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G. Tong Zhou; Hong-Jing Lo

moreinteresting. For example, Minitab 1 and MATLAB 2 projects were considered. However,with the emergence of multimedia technologies such as the World Wide Web WWW andexciting new programming environments such as Java, it is now possible to teach this coursein a more visual and interactive manner. We have incorporated state-of-the-art information technologies such as the Internet, theWWW, and Java into the instruction of EE3340. Java is a recently emerged programminglanguage and the programming language of choice today in network applications it is be-coming the DOS of the Internet." It allows new and exciting opportunities for WWW sitesto achieve higher levels of user interaction and exibility. By using Java, WWW developerscan create applications

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Mary S. Bonhomme; Edward R. Alef; Edward G. Borbely

develop and prepare engineers for positions as technicalleaders in each of these mission-critical areas.Both programs contain four critical elements that are designed to instill in the learner thecapability to execute advanced but clearly defined job requirements within a prescribed set oftime and budget constraints. The components also develop the ability to achieve theseobjectives within a dynamic matrix of rapidly advancing technology and organizations. Thesefour components include:1. a master’s degree in engineering with a plan of study that is interdisciplinary and includes a highly specialized job assignment unique to each learner;2. over 1600 contact hours of specific and proprietary training to complement the plan of study in the

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Ronald E. Barr

series of SummerSchools that the Division had conducted, beginning in the early 1930’s. The most notable early SummerSchool was held after the war in St. Louis in 1946. Many of the pioneers in EDG education madepresentations at the meeting, which resulted in a hardbound book [1] that charted the course for EDGeducation during the twenty-year post-war era. The seventh Summer School was held in 1967 in EastLansing, Michigan and it focused on integrating graphics more closely with the design process. Theproceedings of that Summer School were published as a special edition of The Engineering GraphicsJournal [2], and it served as a landmark document for the infusion of freshman design projects into EDGcourses that were typical in the 1970’s and 1980

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Russell Dean; Charles F. Yokomoto

within theASEE and ABET organizations. We will make suggestions on how to read a published processand how to develop your assessment process and describe implications of the high degree ofcomplexity of outcomes assessment as a process.1. IntroductionThe essential reasons for engaging in outcomes assessment, other than to satisfy ABET’s newEC 2000 criteria, are to provide evidence that your students have learned what you think theyhave learned and to identify areas where improvements are needed. Thus, each organization’sassessment plan should include a process for assessing measurable outcomes with whichpositive changes to an academic program can be made. While the larger plan should include theorganizational structure, staffing, financing and

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Robert Borchert; David Yates; Daniel Jensen

. Evaluation of the enhancement in student learning, brought about by useof these tools, has been accomplished by a variety of assessment techniques. Next, theassessment results are correlated with the student’s Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) as wellas the type of “learner” they are, as measured by the VARK learning style inventory. Resultsindicate that the hands-on and visual content overall enhances the learning experience.Specifically, it is rated highly by the MBTI “N” type students, but not as highly by the MBTI“S” types. However, both S-types and N-types benefited from it in their ability to solveproblems. VARK K-types gave the hands-on and visual content the highest rating of any student“type” we studied.1. IntroductionThe Fundamentals of

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Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 YE ARFigure 1. Global trade between the U.S. and major economic groups (O. of Trade & Analysis) Page 4.59.2II.1 Bi-national Economic Development.In the pre-global economic age, trade

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Kenneth Reid; Elaine Cooney

UniversityIndianapolis worked together with Diversified Systems, Inc., an Indianapolis electronicsmanufacturing firm, to develop and present a course entitled “Fundamentals of ElectronicsManufacturing”.I. Course Content Page 4.187.1The course is structured to be offered as a nine week course at the manufacturer’s site or as anon-campus course. The class consists of lecture with hands-on laboratories. The syllabus is asfollows: week topic lab 1 Introduction, components, basic electricity using multimeters 2 Basic electricity, DC circuits measure V, I, R, Ohm’s

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Nagy N. Bengiamin

instruments for each objective/outcome must be determined and data gathering tools should provide sufficient information tosupport quantitative and qualitative analysis. An ongoing assessment program is expected to bein place such that the recommendations and results received from the data analysis can be usedto improve the program and to enhance accomplishment of the desired objectives. An explicitplan for maintaining the assessment program must be established to facilitate effective loopclosing on the assessment process.ABET calls for the following eight evaluation criteria:1 (1) Students; (2) Program EducationalObjectives; (3) Program Outcomes and Assessment; (4) Professional Component; (5) Faculty;(6) Facilities; (7) Institutional Support and

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Philip Doepker

Session 1625 The Development and Implementation of an Assessment Plan For Engineering Programs: A Model for Continuous Improvement Philip E. Doepker University of DaytonAbstract The development and implementation of an assessment plan requires input and activeparticipation by faculty and staff at all levels. This paper examines: 1) How an assessmentinfrastructure can be established to provide leadership to all units of the university; 2) The role offaculty in the development program assessment plans; and 3) how continuous

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W. D. Jemison; W. A. Hornfeck; J. F. Greco; I. I. Jouny

for computer engineering skills bystudents, employers, and graduate schools. This paper will discuss the motivation formaking a change in the curriculum, describe the curriculum options identified includingthe advantages and disadvantages of each option, describe the chosen degree programand the plan for implementing it, and outline the challenges that are expected during theimplementation.I. IntroductionThere are a number of developments, both external to and internal to Lafayette College,which drove the decision to develop and approve a four year combined BSECE degree[1]. First, there has been a rapid proliferation of technology in the form of computers andcommunication systems throughout society and in engineering in particular during

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John Cervantes; Donald J., Jr. Fournier; Cyndi Gaudet

Page 4.189.1environmental performance, including compliance with national and international requirements.An effective EMS requires that an organization commit to environmental concerns as one of itshighest priorities.1, 2 EMS examples include the Chemical Manufacturer’s Association’sResponsible Care, USEPA’s Common Sense Initiative and Environmental Leadership Program,British Standard 7750, the European Union’s Eco-Management and Audit Regulation (EMAR)and Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS), and ISO 14000. 3In 1996, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) issued its first five ISO 14000documents.4 Work continues on the remaining 14 documents with completion expected within afew years.5, 6 ISO 14000 is an EMS composed of a

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John R. Wagner; David Finley

the examination. Page 4.190.1INTRODUCTION:Program Assessment has been increasingly important for obtainingaccreditation. Both the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools(NCA) and the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)have identified a need for assessment in the educational process and havemandated the use of multiple measures of program performance.A pictorial diagram showing how student-related information is fed back to thefaculty in Tri-State University’s (TSU) chemical engineering program is shownbelow in Figure 1. As can be seen by this figure, both internal and externalentities attempt to measure the students

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Michael Swedish

Page 4.191.1on file at the school. III. System Description A line drawing of the unit has been included as Figure 1. Figure 1. Psychrometric Chamber Layout~ Psychrometric State Points* Flow Rate Measurement Points Water Supply Diffuser : Air Atomizing Spray Nozzles ~ Strip ~ Heaters ~ Psychrometric 1

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Kevin Schmaltz; Morrie Walworth; Ajay Mahajan; David McDonald

Science Foundation (NSF) and has resulted inthe development of the Integrated Systems Engineering Laboratory (ISEL) that housesvertically integrated laboratory exercises for twelve courses from three differentcurricula.1. IntroductionAll too often in engineering education, laboratory instruction within a specific coursefocuses on the technical topics of that specific course without regard to other laboratorycourses. A vertically integrated learning environment provides laboratory experiencesthat allow students to build upon earlier laboratory work by studying different facets ofthe same experimental set-ups in multiple engineering laboratories. This environment iscreated in an Integrated Systems Engineering Laboratory (ISEL). The ISEL houses

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James Dally; William L. Fourney; Peter C. Chang; Hugh A. Bruck; Dave K. Anand

in new interactive, multimedia "Studios". Metrics forsuccess concentrate on comparative evaluation of student performance in the traditional andintegrated versions of the curriculum, as well as student feedback on the curriculum’s satisfactionof ABET 2000 criteria. IntroductionEngineering students are facing new challenges in the 21st century that may not be satisfied withexisting undergraduate engineering curriculum [1-4]. These challenges require the developmentof improved skills in a variety of areas, such as engineering design, problem solving, life-longlearning, and multidisciplinary teamwork. These skills have been identified in a new set ofcriteria developed by ABET, known as ABET Engineering

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Jay Goldman; David A. Conner

that were developed to assess theundergraduate electrical engineering program, and (d) presents an overview of the validationprocess used to test these assessment instruments. A web address is provided so that the readercan access the resulting work products.The process of "designing" program assessment instruments requires the same skills needed forany major engineering design process to be successful. The process requires knowledgeable,articulate, aggressive leadership capable of moving the iterative process along in an (academic)environment that, by nature, tends to resist the making of decisions in a timely manner. Theprocess, therefore, must be structured using a top-down approach that ensures (1) that requireddecisions are made early in

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W. D. Jemison; W. A. Hornfeck; J. F. Greco; I. I. Jouny

social agents which influence changes in the engineeringprofession in general and the electrical engineering field in particular. The various agentsfor change in academic and engineering environments are linked to the considerations inplanning a four-year Electrical & Computer Engineering degree program.I. IntroductionAs technologies advance and society changes, the engineering profession must inevitablyadapt[1]. Technological agents of change such as advances in computing,telecommunications, and the Internet are reshaping existing businesses and creating newindustries resulting in a demand for a new mix of technical skills from engineeringgraduates. Technological changes in turn have created social agents of change whichfundamentally

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Jack Zecher

correspondingimage being displayed. Page 4.195.2 Figure 1 Audio narration being recorded in a sound boothSince the CD-ROM was intended to illustrate how ProEngineer works, the next task was tocapture screen images in a video format, thereby illustrating the sequence of steps that a userperforms when running the program. These captured screen images would have to correspond tothe audio track that had been created. The method that was used involved a program capable ofcapturing screen images over a period of time. The images can be saved either as individualbitmap files, or as a Video for Windows (.avi) file when images are saved at

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Charles S. Elliott

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George Tjilos; Lisa Anneberg; Ece Yaprak

(EEPROM).We have applied for, and were awarded, the ALTERA Corporation’s Higher EducationalAssistance Program grant through which we received, free of charge, a number of“design laboratory packages” which included ALTERA Development Tools including aprogramming unit for each package. Through this program, ALTERA provides qualifiedinstitutions with development tools which support system-level digital logic designutilizing ALTERA's PLD solutions. This program serves two purposes:(1) it enables member universities to keep pace with the latest technological advances; and(2) through its role as an information clearinghouse, ALTERA facilitates the exchange of ideas and experiences among participating universities.Through an NSF-ILI grant, we

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Hisham Alnajjar

about the generated signal.The objectives, besides the hands-on experience, were to introduce students to theconcepts of periodic signals, their magnitudes and frequencies. This experiment isexplained next.The experimentThe TMS320C31 DSK kit can be used as a signal generator by using a program calledDSK_SG from TI. Various methods can be used to verify that a signal was indeedgenerated. One method that may be used is to connect the DSK kit output port tospeaker while another method is to connect the output port to an oscilloscope. Instead ofusing commercial oscilloscope, a second DSK kit connected to another computer can beutilized as an oscilloscope by loading a program called DSK_OSC, also from TI, on thesecond computer. As shown in Figure (1

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Doug Graham; Niaz Latif, Purdue University - Calumet

dimensions.I. IntroductionStudents in introductory graphics courses typically study the standard practices of dimensioning thatincludes types of dimensioning; current standards; symbology; units and etc. Although these factorsare important, the value of complete dimensioning in order to describe the geometry of an object isoften undermined. By failing to understand this, dimensioning by students results in missingdimensions. A complex geometry is created from several simple geometries. If students canrecognize these simple geometries and can provide dimensions for them, they will not miss anyrequired dimensions.The objective of this paper is to: 1) introduce a teaching method to avoid missing dimensions in adrawing, and 2) present results from

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John I. Hochstein; E. H. Perry

our students have acquired theminimum knowledge and skill to receive a passing grade in the dynamics, thermodynamics, andfluid mechanics courses, respectively.Dynamics: The ability to... 1) solve a simple problem involving particle kinematics in a rectangular coordinate system 2) apply Newton's Second Law to determine the motion of a body subjected to a given set of forces 3) apply the principle of conservation of energy to solve a simple dynamics problem 4) apply the principle of impulse and momentum to solve a simple dynamics problem 5) solve a simple problem involving planar kinematics of a rigid bodyThermodynamics: The ability to.... 1) apply the First Law of Thermodynamics to a simple problem involving a closed system 2) apply the

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Clay Gloster; Christopher Doss

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Naseem Ishaq; Salahuddin Qazi

education based onmultimedia technology and Internet which make it more accessible and at the same time moreeffective and economical. The purpose of this paper is to list the tools and technologiesavailable for distance education and analyze the ways in which a developing country likePakistan may use these to meet the growing need of educated workforce. The current state ofeducation in the areas of engineering and technology in Pakistan is reviewed and its efforts indistance education is also discussed. It is suggested that other developing countries can usesimilar modes of distance education to educate their manpower to improve their nation’seconomy for a better standard of living.1. IntroductionUndoubtedly a nation’s development depends on a

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William Daughton

Page 4.11.1underlying concepts and principles during the course of the program. Ideally, lessons learnedcould be applied on the job soon after their introduction.Based on the issues highlighted above, the program’s guiding principles can be summarized as:• A primary focus on engineers preparing for early management assignments• A rich mix of relevant management theory and practices• Flexibility and portability to meet the work and personal demands on students• A format that effectively engages remote students• An opportunity to include a technical area of emphasis associated with the manager’s functional area• A provision for an original research project on a management topicProgram ModelThe model of the program is shown in Figure 1. This

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J. Hardwick Butler; Burton Courtney

transferring to GeorgiaTech consistently succeed academically as well or better than entering Tech freshmen. Thissuccess prompted the University System to implement a Regents’ Engineering TransferProgram (RETP) based on the MGC program that would facilitate the transfer of highly-qualified students from other state institutions to Georgia Tech to complete their engineeringdegree. Likewise, many students attend MGC for two years before transferring to SouthernPolytechnic State University or Georgia Southern University to complete the requirements for aBachelor’s degree in Engineering Technology. To complement this strength in its engineeringcurriculum MGC in 1997 began two new initiatives: (1) preliminary approval was granted toestablish a new

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Paul D. Schreuders; Arthur T. Johnson

these examinations mimicthose of the literature they represent. The courses in which this examination format has beenused include a graduate course in Instrumentation Systems and undergraduate courses inBiological Systems Controls and in Biological Responses to Environmental Stimuli.Examination ObjectivesWhile the content of the courses in which the Great Literature exams varied widely, theobjectives for using the format were similar. These objectives were (1) to provide context formthe calculations that the students were performing, (2) to require the students to demonstrate thatthey could isolate and manipulate critical information from a larger set of information, and (3)provide a humorous milieu in which to present final examination

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Monson H. Hayes; Lonnie D. Harvel

1997, a masters degree program inmechanical engineering was added. Since the number of courses that must be offered fora masters degree exceeds the number of courses that can be taught by resident GTLfaculty, each term a number of courses are offered by video. These courses are taught inAtlanta by Georgia Tech faculty, and are videotaped for students at GTL. Due to the costof this method of delivery, and the long delays that often occur in mailing videotapesacross the Atlantic, in the summer of 1997, it was decided to experiment with deliveringcourses from one campus to the other using the internet.1 In the Fall of 1997, a graduatelevel course in Neural Networks was given to students at GTL, and delivered by internetto students in Atlanta

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Marla E. Hacker; Thomas M. West

Advanced ManufacturingWith this input, four topical areas were identified for the Manufacturing Engineering MastersProgram as described below:1. Data Analysis- Courses in engineering statistics, statistical process control, and design ofexperiments.2. Manufacturing Systems- Courses in manufacturing design, and production control systems.3. Personnel Systems- Courses in managing change, team building and communication, strategicplanning, and total quality management. Page 4.204.24. Technical Electives- Courses in mechanical engineering, electrical and computer engineering,and engineering management.After six years we have 30 students formally