Engineering Education,” vol. 16, no. 4, pp 351-361.[3] Rizkalla, M.E., Phile, R., El-Antably, A., and Yokomoto, C.F., “Development of a Senior Elective for EE and EET Majors in the Design of Electronics Instrumentation for Electric Vehicles.” Proc. 1998 ASEE Annual Conference, Session 2502, June 1998

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Natalie Smith; Julie Greenberg

development of the interactive demonstration of spectral analysis.Bibliography1. Bransford, J.D., Brown, A.L., & Cocking, R.R. (Eds.). How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. Washington, DC: National Academy Press (1999).2. Schwartz, D.L., Lin, X., Brophy, S., & Bransford, J.D. Toward the Development of Flexibly Adaptive Instructional Designs. In C. Reigeluth (Ed.), Instructional-Design Theories and Models: A New Paradigm of Instructional Theory. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum (1999).3. Brophy, S.P. Guidelines for modular design. VaNTH Engineering Research Center Technical Report No. VANTHLSSPB200001V1. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University (2000).NATALIE SMITHNatalie Smith is a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute

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Ahmed Elsawy; Ismail Fidan

proved that having such a KBT in aproduction environment saves both time and money. In the future more process leveloutputs and constraints will be added into the current KBT and the results will bebenchmarked with the industrial tests.AcknowledgementsThe authors greatly appreciate the technical supports obtained from Alan Lamborn (TheUniversity of Northern Iowa), Ahmet Guner (University of Iowa), and Serdar Tumkor(Stevens Institute of Technology).Bibliography1. Singh, N., Systems Approach to Computer-Integrated Design and Manufacturing, 1st Edition, JohnWiley & Sons, Inc., 1996.2. Degarmo, P. E., Black, J. T., Kohser, R. A., Materials and Processes in Manufacturing, 8th Edition,Prentice Hall, 1997.3. Kalpakjian, S., Manufacturing

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William Davis; Steve Stafford; Elsa Villa

Session 1554 Discover Engineering Day: Collaborations in Pre-College Recruitment William C. Davis, Elsa Q. Villa, S. W. Stafford The University of Texas at El PasoAbstractAs engineering enrollments across the United States are on the decline, the College ofEngineering at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) has shown a 7% increase each year forthe past four years. To address this enrollment gap, retention and recruitment programs mustexist symbiotically at an institution to attract students and retain them through graduation. TheDiscover

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, MA.VII. References[1] Stevens, Karl K. and Sharon M. Schlossberg, “Technology connection – a program for precollege orientation and recruiting.” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, June 28- July 1, 1998.[2] Zachary, Loren W., Janet M. Sharp, and Barbara M. Adams, “Engineering connections: Teaching engineering mechanics to K-12 teachers.”Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO. June 18- 21, 2000.[3] Sharp, Janet M., Tracy L. Chandler, and John A. Petersen, “Teaching teachers to apply engineering: a tale of two high school classrooms.” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO. June 18- 21, 2000.[4] Muller, Carol B. and William S. Carlsen. “Fostering

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Jerry Samples

, 19986. Lowman, J, Mastering the Techniques of Teaching, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1995.7. Wankat, P. C., F. S. Oreovicz, Teaching Engineering, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1993.Jerry SamplesJerry Samples is Professor and Director of Engineering Technology at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.He holds a BS ChE. from Clarkson College, and MS and Ph.D. in ME from Oklahoma State University. He taughtat the United States Military Academy for 12 years before assuming his current position in 1996. His recent workhas been in the area of foundations of good teaching and development of advanced teaching methods. Page 6.390.4

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Ifte Choudhury

. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 23, 307-322 (1990).9. Griffin, B. W. & Griffin, M. M. An investigation of the effects of peer tutoring on achievement, self-efficacy, andtest anxiety. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 23, 298-311 (1998).10. Choudhury, I. Correlates of Student Performance in Environmental Control Systems Courses at anUndergraduate Level. San Luis Obispo, CA: Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Associated Schoolsof Construction, 21-28 (1999).11. Freund, R. J. & Wilson, W. J. Statistical methods. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University (1991).12. Johnson, R. T. & Johnson, D. W. An overview of cooperative learning. In Thousand, J. S., Villa, R. A. & Nevin,A. I. (Eds.), Creativity and

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Rosemary L. Parker; Arthur Johnson

Session 2470 The Effects of Technology on Diversity or When is Diversity Not Diversity? Arthur T. Johnson, Rosemary L. Parker University of MarylandThe University of Maryland campus community is proud of its diverse student body. It is acampus where diversity is celebrated and nurtured, even defended before the U. S. SupremeCourt. The University has invested heavily in building and maintaining a student bodyconsisting of 12% African Americans, 13% Asian Americans, 5% Hispanic, and 4% ofinternational origin.The mission of the University

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has come to set aside the past and consider the future of the programs and students. In other words, how can we teach the future while living in the past?Bibliography[1] Fox, P.L. & Hundley, S..P. Trends and developments in engineering technology: Who are we and where are wegoing? [CD-ROM]. 2000 Annual Conference Proceedings, American Society for Engineering Education. June2000[2] Davis, D. Collaborative teaching and learning. [CD-ROM]. 2000 Annual Conference Proceedings, AmericanSociety for Engineering Education. June 2000[3] Townsend, S.L. & Canistraro, H. Recruiting and retaining faculty and managing diverse majors in four-yearschools of engineering technology. [CD-ROM]. 2000 Annual Conference Proceedings, American Society

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Joanne Lax

office, s/he has an appointment to return to do anotherwriting sample. However, when students have problems which cannot be dealt with in onesession, I often ask them to write a practice paper for me to review in a second help sessionbefore having them return again to write an “official” writing sample.I see these on-going tutorials as an unique opportunity to help some of ECE’s neediest writers—most of whom happen to be non-native speakers of English—at an early stage in theirengineering program. Also, I hope that these students are beginning to develop a workingrelationship with me so that they can return to my office with writing-related concernsthroughout their undergraduate years. In addition to their diagnostic function, the scored

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Robert Parden

. Now we hover around 90,000. Withthe U. S. Population at 281 million, we should be enrolling 142,000, had we sustained the samepopulation-enrollment ratio of 1982. To cloud our local picture even more, half of the engineeringfreshmen at Santa Clara are choosing computer engineering, leaving the traditional engineeringfields in peril of long term survival. To attract 50,000 additional freshmen to engineering hasbecome a very real goal. But to do this, something has to change.New Engineer PerceptionsWe asked fifty of our young engineering graduates why they thought freshmen engineeringenrollments were flat. Their evaluation: 1. The engineering curricula are viewed as too difficult. 2. There is more money in alternate business

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Nohemi Rubio; Lourdes Sanchez-Contreras; Connie Della-Piana

evaluators and researchers use students’ representations of the research experience as a way to discover critical or essential elements of the research experience? • What is learned from an examination of students’ representations of the research experience? • Are these elements represented in Best Practice? • Is this strategy useful in leading to culturally sensitive evaluations of undergraduate research experiences?II. EvaluationThe field of evaluation distinguishes two major types of evaluation: formative evaluation andsummative evaluation. Each type or function is conducted for specific and intended uses. Eachcan contribute to the knowledge base about the issue(s) being addressed by the program. Onethe one hand

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Mohammad Haque

programming architecture invisualization techniques, which is discipline independent and can be adapted to any other similardomain, which will certainly promote and enhance students’ understanding.Bibliography1. Haque M.E., Vamadevan A., Duraimurugar S., and Gandlur Y. Java and VRML based Interactive Reinforced Concrete Design Course Studio. American Society for Engineering Education, ASEE 2000 Annual Conference Proceeding, Section 1315 Use of Computer Technology to Enhance CE Education, St. Louis, MO: (2000).2. Haque M.E., Vamadevan A. and Rotsawatsuk, P. Java-VRML Based Studio for Reinforced Concrete Design Principles. American Society for Engineering Education, 2000 ASEE North Central Section Spring Conference Proceeding, Section 202

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William Szaroletta

Outlook™inbox is checked late every night, early every morning, and regularly during the day. In doingso, the author has been able to respond to student concerns in a rapid manner that has beenuniversally praised by students.CONCLUSIONSThis paper has shown how combining to relatively available technologies has enabled the authorto approach 24/7 up-time in faculty-student communications. Web Page and List Serveapproaches were described in enough detail to allow ease of replication for other courses.The advantages of this course management system observed through student and facultyfeedback, which include positive comments on the: • Quicker student-to-faculty and faculty-to-student(s) communication through the List Serve. • Improved

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Mansour Tahernezhadi; L. D. Allen

theinterface. The PIC’s SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) protocol requires two separate data lines: One to send andone to receive.The second issue involves the data transfer itself. The SPI interface protocol is limited to an 8-bit word datatransfer with MSB first. The DS1620 sends 9-bit temperature reading, LSB first.The final issue is that the Reset must be high from the beginning of a transfer to the end of the last (9th) bit whenreading the temperature value. The DS1620’s manufacturer web site "www.dalsemi.com" for DallasSemiconductor contained an application note addressing these issues. The document is "Application Note 85 -Interfacing the DS1620 to the Motorola SPI Bus" by Michel St-Hilaire and Marc Desjardins of XyryXTechnologies, Quebec

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Brian West

IndianaTeam consists of Mostly seniors 2 sophomores & a juniorYears in competition Many First attemptCost of entry Many hundreds to thousand(s) $400Type of school Engineering Engineering TechnologyIn examining the results of the competition, it is important to realize that a small group ofdedicated students were successful against larger, more experienced schools. Next year,while most other teams will again consist of seniors, who were not directly involved inprevious competitions, the USI team will be intact, and will bring in younger students.This provides a continuity that allows student experiences to be

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David Mandeville

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationDemographicsThe course has been taught by the author during the spring and the fall semesters of 2000 atOklahoma State University. The College of Engineering offers the course to engineers (88%)and technology students (12%). The students are predominately on campus Juniors but includeSophomores through PhDs. The average student age is 21 and includes several adult learners intheir early 30’s. The class size has been scheduled for a maximum of 65 students and theenrollment has averaged 57 students. The drop rate for the two semesters combined is 9%.ResourcesResources required to support the course include (links are to the

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Andrew Scanlon; Andrea Schokker

received her B.S. and M.S. from Washington University and her Ph.D. fromthe University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Schokker is the Chair of the American Concrete Institute Faculty NetworkCoordinating Committee that serves as a conduit between the concrete industry and engineering students.ANDREW SCANLONAndrew Scanlon is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. He also serves as AssociateDirector of the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute. Dr. Scanlon is a Licensed Structural Engineer in Illinois. Heteaches courses on design of concrete structures and structural analysis. He received his B. S. degree from theUniversity of Glasgow and his Ph. D. from the University of Alberta

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Nathan Chao; Bernard Mohr

student use and rough knapsack transport? 3. Can the e- LAB instrument carry out all the experiments designed for the Hewlett Packard suite of instruments used in the IIL system described above? 4. What are the possible benefits from this approach for the student when compared to traditional laboratories? 5. What other problems and drawbacks will be observed? INTERACTIVE W EB-BASED LAB S ETUPSummary of Distance Lab Trial Methodology q In a lab class with nineteen students working in 6 squads, the first two laboratory sessions were carried out in class using the e- LAB instrument. This approach made all the students familiar and

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: http://education.nasa.gov/implan/framewrk.html. Page 6.656.7“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”2. Center for the Education and Study of Diverse Populations, “New Mexico Content Standards and BenchmarksReference Guide,” URL: http://www.cesdp.nmhu.edu/standards/download/index.htm3. S. Horan, “Use of High-Power Model Rockets as a Laboratory for a Microcontroller Data Acquisition System,”A.S.E.E. Computers in Education, Vol. VI, No. 1, January-March 1996, p. 53-56.4. New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, “Student Launch