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Tina Harkin; Pam Lowry

48238AbstractThis paper will describe in detail three self-paced University level Mathematics courses initiallydeveloped at Focus:HOPE for the Greenfield Coalition. These courses have been delivered atFocus:HOPE which is the location of a new engineering paradigm in engineering education.This paradigm is a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded project called the GreenfieldCoalition and the academic delivery is through computer-based instruction and self-pacedlearning activities.The courses have been offered individually as a self-paced learning experience and morerecently, all three together in a “one-room schoolhouse” concept. The purpose of the “one-roomschoolhouse” is to provide help to those individuals who have problems with some of thecontent. The

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Alexander D. Poularikas

national survey will be conducted to find out what is the average form of instruction in the new areas of optoelectronics.2. Development of the appropriate text material of optoelectronics to be embedded in the different courses, as mentioned above.3. Develop optical experiments for demonstration purposes.4. Develop optical experiments for students who are interested to satisfy their senior project in the area of optoelectronics.5. Assemble videos, software and other pedagogical material that will enhance students’ understanding of the physical phenomena and concepts that he/she is exposed.6. ConclusionsThe embedded method approach will alleviate the problem of almost regularly having tointroduce new courses into the EE curriculum and at

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Stephanie Goldberg

with other departments shall be made in advance to reserve the required seatingfor these students to insure that they take their required courses together. Preliminary contactswith other departments indicate overall support for the project. Individual professors will beencouraged to support the efforts especially in regard to their office hour with the group. Variousreading materials will be given to these professors regarding issues in the technical education ofwomen. If funding permits, these faculty members will be compensated for their additionaloffice hour. Hopefully they will look positively at the experience of the recitation. It will besomething new for them as well.The heart of the plan is the daily recitation period where the group

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Leonard Sokoloff

circuits aregenerally very costly to design and build. If a circuit has to be modified, it must be tornapart and rewired, thus making modifications very costly.This application is part of an effort at DeVry to include into the curriculum importanttechnologies such as the virtual instrumentation and the programmable logic controllers.The PLC Stepper Motor Controller is one of several projects that are being added to theupper trimester laboratory. Page 3.447.1 1 Stepper Motor OperationThe shaft of a stepper motor rotates one step at a time. This type of motion is called adiscrete motion. The step angle is determined

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Kenneth Miller; Jeffrey Morehouse; Edward Young; David Rocheleau; Jed S. Lyons

and power efficiencies/improvements, mechanism design, drivercontrols and safety issues. Page 3.40.5 5 Trends in Mechanical Engineering 2266BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATIONJED LYONS is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at USC. He teaches engineering materials,manufacturing processes and mechanical design. Recent research areas include high temperature crack growth insuperalloys and viscoelastic behavior of thermoplastics. Educational projects include developing

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S. D'Souza; N.W. Scott; B.J. Stone

input and response commerce degree and an honours engineering degree. He is currently working on a project aimed at improvingIt is also possible knowing k 2 / k1 , ω1 and ω 2 and using student performance in exams, and also completing a Masters in Finance degree at UWA.equation (4) to predict the steady state response. By choosinga steady sinusoidal input the response at discrete frequencies N.W. Scottmay be checked

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Cameron Wright; Thad Welch

particular DSP concept describedin this paper is an interactive demonstration showing how quantization of digital filtercoefficients, which is inevitable with widely-used fixed-point DSP hardware, adversely affectsfilter performance.INTRODUCTIONModern software tools such as MATLAB greatly facilitate the professor's ability to demonstratethe concepts of digital signal processing (DSP) in class, and to assign realistic projects toreinforce these concepts.1–3 An increasing number of DSP textbooks are becoming availablewhich take advantage of this ability,4–8 and a growing trend is for DSP concepts to be introducedearlier in the curriculum.9 MATLAB is an excellent learning tool when used for DSP education inthis way. It enables an easier transition for

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Vito A. Guido; Jameel Ahmad

spent under this grant to purchase the equipment necessary to perform all the SHRP tests thatsatisfy Superpave criteria, except those tests for the performance evaluation of the mix. Theequipment necessary to perform these tests is being sought after in a NSF equipment grant proposalsubmitted in November 1997. In Table I can be found a summary of the major equipment itemspurchased and their manufacturers. In addition to the $98,000.00 spent by Cooper Union, a majorcommitment to this project was made by completely renovating an under-utilized space andconverting it into the new asphalt laboratory. Included in this renovation was the installation of thenecessary number of fume hoods to perform all testing in a non-hazardous

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Thomas K. Jewell

past. Thetrend seems to be for teams to come in on Sunday afternoon and start looking at the materials.They have to spend enough time to adequately assess design content and attainment of programobjectives. Our visitor asked virtually no questions on how we met our program objectives. He didcomment on the high quality of our Volume 2 Self-study. So, he may not have had any questionsbecause of the quality of our report and the strength of the assessment/feedback system.However, I think it is more a result of lack of experience with the new criteria. Even though all ofour visitors were experienced program evaluators, they were fairly new to theassessment/feedback process. As with any pilot project, they were learning from us at the

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Do Ba Khe; Ngo Dinh Thinh

university in the reorganization plan of the national system of highereducation. Three years ago, Canada promised to help establish two community collegesin North Vietnam; however, to date there is no concrete formulation of the project. SomeAmerican educators have made visits and given talks about community colleges under thesponsorship of the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and training. Since 1996, theNetherlands, upon recommendations by a team of educators from Vietnam, developedsix community colleges; three in the south, two in the north and one in the center ofVietnam. The status of these reborn community colleges is greatly enhanced by thearticulation with the university through the entrance examinations and cooperative

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Ronald D. Earley

analysis concept may be extended by the introduction of the triangular plane stress element. The introduction of this element should be timed to coincide with lecture discussions of plane stress. To help students gain additional appreciation for the increased complexity of the triangular plane stresses element the element stiffness matrix may be introduced. Emphasis should be placed on the necessity of computer program application.11. Tutorial examples of the computer software may be provided to the students so plane stress structural models and analyses may be performed.12. Students within the academic model program gain further use of the computer FEA software within a capstone design project

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Eric Leung; Cathy Godbois; Richard Ciocci

classtested. A local high school has class-tested the text in its college algebra course. A series of the Page 3.103.1experiments was tested by a team of high school students at a summer institute at HACC. Thefaculty team worked with a publisher as they developed the materials, and potential beta test siteshave been identified to class-test the materials. Development of the materials has been done withthe help of faculty in the mathematics, engineering, and physics departments of the college. Thegrant also includes funds for reviews by faculty in client disciplines, e.g., business and socialscience. The faculty team working on this project has

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S. Hossein Mousavinezhad

expressions naturally inMATHCAD are very attractive for DSP applications. It is noted that the so-calledpowerful tools that are available with such courses should be used along with carefulclassroom presentation of difficult and abstract concepts and underlying principles.In Section II we present some theoretical background for filter design and discuss somemathematical preliminaries usually needed in a DSP course. Section III includesMATLAB and MATHCAD examples used in a senior-level course offered at our school Page 3.148.1and a project using the ELF DSP system. Section IV covers conclusions andrecommendations for further studies in this area.II. FILTER

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John K. Estell

Java language students – and departments – are free from having to dealwith platform constraints. Furthermore, the cost for using Java is minimal as the JavaDevelopment Kit (JDK) can be downloaded free of charge from Sun Microsystems’ Java website (http://java.sun.com).References1. J. K. Estell, “A Simulation Project for an Operating Systems Course,” 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, June 1996.JOHN K. ESTELL joined Bluffton College as an associate professor of computer science in 1996. He waspreviously an associate professor at The University of Toledo. He received a BS (1984) degree in computer scienceand engineering from Toledo and received both his MS (1987) and PhD (1991) degrees in computer science fromthe University of Illinois

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David E. Hailey; Christine E. Hailey

1Other investigators have developed CBT modules and assessment schemes to test studentlearning. Flori et al.7 developed a CBT module entitled “BEST” Dynamics, and Bailey, et al.8developed a CBT module on phase diagrams in a basic materials course. Both studies indicatethat CBT is as effective or better than traditional lectures.Wallace and Mutooni9 present a good review of other CBT projects, especially those developedfor use on the WWW. The purpose of their study was to design a pedagogical framework forteaching via the WWW, implement a lecture in that framework, and then evaluate itseffectiveness compared to a classroom lecture. Performance on a project was evaluated forstudents who attended a classroom-based lecture compared with students

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Robert P. Taylor; B.K. Hodge

students per team) design projects. All sixassignments are computer based, are required to be prepared using word processing software, andare graded on technical content (75 percent) as well as composition (25 percent). The workloadis considered heavy, but the students rate the course high because of its applied nature andperceived utility.Energy Systems Design (ESD) has been a required course in the MSU mechanical engineeringcurriculum for more than fifteen (15) years and has been in virtually a continuous state ofevolution because of the ever-increasing hardware capabilities and the ever-increasing softwareutility. Hodge and Taylor (3) detail the evolution of the course from its inception in 1981 until1993. In its original offering, ESD was

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J. C. Sener; R. R. Mirsky; David R. Haws; Stephen B. Affleck; J. L. Mason; L. C. Aburusa

, andbusinesses or government agencies with potential internship opportunities. (4) It is estimated that approximately 40 million people have access to the Internet. Usersin universities, government agencies, businesses, and libraries routinely use the Internet tocommunicate and to search curriculum, research, and other databases. Business and educationhave recently begun to collaborate on distance-learning projects to provide continuing educationprograms for business professionals. A natural extension of this electronic relationship is thepromotion of work-study or CE/I programs. The Internet is an attractive tool for enhancing a student CE/I program due

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Robert K. Tener; Vincent Drnevich

widespread use, appear to be the "quick answers" to our need. We will show thatuse of the PE Exam is totally inappropriate and that nature of the FE Exam is inconsistent withthe principles of engineering education as put forth in the new accreditation policies of ABET,Criteria 2000.Objectives of Engineering EducationThe objectives of an engineering education today transcend fundamental knowledge of technicalmaterial. According to "Engineering Education for a Changing World", a joint project report bythe Engineering Deans Council and Corporate Roundtable of the American Society for 1Engineering Education , Today, engineering colleges must not only provide their graduates with intellectual development

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P. David Fisher

comply with ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 [1], [2]? What has changedin terms of the institutional self-study process? What important feedback has come fromconstituents? What benefits have been realized? What are some of the ongoing projects to furtherimprove the academic programs? And, finally, how much did this effort cost? IntroductionIn the April of 1996, I attended an IEEE-ABET/EAC Program Evaluator's Workshop in SanDiego, California. For me, this was a refresher workshop since I had previously been certified bythe IEEE-ABET/EAC as a Program Evaluator for electrical and computer engineering programs.Attendees were given a draft of ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 (ABET 2000), and it wasdiscussed for

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J. N. Dahiya; B. F. Draayer

. Furthermore, interfacing through the parallel portteaches students the fundamentals of parallel port communication, multiplexing (since only 4 bitscan be read through a printer port at once), and data manipulation. After students complete theirparallel port A/D converter projects, they go on to interface a commercially available A/Dconverter to a microwave spectrometer. Although it may seem peculiar to not make use of the Page 3.153.3students' converters, we find the spectrometer requires a more user-friendly interface than whatthe students can provide if they are to finish their spectrometer projects in a reasonable amount oftime

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Betsy Palmer; Rose M. Marra; Thomas Litzinger

• continually re-educate him/herself • operate effectively within the policital, ethical and economic forces of the world • apply his or her skills to practical, real-world, complex problem situations.The ABET 2000 criteria require engineering educators to examine their entire curriculum —from freshman to senior level courses. The current study, however, sampled only enteringengineering students, so in this paper we focus our discussion of engineering education change tothe first-year. Even before ABET 2000, many engineering colleges began to revamp the first-year engineering experience to include increased hands-on design, technical writing, oralpresentations, and team-based projects (Dally & Zhang, 1993; Dym, 1994; Augustine, 1997

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Robert A. Hall; Mark W. McK. Bannatyne

graduates that first sent man into space, built the great dams and hydro-electric projects of Siberia, conceived revolutionary designs in air transport, and established thehigh literacy rate in Russian society which is evident today. In retrospect, Russian education hashad many triumphs and reasons to be proud.In anticipating the reforms that will undoubtedly continue in Russian education we believe thatwe will see a further restructuring of the types of schools which young and old alike will attend.The Commune movement which is again championing the work of Krupskaya and Shatsky in aneffort to educate an "all-round child" has attracted a certain following. Russian schools have nowreturned much of the authority they once had in shaping the mind and

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Stephen B. Affleck; Marvin C. Gabert; Hahns J. Kuhr; Donald J. Parks

a great deal more than meetingwith students in a classroom and presenting lecture material. Faculty members must preparecourse materials and provide for appropriate testing; grade students' work, provide motivationalfeedback; tutor and advise students, not only in coursework, but in their career; initiate, followthrough and develop creative and scholarly activities, such as research and instructionaldevelopment; provide support and take an active service role in professional societies and act asliaison with industry; participate in active service to the university by serving on committees andworking on special projects, such as advising student clubs or working as a volunteer foractivities

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Peter D. Heimdahl

Team Counselor took her campers on a tour of the campus.10:00-12:00 Computer-Aided Design and DraftingThe campers were introduced to the computer equipment and software (AutoCAD,ProENGINEER) that engineers work with to make graphical representations of objects. Theywere shown engineering drawings, 3-D models, and computer-generated animations. Then aProENGINEER 3-D model of the radio-controlled airplane that the girls were to manufacture ina different activity was projected to the screen of each girl’s Silicon Graphics (SGI) workstation. Page 3.523.6The girls made changes to the model by rotating it and changing its size, color, and

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William E. DeWitt; Timothy L. Skvarenina

operation Relay construction, motor starters, control ladder 3.0 hours 1. Motor control circuits diagrams, solid state control 2. Reversible motor controllers Single phase motor characteristics and selection 1.0 hours Single-phase induction motor characteristics National Electrical Code calculations, fuses and 3.0 hours circuit breakers PLCs 6.0 hours PLC and AC drive programming project (2 wks) 120/240 volt wiring calculations 1.0 hours Grounding

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Ian R. Simpson; Brian Manhire

two-day seminar is held with all the industrial lecturers present. The seminar is led by a per- manent member of faculty and has the following aims: + To see if pedagogical objectives have been met. + To analyze the questionnaires completed by the students on courses given by industrialists. + To modify objectives for the following year, if necessary. Courses given by industrialists are also corrected and graded by the same industrialists in collaboration with full-time faculty.• Internships : The vast majority of final-year projects in French engineering colleges are per- formed in industry, either in France or abroad. The fact that so many industrialists actually participate in course-design and in teaching

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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