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resemblance to Pro/Desktop andmany other mid-level CAD packages. Moving models from Pro/Desktop to DesignStar was veryeasy but Pro/Desktop lacks direct integration with any FEA package. This lack of integrationmakes it difficult to conduct optimization studies.Assessment plan and resultsTo assess the implementation of Pro/Desktop a time analysis survey was conducted forcomparison to the previous semester when Pro/Engineer was taught. The students recorded thenumber of minutes it took them to complete each assignment and to prepare for the next lesson.An individual survey was also completed at the end of the EDG instruction to determine howcomfortable each student felt with 3-D solid modeling.The Pro/Engineering final project was to draw and assemble

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courses.International Virtual Design ExperienceIt became apparent that due to academic, extracurricular, family, or employment conflicts, that itis not practical for all students to spend three months to a year out of the country. This led to thedevelopment of additional international programs that would require less time out of the country,yet still provide students with a significant international experience. One of the new programsdeveloped to help students satisfy the international requirement of the Union College engineeringprogram is the International Virtual Design Studio (IVDS) project15,16.The IVDS project provides an international collaborative design experience for engineeringstudents widely separated by time, geography, and culture through the use

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Robert Brown; Francine Battaglia; Donald R. Flugrad

. Strongly Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly Disagree Agree 1 2 3 4 5 Page 6.130.6 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationVI. Design Panel AssessmentOne of the most important and innovative activities developed for assessment was establishmentof a design panel to evaluate student design projects. The design panel

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needs of the learner, either as an individual or as part of ateam. For example, a curriculum could be implemented based entirely aroundundertaking multiple projects, with fundamental information brought in just-in-time.Such a learning environment could be adapted to individual learner’s needs by providing3 For the details of Invention 2000, please see: http://www.olin.edu/news/news_stories/Invention2kf.html4 Partners are the group of about 25 students slated to join the curriculum design effort in the fall of 2001.These partners will work with faculty to create and test curriculum and then become part of the entering Page

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learning occur, including the role of mathematics and design courses, the common first year curriculum, the inclusion of project based learning Page 6.323.3Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education• Rules systems and procedures, including assessment• Rewards and sanctions, including promotion procedures• Rituals and traditions, including graduation functions, the pub crawl ….• Events , including orientation, social functions, faculty meetings…• Interactions with the profession including Accreditation

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professions.Over the past decade several initiatives have sought to address this problem. For example theAssociation of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) launched Project 3000 by 2000 in 1991 in aneffort to increase minority enrollment in U.S. medical schools by establishing partnershipsbetween K-12 school systems, colleges, and health professions schools1. Initially the project wasvery successful; between 1991 and 1994 the number of minority applicants to medical schoolsincreased by 40% and the number of matriculants increased by 27%2. The mid-1990's, however,brought successful challenges to affirmative action. These included Proposition 209, which was

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technologies.1.2 The Multidisciplinary Engineering Laboratory Course SequenceThe objectives assessed in this paper is the Multidisciplinary Engineering Laboratory (MEL)sequence, which was replaced three traditional, closed, theory-verification laboratory courses inelectrical circuits, fluid mechanics, and stress analysis in 1997 3. As its name implies, MEL’seducational objectives are focused on experiments that integrate multiple subjects. MEL goalsare to prepare graduates that can integrate multiple disciplines, extend their knowledge to new Page 6.717.1topics over their professional lifetime, be team and project leaders, and

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ethical when planning projects, managing humanresources, and specifying and purchasing products. The degradation of ethics in engineeringorganizations is only a symptom of what many philosophers have observed as a global trendthat permeates our societies, our politics and even our families. 2, 3ABSOLUTE VALUESIn researching the subject matter of ethics in engineering, the terms ethic, moral, and law areused frequently and interchangeably. If they are to be used properly and we are to understandtheir meaning when conducting research or otherwise addressing the subject, however, then weneed to understand their meanings and how they differ:From Webster's Dictionary:Ethic 1. "The discipline dealing with what is good or bad and with moral duty

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, “handcrafting”each lecture, lab exercise, and exam. It is time we engineering instructors adopted a moreengineering-like approach, developing software and databases that can allow courses to beassembled from interchangeable parts. We hope our project has made an important contributionto this process.Bibliography[1] Edward F. Gehringer, Ana E. Goulart, Xiaokang Sang, and Chenhao Geng, “Computer Architecture Course Database: Implementation and Status Report,” Workshop on Computer Architecture Education, held in conjunction with the 25th International Symposium on Computer Architecture in Barcelona, Spain, June 1998 (http://www4.ncsu.edu/~efg/isca-caew98.ps).[2] Aaron P. Titus, Larry W. Martin, and Robert J. Beichner, “Web-based testing in

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. 3.10 MOSFET DevicesStudents will be introduced to the essentials of MOSFET devices. We will cover the structure ofMOS devices and integrate knowledge from physics, circuits, and electromagnetics to understandtheir static and dynamic characteristics. Finally, they will perform experiences using SUPREM IV.4. An ExampleCMOS Circuit with ion-implantation well.Students study the effect of ion implantation in reducing the latch-up trigger problem of CMOSCircuitries. This utilizes knowledge from BJT devices “parasitic devices”, NMOS, PMOS, ionimplantation versus diffusion characteristics in forming P or N regions. Ideas of reducing parasiticdevice effect by lowering BJT current gain are used. The project requires the use of both diffusedWell CMOS

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to identify any weaknesses in their current understanding.6. Go Public is the final, summative assessment of students’ understanding of the material at the Page 6.336.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education end of the module.The STAR Legacy model is quite versatile and can be applied to the design of instructionalmodules used in contexts ranging from elementary to post-graduate education, spanning timeframes ranging from a few hours of class time to semester-long projects. The

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homeworkassignments distributed to campus students during the lecture. The due date for homeworkassignments and projects is two weeks after the due date for campus students, unless otherwiseindicated by the professor. Assignments are returned to the CDL by fax; the CDL forwards thework to the professor for grading.Tests and exams must be taken exactly two weeks after administration to campus students. Ateach off-campus location, a proctor must be identified and approved by CDL to administerexaminations. If a suitable proctor is not available at the student’s place of employment,arrangements can be made to have exams administered by a local college or library.Examinations will be mailed to the proctor, who must sign a cover page indicating the exam

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© 2001, American Society for Engineering Eductaionthree years students spend in ECE, a representative writing assignment will be collected, so theportfolios can document any changes in writing over time. In the sophomore year, the writingsample comes from EE 208, Electronic Devices and Design Laboratory; in the senior year thepaper comes from EE 402, Design Projects, or EPICS (“Engineering Projects in CommunityService”). Also in the senior year, a post-test writing sample will be collected in order todocument the students’ anticipated improvement in written communication.By means of the writing samples, the portfolios, and the on-site availability of a communicationsspecialist, who also gives guest lectures on communications topics in various

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Tina Varma; Virendra Varma

support from both junior and senior faculty including department chairs.Facilitating Transition of New FacultySoon after the new faculty arrive on campus, they find themselves immersed in teaching.Constructing course syllabi, writing quizzes, tests, etc., takes a great deal of time. Activitiessuch as, designing project assignments, advising students, and serving on departmental and Page 6.563.2institutional committees run on a parallel course and can be a major cause of tension for the new "Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American

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Jeremiah Neubert; Cynthia Widstrand; C. Swanson; Arthur Ellis; Ann Pumper

Session1519@ INTEGRATING MATERIALS SCIENCE INTO THE HIGH SCHOOL CHEMISTRY CURRICULUM Jeremiah J. Neubert Ψ †, Cynthia G. WidstrandΨ ‡, Ann M. Pumper*, C. Bruce Swanson*, and Arthur B. Ellis‡ † Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin/ ‡Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin/ *James Madison Memorial High School, Madison, WisconsinAbstractThe focus of this project was to provide secondary chemistry teachers with creative, inexpensive,hands-on, minds-on

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Brett Hamlin; Gretchen Hein

engineeringexams, and physics lab data was used in both math and engineering. One example of integration/collaboration came with the assigning of a design project. The assignment was to analyze traffic Page 6.631.2flow in a small urban environment. The mathematics portion focused on data collection, and inte- Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationgration and differentiation of the data. The engineering focused on decision making, how to makemeasurements, where to make them, for how long, the decision

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in the vertical direction based upon numerically integrating the velocity.These derived parameters are developed to expand the instruction into mathematics andatmospheric measurements. Throughout the program, there is a constant dialog between theprogram staff and the teachers on how the measurements, computers, and analysis techniques canbe used in their curriculum and how other subject areas can be brought in.III. ResultsThere are two types of results found in a project like this: the technical success of themeasurement system and the experience of the students and teachers. The technical success iseasier to quantify. The experiential success is more anecdotal but valuable nonetheless.The technical success is measure by having each group

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program command syntax from various vendors is notcommon because it was not developed around any industry-wide standard. Therefore, programsare not interchangeable among PLCs from different vendors. The typical ladder logic languageprogram is developed without the program flow structure commonly used in programs developedwith the current higher-level languages like C or Java. As a result, programs can be verydifferent for similar projects; are often hard to read and understand; and are difficult totroubleshoot when automation failures occur. Currently PLCs are used to control a wide varietyof industrial control applications from simple discrete control of motors to position and speedcontrol of multiple-motor servo systems. The ladder logic

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James Svoboda, Clarkson University

, copy theentire applet tag, verbatim, to the new html page. Second, copy the zip file into the samedirectory (folder) as the new html file. (More detailed instructions are available on the author’sweb site [6]. These instructions include a template for the new html file that already includes theapplet tag.)The Circuit Design Lab has been used successfully in two ways. First, in a lecture hall equippedwith appropriate projection facilities, instructors can demonstrate the operation and design of acircuit using the Circuit Design Lab. Second, the Circuit Design Lab, can be used as homeworkto prepare for a quiz that asks to design the circuit to satisfy typical specifications. For example,the Circuit Design Lab on voltage dividers prepares

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and Computer Science (ECECS) Department at the University of Cincinnati, forexample, between 1993/94 and 1998-99, 75 students graduated with a Ph.D., but only threechose to pursue an academic career. To encourage and prepare potential future faculty, we havedeveloped a "Preparing Future Faculty" program in our department. We discuss the outcomes ofthis program, its potential for impacting projected faculty shortages, options for sustaining theprogram, benefits to graduate students, faculty, and undergraduates, and whether it should bemandatory in a high-quality Ph.D. program.1. IntroductionThe Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) program in the Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering and Computer Science (ECECS) at the University of

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Saleh Sbenaty

helped the students in all sections to a great extent.The author is currently working with the TLC center at Vanderbilt to design self-assessmenttools that will be imbedded within the case to help the student with self-assessment.VII. AcknowledgementsThe authors wish to express their sincere gratitude to the National Science Foundation forproviding the means to execute this project, and to every member of the TEFATE and SEATECfamily.This project was supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation. Opinions expressed arethose of the authors and not necessarily those of the Foundation.SALEH SBENATYDr. Saleh M. Sbenaty is currently an Associate Professor of Engineering Technology at Middle Tennessee StateUniversity. He received the BS degree

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William Stanley; John Hackworth

traditional basicelectronic courses taught in a traditional laboratory environment. Moreover, most of the studentsare working in industry as engineering technicians and have sufficient maturity to understandsome of the practical limitations of this approach.The software utilized is Multisim (Electronics Workbench), which has proven to be very user-friendly and easily learned by students working on their own. Email, a toll-free telephonenumber, and the transfer of circuit schematics and performance curves over the internet enhancethe faculty-student interaction. All of the experiments and projects parallel those offered in themore traditional course on the campus and include numerous linear and non-linear operationalamplifier circuits, timers and

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problems. The major opportunity is that labexperiments can draw on any aspect of the curricula: control, thermodynamics, heat transfer, etc.A major concern, however, is that laboratory experiments may occur up to one year after theassociated lecture course. As a result students may require considerable review beforeperforming for some experiments. During the junior year course, most experiments arestructured, with a primary emphasis on analysis of experimental data. In the senior lab, studentsare expected to design the experiments themselves. Experimental design, which is a minorportion of the course, is more fully covered in Widener’s Senior Engineering Projects, which arerequired year long projects, taken by students in all disciplines. A large

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faculty member and if the work will generally take place away from the campuslocation. Sabbatical leaves involving other criteria have been approved but most commonlythese criteria are followed. The requirement for an industrial position recognizes the Schools’mission of preparing students for successful careers in industry. The “away” requirement is totry to maximize the probability the faculty member will not be tempted to partake in “normal”on-campus activities such as faculty meetings!The author’s first sabbatical leave proposal, for the 1992-1993 academic year, was to spend ayear working as a Senior Project Engineer at Delco Electronics Corp. The involvement by theElectronics Manufacturing Development group at Delco was easy to solicit and

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Michael Graham; Jan Puszynski; Anton Pintar; Jenna Carpenter; Michael Cutlip

courses.IntroductionThe Mathematics Association of America (MAA) has begun a major analysis of theundergraduate mathematics curriculum through the Committee on the Undergraduate Program inMathematics (CUPM). Two subcommittees of CUPM are involved in this study: Calculus Page 6.701.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationReform and the First Two Years (CRAFTY) and Mathematics Across Disciplines (MAD). TheNational Science Foundation is involved in this study through Project INTERMATH as part ofthe Mathematics

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Stephen Stace; Janice Margle

expose students to more than the traditionalword processing and spreadsheet exercises and to make them aware of the relationships betweencomputers and music. This project is called Me and Comp Sc.Background An introductory 3-credit computer science course called CmpSc 100 is offered throughPenn State. Although it is not required as part of any curriculum, it does offer students theopportunity to improve their computer skills, or expand their knowledge base. The courseintroduces students to computers and computer applications such as word processing,spreadsheets, database management, business graphics, and communications5. The prerequisiteis two entrance units in mathematics. Students who take this course are, generally, from non-technical

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Kenneth Roberts; Eric A. Cheek; Joseph Monroe; Samuel Owusu-Ofori; Ajit Kelkar

American-serving andHBCU institutions across the Southeastern United States.The College of Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University is designated as aNASA Research Center of Excellence in Aerospace Technology Development andpossesses a strong track record in undergraduate engineering education. Approximately14 North Carolina A&T State University faculty in the areas of science, mathematics,engineering, and technology faculty conduct research on supported NASA projects. In1998, the North Carolina A&T College of Engineering was recently selected as a site fora NASA Partnership Award for the Integration of Research into MSET UndergraduateEducation (PAIR). The North Carolina A&T NASA-PAIR program has been under thedirection

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Patricia L. Fox; Stephen Hundley

helpful, while administrators will learn how to support faculty in theirquest to offer courses in these formats.II. Why Teach in Concentrated Formats?The Department of Organizational Leadership and Supervision (OLS) in the Purdue School ofEngineering and Technology at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)regularly offers case- and project-based courses in one-week intensive formats. These coursesare highly experiential, and require that students prepare in advance for the intense class, usuallythrough pre-work reading assignments. Additionally, several post-class assignments are required,and students submit their work several weeks after the class-meeting period concludes.Therefore, while the contact-hours related to the

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David Voltmer; William Tierney; B. Garner

Figure 1. Figure 1 – Typical Solution Window for VEM 2.0VEM 2.0 in the Classroom and as a Study AidCurrently, VEM 2.0 is used in a classroom environment in which all students have laptops withMATLAB and network connections. Projection systems enable the instructor and students todisplay their solutions to the entire class. VEM 2.0 is most often used to supplement the numericand graphic methods emphasized in the introductory electromagnetics course. From theinstructor’s point of view, it is a delightful teaching tool. Page 6.1135.4 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

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Xian Zhao; Matthew Lee; Jiang Li

Session 2793 APPLICATIONS OF COLDFUSION TO INTERACTIVE TEACHING IN ENGINEERING COURSES J. Li, X. Zhao and M. Y. Lee Morgan State University/SaLute Inc./Amherst CollegeAbstractThe present paper is written to demonstrate applications developed with CFML(ColdFusion Markup Language) for online interactive teaching in engineering coursesthrough the World Wide Web. How to design such online interactivity with CFML forteaching engineering courses utilizing a web site is discussed. The interactivecomponents including online assignments such as online homework, tests, quizzes,projects, etc. are designed for both