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Patricia Secola; Bettie Smiley; Dale Baker; Mary Anderson-Rowland

related to gender equity.The educators were asked to complete a questionnaire prior to the workshop to assess theirunderstanding of gender issues in engineering, science, mathematics, and technology. The sameinstrument was administered after completing eight engineering labs. The paper will present acomparison of the summer 1999 and summer 2000 data to illustrate the need for gender equityprograms in the middle schools, high schools, and community colleges.I. IntroductionThe term gender equity refers to eliminating sex-role stereotyping and sex bias from theclassroom setting and instructional practices. It is used to signal efforts to broaden equalopportunities in an environment that empowers all students to follow through on their

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Patricia Harms; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

Community was recently expanded toinclude second-year students to accommodate student requests. Not only does the livingcommunity offer a way for students to develop friendships, it also creates an environment wellsuited for academic work. Our paper includes an overview of our ABE living community, whichincludes both engineering and technology students. We developed this arrangement to strengthenstudents’ existing learning communities through additional interaction with ABE peers in aliving community, to encourage interaction and collaboration between our two undergraduatestudent majors, and to increase interaction of these students with the ABE faculty. In addition,we present the results of our assessment, which includes a year-end survey, student

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Yogesh Potdar; Patricia Spencer; Kathryn Hollar

-long Saturday training session: Teaching in a Laboratory, Effective Grading,Office Hours & Tutoring, Leading a Recitation, and The Wired Course (using technology in theclassroom). Training is completed with a small-group videotaping session in which TAs present a5-7 minute lecturette to an audience of three other TAs and a TA Fellow, and give constructivefeedback on each other’s videotaped presentation. Each workshop is 2-2.5 hours in length.Workshop size ranges from 15-35 TAs to one co-facilitation team (2 TA Fellows).3The multicultural awareness workshop—Teaching in a Diverse Classroom-- has been a keycomponent of the training of new engineering TAs since 1993. The workshop was added to theline-up at the request of TAs in the program

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P Ravikumar

worked in industry as a Design Engineer in theHelicopter Design Bureau, HAL, Bangalore, India, Design & Testing Engineer, Engineering Research Center, TELCO,Jamshedpur, India, project work with Sea-Land, Elizabeth, NJ, and Boeing Military Aircraft Company, Wichita, KS.Ravikumar has also been a faculty on sabbatical for a year at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Kanazawa, Japan.His primarily teaches courses in design and manufacturing in his present position. His research interests includeCAD/CAM and computer graphics including rational B-Spline mathematics. Page 6.207.6 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for

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Larry McKenzie; Kenneth Gentili; Jr., Richard Crain; Jeffrey McCauley; Forrest Parkay; Denny Davis; Michael Trevisan

phrases they could use to make their job more effective. • Team members have a broader understanding of the job responsibilities within the team. • Team members have a better understanding of how teaming skills contribute to the success of the project.Resources • Handout that lists effective statements for team members. • Team member’s experience in teamwork. • Twelve minutes of team discussion time.Bibliography 1. ABET. 1998. "Engineering Criteria 2000, Third Edition," Criterion 2. Engineering Accreditation Commission, The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Baltimore, MD. Worldwide web address: http://www.abet.org/eac/eac2000.htm 2. Woods, Donald R., et al. 1997. "Developing

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Ann Anderson; Richard Wilk

Session 1566Designing a Senior Experience in Mechanical Engineering: Culmination of anUndergraduate Program, Preparation for Professional Life, and Reinforcing the Foundation for Continued Learning Richard D. Wilk and Ann M. Anderson Mechanical Engineering Department Union College Schenectady, NYAbstractThe senior experience in an undergraduate engineering program should accomplish at least threemain objectives: to serve as a culmination of the undergraduate program, to prepare students tobegin

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Rita Caso; Jeanne Rierson; James Graham

, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology (SMET) disciplinesi. There arecurrently 25 LSAMP projects in existence across the U.S. and Puerto Rico. The Texas A&MSystem AMP was among the first six to be funded, beginning in Fall 1991. In addition to TexasA&M University (TAMU), the TX AMP has actively included 4 other Texas A&M SystemUniversities and 9 community colleges .Each campus has pursued the objectives of the AMP Program by implementing strategiesintended to increase retention, enrich learning, and encourage progression through SMET BSprograms into SMET graduate programs for under-represented minority students. While manyactivities for nurturing the academic success of under-represented minority SMET students wereemployed in several or

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Anna Phillips; Jon Fricker; Paul Palazolo; Norman Dennis

, pp. 119-122.4. Engineering Criteria 2000 (1998) Engineering Accreditation Commission, Accreditation Board for Engineeringand Technology, Inc., Pub. No. 98-AB-7a, Baltimore, MD.NORMAN DENNISNorman D. Dennis, Jr., P.E., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University ofArkansas-Fayetteville. His research interests are related to the deformation characteristics of soils used intransportation applications and the use of geographical information systems in the geotechnical arena. Dennis hasbeen actively engaged in faculty development activities for over a decade. He is the director for one of ASCE'sExCEEd teaching workshops and sits on the ASCE Faculty Development Committee. Dennis holds BS and MSdegrees in

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Francis Di Bella

complete solution available and literally“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society of Engineering Educationresolve the engineer’s ethical dilemma. If the engineer must ultimately terminate therelationship in order to uphold his/her ethics then the qualities of competence,confidence and charisma that have been espoused in this paper as the professionalengineer’s shield will assuredly continue to serve him/her well in all future endeavors.Biography:Francis A. Di Bella, PE is an Assistant Professor, Northeastern University, Boston, MA.; College ofEngineering , School of Engineering Technology. Mr. Di Bella’s professional engineering

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M. Chaudhry; Jr., Bonifacio Doma; Edwin Obra; Consuelo Flora; Adrienne Cooper; Joseph R.V. Flora

global scale. Thispaper describes the experiences in developing a partnership in environmental education andresearch between the University of South Carolina (USC) in the United States and the MapúaInstitute of Technology in the Philippines.A baseline study on the state of environmental engineering/science education and research inMapúa was conducted. Survey instruments were designed to assess the needs of variousinstitutions for environmental engineering education and research, particularly on sustainabledevelopment and pollution prevention. These survey instruments were sent to industry, academe,government, and non-governmental organizations in the Philippines. A workshop was held inManila, Philippines last May 2000 for which participants were

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Brian Copes; Willard D. Bostwick; Kenneth Rennels; Douglas Acheson

Session 2548 Articulating Computer Graphics with High Schools Douglas Acheson, Willard D. Bostwick, Kenneth Rennels, Brian Copes Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Mooresville High SchoolAbstractThe Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, Department of Mechanical EngineeringTechnology (MET), at IUPUI and the Mooresville Consolidated School Corporation,Mooresville, Indiana have formed a unique program articulation. A potential for continuousinteractive approach between participating partners is the key. Provisions of the agreementpermit Mooresville

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Robert Gray; Robert Weissbach

through the eyes ofthose in the field. Both successful as well as unsuccessful systems engineering practices areabsorbed before the students enter the engineering workplace.IntroductionMost electrical engineering and electrical engineering technology curricula focus on specificaspects of electrical engineering, such as circuits, motors, communication systems, etc.However, it is rare to find an undergraduate class whose purpose is to not only look at electricalengineering and technology from a systems level, but also to look at how the electrical systemintegrates with mechanical systems. Furthermore, very few classes ever discuss real-worldaspects of the reliability and design limitations associated with putting a real-world design intopractice

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Zdzislaw Kremens

knowledge and skills. Nevertheless, universities should not sacrifice depthof knowledge for current technical skills. By maintaining intellectual integrity, universities makeit easier for graduates to ensure a career in the long-term. Successful practices and experiencesfrom CSSU illustrate the possible ways to better respond to industry needs.I. IntroductionWhat can universities do to facilitate the increasing demand for Science, Engineering andInformation Technology workers? Why has the gap between the number of graduates and thenumber of openings grown dramatically during the last several years? Although these basicquestions are primarily directed to universities, the answers should come from all constituencies.Universities themselves are

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J. Tim Coppinger; Carl Steidley

Session 1520 Why CIM?* By Dr. J. Tim Coppinger and Dr. Carl Steidley Texas A&M University-Corpus ChristiAbstractWhy computer integrated manufacturing (CIM)? CIM brings together components that aretypically studied individually over a wide range of disciplines into an integrated system. TexasA&M University-Corpus Christi is developing a CIM cell that will meet the needs of twoComputer Science courses and nine Engineering Technology courses. The courses includeManufacturing Processes, Design of Machine Elements, Principles of Measurements,Programmable Logic

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Satinderpaul Devgan

developing newprograms. This paper describes two such unique graduate programs that were developed througha systematic analysis of national critical technologies, future manpower demand projections,academic and research background of our faculty, and the interests of our students. The M.S.program in Computer and Information Systems Engineering (CISE), an interdisciplinary fieldthat integrates different aspects of computer engineering, computer science, electricalengineering, systems engineering and information systems, was implemented in fall 1997. It hassince experienced a phenomenal growth in student enrollment. A Ph.D. in CISE program, whichbuilds on the master’s program as its core, has since been developed and approved forimplementation.1

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Leah Akins

projections from the U.S. Bureau of LaborStatistics “call for the number of engineering jobs to continue rapid growth, far outpacing jobgrowth for the labor force overall.”2Of further interest in this discussion is the trend in engineering technology (ET) education andspecifically for the associate degree programs. From the numbers provided in the Engineering &Technology Enrollments, Fall 1999 report3, enrollments for engineering technology programs arerelatively stable though still 4-5% less than they were in 1990. These programs are either losingan increasing number of students between the first and second year or the two-year degree istaking longer than two years for a growing population of students (see figure 1

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Saeid Y. Eidgahy

Engineering Education”Systems Approach to Educational TransformationSo, how do we make all of this transformation happen? One effective method of doingthis is to employ a comprehensive systems approach and the following five steps:systems thinking, systems design, quality approach, management of change andemploying appropriate instructional technology 6. Systems thinking allows educators toavoid being continuously distracted by passing fads. It allows for major overhaulingchanges to take place, which will have a powerful overall effect on our curriculumefforts. Once an engineering program has embraced this way of thinking, appropriatedesign would be the next step. Systems design enables engineering educators to makenecessary changes and improvement a

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Enno Koehn

Session 1421 Assessment of ASCE/AISC Student Projects Enno “Ed” Koehn Lamar UniversityAbstractThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) has adopted a revised set ofcriteria for accrediting engineering programs. Nevertheless, as in the past, civil (construction)engineering departments will be required to demonstrate proficiency in specific subject areaswhich are included in the ABET program criteria.This paper investigates, according to civil engineering and construction related students, the levelat which the understanding of

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Cecil Beeson; William Gay

Session 2648 EET with A Specialty: “The Coupling of an Associate Degree and A Certificate”In a decade of declining engineering technology enrollments and engineering technologyassociate degree graduates one electrical engineering technology associate degree programsought to counter the trend. The method used was to implement technical specialty certificatesthat an engineering technology student earns while completing the associate degree. Some of theadvantages of this approach are that the student earns an associate degree that is transferable intoa four-year baccalaureate degree program and a technical

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Terrence Kelly; Aaron Cowin

Session 15470 Modernization of an Aircraft Maintenance Curriculum: Measuring up to the TAC of ABET Aaron R. Cowin, Terrence K. Kelly Parks College of Engineering and Aviation Saint Louis UniversityAbstractThe Department of Aerospace Technology at Parks College of Engineering and Aviation, SaintLouis University has offered a Bachelor of Science Degree in Aeronautics with a concentration inAircraft Maintenance Engineering since 1949.1,2 The degree was developed in an era when aircraftmanufacturing was in its infancy and

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Michael J Batchelder; Daniel F. Dolan

)5,6 at the South DakotaSchool of Mines and Technology promotes engineering education through team-basedprojects. One of these team projects is the solar car competition.Sunrayce, patterned after the World Solar Challenge in Australia, has been a biennialcompetition among North American higher education institutions. Students design,build, and race solar powered vehicles on secondary roads over a ten day period. Recentraces have been from Indianapolis to Colorado Springs and Washington D.C. to OrlandoFlorida. The 2001 race, now called the American Solar Challenge7, is from Chicago toLos Angeles.Solar Car InstrumentationFigure One shows the power system of a typical solar car. Strings of solar cells areconnected to peak power trackers (PPTs

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Don Zeller

Session 1547 PLC Systems - University Course Material or Industrial Training Material ? Don Zeller Assistant Professor, Engineering Technology Department, Fenn College of Engineering, Cleveland State UniversityIntroductionIn the late 1960’s, a new electronic device made its debut, at the request of the automotiveindustry. It was called a programmable logic controller (PLC) and its function was to replace anexisting system of machine control logic. The existing system was based on an electro-mechanical device called a relay and the machine

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James Dally; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

Technology (ABET) 5 is encouragingintegration of design throughout the engineering curriculum including the freshman andsophomore years 6. It is also promoting a holistic integration of ’soft’ and ’technical’ skillsencompassing academic knowledge, civic responsibilities, and life skills. "Service-Learning" seems to be an ideal vehicle to introduce the well-documented benefits of"Experiential Learning", the community (national) need of improving/promoting engineering,mathematics, science education among middle/high school students 7, and curriculum objectivesof Criteria 2000 of ABET as stated above. The integration of community service in the learningprocess provides a richer flavor that manifests in broader dimensions of learning outcomes.There is a

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Michael Marcus

Session #1648 Train the Trainer Video for Problem Solving Using Project Teams Michael Marcus Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractStudents from Engineering and Engineering Technology Programs should be able to worktogether as members of Project Teams to find solutions to technical problems. The objective ofthis session is to show sections of a professionally produced “Train the Trainer” videotape usingstudents from Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Technology Programs working together onproject teams to solve technical problems. This video will show the teaching

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Jack Lesko; Eric Pappas

Session 1161 The Communications-centered Senior Design Class at Virginia Tech Eric Pappas, Jack Lesko Virginia TechI. Introduction In "Engineering and Art," our 2000 ASEE presentation in St. Louis, we noted that thenon-technical Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) 2000 "a-k" requirements appeared to describe more than the typical technical skills necessary forstudents to become competent engineering professionals. We suggested that these requirementsdescribed many of the characteristics of a well-balanced, productive, and creative individual,rather

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Vincent Scotto; Peter Schuyler; Howard A. Canistraro

Session 3247 Linking Industry & Academia: Effective Usage of Industrial Advisory Boards Peter R. Schuyler, Howard Canistraro, Vincent A. Scotto University of Hartford/New England Institute of TechnologyAbstractWith the advent of ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 and beyond, the emphasis of the evaluationof engineering and engineering technology programs has shifted from the strict examination ofcurriculum content, to measuring outcomes based assessment. As these programs are required tocreate and demonstrate a process for the evaluation of curriculum objectives, industry

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Lynn Mack; James Wood

Session 1648 Problem-Based Learning and Interdisciplinary Instruction James C. Wood, Ph.D., Lynn G. Mack Tri-County Technical College/Piedmont Technical CollegeAbstractThis paper describes the development and implementation of a problem-based learning approachfor interdisciplinary instruction in introductory courses for engineering technology majors.Required general education courses in mathematics, physics, and communication have beenintegrated with introductory engineering technology courses. This project was undertaken toimprove the retention of students in engineering technology curricula and

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Sundar Krishnamurty; Robert Gao; John Ritter; Donald Fisher; Janis Terpenny

specific need of an individual client. Early results of merging engineering educationand an area of social significance have been very positive. Students have welcomed both thehands-on and personal contribution aspects of their projects. In many cases, projects have led toresearch extensions, additional community connections, and for many students, inspiration tocontinue with graduate studies. The objective of this paper is to report on the motivation, design,and results of the capstone course sequence in assistive technology. Specific projects, past andcurrent, are also highlighted.1. IntroductionIn recent years, assistive technology has gained an increasing importance for people with visual,auditory, cognitive, or physical disabilities

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Oral LaFleur; Matthew Govindsanny; Joshua Hill; Daniel Jones

Session 3148 Installation of a Solar Refrigerator in South Africa Daniel K. Jones1, Joshua Hill2, Oral LaFleur2, and Matthew Govindsanny3 1 Department of Industrial and Engineering Technology, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI, USA 2 School of Technology, Texas Southern University, Houston, TX, USA 3 Department of Electrical Engineering, Eastern Cape Technikon

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Marvin McKimpson

Session 1463 PrISM—A Team-Based Approach for Teaching Manufacturing Marvin McKimpson Michigan Technological UniversityAbstractPrISM—the Program in Integrated, Sustainable Manufacturing—is a new manufacturingengineering education option being offered to students at Michigan Technological University. Itprovides students hands-on experience with different manufacturing processes, as well as a morecomplete understanding of the inter-relationships between engineering, manufacturing andbusiness activities. The class is structured as a “team of teams” which works together to design