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Donald Goddard

all benefit from bringing in more of the best minds, better motivatedand better prepared than before. The surprising thing is, after once doing this sort of apresentation program, how easy it gets, and how little if any extra time it requires within theprogram and course.Bibliography1. Taskforce on Development of the Technology Workforce - Joseph R. Krier Chairman, “Final Report – Expanding the Technology Workforce”, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, April 2000.2. American Society for Engineering Education, “Search the Journal Engineering Education Database”, http://www.asee.org/jee/, accessed on , Dec 28, 2000DONALD L. GODDARD PHD PEDr. Goddard teaches machine design and materials courses at The University of Texas, Tyler. His

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Frank Krygowski

Session 2649 Modernizing a Physical Measurements Laboratory in Engineering Technology Francis R. Krygowski Youngstown State UniversityAbstractIn 1997, the Mechanical Engineering Technology faculty at Youngstown State University wereawarded a National Science Foundation Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement Grant tomodernize a Physical Measurements laboratory, NSF-ILI Grant # DUE-9750992. This paperdetails the experience of that project.The objectives of the project were: to greatly increase the number of sensors available forstudent

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C. Richard Helps

Session 3149 Paradigms and Scope of Engineering Technology Education C. Richard G. Helps Brigham Young UniversityAbstractThe scope of thinking skills required of Engineering Technology graduates is not often fullyappreciated. Engineering Technology is frequently defined by critics and practitioners alike interms of its pragmatic approach to education. Phrases such as “hands-on” “application-oriented”and “implementation-focused” are widely used. While this aspect is an essential component ofEngineering Technology, it falls far short of the critical

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Victoria Wike

Session 2461 Professional Engineering Ethical Behavior: A Values-based Approach Victoria S. Wike Loyola University ChicagoI would like to argue here in favor of a values-based approach to engineering ethicsbecause of what such an approach can provide. By a values-based approach I meansimply a perspective on one’s professional (or personal) life that focuses on identifyingand enacting values. And by values, I mean those moral goods intrinsically valuable tohuman beings, such as fairness and freedom. A professional ethics that is directed tocommon moral commitments

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Rose Marra; Andrew Lau; John Wise; Robert Pangborn

Session 2793 Student Assessments of Engineering First-Year Seminars Andrew S. Lau, Robert N. Pangborn, John C. Wise, Rose M. Marra Pennsylvania State University / University of MissouriAbstractAs of summer 1999, the Pennsylvania State University requires all first-year students tocomplete a one-credit first-year seminar (FYS) as part of their General Education requirements.In fact, many engineering FYS’s were first offered in fall 1998 (as electives), and assessment hasbeen ongoing since that semester. Engineering seminars have these four specific goals: 1. Introduce students to a specific field, or a number

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Marilyn Smith

Session 3202 Aerospace Engineering: Integrator for Cross-Disciplinary Learning Marilyn Smith, Narayanan Komerath School of Aerospace Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0150AbstractAerospace Engineers have a tradition of innovating across discipline boundaries. Each new flightvehicle design is a challenge requiring the application of advances in different disciplines. Thefast-changing technological marketplace makes it critical to prepare students to absorb andintegrate knowledge from any

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Marilyn Smith

Session 2602 The Virtual Laboratory: Technology Enhancement for Engineering Education Marilyn Smith, Narayanan Komerath School of Aerospace Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0150AbstractThis paper continues to report on research that seeks to define the proper role of technology toenhance learning in engineering education. The first application addressed was that ofaugmenting traditional classroom lectures so that classroom and homework time becomes

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James Globig

study to illustrate them. Applying a Global Ethic in Engineering OrganizationsINTRODUCTIONMuch has been written about ethics in engineering. The vast majority of the early and presentday contributions in the area emanate from civil engineering, chemical engineering andbioengineering. Not surprisingly, these fields can and do have significant impact on the qualityof human life and much of the research exists because of the widely accepted values based onthe sacredness of human life. Explicit illustrations of moral dilemmas and widely acceptedsolutions readily come to mind: We do not design overpasses that collapse in earthquakes, wedo not design space shuttles that explode when it gets cold 1 and we do not experiment withhuman

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William Edward Howard; Joseph Musto

Engineering Curriculum. Page 6.630.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education• There was insufficient formal exposure to modern solid modeling tools and techniques.With these assessment results and potential curriculum revisions in mind, a roundtable discussionwith a panel of engineers and managers assembled from Milwaukee-area industrial partners wasconvened. The discussion, centered on the proper integration of computing tools and techniquesinto the curriculum under the new Notebook Computer

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Thomas Hulbert; Robert B. Angus

Session 1520 A Survey Course on VEE Pro Software for Engineers and Technologists Thomas E. Hulbert, Robert B. Angus Northeastern University Boston, MA 02115-5096AbstractData acquisition requirements for manufacturing, development, and research applications havegrown significantly. A continued need is predicted for standards and software to efficientlyprocess and store that data.The authors, who created Just-in-Time (JIT) Education™, were invited to meet with a multi-national, high-technology company. Their corporate team identified a critical

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Todd Giorgio; Sean P. Brophy

Vanderbilt University as Biomedical Engineering 281 (BME 281) anddelivered annually since 1998.Engineering education of biotechnology mandates a multidisciplinary approach that attracts aheterogeneous learner population. Diverse academic backgrounds complicate the biotechnologylearning environment, motivating the application of powerful educational strategies. However,recent research in education has provided some insights into how to design a learningenvironment that centers on issues of the learner and the knowledge to be learned. A recentreport called How People Learn: Mind, Brain, Experience and School1 has synthesized currentresearch on how people learn and effective classroom practice to create a framework called theHPL Framework. This report

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, focused all his resources toward music.For him, any knowledge he had, regardless of the field, became a servant to his musical goals.Science for science's sake, so apparent with Nabokov, Leonardo, and Borodin, held no meaningfor Bach.For students, the process of thinking through their own life experiences, while becomingintimately acquainted with such models of multidisciplinary thought, effectively holds up amirror in which passion, hard work, resourcefulness, and imagination play out before their eyesand ears. These individuals teach much to any who enter their worlds, providing singular modelsfor life and work, while triggering inquiring minds in unexpected ways. They offer particularlymeaningful paradigms to those engineering students

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Steve Schreiner; John Burns

motivated to work with the higher education professionals todiscuss challenges associated with teaching the engineering perspective to their students. A keythe success of this workshop was the notion that the pre-college and engineering educators eachbrought their expertise to the table with an open mind. The engineering professors are experts inengineering but know little about teaching middle school science to the entire population! Thepremise throughout the workshop was that the engineering professors would present engineeringconcepts and then the participants would work as a group on ways of incorporating the conceptsinto particular grade levels and courses. Working together as partners, many pragmatic issueswere discussed and many excellent

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Yaw Owusu

Session 1430 Systems Model for Improving Standards and Retention in Engineering Education Yaw A. Owusu FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Florida A & UniversityAbstractThis paper describes a systems model for improving standards in engineering educationand at the same time maintaining high retention rate for all engineering students in theeducational system. A systems approach methodology adopted for this research is atechnique of taking into account all relevant factors affecting quality education andstudent retention. A four

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William Mueller; Philip Pritchard

options into established classroom practice, make effective use of the Web acontinuing challenge. Teachers are looking for workable strategies.With this in mind, MathSoft, the makers of Mathcad software, have launched a Web-basededucational resource center called The Learning Site. It is located at: http://learning.mathsoft.comThe goal of The Learning Site is to provide teachers of engineering, science, and mathematicswith reliable, ready-made solutions to the problems of teaching with technology. The site offersonline training in the use of Mathcad, as well as integrated collections of learning materials thatmake use of Mathcad and the Web to deliver their content through engaging, technologically-informed

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Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley

Session 3575 Balancing an Engineering/Science Career and Family: A Novel Approach Elizabeth A. Parry and Laura J. Bottomley Science Surround/North Carolina State UniversityAbstractThe stresses of balancing professional and personal lives are commonly accepted as part ofbeginning and building a career. In engineering particularly, the need to maintain awareness oftechnical progress is critical to staying marketable in the field. Life issues, such as parenting,assuming care of elderly parents or maintaining a healthy balance between work and home

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Ronald Adrezin; Michael Nowak; Donald Leone

Session 1109 Biomedical Engineering Senior Capstone Research at the University of Hartford Michael Nowak, Donald Leone, Ronald Adrezin University of HartfordAbstract:Graduating biomedical engineers often work along side medical professionals with littleengineering background and must be able to communicate technical issues clearly. With theseissues in mind, we decided that all our students should have the experience of working inclinically-based research laboratories in the local area or near the students’ homes.With the assistance of a faculty

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Constantin Chassapis; Kishore Pochiraju; Sven Esche

orientation with emphasis on creativity and innovation throughout the curriculum.4. Prepare the students to interact and communicate effectively in multi-disciplinary teams.5. Continually enhance the mechanical engineering curriculum to incorporate effective pedagogy and information technology tools.6. Integrate education and research into the undergraduate curriculum.7. Motivate excellence in the creation and use of new knowledge and prepare the student for life- long learning.Keeping these general objectives in mind, a list of specific program goals was then established forthe mechanical engineering department. The complete listing of all departmental goals andobjectives is available at the website of the SEAC.2 For each departmental goal

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Kay Wilding; Claudia Grossman; Stephen Hundley; Patricia Fox

), administered in the U.S. by the Institute of International Education, theInternational Engineering Program at the University of Rhode Island, or programs offeredthrough Carl Duisberg International. All of these programs form partnerships betweenuniversities worldwide as well as the industry and business community, with the shared goal oftraining global-minded engineers and business professionals. They are usually well funded, withcorporate sponsors, scholarships, and paid internship options.Various models of integrating a professional degree with foreign language or internationaleducation should be considered to see which approach might fit best for the individualinstitution, ranging from a dual-degree program such as the Rhode Island model to

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William Sullivan; Kimberly Sward; Janis Terpenny

 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationEye-tracking studies of online materials have shown that users do not read online material in thesame conventional manner as that of material printed upon paper. In fact, there is someindication that reading from computer screens is about 25% slower than reading from paper.First and foremost there are some important differences between a computer screen and a sheetof paper or even a blackboard. As of 1997, the average high-end monitor available forcommercial use on a computer had about 110 dpi or dots per inch of resolution. This issignificantly less than a piece of paper. As quality and technology evolves this will be less of anissue but it is something to bear in mind while designing web

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Eugene Ressler; Steven Schweitzer; Stephen Ressler

numerous well-established, high-quality,regional and national competitions requiring the design and construction of model structures andmechanical devices. Odyssey of the Mind, the FIRST Robotics Competition, and theInternational Bridge Building Competition are three notable examples.2,3,4 Furthermore, by theirvery nature, these sorts of competitions tend to be exclusionary. For example, Odyssey of theMind permits a school to enter only one team for each of five design problems. The FIRSTcompetition requires a $4,000 entry fee, upwards of $10,000 in additional investment, and directinvolvement by practicing engineers or university students and faculty. Such restrictions andcosts, though entirely appropriate, are likely to result in only a small

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Alexandre Botari; Claudio da Rocha Brito; Melany Ciampi

preserve the largest part of national lands and to promote the development and the progress ofthe Country.This professional of environmental engineering has to be very well qualified, with skills to helpthe promotion of sustainable development. S/he has to be a professional with scientific mind,capable of finding solutions in according to the local context inserted in a global context. It isthe ability of creating technology to be used to the welfare of contemporary society, viewing thefuture year 11.The effective work in projects exposes the students to the real environmental problems and thisprovides the interface of the theory and the practice. This seeking for the right solution for suchproblems enlarges their academic horizons

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Penelope Peterson; Frank Fisher

, medical, biology) particularlyaccentuates the need for graduates to be adaptive in the application and extension of their contentknowledge. However, we feel that one can readily apply this notion of adaptive expertise to all fieldsof engineering, and perhaps to a lesser extent to education in the sciences. We should alsoemphasize that we are interested solely in the adaptiveness aspect of the adaptive expert, and havenot focused on the level of content knowledge that our subjects may (or may not) be able todemonstrate in their field. With this in mind, the terms adaptiveness and adaptive expertise are usedinterchangeably throughout the paper.Adaptive ExpertiseBy definition, people who have developed expertise in a particular area are able to

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Nagraj Balakrishnan; Michael Leonard; Judith McKnew

, and on material developed by the Institute of Configuration Management. As such,the module introduces students to CM and its various components. The module also includesmaterial illustrating how commercially available CM software is used in change control.The educational materials in the Overview Module have been developed with eight specificeducational objectives in mind. These objectives specify that, at the end of the CM Overviewmodule, students will be able to• Correctly use selected CM terminology including: engineering change requests, engineering change orders, field change orders, configuration item, vault, approved document, controlled document, functional baseline, allocated baseline, developmental baseline, product baseline

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Basavapatna Sridhara

Session 2150Ã Web-Enhanced Instruction in Engineering Technology: Advantages and Limitations B. S. Sridhara Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU)Abstract Web-based and web-enhanced instruction is becoming more and more popular inEngineering Education with the advancement of Internet technology.1,2 In this abstract, theauthor’s experience in using web-enhanced instruction to teach Fluid Power (ET 485) is brieflydiscussed. In the spring of 2000, MTSU obtained a site license from Blackboard.com anddeveloped CourseInfo on our server for

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Lars Cederqvist; Jed Lyons

Session 1566 Full-Body Contact Statics and Other Freshman Engineering Experiences Jed S. Lyons, Lars Cederqvist University of South CarolinaAbstractHundreds of papers presented at ASEE meetings have described introduction to engineeringcourses and projects. This paper provides actual instructional materials for three inexpensiveactive-learning activities that can be performed by first-semester freshmen to introduce them toengineering and motivate them to learn a suite of computer applications. Two of them are in

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department needs to expand its horizons to consider funding opportunities for technical andeducational research that do not specifically encourage HBCU participation. As the departmentdevelops its teaching and service directions, the research portfolio must be kept in mind, andupdated as needed. The department presently does not have a graduate program (but faculty maywork with Mechanical Engineering graduate students), but does have a plan to phase in a M.S. inAerospace Science Engineering. A department advisory committee will provide criticaldirection.C. ServiceService is a crucial component for all academic units. The community served by Tuskegee’sAerospace department includes students, engineers, and others interested in aerospace issues

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Darrell Gibson; Patricia Brackin

kept in mind however that these data should be used in conjunction with the subjectivejudgments of the design faculty members for final evaluations.BIBLIOGRAPHY[1] Pahl, G. and Beitz, W., Engineering Design: A Systematic Approach, Edited by Ken Wallace, Springer-Verlag, The Design Council, 1988.[2] Dekker, D., and Gibson, J. D., “Learning Design in a College Setting”, International Conference on Engineering Design, Tampere, Finland, August, 1997.[3] Walvoord, B., “Helping Students Write Well: A Guide for Teachers in All Disciplines”, The Modern Language Association of America, New York, 1986.[4] Process Education Teaching Institute Handbook, Pacific Crest, Corvalis, 1999.[5] Gibson, J.D. and Brackin, M.P., “Techniques for the Implementation

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Durward Sobek

Session 1330 Understanding the Importance of Intermediate Representations in Engineering Problem-Solving Durward K. Sobek, II Montana State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes an emerging theory on the role that representations play in engineeringproblem solving. Modern cognitive psychology has shown that not only do problem solvers usedifferent representations to store information and ideas, the representation itself influences theproblem-solvers’ solution approach. I extend this notion to the engineering domain, and illustrateit with an example from

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others.The critical need for reform-minded courses involving faculty, not only from Education but fromScience and Engineering as well, is seen in light of a recent initiative begun jointly by the stateof Louisiana’s Board of Regents and Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. In May2000, endorsing a report by a Blue Ribbon Commission on Teacher Quality(http://blackboard.lcet.state.la.us/courses/ScienceConsortium/; user name: Blueribbon; password:blueribbon), the two boards instituted new guidelines for teacher preparation. Noting that“teacher preparation is the responsibility of the entire college/university, not just the educationprogram unit, these guidelines shall consider issues which pertain to the college/university atlarge”. As in many