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concludes with our plan for monitoring results and implementing change in the future.1. IntroductionIn response to the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology’s (ABET) EducationalCriteria 2000 (EC2000)1 and the need to periodically review and update curricula, theDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at the University of Missouri-Columbia (MU) is currently revising its undergraduate curriculum. While the ABET EC 2000criteria do not necessarily require a major curriculum revision, they provide an opportunity toleverage the accreditation process to improve our undergraduate education. In addition, studentsand employers expect that curricula will remain current and adjust to meet the needs of themarket place.ABET EC2000

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Rapids PublicSchools and was able to schedule a visit with the director of physical plants for the schoolsystem and with the principal of Coit School. The school was, in fact, in painfully poorphysical condition. It had a new boiler system but the large windows were mostly singlepane plexiglass in wooden frames so badly dry-rotted that one could easily push thebottoms of most of the panes out at least 1/8 inch or more. The principal and I decided tohave my students come to the school during the lab periods scheduled for the class.Students would make the observations and measurements needed to complete a heattransfer analysis of the building and they would come up with a plan to make the buildingmore comfortable. There were 3 scheduled lab

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and practice the skills needed for self-directed learning in an Page 6.211.5appropriate context. Candy notes that while these approaches are more consistent with the Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2001, American Society for Engineering Educationcontext-dependent nature of learning, they may still not achieve the desired outcomes. Thus athird approach exists which recognizes the critical role of context, but seeks to make the processof learning itself the object of reflection so that it can be “the object of conscious planning

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Facilitators forthe clustered courses. These students undergo extensive training during the summer andthe academic year. They become part of the instructional team for the orientation andlearning communities and are involved in the planning of activities and teaching. Forexample, the Orientation Leaders are an integral part of the planning process for theOrientation. They develop the instructional modules, write the skits and oversee theengineering design project and the science laboratory experience.Peer facilitators in the Seminar participate in teaching xourse material and are rolemodels for the entering students. In addition, they are tutors and act as “translators” andmediators, helping students make sense of the university and university

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thecharacteristics and background of beginning engineering students. Data are collected not only onpre-college academic courses and computer experiences but also on outside activities, honors, Page 6.19.2“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”career plans, and parents’ education and occupation background. This information is collectedconfidentially and is used only for counseling and research studies.Purdue Engineering Data (PED)Another area of considerable interest is engineering and university retention and graduationrates

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growing need for students with this knowledge.Real-time Software Development: There are few courses that cover software development issuesfor real-time (or time-critical) applications and how to design software to survive rapidlychanging underlying technology. This knowledge is critical for any Computer Engineeringstudent who plans to continue a career in the development of virtual reality applications, or anyother area with rapidly changing hardware. This kind of software requires very differentapproach on program design and implementation techniques than, for example, a databasemanagement environment. A typical VR system integrates a visual display, a tracking system tolocate the user and his interactions, several interactive devices, such as

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by MCCCD and ASU): input/output variables for each of the unit processes (e.g., litho, sputter, etch, etc.), factorial design, response surfaces, optimization, and statistical package linkages. • Plasma Etch (led by ACC and UTA): etch flow, dc-bias, end point signal, spectroscopy, selectivity, power, RF power, anisotropy, RF discharge, voltage, plasma chemistry, etch profiles, residue and cleaning. • Thin-Film Deposition (led by MCCCD and UNM): ellipsometry, nitrides, oxides, epitaxial silicon, polysilicon, dielectrics, instrumentation and measurements. • Characterization & Control (led by TVI and ASU): statistical control charts, gauge capability, sampling plans

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2000 was a marked improvement over the previoustechniques. All professional staff who viewed the composite video productions of the Fall 2000course offering also concluded that the technique provided a significant improvement to distanceeducation.The instructor’s videostreaming experience began prior to the Fall 1998 offering of the course.In recognition of the time requirements for distance course development and delivery and thegeneral underappreciation of the effort required and academic contribution of distance coursedevelopment by university administration [1] and discussions with distance education specialistsat OSU, the instructor developed the following plan for course delivery via videostreaming: • Fall 1998 – use available release

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several mechanisms to encourage the development of theircommunication skills. On an individual basis, all EPICS students are required to maintainweekly reports, which are one-paragraph summaries of their accomplishments along with a oneparagraph summary of their plans for the coming week. Design notebooks are maintained by allstudents and are used to document their individual accomplishments and information related totheir project and their experiences. These notebooks are reviewed three times each semesterand feedback is given to the students.As a team, two reports are written each semester. For teams that are new to EPICS, this firstreport takes the form of a proposal to their project partner. This proposal is shared with thecommunity partner

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gender equity instruments used with theteachers and counselors will be presented with the raw scores and a data analysis. In addition,examples of feedback from surveys and focus groups will be given. This paper is divided into six parts. Part II gives a description of the program. Part III providesa comprehensive description of the special sessions on gender equity. The instruments used toassess the participants’ understanding of gender equity are the focus of Part IV. The outcomesfrom the pre- and post-tests are described in Part V and Part VI is a discussion on the dataanalysis. Part VII gives the conclusion of the paper and future plans

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for stretching wire. Proprietary business information consists of dataconcerning the specifics of how you make, and plan to make, money. It is not necessarilyapplicable to other businesses, although their knowing it could help them compete effectivelyagainst your business. Examples of proprietary business information include: a customer list;marketing plans; competitive studies; financial reports; and a sealed bid.” Page 6.867.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationRelated to the concept of

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exactly as planned for student X. After the first semester, he / she fails courseCPE312, and returns for a new advising solution. Although he / she would have normally graduated in the next3 semesters, this can not happen anymore due to the fact that CPE312 is a requirement course with a high cost(that is needed by many of the next courses in order to continue). The algorithm outputs 12 possible solutions ina fastest time of 4 semesters (Figure 21). Figure 21. Second example scheduling.(B)If he / she had failed AD101, EE348 or ME223, he / she would have still been able to graduate in 3 semesters.A quick look at the remaining courses reveals this clarity of the problem. For example, a student can only

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production tubing, which will allow high flow rates making the ultra-deepwater wells economic.A simple graphical procedure can be used pick casing setting points in the planning stage asexplained below.3 (Fig. 3)1. Pore pressure and fracture pressure are plotted on the horizontal axis vs. well depth on the vertical axis.2. For conventional drilling operations a straight line is drawn from the maximum pore pressure at total depth to zero pressure at the surface on the depth axis. This line represents the pressure gradient exerted by the drilling fluid in the wellbore. The intersection of the mud gradient with the fracture gradient is the depth where casing must be set in order to reach total depth.3. Next a similar line is drawn from the pore

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in the blanks” ina laboratory report and not really understand the material. In MEL, students are presented with asimulated industrial problem, provided with a set of reference information and hardware, andexpected to design their own experimental procedure. The students review the referenceinformation and the objectives in the laboratory, plan a procedure, and prepare a simple modelthat is submitted before class. Once in class, they assemble the apparatus, perform theexperiment, modify their procedure, and report their results.2 Correlating CSM Goals and Objectives with ABET Criterion 3 OutcomesThe title of our paper focuses on Criterion 3, “Program Outcomes and Assessment.” Criterion 3is one of eight criteria in part II. “Basic Level

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the blanks” ina laboratory report and not really understand the material. In MEL, students are presented with asimulated industrial problem, provided with a set of reference information and hardware, andexpected to design their own experimental procedure. The students review the referenceinformation and the objectives in the laboratory, plan a procedure, and prepare a simple modelthat is submitted before class. Once in class (see Figure 1), they assemble the apparatus, performthe experiment, modify their procedure, and report their results. Figure 1. MEL II Students Working an Experiment2 The Unique Educational Objectives of the MEL Course SequenceThe purpose of this paper is to merge data from multiple assessment

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here), and both the Quanser andServoToGo boards were supported under RTLT only. Helping our decision, we receivedindication from QRTS that they had plans to support the ServoToGo board under RTWT (it nowis). We chose to use the ServoToGo board because it allowed us flexibility with regard tooperating system, and was the most cost-effective solution.Among other features, the ServoToGo board supplies eight A2D channels, eight D2A channelsand eight encoder input channels. This is more than sufficient for the needs of our laboratory.V. Software InterfaceIn order for students to access the I/O board and control the MagLev, a software interface to theboard is required. Rather than requiring that the students write C-language code andinterrupt

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linked with one section of the college writing class. This particularsection consisted of 7 students who were simultaneously enrolled in Composing the PhysicalWorld. Although Physics for the Modern World typically consists of freshman through seniors,all students enrolled in the linked courses were freshman – the College Writing class is amandatory requirement for all American University students, and the logical plan is for studentsto complete College Writing during their freshman year. A description of the curricular toolsdeveloped to link Physics for the Modern World and Composing the Physical World follows inthe next section.III. Curricular Tools Designed to Link Physics with College WritingAs part of their homework assignments in the

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programming. It is unknown if PFF has plans for a nationalengineering phase in the future, but the possibility of such an engineering phase is discussed inmore detail later.Northwestern University (a private, Research Iinstitution) is the anchoring doctoral PFF: Northwestern University Clusterinstitution for a PFF cluster in the greaterChicago area that includes the following Northwesterninstitutions. Lake Forest College is a private, University Grad. Schoolresidential, liberal arts college with a Lake Forest

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Conference, the Qualitative Research inEducation Conference, the ASEE conference, and the Frontiers in Education Conference. Theseand other recommendations are discussed more fully at the end of this paper.In 1993, Barbara M. Olds and Ronald L. Miller presented a paper at the ASEE AnnualConference entitled “Ethnographic Research in Engineering Education.”1 In addition toexplaining their conceptions of what ethnographic research is and how it is done, they illustratetheir discussion with examples from their study on how students actually undertook the processof planning, conducting, analyzing, and reporting on an open-ended experiment. Although thediscipline of qualitative research would consider their study to be a case study and not anethnography

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., Condoor, S. S. & Brock, H. R. Cognition in design: Viewing the hidden side of the design process. Environment & Planning B, Planning & Design. (1993) Vol. 19, pp.257-271.SRINAND S. KARUPPOORSrinand S. Karuppoor is currently a doctoral student in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Texas A&MUniversity. He received his B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from R.V. College of Engineering, BangaloreUniversity, India. Subsequently, he received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University,Texas. His research interests lie in the area of engineering design and, design theory and methodology.CHRISTIAN P. BURGERChristian P. Burger is the Leland T. Jordan Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of the

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/Newsletter.htm10. Lohmann, J., “EC 2000: The Georgia Tech Experience,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 88, no. 3, July 1999, pp. 305-310.11. Besterfield-Sacre, M., L. Shuman, H. Wolfe, C. Atman, J. McGourty, R. Miller, B. Olds, and G. Rogers, “Defining Outcomes: A Framework for EC-2000,” IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 43, no. 2, May 2000, pp. 100-110.12. Royer, E., C. Wright, and D. Peterson, “Assessment for Electrical Engineering Programs – Processes Implemented at the United States Air Force Academy,” IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 43, no. 2, May 2000, pp. 159-163.13. Safoutin, M., C. Atman, R. Adams, T. Rutar, J. Kramlich, and J. Fridley, “A Design Attribute Framework for Course Planning and

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. st4. Barr, R. E. (1999). Planning the EDG curriculum for the 21 century: A proposed team effort. Engineering DesignGraphics Journal, 63 (2), 4-12. st5. Ault, H. K. (1999). 3-D geometric modeling for the 21 century. Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 63 (2), 33-42.6. Ref. 1.7. Connolly, P. E., Ross, W. A. & Bannatyne, M. W. (1999). Applied 3D modeling technology instruction for thfreshman computer graphics majors: Developing a foundational knowledge. Paper presented at the 54 MidyearConference of the Engineering Design Graphics Division of the American Society for

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Science at Texas A&M University atCollege Station, Texas. He has over 25 years experience as general contractor in the residential and lightcommercial industry. In addition he has worked extensively in economic development, business consulting,strategic planning, and in corporate training and development. Dr. Martin received a BBA in Management, a MBAin Finance from the University of Central Oklahoma and an Ed.D. in HRD from Oklahoma State University.MOHAMMED E. HAQUEMohammed E. Haque is an Associate Professor of the Department of Construction Science at Texas A&MUniversity at College Station, Texas. He has over fifteen years of professional experience in analysis, design, andinvestigation of building, bridges and tunnel structural

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) Page 6.987.4 • Present policy recommendationsProceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationThis water management project was designed to emphasize the process of engineering ratherthan a product from engineering. In particular, the students needed to define the problem and setthe objective of the solution themselves during the first two project sessions. The girls thendesigned their solutions (water quality management policies) and used simulation andoptimization to evaluate these solutions. Finally, they prepared and gave professionalpresentations on their policy recommendations. The planning and delivery of this

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usto change the projects every year without purchasing new equipment. They also allow us to giveexperiments as homework assignments rather than have the traditional lab sections. We havefound that students tend to put more time and effort into projects that do not have to becompleted by a certain time (the end of the lab class). In the future, we plan on incorporatingsome elementary image processing to the course and increasing the use of these skills in theother engineering courses.We have already started to use this tool set in anumber of other highly popular courses. The mostpopular being a freshman course in robotics wherestudents participate in a different roboticcompetition every week (Figure 8) using theLEGO bricks and LabVIEW. We also

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) a need todocument evidence of excellence in education for promotion and tenure (P&T) decisions, and 2)a desire to improve the education of students. Programs accredited by the Accreditation Boardfor Engineering and Technology (ABET) have an additional incentive to document curriculumcontent and effective teaching. The ABET Policy and Procedure Manual1 states that its policiesand procedures are intended to assist educational institutions in planning their educationalprograms. A program must document that it applies current knowledge to the practice ofengineering, and it must provide to outside reviewers the teaching materials, such as courseoutlines and textbooks, for all required courses. These teaching materials should show examplesof

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70 to 80% effectiveness. Additional work on outcomes assessment iscurrently in progress and will be reported in future work.Bibliography1. DeLancey, G. A unified and quantitative approach to assessment, Proceedings of the Fall Regional Conference of the Middle Atlantic Section of ASEE, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA, November 3 – 4, 2000.2. Preparing for ABET EC 2000: from curriculum mission to assessment planning. Report by Engineering Assessment Committee, Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology (1998).3. Esche, S. K. & Hromin, D. J. An open approach to undergraduate laboratories. Enabling Engineering and Technology Education through Information Technology, Proceedings of the Fall

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effectively demonstrates the air cooling and mixingprocesses that occur in building air conditioning systems. A fairly wide range of space conditionscan be achieved by adjusting damper positions and heat load. The dynamics of the apparatus aresuch that the effect of damper and heat load changes on space temperature and humidity aresensed fairly quickly, although the attainment of truly steady conditions is complicated by thethermal inertia of the sheet metal in the space box and ducting.IV. Future Plans and ConclusionsThe apparatus described in this paper is a valuable addition to CSUN’s thermo-fluids laboratory.Financial support from ASHRAE’s Undergraduate Senior Project Grant program was the key tobeginning this endeavor. Integration of the

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research, in 2001, the hypermedia instruction was extended to allstudents in the course. We shifted our research focus to expanding the framework for theempirical study by including the effect of hypermedia instruction on different levels of cognitivedomain, as classified by Bloom’s Taxonomy, and on further analysis of interactions withhypermedia among different style learners. We also plan a longitudinal study of ICM scores in thecourse both before and after the introduction of hypermedia instruction. Instructional design plansfor the course include creation of additional hypermedia materials, development of on-line self-assessment quizzes to provide students with feedback at the end of each hypermedia module

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product, is optimized. The second stage is the optimization of the physical design or theactual product. Once a product is chosen that will be easy to manufacture, the product should bedesigned so as to ease its assembly. A comprehensive planning, research and developmentreduces the amount of iteration and makes any engineering change possible at a reduced cost inthe event that a product is being revised and redesigned 2, 4. As a result the quality, cost anddelivery of the product are greatly improved thanks to early design decisions and increasedcommunication among all members involved in the design, production, and marketing of theproduct.The DFM design team should consider all the alternatives possible to come up with the optimaldesign, which